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Princess of Wales, a fine pure white ; Princess Alexandra, white 

 pencilled with purple ; Prince of Wales, bluish violet ; David 

 Rizzio, and Sir John Pranklin, purple ; and Golden Yellow. 



Messrs. P. and A. Smith sent Azalea Hector, a very dark-red 

 kind with spotted upper petals. Mr. Pairbairn, gardener to the 

 Duke of Northumberland, sent a seedling Cineraria, Diike of 

 Northumberland, which appeared to be an acquisition in point of 

 colour. Messrs. E. Gr. Henderson and Son exhibited a nice plant 

 of Mudgea leucocephala, which also came from Mr. Bull, under the 

 name of Psycliotria niacrophylla. The last-named exhibitor also 

 sent Agave Verschaffeltii macracantha, a curious new dwarf form 

 of American Aloes, with short thick leaves furnished with sharp 

 teeth, and tipped by a sharp needle-like spine. Messrs. Yeitch 

 and Sons exhibited Hippeaslrum pardinum, a beautiful new form of 

 Amaryllid, which has expanded flowers, with a pale creamy ground- 

 colour, thickly spotted with confluent dots of crimson-red. It is 

 one of the gems of the season. 



April 2. — In a collection of plants shown by Mr. Bull, there 

 occurred Litobrochia undulata, a pretty-looking robust-growing 

 compound Stove-Pern, from the Peejees, and the charming 

 Camellia Lavinia Maggi rosea, whose flowers are self-coloured, of 

 the richest carmine rose. W. Wentworth Buller, Esq., sent 

 Dendrobium thyrsiflorum, a handsome new species with clavate 

 bulbs and drooping spikes of pale-yellow flowers with an apricot- 

 coloured lip. Mr. Anderson, gardener to T. Dawson, Esq., 

 Meadow Bank, Grlasgow, furnished two forms of Ly caste SJcinneri, 

 namely, Andersoni, with rosy petals and pure white lip, and 

 Dawsoni, with deep-crimson lip, marked with white blotches. 

 Mr. Anderson also sent Odontoglossum luteo-purpureum, which 

 includes as varieties both O. radiatum and O. hystrix. Mr. Jones, 

 Whalley Bange, Manchester, sent a monstrous Cattleya with two 

 lips. Mr. Wilson, gardener to W. Marshall, Esq., Enfield, had a 

 nice plant of Odontoglossum triumplians, a fine species, with an 

 abruptly acuminate white lip, having yellow crests at the base 

 and brown blotches in the upper half. He also showed a hand- 

 some variety of Oncidium carthaginense. 



Among Orchids exhibited for the first time were Oncidium 

 amictum, already noticed, and a pretty white Dendrobium from 

 Japan, which must decidedly be considered a cool Orchid. It 

 would produce a large mass of flowers and would doubtless 

 succeed in a mild greenhouse. Mr. Bateman next directed atten- 



