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Wells, (»f (\»Nvlo\ II«)iisi'. near Kxetc r ; scvcntiTii months previ- 

 ously ihc plant which bore it was a sucker, in the nursery of 

 Messrs. Lueoinbe and ('o., and wljen it fruited in Mrs. Wells's 

 pirden, it had gjiined a stem 4^ feet in lenj^lh up to the sj)athe ; 

 the whole weiu:ht of the fruit and stem was staled to have been 

 aolbs. when lirst cut. 



Notiee was pven of the Kxhibitions in the (Jarden of the 

 Society, ujider the usual re^^ulations, to take place on the IStii of 

 May. the l.Mh of.lune, and the o'lh of July. 



'1 he publication of a Ni'w Part of the Society's Transactions 

 (\'ol. II. I'art 4, new series,) was announced. 



The followirji; objects were exhibited ; 



From Mrs. Lawrence, a collection of twelve Store and (ircen- 

 house Plants, amonj^ which were Hue specimens of Heaths, the 

 rare Enkianthus rctivulatns, Gr'iffinia Injacinthina, and Hedyehiuui 

 Gardneruinum. 



From Mr. W. Red(lin<j^, Gardener to Mrs. IVIarryatt, a line 

 plant of lianksia Cu/uiiuglianiii, Frotea speciosa, and live other 

 plants. 



From Mr. Toward, Gardener to H. 11. H. the Ducliess of Glou- 

 cester, at liagshot, two models of Summer-houses. 



¥rom Mr. Joiin Green, Gardener to Sir Edmund Antrobus, 

 Bart., noble specimens of Euphorbia Jac^pdnijlora, Azalea indica 

 alba, and Poinsettia pulcherrima. It was stated that the latter, 

 althoui^h comparatively new in this country, is not uncommon 

 in gardens in the south of Spain, where it is called Flor de Pasqua. 



From Mr. John Halley, of Blackheath, two specimens of a 

 seedling Camellia. 



F^rom Mr. George Glenny, a Correa, said to be a hybrid be- 

 tween C. pulchella and C. alba. 



From Mr. II. Pratt, Gardener to W^illiam Harrison, Esq., a 

 specimen of the rare Arctosiaphylos tomentosa. 



From A, B. Lambert, Esq., a large specimen of the fruit of a 

 plantain, called Musa Cavendishii. It was described to have been 

 produced upon a plant with a stem only four feet high. 



F>om the Hon. W. F. Strangways, cones from Naples of Pinus 

 Pinaster, maxima and minor. One of them belonged to the 

 plant considered by Italian Botanists to be the true Pinus Pinaster, 

 while that cultivated in England, an intermediate variety, has been 

 considered the Pinus maritima of Duroi, and hence two supposed 

 species have been created out of one. It appears, however, that 

 M. Tenore, who sent the cones to England, is now aware of all 

 the forms really belonging to one species. 



From Mr. John Davidson, Gardener to the Marquess of Ailsa, 

 at Culzean Castle, in Ayrshire, a dish of blood red Oranges, 

 grown in a greenhouse among other plants, where they had no 

 artificial heat whatever, further than what was required to keep 



