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March 6. — The most important novelty sent to the Meeting of 

 March 6th consisted of cut specimens of JBougainvillea splendens, 

 from Mr. Daniel's garden at Swyncombe, Henley-on-Thames. 

 This was somewhat intermediate in aspect between B. spectabilis 

 and B. glabra, having smaller and more acuminated leaves, less 

 hairy than those of the former, and the bracts of a brighter ma- 

 genta-rose. The plant is particularly valuable as coming into 

 bloom at an early period of the year, being succeeded in April 

 by B. spectabilis, and this, again, towards autumn by B. glabra. 



A good many interesting plants were also shown. Major 

 Trevor Clarke, Welton Park, Daventry, sent an example of Co- 

 burghia miniata, which he induced to blossom by growing it in 

 small pots, repressing its tendency to produce offsets, repotting it 

 annually, and starting it in a stove temperature. Messrs. J. and 

 C. Lee, of Hammersmith, had a group of several Aucubas well 

 furnished with berries. In a collection of cut Orchids from Mr. 

 Sherratt, gardener to J. Bateman, Esq., was a magnificent spike 

 of Bhalcenopsis Schilleriana. Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son, 

 St. John's Wood, sent a very beautiful collection of Cyclamens, 

 consisting of numerous varieties of C. persicum and of C. Coum, 

 together with the intermediate C. AtJcinsii. Cut flowering speci- 

 mens of Rhododendron Auchlandii, from a plant 4 feet high bearing 

 fifteen trusses of blossom, came from Mr. Brown, Elmdon Hall, 

 Birmingham. W. Wentworth Buller, Esq., Strete Raleigh, Exeter, 

 sent, amongst other interesting subjects, a hybrid Rhododendron, 

 almost identical with Mr. Veitch's " Princess Royal," and obtained 

 by the same cross — R. javaniewn+jasminiflorum. Mr. Allis, Gun- 

 ton Park, Norwich, exhibited a cut specimen of the rarely seen 

 Rhododendron argenteum, the dense, many-lobed, compactly bell- 

 shaped, white corollas of which were prettily marked at the base, 

 inside, with radiating crimson lines. 



The Society's Garden furnished a finely-grown example of Den- 

 drobium speciosum, and examples of Brunus sinensis, B. sinensis 

 alba, and P. triloba, all exceedingly valuable as dwarf double- 

 flowered shrubs for early forcing ; the latter is larger-flowered and 

 of a deeper colour than B. sinensis. 



The following communication from Major Clarke, respecting the 

 treatment of Coburghia miniata, was read to the Meeting : — 



This remarkably handsome bulb is rarely seen in collections, 

 from its being shy of flowering under ordinary cultivation. The 

 treatment is as follows, and consists in resisting the habit of 

 making a profusion of offsets. The soil is pure loam with much 



