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and the spotting more distinctly marked, was selected for a Eirst- 

 class Certificate. J. Day, Esq., of Tottenham, produced a pretty new 

 Odontoglossum with white flowers, allied to 0. nebulosum. Dr. 

 Pattison, of St. John's Wood, contributed a collection of Orchids, 

 among which was the pretty Odontoglossum Warnerianum, some- 

 what in the way of O. Cervantesii. Messrs. E. GL Henderson & Son, 

 of St. John's Wood, exhibited Griffinia Blumenavia, a rather 

 pretty dwarf bulb, a most beautiful collection of Cyclamens of 

 various colours, and also the sweet-smelling Gardenia citriodora 

 and a curious yellowish-leaved Euchsia, called Golden Fleece, 

 raised between Cloth of Silver and Enoch Arden. Messrs. Gara- 

 way & Co., of Durdham Down, Bristol, sent the following beau- 

 tiful varieties of Amaryllis of the Hippeastrum group, viz. : — 

 Olivia, rich scarlet and crimson-shaded, pure light throat ; Cleo- 

 patra, bright orange-scarlet, shaded and veined with glossy 

 crinson, the colour" reaching to the base of the segments; H. 

 Gibbs, carmine crimson, with white stripe and margin ; Helena, 

 orange-scarlet, with slight shading of crimson ; Juliet, bright 

 orange-scarlet, shaded with purplish crimson ; and a group of six 

 plants of the splendid A. Achermanni pulcherrima. Messrs. Veitch 

 & Sons showed Asplenium difforme, a New-Holland and Norfolk- 

 Island Fern, with remarkably coriaceous bipinnate fronds and ever- 

 green habit, and likely to be a good basket-Eern for a greenhouse. 

 Mr. Earley, gardener to E. Pryor, Esq., of Digswell, showed a 

 curious Trichosanthes, T. cucumerina, which has fragrant white 

 blossoms, margined by a thread-like fringe, and flowering freely in 

 the stove during winter, and was considered as an acquisition for 

 winter bouquets. 



March 5. — The supply of Orchids was excellent, and among 

 other interesting plants were some wonderfully fine specimens 

 of large-flowering Mignonette, exhibited by the Eev. Gr. Cheere, 

 Papworth Hall, St. Ives ; these consisted of single plants in 

 48-pots, literally masses of bloom. The seeds were sown last 

 August ; they were sown in pans, the seedlings being potted off 

 into thumb-pots, and then transferred to 5-inch pots, a little bone- 

 dust being mixed with the soil at the time of potting. Erom 

 Messrs. Veitch & Sons came Lalia Pilcheri, a beautiful hybrid, 

 with white sepals and petals and a narrow acuminate fringed lip 

 of rich venous purple edged with white, also a splendid specimen 

 of Ccelogyne cristata, a most meritorious example of good culti- 

 vation, being two feet across and quite a cascade of white and 



