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dingy brownish chocolate (without the spotting) and a little relieved with streaks of pale yellow 
in the column. The flowers have a strong pungent odour, much like that of cloves. 
Hoya campanulata. A pretty, though, from the absence of colour, not a very interesting 
species, has been exhibited at Chiswick by Messrs. Veitch, Exeter. It has pale yellowish-green 
flowers, beautifully formed, like a number of inverted cups suspended among its rich green 
foliage, and having a delicious lemon odour, will render its want of colour less noticed, and make 
it a desirable addition to the stove climbers. 
Odontoglossum cuspidatum. Messrs. Rollisson have recently flowered this species : it has 
long, pointed sepals and petals, of a greenish ground, striped and spotted with brown. The bulb 
is small and flat, with foliage about six inches long, and an inch broad, of a bluish-green 
colour. 
Oncidium concolor. In Messrs. Veitch's collection, we noticed a handsome plant of this 
species flowering most luxuriantly : it is singularly different from all the species of Oncidium, by 
having an uniform colour (bright yellow) in the whole flower, labellum, sepals and petals. This 
species will always attract notice when seen in good flower. 
Rhododendron, var. At this season, numerous fine hybrid varieties of this noble genus are 
developing their flowers in the most luxuriant profusion, the finer varieties of which we will 
proceed to notice. R. metropolitana is now flowering splendidly with Mr. Edmunds, gardener to 
His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, Chiswick : it was raised some years ago by Mr. Ronalds, 
Nurseryman, Brentford. The specimen has immensely large trusses of bloom, one of which held 
upwards of twenty-six flowers, each flower averaging four inches and a half in diameter ; the inflo- 
rescence is of a deep rose-colour, beautifully spotted in the throat. The habit of the plant is bold, 
of a dark green on the upper side, and slightly bronzed beneath. At the nursery of Messrs. 
Knight and Perry are several handsome varieties in flower, including those splendid specimens 
of the true R. arboreum, which has been flowering for some time in a most luxuriant manner, 
and receiving the admiration of every beholder. Then they have R. fastuosum flore-pleno, a hand- 
some lilac flower, very large, and with good substance of petal, the truss holding upwards of twenty 
flowers, each flower being about three inches and a half in diameter. This variety is remarkable 
for a petal-like development of the stamens ; it is perfectly hardy, and one of the handsomest of its 
class. Another variety worthy of notice, possesses a changeable feature in the colour of its 
flowers ; first, the bud — which is a brilliant crimson — when the flower opens it is a rosy carmine, 
and as it ages becomes paler and paler, until near white ; so that a good specimen, in flower, 
has the appearance of being composed of different varieties grafted on one stem. We noticed 
another hybrid, raised between the Azalea and Rhododendron, having the foliage of the 
former, and flowers — a rich pink — of the latter, the whole of the petals being spotted with dark 
colour. Mr. Gaines, Nurseryman, Battersea, has a pretty hybrid, R. Jenny Lind. It is small, of 
a bluish colour, and profusely spotted on the upper petals. The foliage is very neat. We are not 
aware whether it is hardy. 
Trop^olum azureum A well-grown specimen, covered with its pretty, bluish flowers, has 
been exhibited by Mr. Green, gardener to Sir E. Antrobus, Cheam. This species, now introduced 
some years ago, has been almost forgotten, whether from a difficulty of culture or what we know 
not : however, this specimen cannot fail to make the plant an object worthy the attention of the 
possessors to cultivate it in a similar manner. 
Vanda cristata. This beautiful and singular- looking plant has been flowering finely in 
several collections this season, but in none was it so freely in bloom as in the collection of Mr. 
Schroeder of Stratford Green, where it has thrown out upwards of sixteen of its beautifully 
striped flowers, forming a very attractive species. 
Viburnum spe. no v. Two species of Viburnum have lately been flowering in the gardens of 
the Horticultural Society, Chiswick. They are of the purest white, one of them is capitate, with 
trusses as large as the Hydrangea ; individual flowers about an inch across. The other pro- 
duces a greater number of trusses along the stem, smaller, about three inches in diameter, while 
the individual flower is semi-double, about half an inch across. The plants are shrubby, and we 
believe, hardy. They were introduced by Mr. Fortune, from China. 
Weigelia rosea. This charming plant cannot be noticed too highly, having several superior 
