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numerous, and none of them aVe worthy of comparison with 

 the commonest English fruits." They are the -Solanum 

 laciniatum (the kangaroo apple) Mesembryanthenmm aquil- 

 atcrale (pigfaces), /'olygonum adpressum, &c. 



Art. Ill, is entitled "• Remarks on the advantages of having 

 a reserve garden," — a most excellent and useful paper, 

 evincing a thorough knowledge of the management of plants. 

 It is impossible in any large establishments, especially like 

 some of those in our vicinity, to keep up an interesting and 

 attractive show of plants during either summer or winter, in 

 the garden or green-house, unless the advantages of a 

 reserve piece of ground can be resorted to. The following 

 are the remarks of the writer: 



" The purposes to which a reserve ground may be applied are very 

 numerous; and I will first enumerate such descriptions of plants as should 

 always gain admittance there, as far as I can call them to remembrance. 

 Choice annuals, perennials, and various tender plants for planting in 

 beds or masses, as well as for the general decoration of flower borders, 

 to be propagated and cultivated, and accelerated or retarded, as may be 

 required, so as to produce a long line of succession, as well as a continual 

 gayety in the decorative parts of the grounds. Besides this, the reserve 

 ground is useful for rearing American plants, both for planting beds and 

 borders, for forcing early flowers where they are desired, for keeping 

 pot plants of various kinds from the house during summer, such as some 

 of the New Holland tribes, the Ericeee, the camellias, the Cactese, the 

 Geraniacefe, &c. Also for pots of lilacs, honeysuckles, peaches, cher- 

 ries, strawberries, &c., for forcing; and for the cultivation of violets, 

 lilies, and other scented flowers, to please the ladies in the gloom of 

 winter; together with many other plants which 1 cannot now think of, 

 but which would soon find their way in the reserve garden when once 

 such department was established, to the great relief of the borders of the 

 kitchen-garden and slips, where such plants are generally found scattered 

 in all directions." 



" At the moment I am writing (Jan. 6), I have abundance of lily of 

 the valley, in pots, in beautifid bloom ; and Avhich I have had continually 

 since the early part a December; Neapolitan violets also, in frames, I 

 have had continually from the beginning of October. Hyacinths, narcis- 

 suses, and tulips, from Christmas; lilacs in pots, beautiful little bushes 

 crowded with bloom; rhododendrons, azaleas, swectbriars; roses, the 

 moss, provins, Smith's noisette, and sanguinea, just coming into flower; 

 together with sparaxises, ixias, gladioluses, and other Cape bulbs, and 

 Azalea indica, just beginning to bloom; and the above articles I shall 

 continue to have constantly in abundance for weeks to come." 



We have not the room to devote to many more extracts, 

 but the article (of several pages) contains many original 

 ideas, and is written with a knowledge of principles, and 

 these principles carried into practice. The following direc- 

 tions are given how the garden should be situated, and 

 how the ground within it should be appropriated, the size 

 depending altogether upon the wants of the place ; an acre 

 is supposed as the requisite quantity for a large country res- 

 idence, with green-houses, hot-houses, frames, &.C., and in 

 proportion for gentlemen's villas. 



