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conspicuous for superior culture; and Erythrina Crista-galli, with larger flowers 

 and of a deeper hue than is commonly seen in specimens grown in even an unre- 

 stricted soil. Climbing plants comprised the charming Gompholobium poly- 

 morphom, most successfully managed by Mi. Barnes, gardener to G.W. Norman, 

 Esq. The stems of this subject were much stronger, and the flowers finer and 

 more liberally produced than is ordinarily the case. Manettia cordifolia, fastened 

 to a large globular trellis, was again shown by Mr. Butcher, in great perfection. 

 A very tall plant of M. coccinea, with larger leaves, and not so many blossoms, 

 was likewise in the specimen tent. Maiulevilla suaveolens, a new climber, with 

 large white, fragrant, trumpet-shaped flowers, was in a good flowering state, 

 from Mr. Butcher. It was attached to a cylindrical trellis. Hoya carnosa, 

 similarly treated, created a really beautiful display. It came from Mr. Tinsley, 

 gardener to Mrs. Sharpe, Barnet; and though the trellis was only four feet in 

 height, it had a great quantity of its delicate wax-like flowers. This mode of 

 treating so favourite a plant ought to be extensively adopted. Chironia deetis- 

 sata is not naturally of a climbing disposition, but trained to a flat upright trellis 

 by Mr. Tinsley, the lateral branches protruded forwards, each bearing their 

 showy pink blooms at the extremity, and making altogether an imposing appear- 

 ance. Russellia juncea, which is rather a trailing than a climbing species, was 

 supported on a high wire trellis, from the top of which its graceful rush-like 

 branches depended. Mr. Green was the exhibitor of this plant, which was more 

 prominent for its verdant beauty than for the profusion of its flowers. We have 

 anew to regret that climbers were not more numerous, and to reiterate our de- 

 claration that cultivating them in pots is the easiest as well as the best system 

 of flowering them successfully. A uevv plant, with a single expanded flower, 

 was exhibited by Mr. Butcher, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence. It was the Lemonia 

 spectabilis, a stove-shrub, with glossy leaves, and solitary pink blossoms. Ber- 

 beris trifoliata, with extremely elegant three-parted Holly-like foliage, was sent 

 by Mr. Mountjny, of Ealing, though not in flower. A species of Yucca, not 

 very remote from Y. filamentosa. was from Messrs. Brown and Attwel!,Uxbridge. 

 Rosa devoniensis, which is an improvement on the yellow Noisette, was sent. 

 from Messrs. Lucombe, Pince. and Co., its sole possessors. From Mr. Cutbush, 

 of llighgate, there was a seedling Chryseis (Eschscholtzia), with semi-double 

 flowers, the exterior of which is the colour of C. crocea, while the middle is of a 

 much darker orange. It is a singular example of the propensity of some annual 

 flowers to " sport," and most likely can never be perpetuated. Neither the 

 magnificence nor the novelty which was apparent in the Orchidacese at the June 

 meeting, distinguished the more recent exhibition. There were, nevertheless. 

 some tolerably good specimens, and a few new, as well as a greater number of 

 rare species. It is not a period at which many Orchidacene bloom, and the 

 delicate structure of others lenders cultivators undesirous of exposing them. Of 

 that finest of Orchidaceous geuera, Cattleya, there was a good variety of the 

 queen of its species. C. Mossiae. from Messrs. Rollisson ; C. Harrisonise, which 

 has. perhaps, the finest-coloured flowers of any, from Mr. Butcher, gardener to 

 Mrs. Lawrence; C. intermedia, whose blossoms are intermediate in hue between 

 the last species and C. crispa, also from Messrs. Rollisson ; and a new species, 

 with pinkish-brown sepals and petals, and a purplish lip, from Mr. Insleay. gar- 

 dener to G. Barker, Esq., of Birmingham. The flowers of the latter were not 

 properly opened. Stanhopea saceata, with stronger pseudo-bulbs than usual, 

 was sent by Messrs. Rollisson; S. insignis by Mr. Butcher; a variety of S. ocu- 

 lata, in which the ground-colour and spottings of the flowers were peculiarly 

 clear, by Mr. Mylam, gardener to S. Rucker, Esq , Wandsworth ; and a stately 

 plant of S. oculata, with fully thirty flowers, from which a delightful odour was 

 effused, by Mr. Redding, gardener to Mrs. Marryatt, Wimbledon. Of the beau- 

 tiful genus Oncidium, only a good plant of 0. Baueri, with its high-waving 

 spikes of pretty yellow and brown blossoms, and a variety of O. papilio, were 

 present. The former was from Messrs. Rollisson ; the latter from Mr. Rucker. 

 Epidendrum cochleatum, admirably cultivated by Mr. Butcher, was the sole 

 representative of this extensive genus. There was a pretty yellowish-flowered 

 variety of Cjongora maculata. likewise from Mrs. Lawrence; who exhibited, 

 besides, Maxiliaiia aistata, with two richly-vanegated flowers ; a large yeliow- 



