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named Princess Mary, which promises to be a great acquisition, 

 and obtained a first-class certificate. In Mr. Vcitch's collection 

 appeared Rapliiolepis ovata, a valuable white-blossomed evergreen 

 Japanese plant, which will probably turn out to be as hardy as 

 the common Aucuba, as it stood the winter of 1861. Mr. Williams, 

 Nurseryman, Fortis Green, Finchley, had two charming kinds 

 of Tropseolum, — Beauty, with pale primrose-coloured blossoms, 

 spotted with mulberry ; and Attraction, with bright-yellow flowers, 

 spotted with orange-red : these will, if sufficiently profuse, make 

 valuable plants for bedding-purposes. Mr. Bull sent, amongst 

 other things, Mudgea macropliylla, a fine plant with large deep- 

 green leaves, and close terminal panicles of snowy-white blossoms, 

 a description of which is given in this ' Journal.' Magnificent cut 

 blooms of Rhododendron AucMandii, each measuring some 5 inches 

 across, were shown by Mr. Cox, gardener to J. "Wells, Esq., of 

 Eedleaf. Those of B. Griffitliii, shown on April 3rd, were more 

 tubular than Mr. Cox's blossoms, which otherwise greatly re- 

 sembled them. A cut specimen of Wellingtonia gigantea, 

 bearing male catkins (being the second time that the Welling- 

 tonia has been shown in that condition) was also sent by 

 Mr. Cox. From the Society's Garden came two beautiful stan- 

 dard trees of the Persian Lilac, profusely laden with flowers, 

 and an exhibition of cut Camellias, the produce of three plants of 

 an old kind called the Middlemist's Bed, which at one time were 

 kept in pits under glass, but which have now for many years oc- 

 cupied a position in the open air on the north side of a wall, where 

 they generally flower freely, and this season are literally masses 

 of bloom. 



A plant of the old Crinum capense was sent from Chiswick, and it 

 was suggested that valuable varieties might be obtained by crossing 

 this with some of the other species. The genus Criuwn has now, 

 however, gone much out of fashion ; a large lot at one of Mr. 

 Stevens's sales lately, could not meet with a purchaser at any price. 

 The curious Pitcairnia tahulcrformis was sent by Mr. Bull, but not 

 yet in flower. It, however, appeared subsequently with its curi- 

 ous yellow blossoms. Two species of Callixene were brought by 

 Mr. Bateman, a genus which deserves cultivation from its elegance 

 of form, though the flowers are not very conspicuous. One of 

 these was cultivated in this country at a very early period ; and a 

 beautiful figure was made of it iu 17 04, by a Dutch artist, Kichious 

 (some of whose drawings are most admirable), from plants raised at 

 Badminton, from seeds gathered in the Straits of Magellan. Its 



