1*7G MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Penlas carnea, by Mr. Ayres, gardener to J. Cooke, Esq., of Brooklands. The 

 plant was two feet and a half high, with ten corymbous heads of its pretty lilac- 

 pink blossoms. 



Veronica sptciosa, by Mr. Ingram, of Windsor Castle gardens. The plant 

 was three feet high, having thirteen fine spikes of its pretty blossoms (figured 

 recently in this Magazine); it deserves cultivation in every greenhouse. 



Cterodendron infortunalum, by Mr. Glendinning, of Cliiswick. The plant was 

 two feet and a half high, with a fine panicle of bright scarlet flowers. It well 

 merits a place in every stove. Achimenes picta, a foot high, not near so well 

 bloomed as we have seen elsewhere, nor were the flowers so handsome, probably 

 being injured by the mode of treatment it had received in order to push it into 

 bloom for the occasion. 



Gloxinias, three seedlings; 1st, named G. cartoni; outside of tube rose- 

 coloured, the limb portion is margined with white, and the inside of the flower 

 white with faint stripes of rose ; it is a very pretty variety. 2nd, a pale flesh 

 colour outside, and nearly white inside, also pretty. 3rd, a pale blue, with a 

 dark coloured inside, and a lighter stroke down the lower inside of the tube. 



Puvelta Caffra, by Mr. Slowe, of Bayfordbury, in Herts. The plant is usually 

 large before it blooms, but this was only half a yard high, having a fine head of 

 its lovely white flowers. 



Pterodiscus speciosuis, by Mr. Smith, of Kew Gardens. The flowers have a 

 resemblance to Maitynia, or between the Gloxinia and some of the Mimuluses, 

 of a dull reddish-purple. The plant is half a yard high. 



Ixora acuminata, by Messrs. Lucombe, Pinee, and Co. Plant three feet high, 

 the leaves are like those of a fine Magnolia; it had an head of several hundreds 

 of pure white flowers. Cyrtocercis reflexa, plant three feet high, having Ascle- 

 pias-like heads of yellow and white blossoms. 



Iiumlelelia speciosa, by Mr. Dnbson. The plant half a yard high, literally 

 covered with heads of its beautiful orange-red flowers. This plant is generally 

 grown long and straggling, but the present specimen was low, and formed a 

 compact bush. 



Erica Massoni major, a plant three feet high, in fine bloom, by Mr. Jackson. 



Dracophyllum secundum, by Mr. Jackson, a pretty plant, with drooping green 

 flowers. 



Hindsia longiflora and H. violacea, by Messrs. Veitch. Cut specimens of both 

 these pretty flowers were exhibited. 



Erica ventricosa alba, by Mr. Robertson. Plant three feet high, most pro- 

 fusely in bloom ; and E. depressa, with greenish-yellow flowers, plant three feet, 

 a beautiful specimen. 



Achimenes longifolia, by Mr. Falconer. Two feet and a half high, and as much 

 across, very profusely in bloom. Leschenaultia formosa, three feet high, a very 

 compact bush, and one mass of bloom. 



Lilium testaccum, by Messrs. Mountjoy, of Ealing nursery. The flowers are 

 of the turn cap form, large, and of a beautiful pale fawn colour; the flower stem 

 was four feet high. 



Azalea Indica variegata, laterita, and Gledstanesii had been grafted on one 

 stem, and the three in profuse bloom, was exhibited by Mr. Green ; the plant 

 was three feet high. 



Pelargoniums. — Amateurs" Class, 12 new and first-rate kinds, in pots, 24s. 

 1st Prize, Mr. Cock, of Chiswick, for Paragon, Sir U. Peel, Eclipse, Emma, 

 Hebe, Queen of the Faiiies, Black Dwarf, Erectum, Sarah, Garth's Queen Phil- 

 lipp.i, Maid of Honour, and Unit. They were dwarf robust-grown plants, in 

 vigorous health and bloom. 



2nd Prize, Mr. Dobscn, for Susanna, Majestic, Matilda, Queen of the Fairies, 

 Bella, Leonora, Martha, Serjeant, Flora, Conflagration, Angiola, Sir R. Peel, 

 and Susanna. 



3rd Prize, Mr. Coysh, of Clapham, for Beauty, Nymph, Prince Albert, Comte 

 de Paris, Venus, Erectum, Sylph, Lord Mayor, Plullis, Matilda, Priory Queen, 

 and Madeline. 



Nurserymen's Class. — 12 new and first-rate in 24s. 1st Prize, Mr. Gaines, 

 for Queen of Beauties, Oberon, Coronation Superb, Beauty Supreme, Witch, 



