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its larger flowers and broader leaves. Beyond the fragrance its 

 blossoms possess, it has no great claims ujjon the admirer of the 

 orchideoLis family. Common in English collections. [Bot. Reg., 

 June.) 



BOLBOPHY'LLUM 



corninum Lindl. Cocoaniit Bolhophylliim. A stove epipliyte ; frrnwini; a foot lii^h ; with 

 flesh colored tlowers ; appearing ii^ January ; a native of .Sierra Leone. Hot. Reii., 1964. 



" Related to B. reci'irvum, tetragonum, and the others in their 

 neighborhood, but is readily known by the pale flesh colored 

 flowers, the serrated petals and the concave lip, delicately ciliated 

 towards its base." The flowers, which are small, are produced 

 on a long, erect and graceful spike, presenting a pretty appearance 

 when in bloom. Introduced from Sierra Leone, where it grows 

 on the cocoanut palm. Flowered both in the collection of thfi 

 Messrs. Loddlges and Mr. Bateman, in January, 1835. [Bot. 

 Reg. J June.) 



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Belmont Place, Mr. Cushing's. — ^ug. 15. The grounds at this place 

 are fast filling up with the growth of the various new trees and shrubs 

 which have been planted within the two past years. The belt of ever- 

 greens bordering the lawn, next to the main road, together with the va- 

 rious clumps upon it, have made an excellent growth, and prc^^ent a 

 vigorous and healthy appearance. In the rear of the splendid range of 

 houses, near the forcing ground, some Scotch larches, balsams, firs, 

 yews, &c., which were planted on a small triangular spot, have made 

 stronger shoots than any that we ever saw. The Scotch larch should 

 be generally introduced into the gardens of this country; it is a beauti- 

 ful tree, of a graceful habit, and a rapid grower ; it is perfectly hardy, 

 none of the shoots on those at Mr. Cushing's having been aftected in 

 the least by the severity of our winters. 



In passing through the range of green-houses, &c., we were much 

 pleased at the well kept order of each department. The graperies were 

 bearing good crops of fruit, for young vines which have been ])lanted 

 out only one year. Mr. Haggerston tried an experiment the past 

 spring, to retard the crop of one of the graperies as much as possible. 

 His method was as follows : — early in the spring, before the weather 

 was warm, the sashes of the roof were covered with boards, to exclude 

 the rays of the sun: the border was also covered, to ]ircveut the earth 

 from becoming heated, otherwise the sashes covered with boards would 

 have been of no use, as the sun's rays, acting upon the soil, would set the 

 sap in motion, and the eyes would have immediately broken; the grapery 

 was kept shut up close. This covering was continued until the vines 

 showed symptoms of breaking their buds: the whole was then removed, 

 and the vines treated in the same manner as in the adjoining grapery. The 



