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on account of its flowering late. Nicaiicum : Another beautiful white, 

 the plant here is large and lemarkably handsome. Poniicum album : 

 Of this fine white, there is here a superb example, the plant being fully 

 nine feet high. The head is about three feet through, and supported 

 on a stein six feet high. Cataivbiense {duplex) : This is a singular" 

 variety, distinguished by its pretty pink double flowers, which are very 

 profuse. Evereslianum : A remarkably free-blooming sort, forming 

 one of the most beautiful and desirable objects for a lawn or shrubbery. 

 The plant under notice is about five feet high, and profusely flowered. 

 E rectum ; A first-rate crim-on variety in the way of Bland) anuni, and 

 eqiiiilly as good. Leopardii: This is a fine rose-purple, and, as the 

 name implies, is distinguished by its large and hand-ome corollas, 

 which are freely spotted with very dark purple. Pimbriatum: A 

 capital vaiiety, with delicate crimson flowers, and very handsome habit. 

 Alburn eh guns : This is perhaps the best white in cultivation. The 

 trusses are large and handsome, and the corollas very distinct. The 

 plant here is about nine feet high ; the head being three feet through, 

 supported on a stem six feet long. There are many more first-rate 

 sorts, which, even to name, woidd occupy more space than it. is possible 

 for us to give at one time. "We shall therefore close our notice of this 

 division, by relating an incident to which no little interest is attached. 

 On the mottling of the second general exhibition, the Duke of Norfolk, 

 on visiting the American Gai den, with the whole of which he expressed 

 himself much gratified, was attracted by an unnamed new variety, of an 

 exq-iisite rose or crimson colour, in Mr. Waterer's collection. His 

 Grace, who could well appreciate its rich colour and handsome form, 

 was pleased to permit his name to be affixed to it. Among the more 

 desirable or prominent still in Mr. Baker's collection the following 

 deserve mention : — Maculatum grandiflorum : This is very well 

 named, as the corollas, which are of a dark purple colour, and much 

 spotted at the interior, measure rather more than three and a-half inches. 

 Ponticum album : A first-rate light coloured variety, with handsome 

 heads of large flowers. Myrlifolia: A very desirable dwarf shrubby 

 variety, with clusters of small white flowers, which, however, in the 

 open ground are rather of a rose colour; the foliage is small and neat. 

 Ilyaciiilhiflora : A distinct variety, with pretty pink double flowers 



and hands e leaves. Cataivbiense splendews : this is a well-known 



and beautiful rosy-lilac variety, which lias been very fine in this collec- 

 tion. Besides these, Mammoth, Cunninghamn, ignescet/s. and delica- 

 tissimum, deserve notice as varieties of great merit. Auculifilia: ie- 

 matkable for the distinct yellow margin of the leaves. Mr. Baker has 

 also some fine standards and large bushy plants, besides numerous capi- 

 tal new light varieties which have not yet. been named ; also handsome 

 and choice Azaleas, conifera, &c. Messrs. Blandish and Noble's col- 

 lection, has been, from the beginning, in fine flowering older, and. as 

 might be expected, some of the plants are now passed their best ; theie 

 is still, however, a rich display on this side. The most noticeable are 

 — Mrs. Bartholomew: A rosy purple vaiiety villi good tmsscs of 

 large corollas. Gulnare: A fine white tinged villi pink. Znleiha : 

 This is a very delicate coloured variety, somewhat similar to the pre- 



