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good flower : it grows only eight or ten inches high, has a very neat habit, small, deep-green 
foliage, from which is strongly contrasted the small, though bright scarlet and yellow blossoms, 
which are produced in great plenty over the plant, 
Vanda Batemanni. A most noble-looking plant in growth, sending out an upright scape 
four feet high ; the flowers are placed about an inch-and-a-half apart, and are about two inches in 
diameter, the external colour being bright crimson, while the inside is pure yellow very richly 
spotted with brown ; the lip is small, but very bright crimson. The habit of the plant is very 
handsome, and is without doubt the noblest of the species. We noticed it in the collection of 
Mr, Mylam, gardener to S. Rucker, Esq. 
Among the collections of plants exhibited at the July fetes of the Horticultural and the Royal 
Botanical Societies, the following were perhaps the finest and choicest ; — Aerides odoratum, an 
immense specimen completely laden with its dehcate and deliciously fragrant blossoms, from 
Mr. Mylam, gardener to S. Rucker, Esq. ; Oncidium jpulverulentum well flowered, from Mr, Elliott, 
gardener to J. B. Boothby, Esq, ; a nice specimen of Cattleya citrina, from Mr. Plant, gardener to 
J. E. Schroeder, Esq. ; Stanliopea Devoniana, Aerides affine, very finely in flower for so small 
a plant, Oncidium, papilio major and 0. Lanceanum, with fourteen scapes of bloom, not all 
expanded, but exhibited merit in the cultivation, from Mr. Williams, gardener to C. B.Walner, Esq. ; 
Stanhopea tigrina, from Mr. Ingram, gardener to Her Majesty, at Frogmore ; Stanliopea tigrina, 
Camarotis 'purpurea, Bendrobium chrysantlium, and a fine Miltonia spectabilis, from Mr. Carson, 
gardener to — Farmer, Esq. The specimens of Erica were most numerous ; we notice some of 
the best : — E. infundibuliformis, very fine, from Mr, Ayres ; a handsome though small E. Caren- 
disliii, from Mr. Gerrie, gardener to Sir G, Cathcart ; E. retorta, an immense plant, from Messrs. 
Jackson, Kingston ; E. rubella, obbata, metulcffilora, and metulceflora bicolor, gemmifera, and others 
from Messrs. Veitch ; E. Savilleana, Massoni, and others, from Mr, Cole, gardener to H. Colyer, 
Esq. ; E. Parmentieriana, very handsome, from Mr. Bruce ; E. ampullacea and ampullacea rubra, 
Parmentieriana rosea, tricolor superba, jasminiflora alba, from Mr. Epps, Nurseryman, Maidstone ; 
E. Irbyana, Julyana and depressa, with others equally good from Mr. May. Messrs. Frazer 
exhibited some suberb specimens, consisting of Solly a linearis, Allamanda cathartica, Crowea 
saligna, Kalosantlies miniata, Statice arborea and macrophylla, Ixora grandiflora, Stephanotis 
jloribunda, and ScJiubertia graveolens; JEchmea fulgens, 'with, four stems, Aplielexis Tiumilis sradi 
grandiflora, Clerodendron paniculatum, with two monstrous heads of bloom, in a collection from 
Mr. Cole ; Roella ciliata, a beautiful specimen from Mr. May ; Curcuma Roscoeana, from Mr. 
Iveson, gardener to the Duchess of Northumberland, Sion House ; JEschynantlius Lobbianus and 
pulcher, two very handsome specimens remarkably well flowered, proving them plants deserving 
the best attention of cultivators ; Clerodendron affine, a dwarf variety very well flowered, from 
Messrs. Rollissons, Tooting, Mr. Parker, gardener to J, H. Oughton, Esq., had a most beautiful 
collection of Pelargoniums for size of specimen and amount of bloom, consisting of the following 
varieties : — Susanna, Rossetta, Duke of Cornwall, Matilda, Sir R. Peel, and Rosy Circle. Mr. 
Glendinning, Chiswick Nursery, had a collection of Statices, consisting of the following species : — 
S. arborea, fruticosa, pseudo-armeria, mucronata, and imbricata. Mr. Storey exhibited a seedling 
Heath called E. nobilis, certainly not a very great acquisition as regards colour ; the flowers, 
though large, are reddish at the base, shading to a dull yellow, differing very much in colour from 
any of the species. 
