HORTICULTDHAL SOCIETY'S JUNE EXHIBITION. 
a handglass in a cool situation. Taken off about June or July, and ti'eated in this way, 
the cuttings make good strong plants for bedding out early in autumn. This mode of projja- 
gation by cuttings, is that which will no doubt have to be generally resorted to, for we leam 
by a communication from Mr. ^Marshall, now before us, that the plants do not seed freely ; 
out of twenty lai'ge plants, he was only able to save ten or a dozen seeds in one season. It 
appears also that seedlings are liable to vary, so that although it may be desu-able to save what 
seed can be secured, for the chance of obtaining from them improved varieties, yet the perpetua- 
tion of the beautiful variety now under notice, will only be effected by having constant recourse 
to propagation by cuttings. 
We are informed that the plant is quite hardy. Young plants raised from cuttings in sum- 
mer, and bedded out in autumn, come into flower in the open border, about the same time as 
C. ochroleuciis ; and, by cutting off the flowers as they decline, they continue flowering on a 
great pai't of the summer. At Limbum, the plants in the open air come into flower towards 
the end of May; and Mr. ^Marshall states that some of Ms plants from which the fading blooms 
were constantly removed, were not out of flower before Xovember. From its habit, its splen- 
did colour — imapproachable in fact by any artificial coloiu'ing material, and exactly answering 
to the rich orange of Erysimum Peroffskianum., diluted by the clear yellow of Cheiranthus 
ochroleucus, — its continuance in bloom, and its fi-agrance, we think it must prove a very 
favourite plant for bedding out in the flower-garden. 
For one purpose it must always be a favourite — that is, for pot cultui'e, for the purpose of 
furnishing drawing-rooms, balconies, &c. For this object, the cuttings, when rooted, must be 
potted, instead of being planted out in beds, and they must be sheltered in cold frames during 
winter. The plant fr-om which our drawing was made, which had been grown in a pot, was 
in bloom by the beginning of May : and no doubt it may be had in flower earlier than this ; 
but on this point we have no experience. T\Tiether gi'own in pots or in beds, it should have 
a good loamy soil, well enriched by the addition of decayed leaves. — !M. 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S JUjSTE EXHIBITION. 
roiHE exhibition which took place on the Sth instant was well attended ; and though, as a whole, 
iV. inferior to that of the 18th of May, yet, in many points, it was highly satisfactory. The Orchids, 
the Pelargonixuns, and the mixed " colleetions," were the leading features. The fi'uit was very 
limited in quantity, and presented nothing remarkable as to quality. 
The visitors were, on this occasion, as formerly, gratified -n-ith a sight of the glorious Water-ldy 
of the Xew "World, two leaves and a blossom being exhibited, fi'om Syon, by Jlr. I^TSon, gardener to the 
Duke of Northumberland ; one of the leaves was floated so as to show the upper surface, the other 
was reversed to show the remarkable network of ribs and veins spread over the imder sm-face. The 
other novelties — for, amongst novelties, we still rank the Victoria regia, just mentioned — were not 
numerous ; the most important was the fragi'ant stove shrub RoupeUia grata — also a good example 
of culture — contributed by Mr. Cole, gardener to H. Colyer, Esq. ; of this we shall shortly publish 
a figore. Messrs. Veitch had the Rhododendi'on jasminifloi-um, previously mentioned ; a plant of 
the not new, but pretty Dipladenia nobihs ; and Nepenthes sanguinea, a dwarf plant, but having four 
pitchers fully grown, and showing its deep red-brown externally, irregularly marked inside with 
the same colour. Mr. Ivison sent a Bejaria, imported fi-om St. Martha : it forms a dense ever- 
green shi-iib, with oblong, lance-shaped leaves, and short, crowded, terminal racemes of flowers, 
which resembled some of the tube-fonned alstromerias in shape, but are of a pretty rose pink, 
becoming white at the tips. Dielytra spectabilis, one of the most beautiful of herbaceous plants, and 
beUeved to be hardy, came fi-om Mr. Mountjoy, of Ealing ; and another showy, herbaceous, hai-dy 
plant, the Campanula nobUis alba, was communicated by Mr. E. G. Henderson, of St. John's "Wood. 
In the two rival " laige collections" of stove and greenhouse plants, which were staged, the merit 
was very nearly balanced. The exhibitors were, Mr. May, gai'dener to ^Irs. Lawrence, and ^Ir. Cole. 
Mrs. Lawrence's plants were very uneven, both as respects size and merit ; the most conspicuous 
among them were three immense bushes of Polygala acuminata, C'oleonema rubrum, and Epacris 
grandiflora. There was a veiy pretty plant of the rare Chorozema ovata ; and the plants of Ixora 
coceinea, Dracophyllum gracUe, Adenaudi'a fi-agrans, Boronia sewulata, Leschenaultia formosa, and 
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