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top. A plant of C. speciosus, trained to a trellis of that description, 

 6 ft. in height, was brought by Mr. Uprii^ht, gr. to J. Ridge, Esq., of 

 Morden, Surrey. It was grafted on C. speciosissimus, and was 

 blooming most profusely. The same cultivator had another speci- 

 men of C. speciosus, scarcely 4 ft. high, very broad, and extremely 

 rich in flowers; and there was a plant in all respects similar, from 

 Mr. Bruce, gr. to B. Miller, Esq. Mr. Falconer, gr. to A. Palmer, 

 Esq., of Cheam, had one supported by a trellis of a pointedly conical 

 form, and this was exceedingly fine. From Mr. Bruce, there w^as 

 also a particularly large blossomed variety of C speciosus, which 

 seems to be well deserving of attention. C. speciosissimus was 

 shown in a state which one would hardly think could be surpassed, 

 by not a few growers. Its stems were occasionally from two to 

 three inches thick; which atnazing luxuriance is obtained by allowing 

 a sufficiency of pot room, mixing a large proportion of decaying 

 manure with a rich loamy soil to pot it in, and afterwards applying 

 manured water frequently while the plant is L^rowing, or covering 

 the earth with a mulching of manure, over which ordinary water is 

 poured. It might be assumed that such great exuberance is incom- 

 patible with the free production of flowers; however, by exposing 

 the plants to the sun in the open air for six weeks or two months in 

 early autuinn, a flowering propensity is excited, and the blossoms are 

 larger and richer than those of specimens under common treatment. 

 The plant which had the largest flowers was from Mr. Goode, gr. to 

 Mrs. Lawrence, Ealing Park. Mr. Upright, Mr. Green, Mr. Barnes, 

 and various other culturists, had some splendid specimens present. 

 They were, for the most part, trained spirally round a cylindrical 

 trellis, though some had their stems supported erectly on a similar 

 frame. Of C. Jenkinsoni, Mr. Falconer, and Mr. Bruce, broujjht 

 admirable specimens; that of the former was 4 ft. high, and richly 

 clothed with flowers; that of the latter not quite so tall, yet extreme- 

 ly dense and splendid. C Mallisoni was sent in a well grown state 

 by Mr. Pawley; and Mr. Bruce also exhibited it on a conical trellis, 

 3 ft. high, trained in a densely spiral manner, and very thickly laden 

 with bloom. There was, moreover, a new hybrid Cereus, from 

 Mr. Pawley, which is scarcely distinguishable frotn C. Jenkin- 

 soni, except that it has paler red flowers, and flatter stems, which 

 are unusually strong and healthy. The Epiphylium Ackermanni, 

 among Mr. Green's plants, and this species or the E. splendidum, 

 from Mr. Catleugh, of Chelsea, were probably superior to any thing 

 of the kind in point of culture. Being three feet in height, they 

 formed one continuous pile of bloom from the base to the apex; and 

 no person, who is aware of the ex[)ansive and flexible character of 

 the blossoms of this plant need be further apprised, that the speci- 

 mens in question were inconceivably grand. 



"The roses, which were not so select as usual, were a few days 

 too early; and but few varieties of moss roses were in bloom, or of 

 the Rosa Gallica, AIha, or Damask. Those shown were principally 

 Chinese roses, and their hybrids; established sorts, such as Brennus, 

 Fulgens, George the Fourth, Coup d'Amour, Daphne, General 

 Allard, t\nd many others, that prove to be very early bloomers, and 

 consequently on that account desirable. The hybrid perpetuals 



