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FOREIGN NOTICES. 



Cestrum laurifolium, white. 

 Chorizema varium, yellow and red. 

 Cyclamen per sicum, white. 

 Daphne odora, white. 

 Epacris rosea, rose. 



variabilis, shaded blush. 



blanda, dark rose. 

 Erica mediterranea, pink. 



lactaa, white. 

 Geissovieria elegans, crimson. 

 Geranium comjitonianum, lilac. 

 Brighton hero, scarlet. 

 Gen. Tom Thumb, scarlet. 

 Helitropium intermedium, lilac and white. 

 Jasminum grandijiorum, white. 

 multijiorum, white. 

 Justicia carnea, flesh coloured. 

 Linum trigynum, yellow. 

 Leschenaultiaformosa, orange and red. 

 Manettia cordifolia, scarlet. 

 Metrosideros sempefjiorens, crimson. 

 Melastoma nepalensis, lilac. 

 Nerine undulata, rose. 

 Olea/ragrans, white. 

 Oxalis Bowii, rose. 



Oxalis multijlora, white. 

 caparina, yellow. 

 Pentas carnea, pale blush. 

 Plumbago capensis, pale blue. 

 Primula sinensis, of sorts, white and lilac 

 Salvia splendens major, scarlet. 

 fulgens, crimson. 

 leucantha, violet and white. 

 Sparmannia africana, white. 

 Stevia serrata, white. 

 Viburnum tinus, white. 

 Viola neapolitana, lilac. 



odorata arbor ea, dark blue. 

 One word on Viola arbor ea, or " Tree 

 violet." It is a fact, that many who read 

 of this humble violet, expect to see, at least, 

 a tree in miniature ; it has no such appear- 

 ance. In truth, very little distinction exists 

 between it and the old Double Dark Blue 

 violet, except its perpetuity of bloom, which 

 it claims for six months of the year, refresh- 

 ing the green-house with its odors the whole 

 winter season. R. B. 



FOREIGN NOTICES. 



Notes from our Foreign Correspondent — 

 Ourley, on the lake of Geneva, 7th September, 1848. 

 — Adjoining this spot, and within three minutes 

 walk, commence the grounds of an English gentle- 

 man, of £12,000 per annum — a bachelor, who has 

 lived here 32 years, and devoted his large income 

 to the adornment of his place, of only 29 acres. 

 You may imagine what $60,000 a year, spent for 

 30 years, upon 29 acres, in this country, where la- 

 bor is only a few " batz," (say 20 cents,) per day, 

 will produce, when backed by a climate that al- 

 lows of everything grown in England, and adds figs, 

 grapes, aloes, &.c. This gentleman liberally al- 

 lows appreciative strangers the use of his grounds ; 

 and I assure you we have taken formal possession. 

 The house is a cosy, English, home-like place, (not 



unlike, in its general character, Mr. D 's, at 



Blithewood,) but moie extended, — having a small 

 centre, and more hid with ivy and vines, which 

 quite cover in the long, rambling verandah, and 

 hung in festoons from the eaves and roof-tree, wan- 

 dering up in the most picturesque manner to the 

 top of a round tower, that surmounts a mazy collec- 

 tion of offices, and connects the house with the sta- 

 bles. The rooms, which are the perfection of com- 

 fort and cosiness, for a bachelor, consist of a draw- 

 ing-room, music-room, library; this brings you to 

 the swell centre, which is a dining-room j then you 



ramble out on the other side, with a billiard-room, 

 and a sort of reading, smoking, sans-souci room ; 

 and then into an octagonal plant cabinet : all these 

 are en suite, facing the lake, with French windows 

 to the floor, opening upon a lawn that is worth a 

 trip across the Atlantic to see ; it is kept in order 

 by some women, who wander about it like the 

 Fates, with scissors in hand and basket on back, on 

 the watch for some unlucky spire of grass that 

 shows more than a quarter of an inch of nose, when 

 they rush at it with a vengeance worthy of a better 

 cause. Perhaps half an acre, about the house, in- 

 cluding an English flower garden, (beds in the 

 turf,) are kept by the scissors and brush ; the resi 

 is under scythe and broom. Then there are two 

 or throe stout fellows, who are enduring, or rather 

 acting, the part of amiromedas, chained, however, 

 to a rolling stone, who are never weary, at least 

 never cease dragging its slow length along. No- 

 thing can be finer than the keeping and condition 

 of everything, except a similar place, alike the 

 hobby of an old bachelor of £24,000 per annum, 

 instead of £12,000. There are large conservato- 

 ries, green-houses, Sec; but the whole force seems 

 devoted to the condition and luxuriance of the park 

 trees, and the beauty and verdure of the lawn. 

 The general character of the views from the housa 

 are not unlike those from Blithewood, except that 



