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of Cereus Jenkinsonii, from Mr. Falconer, gardener to A. Palmer, Esq., of 

 Cheam, were quite as liberally bedecked with their beautiful blossoms. Cereus 

 MalUsouii, again, shown by Mr. Bruce, gardener to B. Miller, Esq., Mitcham, 

 had a considerable number of fine crimson buds, but a sufficient quantity of them 

 was not expanded, and the plant, by being trained too cloosely round a cylin- 

 drical trellis, looked somewhat formal. A charming new variety, called Epi- 

 phyllum specLsum grandiflorum, was brought by Mr. Upright, gardener to G. 

 C. Ridge, Esq., Morden, and stood forth conspicuously, on account of its 

 flowers being nearly twice the size of those of the original species, and of a 

 deeper pink hue. This, too, was a grafted specimen. The collection of new 

 seedling Cacti, sent by Mr. John Green, contained several very valuable 

 hybrids : the principal ones had the habit of Cereus Jenkinsonii, with a large 

 proportion of that inimitable blue colour in the centre which characterises C. 

 speciosissimus. One, likewise, partook of the character of C. flagelliformis, but 

 had fewer "spines, deeper green stems, and dark crimson flowers, richly tinted 

 with bluish purple. It was grafted on C. speciosissimus, and had an elegant 

 effect. Many of these were trained to interestingly formed trellises. After the 

 Cacti, the Heaths created the most striking display among the more popular 

 tribes of plants. The specimens were so symmetrically grown, the foliage of 

 such an intense green colour, and the flowers disposed in such enormous and 

 dense masses, that, considering the immense quantity present to which these 

 remarks are applicable, it may be said to be demonstrated that the difficulties 

 supposed to attend the culture of this inestimable genus are altogether imagi- 

 nary. Every plant, we may observe, had evidently been guarded against the 

 injurious exposure to which they are sometimes subjected near London, for the 

 sake of preserving them from mildew, and a continual preservation in a house 

 or frame through which a regular current of air can be freely circulated. No 

 list of the species or varieties most beautifully in flower can here be attempted ; 

 but E. splendens, with its large, inflated, bright scarlet blossoms, and the many 

 varieties of E. -.ontiicosa, vestita, and tricolor were particularly splendid. E. 

 I'atersonia monstrosa, exhibited bv Mr. Barnes, deserves mentioning as a hand- 

 some variety, with large and copious yellow flowers ; and E. depressa, from 

 Mr. Dickson, of Brixton, had a peculiarly deep verdure to its foliage, and an 

 abundance of pretty yellow blossoms. Climbing plants were neither numerous 

 nor extraordinary ; and it is to he regretted that more attention is not bestowed 

 on so interesting a group. When every one comes to know that they are en- 

 <1 in beauty and fertility by being kept in a pot, and trained spirally round 

 a cylindrical trellis, we hope to see them more common in gardens and at exhi- 

 bitions. Mr. Butcher, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, Ealing Park, furnished two 

 handsome plants of Manettia cordifolia, which completely concealed a round 

 wire frame to which they were attached, the [pretty red blossoms standing out 

 at nearly equal distances over the entire surface; it had 500 flowers. From the 

 same establishment there was a gigantic trellis-trained plant of Stephauotis flo- 

 ribunda loaded with its fair white and odorous flowers, and almost exceeding 

 its natural luxuriance ; and Echites suberecta, with scattered bunches of pale 

 yellow blooms. A specimen of Chorozema cordatum, treated as a climber, and 

 rrted by a trellis live feet in height, was from Mr. Hunt, gardener to Miss 

 Traill: and, by the freedom with which it had been induced to branch, from 

 constant decapitation, and the clusters of flowers which consequently adorned 

 each of the shoots, it was rendered very attractive. Clematis Sieboldii affixed 

 to a neat trellis, by Messrs. Young, of Epsom, though quite hardy, shows itself 

 to greatest advantage when retained in a pot and thus treated ; for if fastened 

 tu a wall, or any flat surface, the flowers are to**scattered, and their slniwy centre 

 is not sufficiently apparent. The plant in question was bearing upwards of 

 fifty (lowers on a frame not more than three feet high and about the same cir- 

 cumference. All the flowers were so protruded that the observer could look 

 down on them, and at once discern their beauties. It would be well if this plan 

 WOK mure extensively practised. Of general greenhouse plants there were many 

 magnificent collections. We shall enumerate a few id' the best species, as weil 

 as point out the liner specimens. Lechenaultia formosa was again contributed 

 by .Mr. Falconer, gardener to A, Palmer, Esq. ; and some younger and rather 



