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fine plant of incana and spectabilis, 3 feet high and 4 feet in diameter. 

 Of Cape Heaths we noted good specimens of propendens, depressa, 

 and perspicua. There were five trained specimens of Manettia cor- 

 difolia and glabra. Leschenaultia formosa, a large bush, 2 feet high 

 by 3 feet diameter, though not well in bloom. Tabenraemontana 

 coronaria flore-pleno was shown in excellent bloom. Cytisus filipes 

 afforded an agreeable relief in the group by the colour of its pretty 

 white flowers, which clothed the graceful branches of a large plant. 

 Cytisus racemosus was exceedingly large ; and a specimen of acacia 

 alata might be termed a tree. 



2nd Prize, 10/., Mr. Barnes, gardener to G. W. Norman, Esq., 

 Bromley. — This collection comprised many very remarkable plants, 

 but, owing to the dulness of the weather, several best specimens were 

 not well in bloom. We noticed a noble plant of Daviesia saligna, 

 4 feet in height and 6 feet in diameter, the branches drooping nearly 

 to the pot, and loaded with bloom ; supporting it on one side was 

 Erica grandinosa, literally one deuse mass of white flowers, 4 feet in 

 height and the same in diameter ; and on the other side was an 

 immense bush, in excellent bloom, of Epacris grandiflora j another 

 remarkable plant was Podolobium staurophyllum, 5 feet in height 

 and 4 feet in diameter, and loaded with flowers; scarcely less interest- 

 ing was a noble plant, not quite in bloom, of Oxylobium Pulteneea, 

 about 4 feet in height and 6 feet in diameter ; and a dense bush of 

 Polygala oppositifolia, literally one mass of bloom, 4 feet in height 

 and 6 feet in diameter, contrasting well with the yellow flowers which 

 surrounded it. Of the genus Aphelexis, ' humilis was one mass of 

 flowers, but the day was, unfortunately, not sufficiently bright to 

 induce it to open its flowers ; sesamoides was nearly 4 feet, in height 

 and 3 feet in diameter, but not so full of bloom ; macrantha purpurea, 

 certainly the finest of the genus, had deep purple or plum-coloured 

 bracts shaded with bright pink or rose, exposing when open a deep 

 straw-coloured or yellow disk. Phoenocoma prolifera, 2 feet in height 

 and about 4 feet in diameter, which will probably be more generally 

 recognised under the old name of Helichrysum proliferum; this plant 

 was a complete thicket, but not sufficiently in bloom. Remarkable 

 plants were Dillwynia rudis and clavata, but though plentifully covered 

 with flower-buds, few of them were expanded ; these excellent speci- 

 mens were from 3 to 4 feet in height, and proportionatel bushy. 



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