Culture of Nelumbiums. 



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Explanation of the letters on the plan. {fg. 37.) 



a, Library. Z>, Music-room. c. Conservatory. 



d, Kitchen-garden, enclosed by a wall with battlements. 



e. Group of" one kind of plant, no matter what, separated 

 from the groups in the same compartment by lines of garden 

 pinks ; which plant is preferred in order that the division-lines 

 may be green all the winter. 



J\ Lawn. g. Stokehole, with a pedestal and vase over. 

 h, A collection of i^^sa semperflorens, Noisetteawor, &c. 

 z, Arcades of trellis-work for creepers. 

 k, Sloping ascent to terrace-walk. /, Terrace-walk. 



1. Ferbena Aublet/a 



2. pulchella 



3. Lamberti 



4. chaniffidrifolia 



5. Herbaceous plants 



6. Calceolaria rugosa 



7. Lavender 



8. i?hus Cotinus, pegged down 



9. Stock, red ten-weeks' 



10. Fuchsia gracilis 



11. Stock, white ten-weeks' 



12. Delphinium grandiflorum 



13. (Salvia splendens, pegged down 



14. Fuchsffl microphjlla 



15. Herbaceous plants 



16. iupinus polyphy'Uus 



17. polyphyllus albus 



18. Lobeh'« cardinalis 



19. Collection of varieties of hearts- 



ease 



20. ^sclepia? tuberosa 



21. Herbaceous plants 



22. Carnations 



23. French marigold 



24. Red Chinese aster 



25. African marigold 



26. Clarkk pulchella 



27. Petunia nyctaginiflora 



28. Jnchusa paniculata or italica 



29. Calliopsis bicolor (Coreopsis 



tinctoria) 



30. ^nagallis Webbiawa 



31. fruticosa 



32. 77eliotr6pium peruvianum 



33. Scarlet pelargoniums 



34. i/eliotropium corymbosum 



35. Herbaceous plants 

 iy'chnis fulgens 

 Mignonette, i?eseda odorata 

 Georginas, dwarf varieties 

 Jgeratum mexicanum 

 Lobelift fulgens 



syphilitica 



42. Lupinus mutabilis 



43. Variegated pelargoniums 

 44'. (Salvia fulgens, pegged down 



45. Eschscholtzfa californica 



46. Pseonia, all the species and va- 



rieties of 



47. Herbaceous plants 



48. Herbaceous plants. 



Art. XII. On the Culture of Neliimhiums. By C. 



The Nelumhium speciosum should be planted about the 

 beginning of May in England. The seeds should have a small 

 hole filed in the shell at the end opposite to the point, and 

 should be then put into a basin of water, and kept warm for 

 a few days, either by putting them in the sun, or near a stove. 

 In about ten days the seed will have made its first leaf, which 

 comes out some days before the root fibre ; it may then be 

 planted in a tub of mud, and placed in a green-house, from 

 which the plants have been removed. The tub should be about 

 3 ft. wide by half that depth, filled with mud to within about 



