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tions in England and in Italy, and elsewhere, I have 

 observed promising advance in ornamental planting. 

 Many such places may contribute to the revenue of 

 Companies and nursery gardeners, by arrangement 

 for exhibition and sale of plants and flowers, some- 

 what in analogy to what is everywhere seen for sale 

 of books and periodicals. 



There are very many such places throughout the 

 country, where Camellias and Magnolias would flou- 

 rish on walls, or even as standard bushes in sheltered 

 nooks, or surrounded by shrubs, and present quite 

 beautiful pictures in early spring, alone or with 

 Rhododendrons, &c. Lately, a bush of Camellia 

 was killed at Stedalt, near Balbriggan, by moving it 

 after growing there for fifty years. Nearly twenty 

 years ago, I saw above one hundred flowers on it at 

 one time in March ; and one winter or spring after 

 that, it had above one thousand blooms. It was of 

 the semi-double, cherry-coloured kind, called Donck- 

 lacrii. It is not generally known that amongst 

 modes of propagating this lovely shrub is by cut- 

 tings in bottles of water, as myrtles and other plants 

 are sometimes rooted. They rather like high, exposed 

 situations ; but in shelter, and not requiring peat, 

 they dislike limestone soil. 



