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arbour should be boarded, and then covered with ash or oak bark, 

 the latter of which may always be procured from the tanners ; and 

 you may exercise your taste and patience to any extent in the 

 panelling ; three split hazel-rods to divide the panels have a pretty 

 effect. Let your pillars not exceed seven feet in height, and thatch 

 your roof with reeds, the flowery tops of which may be ornamentally 

 disposed inside to form the ceiling. 



Every man will follow his own taste in planting round his arbour. 

 Milton describes our mother Eve's retreat as placed in the midst of 

 "inwoven shade, 



Laurel and myrtle, and Avhat higher grew 



Of firm and fragrant leaf; on either side 



Acanthus ; and each odorous bushy shrub 



Fenc'd up the verdant wall ; each beauteous flower, 



Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine, 



Heard high their flourisrTd heads between, and wrought 



Mosaic : underfoot the violet, 



Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay, 



Broider'd the ground." 

 By all means plant the Honeysuckle and Jasmine, and the Rosa 

 ruo-a, on which you may bud all your favourite Roses : of climbing- 

 plants, I would recommend the Cobrea, Maurandya, Eccremocarpus, 

 Rhodochiton, and Clematis Sieboldii ; and to provide for these, it 

 will be well to leave a small bed with a considerable depth of rich 

 mould at the base of each pillar, and at the corners of your arbour. 

 I cannot do better for the general design than refer the readers of 

 The Florist again to the beautiful woodcut in your last Number. 



If you think the above loose remarks worthy of insertion, you will 

 gratify A Sedentary Man. 



March 8th. 



OUR NATIVE HEATHS. 



Permit me to direct the attention of those who have the requisite 

 means and skill, to the wide field open to them of improving our 

 native Heaths by hybridising them with the Cape species, more par- 

 ticularly with some of the free-growing sorts. Could the hardiness 

 of the one be combined with the habit and bloom of the other, what 

 beautiful objects would be the result ! The greenhouse, or rather 

 frame varieties will bear a few degrees of frost without injury; 

 there is, therefore, every probability that the seedlings of even the 

 first cross would prove quite hardy, and those of a second would 

 certainly be so. The time is at hand for trying the experiment, and 

 the fortunate raiser of any thing good would be amply repaid by 

 the pleasure he would experience in his new progeny. C. 



LIST OF SELECT CAMELLIAS. 



The following descriptive list of Camellias contains most of the 

 finest varieties in cultivation, and may be useful to any amateur 



