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Stanhopea grandiflorn, with two dull white flowers, which quite perfumed the 

 surrounding air ; and the curious Angraecum caudaturo, with the blooms 

 scarcely expanded. Oncidium Lanceanum, in healthy condition ; O. Altissimum. 

 very vigorous ; a remarkably strong plant of Gongora maculata ; Acropera 

 Loddigesii, bearing numerous drooping racemes of its singular flowers ; with 

 Catasetum luridum and Maxillaria tetragona, were contributed by Mr. Barnes. 

 F. G. Cox, Esq., of Stockwell, exhibited a pretty specimen of Oncidium bifo- 

 lium, with Cycuoches chlorochilum, and Cattleya Harrisonix. Miltonia spec- 

 tabilis, exhibited by Mr. Mylam, as a single specimen, was exquisitely beautiful. 

 Mr. Henderson, of Pineapple-place, sent (not for competition) an exceedingly 

 fine Stanhopea oculata, the lovely Maxillaria Steelii, the richly-marked Onci- 

 dium Lanceanum, two plants of Achimenes grandiflora, a species of Hibiscus, 

 said to be new; Costus nepalensis, finely in bloom; and several other plants. 

 Mr. Mountjoy, of Ealing, exhibited a well-blooming collection of Liliura 

 eximium ; and Mr. Pearson, of Hampstead-road, some fine seedling Petunias. 

 Among the specimen plants most noticeable were Erica ampullacea, blooming 

 profusely, from Mr. Dawson, of Brixton -hill. Ixora coccinea, three feet high, 

 from Mr. Barnes ; Ceropegia elegans, covering a flat trellis four feet in diameter, 

 from Mr. Colville, gardener at Ditton House; from Mr. May, a very healthy 

 plant of Erica aristata major, not in bloom ; from Mr. Dawson, of Biixton-hill, a 

 well- bloomed specimen of the chaste Erica infundibuliformis; from Mr. Pamplin, 

 of Walthamstow, a white variety of the Chinese Larkspur ; from Messrs. Hen- 

 derson, a good plant of Besleria pulchella ; Achimenes multiflora from Mr. 

 Glendinning, of Turnham Green ; a pretty seedling Gloxinia, with flesh-coloured 

 flowers, and Achimenes grandiflora, from Mr. Mountjoy, of Ealing; Erythrina 

 cristi-galli, very handsome, with seven spikes of flowers, and Plumbago capensis, 

 neatly tied down to a hemispherical trellis, from Mr. Catleugh, of Hans-place. 

 Flowers of the noble Beaumontia grandiflora were shown, but by whom we could 

 not ascertain. Two collections of Statice were exhibited ; one by Mr. Jackson, 

 of Kingston ; the other by Mr. Wood, of Norwood. In that of the former was 

 a pretty species, named S. pseudo-armeria, with rose-coloured flowers. 



The Roses were particularly fine, especially the cut blooms sent by Messrs. 

 Lane and Son; in this collection there were choice flowers of Ville de Bruxelles, 

 Madame Hardy, and Phoebus. 



Although the number of Fuchsias was considerable; there was nothing very 

 novel, with the exception of one named Vesta from Mr. Smith, of Dalstou ; this 

 is a handsome full-sized flower, with flesh-coloured sepals and deep crimson 

 petals. 



In Carnations the first prize was awarded to Mr. Norman ; the second prize 

 to Mr. Ward, of Woolwich ; and the third prize to Mr. Willmer. 



For Picotees, Mr. Ward, of Woolwich, received the first prize for Giddens's 

 Diana, Crask's Queen Victoria, Sharp's Hector, Martin's Union, Lady Chester- 

 field, Willmer's Miss Browning, Nulli Secundus, Cousins's Seedling, Willmer' s 

 Queen, Sharp's Criterion, Wilson's Fanny Irby, Wain's Queen Victoria, Bunk- 

 ler's Hope, Dickson's Trip to Cambridge, Wood's Alicia, Lady Flora, Garrat's 

 Lady Dacre, Sharp's Duke of AVellington, Miss Willoughby, Lad's St. Maur, 

 Giddens's Teaser, Wood's Agrippina, Kirtland's Princess Augusta, Giddens's 

 Vespasian. 2nd prize, Mr. Norman, of Woolwich, for Giddens's Beauty of 

 Hemmingford, Seedling, Queen of Violets, Duke of Cambridge, Miss Browning, 

 Stanton's Seedling, Crask's Queen Victoria, Giddens's Diana, Lady Chesterfield, 

 Mrs. Brown, Nottingham Hero, Criterion, Gem, Agrippina, John's Prince 

 Albert, Sykes's Eliza, Belle of the Village, Harlequin, Luff's Seedling, Lady 

 Dacre, 60, Giddens's Diana and Vespasian. 3rd prize to Mr. Wii.i.mer, King's 

 Road, Chelsea, for Giddens's Susan, Isabella, Giddens's Duchess of Kent, Sharp's 

 Hector, Stella, Giddens's Lovely Ann, Willmer's Queen Victoria, Moonraker, 

 Giddens's Bleda, Crask's Queen Victoria, Fair Maid of Perth, Wood's Lady 

 Hussey, Soon's Prince Albert, Jenny Jones, Lady Wynford, Wilson's Pluperfect, 

 Wain's Victoria, Annesley's Pienipo, Foden's Matilda, Wood's Lord Hitchen- 

 brook, Willmer's Charon, Agnes, and 35, and Sharp's Cocked Hat. 



Seedlings. — There were but few Seedling Pelargoniums exhibited, and one 

 only selected for a prize ; this was Pamplin's Lord Nelson, a variety very much 



