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ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY'S JUNE EXHIBITION. 
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The flowers were not like those we saw in May, the sunny weather had told upon them, and they 
looked small, flimsy, and fading. Roses in pots are out of place after May, but we would recommend 
double the prizes in that month, so as to bring the great growers out with collections of thirty or 
fortj' plants each. Roses in pots, to be done well, require good growing, and anything like a cheek 
to keep them back, must be injurious to them. If they must be shown in June, let them be confined 
to certain classes, as the Mosses, Noisettes, or Hybrid Chinas; but Chinas, Teas, and Bourbons, 
thi-oughout the season, we cannot subscribe to. The collections also want more colour, more diversity 
of form, in fact more character, and this they must have, or lose much of theii- interest. A few cut 
Roses were sent, but they were very poor. 
The collections of Orchids were less numerous than at Chismck, but Mr. Mylam, gardener to 
S. Rucker, Esq., produced some admirable specimens. Foremost among them, in point of skilful 
management, stood Van da teres, with a number of its beaatiful flowers ; Odontoglossum citrosmum, 
with five spikes of its lovely fiowers ; Barkeria spectabilis, a small plant with eight spilies ; Aerides 
affine, and a huge plant of A. odoratum majus ; Cattleya violacea, and Mossiae, very lovely ; with Angu- 
loa Clowesil, Dendi-obium formosum, Phatenopsis grandiflora, and a small neat plant of Camarotis 
pm'purea. A second group came fi-om Mr. Blake, 
gardener to J. H. Schi'oder, Esq., among which 
we noticed the singular Coryanthes macrantha, 
Vanda tricolor, Phalfenopsis grandiflora, Sacco- 
labium guttatum, with Aerides odoratum, crispum 
and Schroderii, a very deeply marked variety, 
which we hope shortly to publish a figure of. 
Collections of Orchids also came from Mr. Wil- 
liams, Messrs. RoUisson, Mr. Franklin, gardener 
to Mrs. Lawrence, Mr. Carson, Mr. Beck, and Mr. 
Barnes, each collection containing some remark- 
able specimens, the best of which have been 
enumerated in a preceding page. As a hardy 
Orchid of considerable interest, we give an en- 
graving of Cypripedium spectabile, produced by 
Mr. Barnes, and which had nearly thirty of its 
beautiful flowers. This plant is quite hardy. We 
saw it blooming in the open ground at Redleaf, 
only a few days back ; but still, as grown by 
Mr. Barnes, it is an admirable pot plant. 
Cape Heaths, though fine, were not quite up to 
the average. Mr. Smith, gardener to W. Quilter, 
Esq., produced a group of noble plants ; but the collection sent by Mr. Leach, gardener to S. Rucker, 
Esq., contaming more difficult kinds, was considered more meritorious. In Mr. Leach's lot we 
noticed E. tricolor rubra, a noble plant ; E. elegans, represented in the engraving (p. 299)a little stale, 
but still an example of matchless cultivation ; E. mutabilis, a fine bush, with E. jasminoides, metulse- 
flora, tricolor Wilsonii, and speciosa, ventricosa hirsuta alba, and rosea. Mr. Quilter's plants, as before 
remarked, were larger, but the kinds less valuable. The collection contained good examples of E. 
suaveolens, metulfeflora, Cavendishiana, ventricosa grandiflora, Bergiana, a large elegans, with Lee's 
tricolor, and bruniades, more curious than beautiful. Among nurserymen the competitors were 
Messrs. RoUisson and Mr. Epps of Maidstone. In the former's collection we observed several rare 
kinds ; among others jubata multiflora, jasminiflora alba multiflora, a profuse flowering varietj', 
pregnans superba, ventricosa breviflora, ampuUacea nana, and tricolor amabilis. Mr. Epps had fine 
plants of splendens, propendens, rather past its best, tricolor coronata, called t. dumosa, and tricolor 
Jacksonii. Of collections of six Heaths the best came from Mr. Dennett, of Claphara, and comprised a 
fine Cavendishiana, fiorida very neat, and tricolor Leeana. The best plant in Mr. Green's lot was 
E. Massoni. Mr. Cole, Mr. Taylor, and Mr. May also contributed small collections. Mr. Epps pro- 
duced again his tricolor Eppsii, noticed in a former report, and it is certainly the finest of all the 
varieties of tricolor. 
Of Pelargoniums there was a very magnificent display, and some very admirable specimens of 
cultivation were produced. Mr. Cock was again the leading star, and certainly it woidd be impossible 
to conceive anything more perfect than his cultivation. Mr. Black, gardener to E. Forster, Esq., Mr. 
Robinson, Mr. Staines, Mr. Bragg, of Slough, Mr. Parker, Mr. Beck, and Mr. Gains were the 
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cYPRiPEDiinM SPECTABILK : exhibited by R. Hanbury, Esq. 
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