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We saw in full bloom upwards of one hundred plants, 

 some of them elglU feet high ; in one pot we counted eight 

 stems, each having ten or twelve expanded blooms or buds, 

 making in all about one hundred flowers on one plant. In 

 the open ground, in front of one of the houses, Mr. Groom 

 has a bed of the album containing three rows of roots, sixty 

 in each row; over these he is now erecting an awning, and 

 the whole will be splendidly in flower in two weeks, when, 

 on our return from the continent, we anticipate such a 

 treat as we have not yet had. They have proved perfectly 

 hardy here. L. lancifolium roseum is intermediate be^ 

 tween rubrum and punctatum, being prettily spotted with 

 deep red. But of the rubrum we can scarcely find words 

 to express its magnificence: if we say the flower has the 

 appearance of a large brilliant, studded with rubies, we do 

 it no more than justice. It is, without exception, the most 

 striking flower we ever saw. Less robust in its habit than 

 the punctatum, it is more desirable on that account. 



Mr. Groom is now raising seedlings between the Japan 

 lilies and the common hardy species, and anticipates very 

 good results. We have no donbt but that, with impregna- 

 tion with our splendid L. superbum, some noble hybrids 

 would be produced. We shall have more to say in relation 

 to the cultivation of these lilies when we notice Mr. Groom's 

 entire collection. 



NeiD Petunias. — The new varieties of petunias are really 

 wonderful improvements on the phoenicea and nyctagini- 

 flora. At Mr. Groom's, we saw six very splendid kinds, 

 viz., — rosea alba, a white one, not a very large flower, but 

 with a distinct rose edge : Lady Hope, a pale rosy purple, 

 delicately veined, with a purple eye: formosissima, pur- 

 plish and veined, with a very dark eye: purpurea grandi- 

 flora, a very dark crimson purple flower, of great size: 

 lilacina striata, a pretty lilac one, striped : ornothissima, 

 exceedingly fine, with distinct stripes. Petunia picta, of 

 which so much was said, and which was let out last spring 

 at 75. 6rf. per plant^ is quite inferior to some of the above; 

 it generally flowers purple, and, as the bloom gets older, it 

 shows an irregular kind of stripe, which gives it the ap- 

 pearance of a faded flower. These new kinds would be 

 great acquisitions to our gardens, and we hope to be able 

 to obtain all the best. 



Phlox Drummondu alba. — This is a new variety of the 



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