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HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
MEETING AT THE ROOMS IN REGENT-STREET, LONDON, ON DECEMBER 5TH. 
Mr. Spat, gardener to W. Carbonell, Esq., sent a specimen of the 
white Persian Cyclamen (C. Persicum album). Messrs. Veitch pro- 
duced cut branches in a pot of their beautiful Fuchsia spectabilis. 
These were stated to have been cut from a plant which is growing 
luxuriantly in their conservatory border, and which has been in full 
flower these last three months, forming an object of admiration to all 
who have seen it. Mr. Kendall, of Stoke Newington, sent a small 
collection of plants from his Polmaise stove, and among them two 
specimens of 'Torenia Asiatica. It has been stated by a contemporary 
that this Torenia ‘‘ may safely be considered as a greenhouse plant,” 
but Mr. Kendall has found that, if treated as a greenhouse plant, in 
nine cases out of ten it will die off in winter, and the plants in question 
were produced to show that the best place to winter it in is a stove. 
It was stated that he last year lost every plant which he endeavoured 
to keep over winter in his greenhouse, and that such was also already the 
ease this year with the plants he had so treated. The specimens exhi- 
bited had been struck late in spring, and had been kept during summer 
in the greenhouse, where they were continually in flower. Early in 
October they were removed to the stove, in which they have blossomed 
freely, and promise to do so all the winter. With these came a seed- 
ling Cineraria, in the way of “ Beauty of Newington,” named ‘ Queen 
of the Isles.” The plant exhibited was finely flowered, and was stated 
to be a cutting from a seedling of the present year. It had never been 
out of the Polmaise stove. arly in October it was subjected to a 
minimum temperature of 76° by day and 60° by night, proving that 
the Cineraria may be successfully forced to flower at this season of the 
year. 
E Of Orchids, Mr. Dobson, gardener to Mr. Beck, sent the pretty 
Oncidium unguiculatum, Epidendrum vitellinum, and the well-known 
Stenorhynchus speciosus. <A. certificate was awarded for the Oncidium. 
A similar award was also made to M. de Jonghe, of Brussels, for 
Zygopetalum brachypetalum, an uncommon, though not quite a new 
species. It is one of the handsomest of the genus, having brown and 
green sepals and petals, and a bluish violet lip slightly marked with 
white. 
A beautiful variety of the Java Vanda suavis, for which a certificate 
was awarded, was contributed by Mr. Bassett, gardener to R. S. Holford, 
| Esq. It was mentioned that of this fine species there are several 
varieties, some handsomely spotted, others nearly white and compara- 
tively valueless. 
__ Mr. Ivison, gardener to the Duchess Dowager of Northumberland, 
sent, in one pot, three species of Mormodes, from Santa Martha, queer 
‘rather than beautiful; and, with them, fruit of Jambosa vulgaris. 
_gutlered from a plant which has fruited profusely in a conservatory at 
yon. ‘The fruit is small and oblong, pale yellow, and having the 
_flayour of one of the Alberge apricots slightly perfumed. ‘The same 
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