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of Hypocyrta, with curious scarlet flowers. (Banksian Medal 

 awarded for the former.) 



From the Honourable and Very Revd. the Dean of Manchester, 

 some seedhng Rhododendrons and Azaleas ; the first was R. 

 Seymouri obtained from seed of Rliodora canadensis impregnated 

 by Azalea pontica. Another was raised between R. pouticum, and 

 R. Dauricum atrovirens. Also 3 seedling Rhododendrons from R. 

 pouticum and Azalea pontica^ together with a specimen of Azalea 

 pontica impregnated with A. sinensis. 



From Air. Cockburn, Gardener to the Earl of Mansfield, Caen 

 Wood, Highgate, a number of plants, among which was a tall 

 specimen of Acacia verlicillaia, also Gompholobium ericoides, Phili- 

 bertia grandijlora, Chorozema spinosum, cordifolium, varium and 

 Henchmanni with several others. (Certificate awarded for the 

 Chorozemas.) 



From Mr. Clarke, Gardener to William Block, Esq.^ of Mus- 

 well Hill, plants of Erica Hartnelli and Fulgida, also Chorozema 

 Henchmanni and j^schynanthus ramosissimus. (Certificate 

 awarded for the Erica Hartnelli, and Chorozema.) 



From Mr. Harding, Gardener to the Rev. F. Beadon, a plant 

 of the Double Yellow Oxalis, received from Madeira. 



From Mr. Cunningham, Gardener to G. Atkins, Esq., of 

 Twickenham, a plant of a seedling Calceolaria named Earl of 

 Galloway. 



From Mr. Davy, Gardener to George Smith, Esq., of Colney 

 Hatch, a seedling Cineraria, named Pulcherrima, with intense 

 purplish crim>^on blossoms. 



From E. D. Davenport, Esq., F.H.S., a cut specimen of Suther- 

 landia frutescens. 



From Mr. Bedford, Gardener to Mr. C. Abbott, Market Gar- 

 dener, Edmonton, a punnet of Black Hamburgh Grapes, 



From Mr. Beck, of Isleworth, a round tin pan called a Saveall, 

 divisible in the middle, and having a cavity in the centre for the 

 purpose of admitting pots, intended to economise tobacco water ; 

 when this is applied to plants, for the purpose of destroying 

 Aphides, it is generally wasted, and a great superfluous expenditure 

 is thus incurred : by the present contrivance the plants may be 

 syringed or sprinkled, and the whole of the fluid will be caught 

 again, to be strained for further use. 



From the Garden of the Society were plants of Cattleya For- 

 besii, and intermedia, the large variety of Oncidium ampliatum,a\so 

 Epidendrum primulinum, Gloxinia cuulescens, and a hairy variety 

 of Acacia pulchella, likewise two plants of Chorozema varium nanum 

 one of Azalea indica alba, and phoenicea, and a new herbaceous 

 perennial called Echium petraum with . showy pink and blue 

 flowers. 



