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Vergennes. The Liliums, especially L. speciosum and its va¬ 
rieties, are looking remarkably healthy ; both those under pro¬ 
tection and others planted out, a fine bloom may be confidently 
anticipated from them. 
Messrs. Dickson’s, Acre Lane, Brixton. 
Tulips . Here is a very handsome selection of the best of 
both old and modern flowers. The plants contained in the 
show-bed had a more healthy appearance than many we have 
seen this season, though even here, the effects of late frosts are 
still visible in the form of cramped petals, the earlier flowers 
are of course falling in for the greatest share. Among the 
Bizards we noticed Dickson’s Duke of Wellington, very fine; 
Lawrence’s Sheet Anchor, and a flower broke by Messrs. 
Dickson in a very similar strain; Polyphemus; Strong’s King; 
Greig’s Osiris; Solon ; Cromwell; and Lucullus, a fine flower. 
In the Bybloemens were Piles’s Winifred, Louis XVI., 
Violet Quarto, Bijou d’Amateurs, Holmes’s King, Euphrasia, 
Director General, Wakeling’s Mazeppa,and Sir E. Knatchbull; 
and among Roses we may mention Catalini, Claudiana, La 
lendresse, Cerise belle forme, and Rosa blanca, also Triumph 
Royale, and Minerva. 
NEW PLANTS. 
Gynandria Monandria — OrchidacecB, § Vanclece. 
Oncidium Microchilum. This, although not a very splendid 
plant, is far from being undeserving of notice. Its very glau¬ 
cous flower-stem, the snow-white lip, and crimson petals, lying 
as it were in the middle of dusky-brown sepals, produce a sin¬ 
gular and pleasing effect. 
It was introduced some years ago from Guatemala by G. LT. 
Skinner, Esq.; speaking of it he says, “The O. microchilum 
I first found on the top of the ‘ Cuesta’ of Paentezuelas, some 
thirteen leagues from Guatemala, and sent it to Mr. Bateman 
in 1838. It was growing on a bare rock, with a quantity of 
dead leaves and grasses about its bulbs, and its roots woven 
into the interstices of the rock and mould about it, very much 
exposed to the sun, except during the middle of the day, when 
a ledge of rock seemed to afford it a little shade; I afterwards 
