The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . r than those to which the first prize wasawarded, but being overgrown, and to some extent whatcultivators call leggy, they w-ere not considered sofine as Mr. Bamess compact specimens. The collectionilso contained too many soft-wooded plants. Amongthem, however, were several specimens of great excel-lence, especially Pavetta cafira, eight feet in height, andibnr feet through, formmg a rich cone of verdure,prettily covered with w-hite flowers, but not quite suffi-:iently in bloom. Clerodendrum Koempferl was alsorery fine, having a spike of flow
The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . r than those to which the first prize wasawarded, but being overgrown, and to some extent whatcultivators call leggy, they w-ere not considered sofine as Mr. Bamess compact specimens. The collectionilso contained too many soft-wooded plants. Amongthem, however, were several specimens of great excel-lence, especially Pavetta cafira, eight feet in height, andibnr feet through, formmg a rich cone of verdure,prettily covered with w-hite flowers, but not quite suffi-:iently in bloom. Clerodendrum Koempferl was alsorery fine, having a spike of flowers eighteen inches inleight, and four feet in circumference ; and C. squa-. uatvmi and fallax, though rather too much drawn, wereilso very fine. A dwarf bush of the simple but prettyStylidium fasciculatum, with its small white flowers,was very neat, as were also compact bushes in fineDloom of Erica depressa, and Eriostemon Rob?i-teoTi bad also a large standard plant of Poly-jala with Acacia pulcheUa, a dwarf stand-. plant of Pimelea decussata, and a larger one of thesame kind, but in rather a declining state. There were,moreover, a fine specimen of Stephanotis floribunda ;two tolerable plants of Rondeletia speciosa; withStatice arborea; Acrophyllum venostmi; Leschenaultiaformosa, large, but not in good bloom ; with Azaleavaiiegata ; Erica ventricosa superba ; E. inflata, verylarge, but naked ; Pentas earnea, and several otherplants. Very neat collections of twenty plants werecontributed by Mr. Frazer, of the Lea Bridge Road,and Mr. Ayres, gr. to James Cook, Esq. In collection was a fine plant of Erica Bergiana,three feet in height, and four feet in diameter, mostprofusely bloomed, but not quite so well colom-ed as itought to be ; Erica ventricosa earnea, fine; E. brevifolia,very pretty ; and a good E. tricolor elegans. In thesame collection were also Pimelea hispida and decussata,dwarf, and good ; Aphelexis humiUs, small; Dillwyniaflo
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