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deeper on the lower part of the flower; and Messrs. Veitch & 

 Sons sent Gloxinia Madame de Smet, a very showy flower with a 

 waxy-white tube and violet-purple lobes ; and Vlaanderen, rich 

 rosy purple, the lobes slightly edged with violet, a fine hue of 

 colour, and a good flower. Mr. Richards, gar Jener to Lord Lon- 

 desborough, Grimston Park, Tadcaster, had a very fine specimen of 

 the variety of Vanda teres called Andersoni, which was growing 

 on a block in a pot, and bore 11 flowering spikes. Gr. F. Wilson, 

 Esq., Weybridge, exhibited a magnificent specimen of Lilium 

 longiflorum, with nine pure white blooms, each about 7 inches in 

 length and about 5 \ inches in diameter at the mouth. 



July 15-19. — The Society's first Great County Show was held 

 at Bury St. Edmund's, and was of a most gratifying character, 

 having been really good throughout. 



Of the prizes for Stove and Greenhouse Plants, the Society's 

 20-guinea Cup was won by Messrs. Lee, of Hammersmith, with a 

 very fine lot of plants, among which occurred Allamanda Hender- 

 soni, beautifully bloomed; Erica Permentieri rosea, quite smothered 

 in its lovely blossoms of a delicate roseate hue ; Ixora javanica, 

 full of bloom and brilliantly coloured, and a splendid bush of Ka- 

 losanthes coccinea. Scarcely, if at all, inferior was the collection of 

 Mr. Baines, gardener to H. L. Nichols, Esq., Bowdon, near Man- 

 chester, in which were two such plants of Sarracenia as were never 

 before seen — one, S. purpurea, a dense mass 3 feet over, and with 

 enormous pitchers, and the other, S.flava, fully a yard high, with 

 the mouth of the pitchers 3^ inches across, and the broad leafy 

 lid 4| inches. Mr. Baines had also a splendid plant of Ancecto- 

 cTiilus Lowii, and a remarkably fine mass of Dioncea muscipula. 

 Fine-foliage plants were numerous and effective, but very few 

 Orchids were shown. Palms and Perns, the latter especially, 

 formed considerable features. A beautiful group of Sarracenias, 

 in addition to those shown in his large collection, came from Mr. 

 Baines, of Bowdon. They consisted of S. Drummondii alba, nearly 

 5 feet high, with the lid of the pitcher mottled with white and 

 wavy at the margin ; two plants of S.flava, 4 feet high, with the 

 lid ovate and plane ; S. rubra, 1| foot high, with a red-veined 

 ovate plane lid ; S. variolaris, with the upper part of the tube 

 mottled with white and the head recurved like a parrot's bill ; 

 and S. purpurea, very highly coloured. They formed a group 

 such as is rarely seen at exhibitions. 



A very interesting feature of the exhibition was presented by 



