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Mr. Brazier, gardener to W. H. Storey, Esq. ; E. tricolor, transcendently broad 

 and good, from Mr. Salter, gardener to J. M. Yeeles, Esq., of Bath; and a new 

 species, called E. pulverulenta, of a curious upright habit, like a small Cypress, 

 with neat dark pink blossoms. The leaves seem to be covered with a whitish 

 powder ; this was from Mr. Dawson, of Brixton Hili. 



Small Collections of Stove anu Greenhouse Plants. — Superior speci- 

 mens in these were exhibited: — 1st, Mr. Hunt's Boronia serrulata, a very admi- 

 rable specimen, so full of branches that there was scarcely a vacant space of two 

 inches on any part of its surface ; Oncidium flexuosum, wonderfully large, 

 healthy, and compact, and showing that Orchidacaea, as well as other plants, 

 may be subjected successfully to artificial training and management, for the 

 plant, though only two feet in height, and as broad as it was high, had no ap- 

 pearance of having been operated upon by art ; Dendrobium nobile, in the most 

 perfect health, and with very large flowers ; a fine Ixora coccinea ; a spreading, 

 dense, and well-flowered Pimelea decussata; and a magnificent Leschenaultia 

 forraosa. Mr. Falconer, gardener to A. Palmer, Esq., Cheam, and Mr. Bruce, 

 gardener to B. Miller, Esq., Colliers' Wood, had collections of equal merit. That 

 of the first was composed of Leschenaultia formosa, precisely in the shape of a 

 bee-hive, and more thoroughly covered with flower than any plant we have 

 ever before witnessed; a healthy Oncidium altissimum; a most magnificent Po- 

 lygala cordifolia, four feet above the pot, and the same in width, surpassed by 

 none in beauty ; Ixora coccinea, four feet high, yet having none of that bare- 

 ness at the bottom which is common to tall plants of the species, and beiug 

 handsomely flowered as well ; with Epiphyllum speciosum, grafted on Cereus 

 speciusissimus, and trained so as to form a gorgeous front of inflorescence. Mr. 

 Bruce's plants were a noble Epiphyllum speciosum, treated as that just specified 

 in respect to grafting, but trained into a smaller compass, so as to exhibit the 

 tame aspect on every side, and exhibiting great skill in its management ; Coleo- 

 nema gracilis, particularly good ; a fine Oncidium flexuosum ; Aphelexis humilis, 

 in the most perfect flowering condition ; and a favourable specimen of Lesche- 

 naultia formosa. Mr. Clarke, gardener to T. Smith, Esq., Shirley Park, showed 

 a collection which, in respect to the healthiness of the plants, was of the highest 

 excellence. It had in it a glorious specimen of Leschenaultia formosa : Boronia 

 denticulata, magnificently cultivated ; Polygala oppositifolia, and Pimelea de- 

 cussata, peculiar for the richness of their foliage, and the size as well as deep 

 colour of their flowers; with Chorozema Dicksonii and Eutaxia pungens, which 

 were as close and well blown as if this were their ordinary habit. In the last 

 collection belonging to this class, contributed by Mr. Frazer, nurseryman, of 

 Leytou, the best plants were one of Pimelea decussata, and another of Epacris 

 grandiflora; the Epacris was about three feet high, and in every respect perfect. 

 As instances of cleverness in culture, most of the specimens thus enumerated, 

 though not excelling others in the exhibition, were of the very highest order of 

 merit. Straggling tendencies had been overcome, compactness of growth ob- 

 tained, the disposition to bloom increased, the largest plants had been kept luxu- 

 riant and free from bareness at the lower part of their stems ; while all the while 

 their aspect was generally natural, and such that at least none of the machinery 

 of art was discernible. They were chiefly in large pots, free from stakes, except 

 to the main stem, and theue entirely hidden by the branches, with the shoots 

 regularly disposed on all sides, the flowers all standing out well, so as not to be 

 concealed by the leaves, conspicuous for breadth rather than height, and almost 

 as full of flowers at the sides, down to the very rim of the pot, as at the summit. 



Single Specimen Plants, Messrs. Vkitch and Son. — Oncidium lanceanum. 

 Plant 3 feet high, having nine large spikes of flowers. CEndes odoratum, by 

 Mr. Mylam, 4^ feet high, having 20 large racemes of flowers. Barkeri specta- 

 bilis, 1J foot high, with 10 spikes of its beautiful flowers, by Mrs. Wray, of 

 Cheltenham. Mormodus luxuta, by Mr. Insleay, gardener to G. Barker, Esq. 

 Pimelea decussata, more than four feet in diameter, shown by Mr. Poole, of 

 Leyton, Essex ; Stylidium fasciculatum, probably the most remarkable plant at 

 the exhibition, by Mr. Mountjoy, Ealing. Siphocampylus betulaefolius, equal to 

 that of Mr. Green, before described, by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co. ; 

 and by the some gentleman, Ozothamnus thrysoides, four feet in height, with 



