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with pale lilac campanulate flowers, and Lamelia aromatica, a green- 

 house plant from Chili, the leaves of which have a strong aromatic 

 fragrance ; Eugenia Ugni in flower, with small wax-like pale blush 

 flowers, partially enveloping the bright pink stamens ; Boronia Drum- 

 mondi, a charming species, with bright pink flowers ; and various other 

 new plants which we had before noticed elsewhere. Young Coniferous 

 plants are grown largely here. In a long range of frames several 

 thousand seeds of Araucaria imbricata are planted, and we noticed a 

 large stock of Pinus Sabiniana, one of the handsomest of the race ; also 

 a new species of Taxodium fi-om the Caucasus, which is beheved to be 

 quite hardy ; and a large stock of young plants of the scarce and hardy 

 Abies Wittmaniana fi-om the Crimea and Black Sea. Among some 

 seedling Conifers was one that arrested our attention, it having been 

 raised from seed received from California, and in appearance is some- 

 thing between a Cephalotaxus and a Torreya. It promises to be 

 handsome, but at present its identity has not been established. A good 

 stock of Lapageria is to be seen here, and Pentstemon pui-pureum 

 hybridum was pointed out to us as an excellent variety raised from P. 

 gentianoides, with purple flowers. In this nursery a large general col- 

 lection of plants is gro^^Tl, and it afforded us more than ordinary grati- 

 fication to see IMr. Low again able to attend to business, and recovering 

 fi-om his recent severe iUness. We lefi; this estabhshment and wended 

 our way to 



Fraser's Nursery, Lea Bridge, 

 Which is about a mile and a half from Clapton, and reno'\\Tied for the 

 culture of young specimen plants, many of which very frecjuently occupy 

 prominent positions at our great exhibitions, many of the monster 

 specimens now about to be offered for sale at Ealing Park having been 

 first formed by the IMessrs. Eraser. Here we found fine examples of 

 Indian Azaleas, Ericas, one of the finest sorts being Hartnelli Superba, 

 a marked improvement on Hartnelli, and a fi-eer grower; Pimeleaspec- 

 tabilis, Aphelexis of sorts, Eriostemon intermedium and E. scabrum, 

 Boronia triphylla, &c. &c. Tlie show house was very gay, and the 

 Azaleas particularly fine : amongst these being A. Frosti, hvely pale 

 pink, good form ; A. Aurora, pale salmon red, upper part of the flower 

 densely spotted, good form. In this nursery a large collection of trees 

 and shrubs, fi'uit trees, Roses, &c., is cultivated, whilst the numerous 

 houses are filled with a general collection of plants, the specimens being 

 particularly fine. Such freshness and health was perfectly invigorating, 

 the remembrance of which, and a night in London, impelled us to a 

 region beyond the influence of London smoke, and we again visited a 

 congenial spot known as 



Turner's Nursery, Slougit, 

 About which a few words may be written before we wipe our pen. 

 Here, as our readers are aware, florists' flowers are groA^m very 

 extensively, and many of them are now in a great state of forwardness. 

 The Pelargoniums for the IVIay exhibitions have now to be retarded, 

 when treatment the reverse of this is generally needed. We found the 

 collection of Auriculas at their best, and very fine they are this season. 



