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inches long, and are of a brownish purple colour, with a large raised pure white star-like substance 
in centre ; they are glossy and wax-like, about two inches in diameter. 
Liliums. Seedling varieties raised some years since from L. bulbiferum crossed with L. atrosan- 
guineum, and are all quite hardy. We noticed them in the nursery of Mr. Groom, of Clapham 
Rise. No. 1. The Nabob, twenty- two inches high, very bright and rich orange, with deep blood- 
coloured blotches, well thrown over the petals, which were finely formed, very showy, producing 
from twelve to fifteen flowers on a stem. No. 2. Louis-Philippe, twenty-six inches high, very 
bright deep red, with a few dark blotches and some black spots ; this is a brilliant flower, the stalk 
holding sixteen to twenty blooms. No. 3. Vulcan, twenty-two inches high, very dark red, with 
blood-coloured blotches, the darkest variety, and carries from twelve to sixteen flowers on a stalk. 
No. 4. Atlas, twenty four inches high, light orange, with reddish-brown patches ; strong grower, 
producing sixteen to twenty flowers. No. 5. Duke of Wellington, sixteen inches high, bright rich 
red, with a few dark red blotches, very showy and dwarf, ten to sixteen flowers on a stem. 
No. 6. Titian, fifteen inches high, a red orange, with a few dark spots ; excellent flower, and very 
free bloomer, sixteen to twenty flowers on the stem. No. 7. Voltaire, thirteen inches high, fine 
bright orange, very well covered with patches of reddish-brown : this is the finest of the orange 
varieties and very distinct ; produces twelve to fifteen flowers. No. 8. Rubens, nineteen inches 
high, rich dark-red, with a few blotches of blood colour and some black spots ; very showy kind, 
produces ten to fourteen flowers on a stem. All the above varieties are worthy of very extensive 
cultivation. 
Mitraria coccinea. Messrs. Veitch have lately flowered this novelty, and as it is quite 
hardy, will be a great acquisition to our gardens. The plant was about three feet high, with 
small neat foliage placed opposite on each side of the stem ; from the axils of which the flowers are 
produced singly, an inch-and-a-half long, and are of a brilliant scarlet colour ; they hang from the 
foliage at the end of a peduncle two inches long, and have a graceful and ornamental appearance. 
Among the fine specimens exhibited at the fete of the Horticultural and Royal Botanical 
Societies, the following were the finest : — Erica Shannoni, Clews'-ana (Pamplin y s) ) elegans, procum- 
bens, perspicua nana, ventricosa splendens, Massoni, the finest plant in existence, we should say, 
and Westphalingia, were sent by Mr. Hunt, Gardener to Miss Trail, Bromley. E. metulceflora, 
ventricosa fragrans coccinea, tricolor and densa, by Mr. Mylam, Gardener to S. Rucker, Esq.; 
E. elegans, a noble specimen, from Mr. Pawley, Bromley. E. vent, superba, very fine, from Mr. 
Malyon ; E. splendens and Massoni, from Mr. May ; E. mutabilis, from Mr. Bruce ; a noble 
specimen of the same, from Messrs. Veitch ; E. Cavendishii and tricolor (Wilson's var.), from 
Mr. Green, along with the latter, were fine plants of Leschenaultia Baxteri, the old Allamanda 
cathartica, Stephanotis floribundus, Tetratheca verticillata, Chorozema ericoides, Franciscea augusta, 
and several Epiphyllums admirably flowered. Mr. Jack exhibited a superb specimen of 
Leschenaultia biloba, Franciscea acuminata, &c; Mr. Falconer had a fine Leschenaultia 
formosa. Mr. Carson exhibited a Plumbago capensis, and Dipladenia splendens, Dillwynia 
jloribunda, a neat little yellow flower in fine condition, and a noble specimen of the Tinea 
rosea sent by Mr. Malyon. Russelia juncea, Aphelexis sesamoides, and humilis, from 
Mr. Bruce. — Gardenia Stanleyana, in fine flower, the best we have seen, sent by Mr. Iveson, 
gardener to the Dowager Duchess of Northumberland, Sion House ; a Heath from Mr. Jackson, 
Kingston, called E. jubata rubra. Echinocactus claviformis, a pale flower, almost white, but pro- 
duced in great abundance on a very small plant exhibited by Mr. Hoyle, Reading. Mr. Ambrose, 
of Battersea, exhibited a new fancy Pelargonium, a dark flower, almost a chocolate-colour, good 
shape, and had a very even margin of white round all the petals. Mr. Holmes, Florist, Sudbury, 
exhibited a remarkable herbaceous Poppy, single, and a most brilliant orange, considerably 
enriched by blotches of dark purple at the base of the petals ; a serviceable plant for the back- 
ground of borders. Among the collections of Orchids were the following fine specimens : — 
Aerides affine, with twelve scapes, Saccolabium guttatunn, fifteen scapes, Oncidium Lanceanum, with 
ten, and several others in the collection of Mr. Mylam, gardener to S. Rucker, Esq. ; Barkeria 
spectabihs, an admirable specimen, and an enormous one, of Sobralia macrantha, and SchomburgJcia 
tibicinis, with a scape ten feet long, from Mr. Basset, gardener to R. S. Holford, Esq. Mr. 
Rae exhibited a fine Stanhopea oculata and a new variety between S. insignis and Devoniensis, a 
pretty spotted flower. Mr. Dobson, gardener to E. Beck, Esq., had a fine Aerides crispum, and 
a variety of Barkeria spectabilis, having a deep purple blotch at the end of the lip instead of 
