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variety elegans, and a pretty E. ventricosa. In Mr. Hunt's collection we 

 remarked a small but finely bloomed Aphelexis humilis ; DiJhvynia splen- 

 dens, 3 feet in height and nearly as much in width, finely bloomed ; a small 

 Erica ventricosa superba ; Boronia serrulata, 2^ feet in height and 2 feet la 

 width ; Clerodendron squamatum in luxuriant health, but not well bloomed ; 

 Crowea saligna, 2 feet by 2, in robust health, just coming into blossom, and 

 a large rather thin bush of Pimelea decussata. Associated with these were 

 Erica ventricosa purpurea, a famous plant about 3 feet in ht;ight and 2 in 

 width; a small but fine Pimelea hispida ; Phaenocoma proliferum; a small 

 Leschenaultia Baxteri, in fine health and bloom ; and a small but finely 

 grown Pimelea decussata. At the back, stood Clerodendron paniculatum, a 

 single stemmed plant, 6 feet in height, having a noble panicle of flowers ; 

 a very neat Pimelea spectabilis, 2^ feet in height, and 3 feet in width ; the 

 same fine Leschenaultia formosa formerly mentioned ; a small Erica de- 

 pressa ; Polygala cordifolia, 2 feet in height, and as much in diameter, 

 rather "leggy;" a splendid Ixora coccinea, 5 feet in height, producing 17 

 heads of bloom, and several Heaths, including perspicua nana, and a very 

 large plant of tricolor elegans. 



[The collections of Orchids we pass over, as they are less interesting to 

 our cultivators than other plants. — Ed.'] 



Collections of Cape Heaths were numerous, and made a fine display ; but 

 with one or two exceptions there was nothing particularly striking among 

 them. A noble single specimen of ventricosa purpurea was produced from 

 the garden of Sir George Staunton, Bart., and, occupying the place of the 

 noble spotted Cyrtopod, (Cyrtopodium punctatum,) produced at the previous 

 exhibition, was a worthy rival of that fine plant, as far as good cultivation 

 is concerned. Another particularly handsome plant was a metulaeflora 

 bicolor, in Mr. Fairbairn's collection from Clapham. This variety is gen- 

 erally loose and straggling ; but the specimen in question — a plant about 3^ 

 feet high, and as much in width — was very compact, and a mass of long 

 rosy pink blossoms passing into pure white at the tips, the two colors form- 

 ing a striking and agreeable contrast. Collections of 20 plants were shown 

 by Mr. Hunt, Mr. Robertson, Mr. Ayres, and by Messrs. Fairbairn and 

 Rollison, of Tooling. In Mr. Hunt's group were observed a good Caven- 

 dishii, a large plant of tricolor, and a red variety of that species, a good 

 depressa, the useful ventricosa, the pretty white flowered odore rosae, the 

 larger variety of retorta, a fine Massoni, perspicua nana, nearly 4 feet in 

 height, and as much through, a mass of bloom, which was beginning to 

 fade, and a good plant of Halicacaba, with curious drooping pale green 

 flowers. In Mr. Robertson's collection were inflata, a very large plant, 

 rather bare of flowers ; a very fine gemmifera, 3 feet in height and about 

 4^ feet in width, covered with blossoms down to the pot ; a fine ventricosa 

 carnea, rather thin, but a mass of flowers ; a famous Cavendishii, finely 

 bloomed plants of ventricosa superba, and a coccine minor, the latter a 

 lovely object. In the same group were tricolor elegans, hardly sufficiently 

 in bloom, which was also the case with a good metulajflora bicolor. In 

 addition to these, the collection contained a large splendens, densa, and sev- 

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