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time of King William, is now on sale (price 100 guineas), at Waud's, 

 INoel Street. The architecture of the house, which was built in the time 

 of Queen Elizabeth, is reckoned the chefd'ceuvre of Thorpe, who was also 

 the architect of Holland House and Burleigh. The gardens are extensive, 

 and laid out in the Italian style, with terraces, statues, fountains, urns, 

 orange trees in boxes, and, what is more remarkable, an orangery with a 

 glass roof, which must have been one of the first of that description erected 

 in England. The designers of this structure, and probably also of a part of 

 the gardens, must have been London and Wise, the great nurserymen and 

 garden architects of the day. In the fore-ground is a coach and six, with 

 some figures on horseback admirably painted ; and in the distance, the 

 woods of Newstead Abbey, formerly the seat of the Byron family, now of 

 Colonel Wildman. As a painting, this picture is of no great value, but, as 

 a portrait of an ancient garden, it is perhaps unique. (Lit. Gaz. April 28.) 

 The small size of our page does not admit of our giving any thing like a 

 faithful idea of so large a picture, and one in which the details are so carefully 

 painted. It is a valuable work of the kind, and worthy of being placed in 

 the gallery of such a seat as Newstead Abbey, now undergoing in the gar- 

 dens as well as in the dwelling, extensive improvements by the present pro- 

 prietor Col. Wildman, — in a taste of which it may be sufficient approbation 

 to say, — that it is such as Lord Byron would have adopted, had circum- 

 stances enabled him to improve them himself, instead of forcing him to 

 transfer them to another. 



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TULIP bulb (p. 579.); additional Information. — When the root planted is 

 not strong enough to bloom, but only comes up with a single broad leaf; 

 the same bulb is taken up which was planted, but enlarged and strength- 

 ened. (W. B. Kingscote Gardens, Gloucestershire, March 24. 1827.) 



Propagating the Balsam by Cuttings. — Sir, I perfectly succeeded last 

 summer in raising the Balsam from cuttings. The idea occurred to me 

 from observing the manner in which cucumber plants will strike root in 

 that way. I took a Balsam about eighteen inches high, and having stripped 

 offthe branches planted them in very small pots, and placed them in a melon 

 pit. In a few days I had the satisfaction of seeing them begin to grow very 

 freely ; and after being fresh potted they flowered, but I think not so double 

 as the seedlings. The thing is quite new to the gardeners in this neigh- 

 bourhood. I am, &c. 



Fazeley, Staffordshire, Jan. 12. 1827. C. F. W. 



Balsams from Cuttings twenty years ago. — I beg leave to observe that 

 I succeeded in this experiment near twenty years ago; but not the first 

 time I made the attempt, because I cut the shoots off and planted them 

 immediately, in cdnsequence of which they every one rotted : finding this 

 to be the case I took offthe cuttings and laid them in a cool shady place 

 till the next day, when I found that almost every one of the cuttings so 

 treated, grew ; but alas i I could never succeed in producing a good or a 

 handsome plant by this method, as all the plants so raised grew up spind- 

 ling without any side shoots, and almost every flower was single, or only 

 semi-double, in consequence of which I abandoned it altogether. 



I am, &c. 

 Stepney, February 1. 1827. ] W. Green. 



