366 Notes and Recollections of a Tour. 



The flowers are eight inches across, open at night, and con- 

 tinue expanded a day or two. 0ns house for orchids con- 

 tained a good collection — Stanhopea tigrinum a species re- 

 quiring very little heat, and even doing well in a greenhouse. 

 The collection of chrysanthemums is extensive, and one 

 house had just been filled with the plants. In the green- 

 houses, we noticed fine plants of the different Achimenes, 

 Pimelea spectabilis, the beautiful double white Chinese prim- 

 rose, Hydrangea japonica and Azalea variegata, grafted on 

 to i^hododendron pontic um, apparently in a very flourishing 

 condition. This experiment is well worth trying by some of 

 our amateurs, variegata being naturally a rather slender 

 grower, and rather difficult to keep in good health. By this 

 means, perhaps, it may become almost as robust as the old 

 alba. The autumnal roses in the garden were displaying 

 a fine bloom, but we have already described the same vari- 

 eties we here saw in flower. 



Chiswick Villa, Dtike of Devonshire. — Chiswick is one 

 of the beautiful seats of the Duke of Devonshire, and is sit- 

 uated on the Thames, adjoining the Garden of the London 

 Horticultural Society. 



The entrance is through a double row of lime trees on each 

 side, set about twenty feet apart, in the rows, and so trained 

 and clipped, as to form an arched walk. The house has 

 nothing remarkable in style or construction, but it is aproach- 

 ed through an avenue of the noble Cedar of Lebanon, the 

 largest of which are nearly 60 feet high. The gardener is 

 Mr. Edwards, a very intelligent man, whom we had the 

 pleasure of seeing at Chatsworth, but at the time of our visit 

 he was absent on a journey. 



The grounds are beaatifully laid out, and grouped with 

 fine plantations of trees, of various kinds, and a branch of 

 the Thames, winding through them, adds to the picturesque 

 beauty of the place. The weather had been so fine and dry, 

 that even here, within a few miles of London, the grass was 

 in some places almost dried up. In the greenhouse, we found 

 a variety of plants, particularly of fuchsias, and also a fine 

 healthy plant of the splendid i^hododendron Gibsonii, intro- 

 duced from the East Indies by Mr. Gibson, the Duke's collector. 



