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we thought distinct and possessing fine properties, are Dennis's 

 Perfection, fine dark rose, with superb petals; Amelia, light 

 rose, large flower, with delicate spots; Gen. Chasse, very 

 bright; Lord Denman, rich deep crimson, with dark spot; Boll's 

 General Washington, very handsome; Virginias, rose, with a 

 pretty spot; and Bouganvilleidnitm. The trusses of several, if 

 not all, of these varieties, are very perfect. There will be a most 

 splendid display in the course of three or four weeks; and as a 

 larger part of Mr. Hogg's fine new sorts will not be sold until 

 next fall, there will be a fine show during all the spring. Mr. 

 Hogg, jr., who spent the winter of 1835 in London and vicinity, 

 purchased many fine kinds; among others, Dennis's Perfection, 

 which was selling at three or four pounds sterling a plant. 



Mr. Hogg's plant houses, as we stated two years since, con- 

 sist of detached buildings, erected without any regard to external 

 or internal beauty, but merely for the shelter and propagation of 

 plants. In a very low house without flues, Mr. Hogg has a 

 large number of double white and other common camellias plant- 

 ed in the ground for propagation. From these both layers and 

 inarchings are taken. In another house, where were a great 

 number of the more common plants, we noticed a Wistarm Con- 

 sequana, which young Mr. Hogg informed us, to our surprise, 

 had bloomed finely the past year; it has made a vigorous growth, 

 and the branches extend twenty or thirty feet; it is planted 

 outside of the wall of the house. We were not aware that it 

 had ever blossomed in any collection in the country. We should 

 be most happy to see it in flower. 



In the stove, which is heated with the apparatus described in 

 our second volume, p. 248, by Mr. Downing, of Newburgh, we 

 found a variety of plants. A seedling amaryllis had just expand- 

 ed; Lantana Sellowu was blooming profusely: this is the hand- 

 somest of all the lantanas that we have ever seen. Small plants 

 of Poinsettia pulcherrima were displaying their scarlet bractes. 

 The apparatus for heating cannot be better described by us than 

 it has already been by our correspondent. We consider it a 

 very good method for warming a house, but not, that we could 

 perceive, preferable to the common level system of copper pipes. 

 The first cost of erection is as great, and if nothing is saved 

 here, we see no material advantage it has over other systems; it 

 takes up, however, little room, but the pipes, which are cast iron, 

 must, we believe, run above the walks of the house. The con- 

 sumption of fuel is nearly the same as in the systems generally 

 adopted. We have heard it stated to be greater; but, as will be 

 seen in the course of our remarks, we think this an error. We 

 have had many inquiries respecting the mode of making the barrel 

 water-tight around the base of the cylinder; but this is easily done 

 with proper cement: a groove is made in the tub or barrel, and 



