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as” Het Majesty (we understand) ‘has patronised’ them, and! always. 
had''them on” her‘ table during the season, we fully expect to see them’ 
niore ‘fully grown!” Of Verbenas it is impossible to say anything +: the’ 
wet season liad’ so thoroughly thrown them out of character, that they” 
might have been old/or new, bad or good, for all;we could tell: ! In other” 
out: of-door plants I noticed a light-coloured variety of CaLcHonaRTA 
AMPLEXICAULIS, pretty,;’and’ DEsFONTAINIA SPINOSA), a/Holly-like 
louking’ plant, with°red tubulai flowers tipped with orange. ©The Lili- 
put Dahhias will ‘hardly bein much vogue; the: flowers are small, fit 
for cutting: for bouquets, ‘but ‘the plants not being proportionately dwarf, 
théyado not seem very desirable, and’ when one’has the same colours in? 
the Gernian and Truffaut’ Asters; small ‘and large, the Dahlia is hardly 
required ; were’ théy dwarf as'well, they would come in very nicely for 
many purposes. I saw also Spercula pilifera;| and, despite ‘of “DIB 
I hold tothe expression, which he devoted a paper to overturning, that 
to‘suppose it will evér supersede ‘Grass for lawns is preposterous. It has 
been‘a good thing for some people, and for fiddling ornamental work may 
answer, but for nothing else’; this wet’season has been much in its favour; 
atid yet one hears’ continual ‘statements’ that! it’ does not answer—what 
will become of it inea dry scorching. summer ? °' Anemone vitifolia, sent: 
out by ‘the 'Horticultural’Society sone years ago; and lost sight of, may 
become useful \as‘an autumn white-flowering variety. 
Amongst stoveand greenhouse plants, although not their season, there’ 
were some’ very beautiful ‘things in ‘bloom, ‘the’ most’ striking of which! 
were CLrawrifus Dawpreri and LAPAGERIA ROSEA ; the former; one” 
of the most striking of plants, knewn tothe readers of the: Fiorist by a 
very ‘excellent figure of it, by Andrews, in the volume for’ 1858 ; it has. 
been ‘considered “a ‘difficult’ plant to’grow,and as a pot one it-is'so, but” 
Messrs! ‘Henderson have ‘evidently hit’ on° the’ true “treatment; it a 
planted ‘out: in ‘the bed in‘ the oreenhouse, and considered a bielintuk - 
has run along the wire‘ trellis; and from ‘every axil springs a ‘short ae ! 
on! which is a.buiich of its gorgeous crimson “and black flowers, © It isa” 
veryoold plant; having been discovered in 1699, and its habit being on” 
the’ dry sandy islands of Danipier’s’Archipelago, accounts for the diffi- 
cultyot management as a’ eS plant. Close by it—too close for: effect” 
was a beautifully bloomed: plant of the climbing” Lapageria rosea, with” 
striking bell-shaped flowers ofa soft: rosy tint, which, produced in con- 
siderable profusiony are very ornamental. 7 hére was also a new? Himas? 
layan plant; exhibited some short’ tite since atthe / Floral’ Committee, 
EPEGYNIA CAMPYLOBOTRIS (1 cannot vouch for my correctness here’ 
ir orthography)—valuable' for its’ clusters of curious white berries, the’ 
end ofeach berry being encircled with a’ring of blush with black spots) 
In ‘the’stove were some? of ‘the new 'Caladiums and other ornamental © 
plants, Caladium! Belleymeri and Wightii being certainly the best of the ’ 
newest Varieties, as'is argyri'es“of the older ones: “N othing can be more’ 
beautiful’ than the *blotchings and spottings of these leaves, except, it ° 
may be,’ the’ beauteous ‘little “Anzectochili from Ceylon,” India,’ and 
Borneo; °difficult—most difficult to grow—but ‘surpassingly: beatitiful 
in® foliage. “The  Pteride, ‘too, were’ very pretty,” ‘especially the one’ 
exhibited this -year,°P. tricolor, but vit is not’as' likely'to'‘be.so effective « 
