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doing well. It is better, for those whose time is limited, to 

 take two or three tribes, and give them proper attention, than 

 to grow a miscellaneous assortment, which never is in good 

 heahh, and whose appearance does not give the possessor 

 any credit for his skill. The camellias are grown in a rich 

 light loam, and if not quite as full of flower-buds as they 

 would be in peat, yet they are healthy and strong, and the 

 buds sufficiently numerous, without endangering the next 

 year's growth. One great source of the handsome form of 

 Mr. Becar's plants is the benefit they receive from being placed 

 in a span-roofed house, where the light strikes equally on all 

 sides, and prevents the plants from having that one-sided ap- 

 pearance they always do in common green-houses. If the 

 shape of the plants is an object, they should always be grown 

 in a house like INIr. Becar's. 



All the camellias are placed under awnings, which are roll- 

 ed up about four o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun shines 

 in a very oblique direction, and let down again about nine in 

 the morning: when this can be done conveniently, it is better 

 than placing under the shade of trees. Mr. Becar has a great 

 number of stocks, of his own raising, and he finds much 

 amusement in grafting theni with the superior sorts. He has 

 also several seedlings coming in, and a good quantity of seeds, 

 among which we noticed six pods on a single plant of Donck- 

 elaeri; this variety seeds freely, and may prove the parent of 

 a beautiful race. 



When the new range of houses is completed, we hope to 

 have the pleasure of giving an engraving of it: it was our inten- 

 tion to have done so of the old conservatory, and our visit 

 was partly for the purpose; but when we found it pulled 

 down, we deferred our object till the new one was finished. 



Residence of J. A. Perry, Esq. — There are but few private 

 gardens in the country, of the same extent as Mr. Perry's, 

 which can boast of so complete a range of hot-houses and 

 green-houses, all finished in good style. The conservatory, 

 forming one wing of the house, and the hot-house, we have 

 before described, (Vol. V., p. 30.) Since then, there has 

 been a palm-house added, which is one of the most lofty 

 structures, as well as the only one, we believe, devoted to 

 that peculiar purpose, in the country. It is the principal 

 object of attraction, and connects the green-house and hot- 

 bouse together, being built between the two. It is sixty feet 



