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named Jenny Lind, for which a certificate was awarded. S. G. G. 

 Seagcr, of Poole, sent two Dendrobiums resembling D. cucuUatum 

 and D. nitidum ; and J. H. Schroder, Esq., of Stratford Green, blooms 

 of a new Stanhopea, and a variety of Aerides crispum. From Mr. 

 Glendinning, of Chiswick Nursery, was the stately Gardenia Stan- 

 leyana, and the pretty blue-flowered Heliophila trifida. Some garden 

 syringes were exhibited, of which one from Mr. Biertumpfel, of 

 Albany-street, Regent's Park, deserves mention, on account of its 

 cheapness. It was made of hard white metal. Ornamental garden- 

 pots were shown by Mr. Goode, of South Audley-street, Grosvenor- 

 square. From the garden of the Society were five species of Epi- 

 dendrum, four Oncidiums, Cattleya Mossise, Brassia verrucosa, Barkeria 

 spectabilis, thriving well on a block ; a good Aerides crispum, and 

 Acanthophippium bicolor. Also Mr. Fortune's Lysimachia Candida, 

 his Rhynchospermum jasminoides, a handsome white-flowered green- 

 house plant, Indigofera decora, and Campanula nobilis. Along with 

 these were also Heliophila trifida, Cereus crenatus, a white-flowered 

 species rivalling in beauty the night-blowing Cereus ; a fine mass of 

 Lilium longiflorum, the bright red-flowered Scutellaria coccinea, Rho- 

 danthe Manglesii, Mussaenda frondosa, Statice mucronata, Lindleya 

 mespiloides, and six Mammillarias. 



ON FUCHSIA FLOWERS NOT EXPANDING. 



BY MR. A. FYFE, OF EDINBCBGH. 



Being a long subscriber to the Floricultural Cabinet, I hope I 

 may be permitted to occupy a few lines in it, to detail the misfortune 

 under which myself and others sufler, and to solicit information, by a 

 remedy being described by some reader. 



I am an ardent admirer of the beautiful tribe of Fuchsias, and, 

 along with some of my friends, amateur growers of them, possess a fine 

 collection. Not being favoured with all the advantages for growing 

 tlieni vigorously in the City that other situations admit, the plants do 

 not bloom as is desirable. The plants generally are freely furnished 

 with flower-buds, but not more than one in twenty ever expand fully, 

 but drop off at a previous state. Some of those flowers that do partially 

 open only burst at one side, exhibiting a portion of the petals, but are 

 destitute of pistil and stamens. The buds appear to be coated over 

 with a glutinous matter, which binds the petals, so as to prevent a 

 proper expansion of the flower, and hence the bursting of the side 

 arises by force of the increased size. I cannot discover from whence 

 the glutinous matter arises, nor why the buds thus prematurely drop 

 off. In order to prevent the injury complained of, I have given a 

 liberal supply of water, but without success; and, on the other hand, I 

 have withheld in some degree, so as to keep the soil in a moderate 

 moist state, but only realized the same result. If some reader of these 

 remarks, wlio can give us a successful remedy, will please to forward it 

 for insertion in the next Number of the Floricultural, Cabinet, it 

 will very much oblige myself and others, 



