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ang Yap { f cleaning, | pleased. As Mr. Ken t -has prono Diu 
President Brongniart.—Vi us; leaves glaucous | convenient size to take off for the purpose o p s p unced ah 
St tinted st a flowers qu well raised in the glazing, painting, &c. ; the glass used being Hartley’s safe tage lo Ro I have oe ene d it might to wi 
i fter t ds the outside, | true h pla te. propagators, nurse 
Enae ile ‘very lightly” tinted with ti ty The ventilation is managed by a small | amateurs, to say that the following Roses ct e | 
towards the centre ; superb variety, of which the|triangular shutter in each gable, kept shut by an wgey ph pagated, viz :—Senateu Comtes 
flowers are of Geelland form. This variety was jr india-rubber spring or “ rwr eed ” fastened on the | Cecile Chabrillant, Madame Boll, Victor y, erdie 
dutin 1863. outside, while inside a small cord is attached to the | John Hopper, Maurice Bernardin, Dae q Rohan’ i 
Du Mont de Courset.—Vigor t t point of the shutter, pm fesbonód to a hook | Duc de Cazes, Prince Camille de Ro i 
flowers large pee: full, ig Siny is of screwed hs the the ge, so that ~~ be given from | Lefebvre, a ee ge Madame C 
x, fa 
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utter adame L'Ebloui 
niform s hade; variety, half an inch to t opening o f the vhole » shutter d isa 
The aceous wr ot, noticed by M. Rouillard | 18 inch raillant, 3 ope Ti Pior mg Joigneaux 
were the eae. uses of choice th hings. sels ve entilators al vnd Waskingt arme, Beauty z Y 
Malet.—Amaranth purple, shaded with delicate Dalle in the walls ‘at the bii point, having orna- | Genera as go han vat a d and 
salmony inis; very full. mental gratings outside the house 5 and small wooden 3 T i : : zen dorougi 
—Rosy purple, sbaded with light salmon | doors within, which can be opened from 1 inch to 12. may e callel tru d plendi d als 
pink ‘and dn purple centre; nea rly g zlo bu lar All the UR is Ne from the insi v Mu the bloom. The 13 4 HP xt 
Madame de Vatry.—Rosy purple, Dien acilit, ty. , The walls are coate d w oman ere A = A Br 
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yellow ua Erg with mine Tobe; very r ul. ment, p 80 
E rm bd centre cream (bere ommon ide er, whieh indeed seldom hardens in | year. I have budded a good mai 
Poit: inst Pica git is iN Mk E: Orehid houses, and whitewash or any other colour is Manetti stocks with the first I name,a 
Aspasie. RE ds vish white, very lightly tinted with | apt to wash off, discolouring the leaves, &c. "There'is|for its colour, and of e growth a 
rose ; full and very elegant. a back or private walk in this and all the Orchid houses, | free bloomer ; it is a much improved F the 
po xi sdb J hite scarcely tinted with rose, the| where the s are cleaned and most of the work| Alfred de Rougemont and Le Rhone are 
centre yellowish, sometimes marked with purple; very | done, leaving the main walks free for visitors, a very | the two best of last es These are very 
full MS delicate. bs ined arrangement, considering the nu imesctid and can be safely pagated: Vai 4 
Mar on Delonne. .—Rosy — with white and | Goliath = Mach Preside nt Lincoln, Madame 
me petals marked with | aed | fock to Rockville to be charmed by As wonderful | Freem man, white Rose, att a better 
lively pene; very fi pla and plan nt-hou uses. A „plentiful — se — grower t ini . "Boing, Baron’ de Roth 
dei —Amaranth purple, tipped with Peter Lawson, glowing scarlet, and Mrs W, Paul, 
clear Wille gibien As with small bnt of lively red; npe es i on the ide es of the fro: t and “tack: ve These 7 are as yet the best, and I have ‘no hesitation 
full and very fine. Everything in fact in this and the adjoining EE |in Hope cn them. Th 
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hryné.—Lively Paps tinted with bright carnation, | houses is arranged with an eye to convenience an viz, Souvenir de Charles Montault, and Jean 
yellowish towards the centre; new and delicate, ve ry neatness, the Legen mien and keeping being Goujo These two have not yet been quite. fall; 
fu - — in such a way as rely or never seen in glass | but they are good growers and g en varieties, 
Nicolas B. hous I g that nothing in the neighbour- | Mr. W. Paul sent me a bloom of Lord H 
s r A ui s erbert, a 
ixed with ros y erus at the dide ; ue hood p^ the neve things "€ o us mars their | superior Rose of fine colour and perfect in shape; but] 
us soft and cires bi; very full. beauty or offends the eye. What a contrast to the | have no specimen here to enable me to recommend it 
piggery o of surroundings in which ol occasionally sees € bre As regards Roses of 1864, I have, a 
fine plants! nd puis) p nas be Y V 
The la; ts in this house = ite: worth of the focis i ose has n sent ou 
OTES ON GARDENS.—No. X care abt a8 "i á | which is very | dark, as E. d in the Florist, I should 
ROCKVILLE, DUBLIN, THE SEAT OF T, BEWLEY, ESQ. | t fectly safo direction, Ihave 
Now-a- DAYS, when it is a too general rule is culti- a few, Wohtang with Lelia mepit ib a heen mass others, which have not Yet bo bloome: ele if worthy, 
l y large pot, formerly well known in the Ealing I will speak he s aeg e, Rushton. 
mmon Daisy, it is a eri treat to find a place Park collection ; cpm ia elegans in great variety, with Hangi ing Bas ts.—The ac compare da 
where some interesting family of plants is taken in | one fine for m from Reed's venter an e tat the cheapest and simplest of 
where its choicest oat are cherished—gems | large es healthy seein ns of Lelia pur There | baskets or vases, namely the top of an earthen 
or Pie — of sap dae the humblest lov ver | Was a plant of thet raed oe pallida; with 
of plani o furn , Or rac sepa "bita nearly a yard across, having shiny 
a figu ro tothe Bota cin Mage zine. endo-bulbs, ind showing well for flower, 
f 
t by which we md ae match for Mr. Hanbaby’ s once famous 
are surrounded may have had a good eifect by stimu-|plant; also grand Postera of Cattleya Mossiæ 
lating men of wealth and taste to take a n opposite | in variety. Arpophyll was of great size, 
_ course, r in rarity; but Te thai what it | and had been found t ti pa tae pa 
may, places where specialties and novelties are | abundant supply of water. Mi Ito a Regnellii and M. | 
thoroughly well cared tor, are fortunately pus to be | Regnellii purpurea, two rare and beautiful | pom were 
found in i f London other r | also o her re, and a eres bush of Vanda ries which had 
large cities. Thus one displays a mine P ys ock ville, 
wealth, another glows with les Lut lrously | al g with Mor cerulea. Here wer ams Oncidium 
painted “ foliage plants,” and a t ad 1 with | sarcodes in Ale aoo one said to be particularly fine ; 
the most graceful of Nature's t gushings 2 their Cypripedi d: Schlimii, Epidendrum prismatocarpum, rM 
ilimitable diversity. At Rockville all these are do one, | Cattleya lobata, a good plant of the true Lelia up | wi | 
some of them in an unrivalled manner, and en more | iana, Catt eya Aclandiæ tigrina, and fine plants 
besides. The Orchids alone are of proat value, and | the older Odontoglots, such TO: grande, with a host 
sufficient to make the fame of a duca l garden; the | of Ed beautiful and valuable species, all in bloo ing 
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“plants of remarkable foliage” foe Nee: and | he 
numbers I have never seen surpassed; I believe Rivers he Cattleya house you má the West Indian 
himself has no such orchard house, which at Rockville Esar a iia span about 16 feet square aid 10 feet 
combines the comforts and pcd of a winter | high, with double roof and tings sine to those of the 
garden and Persian fruit grove; while for Ferns and Cattleya house, but having a series of shelves for 
a Fernery you might go from Buenos Ayres to Borneo, | bringing the e phi nts nearer to the e glass = this house 
and examine all the glass erections from St. Petersburg | the best West I ted by the score ; 
to the sunny shores of the Mediterranean Sea, where | these being recen t importations from Mr. Bowley, sown 
such things cease to be a luxury, without fin idin ng a | collector, including a stock—I shall | be under the mark | 
more unique scene, or one in which Ferns—from the|by saying 50—of that most gorgeous of Cattleyas "m 
largest arborescent species downwards— look or do| superba, with its lovely violet-tinted sepals, rich ruby pav. In Bristol they are quite as or namental sis 
better, or are more richly displayed than in the great lip and orange mar ings. Some specimens were 2 feet | especially those which are deeper than the 
Fernery at Rockville. across—pansful of vigorous growth. The chaste little | kind. Somerset. 
I shall say nothing of the out-door or the vege- | Ionopsis panicula ta was abundant and in variety, a Large Cattleya Mossie.—Your notice account 
table gardening part of the place, as the grea dise by the by, EK we have hardly yet seen in | at Broomfield has induced me to send you some now 
interest of 5 t indoor d 1 = ate, | a p 
taste—but Verus E once to the Orchid | pi e the remai " vot nearly owers have oa loom. Our lant measures three (0 
houses, passing by a sort of ha lf-grot half. ited a plant of Oncidium Papi lio with | diameter, and two feet in depth, and in shape is 
structure, wi th the Killam Fern, a lot of rock- iwasi 20 and 301 flower er spikes; a fine specimen e half a ball; it has 99 flowers upon it, 96 of whit 
work with Alpines, wise „and a border devoted QAM leeconnum ith some beautiful and distinct | now in full beauty, two are faded, and one y 
to y g aperim of th — e di arieties; th Sakat rare e cristata, Mary panded, beside which po have been r t 
them previous to mar Plaats o pgs ing always in bloom ; and qe the largest company of | i 
with The Orchids, I first altered the Cattleya, house TB © be found together in cale Lord 
vilt used for growing Orchids | tion. Wm. Beisan, I lost t 
t Rockville have been—since m "lat e — M und” | 
ires years before, The house is about 24 fe ong by | 
16 te et wide and 10 feet high, substanti: ally. baile and | 
y | Home Corr cepa Mad. fectly Minoo. with no oii or neck, and 
pposed t o be.ne cessary, and a few mot included i in| Rose Inform —I can be gratified by | dark shiny green on the sunny m 
AN suppositions: M the d first place i it is doubje- | Mr. Kent’s irc "of me af of hate € p. 533). | into Ne s bt ae quo i 
roofed, which of course much econom e heat, and |I must not, however, accept the title « the first | i i k perfa 
preserves a iius equality of temperature than is ores of the day. That distinction belongs to Mr. lin "this s marcus E that Eie al 
e in a house i Wi [a | 
Osmaston go 
Kenyon’ s Pae Cucine T ren 
e stock of a Cucumber rue Kenyon’ 
(To be continued. era nin under me of Lor and 
por cam i 
nnoisseur in such wd * Rosarian would [^ ample praise. By painstaking, É 1 singfon— 
p say that it seemed to be sweetly congenial to kc Roses, so ul last yenr, habe now in most | you seem rape pen pie your 
satis, ie reti *and, I guificen! my last letter I had to remind you that 
may say, y 
so prevalent at Rockville, are I 1 have had jee parties here this ‘week who foal your | not call names, and now Jc are reduced 
f Mr. Bew ewley "s own experiments, and | paper an and the Dorset t County C! ti ll : 
expres 
eard-of te 
e To-day (June 11) | Why are your moti i tr [^ more pure bey 
| the rece s made as air tight — - friend Sir Edward Baker and a party f os t atone Sani without 
oof being ñx coe ore Mi ith n honoured d gardens with a rev f | gnte, uss questions. I sdvoce™ Gat 
erdt Outer sas| om Strawberries, dui Roe $, and seemed Highly the om ro sd at South Kensington— 
