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having been discovered by Miss E.Perry, a lad" 'T great ingenuity and 

 worth. Two descriptions of clothes-pegs v^xe Jiere pointed out to us, the 

 invention of a poor man in the neighbourhood, and improved upon by Mr, 

 Perry of Godalming, architect, which are manufactured at Haslemere, and 

 may be had through Mr. Charlwood pf London. (See p. 370.) 



Si/on Gardens, Brentford. — April 9. Looked over the botanic range of hot- 

 houses, with a view to reporting on them at an early period, agreeably to 

 the Duke of Northumberland's permission, and found the plants in the 

 most vigorous state of growth. The range in the kitchen-garden is truly 

 an admirable object both without and within. A number of new forcing- 

 pits have lately been erected, and heated with hot water, by Walker, Kew- 

 ley, Cottam, and Bailey, with a view of exemplifying the modes of those 

 different engineers. The crops of grapes, peaches, figs, cucumbers, and 

 strawberries, in the houses, are most abundant; and the whole garden is 

 a model of order, neatness, and the very highest keeping. 



Groojn's Florists' Garden, Walworth. — April 12. The show of early 

 tulips here is remarkably good in this as in most seasons, which we notice 

 in order strongly to recommend these tulips to the cultivators of small 

 gardens about town, to plant in patches along with hyacinths in their bor- 

 ders. A few of these tulips are introduced in the garden of the Zoological 

 Society, but not a tenth either of them or of hyacinths which there ought 

 to be. Mr. Groom has about twenty-five sorts of early single tulips, the 

 same number of early double tulips, both showy, and, though despised by 

 florists, well adapted for borders, being at once cheap and of the easiest 

 culture. The cultivators of gardens about London and other large towns 

 do not pay half so much attention to furnishing their gardens with early- 

 flowering plants as they ought to do. During June, July, and August, 

 nobody, not even the owner, cares much for a town garden, because there 

 are the Bedford conservatories, the public nurseries, and the parks, to take 

 enjoyment in ; but during February, March, April, May, September, Octo- 

 ber, and November, a few flowers close to our windows or doors are valu- 

 able. Let all, therefore, who have plots of garden ground, however small, 

 in the suburbs of towns and cities, insist on the gardener whom they em- 

 ploy planting them for these months. If the gardener says there are few 

 things which flower in these months, refer him to Groom, or any other 

 nursery or seedsman, for early tulips, hyacinths, or other bulbs ; and to Mr. 

 Cree's Catalogue (reviewed Vol. VL p. 87.) for all the particulars as to 

 time of flowering, colour of the flower, height, soil, &c., of herbaceous 

 plants. If, after this, the gardener says, " This is all very well, but where 

 am I to find the plants ? " then tell him that he can get them all from Mr. 

 Cree, or from the Epsom Nursery. We are obliged to be thus particular, 

 in consequence of complaints which we are frequently having made to us, 

 that the plants we I'ecommend cannot be had in the nurseries. It will 

 hardly be credited by a London nurseryman that we have had letters from 

 distant parts of the country, stating that certain wistai'ias, magnolias, cap- 

 rifoliums, roses, ^c, which we have repeatedly recommended, were written 

 for to different country and London nurserymen, and answers" returned 

 that they could not be had. Yet such is the case; and we know not what 

 lo attribute it to, unless it be to the ignorance of the trade as to the changes 

 which take place in the names of the plants now in the country. We are 

 surprised that people shoidd be so indifferent in a matter in which their 

 own interest is- so intimately concerned. All recent changes of names may 

 be seen in Cree's Catalogue, in Sweet's Hortus Britdnnicus, or in our own. 



Elr. Groom is now propagating a new variety of early pea, the seeds of 

 which are of a deep green ; and, when he has raised enough to offer it for 

 sale, it will certainly be a most valuable addition to our culinary legumes. 



The Camberwell Nurscyy, Messrs. Buchanan and Oldroyd. — April 14. 

 "We mentioned last year (Vol. VI. p. 378.) that an arboretum was com- 



