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bloom, growing in the border of Messrs. Loddiges, Camellia House, are well 

 worth going to see. The flower stems are about ten feet high. 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Tuesday, August 4ih.— A great number of very fine specimens of stove and 

 greenhouse plants were exhibited, but the orchidaceous excelled all the rest in 

 beauty and abundance of bloom ; the scent from some of these species was so 

 powerful as to he almost overpowering on first entering the room, lhe greatest 

 novelty shown was a new species of Cobea: this genus his been hitherto seen 

 in only one species, tbe Cohea scandens, a well-known and very pretty climber ; 

 the species exhibited on the present occasion is a native of Mexico, with flowers 

 of a pale yellow, also a climber, and called C. stipularis. A very beaut ilul spe- 

 cimen of M'ltonia apectabilis, perhaps one of the very best sp^'£ ot Orcni- 

 daceae, was shown by Mr. W. Dean, gardener to S. Rucker, Esq., I .H S. 



Mrs. Lawrence had a collection, containing a very fine specimen ol I Feris.ena 

 elata, which has received the name of the Holy Ghost plant, from the distinct 

 resemblance to a dove presented by the internal part ol the flower : the plant 

 shown had several spikes of bloom five to six feet high. Penstena maculata and 

 Maxillana Rollissoni : two plants of a new variety of Gou^ora ; two equ ally tine 

 specimens of Oncidium lancea.ium, Acropera Lo.ldigesn. Zygopetalum maxiiiare, 

 Bifrenaria atropurpurea, Mahernia pinnata, Ixora coccmea, Clerodendron pani- 

 culatum, and M.-lastoma malubathricum ; also single specimens of Stance io- 

 liosa, and Silene laciniata. . 



Mr. Redding, gardener to Mrs. Marryatt, of Wimbledon, brought a collection 

 of noble specimens of Russellia juncea, Gongora sp., Oncidium lundum, Kpi- 

 pactus palustiis, Pelargonium tricolor, Crinum spectabile, and Tristanea neri- 



° Mr. Pamplin. nurseryman, Hornsey, a collection of Heaths, consisting of the 

 following varieties, inflata, inflata alba, jasminiflora, eximia, Bandoua, ampnl- 

 lacea, Swainsonia ovata, ampullacea. vittata, Clusiana.and one or two seedlings, 

 the whole of them well grown and booming freely. ....... , <■ 



Mr Pratt, ga.der.er to W. Harrison. Esq.. Cheshunt, exhibited a fine plant ot 

 Erica Kweriana. about six feet high ; also Pimilea hispida, Gesnena splendens, 

 and Erica ampullacea. 



Mr. Dean, gardener to J. Bateman, Esq., had blooms of Stannopea Wardi, 

 Acropera Loddigesii, and some other orchidese. , 



Mr. Young, nurseryman. Epsom, exhibited a new and handsome species ot 

 Gloxinia, with bright red flowers. . 



Messrs. Colley and Hill, Hammersmith, two new Pelargoniums, called Cleo- 

 patra and Ajax. . . _.. 



From the Society's garden were Trichopilia tortilis, Galeandna Baueri, Silene 

 laciniata, Gasteria conspurcata, Chironia frutescens, and PortulaccaThellusonn. 



QUERIES. 



On cutting down rhododendrons, and a list of some of the best pillar 

 nosrs.— I should be glad to know the best time of the year for cutting down 

 large Rhododendrons. I have some ten or twelve feet high that are getting to 

 look old and ragged, and should be sorry to spoil them by injudicious treatment. 

 Any information in the next number of the Cabinet will greatly oblige 



July 17, 1840. Azalea. 



P. S. I am wishful to procure eighteen of the best pillar Roses to replace some 

 that I now have in my rosary which are not approved. I should be glad to 

 have the names of those which are considered the best, and description of 

 colours, &c. 



[The best time to bend down the Rhododendrons is in the Spring, when they 

 are about to push shoots ; tbe young wood that is produced often being vigorous 

 lias then a sufficient season to get well ripened in, but if cut late in summer, the 



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