202 THE GRAND FLORAL EXHIBITIONS 



every stove collection. Very attractive, also, was a fine plant of 

 Fuchsia serratifolia, (a good figure of -which illustrates our present 

 Number,) from Messrs. Veitch and Son. The Alpine plants proved 

 to be not without interest, although they are wanting in that bril- 

 liancy which characterises most plants brought to floral exhibitions. 



Stove and Greenhouse Plants. 



In collections of 30 species or distinct varieties ; not more than 6 

 species or varieties of any one genus to be admitted. 



Nurserymen and Private Growers. 



1st Prize, 15/.. Mr. Barnes, gardener toG. W. Norman, Esq., Bromley. — This 

 superb collection comprised, in Pimelias, Heudersonii. a dwarf specimen, 2 feet 

 across, and full of its pretty pink flower heads ; and decussata, a bush 4 feet 

 high, and as much in diameter. In Diilwyuias was ericifolia, clavata, and rudis, 

 each a fine specimen, of 4 feet high, and lull of bloom. In the genus Aphlexis 

 was sesamoides, a cone-shaped plant, 4 feet high, studded over with its starry 

 flowers ; humilis, nearly as large, and equally well flowered ; and purpurea 

 grandiHora. a small specimen, with large deep crimson flowers ; Azalea indica 

 alba, a large spreading plant ; and Gladstauesii, a small plant; Ltschenaultia 

 formosa, an immense mass of bloom, the plant being 2^ feet high ; very healthy 

 and fine plants of Clerodendron splendens and Kempferi ; large bushes of Poly- 

 golia opp. sitifolia, P. cordifolio, and Phaenocoma prolilera, the latter 2 feet high 

 and about 10 feet in circumference; a very beautiful bush of Boronia denticu- 

 lata, 2^ feet high ; P. dolobium staurophyllum, a flat-trained plant, 4 feet 

 by 3 ; Eutaxia pungens, Ixora coccinea, Gompholobium tenellum, Rondeletia 

 speciosa, Epacris grandiflora, good plants of Eiica odora, full of its pretty little 

 white bells; fastigata lutescens, elegans, Thunbergii, grandinosa and interme- 

 dia, the two latter being immense specimens; and a large specimen of Ste- 

 phanotus floribundus, but not well in bloom. 



2ud Prize, 10/.. Mr. Hunt, gardener to Miss Trail, Hayes. — This collection 

 contained an Ixora coccinea, 5 feet high, with forty-two flower-heads, most of 

 which were expanded, and had a fine effect ; Gompholobium polymorphum, an 

 exceedingly good plant, on a curved shield trellis, 5 feet by 3, well tilled 

 with bloom ; a magnificent plant of Pimelia spectabilis, 4 feet by 4, thick 

 and well furnished, but not fully in bloom ; a dense Leschenaultia formosa, 

 Boronia serrulata, a nearly globular plant, covered with "pink stars;'' Clero- 

 dendron squamatum, with two spikes; Phcenocoma prolilera, Pimelia decussata, 

 Achimenes longitlora and grandiflora, good pots ; Polygala oppositifolia, large ; 

 Kenuedya villosa, Vinca rosea alba, Azalea Dauielsiana, Polygala cordifolia, 

 Oncidium flexuosum, O. luridum guttatum, and O. Devoniensis, a species with 

 brown-mottled flowers from Honduras ; Dillwynia splendens, and D. clavata ; 

 Chorozema varium, Epidendrum macrophyllum, Gaidoquia Hookerii ; and the 

 following heaths, — E. perspicua nana, a beautifully-flowered bush, 2A- feet by 

 3 feet ; E. vestita coccinea, large ; E. transluceus rosea, E. gemmifera, 3 feet 

 across, but not quite out : E. ventricosa prsegnans, good ; and E. ventricosa 

 superba. 



A'o other competitor. 



In collections of 15 species or distinct varieties ; not more than 4 

 species or varieties of any one genus to be admitted. 



Nitrserymen only. 



1st Prize, 7/., Mr. Frazer, Lea-Bridge Road. — The whole of these were 

 remarkably well grown ; Epacris grandiflora was a fine bush, 5 feet high by 4 



