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ties of Kew, for he would soon root them into all the collections of the 

 country. Wistark Consequarza is propagated by cuttings from the root, 

 which generally require two, and sometimes three, years before they send 

 up shoots. The common black mulberry is admitted to thrive better in 

 this nursery than in any other about London. Young plants make shoots 

 from 2 to 4 ft. long ; and, from their growing so freely, the stems are very 

 strong and straight, and some of them from 7 to 8 ft. high. This is the 

 more remarkable, as they are in an atmosphere almost as smoky as that 

 of any part of the city. The Aucuba ]a]i6mcsi thrives here as well as the 

 mulberry, and these two objects Mr. Dennis cultivates in quantities. He 

 has also fine specimens of tall single-stemmed standards of the guelder 

 rose, and the Siberian and other lilacs, Irish ivy from 10 to 15 ft. high in 

 pots, and thousands of plants o? Gentmna acaulis. It would be useful to 

 know all the plants that will thrive in the smoke of cities; and here are 

 facts towards this knowledge. Some of Mr. Dennis's georginas, which he 

 is bringing forward in hot-beds for transplanting, already show their flower- 

 buds ; so that he will have a display from May to November. 



A piece of ground is taken by this ingenious gardener, in the King's 

 Road, next to Mr. Knight's, where he intends, during the ensuing summer, 

 to give scope to a very extensive display of georginas, choice annuals," and 

 other flowering plants, and whither he will progressively remove the show 

 part of his establishment. Nearly an acre is prepared beside the King's 

 Road for the display of georginas, and nearly half an acre at the other end 

 of his ground, which fortunately lies beside the Fulham Road. All this is 

 laid out ready, in rows 6 ft. apart ; the distance between the plants in the 

 row to be regulated by the habit of each ; the dwarfest to occupy the fore- 

 ground. Considering that a list of the very earliest and very latest 

 flowering of the pelargoniums would be valuable to those who can possess 

 only a small collection, we requested Mr. Dennis to furnish us with a few 

 names in the order of their flowering, which are as follows : — 



Early. 

 Hfimez, Crimson purple ; Is. 6d. 

 Palkzi, Red ; 2s. 

 Albinot^tum, Purple ; Is. 6d. 

 itfalachraefblium, Red; Ss. 6d. 

 JinghUinum, White; 2s. 

 L^xulum, Rose; 5s. 

 Spectabile striatum, Red ; Is. 

 Quercifblium superbura, Scarlet ; 10s. 6d. 

 Urs-inum, Rose ; 10s. 6d. 

 Glabr^scens, White; Ss.6d. 

 Urbanum, Rose ; 2s. 6rf. 

 Lacbnias, Red ; 2s. 6d. 



Late. 

 Princess Augusta, Scarlet ; 5s. 

 Weltje's Sydney, Crimson ; 10s. 6d. 

 Glorianum, Crimson ; 5s. 

 Flagrans, Red ; 3s. 6rf. 

 Instritura, White ; 5s. 

 Gov/hrii superbum, Red ; 2s. 6d. 

 Speculum, Red ; 10s. 6d. 

 Coiloph;yllum, Orange scarlet ; 3s. 6d 

 Ti'nctum, Clouded ; Ss. 6rf. 

 Megalostictum, Purjile; 2s. 6d. 

 Yesitmanidnum, Clouded ; 5s. 

 Fairlifea;, Lilac ; 2s. 



Lee^s Nursery. — Feb. 23. The plantation of standard roses at the en- 

 trance of this nursery, correctly placed in regard to distance from each 

 other, height, &c., and most scientifically pr.uned, produces an excellent first 

 impression. We could name a nursery where the standard roses which 

 border the main walk do not seem to have been pruned for two years. The 

 impression made by the rose plantation is kept up by the high order 

 and keeping of the margins of select shrubs and trees which border the 

 broad walk leading to the hot-houses. In these borders are some very hand- 

 some specimens of Magnol/a purpurea covered with blossom-buds ,• one of 

 jRhododendron dauricum atrovirens, 4 ft. high, the bloom just on the point 

 of expansion, a most desirable object; a double-blossomed Chinese cherry, 

 the blossoms apparently ready to expand. This is a singular tree, as being 

 readily propagated by cuttings, and valuable as an early flowerer. It serves 

 to confirm Mr. Bishop's theory (see Causal Botany, vol. vi. p. 99.), that the 

 most useful plants for culture are to be sought for among varieties rather 

 than among species. Lonicero! tatarica, an early-flowering species, showy 

 and cheap. Dlrca palustris, a singular shrub, or rather tree in miniature, 



