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looked over: if any appear damp, bring them into the sun for 
an hour or two each day until they are well dried. Hedges of 
box, privet, &c. should be clipped close for the winter. 
Composts, for carnations and other plants, should be got 
together as early as convenient. 
The more choice kinds of greenhouse plants standing in the 
open air should be protected from heavy rains and wind, and 
their re-potting and dressing forwarded as fast as possible : it is 
best done some time before they are returned to the house. 
Keep the flower-beds neat by frequent raking, and the walks 
and grass well rolled. 
FLORICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE. 
Royal Botanic Society of London. The second exhibi¬ 
tion of this society took place in the Regent’s Park, June 28th. 
The weather was somewhat unfavourable, though much better 
than on the day of the preceding show. The attendance both 
of exhibitors and visitors was more numerous than before; the 
excellent arrangements of the society affording every encourage¬ 
ment to the one, and -accommodation and facility to the other. 
The plants were of the usual splendid description, many of them 
the same or similar to those we have before particularised either 
here or at Chiswick; we therefore pass over them to the Or- 
chideae, of which there were many very fine varieties, particu¬ 
larly Peristeria pendula, Oncidium Lanceanum, Cirrhaea tristis, 
Coryanthes macrantha, and Epidendrum pastoris, in Mr. My- 
lam’s collection, who had also a separate specimen of Aerides 
affine, very beautiful, and a magnificent plant of Nepenthes dis- 
tillatoria, eight feet high. In the collection of Mr. Goode were 
nice plants of Huntleya violacea, Stanhopea tigrina, a pale small- 
flowered variety of Barkeria spectabilis, and a large Dendro- 
bium cupreum, trained to a circular frame six feet high. Mr. 
Appleby, gardener to T. Brocklehurst, esq., had Brassia vis- 
cosa, Vanda teres, Oncidium divaricatum and roseum, and a 
fine specimen of Saccolabium guttatum. A small collection 
from F. Cox, esq., contained Cirrhaea viridi-purpurea, Cattleya 
Harrisoniae, Oncidium luridum guttatum, and Stanhopea tigrina. 
The Pelargoniums were in better order than we have seen 
them before this season. Mr. Dobson’s six were, Lunar Even¬ 
ing Star, Leonora, Erectum, Meteor, and Cleopatra. 
The Nurserymen’s 1st prize for 12 was awarded to Mr. 
Gaines, for Lady Cotton Shepherd, Orange Perfection, Gigantic, 
