The most important of these was the beautiful Ceratostema longiflorum, from Messrs. Veitch. The same nurserymen also sent Philesia buxifolia and a pretty hybrid Veronica called variegata. It was in the way of V. Andersoni, but the flower-spikes were tipped with pink instead of violet Messrs. Lke sent Begonia Prestoniensis; Mr. Selkirk, of Porters, near Barnet furnished a large specimen of the handsome Lapageria rosea, producing some dosen flowers; and Messrs. Henderson sent Gaylussacia pulchra, a promising plant from their nursery in Wellington Road, along with a variegated Ananassa, Hoya Sieboldi, and one or two other plants; Mr. Taylor showed the common Arum Dracunculus in this class, and Mr. Green an Ixors, called neriifolia.

New Plants #1

Among the recent introductions to public and private collections of plants in this country, are to be found Hexacentris lutea, Balsamina Jerdonuos, Maranta Warsewicksii, Asalea narcissiflora, and many others not generally distributed, but the above are new to us here. S.

New Plants #2

The Big Tree, etc.: - At a late London exhibition Mr. Veitch exhibited a good small specimen of the great California tree to the admiration of the amateurs. Also a clear yellow, shining Rhododendron from Borneo, with leaves like an Oleander; and Emboth-rium coccineum, which is hardy, or nearly so, and the flowers of a crimson scarlet A Rhododendron Califomicum, more in the style of older kinds, and a Weigelia amabilis, a far better flower than rosea. For his newly introduced plants, not in bloom, he had all the prizes. Here were Lomatia feruginea, and Sonerila Margaretaceat Anactochilus Veichii, a Saracenia, a new variety of Maranta rosea lineata, called elegans, and Aralia papyrifera.

The Messrs. Rollison had a most lovely new stove-plant called, Meyenia erecta; the accent is on the second e; it was loaded with large Gloxinia-looking flowers, or rather between that and the shape of a Maurandia flower, of soft blue-lilac colour, tinged with purple, with a light bottom to the tube. The plant is a stiff grower, with small opposite leaves, like some old stove Jasmines. It belongs to the group of Thunbergias, and was named after Meyen, a celebrated botanist, by Nees Von Esenbeck, the great authority for Acanthads.

Mr. Ayres, had a large specimen of a Blandfordia, with twelve upright spikes, loaded with drooping, orange-yellow flowers, and Impatient Jerdoniae, Sorterila Margaretacea, not in bloom, and Hydrolea azurea, with only one flower open. It is one of the finest plants of that style in the Mexican Flora, and would have been the lion of the day if it had been covered with bloom, as all showy plants ought to be when they ' come out.', The same pains which are taken with young ladies, for their first appearance at court, should be taken to issue a really fine plant into our gardening world. This very plant made a sensation all over the continent this time two years. It had the first prize at Brussels for a new plant, in July, 1853, and so everywhere else abroad. Our amateurs, and our trade, paid a high price for it, and now it is, or has been, murdered by " indiscretion ;" and it is ten to one if one in ten thousand had taken the least notice of ii It might be called a soft-wooded greenhouse-plant; but it gets woody, with slender branches and very small leaves, and when covered with its elegant light blue flowers it most be one of the prettiest plants anywhere.

The exact tint is half way between the blue Nemophila and our own Veronica chamadrys, with starry white stamens, and the flower is two sizes larger than those of the said Veronica. Every body must have this plant when it comes to so many pence. It belongs to the same order of plants as the Nemo phila, Eutoca, and such like.

Standish and Noble sent a fine standard plant of Rhododendron Dalhousiae, a grafted plant, seven feet high, having had six trusses of blooms, but two of them had fallen off. This extraordinary Rhododendron blooms like a large Lily, with the scent and colour of Magnolia grandiflora' Also Azalea crispifiora, a unique kind, from the north of China. It is, by nature, a July-flowering plant. It seems to be a natural species, an evergreen, with large rose-coloured flowers, which are crisped on the edges like a frill; the habit is dense, the leaves good, but the quality for which I take so much notice of it is as a father, mother, and nurse to an entire new race of evergreen Azalaes, which will bloom out in the open garden just as well, and as gay and prolific as the present race do in the greenhouse. This is only a question of time.

The same firm sent cut flowering-branches of the new Spirae grandiflora, another hardy plant for the British garden. They also exhibited, but not in bloom, four species of Evergreen Herberts, from China and Japan, and all of them arc as hardy as our old ones. B. Japonica intermedia, and Beallii, stood the last winter unprotected, but I be-lieve trifurcata, which is from a different part more westwards in China, was not exposed to the frost. Messrs. Standish and Noble also exhibited a species of Lomaria, from Valdivia, after the manner of Magelianica, but with paler and broader leaves, not to use the fashionable but most erroneous word, frond, for a Fern-leaf; and my own most favourite evergreen, the Weinmannia tricosperma, also from Valdivia, and, therefore, likely to be hardy. You might pass off the leaves of this beautiful plant for so many ferns among ordinary mortals, by calling them fronds. They are compound and pinnate, just like so many Fern-leaves, the wings or little side leaves are opposite; and the stipules between each pair of leaves are leafy and sawed, just like the rest of the leaves; in fact, a frond to all intents and purposes. - Gardeners' Chronicle.