XH rUOCEEDINGS. 



very heavy unpleasant smell. The plant is some Solanum, 

 allied to S. betaceum, if not the same. To Mr. Bassett, 

 gardener to R. S. IluHord, Esq., F.1I.8., fur one of the best 

 of the many varieties of Vanda suavis. To M. de Jonghe, 

 of Brussels, for Zygopetalum bracliypetalum. This species 

 was originally brought into notice by Mr. AYaterhouse, of 

 Halifax, in the year 1840, and is little known. It is one of 

 the handsomest of the species, having brownish sepals and 

 petals, a little marbled with green, and a deep bluish-violet 

 lip veined with white. The crest of the lip is clearly 

 striped with blue, and the column is streaked with dull 

 dark purple. M. de Jonghe stated that it had been found 

 by his collector Libon, in 1847, on the Peak of Itabiri, in 

 the province of Minas, in Brazil. To Mr. Dobson, gar- 

 dener to Mr. Beck, F.H.S., for a small collection of Orchids, 

 especially for an Oncidium unguiculatum. To Mr. Cole, 

 gardener to H. Colyer, EsOj., Dartford, Kent, for a bundle 

 of Cole's Superb Red Solid Celery, six heads of which 

 weighed each 6 lbs. 8oz. ; and for an excellent paper, ex- 

 plaining his mode of management, which is published iii 

 the present volume of the Journal. 



Miscellaneous Subjects of ExiiiBiTtON. Cut specimens, in 

 a pot, of Fuchsia spectabilis, from Messrs. Veitch, who 

 stated that " thej'^ were taken from a plant which is growing 

 most luxuriantly in the border of tlieir Conservatory, where 

 it has been in full flower for these last three months, having- 

 on it from twenty to thirty bvinches of blossom, and being 

 the admiration of all who have seen it." Mr. Spall, gar- 

 dener to W. Carbonell, Esq., of Westbourne Green, 

 Harrow Road, sent a plant of the White Persian Cyclamen 

 (C. Persicum album). Mr. Kendall, of Stoke Newington, 

 a small collection of plants from his Polmaise Stove. 

 Among these were two specimens of Torenia asiatica, which 

 has been stated by some to be a greenliouse plant. Mr. 

 Kendall, however, considers that it can only be safely 

 wintered in a stove. He says that if it is treated as "a 

 greenhouse plant during the winter months, in nine cases 

 out of ten it will prove a source of disappointment. It is 

 extremely susceptible of cold, particularly if accompanied 

 by damp dull weather. Last winter I lost every plant, and 

 such is already the case this year with all those treated as 

 greenhouse plants ; and my case is not an isolated one, for 

 I have many complaints of a similar kind. The two plants 

 exhibited were struck late in tlie spring, and were treated as 

 greenhouse plants during the summer, blooming continu- 



