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Best specimen of ditto — Seedling : Mr. Daubuz. Best collection of 

 Heartsease — Zabdi, Sylph, Prince of Orange, Optimum, Cornish Lass, 

 Rainbow, Caroline, Polynices, Climax, Duchess of Rutland, Supreme, 

 Marchioness of Lothian, Magnificent, Attraction, Superb, Juventa : 

 Mr. VV. Woolcock. 2nd — Ophir, Lady Sale, Taglioni, Lucy Neal, 

 Splendid, Blue Perfection, Great Western, Caroline, Oats's Seedling, 

 Climax, Malvern, Punch : Rev. Canon Rogers. Best Six Ro*es in 

 pots — Baronne Prevost, Niphetos, Duchess of Sutherland, Highclerc 

 Seedling, Madame Laffay, La Belle Allamande: Mr. F. Passiimham. 

 2nd — Souvenir de la Malmaison, Geaut des Bataill^s, &c. : Mr. R. 

 Friend. 3rd — Triumphant, Geant des Batailles, Madame Desprez, 

 General Lamoriciere, Admiral Reynolds — West Briton. 



Horticultural Society Rooms, 21 Regent Street. June 17. 

 — Mr. May, gardener to E. Good hart, Esq., Langley Park, Beckenham, 

 Kent, sent a beautiful purple and white striped Phlox, called Mayii 

 variegata. It is one of the prettiest we have seen of the many seed- 

 lings obtained from the Drummond Phlox, ci'ossed with other kinds ; 

 and if constant, will, no doubt, be an acquisition. Mr. Mackintosh, 

 nurseryman, Maida-vale, Edge ware-road, furnished a small example of 

 a white Chrysanthemum in blossom, in order 10 prove that this fa- 

 vourite autumnal flower may be made to bloom in the middle of sum- 

 mer. It was raised from a cutting put in in December last, and had 

 been grown on a greenhouse shelf near the glass. From the garden 

 of the Society came the scarce Brassavola Digbyana, with a broad 

 fringed lip ; Cyrtochilum stellatum, having bright green healthy leaves, 

 a rare occurrence with this plant ; Cyrtoceras reflexum, Franciscea 

 Hopeana, a profusely-flowered medium-sized bush of Pimelea decus- 

 sata ; Dillwynia clavata, one of the handsomest of the genus ; an Epacris, 

 two Cape Heaths, eight varieties of Achimenes. an Everlasting, and the 

 Chinese Indigo plant, (Isatis indigotica). 



Crassula coccinea and versicolor. — A market gardener near 

 London, who supplies Covent Garden Market with these very showy 

 flowering plants, has twenty thousand of them coming into bloom. 

 When in perfection they are highly ornamental, and their thick waxy- 

 like flowers are strikingly beautiful ; they continue, too. a long time 

 in bloom. To ornament a greenhouse in summer, or sitting-room, they 

 are charming things, and diffuse an agreeable fragrance. The cost per 

 plant is but a trifle. We have seen beds of the scarlet in the flower- 

 garden, and they had a fine appearance. 



Iris Sisi \ w i Death's-head Iris). — How rarely this is well grown 

 in this country, and not often flowered. I saw, a few days since, in 

 the gardens of the Luxembourg, at Paris, large patches of it grown 

 in a cold frame ; there were ten or twelve flowers (half as large again 

 as any I ever saw in this country) open at the same time; the plants 

 appeared to be growing in very light soil. I shall try this mode of 

 cultivating this interesting plant, and recommend your readers to do 

 the game. The roots are to be bought with the other Dutch roots in 

 the autumn ; but I suspect, that those usually purchased have been too 

 long out of the ground, or have been taken up too early ; and that this 

 i» probably the reason tin v do not often succeed. — Juvenis. 



