44 MISCELLANY OF NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



Due de Brabant, very superb form, pure waxy white, with carmine stripes ; a 



very beautiful kind. 

 Duca de Litta, imbricate, very double, rich red spotted, and striped with white ; 



very superb. 

 Ducca de Reichstadt, imbricate, very double, deep carmine, spotted with white ; 



very beautiful. 

 Duchess of Northumberland, imbricate, very large, beautiful waxy white, striped 



and spotted with rich rosy red; very superb flower. 

 Duchessa de Litta, the outer petals imbricate, white, the centre petals in very 



neat bundles, a delicate yellow ; very magnificent. 

 Duchesse de Nemours, imbricate, very transparent white, beautifully spotted 



with carmine ; very handsome. 

 Duchesse d'Orleans, form of a Ranunculus, beautifully imbricate, pure waxy 



white, blotched and spotted with carmine ; a very beautiful kind. 

 Dunlap's Imbricata, very fine rosy carmine. 



White Warratah, pure white; a most superb Pceony flowered kind. 



Elena Monti, imbricate, very double, white, striped and spotted with carmine 



rose ; very superb. 



Ugoni, imbricate, white, spotted with red. 



Emelia Gavazzi, the outer petals white, with red shades ; fine form. 



Taverna, form of a Ranunculus, outer petals carmine, streaked with white ; 



the centre ones white, spotted with carmine ; very superb. 

 Estherii, a very large, double, globe-shaped flower, pure white, dappled with 



rose. 

 Exquisite (Low's), form of a Ranunculus, bright red, very double ; a very hand- 

 some kind. 

 Franklin, a very large, double, noble, white, handsome flower ; it is stated to be 



nearly as large as a Pceony ; very magnificent. 



(To be continued.) 



In former Volumes of the Cabinet we noticed the magnificent Conservatory 

 at his Grace the Duke of Devonshire's at Chatsworth, and desirous of giving 

 our readers further information as to its very successful adaptation for the pur- 

 poses designed, we extract from the Gardener's Chronicle of December 13th the 

 following particulars: — The superstructure represents a curvilinear dome of pro- 

 gressive elevation, the lower side-wings rising 25 feet from the ground-level, 

 from the angle of which the upper dome rises to a final elevation of 60 feet, the 

 length leing 270 feet, the width of the ground area is nearly 100 feet, and the 

 upper dome is 70 feet in diameter. The principal side-fronts face the east and 

 west. The general entrance is at the north end, forming a direct communication 

 with the grand central carriage-road which passes through the conservatory to 

 the south end in immediate connection with the pleasure-ground which surrounds 

 it. The ground-level is foimed into four pits or borders, two on each side of 

 the central path ; a pathway is also formed between the borders for convenience 

 of access to the plants. A platform surrounds the entire area along the side- 

 wings for the arrangements of plants in pots, the north-east end of which is 

 occupied with a select collection of Ferns; amongst them were vigorous plants 

 of Aspidium Serra, Polyp, dium spectabile, (lymnogramma ochracea, Wood- 

 wardia radicans, Aspltnium nidus, Lonchitis pubescens, a species of great 

 delicacy and beauty; Cffinopteris japonica, and Aspidium falcatum. On the 

 right of the north-east front is an immense pile of rocks, from the recesses of 

 which some of the larger growing Ferns are thriving luxuriantly. Amongst 

 the most conspicuous, were — Cibotium Baromez, having noble fronds or leaves 

 9 feet in length; Asplenium praemorsum. Didymochlsena pulcherrima, and 

 Dicksonia feruiginea. As a continuation of the east front, the artificial rock- 

 work extends 54 feet at a lower elevation, and form.* an aquarium (for water- 

 plants), having a massy belt on the back-ground, formed of fossil-rock and tufa 

 stone, amongst which were growing in ornamental masses luxuriant specimens 

 of Caladium odoratum, C. escnlentum, Arum venosum, the latter remarkable 

 for its immense leaves. The elegant Papyrus antiimorum was displaying its 



