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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, December 8, 1857. 
CALLISTEMON BEACH YANDRUM. 
The seeds received from liis Excellency, 
Captain Grey, said to have been collected on 
the north coast of Australia, in 1843. 
A stiff bush, with the habit of other species 
of the genus, but with deep-green, narrow, 
pungent, channelled leaves, having conspicuous 
clots on the under side, and no veins. The 
spikes of flowers are loose, and not more than 
two inches long, with very downy calyxes, the 
number of whose divisions varies from five to 
six. The petals are dirty-white, short, downy, 
concave, and inconspicuous. The stamens are 
deep rich crimson, not more than twice as 
long as the petals, ancl quite straight; the 
anthers are of a bright golden yellow, and form 
a beautiful contrast. This shortness of the 
stamens is a striking feature in the species. 
It is a small hardy greenhouse shrub, which 
grows freely in a mixture of sanely loam and 
peat. It is increased by cuttings of the young 
wood in the usual way, and flowers from 
August to November. It is handsome enough 
to deserve general cultivation .—•(Horticultural 
Society's Journal.) 
MEETING OE THE HORTICUL¬ 
TURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
—Dec. 1. 
This was an extra Meeting for the purpose 
of electing a large number of new Fellows, 
whose attention was drawn to the objects, pur¬ 
poses, and past and present history of the 
body, by a late circular from “ we, the under¬ 
signed, the President, Yice-Presidents, Mem¬ 
bers of Council, and Officers of the Society.” 
This was a bold, and most judicious, step 
on the part of “we,” and all the rest of them, 
for bringing grist to the mill: and “we,” the 
new-blood members of progress, the amateurs, 
nurserymen, and gardeners, went at it with 
great good will, and genuine earnestness ; first 
mixing all the samples together into one large 
heap, and then, with the old hand-mill—the 
balloting box—ground the whole down into 
ready-made Fellows of the Horticultural Society 
to the tune of one hundred and eight, without 
discovering a black sheep in the whole lot,— 
namely, five ladies, one Duke, five Earls, one 
Right Honourable, one Honourable, one Lord, 
seven Baronets, one General, four Captains, 
four Reverends, sixty-six Esquires, three Nur¬ 
serymen, and three Gardeners, namely, Mr. 
Barnes, Bicton; Mr. Broome, Temple Gar¬ 
dens ; and Mr. Francis, Botanic Garden, 
Adelaide, New South Wales. 
Talk about the jolly gardeners ! You ought 
to have seen “us,” after all this work was over, 
in order to a right understanding of a jolli¬ 
fication among gardeners. There you would see the Messrs. 
Bohn, the Messrs. Hodson, with Messrs. Charlwood, &e., 
busy as bees in a flower garden, congratulating the Society 
and each other; shaking hands over it; talking of the next 
meeting on the loth inst., “to grind such another sample;” 
: of the ensuing season, and the fashions at Chiswick Garden ; 
of the wonders that never cease; of the next collector to 
get new plants and seeds for all this accession of fresh 
I Members ; ot Mr. McEwen, and the right men in the right 
j places. But “we,” the gardeners, have done it all. As 
soon as we saw a man of our own choice at the head of affairs, 
we flocked in under the royal standard ; we found we could 
compete together without acts of petty parliament to guide 
and control us; and we even meet in the best ball-room in 
London without a hole in our manners; and we told my 
lords, ladies, and gentlemen, our employers, it would “ pay ” 
well to be members now. The privileges alone were worth 
all the money, besides plants, seeds, cuttings, and grafts ; to 
be allowed to send up for the names of all the fruit in one’s 
garden; or, to order a collection of the best Pears and Apples, 
and other tilings, at the market value; to be studied at home 
by all the members of a family; would do an immense deal of 
good in a few years ; and, with it all, to be in the fashion, 
and see the fashions, and all the fashionable* moves in the 
Chiswick Garden, from the new fernery to the last bunch of 
Grapes which will astonish the natives, depend upon it. All 
these things, and “ we” to boot, are worth a great deal more 
than one might think of at first sight.— D. Beaton. 
