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admirable sort for pot culture ; it blooms most abundantly, and when 
about half blown nothing can exceed the beauty of the blooms. Mr. 
Low, of Clapton, had a new deep yellow climbing Tea Rose from South 
Carolina, which looked as if it would be an acquisition. Its colour is very 
striking, and the blooms are of good size ; but as exhibited not quite 
so perfect in shape as could have been wished. It had, however, been 
so much injured from travelling that no correct opinion as to its merits 
could be formed. It was called Isabella Gray. Of Orchids there were 
some good specimens from Messrs. Veitch and others. The most 
conspicuous was a plant of Dendrobium densiflorum from the 
Bishop of Winchester. It was nearly three feet in diameter, and had 
upwards of forty bunches of flowers on it. A large and excellent col¬ 
lection of Hyacinths, early Tulips, and other plants came from Messrs. 
Henderson, of Pine Apple-place. Among stove and greenhouse plants 
from Messrs. Veitch was a beautiful example of Acacia Drummondi, 
one of the handsomest of that genus. Messrs. Lee and Cutbush also 
contributed to this section of the exhibition. Of Hederoma tulipiferum, 
figured by us at p. 193 of our volume for 1855, there was a beautiful 
specimen, well covered with its pretty drooping brown streaked bells. 
Cinerarias were exhibited in great variety by Mr. C. Turner, of Slough, 
the best of which were Baroness Rothschild, Lady Gertrude Vaughan, 
Regalia, Prince of Wales, Lady Peel, Optimum, Rose of England, Sir 
C. Napier, Ruby, Earl of Clarendon, and Mr. Edwards. These were 
finely grown plants. 
Among plants from the Society’s Garden were the double white- 
blossomed Chinese Peach, a class of plants to which there have recently 
been some handsome pink and crimson-coloured additions; Forsythia 
viridissima, a red Camellia introduced from China some years ago by 
Mr. Fortune, and inclining to be hexangular in its blossoms, and the 
white and red-flowering Currants. 
Among fruits, there were some good Pine-apples, a dish of new 
Black Hamburgh Grapes from Mr. Forbes, of Woburn, some good 
Keens’ Seedling Strawberries and American Cranberries; the last 
were from Mr. Cockburn, of Kenwood, who strongly recommended that 
they should be grown to the extent of half an acre at least in all 
grounds connected with every workhouse in the kingdom! Mr. 
Tillyard had a trayful of weU-preserved Beurre Ranee Pears, and some 
remarkably good vegetables of foreign and English growth came from 
Mr. Lewis Solomon and Mr. Blandy, of Reading. 
Cones of Abies Ksempferi were exhibited,’ and along with them was 
a letter from Mr. Fortune, recommending this new Larch to the 
attention of English planters. He stated that its timber was excellent, 
that it grows rapidly, and that it would form an ornament of much 
importance to our English landscape. Lady Dorothy Neville exhibited 
specimens of anatomised leaves, ingeniously decorated with coloured 
designs, such as few have taste or skill enough to execute. In their 
way they were really beautiful. 
