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"What has been said, will indicate their general treatment, the 

 results of which were witnessed on Saturday last. The reader will 

 assuredly regard our observations with more interest, than could be 

 excited by a bare mention of the particular species exhibited — which, 

 however, we shall not entirely withhold. By far the most remark- 

 able heath present was a jjlant of E. depressa, from Mr. Veitch, of 

 Exeter. It was about 3 ft. m height, with a stem 9 inches or a foot 

 long, and almost 2 inches thick — while the head, at least 2 ft. across, 

 was a compact mass of luxuriant verdure and fine yellow flowers; 

 and the branches dei)ended around the stem so as nearly to conceal 

 it. It was, in fact, a beautiful miniature tree, without any of the 

 stuntedness or imperfection which usually attacli to such objects. 

 The same sjjecies was exhibited, from nine to eighteen inches high, 

 by Mr, Falconer, gardener to A. Palmer, Esq., of Cheam; by Mr. 

 Barnes, gr. to G. W. Norman, Esq., Bromley; and by W. H. Story, 

 Esq., of Isleworth. All the plants were singularly dense, of a 

 peculiarly deep and rich green hue, and the flowers large, as well as 

 numerous. E. elegans, a sjsecies admirably suited for growing in a 

 dwarf and compact manner, yet frequently to be seen in a ragged 

 and starved condition was shown, flourishing with unparalleled 

 exuberance, by Mr. Jackson, of Kingston, whose specimen was 18 

 in. high, and a foot broad. The shoots and blossoms, were wonder- 

 fully close and large. Mr. Barnes, above spoken of, had, moreover, 

 a plant of E. elegans, only 6 in. in height, aixl quite a picture of 

 healthy beauty. The handsome E. tricolor, though ap])earing in 

 several groups, was brought, as a single specimen, by Mr. Salter, gr. 

 to J. Yelles, Esq., of Bath, by whom it had been cultivated to an 

 amazing degree of perfection. Its height was al)out 3 ft., and its 

 breadth fully as much, the branches being actually more profuse at 

 the bottom than the tojt, and curving down very gracefully and abun- 

 dantly 3 or 4 in. below the edge of the pot. When it is stated that 

 this large mass was composed of branches, as closely arrauiied as 

 they could well grew, and that every branch was terminated by a 

 fine cluster of long, conspicuous, but delicately painted three colored 

 blossoms, a tolerable notion will be gained of its loveliness. E. 

 splendens, with its copious bunches of large, inflated scarlet flowers, 

 was sent by many individuals; yet none, we think, had it so fine as 

 Mr. Barnes and W. H. Storey, Esq., An extremely good plant of 

 E. odorata alba, which is a variety alike meritorious for the elegant 

 disposition and bell-like figure of its pretty, white, pendulous flowers, 

 and their sweet fragrance, hardly inferior to that of the Lily of the 

 Valley, was contributed by Mr. Green, gr. to Sir E. Antrobus, Bart. 

 Cheam; the specimen — a foot high — bore an unconunon quantity of 

 flower heads, the number of blossoms on each of which was equally 

 noticea!)le. E. denticulata, a neat and graceful species, with flowers 

 somewhat resembling those of an arbutus, but pale yellow, and 

 tipped with a nearly black hue, appeared in a fine state from 

 Mr. Green, Mr. Barnes, and others. Mr. Clarke, gr. to M. J. Smith, 

 Esq., Shirley Park, produced a magnificent E. ventricosa carnea, 

 which was 3 ft. high, and the same in breadth. The charming flush 

 of its flesh colored blossoms was not more delightful than the 

 liberality with which they were produced, and the size of their closely 



