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venient distance?, which, beside giving direct communication between 

 the gardens, afford a ready means of varying the walks. Most of the 

 planting lias been accomplished, the season for which has been extremely 

 favourable ; the walks are all laid down and gravelled, and the mounds 

 formed ; but in the upper garden none of the turf has yet been laid. 

 When completed, the Arboretum will certainly be a great acquisition 

 to i he town, and will, no doubt, become a favourite resort of the 

 inhabitants. 



Perennials propagate by Slip9 and Cuttings. — That is, her- 

 baceous plants ; and the difference between slips and cuttinus is, that 

 sli|)s are side pieces of any plant drawn out, or cut out, with a few 

 roots to them. There are scores of border plants that can be increased 

 in the early part of summer from these slips, without at all injuring the 

 mother plants. All tliey require is to be planted in some light soil, in a 

 shaded place, away from the sun, and to be watered from time to time 

 as the weather tells. Cuttings of such border plants as are scarce 

 should have a hand-glass placed over them, on a shady border, as with- 

 out it the dry winds would be apt to wither them, now that they are as 

 fresh and succulent as hothouse plants. — a. z. 



AVax Flowers. — Amongst the numerous specimens of artistical 

 Ingenuity and industry which the Great Exhibition has brought into 

 notice, there is none more elegant or in'eresting than the wax flowers, 

 of which there are several exhibitors. It will be readily admitted that 

 much may be done in producing effect to the eye by the tasteful display 

 of a splendid bouquet of these flowers in an elegant case. Besides 

 many others, those shown by Mrs. Temple are very fine, being correct 

 imitations of nature. The case contains a plant of the splendid 

 Ainherstia n obi lis (one of the rarest plants in Europe); the orchids 

 from the roof are Stanhopeas ; the pots contain Epidendrum Staniford- 

 iaimm, Cattleya Pinelli, Bilbergia Morelliana, Anguloa, Cattleya 

 Candida, Cymhidium eberneum, and others equally rare. The climbers 

 are all choice, comprising Dipladenia, Hoya campanulata, Clematis 

 sinilacifolia. the splendid Gloriosa superba, and varieties of Passiflora. 

 There are also a few native flowers in the vases. Outside the case are 

 two shades — one a hop-pole, the other a fine specimen of Bignonia. 

 Other splendid specimens of Mrs. Temple's work may be seen at the 

 ]S'ew B.izaar in Regent-street ; some bouquets, in large glass cases, 

 being marked as high as forty-five guineas. 



Seedling Flow i its at the Botanical Society, Regent's Park. 

 — We have never seen such a display' of new Pelargoniums as were 

 at the Royal Botanical Society's Show on the 11th inst. ; there must 

 have been scons, if not hundreds. In the fancy class, which we do 

 not judge by such rigid rules as the ordinary show flowers, there was 

 an immense variety. The most remarkable were Ay res' Advancer, a 

 fins deep colour, good form, and plenty of substance, received a cer- 

 tificate, and deserved it; Advancer is a good name, for it is better 

 than Formosa. His Gipsy Queen, pretty, spotted, and cruinplv, waft 

 not so good ; it. had some sort of distinction, called a third prize. 

 Ambrose's Superba, a biownish-red, with rosy under petals, was very 

 pretty, and in the present state of fancy varieties deserved a certificate, 



