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and I intend to carry out one shortly. Again, can anyone tell if 
benzoline would kill the insects 1 I believe it is a spirit and 
would mix—we know spirits and water do—and if it would be 
injurious to plants 1 — Amateue. 
OCHNA MULTIFLORA. 
The genus Ochna is comparatively little known in English gar¬ 
dens, and the few species it includes have been invested with more 
interest to the botanist than the gardener. Such a species, how¬ 
ever, as Ochna multiflora, which has now been flowering for some 
weeks in Mr. B. S. Williams’s nursery, Upper Holloway, possesses 
considerable beauty, amply sufficient to entitle it to the attention 
of cultivators. It does not ow T e its claims to large and brilliant 
flowers or to handsome foliage, but to its peculiar and richly 
coloured fruits, which when fully ripe are extremely attractive. 
For these alone the plant deserves the notice of gardeners, and 
would form a valuable and interesting addition to any collection 
of stove plants. 
Mr. B. S. Williams’s specimen is 4 or 5 feet high, of shrubby 
Fig. 51 .—Ociina multiflora. 
the above plant, faithfully represents the chief characters, the 
fruit being very well shown. The plant was exhibited at Ken¬ 
sington a few years since, and awarded a first-class certificate, 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
March 28th. 
The first promenade Show' of the season proved a great success, 
and, in combination with the exhibits submitted to the attention of 
the Floral Committee, constituted the meeting a brilliant and inter¬ 
esting one. The weather, too, w r as favourable, and induced visitors 
to attend in considerable numbers, the conservatory being crowded 
early in the afternoon. 
habit, with narrow elliptical bright green leaves. The flowers 
are borne singly on the young shoots from the axils of the leaves, 
and have five or six ohovate pale yellow petals and small green 
sepals. The petals are of very short duration, and when they 
have fallen the calyx commences enlarging and gradually assumes 
a crimson colour. The receptacle— i.e., the apex of the flower- 
stalk upon which the pistil rests, also increases in size, becoming 
globular in form, about the size of a Strawberry, but less conical, 
and similar in colour. Upon this are placed the black seed-like 
bodies about the size of peas, which are really the carpels, and 
these present a striking contrast with the bright crimson recep¬ 
tacle and calyx. 
Our engraving (fig. 51), which w r as prepared from a drawing of 
