MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



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3 Mr Catling. 



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PURPLE STOCKS. 



1 Mr Catling. 



BEST PLANT IN A POT. 



1 Cactus Speciosus, Mr Catling, juii. 



BOUQUETS. 



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BRISTOL HORTICULTURAL AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY. 



The Eecoud Exhibition of this Society, for the present season , was held 

 on Tuesday, in the newly erected room at the top of Park-street, in thff 

 internal appearance of which we are glad to observe a considerable improve- 

 ment has been effected. The day was most propitious, and the company so 

 numerous that at one time it became difficult to pass through the room, or to 

 gain more than a transient view of the many attractive objects with which it 

 was supplied. Numerous subscribers liberally sent their contributions for the 

 decoration of the stand, which we have never seen better filled than on thia 

 occasion. The receipts at the door, from visitors, amounted to a greater sum 

 than has probably ever yet been derived from the same source, whilst the 

 eagerness with which new subscribers enrolled their names, and others paid up 

 their subscriptions, affords a strong assurance of the stability and future 

 success of the Society. The exertions of Messrs. Lee and Maule, the . 

 assistant secretaries, to ornament the room, deserve great praise : their plants 

 were very numerous, and many of them extremely choice — among others a 

 superb Erica vestita coccinea of Mr. Maule's was conspicuous, to which may 

 be added some fine Azaleas and Rhododendrons. Mr. Lee exhibited sonte 

 beautiful Heaths and Rhododendrons. Mr. Miller also liberally contributed 

 to the splendid gratifications of the day, amongst which may be enumerated 

 a very fine Cactus speciocissiinus, bearing numerous blossoms; a superb 

 Hybrid Cactus; a Jenkinsoni, we believe, loaded with flowers; a very fine 

 Erica vestita purpurea; a beautiful Nymphcca cocrulea, which in the morning: 

 wu in full bloom, though it closed its petals towards the middle of the day ; 

 several new and brilliant Calceolarias, one of which (C. peudula) attracted 

 particular attention ; three varieties of Salpiglossis } a beautiful purple Pe- 

 tunia (P. phoeuicea); a fine Cypripedium spectabile ; a box, containing spe- 

 cimens of beautiful single and double Poconies ; and several others. Besides 

 the article* exhibited for competition, to which prizes were awarded as men- 

 tioned below, we noticed several rare and most beautiful plants, which were- 

 kindly sent by subscriK>rs to decorate the room. A Cocoloba pubescens, 

 bclongnig to Mr. HeNnv Ricketts, .attracted much attention. INIr. Alderman 

 Danikl Kent a remarkable |)lunt of Cereus phyllauthoides, engrafted on a noble- 

 column of C. hrxagonuH. 'I'hc Society is also indebted to Mr. Isaac Elton, 



