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flowered ; Hardenbergia Comptoniana, trained over a barrel-shaped trellis, was 

 in profuse bloom. Hardenbergia monophylla Zichya inopbylla floribunda; and 

 Gompholobium polymorphum, a noble plant of Stephanotus floribundus, trained 

 spirally; the trellis covered as thickly as possible with branches, and singularly 

 thickly covered with bloom-buds, though but few of them were open. Echites 

 hirsuta ; several plants of Gompholobium polymorphum in good condition ; 

 and Tropspolum tricolor and Jarrattii. Mr. Frazer, two exceedingly well-bloomed 

 plants of Hardenbergia monophylla and longiracemosa, trained over cylindrical 

 trellises ; Zichya coccinea, and Gompholobium polymorphum ; Sollya angusti- 

 folia ; Philihertia graudiflora, trained on a flat trellis. 



Large Collections of 30 Slave and Greenhouse Plants. — 1st Prize, Mr. Robertson, 

 gardener to Mrs. Lawrence. Among which were superb specimens of Erythrina 

 crista-galli, 9 feet high and 18 feet in circumference, in noble bloom ; Cytisus 

 filipes ; Boronia pinifolia; Pimelea spectabile ; Chorozema Henchmanni, 4 feat 

 high and 12 feet in circumference ; Pimelea decussata, 6 feet high, and as much 

 in diameter; another, a dark variety, 18 inches high, and 3 feet in diameter; 

 Eriostemon myoporoides, 9 feet high, covered with bloom ; Polygalabracteolata; 

 Eriostemon buxifolium ; Epacris cerseflora; Coleonematenuifolium ; Chorozema 

 macrophylla ; Hovea Celsi, an old plant, which had been cut down and pro- 

 duced a number of branches from the bottom, which formed a dwarf bush ; 

 Dillwynia floribunda; Aphelexis sesamoides; a few species of Daviesia, with 

 a profusion of orange and dark-red flowers; Tabernae-montanacoronaria, densely 

 covered with its pure white deliciously-scented flowers; Leschenaultia biloba, 

 4 feet high, and 4 feet in diameter, regularly furnished with a great number 

 of delicate azure-blue flowers. 



Collection of Fifteen Plants.— 1st Prize, Mr. Green, gardener to Sir E. A ntrobus, 

 Leschenaultia biloba grandiflora, dark blue variety, covered with bloom, and 

 four feet high, the same in diameter. L. foimosa covered with bloom ; Daviesia 

 latifolia, trained in a pendent form ; Gnidia pinifolia ; Pimelea rosea and hispida; 

 Chorozema varium well bloomed ; Acrophyllum venosum, in a very healthy 

 condition, blooming freely; Aphelexis humilis in a fine state; Rondeletia 

 speciosa. 



2nd Prize, Mr. Clark, gardener to the Earl of Eldon, a large plant of Boronia 

 denticulata; a double white Primula, Eutaxia pungens, Chorozema Dicksoni, 

 and Leschenaultia biloba ; Chorozema cordatum, nine feet in diameter; Stepha- 

 notus floribundus, Zichya inophylla, floribunda, and coccinea; Hardenbergia 

 monophylla, trained on flat trellises, densely clothed with flowers. 



Single Specimens. — Hindsia longiflora loaded with bloom buds: Xanthosia 

 rotund ifolia, Kriostemon buxifolium, and Erica depressa. It was about two feet 

 high, and two feet in diameter at the bottom, forming a cone densely covered 

 with greenish-yellow blossoms. From Messrs. Veitch's, Cumingia trimaculata, 

 sent by Mr. Frost; three plants of Statice macrophylla, in bloom, from Mr. 

 Forrest; a very large plant, sheeted with bloom, of Leschenaultia formosa, was 

 sent by Mr. Clark ; a splendid specimen of Leschenaultia biloba grandiflora, by 

 Mr. Falconer ; another plant with paler flowers, by Mr. P. Tramer, gardener to 

 Lady Alice Peel ; and a pretty specimen of the dwarf variety, called L. biloba 

 nana, by Mr. Green. From Mr. R. Johnson, gardener to J. Mallett, Esq., Gna- 

 phalium involucratum ; Stylidium odoratum, from Mr. Robertson ; new Gloxinia 

 with crimson flowers edged with white, far the finest hybrid which we have seen, 

 and merits universal cultivation, from Mr. Dobson. 



On Geraniums. — When I housed my Geraniums last winter, I accidentally 

 placed side by side a Horse-shoe Geranium and one with variegated foliage; and 

 this spring 1 find upon the latter one shoot having exactly the same foliage as 

 its neighbour; and the young leaves which continue to make their appearance 

 partake of the nature of the horse-shoe, and not of the parent Geranium. If 

 some reader of the Cabinet would tell me how this has arisen, and if the altera- 

 tion will be permanent, or if, when the leaves change, the shoot will return to its 

 old habit, I should feel obliged, Martha, 



