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riegata. The straight chain of beds on this terrace corresponds with a half- 

 circle chain of twenty beds on the lower terrace : each bed has a centre plant of 

 box eighteen inches high, separately filled with Alysstim coinpactiim, Iberis, 

 Myosofis, CheirantJuis, Aitbrietia, polyanthus, Arabis variegata, N^emophila, 

 Sapona?-ia,&.c. The back angles are filled with wallflowers and variegated Ara- 

 bis ; the front ones being very effectively arranged with crimson beet, edged with 

 StacJiys lanxt.i. The two corners beyond this half-circle of beds are elegantly 

 ornamented with chain arbors, each arch being covered with climbing roses. 

 These terraces, which are bounded and raised by a handsome granite wall, have 

 three borders four hundred feet long, which are very effectively planted with 

 large clumps, two feet wide each, oi Aubrieta piirpiii'ea^ Alyssu/n compactum, 

 Arabis variegata, and CheirantJius Marshallii. The east and west borders are 

 edged with Myosotis sylvatica, and the north border is edged with Stachys lanata. 

 The effect of these large clumps of telling colors is very striking and beautiful. 

 A flight of steps on the north side opens on to an ornamental croquet-ground, 

 from which a lovely view of Dubhn Bay is commanded, with the " Hill of Howth " 

 to be seen in the distance. Mr. Webly deserves great praise for having in a 

 few years brought this place to its present excellent condition, as it formerly had 

 the reputation of being an almost neglected wilderness. — A. C. Dubliii, in Gar- 

 dener'' s CJironicie. 



Pelargoniums. — The past week has put to the test the cold-enduring 

 powers of the tricolor and bicolor pelargoniums ; for doubtless many, like myself, 

 were tempted by the genial state of the atmosphere of last Monday week to 

 venture upon bedding them out. It was stated by Mr. Grieve, at the discussion 

 on the 22d ult., that they required a higli temperature ; in fact, that they should 

 not be exposed to a lower one than fifty to fifty-five degrees. Could any thing 

 possibly be more trying for them, than, after only four days' removal from a warm 

 house, to have been e.xposed (perfectly unprotected) to such a day of bitter cold 

 rain as Friday last, followed by three successive nights of frost, the thermometer 

 registering four degrees of frost on the very bed they stood in? — which bed, 

 numbering two luindred and forty plants, consisted of the best of the old tricolors 

 and bicolors, viz. Lucy Grieve, Lady Cullum, Sophia Cusack, Sophie Duma- 

 resque, Queen Victoria, Edwinia Fitzpatrick, Countess of Tyrconnell, Jock o'Ha- 

 zledean, Louisa Smith, Italia Unita, Sunset, Mrs. Pollock, &c., with very many 

 seedlings of my own, both tricolors and bicolors, some of which are but a few 

 months old and a few leaves high. All seem to have passed through this awful 

 ordeal almost uninjured : the bicolors seem to have felt it more tlian the tricolors ; 

 here and there a young leaf upon them is slightly touched. It would be inter- 

 esting to know if pelargoniums of these classes have stood equally well in other 

 and more exposed situations, because, if so, it would make one question whether 

 we arc not coddling them too much, —making them, in fact, more tender than 

 they otherwise would be ; and wliether tliey are, or would not under other 

 treatment prove to be, a much more easily managed and valuable class of plants 

 for bedding than we give them credit for being. — John Denny, Stoke Newing- 

 ton. June 2, in Gardener'' s Chronicle. 



