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and all the branches were immediately cut in; the first season 

 some of the young wood measured fifteen inches in length, and 

 the second the growth was still greater, the wood of both years 

 measuring, in some of the strongest branches, three feet or more 

 in length, and nearly half an inch in diameter at the base of each. 

 CamelHas, when unsightly, from their crooked branches, should 

 be always well pruned, and they may be brought into almost any 

 shape the cultivator may fancy: when in ill health the surest 

 method of a speedy recovery is to lop off all the branches; if 

 the roots are in tolerable order, and the plant carefully repotted, 

 a good growth is generally a certain result: no plant that we are 

 acquainted with appears to bear the knife better than the camel- 

 lia, excepting, however, the C. reticulata. 



Mr. McCuUough has a very good collection of geraniums, 

 which occupy all of the front stage, except that part which is 

 covered with a small collection of heaths. They are exceeding- 

 ly well grown; indeed we have rarely seen geraniums with the 

 wood so stocky and short jointed. Of heaths, the collection is 

 somewhat reduced, from the sale of many of the best specimens; 

 and few were left of sufficient size for blooming. A small plant 

 of E. cafFra.'' in flower, and a large one with the buds not yet 

 open, were all that will make any display. Among the small 

 plants we noticed E. mammosa, ventricosa and ventricosa su- 

 perba, cruenta, herbacea, arborea, and seedlings of a species 

 with white flowers, with foliage like triumphans. We were hap- 

 py to learn from Mr. McCullough that the sale of the plants has 

 been beyond his expectations, and he intends to lay in a large 

 stock for next season. 



In the second compartment we found the pit filled with roses, 

 for cutting the flowers, which were opening finely. The kinds 

 were principally the common cabbage or undulata, and the san- 

 guinea, which, for its profuse and constant flowering, is not ex- 

 celled by any rose: Lady Banks's yellow and white roses were 

 also showing buds on small plants in pots. The place being a 

 new one and the houses large, Mr. McCullough was under the 

 necessity of preserving more common plants to fill the house 

 than he otherv^ise would have done. Geraniums, however, are 

 a very saleable plant. Under the stage, planted in the earth, 

 and not in pots, as at Mr. Williams's, we observed a quantity of 

 roots of the rhubarb; they were just pushing their leaves. A 

 fine crop was procured last season in this manner. 



Passing into the forcing-house, which has pits both at the back 

 and in front, we found it filled with radishes, lettuces and parsley. 

 The first pit at the back was planted with radishes, some twenty 

 or thirty dozen having been already pulled: that in front was 

 filled with parsley; in the second a crop of radishes had been 

 pulled, and another was just coming on; in the front pit lettuces 



