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drangeas. To Mr. VenaWes, gardener to W. Harrison, Esq., for Cut Flowers. 

 To Mr. Bruin, gardener to R. Gunter, Esq., for Grapes. To Mr. Mann, gar- 

 dener to J. Bishopp, Esq., and Mr. Appleby, gardener to T. Brocklehurst, Esq., 

 for Pine Apples. To Mr. Mann, gardener to J. Bishop, Esq., for Cucumbers. 

 To Mr. Green, gardener to Sir E. Antrobus, for Melons. To R. Brook, Esq., 

 for Apples. To Mr. Upright, gardener to G. C. Ridge, Esq., for greenhouse 

 Azaleas. To Mr. Venables, gardener to W. Harrison, Esq., for twenty species 

 of Cape Heaths. To Mr. Green, gardener to Sir E. Antrobus, for Tall Cacti in 

 flower. To Mr. W. Barnes, gardener to G. \V. Norman, Esq., for a collection 

 of six species of Orchidaceous plants. To Mr. Bruce, gardener to B. Miller, 

 Esq., for Oncirlium pumilum. To Mr. Butcher, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, for 

 Erythrina laurifolia. To G. G. Alston, Esq., for Boronia pinnata. To G. G. 

 Alston, Esq., for Erica fistigiata. To Mr. Barnes, gardener to G. W. Norman, 

 Esq., for Pimelia spectabiiis. To Mr. Bromley, gardener to Miss Anderdon. for 

 a small collection of Pelargoniums. To Mr. W. Watson, gardener to J. .1. 

 Wells, Esq., for Herbaceous Calceolarias. To Mr. Wilmer, of Suubury, Mid- 

 dlesex, for Tulips. 



Tiif. Silver Banksian Medal. — To Mr. J. Kyle, gardener to R. Barclay, 

 Esq., for a seedling Erica. To Mr. Sellers, gardener to L. V. Watkins, Esq., 

 and Mr. G. Hall, gardener to W. B. Harcourt,' Esq., for Grapes. To Mr. Mann, 

 gardener to J. Bishopp, Esq., and Mr. Bruin, gardener to R. Gunter, Esq., for 

 Pine Apples. To Mr. Baldwin, for Apples and Pears. To Mr. Hardy, gardener 

 to J. Jarrett, Esq., fur Melons. To Mr. Falconer, gardener to A. Palmer, Esq., 

 for Ixora coccinea. To Mr. Pawley, for Pimelea decussata. To Mr. Davis, 

 gardener to Lord Boston, for Azalea indica splendens. To Mr, Hunt, gardener 

 to Miss Traill, for a large collection of Pelargoniums. To Mr. Gaines and Mr. 

 Catleugh, for Seedling Pelargoniums. To Mr. Mountjoy, for Heart;.ease. 



Exhibition at the Garden, June 12. — The visitors amounted to 9080 persons. 

 The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke of St. Alban's, the Marquis 

 and Marchioness of Normanby, Lady Carlisle, Lady Newburgh, Lady Mary 

 Howard, Lady Elizabeth Gower, Lady Grenville ; Earls Talbot, llchester, and 

 Brownlow ; Lords John Russell, Purtman, Leigh, Piudhoe, Walsingham, and 

 Stavordale; the representatives of the courts of Bavaria, Denmark, Sardinia, 

 Sicily, and Portugal, with great numbers more of the fashionable world, were 

 among the company. 



Although the exhibition in June is generally inferior to that of May, yet, on 

 the present occasion, it is doubtful whether the display was not still finer than 

 what was witnessed here a month ago. We would fain hope that the results of 

 these meetings on horticulture will continue to develop themselves till the British 

 Isles shall he one great garden, and their inhabitants, through the medium of 

 countless local associations, shall form a single grand and comprehensive insti- 

 tution for the advancement of the gardening art. 



The. Cacti, which, of all the more dazzling objects exhibited, were the most 

 noticeable, were covered with an astonishing profusion of blossoms, and ap- 

 peared in the most exuberant condition. Most of them testified to the high 

 cultivation they [had received, and either to the application of manure-water 

 while growing, or the employment of an enriched soil. But the circumstance 

 which had evidently tended most effectually to produce their superiority, was 

 their having been grafted on stronger soils. Cereus speciosissimus is generally 

 chosen as a stock for this purpose, not requiring itself any extraneous aid ; 

 though even larger kinds, such as C. heptagonus, were occasionally seeu with 

 the lovely flowers of Epiphylhftn speciosum, or tine singular branches of C. 

 flagolliformis. depending gracefully from the summit of theii'stems, these last 

 being reduced to three or four feet in height. Mr. Green, gardener to Sir 

 Edmund Antrobus, Bart.. Cheam, who extensively adopts the grafting process, 

 exhibited some noble specimens, which abundantly attested its advantages. A 

 plant of Epiphyllum speciosum, about four feet high, and of a rather greater 

 diameter, was remarkably fine;, and it is no exaggeration to say that scarcely 

 anything but flowers could be perceived. A similar plant of the same species, 

 anil of E. Ackermannii, from Mr. Barnes, gardener to G. W« Norman, Esq., and 



