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other shades ; Dwarf Pyramid Bouquets, so compact and free- 

 flowering as to want thinning ; Pyramidal-flowering, good, showy, 

 slightly quilled kinds ; and Double Dwarf Bouquets, with medium- 

 sized, extremely pretty, Carnation-striped flowers. 



Prom Messrs. Downie, Laird, and Laing came an interesting 

 collection of subtropical plants, conspicuous among which were 

 Wigandia caracasana, Solarium auriculatum, S. rolmstum, S. ver- 

 bascifolium, and Polymnia grandis, all stately large-leaved plants ; 

 Ferula nodiflora, with much-divided Pennel-like foliage ; Solarium 

 pyracantlia and decurrens, both handsome-foliaged plants, orna- 

 mented with orange-coloured spines; S. Fontanesianum, a crumpled, 

 comparatively small-leaved sort, with yellow blossoms ; Solarium 

 amazonicum atropurpureum, a very spiny dark-coloured sort ; 

 Ulidea bipinnatijida, a Mexican undershrub, with deeply cleft hairy 

 foliage ; the white-striped Japanese Maize ; and the following 

 silvery-leaved plants, viz. Eucalyptus globosa, Solarium marginatum 

 argenteum, S. glaucopJigllum, &c. 



September 18. — A very interesting feature at this meeting 

 was a group of about forty seedling Aucubas, raised from the 

 true or green-leaved forms of A. liimalaica and A. japonica 

 fertilized with variegated males. The progeny showed all va- 

 rieties of blotching and marking ; but those produced from 

 liimalaica, having darker-green leaves and paler or brighter 

 markings, were most promising and desirable. Mr. Eckford sent 

 Saccolabium Blumei, bearing two beautiful spikes of flowers ; and 

 from Mr. Anderson, gardener to T. Dawson, Esq., Meadow Bank, 

 came cut blossoms of Odontoglossum grande, which for size and 

 brightness of colour have seldom or never been equalled ; the spike 

 bore eleven blossoms, The pale yellow-flowered Oncidium cruen- 

 tum was shown by Mr. Ward, gardener to A. Berrington, Esq., 

 Abergavenny. Mr. Turner, Slough, contributed a charming 

 basketful of the new bright orange-scarlet Nosegay Pelargonium, 

 Lady Constance Grosvenor. Mr. Cruikshanks, gardener to W. 

 Jones Loyd, Esq., produced cut blooms of a beautiful lilac and 

 white-striped Verbena, called Lady of Langleybury, which was 

 stated to have been obtained from Purple King ; if it prove to be 

 equally good in habit with that variety, it will, doubtless, be a 

 valuable sort for beds. Mr. Mann, Brentwood, exhibited various 

 tricolor-leaved Pelargoniums, among which was one named Phidias, 

 which, being nearly related to Golden Harkaway, a very dwarf 

 kind, may prove useful for small beds or edgings. 



