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in nearly a square, and is surrounded by a high wall. The 

 residence of Mr. Paxton is just at the entrance gate. At- 

 tached to his house on each side are two greenhouses, both 

 filled with plants; a broad walk leads from this gate directly 

 in front, and a bank, planted with rhododendrons and other 

 shrubs, shuts out the view of the garden walls. In these 

 houses we saw some remarkable specimens of plants, among 

 other Fuchsia fulgens eight feet high, beautifully grown, and 

 bearing thirty trusses of its brilliant flowers : corymbiflora, 

 eight feet high with upwards of sixty of its pendulous 

 corymbs, some of which were more than a foot long : formosa 

 elegans. Gem, and tricolor (with blush sepals and pink pe- 

 tals, very handsome) each well grown; Swainsonia coronilli- 

 flora with spikes of purple flowers ; Achimenes hirsuta, rosy 

 purple, new ; fine plants of Rodanthe Manglesii were in full 

 flower, grown well and had a showy appearance. We saw 

 for the first time plants of the double white and purple Chi- 

 nese Primrose, each very showy and desirable, fc^ome of the 

 plants had not at this early season been brought in. 



Like similar gardens of like extent, cross walls are erected, 

 against which are placed the different hothouses, greenhou- 

 ses, pineries, vineries, &c. &c. The orchideous house was 

 the first we entered; the collection is very extensive, and 

 embraces all the choicest genera ; indeed, the house was quite 

 too small and the increasing number of new plants will call 

 for a new and larger structure. A few stanhopeas some of 

 the lovely miltonias, the oncidums, the cattleyas, &c., were 

 all that were opening their fiowers now. Mr. Paxton has an 

 excellent plan of growing them in baskets filled with coarse 

 peat; their luxuriance showed their good treatment. We 

 have often been struck with the remarkable beauty of many 

 of the orchidese figured in the periodicals, but we were still 

 more astonished to see the plants themselves, and we do not 

 well see how any lover of plants, who has the means at com- 

 mand, could remain contented without a collection. We 

 hope that some amateur gentleman will make an attempt. 

 In a small house we saw the plant of Amherstia nobilis, 

 brought from the East Indias by Mr. Gibson ; it is in a healthy 

 condition, and its flowering is looked for with great interest. 



.The grape houses being numerous, and large quantities 



