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habit. The greatest care was taken in the hybridization of 

 tlie plants from which they were produced, and in the culti- 

 vation of the seedlings, and we may promise the florist and 

 amateur, the coming season, a collection of new azaleas far 

 surpassing in beauty any of the older sorts. The rest of the 

 house is filled with plants of verbenas. Primula sinensis, 

 roses, &c. We noticed a fine seedling rose, Rosa Sherwood//, 

 a hybrid variety, equal in shape aiitl size to, and as com- 

 pact as, the connnon Garden Cabbage, but of an entirely 

 distinct color, being as perfect and brilliant a scarlet as the 

 Fei-bena JMelindres. Small plants are now for sale at five 

 dollars each, and we heartily commend it to florists as the 

 most important addition to this beautiful tribe, ever produced. 



Another portion of the house is entirely filled with fine 

 Cacti, the Epiphyllum nobilissima, alatum, and Russell/djiM))i, 

 a fine new sort called the May-fly; Cerei, Echinocacti, Mam- 

 niillariffi, &c. At the end of this house, you enter a small 

 propagating house, thirty-eight feet long, filled with camellia 

 cuttings, principally of the best double sorts, Orchidess of va- 

 rious sorts; the Catlley« Forbes// was just coming into bloom, 

 and the superb Rondelet/a speciosa just displaying its corymbs 

 of superb scarlet flowers. 



Leaving the propagating house, you enter the south-western 

 side. Among the plants in bloom were the E'pacris grandi- 

 flora, palludosa, and heteronema, CorrsVt speciosa and pul- 

 chella. Cyclamen coum, O'xalis flava, versicolor and flori- 

 bunda alba, Phlox Drummond//, Polygala cordata, and 

 myrtifolia, ..Acacia microphylla, Beaufort/a decussata, Leche- 

 naull/a formosa, Dillwyn/a cinerescens, Kennedya prostrata, 

 the beautiful purple Hovea pannosa, Saxifraga ligulata or 

 shrubby saxifiage, Davies/a myrtifolia, Fiburnum rugo- 

 sum, and a fine collection of several thousand pelargonia 

 and roses of the choicest kinds. I also noticed two fine 

 large plants of the Pteon/a arborea, (JMoutan^) and papavera- 

 cea, both of which were com|iletely covered with flower buds. 



Philadelphia, Feb. 22, 1841. 



The collections of Messrs. Sherwood and Mackenzie have 

 been noticed by us in our past volumes, the former in our III., 

 p. 308, and the latter in our V., p. 369; but it will be seen, 

 by a reference to our remarks, that they have made great 

 additions to their establishments, particularly in the number of 

 seedling camellias, azaleas, &,c. 



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