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good deal exhausted by the sumrtier sun and rains. The 

 most perfect order and neatness reign as usual in the 

 green-house. A description of tally not in general use has 

 been lately adopted here. The plate on which the name is 

 written is of wood, 2iin, long, liin* broad, and about a 

 quarter of an inch thick. In this a piece of wire or iron 

 rod, about three sixteenths of an inch thick, is inserted as 

 120 a shank; and, while the board is painted white, the shank 



is black. {Jig. 120.) They are perhaps rather clumsy, 

 especially for plants in pots, but the writing will be more 

 durable than on metallic tallies. 



The Epsom Nursery, Messrs. Young. — Oct, 22. The 

 georginas here, as every where, are splendid beyond all 

 former example. Jnagyris Indica Wal., Piptanthus nepa- 

 lensis Swt. (Thermopsis /aburnifolia I). Don), is covered 

 with ripe seeds, like a common laburnum ; and it will not 

 be the fault of the plant, or of Messrs. Young, if the one tree is not soon as 

 common as the other : it ought to be on every lawn. Our country readers 

 will be happy to learn that we have engaged our esteemed correspondent 

 Alpha to resume his lists, which, notwithstanding the senseless venom of 

 Aristides (Vol. VI. p. 337.), we found, during our late tour, highly valued 

 in every part of the country where they were mentioned : indeed, some of 

 the principal botanical nurserymen and amateur collectors, such as Messrs. 

 Pope, Dicksons of Chester, Skirving, Smith and Sons, Goldie, Mr. Wood- 

 house of Crosslee Cottage, and many others, told us that they had been in 

 the habit of considering them among the most valuable parts of the Maga- 

 zine. We might notice many things that we saw here, if we had time and 

 room ; but we trust every thing to Alpha, who will do it better than we 

 can. One point is worth hinting at, viz. a plan for rendering ixias and 

 many other Cape bulbs available as common border flowers, and of as easy 

 culture as crocuses. 



Westland's Nursery, Dorking. — Oct. 23. The georginas here are beauti- 

 fully arranged along a border, against a high hornbeam hedge ; the tallest 

 sorts being in a row next the hedge, and the dwarfer in regular gradation 

 to the front. This mode, and that of forming circular masses with the 

 highest sorts in the centre and the lowest at the edges, are undoubtedly the 

 best for making a splendid display in a mass, as a single row along a walk 

 is the best for displaying individual beauty. Mr. Westland has lately heated 

 two hot-houses by hot water in Kewley's manner ; and we must do him the 

 justice to say that he is almost the only person we have met with who 

 thoroughly and clearly understands the advantages which Kewley's system 

 has over all the other modes of heating, viz. the rapidity of motion in the 

 water, and the extraction and delivery to the house of the greatest quan- 

 tity of heat from a given quantity of fuel. On the latter point we have 

 already spoken (Vol. VI. p. 377.). Mr, Westland was convinced of the 

 saving of heat, by finding that the temperature of the water was never raised 

 high enough to generate steam ; and, in short, that he could always bear his 

 niaked hand in it without the slightest inconvenience ; consequently, that the 

 smoke and heated air which passed into the atmosphere by the chimney 

 top never required to be so hot, and therefore could not carry off so much 

 heat as when the water was either boiling or very nearly so. To convince 

 himself of the greater rapidity of the motion of the water by Kewley's 

 mode, he had two tin models made (^fig. 121. a b). Each model consisted 

 of a round tin vessel (c d), in imitation of the boiler. For the one he had 

 made a siphon of tinned iron tube of several feet in length (e), and, for the 

 other, two tubes of the same size and length, for heating the water on a 

 perfect level (/). He next took out the siphon (e), reversed it, and 

 filled it with cold water, stopping the two orifices with corks. The tube 



