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Dicliorisandra undata. Mr. Bull had also a good collection. A 

 pretty Golden Elm, TJlwius aurea, was shown by Mr. W. Paul 

 and Messrs. E. G. Henderson. Messrs. Osborn & Sons pro- 

 duced a new variety of the Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis acuti- 

 loba). A little tree of what is call Silver-variegated Deodar was 

 exhibited by Messrs. Maule & Son, of Bristol. Mr. Standish 

 exhibited his Betinospora filifera, a most remarkable Conifer, with 

 long whipcord-like drooping branches. Einally, Mr. Kinghorn 

 produced his beautiful new Azalea, Lizzie, the flowers of which 

 are large, bold, stout, and of fine form, the colour white, flaked 

 with rosy carmine, a very free-blooming kind ; and Messrs. 

 Osborn & Sons, of Fulham, sent the pretty little North-American 

 Viola pedata, which had all the attractions of a new plant, because 

 so very rarely seen, though introduced upwards of a century ago. 

 The flowers are deep lilac, which becomes paler with age ; it is 

 very dwarf, and blooms profusely, but does not continue long in 

 flower. It is, however, a pretty and effective plant for rockwork. 



June 4 to 8. — This five days' great exhibition was held in the 

 Eastern Annex, in the large Rhododendron-tent, which was 

 literally crammed with gay flowers and fine foliage, here and there 

 relieved by stately Tree Ferns and other subjects of a similar 

 description. The weather proved showery. A good many seed- 

 ling florists' flowers were present, as usual, at the show, and 

 among them some fine Pelargoniums raised by the Rev. E. 

 Foster and Mr. Hoyle. Besides these, Silene pennsylvanica, a dwarf 

 rock plant, covered with bright pink flowers, came from Messrs. 

 Backhouse. Messrs. Ivery exhibited PolysticJium angular e oxy- 

 phyllum and the following forms of Athyrium Filix-foemina, namely, 

 plumosnm multifidum , the Axminster variety of plumoswn, and 

 Girdlestonii. Messrs. Salter produced Coprosma Bauerianum varie- 

 gation, a pretty greenhouse shrub, with green leaves edged with 

 pale yellow. Mr. Robert Veitch, Exeter, sent two fine specimens 

 of the seedlings raised from Adiantum JFarleyense. Mr. Stone, 

 gardener to J. Day, Esq., sent a magnificent variety of Oypripe- 

 dium Stonei, called Blatytcenium, with much broader petals than 

 those of 0. Stonei, which it otherwise resembles; he also exhibited 

 Cattleya JDowiana, a grand species with buff" sepals and petals and 

 large violet-purple lip veined with gold. Messrs. Veitch & Sons 

 showed, in a somewhat undeveloped state, the lovely Dendrobium 

 Bensonice from Moulmein, and also Alocasia intermedia, a fine 

 grey-leaved plant, raised between A. Veitchii and A. longiloba. 



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