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branches extending to the same breadth, sheeted over with small white blossoms, 

 and stated to be evergreen and hardy; with an Epacris grandiflora, four feet 

 high, of a most superb description, by Mr. Frazer, of Ley ton ; and Acrophyllum 

 veDosura, in the highest perfection, by Mr. Redding, gardener to Mrs. Marryatt ; 

 were among the most extraordinary, and could hardly be surpassed. Of new 

 plants, or such as have not been long introduced, there were Nepenthes ampul- 

 lacea, a novel species of Pitcher-plant, with beautifully mottled and fringed 

 pitchers, by Mr. Mylam, gardener to S. Rucker, Esq. ; Luxemburgia ciliosa, a 

 fine plant, with ciliated leaves, and showy terminal spikes of clear yellow flowers, 

 by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of Exeter, and Mr. Smith, of the Royal 

 Botanic Garden, Kew ; Achimenes multiflora, with deep lilac flowers, which 

 have a slightly fringed margin, also from Mr. Smith ; Statice macrophylla, 

 having peculiarly large leaves, and flowers resembling those of S. arborea, by 

 Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of Exeter; a species of Lathyruss, with orna- 

 mental reddish-crimson blossoms, by Messrs. Lee, of Hammersmith j Aquilegia 

 Skinneri, not well coloured, likewise by Messrs. Lee. Martynia fragrans, in a 

 superb condition, by Mr. Crees, gardener to Messrs. Beck, Henderson, and Co., 

 Strand ; TropaBolum edule, small but good, by Mr. Jackson, of Kingston ; and 

 Stigmaphyllon ciliatum, by Mr. Green, gardener to Sir E. Antrobus, Bart. The 

 more common species included a Kalmia latifolia, on which almost all the 

 flowers were so close as to touch each other before they opened ; this was from 

 Messrs. Rollison, Tooting, and excited much notice. Hotiea japonica, extremely 

 well managed, and profusely decked with its white feathery spikes of flowers, 

 from Mr. Redding, gardener to Mrs. Marryatt ; Gompholobium polymorphum 

 major, trained to a kind of pillar, and very beautiful, from Messrs. Lucombe, 

 Pince, and Co. ; a fine species of Gesnera, of which the plant was boih large 

 and handsome, from Mr. Hunt, gardener to Miss Traill ; Oncidium crispum, 

 from the same firm; a pretty plant of Manettia bicolor, also from Mr. Hunt; 

 Sollya linearis, conspicuous for its deep blue flowers, a good specimen, from Mr. 

 Hopgood, nurseryman, Bayswater ; Elichrysum sesamoides, handsomely grown, 

 from Mr. Bruce, gardener to B. Miller, Esq.; Achimenes longiflora, not remark- 

 able, from Mr. Stanley, gardener to H. Berens, Esq. ; Vanda teres, very pale, 

 from Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co. ; Oncidium microchilum, from Mr. Hunt, 

 gardener to Miss Traill ; Euthales macrophylla, a good but rather straggling 

 plant, from Mr. Hayes, High Beech, Essex ; a pale blue-flowered Leschenaultia, 

 from Mr. Goode ; and from the same, Elichrysum retoitura, well treated and 

 singular, Fuchsia corymbifiora, handsome, with a very rich specimen of Gloxinia 

 maxima. 



London Horticultural Society' s Show, held in the Gardens on July 12. 



The displays of flowers was not so good as those of May and June; this was 

 the case in regard to the larger collections of plants, which are more difficult to 

 make up without an almost unlimited establishment to draw upon. Only one 

 of forty, and one of twenty plants were exhibited. 



Collection of Plants. — 1st, Mr. Goode, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, Ealing 

 Park; contained two splendid specimens of the old Crassula (Kalosanthes) 

 coccinea, between two and three feet high, and bearing large heaps of the most 

 brilliant flowers, the hue of which was quite dazzling ; Stenochilus maculata, a 

 singular old plant, with prettily spotted flowers, of which the fine specimen was 

 producing a considerable profusion ; Xanthosia rotundifolia, beautifully grown, 

 and well clothed with its pleasing snowy blossoms; a very good dwarf plant of 

 Epacris grandiflora, which has been proved, by the shows of the present year, 

 to be one of the most ornamental of greenhouse plants, and to be capable of a 

 high degree of cultivation; Mirbelia dilatata, laden with rich terminal racemes 

 of deep pink flowers, and a very handsome object; a pot of Achimenes longi- 

 flora, in an excellent flowering condition ; a very tall Stephanotis floribundus, 

 nicely in bloom; I xora coccinea, a large plant, richly bloomed ; Hibiscus Ca- 

 meroni, sheeted over with blossoms, which would not open beneath the canvas ; 

 one of the old species of Cassia, admirably grown, and bearing numbers of dark 

 yellow flowers in clusters at the ends of the branches ; a very high plant of Ron- 



