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borea, 10 ft. high, and finely in flower; Facdnium j4rctostaphylos, the 

 Madeira bilberry, 6 ft. high, and richly covered with fruit ; another species, 

 unknown, bearing very large fruit. Both species well deserve culture, where 

 peat earth is not scarce, as fruits for tarts and for eating with cream, like 

 other bilberries. Andromeda acuminata and mariana, J?hodod^ndron 

 caucasicum, Clethra alnifolia, Gualtherza procurabens, Cornus canadensis, 

 Hypericum Ka\midnum, Stuartia Malachod^ndron, finely in flower ; Mag- 

 nolia auriculata, very luxuriant; measured one of the leaves, and found it 

 22 in. long, and 11 in. wide. Lilium superbum, 10 ft. high, coming into 

 flower. The great art in getting this species to flower well, as Mr. Cameron 

 of Bury Hill informed us, is to keep the bulbs single, by taking them up, 

 separating, and replanting. It is evident that, by this practice, the greatest 

 possible supply of nourishment will be obtained by each plant. Phlox 

 Thomson?', a new variety, in flower* jDaphne collina, a variety with striped 

 leaves. This nursery excells in the management of hedges, which are in 

 some cases 8 or lOft. high, and not more than 8 or loin, thick: but, in 

 general, it is not quite so neat and orderly as we could wish; and though 

 we have never seen the weeds exceed the economic point (p. 572.), we would 

 rather see weeding carried lower. We never yet knew a nursery or mar- 

 ket-garden, where any money was made, that was not kept orderly, at all 

 events, and most of them even neatly. We do not say that much is want- 

 ing at Knap Hill ; but still we should like to see both principles pushed far- 

 ther ; a good many of the old things grubbed up, the walks and compartments 

 more correctly lined out, and no weeds ever suffered to grow above an inch 

 high. We hint this with the more confidence, knowing that Mr. Waterer 

 will take it in good part, and that it will be in his favour with the hundreds 

 of gardeners and gentlemen that will come from all quarters next June to 

 see the bloom of new azaleas. 



Goldivorlh Nursery; Mr. Donald. August 7. — The usual order and 

 neatness prevails. Mr. Donald contemplates a carriage-drive through his 

 Home Nursery, with a border on each side, containing a complete display 

 of flowering specimens of peat-earth shrubs. He has lately erected a 

 propagating pit on a very good construction. It is without flues, but in 

 the centre is a division of one light, which is destined to receive hot dung, 

 and the separation walls being very thin, and the boundary walls hollow, 

 the principal part of the heat is given out to the two divisions. The dung 

 may either be thrown in from above, removing the sash, or from one side 

 by an opening in the wall. Mr. D. having a number of large tubers of 

 ^^pios tuberosa, thought of trying them as an esculent, and, boiling and 

 roasting them like potatoes, found them very agreeable and wholesome. 

 An ingenious mode of preventing pear-stocks from becoming mildewed, 

 viz. that of intermixing them in the quarters of plum-stocks, at the rate, 

 perhaps, of 5 or 4 per cent, deserves notice. Might not the same plan be 

 adopted with cherry-stocks to preserve them from the black fly, thorns 

 from the mildew, &c., and with other plants, herbaceous and ligneous, liable 

 to be blighted from various causes, both in gardens and fields ? 



August 7. We met at Mr. Donald's Mr. John Damper Parks, F.H.S., 

 late gardener to the Earl of Arran, at Bognor (p. 293), and at one time 

 Voyaging Botanist to the Horticultural Society. He had just left his 

 place, and was on a walking botanical excursion, calling at all the interest- 

 ing gardens on his way, and gathering the more rare wild plants, and 

 examining them, by Galpine's Compendium. Mr. Parks is a good botanist 

 and gardener, and a prudent man. He was sent to China by the Horti- 

 cultural Society some years ago, and gave us a good deal of curious 

 information as to the customs and garden culture of that country ; but 

 we will not plough with the Society's heifer, but rather repeat our appro- 

 bation of Mr. Park's mode of travelling through the country on foot, and 

 procuring information in his profession ; and recommend to all gardeners. 



