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will be unfit for general cultivation. Mr. Haggerston's plant 

 was raised from seed last year, and placed in his bands by a 

 gentleman who managed to keep it through the winter, and it 

 has now fruited for the first time. The plant is growing in a 

 large pot, and is nearly three feet high, with an erect stem. 



The grapes in the stoves have all been cut, and they are 

 now fully ripe in the succession house; some of the clusters of 

 Muscat of Alexandria were the largest and finest we ever saw; 

 those in the cold house are coming on well, and show a fine 

 crop. Mr. Haggerston prunes his vines on the spur system, 

 throughout. A few peaches, plums, apples, &c., in pots, 

 were ripening small crops. 



In the open garden, the borders were enlivened with a good 

 show of perennial and other plants: (Enothera macrocarpa 

 was very brilliant, with its large deep yellow flowers; it is a 

 fine perennial, and worthy the best place in the border. 

 Yucca filamentosa, with its stately panicles of waxy looking 

 bells, is a superb plant, not half so much cultivated as it should 

 be. A bed of picotees and carnations had made a fine show, 

 but the plants were now past their finest bloom. Mr. Hag- 

 gerston has a large bed of seedlings coming on, for another 

 year. Around the circle, in the centre of the garden, groups 

 of verbenas were displaying their varied tints, making a splen- 

 did show. Salvia patens was showing a few of its deep blue 

 flowers, contrasting prettily with the scarlet tints of the old 

 species. 



It is astonishing to see what a different appearance the roses 

 have here, compared with their appearance two years ago, be- 

 fore Mr. Haggerston made the discovery of the efficacy of 

 whale oil soap in destroying the rose slug. We recollect of 

 being at the garden at that season, and the bushes were com- 

 pletely stripped of their foliage, although every means had been 

 used to prevent it: snufF, lime, sulphur, covering the bushes, 

 &c., but all without effect. The whale oil soap, however, 

 accomplishes the object at once; and the rose slug, as well as 

 the aphides, is completely under the hands of the gardener. 



The dahlias are making a fine growth, and have already put 

 forth many beautiful flowers. Mr. Haggerston has a fine col- 

 lection, including most of the new kinds; and, as the ground 

 was well prepared, a superb show may be expected in Sep- 

 tember. 



