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^'ster, Solidago, and Chrysanthemum, allotted to the decoration of the 

 declining year. As new varieties of merit, we noted the following : — 



Queen of the Yellows, called also Most Superb Yellow, Reine de Jau- 

 nesse ; Incomparable, with blossoms densely double and brilliantly scarlet ; 

 Dennisii, a beautiful quilled ruby ; Scarlet Ball, very fine ; Beauty of 

 Cheshunt, a glittering scarlet ; Scarlet Ranunculus, beautiful ; and many 

 other fine new kinds. From Mr. Dennis we learn that his whole stock and 

 collection occupy here and elsewhere about three acres ; and that the 

 utmost attention is paid to keeping them correct to name. 



Chelsea Botanic Garden. — Mi*. Anderson, in showing us his new domes- 

 tic hot-water system (p. 651.), remarked that he felt particularly gratified 

 in thinking that it might be the means of rendering the smaller class of 

 shopkeepers more warm and comfortable in their shops ; for, as these have 

 generally a fire in some room or kitchen behind, and either on a level with 

 the shop or below its level, a going and returning pipe could easily be made 

 from it to a reserve cistern behind the counter, &c. The house-plants here, 

 just set in, never looked better. Tropas'olum aduncum, the hooked, or 

 Canary-bird flower, a rare species, approximating closely on T. peregrinum, 

 is in flower. The rare and elegant T. tricolorum has also grown and blos- 

 somed most satisfactorily during the summer and autumn. Cosmea bipin- 

 nata, with its orbicular rosy lilac flowers, of the size of half a crown, is 

 highly ornamental in the green-house. In the open air, upwards of two 

 hundred varieties of maize, supplied by Professor La Gasca, have ripened 

 their seeds. 



The Zoological Gardens, Regent'' s Park. — Nov. 1. These gardens have 

 been greatly enlarged during the summer, and several handsome new struc- 

 tures erected. We have seen the mowing-machine tried; and, notwith- 

 standing the wetness of the grass and roughness of the surface, it acted 

 admirably well. It is clear to us that the same machine, on a large scale, 

 would mow clover and rye-grass ; and, on a still larger scale, cut corn. 

 Whether it would equal Mr. Bell's, or one now constructing in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Stirling, which we heard of when in Scotland, is a different 

 thing. 



The Mary-le-hone Nursery, Regent's Parh and Neiu Road. — Mr. Jen- 

 kins has the third best collection of chrysanthemums which we have yet 

 seen in the nurseries. His common horse-shoe pelargoniums, owing to the 

 mildness of the season, and having been housed some weeks, are all in 

 flower ; which must weaken the plants, without producing any advantage 

 to the owner, as this is the worst season in all the year for the sale of such 

 articles. The mignonette, of which Mr. Jenkins has in both nurseries a 

 very large stock, is also running into blossom too fast ; but this evil is 

 counteracted by pinching off the points of the shoots. A stock of excellent 

 pine-plants exists here. 



Henderson's Nursery, Edgeware Road. — Every thing here is, as usual, 

 in high order, and the plants admirably grown. A very fine show of heaths 

 in bloom, with masses of Lechenaultia and Cx'6we« saligna. An excellent 

 stock of flowering plants of Cereus speciosissimus, and Epiphyllum spe- 

 ciosum and truncatum, the latter coming into bloom. A large stock of 

 Z)aphne hybrida, or Dauphinii, in bloom. Camellias richly covered with 

 buds. The chrysanthemums, seen on the 14th, well grown, and equal to 

 those in the Hammersmith nursery. 



Allen's Nursery, New King's Road. — Nov. 3. This depot is richly sup- 

 plied with ornamental plants from the Bolingbroke Nursery at Battersea. 

 Chrysanthemums and various showy articles are now in flower ; and a plant 

 of Cobae^a scandens, trained under the glass roof, is covered with seed-pods. 



Chandler and Sons' Nursery, Vauxhall Road. — The camellias never were 

 more profusely covered with blossom buds, and the show in spring will be 

 the most splendid which has yet been exhibited in this or perhaps in any 



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