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principally devoted to this lovely tribe, and two large houses 

 and many frames were entirely filled with large and. small 

 plants. 



The following are the names of several which were now 

 in full flower, or just coming into bloom : — Exicdi Westcottu, 

 bright pink, tubular, fine; Ewerid/m elegans, rose and white, 

 tubular, superb ; pearlata, white, globular, fine ; colorans, 

 white, tubular, fine ; hyemalis, pink, extra ; verticillata major, 

 scarlet, very brilliant ; mammosa, superb; coccinea, tubular 

 corols, fine ; tenella, pink, globular, very profuse of flower ; 

 jasminiflora dlba, white, beautiful; autumn gracilis, pink, 

 globular, elegant; also, refulgens, Bowiei, incarnata, acumi- 

 nata, princeps, Lambertia, rubens, ampullacea rubra, and 

 several others. The same mode of growing is adopted here 

 as at the Messrs. RoUissons. Some of the large specimens in- 

 tended for exhibition, (and which, we notice, have obtained the 

 medal,) were perfect masses of foliage, drooping over, and 

 partially covering the pot ; this is effected by tieing down 

 the lower branches, and keeping the whole well shortened, 

 in order to have a compact bush. 



In the greenhouse, we noticed two remarkable specimens 

 of Lechenaull/a formosa, growing in pots a foot in diameter, 

 and with a head a foot or more in diameter ; these were ob- 

 tained by continually pinching off" every flower for the space of 

 a year, thus allowing all the sap to strengthen the branches; 

 the profuse bloom which it constantly gives often kills the 

 plant, and always enfeebles it after five or six months. Cul- 

 tivators who wish fine specimens, should always take off" all 

 the flowers for one year. 



Messrs. Fairburn cultivate a general collection of plants, 

 and particularly a fine lot of azaleas, among which we no- 

 ticed the newest. In the open ground, quantities of annuals 

 are grown on the borders, and in beds for seed, such as Phlox 

 Drummondft, Nemophilas, &c., and also a good stock of 

 fruit trees, roses, herbaceous plants, &c., the whole of which 

 was in fine order 



Mr. Wilmofs Fruit Garden^ Isleivorth, iSept. 25th. — Pro- 

 bably no such extensive establishments for the cultivation of 

 fruit as those of Messrs. Wilmot, Keens, and others around Lon- 

 don, are to be found. Their names are familiar to most of our 



