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that this was a new feature in the attack of Potato | flowered iety of the o — scarlet blossomed Epi- — A ee Er bloomed ; Pavetta caffra, = like - 
a Ugh an. . — ig stood by, remarked — galas good Brassia brachiata ; the white. | CORO" Ero a grandiflora, Allaman H So 
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i endes in a pped Onei cid (O. leucochilum) one of the best of its class; mised an abundant display of bodin. grave 
n the parish of] East Compton, —— e then was; but is i ERR Stanho seg a beautiful species; were ae: and cousiated of sever: 
hat it afterwards spread right and wA over the whole. 
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Jendrobium sanguinolentum, Odontoglossom cordatum, 
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bo — bifolium, Cattleya citrina, and some others. | Swainsona galegifolia, fon par 
in a field of 20 acres sown to Turnips, in an open airy 2 Ba = an Me “dal was “ahah for oma five eg Tropzolum speciosum, poorly flowere 
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i sh a of Wellin 2 Nursery, St. John's Wood, 5 i 
arein a low and close situation in a garden.—./. B. for a collection of . — niums, Cape and fancy varie- | two other W Stephanotis floribunda ean 
Knight, —— near Dorchester, July 5 — ties. Of the Cape species which were named, the most | salign in flower ; cane longifiora, and 
Th beantiful were, ardens, r and flexuosum; plants eee Henderson 
I detected it on Saturday morning last, and 3 9 ers, to which numbers only were attached, were | staged by Messrs, N uud eden de Fee g 
oe na 2 not so rapidly as in 1846. I = Da very pretty, exhibiting — a kins degree the | prize. Mr. Green had Dipladenia crassi noda ne the fins 
have made this neighbourhood, find | charm ef which sasi better formed and more showy 3 a neat Leschenaultia Boxteri cna formosa. 3 
that it has — ith its — in many p oniani varieties of the flori — in a —— mensure deficient, 'Seephanotis forfbunda, and sone fe ae 
during the past week. Its early appearance this year, | viz, variety. The rseryman also showed a | Pharbitis ostrina, a pretty twiner; ae 4 
compared with last, I think is to be ascribed = a wet | Phlox named depres ae hybrid — —.— P. | Allamanda cathartica (? aeg Hauck gran ndiflora; beg 
dull weather we have had for the last month. — Henry Brownii and Drunimondii. Blooms of Hoyle’s Scipio euffeleutly advanced E Sings ton ee rowena e cen w 
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Tunbridge Wells, July 5.——Este begs to state that of Salisbury, showed a light. flowered Fuchsia named | the showy ee miniata, ` Eschynantius pulcher al 
since the cold night of Friday-a large patch of Potatoes | Snowdrop. A Certificate of Merit was awarded to Mr, — 5 Mins et prap ar Plants. i pee lants were h 
in the garden of a gentleman has been struck with the | Moore, gr. to the Earl of Auckland for a well-flowered consisted of Tetratheca verticillata, Stephan otis aah They 
severely. The space of a rod square is plant of a sweet-scented Amaryllis, named Natalensis, | Clerodendron fallax and paniculatum, a well ‘Mi. 
marked by the haulm being i in — state as in July if not the same, much resembling A. Forbesii, a ahead the Gene ane new — rte on 
in : : : 5 : . santhes coccinea, and miniata grandiflora; I 
or August ae The Potatoes a wet subsoil es SS eee Society some and crocata, Dipladenia erassinoda, 1 8 
Shooter’s Hill, on the road to Dartford. On the cool winter treatment for such things, it was mentioned 8 eo some ~~ Cape Heaths, Rep 
Friday night in question, i. e. between the 30th June that of two bulbs perfectly sound and of equal size, re- 010 Srove and GREENHOUSE rare, there were 
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i hi scan Hachen formosa 5 a capital lant; 
8 A man who was 7 close to this place | ev wa it was stated that it * 3 in à sickly foweréd variety of Aphelexis rat N Tele: 
early on Saturday morning, says tha ng he wipe a. the bulb feeling soft, The other—wintered d mis, fect f beautiful 
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his scythe first, the blade was sated with ic was placed in a Vinery at work. It grew vigorously | blossoms ; Roeila ciliata, and other T Tess remarkable’ - 
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e F. 3.— Bei a bee-mast Ague i i a oe 1 WN * prizes Mr. Jack and Mr. lor. d 
Be lowers ing a aster, an : aving made but did not blossom in 1847; it was kept — till 4 . specios Lain; PNA ANN he former 
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as the e shrubbery ers. was wintered dry and eold, and was again placed in reli: specimen of Torenia asiatica; Æschynanthus 
and the kitchen-garden, tliere were some patches of this | spring in a Vinery at work, and when it had grown to pulcher, 15 coccinea, ful epeeiwen F . — — 
sown last year, which early this spring came up in large some size it was watered with weak liquid manure ; it | Allamanda cathartica, Aphelexi xis humilis, a — 
quantities, being self-sown ; and whilst it lasted in flower, began to show for blossom about the middle of J une, r Crowea saligna, not sufficiently in flower; 
it was covered with bees during the whole day. Except and has flowered beautifully. A variegated variety of | coccinea 1 inte —— AA 
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the Crocus oe pollen) in the early spring, and the Thunbergia aurantiaca named Doddsii was shown by Mr. — — and Mr. Stanly ; the former sending among ol 
in flower, I have never seen a plant | Mr. Dodds, gr. to Col. Baker. The same grower also | thin „Vinca alba, Aphelexis 
so much ch requented b by bees : aa e apnea I have | sent nine Providence Pine-apples, rather imposing in W 3 — poorly flowered — 
the seed, and mean this autumn 1 ° s toceras reflexum, ard some Cape H Am 
— ae oe ps ping e to sow a n as a whole, but to which the epithet plants we remarked Achimenes longifiora, Clerocenitven 
ly y bees. Dodman, andsome fruit could hardly be applied, for near} to" plants — — age les o Cape Heaths 
Remarkable lant of Cow-Parsnip—ÀAt the all of them 4 1 DES re fth i ; 
N i. ip. ie all of them were acre in form, They weighed | One e there was a fair display for the season, 
n rs. Backhouse i te, respectively 8 lbs. s. 43 0 i 
á OZ., 6 lbs. 130 ' : 
i s. 7 CE, and 6 lbs. t will be seen that first, contained three £ — of “the 7 
the common Carrot i : h aa in i Ps i ehe, seo oni 
and Parsnip, and is therefore an Umbellifer It is The best fruit in eve was ihat weighing 7 Ibs. E pert = 
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that the present subject was sown i * — eta See ae tha any open Marta, a ela ey — 
and showed no signs of s Acs vigour until early in man, gr. to J. B. Glegg, Esq., for which a Bank and beautiful Saccolaninm mr Pbalenopes Pn : 
May, of the present season. Its dimensions are as Medal was awarded ; an similar award was aino Vanda B — — mat —— tter condition thin 
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circumference at the base. A single flake of the leaf, | formed, beantifully.secilea toa. a pee yas | extreme beau ip add th he desi 15 385 
Which is formed of three equal divisions, is 3 feet 6| stated to he the production of a sucker which had been in blossom.—In Mr. Rae's group were two plan saved: 
inches in length, and the entire length of one leaf, in. left on an old stool grown i n na en * ae quedrieorals, and 
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stalk, is 6 feet 6 inches. The foliage of this | subjects, some Potatces were produced by Mr, Whiting, . of C. Mossi and C. interdik ainn nenne hate 
single plant extends 13 feet in width, thus giving a cir- from and & 
er's tum, th: tt a idi m, C. bifolium, 
cumference of 39 feet! It is calculated that it would quivocal ieri = re lg a 8 die. small 2 — macrant athe, EE 
require a preta ‘ears, or more, for a plant of the | ease of 1845 in i — 2 s — m re ctio fin 8 = ee —— by hee 
Sainstek f wth i dee to attain an equal Allnutt, were aut literally covered with mildew dees — which werk mostly small, consisted of Aerides 
of gro a oars ea 3 the ap (Oidium erysiphoides), an evil usually abundant this | 72° whe 2 9 Lelia majalis, tb rare Anguloa 
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almost incredibl short of two months! Tis Viner 3 rear n the whole Barlngtonia, venusta; _Renanthe ra coccinea, a branch 0 
flowers. Ser pel of pe . white os pone on long Hating if not . se pf oe ihe plan rein, wire vane’, vis via, Gebe 8. igien m f 
— lik ems springin, om a single | garden of the Society were Mr. F. ms gine Aerides — — the latter a pretty plant, whose 
or centre, like ger tee, T an umbrella, | flowered Convolvulus (Calystegia. ertune’s double- | racemes of pink flowers gate overhanging abe ba lie 
nd graduated in length, so as to form remarkably 6 ( no pubescens), which, | by no means ap rane ar -A 
ing and slightly rounded table-like heads or umbels, | digofera — * 0 Phi y gr * twiner ; In- Phaius albus; ana — 3 — 4 t3 an J Lanceanty 
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wonderful instances by ké wiih tha most ren ms Mr. Lobb’s Wechynanthus (A. Lob- afine e, a nd: Oorye — ge 
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aeee o a the largest known tae ‘of t the order to of the * . 3 and a large specimen | Schröder, e Ae J pr 201 e 
which it is physiologically ban =i t oe mag- flower. The la onica speciosa, just coming into | of Isleworth, Mr. Plant sent — bicolor, 
nificent growth, especially as t, thrivi e latter, which requires protection in winter | spike of pale yellow and brown flowers; a, 
the commonest soils, it ing in about London, has been found to b Lanceanum, Maxillaria tetragona, Cirrhma fi 
he cor soils, it is Ra teti ge T a place in| Co e perfectly hardy in Keri g = 
garden sufficiently large to display its proportions, | hi =~ From the same collection were also Salvia | ¢ — Onda ee B i E 
or w. vegetable structure is admired, Richly Min” a pretty hardy, herbaceous, blue and white. | craenta, and Vanda teres. Mr. Dobson, Cattleya 
nured ground would no doubt induce much flowered perennial from Cashmere; Fuchsia t new variety of Barkeria spectabilis ; 
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vigour 55 that now now deseribed.— Wiiliam Wood, r ender ee Species of no — 80 OF spe pane Crone, Ar — a ‘ nd ie 
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CULTURAL, July — W. sa Bog. in in | fornia by der Hartweg Adu seeds sent from Cali- | Cars Tirane site: x mamerous and generally 
. . Hart mia versicol veller ze for 15 
plants. The Adamia, which is one of Mr. ete Mr Hunt condition Traube f or plants < + Par 
a P. Pooper tm ntroductions, is a green se plant, and - 8 — * x orr 2 
Thibaudia ith long, — eee 80 far ss s the foliage is atid es euch throngh, i promot Mr. Lee’s ti 
. ere eee ee, TUDU oms, tipped with white ; raa flow diff abuse infundibulitormls, „Massoni, past its prize, W 
ad > yellow ` y are at first white, Paty — —.— n bed For 6 HRA Mr. Mylam am obtained yr ot vat 
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famous p lente : oe ventricosa hirsuta 
metuleflora bicolor, covered 
wers rior violet blue. 
fine blue colo ed by little berries of a | tipped with white; Savilleana, one of 
but attem sg a pretty as the 1 flowe ; i 
85 pta to fruit i it have hitherto failed, * | cosa ; jasminiffora alba, and Wilson’s tricolor, the ps 
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% Borawto, July 5.—The ‘third and Jast show of the Cera, Seva kate e 
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ensiy held under the of this 8 Masso — avi 2 
bore . ae e took: piace in ni 3 and a variety of tri Bs: 
8 esday last. The d superba, inetuleeflo ya Drok Savilleana, 
ee — ia P hole, the exhibition was a goo a cow toe prizes for 6 plants ya y2 red to Messrs. 
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— Mr. Pawl ley, of del aer, the other- avery inferior 8 Ist prize f 121 T ns of 
was very uneve Bromley er's gro; N — ae 
; — he — ot then of the Ț e Plants 8 it very hee lade , and its variety bicolor; obati, —ͤ gem mit, 
tained huge plants of Stephanotis fio "it com | Heaths, and, in this instance, admirably owered Pecs ™ 
ap — Crowea saligna, | Iibbertiaua, a distinct orange- yellow flows 27 55 
