56 Notes 071 Gardens and Gardening 



Acacia cultrasformis, a beautiful glaucous leaved, deep yel- 

 low flowered species ; Ahatilon venosum superb plants, six 

 feet high, in full flower ; Chorizema varium nana, fine, from 

 its dwarf habit ; Kennedya grandiflora, K. racemosa, and 

 K. nigricans, the latter newly introduced, were just coming 

 into bloom ; Gesnera oblonga, is a fine late flowering plant, 

 and the specimens were two feet high, and as much through. 

 Two of the very finest things were the double wh.\ie, andc^ow- 

 hle purple Chinese primroses, of which the specimens were in- 

 deed superb, and reflected great skill upon the cultivator ; they 

 were in pots twelve inches across and one mass of bloom, 

 almost as double and beautiful as the ranunculus. Begom'a 

 fuchsioides, B. sanguinea, B. coccinea, B. manicata, and sev- 

 eral others of this fine winter flowering tribe, were fine, but 

 more particularly B. fuchsioides, which was covered with its 

 depending scarlet blossoms, so much resembling some of the 

 fuchsias, as to have that name applied to it. A brilliant thing 

 was the Tropgeolum 'Lohhmnun, with deep scarlet flowers. 

 The Japan lilies, of which Messrs. Hovey have more than 

 a thousand seedlings, of various crosses with the hardy 

 kinds, were now, some of them, just being potted, for orna- 

 menting the greenhouse and conservatory in summer. A 

 specimen of Acacia pubescens, is probably the best in the 

 country, being fifteen feet high, with its branches wreathed 

 with flowers, hanging nearly to the ground. Leschenaultia 

 formosa, twenty inches high, and four feet in circumference, 

 filled with thousands of flowers, was a superb object. The 

 roses, of which there are thousands, were not yet in bloom. 

 In the Camellia house, which is upwards of eighty /ee^ long, 

 with a span-roof, and built in the Grecian style, with glass 

 on all sides, were some good plants : a very large double 

 white, about ten feet high, and of beautiful proportions, 

 which I regarded with a wistful eye ; it was splendidly 

 bloomed. The stock of camellias is very large and in ex- 

 cellent condition. Messrs. Hovey have raised a great num- 

 ber of seedlings, some of which are said to be unequalled for 

 color and form, but with the exception of one, which struck 

 me as being remarkably fine, they were not yet in bloom. 

 The collection of Azaleas contains a large number of superb 



