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the influences of the sea-breeze cannot prove so de- 

 trimental to the plant under glass, as if it were ex- 

 posed to the external atmosphere, yet it will be well 

 to have the structure removed from the immediate 

 vicinage of the sea, when this can be accomplished, 

 and to use no sand or other materials impregnated 

 with salt. 



Attention has recently been called to the applica- 

 tion of the principles of landscape gardening to the 

 cultivation of exotic plants a feature quite novel 

 in British horticulture, and one which will undoubt- 

 edly gain ground with the advancement of the 

 science. The cultivation of exotic plants on the 

 shelves of a greenhouse, however well the speci- 

 mens are grown, conveys little or no idea of the 

 aspect the species present, and the manner in which 

 they are associated in their native lands; and yet it 

 is avowedly one of the great objects of exotic gar- 

 dening to present to the eye vivid pictures of na- 

 ture, as she is exhibited in the gorgeous vegetation 

 of tropical lands. 



The inordinate taste for stiff geometrical gardens, 

 which copied from the Dutch prevailed to such 

 an extent at one time in England, is now a mere 

 matter of history, although its traces are not alto- 

 gether obliterated. Our plant-houses, or exotic gar- 

 dens, as they are generally constructed in the present 

 day, are essentially of the same character, although 

 they cannot be looked upon as a remnant of Dutch 



