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and as mucli iu depth, elegantly formed without crease or ine- 

 quality in outline or edge, and looking as if of fluted marble. Of 

 the other cross I have not many plants. I have another set for 

 bloom, but the plant already flowered came much finer subsequent 

 to my sending up the blooms. Of this cross I have some plants, 

 the progeny of the * short anthers,' which, though six years old, 

 are not two inches above the pot, and may never flower at all." 

 From Mr, Tillery, gardener to his Grace the Duke of Port- 

 land, Welbeck : Jenkinsii, specimens of a fine species, the plants 

 raised from Bhotan seeds, and now flowering for the first time, the 

 ." magnificent white flowers as sweet-scented as those of E. Edg- 

 tvorthitj but quite diff^erent in style." The leaves were elliptic 

 lanceolate, dull green, with rusty scales on the subglaucous under- 

 surface ; the flowers sweet-scented, large, with a tube nearly two 

 inches long, and a spreading limb of roundish oblong lobes, pure 

 white ; the corollas measured five inches when expanded, and four 

 inches from the base of the tube to the top of the lobes. Another 

 of the same origin, with rather more "glaucous leaves, and smaller 

 and more undulated flowers, accompanied it. The absence of the 

 plants, and the consequent ignorance of the habit of the foregoing 

 kinds, prevented the Committee from rnaking any award hi all 

 these cases. — From Mr. A. Veiischaffelt. Ghent: Verschaffeltii. 



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rosy-lilac flowers freely spotted with dark purplish-red on the 

 upper segment ; it was said to resemble too closely the variety 



called Etoile de Flandres. A memorandum accompanying the 

 plant, stated that this variety was a late bloomer (the plant exhi- 

 bited having been slightly forced), and so hardy that it had stood 

 the severe winter of 1860-1 fully exposed ** wlien the thermo- 

 meter stood at 19^," 



Azaleas : — from Mr. Kinghorn, Sheen Nurserj^ Richmond : 

 Ochrolenca, a semi-double variety, with the flowers of a dull 

 white, greenish towards the centre; it was of compact habit, 

 and distinct, but not pure-coloured ; Kinghornii, sent to show 

 the fine character maintained by this variety. — From Mr. ToDMA^-, 

 gardener to R. Hudson, Esq., Clapham : lord Elgin, a smooth 

 lively rose-coloured sort, scarcely spotted ; Bridesmaid and 

 Elegans, both light rose-coloured sorts, the first scarcely, the 

 second, moderately, spotted on the upper segments,— From Mr. 

 Bull : Belle Gantoise, already noticed at p. 819, 



Dendrohium Egertoniae :— from Mr. Stanbish. A Japanese 

 plant, of dwarf habit, with oblong leaves, and small white frag- 



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