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also a beautiful pot specimen of the common hardy Trillium gran- 

 diflorum, so large, so dense, and so profusely covered with three- 

 petaled snowy blossoms as to be striking, even at a distance » and 

 Mr. William Paul contributed a fine collection of Nosegay Pe- 

 largoniums, among which St. George, crimson scarlet, and Salmon 

 Nosegay, remarkable not only for its colour but also for the size 

 of its individual flowers and trusses, were most conspicuous. 



May 12. — The Rev. G. Cheere, of Papworth Hall, sent up a 

 meritorious exhibition of the Giant Mignonette, grown in pots. 



May 15. — The blue- and the white-flowered varieties oiMyosotis syl- 

 vatica, known as ~3£. intermedia, the beautiful Porget-me-not, so much 

 used in spring gardens, were shown by Mr. Cutbush, of Highgate. 

 In this form they are very suitable for greenhouse decoration. A 

 pretty cut specimen of Rhododendron Bonplandiaflorum was sent 

 by Mr. Johnson, of Savernake. It is allied to R. cinnabarinum, R. 

 Roylei, and R. Keysii, and, like the first, is poisonous to goats and 

 sheep, and when used for firewood produces a disagreeable in- 

 flammation of the eyes. A cut specimen of Rhododendron niveum 

 was sent by Mr. Luscomb, of Combe Poyal. A fine plant of R. 

 Nuttallii came from the Society's Garden. Some of the flowers 

 had been touched with the pollen of R. arboreum and R. sinense, 

 in the hope of obtaining some distinct varieties. Mr. Bateman 

 sent a raceme of Aerides Warneriana, which is in reality a variety 

 of A. crispa. It is flowering in an abnormal way : the raceme 

 proceeds from the end of the caulescent stem instead of, as in 

 every other case that had come within his experience, from the 

 side opposite to the leaves. " Orchids, although they play strange 

 pranks with their flowers, are usually constant enough in their 

 way of producing them. Here, however, is a remarkable excep- 

 tion." A fine plant, of the variety Dr. Lindley, of the common 

 lilac, of which a great deal has been said lately, came from Chis- 

 wiek, and, to compare with it, abundant cut flowers of Charles X., 

 w T hich is evidently far the finest variety, and well adapted for 

 bleaching, a practice which was lately so fashionable at Paris, the 

 etiolated flowers being peculiarly beautiful and not speedily de- 

 caying. Some observations were made on the rat-tailed radish, 

 of which so much has lately been said in the public journals. The 

 seed from Messrs. Yilmorins' sent out by the Society is evidently 

 something very different ; and what the Editor has seen arrive at 

 full growth appears to be merely the large-rooted radish commonly 

 cultivated in India, some of the roots being white others red. In 

 India it is said to be as large occasionally as a man's thigh. 



