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REMARKS. 

 LONDON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



May 6. — This being the season of Azaleas and Rhododendrons, several fine 

 varieties of these showy plants were produced. Among the latter, perhaps, the 

 most remarkable were cut blooms of R. formosum, miscalled Gibsoni, from the 

 Duke of Devonshire's gardens at Chiswick. This pretty East Indian species 

 has been described for many years, but it is rarely to be met in gardens ; on 

 account of the plant having been grown in a stove the flowers were of a pure 

 white, having much the appearance of large blooms of the white Indian Azalea : 

 but when the plants are grown in a cooler house, and exposed to bright light, 

 the flowers are beautifully streaked with pink, giving the plant a handsome 

 appearance. Along with this was Dendrobium densiflorum, producing three 

 handsome spikes of bright yellow blossoms. A certificate was awarded for the 

 Rhododendron. — From Mr. J. Wells, gardener to W.Wells, Esq., were beautifully 

 cut blooms of Rhododendrons, including R. caucasicum, a hardy rather dwarf- 

 spreading species, and R. campanulatum, a perfectly hardy Indian species, of 

 considerable beauty, which will sufler any amount of cold without the least 

 injury. The latter is easily distinguished by its somewhat large and flat 

 foliage, the underside of which is covered with a soft ferruginous down, and by 

 its large white flowers which are tinged with pink. The principal part of these 

 Rhododendrons had been kept during winter under the canvass of a Tulip 

 shade, assisted by mats at the sides in very severe weather, but exposed to the 

 weather at all favourable times. A Banksian medal was awarded for the latter. 

 — Messrs. Cunningham and Orr, Manchester, sent a hardy hybrid Rhododen- 

 dron, with light-coloured blossoms, apparently a cross between R. caucasicum 

 and some of the common hardy kinds. — From Mr. Jackson, of Kingston, was a 

 pale-coloured seedling Rhododendron, very distinctly marked with dark brown 

 spots. — Finally, the Dean of Winchester sent a collection of blooms of hybrid 

 Rhododendrons in excellent condition, including one named R. campanulatum, 

 which appeared, however, to be a spurious variety of that species. These were 

 mentioned to have stood the whole of this untoward winter unprotected in the 

 open gardens, at Bishopstoke, where the plants are now in full beauty. They 

 were mostly red kinds, having in them much of the crimson arboreum. Along 

 with these were cut blooms of Magnolia Soulangeana, a cross between conspicua 

 and purpurea ; M. purpurea and gracilis ; the latter like purpurea, but smaller. 

 A Banksian Medal was awarded for these. — Mr. Errington, gardener to Sir P. G. 

 Egerton, Bart., again sent a collection of seedling Cacti, among which, one 

 named regalis is a fine showy scarlet flower, measuring fully six inches across. 

 Several others also possessed considerable beauty. — From Messrs. Veitch and 

 Son, of Exeter, was Bletia catenulata, which was found by their collector, Mr. 

 Lobb, growing on dry sandy hills, near Muna, in Peru. It is the original species 

 named by the Spanish botanists after Don Louis Blet, whose name the genus 

 bears, and is not known to have been before introduced into this country. — Mr. 

 Ayres, gardener to J. Cook, Esq., sent Begonias coccineaand suaveolens, the lat- 

 ter remarkable for its fragrance ; a Cactus called Conway's Giant, a large, noble- 

 looking flower ; Lescbenaultia Baxterii ; and Chorozema angustifolium, a New 

 Holland species of considerable beauty. A Banksian Medal was awarded for this 

 and the Begonias. — From Mr. Cole, gardener to C. Lewis, Esq., was the larger 

 variety of Corraea speciosa, and a seedling Cineraria. — R. Golledge, Esq., sent a 

 collection of Calceolarias. — From Mr. Robertson, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, was 

 a perfectly hardy scarlet Rhododendron, and an exceedingly handsome Erica pro- 

 pendens, which was covered from the soil in which it grew to the top with multi- 

 tudes of pretty little pink bells; a Banksian Medal was awarded for it. — Messrs. 

 Loddiges sent Epacris miniata ; a species of recent introduction, having much 

 of the aspect of E. grandiflora, but possessing peculiarities which readily distin- 

 guish it from that species. The flowers are long, of a rosy-pink colour, passing 

 into pure white at the end of the tubes ; indeed, we can scarcely imagine any- 

 thing more beautiful than this plant when in full bloom ; it was awarded a Bank- 

 sian Medal. — Mr. Lawrence, of Parliament-street, sent a small Watering-pot, for 

 plants in sitting-rooms, which was worked on the same principle as the one 



