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darkest orange scarlet, to nearly white. The pink Azalea is particularly 
beautiful, from the delicacy of the colour, and it has a most delicious 
fragrance. Another kind, of a darker and duller hue, smells like violets. 
The Azaleas, and many other ornamental plants, appear, indeed, to have 
flowered this season with extraordinary luxuriance. 
The cold and lingering spring kept the flowers back long enough to 
prevent them from being blighted, as flowers so frequently are in our 
uncertain climate, by spring frosts, and they are now opening with a 
splendour which gives us an idea of what they must be in a more genial 
clime. The tree peonies are remarkably fine everywhere, and at Lee’s 
there were immense masses of blossom. The golden-leaved ivy was also 
as beautiful as a flowering plant; and there was a dwarf hybrid rhodo¬ 
dendron with, I think, larger flowers than any other I have seen. 
MEETINGS OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
April 20.—Though the plants exhibited at this meeting were not so 
numerous as those shown at the last, yet, as examples of cultivation, they 
were superior, as well as more rare. The collection from Mrs. Lawrence’s 
was, as usual, one of the most attractive; it included a handsome specimen 
of Anthocercis littorea , to which, with two well-grown plants of Hovea 
Celsi , a Knightian medal was awarded. The other plants of interest 
were, a small collection of Heaths, including E. aristata major; and E . 
Fabiana imbricata , which was covered with delicate white, tubular 
flowers; Oxylobium Pultenece , which had a profusion of bright yellow 
heads of blossom ; and, rising above the rest, was a specimen of Echium 
candicans , a kind of Yiper’s Bugloss, with woolly leaves, and several 
pyramidal spikes of blue flowers. Messrs. Lucombe and Pince of Exeter 
exhibited a handsome plant of Acrophyllum venosum , covered with 
feathery plumes of white flowers, delicately tinged with pink; a dwarf 
hybrid Rhododendron , called Victoria, with numerous heads of large 
purple flowers, which was said to be quite hardy; two seedling varieties 
of Dillwynia clavata , the flowers of which were larger and more highly 
coloured than those of the species; two pretty pink-flowered species of 
Stylidium , from Swan River, one of which, S. glaucum , had curious 
whorled foliage, and flowers of a handsome seedling Camellia , bearing con¬ 
siderable resemblance to those of a large Provence Rose : for these plants 
a Knightian medal was awarded. Mr. Edmonds, gardener to the Duke 
of Devonshire at Chiswick, exhibited large and well-grown specimens of 
Epacris yrandiflora, Cytisus canariensis, and Corroea speciosa. Mrs. Wray 
of Cheltenham sent a plant of the beautiful Pimelea spectabilis , but, like 
