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are many other departments, such as the orchideoiis house, 

 hothouse, azalea, house, heath house, propagating houses, &c.; 

 besides, there were a great quantity of frames, where the 

 heaths are placed during the summer season. 



Preparations were now making for removing the plants to 

 the houses, and the azalea house was already filled with a 

 fine collection, of which Messrs. Rollisson have a great num- 

 ber of varieties, including the very newest and best. 1 he 

 liliums were yet showing a few faded flowers, and many 

 of the fall blooming ericas were gay with a profusion of beau- 

 tiful flowers. Among these, were retorta major, new and fine; 

 sanguinolenta, pearlata, white, globular, superb; Aitonia, 

 and cerinthoides. 



The stove was now full of plants, and we here saw the splen- 

 did Achimenes picta, and also A. hirsuta ; Rondeletia spe- 

 ciosa, fine, with deep orange flowers ; many of the new plants 

 of the season were here being brought forward, such as Echi- 

 tes carassa, and atropurpurea, Francisea Hopedna, Passiflora 

 fragrans, Griffima hyacinthoides. &;c. Fires are required in 

 the climate of England, as much in the months of August 

 and September as with us when much later and colder, being 

 necessary in cloudy weather, during the day and night. 



In the orchideous house, there were a few of this most sin- 

 gular and magnificent tribe in bloom ; Miltonm Candida and 

 Clowesii, exquisitely beautiful ; Dendrobium sanguinolenta, 

 and chrysanthemum, superb ; indeed, all the dendrobuims 

 are fine, Odontoglossum gr4ndis, and various oncidiums with 

 their long racemes of yellow blossoms, many of them grow- 

 ing in baskets, or on the branches of trees suspended from 

 the roof. This tribe is yet little known with us, but we hope 

 soon to see collections made by some of our amateurs : no- 

 thing could afford more gratification than a house filled with 

 some of the handsomest kinds. In summer, they would re- 

 quire only the same treatment as greenhouse plants, our hot 

 sun alone giving sufficient heat without fire, and in win- 

 ter, their gay blossoms would surpass, in interest, even the 

 showy camellia. 



In the open garden, we found fine collections of hardy rho- 

 dodendrons and azaleas, with many seedlings of the former, 

 grown from seeds distributed by the London Horticultural 



