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The house being new, and the collection of plants recently 

 made, it could not be expected to find many things in bloom. 

 Some fine camellias and roses have been added, and another 

 year Mr. Gardner may expect to make a fine display. The 

 plants looked very well under the management of Mr. Crowly, 

 the gardener. 



Residence of T. Lee, Esq. — Mr. Lee's greenhouse, though 

 not built with much regard to form or appearance, contains 

 some well grown plants, particularly roses; these are set into 

 the ground, and trained up the columns or rafters. The 

 kinds are teas, bourbons and noisettes, and the former are 

 generally budded into strong growing noisettes, v/hich, from 

 their natural constitution of being perpetual growers, do not 

 require that rest, so natural to annual blooming or hardy 

 roses, such as the Boursault, and hence continue to grow 

 more rapidly and flower more abundantly. Mr. Lee is fond 

 of experimenting, and we believe his views, as regards the 

 rose, are correct: there is a vast difi^erence in the growth of 

 roses, as respects the stock on which they are worked, and it 

 remains to be ascertained what sorts are best suited to the 

 diflferent kinds. It is well known that some varieties of 

 pears will not grow upon the quince, and undoubtedly the 

 same cause may act with roses; when, therefore, a budded 

 rose does not grow kindly, it may be inferred that the stock 

 does not suit it, and it should be tried on another sort ; these 

 are things which experience will only teach, but which an 

 observing amateur or gardener should not overlook. 



Eu\)h6xhia jacquince^ora, planted out in the border, was 

 blooming most superbly, with a spike Jif teen inches long, and 

 the flowers crowded into dense clusters all around it ; this is 

 probably the true way to see it in its fullest splendor: cramped 

 in a small pot, it will bloom well, but very far inferior in the 

 size and number of its blossoms, when the roots have room 

 to extend. Tecoma jasminoides had rambled over half of 

 the roof, and if it flowers freely, it will make a show well 

 worth seeing. Several plants were in bloom, but we saw 

 nothing especially new. 



Brighton^ Residence of H. Gray^ Esq. — Many improve- 

 ments are going on here, not the least of which, is the erec- 

 tion of a new greenhouse, on the curvilinear plan, adopted 



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