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The Walton Nursery, near Liverpool, Messrs. Shirking and Co., was 

 founded by the late by Mr. Bannerman, about 1810, and, on the unfor- 

 tunate decease of that much-respected gentleman, it came into the posses- 

 sion of the present occupier. It contains fifty acres, admirably laid out, 

 divided by main walks and alleys, and sheltered by beech, hornbeam, 

 thorn, privet, and holly hedges, and by lines of 6'6rbus hjbrida (Pyrus 

 pinnatifida), torminalis, &c. ; trees which, unlike most others, have the habit 

 of growing perfectly erect in the most exposed situations, and even in 

 places where the winds blow from one quarter the greater part of the year. 

 All hardy articles are cultivated in this nursery, and forest trees to a great 

 extent. Seeds are dealt in, and some sorts are grown. There are two or 

 three green-houses, and a number of pits. We refer to Vol. VII. p. 556., 

 for what we have said, both of this nursery and that at Bache Pool, The 

 following are the notes we took on the spot : — " July 13. Observed a fine 

 plant of Escallon/a rubra, first introduced by Mr. Shepherd, a rather ten- 

 der evergreen, which flowers all the summer season ; hibiscus /iliiflorus in 

 the green-house, which continues beautifully in flower all the year; Co- 

 liimnea scandens; J^ibiscus pulchellus; Corrae''a pulchella, a very large 

 specimen ; a singular speckled variety of balsam, first raised by a person in 

 the neighbourhood; Hunnemann/a; Stenochilus maculatus ; Calandrinia 

 grandiflora; Pergularia odoratissima ; Solandra grandiflora; Passiflora 

 incarnata, with large I'ound fruit; Cuphea Melvilh'i; a new species of Cal- 

 ceolaria, from Lima, not yet flowered. Catananche bicolor ; Simsz« Z«ysi- 

 machia (Lubini«) atropurpurea ; Alstrcemen'a Pelegnnn, very fine; two 

 new spiraeas; Smilacina umbellata, Planera sp. Fine georginas, the tall 

 sorts tied to three stakes joined at top ; saw one grafted by inarchino-. 

 German stocks, forty-eight varieties from Holland. Rhododendrons, grown 

 in quantities, to supply the demand in that neighbourhood for them as 

 underwood shrubs. Messrs. Skirving and Co. grow an improved variety of 

 Swedish turnip for seed ; one of these turnips weighed 27 lbs. Roses 

 propagated by cuttings of the root. Different species of elms and Planera. 

 Fine evergreen oak from Mr. Hodgins of Wicklow. Mr. Smith, the botanic 

 foreman, who has been some years in France, Spain, and Portugal, says 

 he never saw any place where things grow with such luxuriance as in Hod- 

 gins's Wicklow Nursery : even cuttings of holly, a foot long " laid in by the 

 heels," in bundles, strike root almost immediately. Mr. Smith has tried 

 herbaceous grafting on various things with success. Lucerne is grown 

 here for the horses employed for the nursery, and three good cuttings of 

 it have been obtained in one season. 



The following List of a few Shrubs arid Trees in the 

 out for us hy Mr.Dall. 



Walton Nursery was made 



^cer pennsylvanicum. 

 vi;'sculusHippocastanuin, gold- 

 striped and silver-striped. 

 jl'Inus crispa. 

 Aralia spimNsa 

 Aristotfelia Mdcqui, striped, 

 ^etula populifblia, grows very 



large. 

 BignonM radicans major. 

 Carpinus .B^tulus, cut-leaved 



variety. 

 Castanea vesca, gold and silver 



striped. 

 Cytisus.many good sorts.graft- 



ed as standards. 

 Crats^gus, or thorn, thirty 



good sorts. 

 Cotoneaster, different sorts. 

 //ippophae canadensis and si- 



birica. 



/''lex ^quifblium, or holly, 

 rec6rva, balearica, opaca, 

 Hodgins's large green, Hod- 

 gins's long-spined, Davies's 

 seedling light green, serrati- 

 fblia, and forty other gold 

 and silver varieties of holly. 



J^Iex Perado. 



Jasminum pubigerum. 



/-aurus nobilis var. marginSl- 

 tus, and willow-leaved. 



JV/espilus ChamEemespilus and 

 grandiflora. 



Philadelphus grandiflbrus and 

 gracilis. 



P6pulus macrophylla, hetero- 

 phylla, and candicans. 



Planferrt Richardi and Gmelln;'. 



Cerasus piSndula, a broad- 

 leaved variety, fruiting in 

 August. 



/"^rus elaeagniftlia, bacckta, 



spilria, pr<B''co,\, nmygdali- 



furmis, «alicifulia,'and PoU- 



\iria [Bollwyller/a«« Dec.]. 

 Qiiercus gramuntia, Hodgins's 



large evergreen, and Lu- 



coinbe's. 

 flibes coccineum [? sangui- 



neutn], triste, album, and 



procurabens. 

 libsa rfepens [or ? repanda] and 



six choice double varieties, 

 /'yrus nivalis, thorn-leaved, 



canad(5nsis, hybrida, and 



twenty varieties. 

 SpirsE^a biJlla, n6va ta6rica, 



alplna, trilobata, incarnata, 



and lob&ta [lobata is ^ ^ ], 

 t/lmus p^ndula, camptstris, 



and fastigiata, the Devon- 



shire or screw elm. 



