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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, June 14, 1850. 
other Caladiums ; Rhododendron Veitchii, a large while 
flower with crisped edges; jEmbothrium coccineum; 
Bcehmeria argentea, a broad-leaved tree Nettlewort, which 
should be spelled Boh’moria, or Bcehmeria — the tipper 
surface of these broad leaves is silvered like the argent 
Begonias; two kinds of dwarf variegated Dichorisandra, 
so called ; and a host of other odds and ends. Then the 
noble Pitcher plants in collections, for which Mr. Veitck 
took the first prize, and Mr. Gcdney the second. Ampu- 
lacea in Mr. Veitch’s had a cluster of twenty-three 
pitchers close to the bottom of the plant, and resting all 
round on the surface of the pot—a most beautiful sight; 
these come on small radical leaves, or the first cluster of 
leaves before the plant sends out the running stem; there 
arc no pitchers on the upper leaves of this kind. Raffles- 
laita and lanata have the largest pitchers; and those of 
Icevis arc quite small in comparison. 
Orchids. —These were splendid and very numerous, 
with little novelty. Mr. Gedney, from Hoddcsden, took 
the first prize of £20, for twenty plants ; and Mr. Bullcn, 
gardener to J. Butler, Esq., Woolwich, the second prize 
of £15. Mr. Gedney had a noble plant of Angulo a Cluwesii, 
an j Epidendrum macro Adi am roseum, Lcelia purpurata, 
with four blooms; with Aerides, Vandas, Phahcnopses, 
Cypripeds, Balia cinnabarina, and others. Mr. Bullen 
had Bendrobium secundum, which is seldom seen—it had 
racemes of soft, velvety, reddish flower-buds; Bendro¬ 
bium Earmcri and Bevonianum, Cattlega Mossier, Anguloa 
Cloioesii, with six immense blooms ; Sobralia macrantha, 
and all the rest of them. 
In fifteen Orchids,Mr. Veitck was first; and Mr. Wooley 
third. Both collections were splendid and of the usual run. 
With collections of twelve Orchids, Mr. Docls was 
first, Mr. Carson second, and Mr. Rhodes third. Mr. 
Bods had his most noble Lcelia purpurata, with nine 
flowers again; a noble nobile Bendrobium, Oncidium 
ampliation .major, very fine; Cypripeds, Saccolabiums, 
Aerides, and others. Mr. Carson had Anguloa Ruclceri, 
the fairy Bendrochilum filiforme, Dendr.obium Banner i, 
named after his worth}' master; Cgcnoches ehlorochilon, the 
oddest of the Swan Necks, with five curiously turned 
flowers ; Epidendrum longipetalum, and the rest of more 
common kinds. 
In sixes, Mr. Page was first; and Mr. Green second. 
All these were just as good as those in the more ambitious 
collections. Brassia verrucosa, Piiahruopsis, Cattlega 
Mossice, in Mr. Page’s, were very line ; and Mr. Green is 
the only man among us who can exhibit lauceanum, the 
best of all the Oncidiums ; his Cattlega intermedia, and 
his Bendrobium nobile, were just as good. There was 
not a badly grown plant among all the Orchids. 
Turning to novelties, in another end of the Exhibition 
we find Mr. A r eitcli up again first with new fancy 
Begonias, in first-rate style of growth, most of them are 
apparently seedlings from Rex ; several plants of Queen 
of England, Arab, Minie, Watenoitch, and Princess 
Alice are certainly of the strain and blood of Rex; but 
Virgiualis, and Prince of Wales, had a different pollen. 
And, secondly, a tub plant of Torrega mgristica, a free 
growth and Yew-like aspect; and also a tub plant of 
Thuja Lobbii, a stout and close-growing kind. From the 
Messrs. Fraser, a very fine seedling Cactus, Epiphgllum, 
after the flowers of speciosissimum. From Mr. Sims, 
hoot’s Cray, the Fern Gleichenia rupestris, under a glass 
baboon, a very pretty thing indeed; and Saliginella 
rubricaulis. Then Mr. Veitck again, with 'Ggrnnogramma 
ehrgsophglla cristata, a species of Aerides—a beautiful 
little tree-like plaut, witkFern leaves, and called Chamce- 
. botia foliolosa. Cattleya sp., in the way of Lcelia pur¬ 
purata ; a pot of the pretty little annual called Fenzlia 
dianthijlora, a very dwarf Gilia-looking thing. Ceanothus 
spec., in a way between Azurcus and Pallidus; Rhododen¬ 
dron Brook'd, leaves like anIxora, and flowers like young 
Allamandas ; and Ifexaceutris coccinea Impcgi, which, by 
the way, has no affinity with Me racentris coccinea, but 
call it ILexacentris Impegi, and it is a noble plant, with 
long drooping shoots, clustered with dark brown flowers 
with a little yellow ; the colour is something after Hoga 
imperialis. Mr. Gedney, of Hoddesden, had a most 
beautiful double Hemerocallis from Natal, with two 
kinds of yellow in the petals; and a light blue slender 
plant, the flowers of which are after those of Lisianthus, 
the name is Tachiadenus carinatus, the genus is near to 
Lisianthus and Prepusa, but the looks of the leaves are 
after some Osbeckia. Mr. Jackson had Genetgllis macro- 
stigia, the little silvery Caladium arggrites, and several 
larger kinds. Azalea Eire King, CganopJigllum mcigni- 
ficum ; and Mr. Williams, of Finchley, had these new 
spotted Caladiums, with Goodyeras, and others. But I 
had to turn up the cards for all these novelties to get at 
the names of the exhibitors, at the risk of being locked 
up by the police. The parties should push for me to 
get at the prizes, for I shall never stoop to copy prizes 
from a schedule, like a newspaper reporter who may know 
not one plant from another. There were cut branches of 
a remarkable new Viburnum, from the north of China, 
with flower-heads after the manner of Mgdrangea Ja- 
ponica, from Mr. Standish, of Bagshot, and with a power¬ 
ful scent of Hawthorn blossoms. 
Fuchsias next, good and not numerous, but capitally 
placed. Mr. Oubridgc, was first with two whites and 
four reds: Clio and Venus de Medici, whites ; and Tristram 
Shandg, Little Bo Peep, Glorg, and Souvenir de Chiswick. 
The last was the showiest red Fuchsia there. Second, 
Mr. Elliot, gardener to — Bavidson, Esq., Sydenham, 
with three whites, and three reds ; and Mr. Cavell, gar¬ 
dener to — Grove, Esq., Tulse Hill, third, with better 
grown plants, but not up so much to the mark in blooming. 
Calceolarias very good. First prize to Mr. Cross, gar¬ 
dener to Lord Ashburton -. being purely herbaceous, the 
names arc useless. Second, Mr. Burley, Limpsfield, 
Surrey, all half shrubby. General Havelock, a fine dark 
•crimson; Lord Raglan reddish brown; and Primrose 
Perfection, the best yellow. The third went to Mr. Coles, 
St. Albans. His Grandis is a great improvement on the 
Kentish Hero. One of the best crimson Calceolarias I 
have seen was in a lot from Mr. Canuill, the name is 
Amlassandor ; and one plant of Aurea Jioribunda in Mr. 
James’ group was four feet across. But was it one plant ? 
Roses. —Not so good or so numerous as in May. Mr. 
Lane was first again in the nurserymen’s class with twelve 
splendid beauties, Juno, Elise Merceur, Countesse Hole, 
General Jacqueminot, Queen or La Reine, Blairii Ko. 2, 
Auguste Mie, Paul Pcrras, and so forth. Mr. Rolland 
took the first prize ; and Mr. Terry the second prize with 
similar kinds ; and Mr. Paul took the first in an immense 
quantity of cut Roses. Lots more of cut Roses were 
there; also, cut Pinks, Pansies, and Verbenas, but cut 
blooms are most dangerous traps to fall fair or foul upon, 
so I keep clear of them as much as I am able. 
Pelargoniums. —The best dish at the feast. To think 
for one moment that any mortal could explain the fancies 
in eight-inch pots, and the plants four feet odd in diameter, 
is as much as to think that miracles are still allowed to 
mortals. Madame Sontag, four feet in one diameter, and 
four feet six inches in the opposite diameter, and no crino¬ 
line or any mistake about her, for I measured Madame 
myself. Evening Star, not quite so lull. Belicatum, 
ditto. Celestial, the same. Cassandra and Madame Bou- 
giere, each over three feet across. They had the first 
prize, and I had no need to turn up the trump card. 
Mr. Turner is the only man that can do it. Mr. A'' indsor, 
Hampstead, was second ; and the Messrs. Fraser third. 
In the amateur class for Fancy Pelargoniums, Mr. 
Bailey, gardener to J. J. Brake, Esq., Amerskam, was 
first, but the tallies were so horridly written, that it 
would take an hour to decipher them. The second prize 
to Mr. James, gardener, Isleworth. Large Pelargoniums : 
Messrs. Turner, Bobson, and Fraser, stood so. And in 
the Amateur Class, Messrs. Nye, Bade'-, Wiggins, and 
