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On Daphne cneokum. — This pretty little hardy shrub, growing from six to 

 eight inches high, is an excellent one for forcing during winter. It blooms very 

 profusely, and its lovely rosy-pink flowers are very beautiful. Plants can be had 

 very cheap. Several of the Andromedas, white and pink species, are also very 

 suitable and beautiful. The Gaultheria procumbens, a little dwarf shrub, with 

 its lovely pendent. flowers, is also very interesting and pretty. To these the 

 Kalmias ought to be added. 



On Gardening in Sweden. — The taste for gardening is much on the increase 

 in Sweden ; and the gardens are improving, notwithstanding the drawbacks 

 occasioned as well by the climate as by the want of communication and diffi- 

 culty in procuring novelties, which they can scarely obtain but from Booth's, of 

 Flottbeck. In the neighbourhood of Gottenburgh several neatly kept and pretty 

 gardens, especially at the pretty village of Oergruder, are among the many 

 indications of the increasing prosperity of the town; and the space covered by 

 the soil taken from a new canal making in the town has been laid out in public 

 promenades with clumps of flowering shrubs. On our way here, and in the 

 excursions we have made, many of the country seats we have passed appeared 

 to have gardens of some extent, often with green and hot-houses, and generally 

 with gravel walks made in the woods. Many of these seats or chateaux, in 

 which the upper classes in Sweden generally spend their summer, are beautifully 

 situated, and the variety of forms assumed by the low-wooded granite rocks, 

 and the great abundance of lakes of all sizes and shapes, give great scope for 

 laying out picturesque grounds ; although to a traveller, after seeing hundreds 

 of miles of the granite rocks and Pine woods, the country has rather too much 

 of sameness. At Upsala we saw the house and garden where Linnaeus lived 

 and grew the plants marked in his herbarium as H. U., or Hortns Upsalensis, 

 but it no longer belongs to the family; the old greenhouses, stone buildings 

 with large windows, are converted to other purposes, and the only relics of 

 Linnaeus there consist of some trees, especially a black Poplar known to have 

 been planted by his own hands. The present Botanic Garden, surrounding the 

 Museum of Natural History at the back of the governors palace, just out of the 

 town, was laid out shortly after the younger Linnaeus's death. The outer garden 

 is pretty well kept, and is laid out as an ornamental promenade, with thick 

 shaded walks, flowering shrubs, &c. The great vigour of vegetation shows the 

 richness of the soil, although neither that nor the climate are said to be near so 

 good as on the other side of Upsala. The tall Larkspur (Delphinium elattim, 

 I believe, or exaltatum) looks more like a bush than a herbaceous plant, and 

 forms tufts 7 or 8 feet high, with at least 20 to 30 of its handsome spikes iix 

 flower at once. Gaillardias were much finer than with us. Tagetes sinuata 

 (Bart!.), a plant not cultivated I believe in England, is a pretty species, and 

 amongst the shrubs there is a good deal of the Caragana forming very thick 

 tufts or hedges now out of flower, but from the very great quantity of seed pods 

 must have been very full, and they say it is then very handsome. It is a much 

 neater growing shrub thin our Colutea. The botanical part of the garden, pro- 

 perly so called, disappointed me at first. There is a considerable extent of gla^s, 

 old greenhouses, pits of various sizes, and more modern and light span-roof 

 houses, but looking untidy and out of repair, and the garden at first appeared 

 to have more weeds than anything else, but upon going through it the col- 

 lection of plants appeared to be really considerable. Amongst those in flower, 

 Goudeni i grandiflora. which I do not recollect in our collections, was very hand- 

 Mine. — Gardeners' Chronicle, 



Floral Operations for November. 



All greenhouse plants should have a free supply of air admitted, except when 

 it is frosty. The plants should not be watered in the evening, but in the early 

 part of the day, so that the damps may be dried up before the house is closed, 

 as they arc, during the night, prejudicial to the plants. The soil in the pots 

 should frequently be stirred at the surface, to prevent its forming a moss)' or 

 very compact state. The plants must not be watered overhead. Luculia gra- 



