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(■liera any longer in pots, there was never 

 any difficulty as to what was next to be 

 done with them. Places vvhicii they would 

 just suit appeared as if by ma.uio, and after 

 such havoc as the last winter made with 



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my Chinese and Japanese shrubs, I was glad 

 enough to turn to account Junipers, Thiuas, 

 Abies, Pinuses, and other hardy trees that 

 had attained to respectable dimensions in 

 pots, to fill up blanks without making 

 fresh nursery accounts. Go on with this 

 system for ten years, and if such a winter 

 does not happen, change the trees away 

 for a lot of smaller ones, different alto- 

 getlier from the last lot, and with them 

 whatever else you want to make up the 

 difference in the value. To suggest these 

 plans makes good for trade, and lifts orna- 

 mental gardening out of the dull groove in 

 which it has been moving slowly for ye.nrs 

 past, as if it were an empiricism instead of 

 an art. 



There are several beautiful weeping 

 hollies in the trade, the characters of which 

 are good, and the uses of which are nu- 

 merous. These are just the perfection of 

 fancy trees for the summits of knolls, and 

 for centre pieces to lawns of grass and sper- 

 gula. There is one now getting into cir- 

 culation, which surpasses all hitherto let 

 out, and it is the one which Messrs. Perry, 

 of Banbury, Oxfordshire, made public for 

 the first time in 1859. We figured it at 

 the time, but the cut was put aside because 

 we were not quite sure that we could re- 

 commend it, but we now know all about 



the stock and the habit of the variety, and 

 can say witliout hesitation, that it is one of 

 the most cliarming plants of the kind yet 

 in cultivation. It is a decidtd weeper. 

 The laterals converge at a uniform angle 

 downwards, the leader turns over in a curve 

 in the style of Abies Deoilara, straightening 

 by degrees as the wood hardens, while at 

 the same time the new giowtli takes the 

 same curve as that which preceded it. The 

 foliage is most beautiful, of the form of 

 aquifolium, of which it is a variety, and the 

 markings of the same hue, but more de- 



PENDrLUM: FOLIIS VABIEGATIS. 



finite and broader on the margin than Free- 

 Growing Gold. It is a bright cheerful 

 holly, exquisitely graceful, and tlie plants 

 worked with care on clesm straight stocks, 

 so as to give full effect to its pendulous 

 character. 



