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specimen ; Cuphea Melvillai, two large plants producing large scarlet flowers 

 tipped with green ; Pentas carnea, a well- bloomed plant; Manettia cordttblia ; 

 Statice macrophylla, with a fine spike of bloom; S. sinuata, a neat plant ; and a 

 Very pretty specimen of Mirbelia llicifolia. 



A remarkably fine plant of Vinca rosea ocellata in perfect bloom ; Siphocam- 

 pylus betulifolius ; Achimenes grandiflora, a noble specimen, in most profuse 

 bloom ; Angelonia Gardneriana, prettily-spotted purple flowers, in long spikes; 

 Leschenaultia formosa; Asclepias curassavica ; Osbeckia chinensis, rose- 

 coloured flowers; Clerodendrum calamitosuin ; Cassia corymbosa. — Second 

 Prize to Mr. Frazer, of the Lea-bridge-road. A very fine specimen of Kalo- 

 santhes coccinea, loaded with its bright-scarlet flowers ; a very large plant of 

 Vinca rosea alba; Roella ciliata, an admirable plant, covered with its beautiful 

 pale blueish. purple flowers ; Euthales macrophylla, four feet high, covered with 

 beautiful yellow flowers; Angelonia Gardneriana; Crowea saligna, Vinca rosea, 

 and Gardoquia Hookeri ; Boronia viminea and Leschenaultia formosa. — Third 

 Prize to Mr. Epps, of the Bower Nursery, Maidstone. Coleonemarubrum, Sollya 

 heterophylla, Clerodendrum squamatum, Achimenes multiflora, Achimenes 

 grandiflora; Brugmansio tioribunda, with orange flowers; Gloxinia Cartoni, 

 Begonia parviflora, Torenia scabra, and Vinca rosea and rosea alba. Mr. Bruce 

 had a very admirable specimen of Pentas carnea, said to have been grown in the 

 open air; Achimenes longittora, A phelexis humilis, Clerodendrum squamatu.n, 

 Phymatanthus or Pelargonium tricolor, and Pimelea decussata. 



Mr. Jackson, of Kingston, had a collection of Statices, consisting of S. sinuata, 

 a very pretty species ; Pseudo-armeria, a variety with pink flowers, said to be 

 hardy ; with S. Gmelini mucronata, Dickensoni, arborea and incana. Messrs. 

 Mountjoy, of Ealing, sent twelve very fine plants of Lilium eximium; and Mr. 

 Cuthill, nurseryman, of Camberwell. ten beautifully grown plants of Lisianthns 

 Russellianus, a plant for the successful cultivation of which he has been so long 

 celebrated. 



New Plants. — By Air. Robertson, Saurauja spectabilis ; the flowers in bunches, 

 resembling Spireea ariaefolia, but shorter in the bunch, and deliciouslv sweet- 

 scented. — Clnococca racemosa, by Mr. Eyles, gardener to Sir George Larpent ; 

 small yellow flowers, which were abundantly produced. — Mr. Gad. gardener to 

 Thomas Lenox, Esq., of Plaistow, Essex; Brugmansia floribunda, — Messrs. 

 Mountjoy, a plant of Gloxinea ceiina, with pale pink flowers, and said to be a 

 half-bred Sinningia. — Mr. Stanley, a species of Thysanotus. — Mr. Frazer, Gom- 

 pholobium splendens, with yellow flowers. — Mr. Ayres, gardener to James Cook, 

 Esq., sent a plant of a hybrid Achimenes, said to have been raised between A. 

 rosea and coccinea, and called A. Beatoni. — Mr. Miller, of Ramsgate, sent a 

 large plant of Petunia punctata. 



Single Specimens. — Gloriosa superba, upwards of six feet high, and in splendid 

 bloom. A very curious plant, with pink flowers protruding from all parts of the 

 old wood of the plant, even from the surface of the pot to the extreme point, was 

 sent by Mr. Robertson, and called Medinilla erythrophylla ; he had another 

 beautiful and singular plant, called Lemonia spectabilis. — Mr. Frazer, a magni- 

 ficent specimen of Crowea saligna. — Mr. Hyde, gardener to B. Cotton, Esq., a 

 noble specimen of Lisianthus Russellianus, covered with upwards of three hundred 

 flower-buds. — Mr. Bailey, gardener to his Grace the Archbishop of York, two 

 plants of Kalosanthes nitida, and grandiflora miniata ; they were three feet 

 high and three feet in diameter. — Statice sinuata, by Mr. Jackson ; Achimenes 

 longiflora, remarkably good, by Mr. Bruce ; and A. lougiflora and grandiflora, 

 superlatively excellent, by Mr. Robertson. Seilum tortuosum, from Mr. Doran ; 

 Leschenaultia formosa, from Mr. Poole ; Tristania neriifolia, with yell jw flowers, 

 by Mr. May, of Woodford ; Erica ampullacea, a splendid plant, by Mr. Dawson, 

 of Brixton-hill ; E. tricolor superba, by Messrs. Henderson ; and E. tricolor 

 elegans railiata, an excellent plant, and eximia, a fine specimen, by Mr. Robert- 

 son, who also sent a grand plant, 10 feet high, of Nepenthes distillatoria, the 

 singular Pitcher plant, which was covered with pitchers. 



Collections of Heaths. — First Prize : Mr. Robertson had fine plants of Par- 

 menteriana rosea, gemmifera, depressa, viridiflora, cerintboides major, jasmin- 

 flora alba, CavendKhii, ampullacea, oblata, ampullacea vittata, Lannonii, vea- 



