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the roots of the strawberry plants ; w hile, on the other hand, it is not lost by- 

 evaporation. 



2. The surface of the stones is always clean; no soil, therefore, is splashed 

 upon the fruit. 



3. The surface of the stones becomes sensibly warm, and furnishes reflected 

 heat to the fruit. At the same time, no obstacle is offered to the production of 

 strong and healthy runners. 



Exhibited. — From Mr. Beaton, gardener to Thomas Harris, Esq., F.H.S., 

 Tweedia CEerulea; a new half-hardy perennial, with beautiful deep skv-blue 

 flowers, recently introduced from Buenos A\Tes. From Mr. Thomas Brown, 

 F.H.S., nurseryman, Slough, a beautiful specimen of the double purple Azalea 

 indica, and another of the white variety of A. /edifolia. The former, from its 

 size, and the profusion of double pink flowers with which it was loaded 

 formed a most attractive object. From Messrs. Chandler and Sons, nurserv- 

 nien, Vauxhall, a small collection of green-house plants, among which %vere 

 E'pacris paludosa, a seedhng i?hododendron arboreum, and the two varieties 

 of Camell/« japonica called elegans and formosa. From William Hasiedine 

 Pepys, Esq., F.H.S., a remarkably fine cucumber, grown upon the trellis in- 

 side a forcing-house. From Mr. John Davis, gardener to Sir Simon Clarke, 

 Bart., F.H.S., of Oak Hill, near East Barnet, a black Antigua pine-apple, 

 weighing 3| lb., and some white sweetwater grapes, so well grown as to re- 

 semble fine specimens of the muscat of Alexandria. From John Disnev, 

 Esq., F.H.S., very fine fruit of the golden Harvey and nonpareil apples, in 

 illustration of his manner of keeping fruit of this description. The apples 

 were found, upon trial, to have preserved their flavour in great perfection. 

 From Mr. D. Ferguson, gardener to Peter Caesar Labouchere, Esq., F.H.S., 

 a plant of Loasa lateritia, a stinging, twining, green-house herbaceous plant, 

 with brick-red flowers, recently introduced from Tucuman, by Mr. Tweedie. 

 From ]Miss Garnier of Wickham, near Southampton, a specimen of an Ama- 

 ryllis, or Hippeastrum, from Brazil, and a variety of Gesnera DoualasH (Bot. 

 Reg., t. 11 10.). The latter had larger flowers than the original species, but thev 

 were paler externally, and the markings inside the corolla were of a less vivid 

 brown. These were accompanied by a small specimen of Gesnera faucialis 

 (^Bot. Reg., t. 1785 ), one of the most brilliantly coloured of Brazilian herba- 

 ceous plants. From Richard Harrison, Esq., Aighburgh, near Liverpool, a 

 specimen of Cyrtopodium punctatum. This w as a very beautiful orchidaceous 

 plant, with a panicle of long bright yellow flowers, stained and mottled with 

 crimson : even the large reflexed bracts were coloured in a similar manner, 

 and contributed to the general richness of the inflorescence. It was much 

 more brightly marked than the specimen from which a figure was published in 

 the Botanical JIagazine (t. 3507.), and had acquired all the depth of colour 

 which the species gains in St. Domingo and the continent of equinoctial 

 America, of which it is a native. From 3Ir. Ingram, F.H.S., three beautiful 

 seedling verbenas, raised in Her Majesty's garden at Windsor, between V. cha- 

 maedrifolia and /'. Tweedia/iff. From Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., a collection of 

 thirty green-house and stove plants. The most striking species were the fol- 

 lowing : — a large specimen of Clianthus puniceus ; i'rica aristata major ; a 

 very fine plant of the white variety of Gloxin/cr; E'pacris onosmaflora (Bof. 

 j\Iag., t. 3168.), a very pretty green-house plant from Xew Holland : Peris- 

 teria cerina, a curious orchidaceous plant, whose flowers lie upon the ground 

 in clusters, like little cups of yellow wax ; a leucopogon and an oxvlobium, 

 apparently new ; a very fine specimen of the variety of Azalea indica called 

 Hibbert/ ; and a cleome. with large deep purple blossoms. From Sir Charles 

 Lemon, Bart., M.P., F.H.S., some specimens of plants in flower from the 

 open ground at Carclew, in Cornwall ; they having completely resisted the 

 severity of the late winter, in that mild part of England. Among them were 

 the New Holland Jcacia diffusa and stricta. Azalea /edifolia, with purple 

 flowers ; £'rica austnMis and mediterranea, all which were complete! vdestroved 

 in the neighbourhood of London ; and, what was still more remarkable, shoots, 



