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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ Mar 8. 1873- 



fine-foliaged plants are grouped so as to produce a charming | represented on the left of this large bouse is a gigantic pyramid 

 effect, the whole of the back wall of the bouse being covered Pear, 30 feet high, a perfect model of that kind of training, 

 with rockwork, which is clothed with vegetation. The tree | but to which our artist has not done anything like justice. 



\'IEW OF A PORTION OF THE LAKE AND THE LAKGE MAGNOUA. 



The collection of large Orange trees in tubs, and which are 

 kept in an orangery in winter, are arranged during summer in 

 various parts of the grounds with admirable effect. 



Immediately behind the mansion, of a portion of which our 

 first figure is a representation, there is one of the finest speci- 

 mens of Magnolia couspicua we have ever seen. At the time 



VIEW OF GRANDE SERRE. 



of our visit it was in full bloom, and formed a great distaff I excellent Araucaria imbricata is on the same lawn close ad- 

 30 feet high covered with its glorious cup-shaped flowers. Au | joining it, and in the small lake are many aiinatic plants of 



