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William Jesse, crimson, tinged with lilac ; Comte Robrinsky, beautiful 

 crimson. Bourbon : Armosa, rosy blush ; Augustine Marget, delicate 

 bright rose ; Bernardin de St. Pierre, brilliant carmine ; Dupetit 

 Thouars, rich carmine ; Emilie Courtier, bright reddish crimson ; Le 

 Grenadier, bright lake; Madame Angelina, salmon yellow; Queen, 

 delicate salmon ; Speciosa, shaded rose. China: Abbe Mioland, fine 

 crimson red ; Fabvier, striped crimson ; Miellez, lemon white ; Mrs. 

 Bosanquet, creamy white. Tea: Belle Allemande, cream, shaded 

 blush ; Comte de Paris, cream ; Devoniensis, creamy white, buff 

 centre ; Goubault, salmon-shaded rose ; Madame Bravy, creamy white, 

 salmon centre ; Niphetos, pale lemon ; Smith's Yellow, pale straw ; 

 Vicomtesse de Cazes, golden yellow. Noisette : A fleur Variable, 

 rosy salmon ; Cloth of Gold, yellow ; Jeanne d'Arc, lemon white ; 

 Mrs. Siddons, fine yellow. A Banksian Medal was awarded for the 

 Roses. — Mrs. Lawrence exhibited a fine specimen of Enkianthus reti- 

 culars, two species of Boronia, the beautiful violet-blossomed Mirbelia 

 floribunda, Phaius Wallichii, Maxillaria Harrisonii, an Oncidium re- 

 sembling sarcodes, and a new and very curious Epidendrum, bearing a 

 long, drooping, green flower, which terminated in a broad rich orange- 

 coloured fleshy lip, vieing in brilliancy with the E. vitellinum itself. 

 It was stated that it would probably produce flowers in clusters, and if 

 so it must be considered a great acquisition. A Knightian Medal was 

 awarded for this, and a Banksian Medal for the other plants. — Messrs. 

 Loddiges sent a handsome pale rose-coloured Rhododendron, raised 

 from Nepaul seeds; and Mr. Myatt, of Deptford, showed two nicely- 

 flowered Cyclamens. — From the Garden of the Society came the fine 

 specimen of Epidendrum aurantiacum, which was exhibited at a pre- 

 vious meeting, Maxillaria Harrisoniae, Angelonia moschata, Cyrtoceras 

 reflexum, the purple Gesnera, Boronia tetrandra, Eriostemon cuspida- 

 tum, three varieties of Epacris, two species of Cytisus, Franciscea 

 Hopeana, Forsythia viridissima (again produced in excellent condition), 

 the Gesnera-flowered Sage, Salvia gesneriflora. 



A Garden of Bulbs. — How universally everybody, even persons 

 comparatively indifferent to gardens, admire the flowers of all bulbous- 

 rooted plants ; yet how few gardens among those in the highest keeping 

 make them form anything like a conspicuous feature in the general 

 arrangement. How this happens I know not, because from February 

 to July, aye even to September, there may be kept up a continual 

 succession of the most neat and lovely, as well as the most gorgeous 

 bloom, according to the taste of the gardener; not that I would re- 

 commend an entire reliance on bulbs, for there are many perennials of 

 quite another class that would wonderfully aid the general effect, and 

 they might be so contrived as to supply those colours which may be 

 most efficient at particular seasons. I am an advocate for bulbs upon 

 the same principle that I am for perennials, apart from their great 

 beauty ; that is, for the little trouble they give one. For the most 

 part they need only be disturbed once in three years, and then only 

 because the increase is so great that they want thinning, so also does a 

 perennial ; indeed so do most perennials, for they spread their roots in 

 three years into large patches, and require to be parted, or they 



