224 Notes on Gardens and Nurseries. 



What at this time was most attractive, and, perhaps, 

 worthy of notice, for the information of our amateur 

 friends, was the plants on the front shelf, consisting of Ne- 

 mophila insignis, i^beris coronaria, Clint6n/« pulchella, 

 &c , &c. ; the nemophilas were drooping their pendant 

 shoots over the edge of the pots at least two feet, and were 

 covered with their brilliant blue and white flowers; in the 

 same condition was the delicate clintonia, with its silver 

 and blue corols; contrasting with which was the snowy 

 plumes of the iberis. which, though they had been gay all the 

 spring, were yet blooming abundantly. That splendid 

 stock, the Victoria, was also displaying its rich crimson 

 spikes of blossoms; it is decidedly the handsomest variety 

 6ver brought to notice. Few individuals who have not 

 seen these annuals, as indeed many others, under cultivation 

 in the greenhouse, can form any idea of their great beauty 

 when properly treated ; they do not seem the same plants 

 we see in the open air. Every possessor of a greenhouse 

 should not neglect to sow, in the month of August, a pot 

 of seeds of Nemophila insignis, Clintonia pulchella, Alys- 

 sum maritimum, mignonette, schizanthuses of all sorts, 

 7^beris coronaria, Eiitoca viscida, Victoria, and other stocks, 

 &c., &c. 



In the stove the vines were ripening a fine crop of grapes, 

 some of the clusters of which were immense ; and a crop ojf 

 Keen's Seedling strawberries had just been taken from the 

 pots placed on the back shelf. Mr. Haggerston informed 

 us that some of the berries were four inches in circumfer- 

 ence. The plants were obtained by pegging the young 

 runners into small pots in July, and then shifting them into 

 a larger size in August, one or two plants in each. Keen's 

 Seedling is undoubtedly the best forcing strawberry that 

 has yet been raised. 



On the back wall, that loveliest of all climbing plants, 

 Tecom« ^'asminoides, was radiant with its blushing corols ; 

 it had extended its branches twenty or thirty feet. The 

 roots are planted in the pit at one end, and the shoots 

 are trained over the walk. The greenhouse is scarcely 

 warm enough for this plant to do well, but in the stove or 

 hot house its shoots extend, and it luxuriates in a higher 

 temperature. On the opposite end of the pit, Combretum 

 purpureum, also trained over the walk, rambled along the 

 wall, and was just showing its budding racemes. £^uph6rb- 



