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as at the Chiswick gar- 

 den and Kew, has not, 

 we think, the same in- 

 tensitj' of colouring as 

 it displayed last year. 

 Groom's Florists' Gar- 

 ■^^^^^^^ den, Walworth. — Xov. 4. 

 *^ ^We found Mr, Groom 



arranging his tulips for 

 planting, in the manner 

 recommended by him 

 (Vol. II. p. 307.'), and 

 by our correspondent J. 

 M. (Vol. VI. p. 683.). 

 The bloom of the tulip 

 bed last spring was finer 

 than Mr. Groom had ever 

 before seen it. The 

 severe frost on the 7th 

 of May last had nearly 

 done much harm to the 

 ranunculuses ; but, by 

 watering them before 

 sunrise, the mischief was 

 prevented. A large stock 

 of Dutch bulbs has been 

 imported, and found re- 

 markably well grown this 

 season. A good stock 

 of Z/upinus polyphyl- 

 lus albus, Potentilla 

 atrosanguinea Mayidnay 

 choice carnations, cac- 

 tuses, and various other 

 plants. Some chrysan- 

 themums, trained to a 

 Vv'ail, finely in flower. 

 Ammobium alatum very 

 strong, and ripening abundance of seed. Two large agaves in tubs, well 

 adapted for the adjoining zoological garden. i,upinus niutabilis has proved 

 itself here, as in other nurseries, to be an admirable shrubbery annual. We 

 have before (p. 366.) strongly recommended the owners of small London 

 gardens to deal largely in Mr. Groom's early double and single tulips as 

 border flowers, and we would now remind them of the beauty and fragrance 

 of hjacinths in borders, and of the display made at a cheap rate by masses 

 jof crocuses and aconites. Mr. Groom has built a new camellia pit, with 

 hollow walls, and in covering it he means to use a tarpawling over the mats 

 or straw, in order to carry off" the rain, instead of letting it sink through 

 to the glass. 



Buchanan's Nursery and Arboretum, CamberwcH, are both going on well. 

 The stock of green-house plants in pits is extensive, and in excellent con- 

 dition. Here, as at the Edgeware Road Nursery, Cape heaths seem to be 

 equally well, if not better, preserved in pits and frames without artificial 

 heat, than in other nurseries in green-houses with flues or hot-water pipes. 

 In the arboretum we observed many rare and handsome species ; among 

 others, Escallon/a bifida, which, if it should be found quite hard}', will be a 

 most valuable addition to the shrubbery. E. glandulosa, rubra, and rubra 

 albiflura, are also vcrv fine shrubs, and likely to be tolerably hardy. Mr. 



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