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HORTICULTUK.il SOCIETY'S MAT EXHIBITION. 
conti'ibuted chiefly from the gardens of Sir E. Antrobus, Bart. ; Mi-s. La'wrence ; W. F. G. Farmer, Esq., 
of Nonsuch Park; j\Iessrs. Fraser, and Lane & Son. Most of them were lai'ge plants, and full of 
flowers, the best group being that shown by Mr. Green, which we were sui-prised to see placed second 
to Mrs. Lawi-ence's plants, which, though finely grown, were decidedly past their prime, and, on that 
ground, inferior to !Mr. Green's. Several plants of sinensis were shown, in admii-able condition ; 
exquisita was also good, and there were fine examples of optima, coronata, variegata, prsestantissima, 
triumpbans, and lateritia, which comprise some of the best sorts that are grown. 
The large collections of stove and greenhouse plants contributed by Mrs. Lawrence and Mr. 
Colyer, of Dartford, were both staged in admii'able condition, the latter especially considerably im- 
proved since the 8th instant, though by no means comparable with Mrs. Lawrence's plants, which 
were large, clean-grown, well-flowercd, and perfect on all sides. One of the most atti-active plants 
in this set was a Boronia ninnata, about three feet in diameter and less in height, graceful in outline, 
and loaded with its rosy flowers; another was an immense Eriostemon buxifolium, together with 
Polygala acuminata, Podolobium trilobatum, and Cliorozema Lawrenceanum. Mr. Cole's Clerodendron 
splendens was well out, and his plants were altogether in good trim ; but the most remarkable among 
them was an Aphelexis spectabilis grandifiora, symmetrically regular in its growth and also in the 
production of flowers. Other 
large collections were sent by 
Messrs. Fraser, of Leyton, and 
Mr. Pamplin, of Walthamstow, 
the former of whom had the sel- 
dom - grown Hypocalymma ro- 
busta, and the latter Pimelea la- 
nata, a distinct sort, now rather 
out of fashion. The collections 
of fifteen were contested by Messrs. 
Green and Carson, of Cbeam ; 
Gerrie, gardener to Sir J. Cath- 
eart, Bart.; Taylor, of Streatham ; 
and Ivison, gardener to the Duke 
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GARDENIA STANiEYANA, extiibited by the Duke of Xorthumberland. 
of Northumberland. Mr. Green's 
Acrophyllum venosum was con- 
spicuous ; as also was a Spheno- 
toma gracilis. Mr. Carson's plants, 
which were rather formal, in- 
cluded a tall Bossiaea Unophylla 
of beautifully drooping habit ; 
Franciscea macrophylla, ha^ing 
about thii-ty heads of bloom, and 
Gardenia florida v. Fortuniana, 
with a dozen expanded flowers. 
Mr. Taylor's, a neat group, con- 
tained a good Epacris l8e^•igata. Mr. 1%-ison had, in his collection, a lai-ge Gardenia Stanleyana, 
represented in the annexed engraving, the gay-looking Siphoeampylos microstoma, and the very 
elegant Indigofera decora. Smaller groups came from ^Ir. Malyon, of Blackheath ; Mr. Stuart, 
gardener to T. Huggins, Esq., of Norwood; Mr. Speed, of Edmonton; Mr. Young, of Camberwell ; 
!Mr. Glendinning, of Chiswiek ; Mr. Slowe, of Bayfordbury ; Mr. Bruce, of Tooting ; and Mr. Brian, 
gardener to G. Read, Esq., of Bridge water. 
The Orchids were very numerous, and formed the most attractive featui'e of the exhibition. Mr. 
Mylam, gardener to S. Rucker, Esq., of Wandsworth, had the best of the large collections. The 
Saccolabium prsemorsum, represented on the opposite page, formed part of this group, and had about 
twenty racemes of its charming flowers ; a plant of S. guttatum, no less beautiful, had about the same 
number ; an Aerides afiSne had foui'teen racemes, and we noticed plants of Vanda suavis, and V. tri- 
color, the former with two trusses, bearing twenty-four blossoms, the latter with four trusses of bloom, 
there was also a lovely Dendi-obium Devonianum, -with its stems spu-ally trained into a pyramidal 
form, and loaded with flowers. Mi'. Williams, gardener to C. B. Warner, Esq., had a very nice group, 
in which were well bloomed, but not large specimens of the Dendrobiums, nobile, macrophyllum, and 
Jenkinsii, and also a LteUa majalis, Mr. Rae, gardener to J. J. Blandy, Esq., of Pleading, had some 
