262 Calls at Gardens and J^urseries. 



MAXILLA'RIA 



rufescens Lindl, Brownish Maxillaria. A pretty stove epiphyte; with red and 

 yellow flowers ; appearing in December; a native of Trinidad. Bot. Reg., 1848. 



" By no means one of the pi-ettiest of the genus," although it 

 is a beautiful object when closely examined. It first flowered in 

 the Duke of Devonshire's collection, in 1834. The flowers 

 are small, with a yellow labellum, spotted with crimson. (J3of. 

 Reg.^ April.) 



Art, VII. Calls at Gardens and Nurseries. 



We have visited several gardens, but, for want of room, must defer 

 the principal i)art of our remarks until our next, at which time we shall 

 endeavor to notice several at length. The following hastily penned 

 notices are all we have room for. 



Belmont Place, Watertoion, J. P. Cushing, Esq. — Jtine 23d. We 

 passed a few minutes at this place, but had only time to walk hastily 

 through the houses ; these are in tine order — neatness and cleanliness 

 prevalent throughout. In one of the stoves, the pines, which have 

 lately been potted and plunged in a new bed of leaves, look strong and 

 vigorous. The other is filled with grapes, in pots, which are covered 

 with a fine crop of fruit ; on some we couined from twenty to thirty 

 clusters. Ripe fruit has been cut from some that were introduced very 

 early. We here had an opportunity to notice the difference in the 

 vigor of vines, when raised from eyes or from coilings. The former 

 bore by far the largest crops ; the latter, which were i>ut in last season, 

 in order to try Mr. Mearns's system, not having made wood of much 

 more than half the size of the former, and the clusters of the fruit are 

 not near as handsome. Combrctum purpureum was magnificently 

 showy, having a dense raceme of scarlet flowers expanded, upwards of 

 two feet in length. Amaryllis vittata and Vallota ]nn-{)urea were also 

 brilliant with their exquisitely beautiful blossoms. Cactus Jcnkensonn 

 had o])ened several flowers, and was about expanding another ; it is a. 

 very free-blooming s])ccies. — Conds. 



Amateur Garden of S. Walker, Roxbury. — June '15th. We were 

 much delighted to see, in the very fine collection of S. Walker, that 

 rare and alpine plant " Genti<m« acaidis," which, though rather past 

 its l)est state, was still exceedingly interesting; so seldom, if ever, has 

 it flowered with us. Impatient of heat and drought as it is, much credit 

 is due to its cultivator for his success in overcoming the unpropitious 

 circumstances of the season, and rendering it so healthy. Mr. Walker's 

 seedling pansies are deservhig of attention. — R. 



