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in rare and choice ones, is inferior to some others. In 

 the largest or main house we foun^ a very good collection of ca- 

 mellias, embracing a great number of seedlings, most of which 

 have not yet flowered, but the plants of which have obtained a 

 large size. Mr. Carr has raised one' which he designates C. ja- 

 ponica var. Wrayi, after his friend. Dr. Wray, an enthusiastic 

 amateur and botanist, of Augusta, Ga. It was pronounced by a 

 committee of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society a very 

 fine variety. We believe it is a large dark red, with a few 

 touches of white. Among the other plants we saw, as usual, all 

 the various kinds; one small house is nearly filled with roses for 

 cutting for bouquets during the winter season. In the orangery 

 attached to the large green-house are a great number of very old 

 orange and lemon trees. 



In a smaller house, kept up to the temperature of the stove, 

 and partly used for propagating purposes, we noticed a great 

 number of plants. We here saw the practice of grafting the 

 shoots of the tree pasony upon the tubers of the common sort 

 carried into operation, and we were informed that it answers per- 

 fectly, and is a safe mode of increasing this magnificent plant: 

 the mode of performing the operation is given in our II. p. 377. 

 Those we saw had been in some time, and the buds and shoots 

 looked as fresh and full as on the old plants. This plant is not 

 free of propagation, and it will be a long time before the price of 

 good flowering ones will come within the means of the garden- 

 ing community in general. This we regret: its great splendor 

 and perfect hardiness render it one of the most desirable of hardy 

 shrubs. [An amateur and great lover of flowers, who cultivates 

 nearly 9II the tree and herbaceous pseonies, writes us, under a late 

 date, that he is about trying to procure seeds from the common 

 garden one and other varieties, such as the fragrans, &c., by 

 impregnation with the former, in the hope of procuring some 

 superior sorts. We shall endeavor to learn the result of his 

 zeal, and shall with pleasure communicate it to our readers.] 

 But we hope, notwithstanding its slow increase, to see it as gen- 

 erally cultivated as the old double red. Here we also saw an 

 immense number of plants of the Diona^^a muscipula, taken from 

 their native locality, for exportation. Numerous plants were in 

 the course of propagation. 



Our visit was rendered much less interesting by the absence 

 of Mr. Carr from home, and we walked through the houses 

 alone, taking a memorandum of what we thought worthy of note; 

 but, no doubt, omitting many things which deserve mention for 

 their beauty or singularity. The various structures for contain- 

 ing the plants have been erected some years, and do not present 

 any exterior or interior display. A short time since Col. Carr 

 lost one house, together with all the plants, by fire. 



