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well furnished with its branching feathery 
spikes of whitish flowers. Mr. Barnes had a 
most remarkable Phoenocomaprolifera, a dense 
thicketty mass, three feet high, and four feet 
through, studded with deep, crimson, " ever- 
lasting " flowers. There were several beautiful 
plants of different kinds of Aphelexis, another 
kind of " everlasting " flower : one plant of A. 
humilis, from Mr. Bruce, of Tooting, was 
about two feet high and three feet across, 
thicklyfurnished with flowers, which, in these, 
are of a rosy crimson. Mr. Bruce had a round 
bush, three feet high, of Adenandra speciosa, 
covered with large, expanded, white flowers, 
each petal having a streak of red. There were 
many excellent plants of Pimelia spectabilis ; 
Mr. Cooper had one three feet high, Mr. 
Clarke one of the same size, Mr. Robertson 
had one something larger ; all these were com- 
pactly formed plants, bending with the numbers 
of their heads of pale pink flowers. There were 
fine plants of other sorts of Pimelia. Mr. 
Hunt had a beautiful little P. hispida, one foot 
high and twice as much across ; and Mr. 
Barnes had a P. Hendersonii, with deep rose 
coloured flowers ; this plant was a 3*ard across, 
and not nearly so much in height. Mr. Robert- 
son's Leschenaultia formosa was very fine, 
eighteen inches high, by a yard across, covered 
with scarlet blossoms : a plant about half 
the size, from Mr. Ayres of Brooklands, was a 
beautiful object. Mr. Ayres also had a very 
fine Crowea saligna, five feet high, and well 
branched dow r n to the pot. Eriostemon buxi- 
folium, with neat box-like leaves, and studded 
with pink star-shaped flowers, formed a cone 
four feet high and a yard through at the base: 
another fine plant, about the same size, was 
shown by Mr. Green. An Epacris grandi- 
flora, six feet by five, from Mr. Fraser, of 
Leyton, was superb — a dense bush, loaded with 
long rose and white tubular flowers. Podolo- 
bium staurophyllum, from the same source, 
with deep yellow butterfly-shaped flowers, was 
very fine ; as was also a Boronia pinnata, 
with rosy stars thickly set on a dense bush, four 
feet high. 
Heaths. — There were a great many of these, 
and all very fine. We will specify a few. 
Mr. Barnes had a good Erica Hartnelli, four 
feet by four. Mr. Hunt had one of equal size. 
Mr. Fraser had a splendid E. propendens of 
this size ; as also had Mr. Pamplin, of Wal- 
tbamstow. Mr. Ayres had a smaller one, 
about halt' this size, but equally well managed. 
Mr. May, of Beckenham, had an immense E. 
vestita coccinea, five feet by five. Messrs. 
Fairbairn, of Clapham, had a smaller plant of 
the same, better proportioned — three feet high 
by four feet across. Mr. Balston, of Pooie, 
had a splendid E. Cavendishiann, four feet by 
four ; this has tubular yellow flowers. Mr. 
Green had an E. mundula, two feet by three ; 
and Mr. Fraser had an E. Humeana, of equal 
size. Mr. Hunt had a very large E. gemmi- 
fera, with scarlet and green flowers ; this was 
four feet high, and formed a thick mass ; he 
had also a plant of E. perspicua nana, two 
feet high, and three in diameter ; and an E. 
aristata major, one foot high, and two feet 
across. Mr. Robertson's E. sulphurea, with 
tubular yellow downy flowers, two feet high 
and as much across, was very pretty. 
Azaleas. — Of the many fine plants present 
we can only notice a few r . Mr. Green had a 
magnificent plant, eight feet high, of the double. 
red (A. indica rubra plena) : he had also a 
densely flowered plant of A. indica Gledstanesii, 
five feet high and four feet across ; and a 
plant of A. indica exquisita, three feet high 
by two feet, forming a cone-shaped plant. Mr. 
Carson had a standard plant of Gledstanesii, 
with a round head, a mass of flowers, three feet 
in diameter. Mr. Fraser had a good white, called 
Fielder's white, with large flowers, of good form, 
the upper parts being tinted with green. Mr. 
Barnes had two immense plants of A. in- 
dica variegata, trained to a flat face, and 
crammed with flowers ; one was four feet by 
six feet, the other four feet by four ; also an 
A. indica lateritia, of similar figure, six feet by 
five. Such plants as these are most gorgeous. 
There are no varieties yet produced equal to 
Gledstanesii (white streaked with red), lateritia 
(brick red), and variegata (flesh colour shaded 
off to a white edge): exquisita is also a beautiful 
variety'. The others are chiefly valuable as 
being of some distinct showy tint of colour. 
Orchids. — The most remarkable plants 
among these were the following : — Mr. My- 
lam's (Wandsworth) Saccolabium prtemorsurn, 
with six drooping racemes ; and S. guttatum, 
with eight. Mr. Robertson had a plant of the 
latter with nine. Mr. Robertson's Dendro- 
bium densiflorum had fifteen drooping racemes 
of orange flowers ; and a plant of D. aggrega- 
tum had ten racemes. He had also Barkeria 
spectabilis with six stems. Messrs. Yeitch, 
of Exeter, had Cattleya Mossia: with four 
flowers ; and Gongora Bufonia with five 
racemes. Mr. Mylam had Oncidium pul- 
chellum with six stems ; and O. pumilum 
with four ; also Odontoglossum citrosmum, a 
beautiful species, witli white flowers having a 
purple tinge. Mr. Carson had Cattleya inter- 
media, with three flower stems. Mr. Plant, of 
Stratford, had the beautiful rose-coloured C. 
Skinnerii, with a stem bearing six flowers ; 
and Calanthe veratrifolia, with eleven spikes 
of its clear white blossoms. Mr. Eyles, of 
Roehampton, had Coryanthes macrantha, with 
two flowers of dingy colour ; this, in form, is 
one of the most singular of its singular race, 
But by far the most magnificent plant in the 
