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as would plant two acres of land at a foot apart every way ; or say in 

 round numbers, close upon 100,000 ! I may be wrong, of course. I 

 hope I am partly so, and that Mr Low has sold half of them since I 

 saw them. Laelia purpurata, Zygopetalum maxillare, Cattleya Trianiae, 

 C. Mendelli, C. Dowiana, C. dolosa, and other kinds, were also there 

 in batches ; not " little bits," but fine healthy masses, with latent 

 force enough in the great fat pseudo - bulbs to make specimens 

 of them in good hands. Of Dendrobium heterocarpum var. philip- 

 pinense I saw a long side stage filled with hundreds of plants, the 

 whole facing a bank of delicate primrose-coloured flowers. Cypriped- 

 ium Stonei, and the still more rare C. laevigatum, Aerides Leeanum, 

 A. suavissimum, A. quinquevulnerum, and many other kinds too 

 numerous to name, were all there in fine condition. 



Of neat and pretty little trailing-plants for a window or cool green- 

 house, I have one now in my mind's eye (and, thanks to Mr Moore of 

 Glasnevin Gardens, in the greenhouse also), that is of all things to be 

 desired. I allude to the " blue-flowered Shamrock," (anent which 

 English name I am confident, having had it direct from the maker 

 thereof), or as it is known of the botanist, Parochaetus communis. 

 For the benefit of those who do not know the plant under either of 

 the above names, I will liken it in habit to a plant of white Clover, 

 also supposing that instead of the bossy heads of many white flowers, 

 only one blossom is produced at each axil of the creeping stem, and 

 that one blossom of the size and colour of that of the " Chick Pea " or 

 Chickling Vetch, yclept Lathyrus sativus in ye Latin, as opposed to 

 the vulgar tongue. Now small blue Sweet-Pea-like flowers borne on 

 slender stalks 2 or 3 inches high above a Clover-like tuft of trefoil 

 leaves, is, as I take it, a great, if somewhat old-fashioned rarity; and 

 as such I hereby most heartily commend it to all who care for plants 

 of interest apart from bold colour efl"ects. I also give due notice to 

 Mr Ware of Tottenham (the Hall-Farm nursery of that place), "so 

 that he may be able to serve to such as may desire to have the same." 



The writer of these notes hereby confesses to a love for what he 

 considers one of the fairest beauties of a good spring garden. In 

 plain words, he alludes to his fondness for Anemones of all kinds — A. 

 alpina, sulphurea, fulgens, purpurea, blanda, Robinsoniana ; and last, 

 but not least, the common garden Anemone, single and double, 

 "delighteth him beyond all measure," as Parkinson (or is it Gerarde?) 

 says of them. I allude to them as fair in the spring time ; but a 

 good fairy (of which there are yet many in Ireland) brought to me on 

 Friday, the 4th day of November last, a bunch of double and semi- 

 double garden Anemones such as I, during half a lifetime affectionately 

 spent in gardens, have rarely seen equalled even in the spring. They 

 were grown on the Hill of Howth, a sunny spot on the warm side 



