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bushy Pompons, about a foot in height and 2| feet across, and six 

 neatly grown standard Pompons, on stems of about 2| feet high. 

 The dwarfs consisted of General Canrobert, Cedo NulH, Daruflct, 

 White Trevenna, Lilac Cedo Xulli, and a bronze seedling ; the 

 standards were Andromeda, Helene, Cedo Nulli, White Trevenna, 

 Bob, and Golden Cedo Nulli. A stand of six tolerably good cut 

 blooms of Chrysanthemums came from Mr. P. C. Dickens, of Plood 

 Street, Chelsea. In a group of British Perns from Mr. W. Earley 

 of Digswell, was the curious dimorphous Lady-Pern Aihyrium 

 Filioc-foemina Barsonsice. The old J usticea speciosa, some of the new 

 hybrid Bonvardias, and Libonia floribunda, from the Society's 

 Garden, were sent as useful decorative objects for the season of 

 the year. 



November 20. — Mr. Salter, of Hammersmith, produced three 

 beautiful Chrysanthemums, namely Countess of Warwick, a de- 

 licate lemon-tinted white, Lady Talfourd, a purplish lilac, and 

 Faust, a coppery brown, all first-class, full, incurved flowers. 

 Messrs. Backhouse, of York, sent the pretty little Ecuador Me- 

 sospinidium sanyuineum, an elegant Orchid with a slender droop- 

 ing spike of rosy-pink flowers. Prom Mr. Shortt, gardener at 

 Heckfield, came the yellow-berried Butcher's Broom {Buscus 

 aculeatus fructuluteo), of which a considerable patch had been 

 found in the woods at Heckfield ; and from Mr. Earley, of Digs- 

 well, a curious phyllomania Beyonia, which had been raised be- 

 tween B. incarnata and B. ricinifolia. J. A. Turner, Esq., of 

 Manchester, exhibited Odontoylossum Hallii] and A. D. Berring- 

 ton, Esq., of Abergavenny, the pretty Burlinytonia decora picta. 



December 4. — The most striking object at this meeting was 

 Messrs. Yeitch and Sons' plant of Saccolabium yiyanteum, a 

 species with broad, short leaves and dense spikes of white flowers, 

 the lip of which is tipped with deep bright purple-rose. Prom 

 the garden of W. Marshall, Esq., of Enfield, came the pure white 

 Lycaste Shinneri alba, which was also sent by Mr. Anderson 

 from the garden of T. Dawson, Esq., of Meadow Bank. Prom 

 the latter collection came also a remarkably fine spike of Odonto- 

 ylossum Alexandra?, bearing a dozen flowers. Mr. Standish, Boyal 

 Nursery, Ascot, exhibited Taxus adpressa stricta, a free-growing, 

 erect, evergreen shrub of the first order, and an hermaphrodite 

 plant of Aucuba japonica. Prom G. Cooper, Esq., Old Kent 

 Boad, came Fpidendrzm Cooperianum, a species with dull brownish 

 sepals and a rosy lip, the flowers growing in drooping spikes. 



