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and consequently the fibrous roots abundant, and only wants purchasers. 

 There are ample preparations for keeping up the splendour of the Bedford 

 Conservatories through the ensuing winter. 



Hockley and Burnley's Nursery, Kingsland Road, and their Show-house at 

 the Bedford Conservatories. — Nov. 7. This establishment is carried on with 

 the usual vigour ; the stock of evergreens in pots, of roses, bulbs, pinks, 

 and other plants for forcing, at Kingsland Road, is ample ; and we trust 

 that the encouragement given during the winter to this firm, and to that of 

 Messrs. Cormack, Son, and Sinclair, in the other Bedford Conservatory, 

 will be such as to justify the great expenses which both parties have in- 

 curred, and the very low prices at which they sell their plants. 



The Polygon Nursery, Connaught Terrace, Edgeware Road, Mr. M' Arthur. 

 — Our read.ers are already acquainted with Mr. M' Arthur from his various 

 papers in this Magazine, commencing with that in the First Volume, describ- 

 ing the conservatory at the Grange. We are happy to find that he has here 

 found a scene of operations that will enable him at once to display his taste 

 for ornamental gardening, and his botanical knowledge. The Polygon is 

 destined, when the houses round it are completed, to be a subscription gar- 

 den like that of Sloane Street; and we have no doubt that it will be liber- 

 ally supported. In the meantime, Mr. M' Arthur has built himself a house 

 and a seed-shop, and erected several green-houses, a vinery, and pits, all of 

 which are well stocked ; and we hope he will receive a competent portion 

 of patronage from his neighbours, and from his country friends : certain we 

 are that no man better deserves it. 



The^ Clapton Nursery, Mr. Lowe. — The number of new and beautiful 

 species in this nursery is astonishing ; chiefly through the ample collections 

 sent and brought home from South America by Mr. Anderson, who has 

 been collector to this nursery for several years, and from whom we expect 

 some account of his travels. The stock of Australian plants is in an excel- 

 lent state. In the heath-house we observed, in flower, in addition to the 

 species noticed in other nurseries, a great number of ^rica cafFra, an old 

 species, slightly odoriferous ; E. exsurgens, very fine ; E. vestita, several 

 varieties, all just coming into flower; and E. trivialis, a large plant covered 

 with bloom. In the propagating-house, of which Mr. Lowe favoured us 

 some years ago with a description (see Vol. II. p. 25. fig. 10.), several plants 

 are rooted of Luculiff gratissiraa,i2ubiacese {Cinchowidcecs Lindl.), a plant, 

 we believe, nowhere else in the country, since it has been lost at Wormley- 

 bui'y, Ashridge Park, and Bromley Hill ; Altlngk Cunningham?, inarched 

 on Cunninghamza lanceolata ; Kennedfa inophylla, sevei'al layers rooted ; 

 young plants of Chorizema rhombea, and Lobelfa purpurea and Tiipa ; 

 \\akea repanda and Pimelea /inifolia, both now in flower, they continue 

 so in Mr. Lowe's green-houses nearly all the year, many plants of Sc6tt/« 

 dentata, and other varieties which we have not room to mention. In the 

 hot-house, a good stock of En\)h.6rbia splendens, called also E. MiIIm. In 

 the camellia-house, C. Kissi showing flower-buds. In the pits, J'rbutus 

 procera and rigida, both considered hardy ; as also is found to be that 

 beautiful plant, now in flower here, Ceanothus aziireus ; Mah6n?« repens, 

 the layers at last rooted. More plants of Mahdnza fascicularis have been 

 raised in this nursery than in all the others about London put together ; 

 nevertheless it is still rare, and so truly beautiful a hardy evergreen that 

 it ought to be in every collection. Berberis empetrifolia, from Cape Horn, 

 very rare. A new O'robus, with bright yellow flowers, from the Island of 

 Chiloe, which will be a valuable addition to this hardy genus. O'xalis 

 undulata, with white flowers, very showy and much admired. Chironia 

 trinervis,in flower great part of the season ; splendid. We must conclude by 

 stating that there are several entirely new articles brought home by Mr. 

 Anderson, both in the open air and in the houses, which have not yet 

 flowered, and of which, of course, very little is known. 



