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variety, which, by a little tasteful training and tying up, is 

 very suitable for pot culture. 



Miscellaneous Subjects of Exhibition. Boronia tri- 

 phylla, a variety of Eriostemon cuspidatum with pink- 

 tipped flowers, and a beautiful white-blossomed Epacris of 

 the Impressa breed, named Hyacinthiflora candidissima, 

 from Messrs. Henderson, of Pine Apple Place; a dwarf 

 bright Scarlet Gesnera named G. macrantha purpurea, a 

 seedling Heatli called Burnetti, Siphocampylus lanceo- 

 latus, and a new Composite named Conoclinium ianthinum, 

 from Mr. Henderson, of Wellington Nursery, St. John's 

 Wood. Along with these plants Mr. Henderson sent the 

 following memoranda : — " The Gesnera is a hybrid between 

 G. Cooperii and G. macrantha, and blooms most freely ; 

 if cut down directly after blossoming, it will flower pro- 

 fusely in about six weeks or two months afterwards. It 

 can thus be bloomed three times a-year. The Seedling 

 Erica is a pretty hybrid, between E. Linnaeoides and E. 

 Hartnelli. It was named after Mr. Burnett, gardener to 

 Mr. Alderman Buckland, of Peterborough. I am inclined to 

 think that the Siphocampylus lanceolatus, under better 

 culture, would prove brighter in colour. It appears to 

 bloom very freely. It was received from the Continent. 

 The Conoclinium is also a Continental plant ; I believe it 

 was introduced from St. Catherine's. The plant sent has 

 been very much used for cuttings, and can give no true idea 

 of its merits. It is a free-flowering winter plant, and I 

 think will prove an acquisition to the greenhouse." Mr. Fry, 

 gardener to Miss Dent, Manor House, Lee, Kent, exhibited 

 a self-acting contrivance for fumigating glass houses. It was 

 of sheet iron, furnished with a moveable chimney, or cylin- 

 der, and with a grate at the bottom on feet sufficiently high to 

 allow a current of air to pass through the fuel on which the 

 fumigating material is placed. Mr. Fry stated that he had 

 employed his apparatus for the purpose of fumigating plant 

 structures of every description. His method of using it is 

 to put into it a few pieces of charcoal, coke, or cinders from 

 the furnace. He then places the tobacco on the cinders 

 somewhat lightly, and over that a covering of damp moss. 

 In this manner it is left to burn by itself, without any one 

 being required to attend to it, until the house is filled, when, 

 if required, any given number of places may be fumigated 

 by an addition of a small quantity of tobacco. The smoke 

 may be also introduced into the interior of any place by 

 merely fitting on to the cover a piece of pipe with an elbow, 

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