FLORAL KXUIBITIONS. 15.5 



quality and quantity on Saturday last. Mr. Holford's gardener, 

 Bassett, produced a Camarotis purpurea 5 feet in height, quite a 

 pyramid of purple flowers from the top to the bottom. This formed, 

 as well it might, an object of general admiration. Scarcely inferior 

 to it was an Odontoglossum citrosmum in the collection of Mr. Mylam, 

 gardener to S. Rucker, Esq. This had five glorious spikes of flowers 

 on it, and they were most beautifully coloured. Indeed, the amount 

 of colour wliich they possessed formed a distinguishing characteristic 

 of all Mr. Mylam's productions. His yellows were decidedly yellows, 

 his purples purples, and his pinks pinks. Each colour, whatever it 

 might be, was " brought distinctly out." By tliis means, even Vanda 

 cristata, usually a dingy-looking plant, was, in Mr. Mylam's hands, 

 really charming. But in addition to his plants exhibiting to the best 

 advantage all the colours which they naturally possessed, they were 

 capitally cultivated and flowered ; and on this account richly deserved 

 the large Gold IMedal which was awarded them. The group com- 

 prised, in addition to the Odontoglossum citrosmum and Vanda 

 cristata above alluded to, Cattleya violacea, with six spikes of hand- 

 some floAvers ; C. Mossise, with from seventeen to twenty expanded 

 blossoms ; the true C. intermedia, C. Candida, Dendrobrium formosum, 

 with some twenty blossoms on it, large and beautiful ; the rare Anguloa 

 Clowesii, with three yellow blossoms ; a copiously bloomed Barkeria 

 spectabilis, in a wire basket ; the same excellent Saccolabium praemor- 

 sum that was produced on the 18th of May, still in perfection; tiie 

 rare Aerides maculosom, and Odontoglossum Karwinskii ; the large 

 flowered Butterfly plant (Phalsenopsis grandiflora), Cypripedium bar- 

 batum, a large Aerides aflSne, A. odoratum, a tall Vanda teres, and 

 Brassia verrucosa. 



Cape Heaths were plentiful, well cultivated, and finely flowered. 

 Those in 11-inch pots consisted mostly of small plants ; but they were 

 generally perfect examples of good Heath growing. In collections of 

 ten varieties, a first prize was awarded to Mr. Smith, gardener to 

 J. Quilter, Esq., of Norwood, for beautiful plants of elegans, Bergiana, 

 vestita coccinea, v. alba, suaveolens, Cavendishii, metulseflora, per- 

 spicua, Westphalingia, and Bruneoides. Second, Mr. Mylam, gardener 

 to S. Rucker, Esq., for tricolar rubra, t. Wilsonii, Cavendishii, hali- 

 cacaba. jasminoides, ventricosa hirstita v. grandiflora inflata rubra, &c. 

 Mr. Cole was third, with Cavendishii, Wilson's tricolor, t. rubra, 

 Bergiana, gemmifera, and splendens. Among Nurserymen, Mr. Epps 

 was first, with good plants of splendens, perspicua nana, vestita coccinea, 

 propendens, ventricosa alba, ampuUacea vittata, Cavendishii, tricolor 

 dumoso, and ventricosa coccinea minor. Messrs. Rollisson, who were 

 second, had ventricosa hirsuta, v. praegnans-superba, v. breviflora, v. 

 grandiflora, Cavendishii, tricolor, amabilis, Beaumontiana, and ampul- 

 lacea nana. Messrs. Veitch were third, with densa, a distinct looking 

 species ; rubella, a minute rosy-flowered kind ; splendens, depressa, 

 florida, ventricosa grandiflora, Cavendishii, and metulaeflora. Messrs. 

 Fairbairn produced perspioia nana, tricolor, depressa, Bergiana, Caven- 

 disiiii, mutabilis, elegans, Beaumontiana, and ventricosa breviflora. 

 IMr. Epps showed three pretty seedlings; one more especially, called 

 tricolor P^ppsii, is a promising flower. 



