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the Hydrangeas, From Mr. H. Groom, a small plant of Bossisea eriocarpa. 

 FromW. Bromley, Esq., Camellia flowers cut from a plant which has been 

 growing for four years without protection against a N. wall. From Mr. Con- 

 way, of Old Brompton, a seedling Azalea. From Mr. Gaines, of Battersea, 

 two hybrid Rhododendrons and a seedling Cineraria, called No plus Ultra. 

 Mrs. Lavater, of the Retreat, Deptford-laue, Peckham, exhibited the fruit of a 

 small Palm-tree, inclosing the seeds or nuts, from which a sort of Arrowroot is made 

 in Mexico. Messrs. Stevenson and Co. exhibited one of their improved double 

 cylindrical boilers. From the garden of the Society were a collection of plants, 

 comprising Kpidendrum primulinum and Cattleya Skinneri, fine plants of Acacia 

 marginata covered with sulphur-coloured spikes, and Grevillea longifolia, having 

 the under-surface of the leaves clothed with a substance resembling silk, and 

 with its curious one-sided spikes of crimson flowers turned upwards ; a pretty 

 species of Arbutus, found in Mexico by Mr. Hartweg, and bearing large panicles 

 of milk-white flowers at the extremity of every branch; with cut blooms of 

 Rhododendron augustum and a fine deep rose-coloured hybrid variety, and four 

 species of Berberis. A most beautiful and curious Dendrobium, from Manilla, 

 "of the Spatulate section, with straw-coloured floweis stained with lilac, exhibited 

 by Mr. Loddiges, received the Banksian medal. We understand that after the 

 meeting was over, a box of Orchidaceous plants was received from Mr. Appleby, 

 gardener to T. Brocklehurst, Esq., of the Fence, near Macclesfield, the presence 

 of which, at the exhibition, would have been a treat to the lovers of Oichidacete. 

 Among the varieties that it contained were a raceme of Dendrobium discolor, 

 nearly two feet long, two varieties of Dendrobium Pierardi, in great beauty, 

 Maxillaria cristata, Schomburgkia crispa, a red edged variety of Gongora macu- 

 lata, and the larger variety of Epidendrum aurantiacum, all in a state of most 

 vigorous health. 



On Fumigating Greenhouses. — In your last month's Number a correspondent, 

 signing himself a " Welshman," gives an account of his fumigating apparatus, 

 which is very good, and similar to one 1 have used for many years, remarks on 

 which I would refer him to in in the 47th page of the eighth volume of your 

 Fi.oricultural Cabinet. The flame of a candle or lighted paper I find quite 

 sufficient to ignite the tobacco. 



Cornwall. C. W. F. 



ANSWERS. 



Yellow Cactus and Scarlet Passiixora, &c. — Your correspondent " Dahl" 

 asks for information relative to a yellow Cactus. A beautiful kind of this 

 colour is, comparatively speaking, common in the island of Java, from whence I 

 received a very fine healthy plant about five months since. The size of the flower 

 is nearly that of the Jenkinsonii. There is a small yellow one also found in the 

 Brazils, in the districts about Pareiba, which I expect to receive next month, but 

 the colour is not near so distinct as the East India one. A scarlet Passiflora is 

 common in several parts of Chili and Peru, but the colour is anything but good. 

 As I am well aware you are anxious to hear of the arrival of new plants and seeds 

 from abroad, I big to say I have just received a package from India, amongst 

 which are the following, with 100 others. 



Manchester, April 1 1th, 1343. G. T. D. 



Olea Robusta. 

 Hibiscus Violaceus. 



Rigidus. 



Tortuosus. 



Macrophylhis. 



Popolineoides. 



Nelumbium Speciosum (red). 



(white). 



Z'ziphus Coracota. 

 Uvaria Odoratissima. 



Uvaria Macrophylla. 

 Nymphoca Cyania. 

 Sida Arida. 



Poly and ra. 



Echites Paniculata. 

 Elodia Pulchella. 

 Convolvulus Umbellatus. 

 Acacia Ferruginea. 

 Stipulata. 



