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potrys tri ichotoma, all having n rng rove leaves of | tral plate, ‘over which dashed a waterfall, was sur-| group of Palms and Cycads, centre of which 
an sted elliptic or broad lanceolate form; Theo- | mounted by a statue, backed and overhung by Cocos | stood a magnificent Seaf Deka ia reds with a stem 
p angustifolia having rea narrow nA Leyes and having Dion in front. The back ground | about 3 feet high, and fronds fully 15 feet long. 
leaves ; Coccoloba pubescens, about five feet high, | ofthe small lake, in which were two small bronze, This group was bordered on € one side by Araliag 
ith f i eat round - ing | foun’ as filled out by a rock border planted | and Rhopalas, among the former of which were 
horizontal rugose leaves; Oreopanax dactylifolium, | with Caladiums, Cannas, Heliconias, and plants | Aralia Lindeni, a palmato-leaved sort with serrated 
handsome plant, with long-stalked palmatifid = neg character; while the front was elliptic or ess and very well-mark ae 
e e an irregular border, also of rock- | japonica variegata ; fe on the other side by Aza- 
rust-coloured pubescence ; with work, ay agite as other flowering M», and | leas, amongs which Gloire de Belgique and Roi 
Stadmannia cordifolia, and Simaruba grandis, each | a well-placed Caladium Chantinii, &c. In a pro-| | | Leopold were Ln by their iav. ; the latter is 
having good pinnate leaves jet ion in front of the water was placed a very oth ligh 
The continuation of this central mass was made | bed of Hippeasters. Ps the basin was 
up with ase. tre of large plants of A iris, a "Thien set of large Palms, Cyeads, Anthuriums, 
Palms, & Cs in front of these were cem n | &c., and a: Mig them the broad- leaved Anthurium | 
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byv ted Pelargoniums, wi Hoo okeri, wit es | Finally, in the north-eastern corn ty n Mem m 
example of Ae “contaminans, a Putippine | aa aaa these yo by one ; Zamia fT 
Island Fern white scales| with a stem two feet broad by one in height, and 
about its crown, purplish prickly wr and a/an erect tuft of young glaucous fronds; Wallichia | in a small pot, but with half a dozen re ie nie 
glaucous un: undersurface. Tn the large gro were:— caryotoides, ten feet high, with fine broad pinns, 
with a st di brownish stems and silvered under surface; Areca 
ter, and a foot long, clothed wi: Saute aby like | Ve erschaffelti, eight feet high ; Seaforthia robusta, 
Fern fronds, the pe of which are long lanceolate | six feet high; Stephensonia grandifolia, a Palm w: 
and acuminate ; Ceratozamia mexicana, with a stem | broad bilo obe d leaves serra ted at the upper edge aaa | subjects. of attention. ie the right commenced agroup 
six inches through by gh; Angiopteris, | arme A.Verschaffelt g 
with shining fronds; Areca Verschaffelti, a fine Latania Jenkinsonii, with ferocious- looking hooked | of the beautiful Japanese NEAR Acer japonicum 
stiff-fronded pau alm; Ceroxylon audicola, a spines on the stalks of its orbicular SEATA jucundum with palmate leaves of a very lively pale 
fine young plant; Chamædorea Ernesti anet] leaves ; and tw wo smaller Latanias, Verschaffelti, | green colour; A. j. wah pt with bronzy-red 
with a rolled leaves and smooth s and | d margin to the stalk and leaf-|palmate leaves ; A. j. princeps with finely dissected 
As o-pictum, with proad 1 two-obed pos and L. rubra, with thos pere m eaves coloured bronze and pink ; and A, j. Frederici 
serrated bus eus pric is stem. 'Then e another | After these c ame a f three or four Tree Gulielmi, with dissected leaves wholly of a bronzy 
silvered globe, with a group of Cam elias i in front, E Ferns and largefolinged ae edged by Cine erarias red ; also Ficus Porteana, a tall plant with ob- 
edged with Pansies. RIT ime casa in this in flower. Ther e Theophrasta imperialis, m liong leaves 18 inches long, here and there slightly 
| feet high; a lar au. pan ee Cyathea medullari , | lobed or becoming uated ;  Aspidi ies- 
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Passin into the enclosed warmer part of 
building ‘already referred to, a space some 50 feet I 
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a ie n rose pink vith w leaves. Here also intervened fenbachia Baraquiniana, a fine Brazilian 
centre of the petals ; and Valte figo a aos imbri- a pete d silvered globe, presenting to a _ivory-white stalks and midribs oa itg green slightly 
cated cerise rose. Then came more high Ferns as a! eye e s the spectator a minia Tg of the ‘blotched legvgs Phrynium Vanden Heckii, a beau- 
centre, and in front a rtt ndro n Nuttallii, , also | tigu us portions o of the (die ES of tiful dw Marantad with m green leaves, 
tall, with five heads of flow followed ; then a having a v mitral and two lateral feathery bands of 
three feet by three of Erica aie egans ; then " bank of | | drasier sun. of. doled. ret flowering ome | grey-green, and the under surface stained with 
gil deed with Cinerari ias, and finally, at | with a Cy feet purplish red ; Gymnostachyum Verschaffelti, a fine 
the: sout mity, a pyramidal Rhododendron ten | wide on a cons Le set u Ed a plant; Calamus péreirgo Marie, a slender pin- 
f I gain a jipan ea iD with Camel nate Palm with spiny rachids and stalks. Then on 
rose meka Spotted and well flowered. Of the Hip- | lias at the b k;a Hho dodendron group with a tall the east side more new plants; a group of Orchids 
peasters, Cleo eopatra, a mn red with clear cis oe ibotium princeps em r it, and in the EOS containing the i are Farmeri, Odontoglossum 
r in wide; Ag i i 
lensii, a large red with green s T and Mari el T filifera, both stiff-leaved sorts, the former hi MM anale m uu s. ME dem stood a fine speci- 
riette, white striped with red, fine at the = ware o with the edges as if hung with carpenter's shavings, of the curious Tacca pinnatifida, with its tall 
the best. e latter as hung wi mantua-makers’ podately Phoe leaves and taller flowering stems ; and 
On the west dies ve first à fine group of Azaleas, | ed threads ; ; a fine Midian ois and a good as a still finer example of cultivation a capital Cam- 
dwarf standards and dwarfs; a fine green- -leaved | Cor dyline tralis ; Pandanus Blancoi, an clegant pions Verschaffeltii, three feet high, with square 
plentifully furnished wit 
dsome. Then 
Dracena, eight feet high ; and Ne well-flowered | tall narro weaved sort of a AER E 
small plant of ea Souvenir du Prince Albert,| Yucca canaliculata d X EY. thread | icd E a half long, and really kr 
with the flowers really effective. Next a group of margined eevee Bon: stricta and any | gro andanus ; with Cattle aug ome c 
large Ferns, in which was a fine young plant of Cibo- | others. The EA end, which | les the Petia | Mr. "Poito dwarf h; ybrids, standing in front. This 
tium ves and a stemless 6o ina magnificent | cation egt the hardy division of the show, was Cattleya, one of the race of dwarfs, [ta terete stems, 
capi ital stam: tandard | un. unoccu ts, an aq guis 
|the sepals and petals bein: ing b ckly 
bee a a mix e E s ot oven plants, At the south-east angle was a grand collec of with rose, and the lip with a retuso-reniform front 
Succeeding these cam as, in | large Palms, Yuccas, and plants of like Shania oe of a Magenta rose colour, and white lateral lobes 
Which those nice PEGA ital. mauri- | among which we especial ted a Beaucarni urved over the broad rose-coloured column. 
tiana, Rumphii, eallicoma, and lineata were narrow-|5 ft. high, with the bulb-like rd a foot in diam: Pros NE the north end came first a group of Or- 
leayed forms ; LEM ensis, tissima, EE. chona, a slender-stemmed plant with | chids containing seve: Vandas ; Phaleno 
and fragrans lai tifolia b broad nen uri acie pinnate leaves, like a miniature Seaforthia; Cocos Schilleriana, with eight wg flowers on a Mess d 
SE Which there was a fine dense plan: being narrow- | a is ; S elegans, 20 ft. high ; "Plecto- plant; and two forms of the me Den-. 
ish; and c ae aca) with Tong tard gene comia spectabilis, 20 ft.; Caryota javanica, 10 ft.; drobium infundibulum, je with a stain of deep 
leaves, being bee road. This was followed by a|Zamia horrida, in fruit; Agave xylinacantha, a fine orange in the partially rolled-up lip: another 
large flat mass f Azaleas, in! Rhododen- | species, with the leaves edged by coarse recurved with the stain of a paler orange-yellow. Then 
ir rae s by Ferns. The most effective of | hooked spines; Agave Rumphii, with long narrowish a dozen extremely well-grown i 
the Rhododendrons were—Bylsianum, a bright ear-| glaucous leaves edged by small spines; a beautiful consisting of argenvens and argenteus pictus, 
June with white centre; Queen peo rec ug eis Kl asylirion jun: unceum, , With a glob bular trunk Dear intermedius, Lowii and Lowii virescens, Petola, 
Tose wi trusses and well spo foot in di e ten pirate nga he a setaceus, Veitchii, and 
de Jean Byls, a lovely rose with pie centre, feet across, of its long vnde leaves ; oe car- sobrinus Then a collection of new Palms, the 
and a greenish-yellow b i eca V. 
lotch ; Étendard d ith ing of 
a large rosy-lilac, heavily spotted ith and a half through, from “which the 4 ft. stem which differs from A. aurea in the orange-coloured 
ite. d tapered upwards and bore ead some six feet line at the perk of the rachis; Pinanga maoulsta, 
Coming opposit t Livistonia, was a bank | across of narrow glaucous VA cd ; Dasylirion serrati- a spo beautifully br tee n young 
of Roses, poor plants, as were most of the Roses folium with twisted glaucous spiny Td six feet Cham: iba Ghissbreghti neta grandifolia; 
Shown; then a ilat rad i Rhododendrons, edged | vg plant accompanied by a dead flower-stem of Braheanitida, an uncommon Fan Palm; and Latania 
byt Ferns ; finishin: with the Azaleas re-| | about ten feet high. Elevated in the front rank of Verschaffelti and gfiatiocphytis To these Succeed 
ferred i Bic: onm nbl these latter bein. his m n- the best group o i 
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ri with a stem two feet long, bearing glaucous | which won the Duchesse de m 
ce A leaves. Next came o graine Beyrich- | This came from „Mr. Linden axa included Vanda 
ickish 5 ft. Mera standing over a ies, the s ? 
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is, set up on a hi havent da a beau- | three oc e i S0 as ow ant 1 shows 
ly yma plant of Cyan ‘salts fol- | them ; up of Rhopalas, Aralias, &c.; more|In a group Ferns y succee r 
a ed osoan . Palms ani Arabes; intermixed with fine nesat of | Asplenium alatum, looking like a thin-leaved A. 
of the building cam t Pandanus and margined with Dwarf Roses and marinum with a wi rachis; Lomatia pteropus, 
tn jeu followed n pe. set “of aan "hardy variegated plants. Then, standing out as one | remarkable for its abruptly contracted lower pinne ; 
ere Encephalartos inii with a -of the most noble features of the whole show, was a | and Litobrochia (Doryopteris) Aloyonis, a Fern which 
et high, | m ger specimen of Cibotium princeps from | when well-grown, as it occurred in more than one 
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Geonoma paniculige- | in i -length each with about a dozen pairs of pinnæ, | lobes, and sho: posterior ones at the 
inne. x having the Thick stipite clothed with abundance | latter. diem also arid more new Palms ; a group 
Livistonia already | of pallid seales. eath the Ferns came more Roses; | of poor Orchids ; a set of Screw Pines ; and then a 
vater, backed by three |and then a group of mixed plants, amongst them | fine collection of Arad of which t 
b up at intervals, the two | Beschcorneria yuccoides in flower, terminated the| were Alocasia zebrina, Colocasia macrorhiza varie- 
$, so that they reflected a| arrangement up to the entrance doors. gata, and C. Elbe vicino acea; Caladium Veitchii and 
m at point. The cen-| To the right of the entrance was another grand |C. Lowii, the latter much the finer of the two. 
