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ed some fins young heaths, and other plants, but it wanted brilliancy. In 

 Mr. Barnes's group, in the centre, at the back, stood a noble Cleroden- 

 drum paniculatum, with a splendid panicle of bloom, supported on one side 

 by a very large Crowea saligna, and on the other by a bush 4 feet by 3, of 

 Erica ampullacea. In front of the Clerodendrum was a splendid Pimelea 

 decussata, flanked by Clerodendrum fallax and squamatum, and some noble 

 plants of Erica, Polygala, Ixora, and Stephanotis floribunda. The singu- 

 lar Erica Plukenetii was in finer bloom than when exhibited in June ; and 

 the large plant of Phaenocoma prolifera was a sheet of flowers. It is not, 

 however, our intention on this occasion to give more than a mere outline of 

 the principal plants, as many of them were noticed at the June exhibition. 

 We must not, however, pass over two beautifully bloomed plants of Veron- 

 ica speciosa ; with a dwarf Ixora grandiflora, in fine bloom; Aphelexis 

 sesamoides ; and several other plants, evincing equally good management. 

 In Mr. Robertson's collection we noticed two handsome plants of Phaeno- 

 coma prolifera, nicely in bloom ; Roella ciliata, a neat and healthy plant, 

 nine inches in height, and 18 inches in diameter; Cyrtocpras reflexum, a 

 promising young plant ; Achimenes longiflora, a tolerable plant, but badly 

 colored; Cassia corymbosa; Clerodendrum hastatum, with dull colorless 

 flowers, and heavy foliage ; C. fallax and Kaempferi, large, but past their 

 best; Erythrina Crista galli, two large plants; Tabernffimontana corona- 

 ria, the double and single varieties, and the usual specimen of Medinilla 

 erythrophylla. Of the genus Erica, we noticed plants of E. inflata, large, 

 but very thin ; ventricosa superba ; eximia, good ; jasminiflora alba ; tri- 

 color elegans ; Shannoniana, a pretty plant ; Irbyana, good ; Cavendishii, 

 profusely bloomed ; metulffiflora bicolor, miscalled radiata, a large plant ; 

 obbata, very neat ; gemmifera, promising ; depressa, in profuse bloom, and 

 several ethers ; most of these heaths were from a foot to 18 inches in 

 height, and about as much in diameter, and some of them thickly set. 



In the collections of 20 plants, Mr. Frazer, of the Lea-bridge-road Nur- 

 sery, and Mr. Ayres, gr. to J. Cook, Esq., were again the competitors. In 

 Mr. Frazer's collection were Tristania nereifolia, a pretty small yellow- 

 flowered shrub, useful in July ; Roella ciliata, a nice plant, 18 inches in 

 height and 2 feet in diameter ; Crowea saligna, not quite in bloom ; Kalo- 

 santhes grandiflora and miniata, two neat plants ; Achimenes longiflora ; 

 with very nice specimens of Erica Bergiana, tricolor, eximia, and ampul- 

 lacea. All these were clean and well-grown. In Mr. Ayres's group were 

 some fine plants of Clerodendrum fallax and speciosissimum, the former 

 with 9, and the latter with 13 panicles of bloom ; a variety of fallax with 

 deeper-colored flowers than those of the true species ; Crowea saligna, a 

 neat plant in profuse bloom ; a large, well-colored Leschenaultia formosa ; 

 Pentas carnea, nicely in bloom ; a dwarf compact plant of Veronica spec- 

 iosa, with nearly 20 spikes of flowers ; Ixora grandiflora, two plants ; and 

 I. crocata, very dwarf ; Gloxinia cerina, a large specimen; with Erica Ju- 

 liana, 4 feet by 3, in splendid condition ; E. ampullacea, 9 inches by 18, a 

 sheet of flowers ; E. ampullacea rubra, very neat, with Kalosanthes coc- 

 cinea ; Begonia parviflora, and a fine plant of Augelonia Gardneriana. 



