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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 Z-. hulbiferum 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- 
colom’ed 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 
I 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 f^e of the Horticultural and Royal Botanical 
i Societies, the following were the finest : — Erica Shannoni, Clewsiana {Pamplin'’s), elegans, procum- 
! lens, 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. metulcejlora, 
; 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, superla, very fine, from Mr. 
! Malyon ; E. splendens and Massoni, from Mr. May ; E. mutdbilis, from Mr, Bruce ; a noble 
: specimen of the same, from Messrs. Veitch ; E. Cavendishii and tricolor (Wilson’s var.), from 
i Mr. Green, along with the latter, were fine plants of Lesclienaultia Baxteri, the old Allamanda 
\ cathartica, Stephanotis fioribv/ndus, Tetratlieca verticillata, Cliorozema ericoides, Franciscea augusta, 
i and several Epiphyllums admirably flowered. Mr. Jack exhibited a superb specimen of 
f Lesclienaultia biloba, Franciscea acuminata, See.; Mr. Falconer had a fine Leschenaidtia 
\ formosa. Mr. Carson exhibited a Plumbago capensis, and Dipladenia splendens, Billwynia 
\ jionlunda, a neat little yellow flower in fine condition, and a noble specimen of the Yinca 
i 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, 
1 gardener to the Dowager Duchess of Northumberland, Sion House; a Heath from Mr. Jackson, 
f 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- 
t ground of borders. Among the collections of Orchids were the following fine specimens : — 
Aerides affine,\ath twelve scapes, *SaccoZa6mm guttatum, fifteen scapes, Oncidium Lanceanum, with 
ten, and several others in the collection of Mr. Mylam, gardener to S. Rucker, Esq. ; Barleeria 
spectabilis, an admirable specimen, and an enormous one, of Sobralia macrantha, and Schomburghia 
I tibicinis, Avith 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 
I pretty spotted flower. Mr. Dobson, gardener to E. Beck, Esq., had a fine Aerides crispum, and 
; a variety of Barlcena spectabilis, having a deep purple blotch at the end of the lip instead of 
