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from trees, sometimes from rocks, at an elevation of 7 to 9000 

 feet above the sea level. It is a superb plant, with immense 

 white flowers, tinged with rose, about 5 inches in diameter. 

 It is also remarkable from the rich ferruginous down, which 

 cover the branches, the leaves beneath, the stipules, calyx, 

 &c., and there is a bright play of light on the dark green 

 foliage, occasioned by the prominence of the areoles of the very 

 strong reticulations. It flourishes in a cool greenhouse and 

 blossoms in May. {Bot. Mag., Sept.) 



SUBURBAN VISITS, 



Residence of T. W. Walker, Esq., Waltham. — It is a 

 rich and rare treat, to one who appreciates fine trees and 

 shrubs, to visit some of the old places in the vicinity of our 

 city ; rich, because time has enabled every tree to attain that 

 size and beauty of form which we do not often see, unless 

 by chance we visit some fertile woodland spot, where, stand- 

 ing isolated, they have had the opportunity to maintain their 

 natural form and vigor of growth, — rare, because these old 

 places are fast disappearing from our environs, by the natural 

 rise in value of land, and the eagerness of speculators to buy 

 up every old homestead for conversion into house lots. Few 

 residences on the same liberal scale have recently been laid 

 out, and such as there are show their youth by the size and 

 growth of their ornamental plantations. It is only in these 

 old established grounds, laid out, planted, and kept up at 

 great expense by gentlemen of wealth and taste, that we are 

 now enabled to enjoy the grandeur and beauty of trees in 

 their mature age and vigor of growth. 



The residence of Mr. Walker comprises all the large and 

 beautiful estate formerly belonging to Gov. Gore, comprising 

 some one hundred and forty acres, finely laid out and planted 

 by him at the close of the last century. The house is one 

 of the large, commodious, and comfortable old buildings 

 which are as rare as places of similar age and extent. It is 



