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worthy to commemorate the illustrious individual whose name, it bears, cut flowers and leaves were 
sent respectively from the gardens of the Dulles of Northumberland and Devonshire. These specimens 
we need not now describe, bvit it may be mentioned that the leaf sent by Mr. Paxton had the very 
curious rim well developed, the edge, wliich was about two inches deep, standing up quite perpen- 
dicular. 
The number of other new plants was not great, but there were some interesting subjects, of wliich 
the most remarkable was a very distinct Rhododendron, sent by Messrs. Veitch of Exeter, and called 
R. jasminiflorum ; it is a small evergreen shrub, with elliptic leathery leaves, one to two inches long, 
the branches terminated with an umbel of ten or a dozen jasmine-like, sweet-scented, white flowers, 
the narrow tube of which is an inch and a-half long', and the five-lobed limb an inch in diameter ; if it 
proves a free grower, it will be a charming plant. Messrs. Veitch also had Bolbophyllum Lobbii, a 
rather striking Javanese orchid, notwithstanding that the flowers are dull, being tawny, clouded, and 
spotted with purple ; Dendrobium trausparens, a Nepal species, jsretty, like a miniature nobile ; an 
Anguloa, with creamy flowers, the inner surface of the petals and lip spotted with faint red ; and a 
small Indian Coelogyne, which has a blotch of yellow, margined with red-brown, on the centre of the 
lip. They had also Stylidium ciliare ; Lycopodium taxifolium, a large-leaved, yew-like Lycopod, with 
the fructification on long, separate, drooping branches ; and a cut specimen of the Medinilla bracteata. 
Messrs. Standish and Noble had a well-flowered plant of Viburnum plicatum, a showj' shrub, which 
combines the flowers of the Guelder Rose with the foliage of the Hornbeam. Messrs. Henderson sent 
Acacia grandis, lOiC pulchella magnified and grown hairy ; Mr. Williams, gardener to C. B. Warner, 
Esq., Dendrobium Farmeri; and Mr. Stanley, gardener to H. Berens, Esq., of Sidcup, sent a couple of 
vigorous seedling Hovea Celsi, in wliich the leaves had become very broad and obtuse ; with them was 
a Pimelea Verschafieltiana, which sort together with P. Neippergiana, was also sent by Messrs. 
Henderson. 
Amongst the specimen plants was Mrs. Lawrence's huge Pimelea spectabilis, in fine condition ; 
a good Hoya imjierialis, with nine umbels of flowers, from Mr. Glendinning ; Erica vasasflora (p. 237). 
from Mr. Rucker's gar- 
den ; a large shrub of 
E- Cavendishiana, from 
Mr Kinghorn, gardener 
to the Earl of Kilmorey ; 
a very nicely-bloomed 
Mitraria coccinea, and 
Hoyabella, from Messrs. 
Veitch ; and Rhododen- 
dron formosum, from 
Mr. Edmonds, of Chis- 
wick Plouse. Messrs. 
Henderson had a large 
well-bloomed Campylia 
Tiolosericea elegans, and 
a large bush of Pimelea 
Hendersoni. 
The Heaths were 
numerous, and in ad- 
mii'able health and 
bloom, but we are un- 
able, from want of space, 
to particularize them. 
The principal collec- 
tions were contributed 
by Mr. Leach, gardener to S. Rucker, Esq. ; Mr. Smith, gardener to W. Quilter, Esq., Norwood ; 
Mr. Cole, gardener to H. Colyer, Esq. ; Mr. R. Rosier, gardener to J. Bradbm-y, Esq., Streatham ; 
Messrs. Fairbairn, Veitch, and RoUisson. The more remarkable plants comprised the following kinds : 
E. tortiliflora, elegans, aristata major, vestita rosea, Cavendishiana, propendens, suaveolens, mutabihs, 
denticulata moschata, Sindryana — a beautiful sort, andromedreflora, primuloides, favoides pm'purea, 
depressa, and florida. 
The Indian Azaleas were, as tliey always are when good, gorgeous in the extreme ; they were 
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