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introducing the same into the house through an aperture from 

 the outside. He had found it to possess advantages over 

 any contrivance of the kind he had seen, and that it will 

 burn the very commonest tobacco that can be purchased, 

 as well as that grown in our own gardens, which can be 

 used with complete success. Its construction is so simple, 

 that it can be made by any country tinman or smith. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. A beautifully 

 bloomed specimen of the orange-flowered Epidendrum (E. 

 aurantiacum), a species which few can flower at all, or if 

 they do get it to form blossoms, the latter drop off the 

 moment they expand. At the Garden, however, under 

 ordinary management, it flowers regularly every year, and 

 the blooms remain in beauty for a considerable length of 

 time. Forsythia viridissima, and Hovea chorozemaefolia. 

 The latter formed a nice little greenhouse shrub, covered 

 with brilliant purplish-blue flowers ; but like all Hoveas it 

 is somewhat difficult to manage. Though the Forsythia is 

 quite hardy, it was mentioned that the blossoms required 

 some protection in early spring, otherwise the cold and 

 stormy weather of that season destroys their gay appear- 

 ance. 



Books Presented. 



The Gardener's Magazine of Botany, Horticulture, Floriculture, and Natural Sc ience. 



Parts 1 and 2. From the Publishers. 

 Pax ton's Flower Garden. No. I. From the Publishers. 



The Country Gentleman, a newspaper, conducted by Mr. G. Glenny, F.II.S. 

 From Mr. Glenny. 



April 2, 1850. (Regent Street.) 



Awards. Large Silver Medal: To Messrs. Veitch and Son, 

 of Exeter, for a fine specimen of the Magnificent Medinill 

 (M. magnifica), a noble-looking species, imported by them 

 from Java. Its massive leaves are nearly a foot long and 

 4 or 5 inches broad, of a firm, leathery texture, and of the 

 richest green. From the ends of the branches hang down 

 panicles, from 15 to 18 inches long, of rich, glossy, rose- 

 coloured flowers, with purple petals, and large, many-ribbtd 

 bracts of the clearest pink. It is the large-bracted Medinill 

 (M. bracteata) of the Nurseries. 



Banksian Medal: To Mr. Plumbly, Gardener to E. J. 

 Dimsdale, Esq., for four large specimen Heaths, consisting 

 of Willmoreana, transparens, triumphans, and penicillata. 

 To Messrs. Eollisson, of Tooting, for Dendrobium macro- 



