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decayed flower - stalks, still standing, bore ample testimony to the 

 magnificence of the display during the past spring and summer. We 

 also, unfortunately, missed the Trilliums, a genus of beautiful North 

 American plants, with white, purple, red, and greenish - coloured 

 flowers, which appear in April and May. Large clumps of more than 

 a dozen species of these were luxuriating in moist beds of peat soil. 



The rockeries — constructed more with the view of supplying the 

 varied wants of the plants than for artistic effect, though that is by 

 no means awanting — contain a wealth, not only of the tiny Alpine 

 gems, but of the stronger-growing shrubs and perennials which prefer 

 such situations. Here are to be seen specimens of the dwarf Rhodo- 

 dendron chamogcistus, Rosa pyrenaica, pimpinelifolia, and rugosa, the 

 latter with large glossy pinnate foliage, and clusters of rosy-crimson and 

 white flowers, nearly three inches across, which are produced during 

 most of the summer, and are succeeded by an abundance of scarlet 

 berries as large as crab-apples. Scattered about in endless profusion 

 are to be seen patches and groups of such plants as Linnaea borealis, 

 interesting not only for its beauty, but as the plant selected by the 

 great father of Botany to bear his name ; Gentianas alpina verna and 

 angustifolia, with many of their congeners \ Opuntias — including Ra- 

 finesquiana, the hardiest species of this the only known hardy genus of 

 the Cactus family ; various species of Linaria, including alpina and 

 pilosa ; Campanulas pulla and pumila, with its white-flowered variety ; 

 Dianthus alpinus, the prettiest and dwarf est of its race, with many 

 other species of the same genus ; the showy and distinct Dryas octo- 

 petala, a British Alpine, associated with its Tyrolese variety lanata, 

 distinguished by its hoary leaves and larger flowers. The collection of 

 Helianthemums, or Rock Roses, of w T hich the species vulgare, an in- 

 habitant of our rocky hillsides, is the type, is very complete. Sedums, 

 Saxifrages, Sempervivums, of every sort in cultivation, with a multi- 

 tude of other no less interesting things, which the limited time at our 

 disposal precluded us from noting. In and around the rockeries are a 

 number of little dells, in which are planted out collections of the rarer 

 Ferns, Sarracenias, sorts, Darlingtonia calif ornica, Dionseas, Parnassias 

 — of which we noticed a group of four distinct sorts — Droseras, Pin- 

 guiculas, Swertias, «fec, <fec, all in vigorous health. 



The bulb department, which contains nearly, if not all, the hardy 

 genera and species in cultivation, will form the subject of a brief future 

 notice. Hugh Fraser. 



THE AMATEUR'S GARDEN. 



ARTICHOKES \ JERUSALEM AND GLOBE. 



These are seldom or never seen in amateur's gardens, but why we do 

 not know, except it be that very few amateurs know anything about 

 them — and yet they are vegetables of easy cultivation, especially 



