consehvatokies. 



Lady Camoys (Sutton), wliite, blue edge, dwarf, and free. 

 Lady Hume Campbell (Henderson), clear white, with shaded blue margin. 

 Lord Stamford (Henderson), white, azure-blue edge. 

 Loveliness (Henderson), bright rosy lake, fine habit. 

 Mr. Sidney Herbert (Henderson), fine large violet-purple self. 

 Mrs. Sidney Herbert (Henderson), white, rosy-carniine edge, fine habit. 

 Mrs. Charles Kean (Henderson), rosy-lilac, with a ring of white around the disc. 

 Mrs. Beecher Stowe (Lochner), white, purple edge and disk, large trusses. 

 Novelty (Henderson), azure-blue, with light disc. 

 Orlando (Ivery), bluish-purple, with a ring of white around the disc. 

 Picturata (Henderson), white, rosy-violet edge, good form and habit. 

 Prima Donna (Henderson), blue self, dwarf, good form. 

 Prince Arthur (Henderson), scarlet-crimson self, very fine. 



Rosalind (Henderson), in the way of Lady Hume Campbell, with a pink tinge in 

 the margin. 



Rosy Morn (Henderson), white, broad rosy-crimson edge, large, and free. 

 Scottish Chieftain (Sievewright), white, deep violet edge, fine. 

 Teddington (Ivery), light purple self, dwarf and free.' 



CONSERVATORIES.* 



The erection of conservatories may be considered the highest grade in horticultural 

 architecture; in them elegance of design must be blended with cultural utility — 

 architecture becomes the associate of horticulture. It is difficult to draw the line 

 between the conservatory and the green-house — both are conservative in their princi- 

 ples. We must be content to take them according to the usual acceptation, and con- 

 sider the former as differing from the latter in being larger in size, and having the 

 plants or trees planted in prepared borders, instead of their being grown in pots and 

 set upon stages as they are in the latter. Conservatories are either tropical or extra- 

 tropical. In the former, the plants of India and the tropics are cultivated ; while, in 

 the latter, those brought from more temperate countries are kept. The situation ot 

 the conservatory may be on the lawn or in the flower garden, but not in the kitchen 

 or fruit garden ; and in such situations it should be a detached building, and glass on 

 all sides. It is often also attached to the mansion, and forming part of it, as at the 

 Deepdene in Surrey, and the Grange in Hampshire, to both of which highly architec- 

 tural residences the conservatory forms a useful and appropriate appendage. They 

 are often detached, as at Alton Towers, Sion House, the large one at uhatsworth, that 

 at Dalkeith, and others. In style they vary like other buildings ; but they should 

 always be, particularly if attached to the mansion, of the same style of architecture. 

 This rule is, however, not always attended to ; for that at Sion House, designed by 



* From WlntotlOa Book of the Oarden. 



