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flowers. Calanthe veratrifolia ; this handsome orchideous plant, with its lovely- 

 spikes of flowers, was very showy. Chorozema ovata, two feet and a half high, 

 in robust health, and most profusely in bloom, was trained to a conical-shaped 

 wire trellis. This lovely plant, often found difficult to grow, was much admired. 

 Azalea Danielsiana, four fret high, in profuse bloom. Diosmauuiflora, four feet 

 high, bushy, in profuse bloom, with its lovely flowers, was strikingly handsome. 

 Chorozema varium, the dwarf variety, about half a yard high, and as much 

 across, densely clothed with spikes of flowers, forming a striking head of bloom, 

 was much admired. Rondeletia odorata, five feet high, and very bushy, in 

 profuse bloom, produced a beautiful appearance, ts red flowers, with a yellow 

 centre, hanging in large clusters, rendering itone of the prettiest plants cultivated. 

 Ixora coccinea, five feet high, with numerous large heads of its fine flowers, 

 produced a brilliant show ; some of its heads of bloom were six inches in diameter. 

 Coleonema tenuifolia, Eriostemon buxifolium, both in fine bloom. 



These, with sixteen well-grown Kricas, and some orchideous plants, &c, all in 

 most profuse bloom, formed a fine collection, which was universally admired. 

 Prize, Gold Knightian medal. 



2nd. Mr. Guoile, gardener to Mrs. Laurence, Ealing Park. Eucalyptus 

 obcordatus, with its pretty yellow pea-flowered blossoms. Angelonia grandittora, 

 four feet high, with five fine spikes of its lilac-purple flowers, was very hand- 

 some. Abutilou striatum, four yards high, with numerous pendant yellow and 

 red-streaked blossoms, was very pretty. Acacia pulchella. six feet high, and 

 Acacia alata, about fifteen feet high, with their lovely yellow fluwers in pro- 

 fusion. Hermannia incisa, four feet high, and three in diameter, densely cover- 

 ing a conical trellis with thousands of its pretty bright-purple red flowers. 

 Euphorbia splendens, four feet high, in profuse bloom, its bright crimson flowers 

 being ornamental. Pimelea decussata, four feet high and four across, densely 

 clothed with blossom. jEschynanthes maculata, trained to a netted globe- 

 formed wire trellis, two feet and a-half in diameter; and the inside of the globe 

 being filled with moss, the shoots, secured close to it, being kept moist, strike 

 root, and the shoots being trained pendant, and blooming freely, appear not only 

 pretty, but very interesting. No doubt it will continue to increase in beauty, 

 having only been recently so treated. Polygala oppositifolia, eight feet high, 

 and five across, in profuse bloom. Ixora carnea, a robust plant, four feet high, 

 with numerous heads of its pretty flesh-coloured flowers. Euphorbia Jacquini- 

 flora, a fine plant, five feet high, numerously in bloom, with its racemes of rich 

 crimson flowers. Statice arborea, five feet high, in fine bloom. Oncidium 

 lanceolatum ; this lovely orchideous plant, with lovely golden yellow-streaked 

 flowers, most profusely produced, was much admired. Fuchsia corymbiflora, five 

 feet high, having twenty-four large pendant heads of its brilliant flowers ; this 

 was a splendid object. Leschenaultia formosa, two feet high, and two iu 

 diameter, most densely in bloom, was beautiful. Polygala speciosa. a fine plant, 

 having forty spikes of its lovely rich purple flowers. Manettia cordata, with its 

 lovely scarlet trumpet-shaped flowers, trained to a flat trellis, five feet high and 

 five broad, was in profuse bloom. Erythrina Crista Galli, having five spikes, 

 densely laden with large flowers, each portion of the spike being three feet in 

 bloom — the best-grown specimen we ever saw. Oncidium luridum in profuse 

 bloom. Elichrysum humile, with two hundred expanded flowers, was very pretty. 

 Chorozema cordata, five feet high, bushy and in profuse bloom ; the shoots had 

 been frequently stopped, which caused it to be bushy. Azalea Danielsiana, a 

 fine plant, with its numerous red blossoms, very showy. Pimelea rosea, seven 

 feet high and four across, densely clothed with its lovely blooms. Elichrysum 

 spectabile, with about two hundred blossoms. Epacris grandiflora, four feet high, 

 and very bushy, in robust health and profuse bloom. Gloxinia Candida, a large 

 plant, in fine bloom. Gloxinia maxima, a large plant, in splendid bloom. Ixora 

 coccinea, six feet high, with twenty fine heads of flowers. Leschenaultia oblata, 

 two feet and a-half high and one foot and a-half across, was one surface mass of 

 bloom. Asclepias Curassavica, a fine plant, w.th its pendant heads of orange 

 red flowers. Gloxinia speciosa, a large specimen, with its rich purple blossoms 

 in profusion. Stylidium fasciculatum, half a yard high and two feet in diameter, 

 most profusely ornamented with spikes of its lovely flesh-coloured blossoms; 



