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Jasminium syringafoj.itjm. — We did not see it bloom; but the information 

 received with it was that it was a most profuse bloomer, and delightfully fra. 

 giant: it is a greenhouse species. 



PART III. 

 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



LONDON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Tuesday, Oct. 20.— Dr. Henderson, V.P., in the chair. 



A communication was read to the meeting from Mr. Scott, gardener to Sir 

 George Staunton : it appears Mr. Scott was lately successful in blooming the 

 Nelumbium speciosum, and the Society requested from him a statement of his 

 treatment, of which he gives the following particulars, viz. : — The plants were 

 kept dry in the winter till the month of February, in a house at the temperature 

 of 50. They were then divided and removed to a stove kept at 80, with a bottom 

 heat supplied to the soil by water at 90. In May they were placed in a box of 

 loamy soil, covered with water at 80, and the temperature of the house ranging 

 from 65 to 05, where they threw up flowers in the month of August, measuring 

 about 10J inches in diameter, of a bright red colour, and much handsomer than 

 N. luteum. 



The only plants shown were a collection of Heaths from Mr. Jackson, of 

 Kingston, containing E. acuminata longirlora.CafFra, Pentricosa superba, Co/oruns, 

 Elata, Declinnta, Concinna, Hyemalis, Vernix nova, Insurgent, and Puramidalis, 

 all good specimens; and from the Society's garden two varieties of Catasetum 

 laminatum, Zygopetalum crinitum, Calanthe densiflora, and Bifreuaiia auran- 

 tiaca. 



Messrs. Laue and Son, of Berkhampstead, sent several boxes of Roses, which 

 were stated to have bloomed in the open ground, exposed to the frosts which cut 

 down the whole of the Dahlias. 



Messrs. Wood and Son, of Maresfield, exhibited a box of beautiful Roses 

 grown under the same condition with those of Messrs. Lane. 



From S. W. Silver, Esq., F.H.S., were blooms of Calyonictum speciosum, 

 raised from seeds imported from Ceylon. This is the Ipomea bona uox, or 

 moon-plant of Ceylon, so called from opening its flowers at six o'clock in the 

 evening and closing the following morning ; also Hibiscus cannabiensis, and new 

 species of Physalis and Clytoria. 



Mr. Lee, nurseryman, Hammersmith, sent a Cactus turbiniformis, and two 

 others. 



A basket of Camellia blooms were shown by J. Allnutt, Esq.,F.H.S., and from 

 the Society's garden, flowers of Hibiscus Wraya?, one of the most beautiful of 

 the introductions from the west side of New Holland ; the plant from which 

 they were taken is still flowering, and from the appearance of fresh buds pro- 

 mises to continue in bloom during the winter. 



A box of seedling Heartsease from Messrs. Lane contained several good varie- 

 ties, some of them larger than any that we have seen through the season. 



The Banksian medal was awarded to Mr. Jackson for Heaths, and Messrs. 

 Wood for Roses. 



QUERIE8. 



On Tuunbbugia a lata. — You would confer a great favour if you could inform 

 me, through the medium of your valuable Cauinet, the most successful mode of 

 cultivating the Thunbergia alata, as mine does not grow so luxuriously as I 

 should wish it to do, the foliage dropping off. An early answer will oblige 



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