M0:NTHLY SUMilARY. 329 



BTemoranda for June. — The magnificent show of Ehododen- 



drons and Azaleas displayed by Messrs, Waterer and Godfrey in the 

 American Show will continue an attractive feature for some time 

 longer. As the blooms drop oiffrom the plants now in flower, 

 these plants will be removed and fresh specimens put in their 

 place. 



The beds in the Garden will soon spring into a blaze of beauty 

 the bedding-out plants being now in the ground. 

 In the Conservatory will be seen the rare event of an Aloe 

 coming into flower. As Fellows will remember, this is the plant 

 which is said to flower only once in 100 years, and although 

 this, like other exaggerations, is only half true, still the long 

 period of its life which elapses before it flowers, and the 

 very rare occasions on which it has done so in this country, 

 render the specimen in the Conservatory now about to flower, 

 an exceedingly interesting object. It has been presented to the 

 Society by Mr. Nash, of Bury House, Edmonton, who has had it 

 in his family for nearly half a century, and until this year it has 

 never flowered. . Two years ago a companion plant, which had 

 been in possession of his family for the same period, at last 

 flowered. The present plant is sending up a splendid spike, 

 which has been advancing at the rate of about 4 inches every 

 day, and may be expected to burst its sheath in the course of this 

 month. 



The Orange trees are now in full bloom, scenting the air all 

 around them, and bearing blossoms and green and ripe fruit at 

 the same time. Two fine Lemon trees are also bearing, flowers 

 and fruit. A specimen of Acacia pulchella, 10 feet high, is 

 in full bloom, and the fine old conservatory plant Clethra arhorea, 

 is covered with its white flowers. Bhododendron calophyllum, from 

 Bhotan, is in flower, as well as many other interesting plants. 



On the 11th of the month, the Society s second Great Show 

 will be held, and on the 2()th, the Rose Show. 

 . The ballots announced for seeds and plants are now over, but 

 a supplementary ballot will take place on the 20th instant for some 

 of the tree frogs now in the Conservatory, and for a supply of 

 mixed seeds of Cape bulbs, such as Ixia, Tritonia, Sparaxis, &c. 

 These have been presented to the Society by Mr. George 

 MacLeay, who has brought home the seeds freshly gathered from 

 his residence in New South Wales, where the plants grow as 

 well as in their native habitat. He says they grow best among 

 grass, and describes them as rendering the lawns where they are 

 sown one blaze of brilliant and diversified colour so long as they 



