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London Horticultural Society, September 1.— Although the subjects for 

 exhibition on this occasion were not numerous, some of them were far from 

 being devoid of interest. A very fine specimen of the large white-flowered 

 Dendrobium formosum, for which a Banksian medal was awarded, came from 

 the nursery of Messrs. Rollisson, of. Tooting; and of the same interesting 

 tribe, Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney, produced a series of plants, consisting of 

 the dingy brown-flowered Cymbidium giganteum, a Warrea from Guiana, the 

 delicate blush-flowered Eulophia 'guineensis, a Galeandra from Santa Martha, 

 something in the way of, ( but less handsome than G. Baueri, a well-bloomed 

 specimen of which accompanied it. and a variety of Peristeria elata. From the 

 same collection was also a Saccolabium from Bombay, not strikingly different 

 from S. guttatum, together with Oncidium tetrapetalum, the green-flowered 

 Cynoches chlorochilum, and a handsome variety of the comparatively new 

 Cattleya granulosa. Along with these were likewise a lovely specimen of the 

 bright orange-flowered Dendrobium chrysantlium, and the larger-flowered variety 

 of Epidendrum asperum. A Knightian medal was awarded. — Mr. Glendinuing, 

 of the Cliiswick Nursery, sent Torenia concolor, a lovely blue-flowered species 

 introduced from China by Mr. Fortune. It has a trailing habit, and, in the 

 present instance, was comparatively bare of blossoms ; but when the plant shall 

 have become better known, and more care bestowed on its culture, we have no 

 doubt it will prove a worthy associate of the lovely T. asiatica, excelling the 

 latter in beauty; for the flowers are nearly of as fine a blue as those of Salvia 

 patens. — Messrs Veitch and Son, of Exeter, sent ^schynanthus radicans, 

 another handsome addition to that beautiful genus; and a soft-wooded Gesne- 

 raceous looking plant, from lava, named Tromsdorffia speciosa. It is an erect 

 growing plant, with large opposite obovate leaves, from whose axils spring 

 clusters of Chirita-like flowers — pale blush, with the tube shaded with violet ; 

 the plant had been grown in a stove, but in a specimen from the greenhouse, 

 sent along with it, the tube was much deeper coloured. The ample and some- 

 what coarse foliage, however, will always hide much of the beauty of the blos- 

 soms. A certificate was awarded. From Messrs. Henderson, of Pine-apple- 

 place, was the pretty bright red tubular flowered Cuphea platycentra, a half 

 hardy plant, which answers well for bedding out; and Satyrium aureum. a Cape 

 Orchid, which was stated to flower freely in peat in a cool well-aired greenhouse. 

 Of florists' flowers, from the garden of the Society were Achimenes grandiflora, 

 and a large mass of the old A. coccinea, the useful Niphaea oblonga covered with 

 chaste white blossoms, a large Cuphea pubiflora, Musssenda frondosa, with sin- 

 gular large white bracts and yellow flowers, Oncidium microchylum, the pretty 

 yellow-flowered Bletia-like Spathoglottis Fortuni, one of the first plants Mr. 

 Fortune met with on the granite mountains of Hong Kong, together with 

 Iochioma tubulosum, a half-hardy shrub growing from 4 to 5 feet high, which 

 was found by Mr. Hartweg on the mountains of Yangana, near Loxa. Not- 

 withstanding its somewhat rambling habit and coarse grey downy foliage, it 

 promises to be a plant of much importance, producing clusters of long flowers of 

 a deep porcelain blue colour. From the same collection was also Mr. Fortune's 

 Abelia rupestris, a spreading bush, with bright green leaves, and white flowers, 

 surrounded by a slightly-stained rose-coloured calyx ; being sweet-scented it will 

 be a valuable autumn-flowering greenhouse plant, if it should not turu out to be 

 hardy, which is probable. Along with it was a new pale yellow blossomed Cle- 

 matis from Chinese Tartary, which, being hardy, will no doubt form a valuable 

 addition to the arboretum wall. 



Distribution of Plants in Shrubberies. — In thinning as well as in plant- 

 ing in the shrubbery, much may be done at this season to improve the general 

 aspect of the place. The tasteful gardener must not fail to calculate the effect 

 of height, and also the different kinds of foliage. Here he will have to cause 

 an entire removal ; there, displace by others more suited to preserve boldness or 

 agreeableness in a particular direction. The beautiful idea of twilight con- 

 tained in the lines of Gray, 



" Now fades the glimmering laudscape from our sight," 



