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ment should be studiously disguised, and interposition of control be 

 invariably concealed. 



The phillyrea presents striking contrast to the gay or gaudy display 

 of flowering shrubs, being characterised by singular chasteness and 

 unobtrusive simplicity. It is of intermediate tint, diminutive leaf, 

 and moderate growth ; consequently is precisely adapted to an ad- 

 vanced position. It will there present a striking contrast to the im- 

 posing glare of variegated shrubs, whether holly, aucuba, or others of 

 similar class. Here, too, that lowly, yet cheering harbinger of spring, 

 the mezereon, should rank, interspersed with contemporaneous masses 

 of hepatica, snowdrop, crocus, red daisy, and other vernal flowers, 

 protected by a wicker fence. The cypress is adapted, by its taper 

 form aud elevation, to relieve a structure. The pyracantha, pome- 

 granate, trumpet-pomegranate, white jessamine, but, paramount to 

 all, the elegant tamarisk, supply ornamental covering to a wall. In 

 a sheltered nook, even these may be surpassed by the beautiful single- 

 blossomed myrtle. From mildness of climate, it abounds in Devon- 

 shire, perhaps in no instance so luxuriantly as in a garden of Mr. 

 Neck's, curate of Kings Kerswell, where it acquires considerable 

 size detached from a wall, as well as height when attached. The 

 front of a house at Bishops Teington has long been covered to the 

 top by myrtles of forty years' growth, protected from the easterly, 

 wind by a wing, and from the westerly by an equal defence, with the 

 advantage of a southern aspect. 



ARTICLE IV. 



ON CULTIVATING PLANTS IN ROOMS. 



BY A LADY AM.U'EUIl CUI.TIVATOK. 



Being an admirer of the prevailing practice of cultivating green- 

 house plants in rooms, and having had much success in their 

 management, I am induced to draw up the accompanying remarks, 

 judging that they may be in some degree useful to a portion at least 

 of the readers of the Fi.oricultukal Cabinet. If the hints are 

 thought deserving a place therein, they are at your service. I do 

 not wish it to be understood that I think plants can be grown as 

 vigorous, or blossom as freely in rooms, as those cultivated in well- 



