Sheffield Botanical Garden. 85 



var.; a weeping variety of Acacia armata formed a pretty 

 object with its slightly depending branches ; Lophospermum 

 spectabile, Rhodochiton, and a seedling of Mr. Williamson's 

 were each full of flowers, and trained to trellises had a fine 

 appearance. This tribe is not sufficiently appreciated by our 

 cultivators; treated as annuals they flower abundantly all 

 summer, and if a few are put into pots they commence 

 blooming in February, and continue until autumn. They 

 are easily raised from seeds. We saw here two or three 

 exceedingly fine petunias, which have recently been elevated 

 to the rank of a florists' flower, and we were surprised at the 

 uncommon size, and brilliant color of some of the kinds ; our 

 own collections are yet to be enriched by the addition of su- 

 perior varieties. 



The stove or palm house which occupies the centre of this 

 range, was filled with fine specimens, including several ferns 

 of which Mr. Williamson is a great lover. A new Cereus, 

 called lanceanum, produces flowers which measure seventeen 

 and three quarters inches across the petals. There is a fine 

 plant here of Bonapartea Juncea. Passing through the other 

 compartment for greenhouse plants, where we saw some fine 

 calceolarias, &c., we entered the last, which like the first, 

 was filled with plants requiring only moderate heat. Here 

 we saw another fine specimen of a fuchsia called Ricartonu", 

 ten feet high and splendidly in bloom : a Pimelea decussata 

 grafted on P. drupacea was five and a half feet in diameter 

 and ten feet high ; Clethra arborea, fifteen feet high elegantly 

 in bloom, with numerous terminal wreaths of its beautiful 

 white flowers ; we also noticed several rhododendrons, among 

 which was a seedling raised in this garden, of the first merit. 

 The whole collection showed the good management of the 

 curator. Though so early in the season a large part of the 

 plants were arranged in their places for the winter : the cool 

 nights of August and September will not admit of their being 

 left out so late as with us. 



The garden is laid out with a great deal of taste, and Mr. 

 Marnock obtained much credit for the manner in which he 

 accomplished the work. In front of the range of houses is a 

 lawn of about half an acre : a walk leads from the terrace to 

 the right, and making circuitous curves through the grounds, 



