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Pansies. The best stand was disqualified, having been wrongly 

 entered. The other stands in both classes were very indifferent. 

 In seedlings, National, Sir J. Cathcart, Sir J. Paxton, and Nonsuch, 

 were shewn good. Two good Fuchsias were exhibited, viz. Banks' 

 Glory (dark), and Empress (light). Among seedling Pelargoniums 

 there were several plants of the fine large dark variety, Optimum ; 

 two of Queen of May, an orange scarlet, with dark spot on the top- 

 petals ; Rachel, a neat, smooth, full-flowering kind, very dark, and 

 good shape ; Challenger, a small showy kind, and very free ; also 

 Novelty, Cordelia, Albira, and Amazon. Several seedling Calceo- 

 larias were exhibited; but no great improvement apparently has 

 taken place in these for several years past. Mr. Tyso, Wallingford, 

 sent a box of Ranunculuses, which attracted considerable attention. 



REVIEW. 



The British IVinter Garden. By W. Barron, Head Gardener at 

 Elvaston. 12mo. pp. 121. Bradbury and Evans. 



Our readers have already heard something of Elvaston through our 

 pages ; but our two brief notices must have failed to have com- 

 municated to their minds any thing hke a correct idea of so noble 

 a creation as Elvaston is. We say creation, because all that is won- 

 derful about it must be ascribed to the inventive genius of man, and 

 chiefly to that of Mr. Barron. Its gardens of evergreens, its lake, 

 which is perfect of its kind, and its marvellous rock-work, have all 

 sprung into existence within the last twenty years. Previous to that 

 period all was flat and tame, — a treeless grass meadow. So insig- 

 nificant at that time was this now great place, that Loudon, in his 

 Garden Statistics of Derbyshire, did not even notice it. All who see 

 Elvaston at the present day are, therefore, amazed at the magnitude 

 of the operations which have given to it comparatively quite an 

 ancient grandeur. ]M?vny of its Yev/ and other trees look as venerable 

 as if they had occupied their stations for centuries ; and few can be- 

 lieve that nothing existed but meadow land at the date we have just 

 mentioned. Such, however, is the fact, and all the fine Conifers, and 

 other evergreens, that now adorn this princely seat, have been ga- 

 thered together from all parts of the kingdom, as may be imagined, 

 at enormous labour and expense; in fact, such as could only have been 

 sustained by wealthy and liberal-minded noblemen like the late Earl 

 of Harrington. Mr. Barron's connexion, therefore, with the forma- 

 tion of so great a garden must necessarily have furnished him with 

 ample materials for the production of a book much larger than the 

 one before us, and we regret that we should not have been favoured 

 with more of the refined taste and sound judgment which we find in 

 its pages. At present, however, let us be contented with what we 

 have, which is all new and original, such as no occupier of land can 

 well dispense with ; for if some of the views promulgated be carried 

 into effect, the face of our Enghsh landscape must be entirely 



