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margin, numerously spotted with dark. Amulet, crimson red with a yellow 

 margin. Reform, pale sulphur spotted with dark. 



2d. Mr. Cati.eugii. — Favourite, crimson velvet with 1 road sulphur margin. 

 Sunbeam, crimson red with a yellow edge. Incomparable, golden yellow, 

 numerously spotted with dark. Attila, a large chocolate spot, spotted with 

 white and a creamy white margin. Una, creamy sulphur, with slight spots of 

 dark. Grandiflora magniflora, crimson red with yellow margin. 



Seedlings, Collection of Twelve, Mr. Standisii. — Dcltcata, sulphur with 

 brownish red marks at the centre. Exciter, yellow with a profusion of brownish 

 red marks; superior sort. Raphael, sulphur with numerous narrow darkish 

 streaks ; prett y. Surprise, cream with crimson red blotches and streaks ; very 

 superior sort. Boz, bright yellow marked and streaked with brownish red ; very 

 pretty. Adventure, bright yellow with crimson blotches near the centre. Sir 1). 

 Wilkie, yellow marked and spotted with dark red ; very pretty. Vandervelde, 

 yelluw marked with red. Pilot, cream, beautifully spotted and streaked with 

 dark ; very pretty. Competitor, bright yellow spotted and streaked with 

 brownish red; very superior sort. Klysium, yellow and brown streaked and 

 spotted with crimson ; very pretty. Princess Mary, sulphur spotted with red ; 

 prett}'. Illuminator, yellow with numerous leopard-like brownish crimson 

 spots; very beautiful. Wee Pet, bronze with leopard-like dark spots; very 

 pretty. 



Heaths, 1st Prize Nurserymen. — Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of 

 Exeter nursery, consisting of "21 varieties of Erica ventricosa, very admirably 

 grown, healthy, bushy to the rim of the pot, most of them nearly as broad as 

 high, and profuse in bloom. They were named as follows : — Incarnata, 4 feet 

 high, flesh colour. Fasciculata rosea, rose, 1h feet. Storyana, rosy flesh, 2J 

 feet. Hirsuta conspicua, rosy pink, 3^ feet. Hirsuta rosea, rose, 2^ feet. Curta, 

 pale blush, 4 feet. Tumida, rosy flesh, 3 feet. Brownii, flesh, 3^ feet. Blanda, 

 blush, 3 feet. Curta rubra, deep rosy blush, 3J feet. Conspicua, white with 

 a rose tip, 2£ feet. Coruscans, bright pink, 3 feet. Hirsuta alba, white, 3 feet. 

 Pulchella, flesh, 3 feet. Alba tincta, pink, 2£ feet. Venusta, pale blush, 2£ 

 feet. Nitida, blush, 2^ feet. Densa curta, pale rose, 1^ feet. Wellsiana, white, 

 3 feet. Densa purpurea, pale rosy pink, 2 feet. Magniflora, bright rose, 2 feet. 

 The above deserve to be grown in every collection. 



1st Prize, Mr. Goode.' — Very superb, healthy, well-grown specimens in ad- 

 mirable bloom. Erica Perspicua, Translucens rosea, Vestita coccinea, Iuflata, 

 Cavendishii, Vestita coccinea superba, Splendens, Intermedia, Muscaria, Per- 

 spicua nana, Ventricosa superba, Praegnans, Kadiata, Gemmiflora, Ventricosa 

 tenuifolia, Gnaphalioides, Westphalangia, Humei, Ventricosa stellata. 



Mr. Green had E. jasminoides, a small plant; Beaumontiana, handsome; 

 perspicua, remarkably meritorious; splendens, excellent; a very fine propen- 

 dens ; ventricosa superba, in a magnificent state ; and some other rich specimens 

 of the varieties of ventricosa. From Mr. Brazier, gardener to W. H. Storey, 

 Esq., were a superb E. Cavendishii ; Humeii, fine; Westphalingia, very 

 healthy; gelida, extremely good ; and some excellent ventricosas. Mr. Clarke, 

 gardener to T. Smith, Esq., Shirley Park, produced E. translucens, four feet 

 high, a glorious specimen; tricolor, fine and dense; perspicua nana, exceedingly 

 lovely ; and splendid varieties of ventricosa. E. tricolor, perspicua, Westpha- 

 lingia, and several of the ventricosas were particularly fine, from Mr. Hunt, 

 gardener to Miss Traill. Mr. Bruce, gardener to B. Miller, Esq., brought a 

 noble E. tricolor, an excellent E. Cavendishii, and a few admirable ventricosas. 

 Mr. Jackson, nurseryman, of Kingston, sent a small and good E. tricolor, a 

 pretty odorata, a gigantic jubata, which was only partially in flower ; a very 

 spreading, rather bare E. tricolor ; a capital Cavendishii ; Daphnaeflora, large 

 and dense ; and a pretty specimen of baccans. Some fine varieties of ventri- 

 cosa ; a beautiful little tricolor; propendens, in a pleasing state ; spuria, three 

 fcut high, excellent ; with elegans, small and compact, were from Mr. Frazer, 

 nurseryman, of Leyton, Essex. From Mr. Pawley, of Bromley, we noted a fine 

 E. Cavendishii, and some large ventricosas. Shown as single specimens there 

 was E. Cavendishii, excessively rich, and with an extraordinary mass of flowers, 

 from Mr. Goode, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence; E. splendens, a superb plant, from 



