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which requires a little practice in order to produce handsome letters. The 

 rate of payment for writing the generic and specific names only is 2d, per 

 tally ; but if the ground on the end of the brick^ on which the name is 

 painted, be included, the work costs 2|rf. These are at the rate of the 

 prices given at the Chiswick garden. Neither there nor in the Mary-le-bone 

 nursery are the names varnished; but at Messrs. Loddiges' this is done as 

 a preservative. The young gardener's name who writes the tallies in the 

 Mary-le-bone nursery is Chambers. 



Malcolm's Kensington Nursery. — Feb. 15. The fine specimen of Magnolia 

 oonspicua, which we Ti-ured in Vol. II. p. 370. and have more than once 

 mentioned as well worth seeing when in bloom, shows more blossom buds 

 this year than it ever did previously. Before this Number sees the light, it 

 will have been a magnificent object. It is quite astonishing to us that this 

 plant is not more common, since it can be had, of a small size, at 5s. Gd. 

 and Is. each. We should wish to see it, Wistanw Consequa??a, Chimo- 

 nanthus fragrans, Lonicera flexuosa, 7?6sa ruga, Noisett/«««, Boursaulti/, 

 odorata, Greville?, multiflora, and Banksi<^, all hardy, mostly odoriferous, 

 and all cheaper than M. conspicua, on every cottage, and against a wall 

 in every flower-garden. We have much fault to find with gardeners in tlie 

 country whose masters and mistresses are always kindly ready to hear what 

 they have to suggest, that they do not recommend these and the other 

 shrubs and plants which we have from time to time enumerated as worthy 

 of a place in every garden. 



Mr. Malcolm has a good stock of the autumn-flowering mezereon, a 

 most beautiful plant, which flowers from November to March. It is little 

 known, and, in consequence, almost entirely neglected. 



April 10. The magnolia in full bloom, and truly magnificent. 



Chandler and Sons, Vaiixhall Nursery. — Feb.Vi. We have neglected 

 for the last three years to notice a handsome span-roofed green-house 

 erected here in 1827, of which a perspective view {Jig. 59.) and section 



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(Jig. 60.) were sent us by the late Mr. Buckingham, then a partner with 

 Mr. Chandler. Mr, Buckingham says, " the roof is without rafters; and, 



although much lighter in appearance 

 than that of a house framed in the usual 

 manner, is in reality nmch stronger, 

 from the equal distribution of its strength 

 to all parts alike. The timber which 

 is saved by not having rafters more than 

 supplies the increased consumption in 

 the bars, which are three inches deep 

 instead of two inches, the usual depth. 

 The labour of framing the lights, mtiking 

 top aud bottom rails, and also the 

 weather-board at top, are all dispensed 

 with ; hence the cost is less, and the 

 appearance more elegant." The foUow- 

 inir are the details : — 



