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Stephanotis floribunda. From the long list of new 

 plants reported by the Flower Qommittee we select, as 

 most worthy of notice, large and well grown plants of a 

 new seedling Erica caffra, from John Hogan; from 

 Hovey & Co., the Czar. violet, Eurya latifolia fol. var., 

 Thermopsis mollis, Viola cornuta, Brodiaea grandiflora, 

 and Bignonia Chamberlayni ; from E. S. Rand, jun., 

 Magnolia Lennei ; from H. H. Hunnewell, Lapageria 

 rosea, Gloire de Nancy (a new double-flowered Zonale 

 pelargonium), Anthurium Scherzerianum, and Raphio- 

 lepis ovatus ; A. J. Hillbourn, Exochorda grandiflora ; 

 J. McTear, Rhynchospermum jasminioides, Ornithoga- 

 lum aureum, and Schizostylis coccinea; W. C. Strong, 

 Thyrsacanthus Schomburgkianus ; James Comley, Gla- 

 diolus Lyoni; Gardner G. Hubbard, Cattleya Mossiae, 

 Dendrobium formosum, Brassia Lanceana, and Catase- 

 tum tridentatum ; Mrs. T. W. Ward, Combretum purpu- 

 reum; Francis Parkman, Lilium Browni, L. excelsum, L. 

 superbum, and a seedling Rudbeckia laciniata ; Marshall 

 P. Wilder, Stenocarpus Cunninghami ; and W. Cairns, 

 Echeveria retusa. A very interesting feature of the 

 exhibition on the 1st of August was a large and rare 

 collection of cones of California trees, from J. Q. A. 

 Warren, including Pinus Coulteri, P. Sabiniana, P. in- 

 signis, P. ponderosa, P. contorta, P. Lambertiana, Picea 

 nobilis, P. grandis, P. bracteata, Cupressus macrocarpa, 

 C. Goveniana, and Sequoia gigantea. The next week 

 Mr. Warren exhibited a collection of pressed California 

 wild flowers, and also of Sandwich Island ferns and 

 flowers, among which were many rare species. On the 

 same day a large and interesting collection of everlast- 

 ing and other flowers and fibrous plants was presented 

 from the Cape of Good Hope Agricultural Society. 



