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tendency to duplication, three sepals of an iiliier row being 

 developed. It was awarded a Second-Class Certificate, but it 

 ■was tliouglit that had the plant been produced, so as to show its 

 habit, it would have gained the highest award. It was described 

 as being of strong growth. 



Dracaena Ghiesbreghtii:— from Mr. Bull, Chelsea. An 

 elegant species from Mexico. It had long narrow green leaves, 

 growing erect at the base and then arching outwards, and was 

 regarded as an ornamental conservatory plant worthy a Second- 

 Class Certificate, ^vhich was given to it. 



lomatia elegantissima : — from Mr. Bull, A slender ever- 

 green shrub from New Zealand, with very elegant tinely dissected 

 foliage, for which it received a Second-Class CEUxiFrcAXE. 



Several other Plants of interest were shown, namely ; 

 Rhododendrons : — from I. Anderson Henry, Esq. : Prince 



Leopold, a hybrid from B.formosum, crossed with R. DalhousicB. 

 It had small stalked firm elliptic leaves, dull green above, paler 

 and glaucous beneath, dotted with brown resinous-looking scales. 

 The flowers wer^ large, long- tubed, white a good deal suffused 

 with rose, and apparently of good form, but they were much 

 damaged, from which cause, and the absence of the plant, no 

 decision could be arrived at. Mr. Hekrv stated that he had 

 many different seedlings of this cross, some with snow-white 

 flowers and larger than the one sent — which, however, measured 

 3f inches in length, and as nearly as could be judged, about 

 3 inches across the mouth. Princess Helena, a hybrid from 



JR. ciliatum, crossed with R, EdgivorthiL This was stated to be 

 a dwarf plant only IS inches high. The stems and under surface 

 of the leaves were clothed with rusty wool, the leaves.bright green, 

 elliptic, and more rugosely veined than usual, the flowers 4-5 in 

 a truss, campanulate with a short tube and broad expanded limb, 

 the technical deficiency in which was pronounced to be want of 



smoothness and evenness in the disposition of the segments ; the 

 colour was white, tinged here and there with rose, and the flowers 

 had a delicious aromatic orchid-like odour. It was, of course, as 

 all such things must be, a handsome plant. In a note of subse- 

 quent date, Mr. Henry says :~" Of the Rhododendron seedlings, 

 I have a large group — 40 or 50 perhaps— of the Prince Leopold 

 brood, some of them finer than the bloom sent. Indeed, by it 

 you cannot have had a just idea of the beauty or true style of 

 that cross, some of the blooms of which are four inches across, 



