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or so of it, being either originally cast with the pipe or one affixed thereto, 

 formed of zinc, lead, tin, or other material, in which water is poured occasion- 

 ally : the evaporation of moisture may be obtained to any desired decree or 

 period. The cost of this mode of heating is not much more than the tank 

 system for a greenhouse, and the excess of moisture therein in winter is obviated. 

 Any other particulars our correspondent requires, and we can furnish, shall be 

 done with pleasure. — Conductor.] 



REMARKS. 

 LONDON HORTICULURAL SOCIETY'S SHOW. 

 The last Exhibition of the season in the Gardens at Chiswick took place on 

 Saturday, July 13th. 



The large collection of orchidaceous plants sent by Mr. Mylam, gardener to 

 S. Rucker, Esq., obtained the first Prize, Gold Medal ; it contained many noble 

 specimens in the highest health. Among them were Stanhopea tigrina and 

 cinnamonea, proJucing their singular flowers beneath the bottom of a wire 

 basket ; the curious plant producing a yellow Maxillaria-like flower spotted with 

 brown, called Scnticaria Steelii : the rare Anguloa Clowesii, producing a pale- 

 yellow, or rather lemon-coloured flower ; and a noble plant of Miltonia spec- 

 tabilis, with 15 lovely blooms; a very fine plant of Oncidinm Lanceanum ; 

 O. luridum guttatum, leucochilum, and pictum ; Zygopetalum crinitum coeru- 

 leum, Sarcantbus rostraius, Cynoches maculatum, Brassia Lawrenceana, and 

 Lanceana ; Angiaecum bilobum, Cycnoches ventricosum, Lycaste Skinned and 

 macrophylla, Cynoches chlorochilon, with pale-green flowers; Odontoglossum 

 pulchellum, Catasetum citrinum and luridum, Huntleya violacea, Maxillaria 

 Warreana and vitellina, Epidendrum fragrans, Galeandra Bauerii, Maxillaria 

 stapelioides, and a species with very rich flowers called M. tetragona. Cirrhaea 

 picta, tristis, and Warreana, with very curious flowers hanging over the side of 

 the pots, and which woidd have been better shown had they had a sheet of white 

 paper placed beneath them; a pretty specimen of the beautiful Stanhopea 

 saccata. — Second Prize to Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting. Among them were a 

 fine variety of Calanthe, with rich violet flowers, called C.masuca: a new species 

 or rather variety of Cymbidium, with large dark-brown flowers resembling C. 

 aloifolium ; Catasetum deltoideum, with very pretty dark-brown flowers ; Stan- 

 hopea tigrina, and Wardii ; Onciilium Lanceanum; Aerides quinquevulnerum. 

 Miltonia spectabilis, Cattleya crispa ; Acropera Loddigesii, Cycnoches Lod- 

 digesii, Epidendrum alatum, Lycaste tetragoua, Isochilus linearis, Aspasia 

 lunata, Rodriguezia recurva, Brassia Lanceana, and Oncidium luridum. — Third 

 Prize to Mr. Rubertson, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence. A magnificent plant of 

 Peristeria alata, the Panama Dove plant ; Stanhopea eburnea, oculata. quadri- 

 cornis ; Xylobium squalens ; the singular Monnodes citrinum, with yellow 

 flowers ; Acropera Loddigesii, Maxillaria Deppii, M. stapelioides, M. tetragona, 

 Mormodes aromaticum, Galeandra Baueri, Epidendrum vitellinum, Brassia 

 brachiata, Catasetum Russellianum, Phaius albidus, Epidendrum odoratissimum. 

 — Fourth Prize to Mr. Redding, gardener to Mrs. Marryat. Stanhopea oculata, 

 with six spikes of bloom ; S. grandiflora and tigrina; Epidendrum variegatum, 

 Brassia Lanceana, Gongora nigrita, with very dark flower* ; Oncidium papilio, 

 altissimum, and pulvinaium. 



Single Specimens of Orchidacece. — Cattleya Loddigesii, with nine spikes of 

 bloom, from Messrs. Veitch and Sous, of Exeter; Stanhopea oculata variety, 

 with twenty flowers, from Messrs. Henderson, of Pine-apple Place. Vanda 

 ^toxburghi, a small plant, from Mr. Plant, gardener to H. Schroder, Esq., of 

 Brixton ; and a new species of Calanthe, with pale-violet flowers, called C. 

 plantaginea, from Mr. Eyles, gardener to Sir George Larpeut, at Putney Heath. 



Large Collection of Stove and Greenhouse Plants of Mr. Robertson. — It con- 

 tained a fine specimen of ^schynanthus maculatus, upwards of two feet in 

 diameter, trained hemispherically, and liberally covered with bloom ; Besleria 

 pulchella, a very pretty plant; Lasiandra petiolata, a plant three feet in diameter, 

 and producing very pretty blue flowers ; Phseconoma prolifera, a very fine 



