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present, a first-class certificate being unanimously awarded for it. 1 
forms a shrub several feet in height in its native home, though here we 
have not at present had an opportunity of seeing it at its full size. The 
branches and stems are slender, with leaves 1 inch to 1J inch long, pin¬ 
nate, with two or three pairs of linear leaflets and a terminal one, some¬ 
times trifoliate, reduced to the central lobe, or with one on one side 
and two on the other. They vary considerably in this way, and it is 
to this character its specific name, lieterophylla. is due. The flowers 
are borne on short pedicels clusterc 1 in the axils of the leaves, at 
extensive and interesting, but in addition there was the National 
Auricula Society's show, the exhibits entered in which occupied con¬ 
siderable space, and together the conservatory was well filled. The 
number of visitors also was much greater than usual during some portion 
of the afternoon. 
Fruit Committee.— Present: T. Francis Rivers, Esq., in the chair, 
and Messrs. F. Rutland, John Lee, Joseph Fitt, G. Norman, G. Gold¬ 
smith. T. B. Haywood, James Smith, J. VVoodbridge, Harrison Weir, 
R. U. Blackmorc, T. J. Saltmarsh, G. Bunyard, Wm. Denning, ami H. J. 
Fig. 60.— Boronia hetekophylla. 
first closed in bud-like form, but as they become older opening and 
assuming more the shape of B. megastigma. The colour is an extremely 
rich rosy crimson, quite distinct from and superior to all the others of 
the genus. The plant thrives in rough peat with a little sand, good 
drainage, and plenty of root space, being readily increased by cutting! 
under a bcllglass. A greenhouse temperature suits it well at all time', 
but when making its growth a slightly warmer position, with plenty of 
water and occasional syringing, will assist it considerably.—C. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.— Aurii. 2Gtii. 
The collection of flowers and groups of plants brought l>cforc the 
Floral Committee at South Kensington on Tuesday were in themselves 
Veitch. Several large and unusually well kept collections of Applet* 
were exhibited, prominent among them being fifty-one dishes of Apples 
and a few Pears from A. H. Smee, Esq., The Grange, Wallington 
(gardener, Mr. G. W. Cummins), which included some remarkably fresh,, 
firm, and handsome specimens of Beauty of Kent, Gooseberry Pippin,. 
Hoary Morning, Lane's Prince Albert, Cox’s Pomona, Dumelow’s Seed¬ 
ling, Claygate Pearmain, Cornish Aromatic, Winter Colman, Fall Pippin. 
Newtown Pippin, and Blenheim Pippin. A silver Banksian medal was 
awarded for this contribution, and a similar honour wasaccorded to Messrs. 
Cheal & Sons, Crawley, for a collection of fifty dishes of Apples, com¬ 
prising some vety large solid specimens, and all in an excellent state of 
preservation. Very notable were Hollandbury, Beauty of Kent, Lane’s 
Prince Albert, Hanwell Souring, Winter Pearmain, Golden Reinctto,. 
