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2 J inches across; this was white, with strong conspicuous veins, 

 green below, and changing to purple iu the upper part ; the lip 

 was of a deep brown-purple, and the petals pale rose-coloured 

 towards the tips, greenish-brown towards the base, and slightly 

 warty on the upper margin. 



Luzula sylvatica, var. aureo-vittata: — from Mr. Salter, 



Versailles Nursery, Hammersmith. An elegant dwarf hardy 

 herbaceous plant, with the loosely-spreading grassy leaves, green, 



strongly marked with yellow bands or stripes. It was Com- 

 mended as a pretty hardy variegated herb. 



The remaining exhibitions consisted of: 



Lycaste Skinneri, var. : — from Messrs, Veixch & Son. This 



was one of the many handsome forms observed amongst the 

 imported flowers of this species. It had large pale sepals, and 

 deep rose-coloured petals, and the lip was palish in colour, marked 

 with rosy blotches, and having a yellow warty tongue-like ap- 

 pendage, instead of the purplish one usual in this species. 



Wigandia caracasana : — from Messrs. Veixch & Son. A 

 small plant, bearing a terminal bunch of its blue flowers, which 

 looked like magnified Eutoca blooms. This is the plant so much 

 used in Paris for planting out in summer, its large rugose leaves 

 having a noble appearance in the flower-garden at that season. 



Uliododeiidrons : — from Messrs. Veitch & Son : picturatum 

 superhum, a blush white of moderate size, spotted nearly all 

 over, and very densely so on the upper segments ; metallicum, 

 dull rosy crimson. These were hardy varieties, and as such 

 were considered to bloom too early to be effective as out-door 

 plants. 



Azaleas: — from Mr. Todman, gardener to R. Hudson, Esq., 

 Clapham : Lord Canning*, bright deep rose very slightly spotted, 

 the flowers rather small, and of fair shape and substance, the 

 colour striking and attractive ; Lady Canning, larger than the 

 last, lighter coloured, and in everyway inferior to it; Duchess 



of Sutherland, a large pale rose^ slightly spotted; Queen of 

 Koses, pale rose; Eifleman, large salmon-red, of average merit. 

 Hose Hortense Vernet :— from Messrs. Paul & Son, Cheshunt. 

 This was said to be a new perpetual moss rose. It was a free 

 flowering ornamental variety for decorative purposes ; the flowers 

 pale blush, deeper at the centre, very sweet, and with the calyx 

 and pedicels freely messed ; altogether considered a promising 

 rose, and flowering freely in the dwarf young state, but judg- 



