JanvaBy 9, 1864.] 
character 5 
-— arrangem: and 
neat 
vM AR them sev -— specimens of ie dw: 
tho 
mu: E 
one for th 
yet ae very transiency of thei 
Assu 
triking Acsena nov 
bristles ap tee que heads of fruit. 
i nd hi i 
ulbs, & 
ath nog 
a 
p by the sig 
tle bed of Andromeda ON smaller than many 
of our Mosses, at the Com ely 
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; and a a fine tuft of Asplenium oi vag 
| containing such things as Dog’s-tooth Violets, Fritil- 
of alpine 
larias, &e, were edged with so omie © g00 od a alpine e plant, such | 
of 
warf and uad 
zelandie, with its purplish crim 
Mr. Baines 
n- 
make the place charming under any cir- 
s, yet I suspect much of interest was lost 
plan 
eighbourhood te Edinburgh is & delightful 
elover of rare and ere pe dosis pus 
sandy soil 
to | with the d 
aving often 
admired the beau uty of a few we eakly-flowered ital sf 
i rage e a tei bed of i 
Saponaria calabrica, DURO ‘Dianthus Hedde ewigii, 
Gentiana acaulis, Primroses, rabis "ac HMM 
insignis, Linaria SAM ure Rhododen auricum, 
P site sies. » Virginian Stocks, Antirrhinum, Jasminum nudi i- 
florum 
4 
er kinds, such as Gaultheria procumbens, 
Le dum buxifolium, Vaccinium Vitis idea, iue ziesias, 
„Men kes au edgi 
and Chrysanthemums, tal, 85 species and varietie ies. 
whoa were in nes in Usern mas week, a 
Sunday le 
asminum nudiflorum, 2 the 
scented Cape Jasmine, Mignonette in abu 
few other annu which have continued in 
July. Gentianella, 
common Nastar tiu E 
MT Primroses," ‘Anrlealan 
ziesia empetrifolia ma 
Mr, . Rae, Superintendent of the Fs Coan 
I 
peu of our climate, mauy of which, 
"m Show their plumage for a day 
To wondering eyes, and wing awa; 
r be cant i is in c4 ^ 
uredly if the m M sensatio: 
re 
n," if was necessary 
that b 
rare plan$ m 
noted * pay 
a visit, and pleased 1 was pl Ngee 
nks and 
stones 
of his E The cemetery really des serves more 
"B 
Yue 
ry, ig. aod | 
y emit nd Edgehill ER TS s 
an 
the fastidious tastes | 
th: 
ater of Leith, its tasteful laying 
out, ae pericu goa its nose idrico shed by 
almost every hardy mental t NE. 
Ba nk Nursery, and of 
ensivel , were largely used, 
e very best kinds being freely 
ndaut on 
mo E 
y blazer 
s by a tint 
nd diff : 
ome already known variety of the}; 
o fro 
aliguitons id D unkillable " "balsezotitür z zonale. 
Taking the adva 
extensive 
speni 
it. las 
vantage of meeting with Mr. Stark at 
a few 
likely to ig something 
a loe ay recommended to 
the rintend of rome Dickson's 8 
nursery in Leith Wal k; and finding time to 
an hour ae: re, I was well rewarded for 
h ants were 6 an 
Jio. quite e har ERCIY; 
Fa bea pene outin 1858, the only protection | 
Gran being a fo the | 
m of poe o vall, 
rins Boe. 
^ eve! 
mat 
ii 
thers, protected in severe 
or two thrown over 
snophy lium are fastened firmly eges b pipe 
$ with 13 flowers eaoh, and 
ardy i in the "Leith Walk N 
Reaches of f old tan over 
it was doub if 
Tai 
ercome e difficult 
the fro 
,a 
i. Hite on track. It would be 
w places in his neigh-| 73) 
andso. 
B | the Superintendent, is t on 
nifer 
a| which there can „be no doubt | as to the set iety o of a 
employin 
me able, ney 
which hat xe left i in “the ground - E time, along 
was | the bot south g 
re 
ecember, the following 
varieties of a aims e viz., Foe 
Madame Life convent ‘de la Mal 
de Dijon 
15th ult. ipii 
ne 
otatos, 
wall, into growt 
he warm Sp iue Miel tl 
w 
and some stem 
= aes Gothic cottage for 
an ornament to the 
and j as 
cemetery, h.à ous 
d by Mr. eee 
m majus, 
tricolor and capitata, Sweet Alyss Ven 
Looking Glass, — bison, Mignonette, Clarkia 
pulchella, Brompton en-wee enecio 
rao “alba Silene Kesian n, Helichr Apes Nemophila 
nsignis, Bora rage, Hollyhocks, abide cenis rus, Cydonia 
ja ponica, Seve elliptica, B : Noi 
and Glo re de Dij on 
; Tea, on "à sonth w 
bist 
P 
i Androsace Cham, 
jasme and villosa, Primula Stuartii, and numbers of | w 
suitable companions were already established there— 
meet inhabitants of the place where lie the remains of | M 
Ed. Forbes. 
I had been told on good authority, that when Mr. G. 
irling was gardener at Melville te pa I 
t private collection of Alpin 
if | plants i in Scotland ; and I found that he had Hot Tost w 
as all the species and 
British Fern is grown 
with Trichomanes radicans 
cases p xU 
m 
Are individuals, 
Sing rre iar Mite of 
S cg 
| two small gardens devoted to their fai P onus [f 
for 
Bank Place and Malta Terrace, Edinburgh, the latter | _ 
a [So much for ne beginning of w winter. B 
es a QN has rus! A reference to the 
ner d wei in nite y vine shows that the THER- 
as fallen as low as 7°, in the Garden pel m 
Ro "E Horti cultural Society—and t this without 
prekended among “rece ecently 
will e" 80 Suey ean hereafte: 
Hd Trea tment of Orchids.—Bletia (? ^ species from 
aving refused s jene ceo gm 
H 
for the larger species. Together, I was informed the 
in stove or greenhouse 
any of them contain the dien. nsest, 
healthiest nf mnc, that I have seen o 
ph: As d flakes o 
» number of t 
hem of ornamental chara 
lection is a most interesting one, a 
Giger that is ameen by an 
boe The iell 
o 
cter. The col- 
and probably the 
y private i eripi 
Primulas. 
Acena nover-zelandize, 
for 
bed. e peeudo-bulbs doubled i in size 
duri ing th wth, we up in autum 
and derit i strongly i in E the Move te following spring. 
n| R. T. C. [A e epar ange indir ough we do 
know what species w: e subject of ‘ne a eina 
Botteri did not sen. "P d Bleti ia among his dried plants, 
d ced. 
Over th. 
in 
b. 
m 
In the he 
€ pine s when they are 
Saturat 
Case, 
Sut Los herbaceo 
atmosphere surrounding them 
ous department I was delighted to see a 
graceful Acis autumnalis, so seldom met with 
struggling into flow 
ed with moisture , Which some think should | 
plant. Am mongst th sits vory doc a may, be men- 
tioned Petrocallis pyrenaioa, (i orien very su y|? 
in pots, Primula St ac 
Chrysob: 
tron Hookeri i, Sedum Hoo fed lom flavum, 
a b vif Allium, which I d did d ge see M bien heck The 
i was 
re concluding any old 
ic niis was quite los 
roe! DCN to consul 
William Robinson. 
Aegi it would 
t Mr. Stirling on the subject. 
w e Correspondence. 
First State of the Season,—The te rat gid rhein 
tive to this aos had reached us before 
frost had se —I be fu 
wer, t the bed in No h | fi 
T iuh veloces eral 
kar ME saa G 
splendens, F Picotees, as sage tet Furze, Erysimw 
Al m. oe Periwinkle, 
| For the 
d favou- | 
po- md in utis 
upon 
ained as flat 
s Wes s fan, auf the IAS. nci vá ueni in size. 
diferent societies t 
| the judges are 
e last; 30 years we ou bius 
yea 
by a noble lady Pe her gardener at ge Royal Horti: 
cutl d in e ay last—** Go 
best. > Also tr rts Royal Botanic Society? in 
hs ay pida were far in "sing: 
adversary, the judges, Messrs. Perry & Perry, 
told Jobi Edw. ard tae ne that they should not have the 
| feet Lange ae the —— were admit ted te be fine, 
all brought a face 
bier 
y toan inane spread better than d 
bal of the flowers he pan 
e flowers; one 
bloom b, t, while oth 
e should not have taken the trouble 
marks, but it is a time that the officials of the 
ook some interest in seeing whether 
capable of. doing their duty or not, and 
