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Hardy. — Robinia hispida, Cercis Siliquastrum, Cydonia japonica, C. j. alba, 

 Acacia .lulibrissin. Deutzia seabra. Rihes speciosum. 



Half-hardy. — Glianthus puniceus. Acacia lophantha, Ceanothus azureus, 

 Escallonia glandulosa, Hybiscus Syriacus, Camellia alba flore pleno, Gardenia 

 florida. 



Showy Tlantsfar bottom of Wall. — Gardenia radicans, Chimonanthus fragrans, 

 Siphocampylos bicolor, Diplacus glutinosus, D. puniceus, Fuchsias, &c. 



Plants whose Foliage will look well in Winter. — Berberis (Mahonia) Aquifulia, 

 Leycesteria forrnosa, Arbutus procera, Crataegus glabra, Benthamia fragifera, 

 Thermopsis laburnifolia (Anagyris indica.) 



Magnolias. — Magnolia grandifiora, M. conspicua, M. acuminata, M. purpurea, 

 M. glauca, M. Thomsoniana. 



Flora. 



REMARKS. 



CuRYSANTHKMLJtS IN THE CEI.EEKATED COLLECTION Ol' MeSSKS. CHANDLER 



and Sons, Vauxhai.l. London. — We have recently visited this Nursery and found 

 the Chrysanthemums, as usual, very gay and iu profuse bloom, and when viewed in 

 contrast with the general aspect of a nursery have a cheerful appearance. No 

 person having a taste for flowers and possessing the means to grow them, after 

 viewing the collection in bloom, could, we thiuk, hesitate tu commence be- 

 coming a cultivator of them. Messrs. Chandler had all the best kinds in this 

 country in cultivation last season ; to them they have added a number of very 

 pretty seedling kinds received from Mr. Salter, nurseryman, Versailles, France. 

 In France and Jersey seed ripens well on plants grown in the open air, but in 

 this country they must be grown under glass to ripen seed. The finest kinds 

 raised from seed obtained in this country have been raised by Mr. Freestone, 

 Watlington Hail, near Downbam, Norfolk; lie has been very successful in 

 ripening seeds, depending generally on the semi- double kinds; by artificial im- 

 pregnation he thus secures fertile seed. On our going to Messrs. Chandlers we 

 saw in several streets in the neighbourhood, that the residents iu south-aspected 

 houses, having a small plot of ground in front of the house, had planted several 

 of the showy kinds against the wall, and having trained them systematically, 

 and now being iu profuse bloom, they had a most animating appearance ; even 

 in the beds of such small plots of ground, a number of bushes were in splendid 

 1 loom. The following is a descriptive list of the best kinds we saw iu bloom at 

 Messrs. Chandlers : — 



Q ueen . — Blush ; petals broad, very double ; blooms in clusters of six or eight. 



Pule her rim urn. — Pink; petals broad, very double. 



New Sanguineum. — Fine crimson-red; broad petals, very double. 



La Superb. — Light rosy-pink; outer petals broad, next tasselled, and centre 

 ones incurved, double. 



Colonel Coomb s.— Orange tinged with red, and having a red centre. 



Leonora. — Yellow tinged with orange-pink; before the petals expand they 

 are red, the undersides only showing. 



lnvvicib/e.— Pure white ; broad petals, very double ; the petals are so nu- 

 merous that, as the centre ones advance, they cause the outer ones to reflex. 



Surprise. — Pure white ; petals broad. 



Magnet. — Bright yellow ; broad petals ; flowers in clusters of five or six. 



Spectabile. — Very "pure white; quilled and tasselled; shows a small yellow 

 centre. 



Georgiana. — Bright blush ; petals large, broad ; centre of the flower a rosy 

 purple before the petals expand. 



Gouvaht. St. Cyr.— Yellow on the upper side of petal, the underside orange ; 

 double. 



Cassimer Perrier. — Bright puce-crimson ; petals broad ; double. 



Imperial. — White inside of petals, outside light blush; bioad. When the 

 outer petals are exj anded fully the flower becomes nearly funnel shaped. 



Memnon.— Beautiful light "pink; petals broad; blooms iu clusters of six or 

 eight; double. 



