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THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
particular attention to the improvement of this genus for several 
years past, and now possesses an unrivalled assemblage. The 
present subjects are seedlings of the present season, and we 
think need no commendation. —Ed. 
FLORAL INTELLIGENCE. 
Royal Botanic Society. 
The first exhibition for the season occurred on Wednesday, 
May 7th, at the Gardens of the Society in the Regent’s Park, 
and being the first of the great metropolitan meetings, was 
looked forward to with much interest. The effect produced by 
the numerous collections of magnificent plants that were present 
was grand, their number and variety far exceeding our limits of 
description; we must therefore confine our particular notices to 
the finest plants of the best collections. There were three com- 
petitors for the principal prize offered for thirty stove and green¬ 
house plants, and the collection of Mr. Hunt, gardener to Miss 
Trail, of Bromley, was placed first; in it were fine plants of Azalea 
indica variegata, a foot and a half high and two feet across; 
A. ind. ledifolia, a large plant; A. ind. lateritia, a round plant, 
and two plants of the double red and double white worked on 
each other and intermingled, all of them covered with bloom ; 
Ixora coccinea, a splendid plant, about three feet high, with 
twenty-six heads of flowers; Achimenes grandiflora, three feet 
across and a mass of bloom ; Dillwynia floribunda, Chorozema 
Henchmanii, trained to a round trellis and well flowered; Tro- 
pgeolum tricolorum, and Zichya villosa, on a shield-formed trellis, 
looking gay with their numerous bright coloured flowers; 
Phcenocoma prolifera, three feet, and proportionately thick; 
Gompholobium polymorphum, on a large shield, perhaps as fine 
as ever it was seen ; Eriostemon buxifoiius, Polygala oppositi- 
folia, beautiful plants of Erica aristata, E. perspicua nana, E. am- 
pullacea rubra, E. Hartnelli, and E. suaveolens, &c. The other 
large collections shown by Mr. Barnes and Mr. Green were 
excellent, the three nearly equalling each other: in those from 
Mr. Barnes were Brassia maculata, with six spikes ; Ixora cro- 
cata, Aphelexis humilis, two feet high, and w r ell flowered ; 
