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red, the striped, Lady Hume's blush, paeony-flowered, Kew blush or 

 pompone, Middlemist's red, and the double white camellia have stood 

 the winter without the slightest protection, look perfectly well, and appear 

 almost as far advanced as those in the houses. The most delicate of 

 all the camellias appears to be Camelh'a Sasanqua all the others, we believe, 

 might be kept alive on a south wall well matted during the severest part 

 of winter. To bloom them magnificently, however, a house is requisite. On 

 the same wall with ihe camellias are some dozens of Magnolia conspicua, 

 large plants, well furnished with blossom buds. It is difficult to see 

 these without exclaiming, " What a treasure for those who wish to produce 

 an immediate effect against a new house or in a new garden!" There 

 is here, we believe, the largest stock of this plant about London ; and 

 the same may be said of our favourites. Wistaria Consequa?iff, Paeonia 

 Moutan, and its different varieties, Chimonanthus fragrans, Lonicera 

 flexuosa, &c. These names, and some others before given (p. 348.), cannot 

 be too often brought before our readers. We only wish the plants were 

 familiar to the jobbing gardeners about London. If we had leisure, we 

 would send a man with a cart-load of each of these plants in pots, and 

 when in bloom, all round London, and offer them for sale at every house 

 that had a ground plot in front, at our own risk. 



Camellias seem to grow as well in pits in this nursery, as heaths do in 

 the Edgeware Road nursery, at the Clapton nursery, and at Messrs. Rol- 

 lison's at Tooting. Indeed, the practice of growing green-house plants in 

 pits is yearly increasing in all the nurseries, and another practice with it, 

 that of planting out green-house plants in the open ground during the 

 summer season. Every part of Messrs. Chandler's grounds exhibits order 

 and neatness in an eminent degree. 



April 14. The camellias and Magnolia conspicua are now magnificently 

 in bloom j as are numerous large bushes of C'ydonia japonica. Some bunches 

 of Wistaria are also beginning to colour. 



RusseWs Enham Nursery, Battersea. — Feb. 18. A hybrid rhododendron 

 of considerable interest is now in bloom here ; its parents are R. arboreum 

 and catawbiense : the leaves and habit of the plant resemble the former 

 species, and in a great measure also the flower ; its chief value consists in 

 its being perfectly hardy. Mr. Russell has now some hundreds of plants 

 five years old for sale ; some in pots, and the rest in the open air, without 

 the slightest protection. The one in bloom was forced. There is a very 

 well-contrived span-roofed green-house here {fig. 01.), which is calculated 



to contain at least 

 " ^ double the number of 



plants of any house 

 of the kind that we 

 have seen. On the 

 floor (a) georginas or 

 other plants not re- 

 quiring much light 

 are brought forward ; 

 on the main stage (6) 

 camellias, which do 

 not requii'e a direct 

 light, are grown j 

 above them (c) pelargoniums ; small seedlings, in thmnb pots, on shelves 

 near the glass (d) ; and flowering plants on the shelves (e) which border 

 the walk. In the show-house some fine specimens of Amaryllis Johnsoni 

 ornament the stages of pelargoniums, and P. Humei is just coming into 

 flower. Mr. Russell is very assiduous, of unwearied industry, and if he 

 perseveres we have no doubt of his success. 

 ^ Allen and Rogers's Bolingbroke Nursery, Battersea. — Feh,\S. This is the 



