Notes OIL Gardens and Nurseries. 215 



formerly cultivated a large bed of tulips ourselves, and we 

 found that, with all the pains we took to grow them well, 

 many of the sorts run their colors very much ; most culti- 

 vators grow the bulbs too strong and use manure too free- 

 ly. They require but little manure, and such as is used 

 should be very old and perfectly decomposed. We would 

 caution all tulip fanciers to be cautious in the use of ma- 

 nure, for it is better to err in having too little than too much. 

 The following were some of the most beautiful : 



Bybloeinens. — Franciscus Primus, Blanche Violet, Black 

 Baguet, Wade's King, Rigaiit Nonpareil, Desdemona, Roi 

 de Borneo, Rigaut La Magnifique, Franklin's Washington, 

 Majesteuse, Imperatrice florum, Triomphe du Monde, 

 Maitre Parlout, Violet Sanspareil, Bienfait Incomparable, 

 L'Ambassadeur d'Hollande. 



Roses. — Admiral Kingsbergen, Violet Ombre. William, 

 Cerise Sanspareil, Maria Theresa, Reine des Cerises, and 

 Premier. 



Bizarres. — Chadwick's Trafalgar, Strong's Bolivar, 

 Charles X., Ectalante, Cardinal, Belle Financier, Goud 

 Van Perou, Lansdowne and Pizarro. 



From the garden we passed into the large domical conser- 

 vatory, to notice several plants which had been treated with 

 guano, as noticed by Mr. Teschemacher in his article in 

 our last number, p. 168. We were quite astonished at the 

 number of blooms on some of the pelargoniums ; some 

 small plants potted off in February, and having a mixture 

 of guano in the soil, in the proportion of one teaspoonful 

 to the pot, had grown finely, and were displaying several 

 hundred blossoms. The plants are not more than fifteen 

 inches high and twenty broad, and presented a nearly flat 

 surface, covered with flowers. There can be no doiibt of 

 its being a valuable manure for the pelargonium and rose, 

 and similar robust growing plants, which flower so abund-i 

 antly and exhaust the soil. 



In the greenhouse we noticed plants of the new fuchsia, 

 Venus victrix, Achimenes longifiora and Manettia bicolor ; 

 a large plant of Mandevillea suaveolens, from its present 

 appearance, mhU flower abundantly. The whole of the 

 plants look well under the care of Mr. Cadness, and at the 

 present time the collection of pelargoniums is well worth a 

 visit. 



