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f the F A and Cerise Unique, continue to | or shelter, that one could wish for the numerous and | last not in a “hopeful state ; ; P. glu 
Empress oi the renc que, I; — A M E glumac ea, er oroas and 
the most useful sort 
pn s we a of B aput rtu: 
onfining ur 
on “the Tro ree the water. overhanging slab 
fro P. amena from 
under which the Killarney Fern look: n 
ve 
Stella as having won a front rank "po osition amongst 
bedding plants, 3 its rich deep sear rlet flowe ers and flori- 
Am anit ve Ben Lawers. 
cr cerise flower: s, and Lord Palmerston with a OBy - 
flushed crimson, are acquisitions to this much seii 
sr và very effective e group. 
"3 H 3| +h 
i E inhabitants of Southern 
Nie Mesembryanttiomams and Cyclam 
be cool and shady "a were plants 
pitzbergen and Melville 
a P ex 
E 
> 
war: 
alpina, A. vernalis, and all the per ia Anemones. 
e, aro and be: hera Dianthus glacialis had been 
nd 
mpl e enses eel end in mos ections. 
The s variegated series yields oF vig approved 
of S Venus, Koh-i and 
white margin ; VAS. “Bijou, 
Lenox, with purer white 
s, Fontainebleau, Burni Bush, 
the undermentioned being highly approved sorts: 
Golden Chain, Cloth of Gold, an arkaway, 
with pe a g ; and Mrs, Pollock, Mrs. Benyon, | 
Lucy Gri and Sunset, with golden margin and red | 
zone. 
Though much has been done in the way of improving 
this race of Pelargon iums for flower ari — 
to be 
and also for m ism 
acco) hed, o do abt, e eth in 
progress or — just a ely oP hich the precise 
results can a be as ry estimated. Those kinds 
with golden r — leaves, and those with = 
dark-eyed mentioned as bein 
ye ers. may g 
more misly i in a progressive state; and to these, 
if ri ES" speaks correctly, may also be added the 
N 
Bor of these Pelargoniums are so admirably 
suited [3 Potete and te debo ae conserva- 
tories, — 
ing 
silver margin and | 
ries i re | macrant ia ing 
“dclighttlspots skilfally pue ped tothe ir various tastes. 
—j| An 
in a dying state, and there wer 
| and moisture. n ying 
thd a io e oM. 
an 
On of Gen 
eue. me. a tl ‘chalky b bed «a the Bee Orchis; wm 
the other n with scapes 
16i in ches in, P. scotica; and 
below, cropping vines from under large hi pw 
on the lide island, ihe vem f rtd Nic sie Am 
and Siberian Cyp odin um spec ii aa 
to t m enjoy the | reticul: 
a | Si Simsii, 
ata; Cro 
drom: es ense moss-lik e | thre 
on * nd ve ace E hel z 
>| tuft an 
especially so when exhibiti 
bells. Gleichenia alpina, denen etum, TEENA summer from the Alps; C. lingulatum, neapolitanum, 
Capillus-veneris, Asplenium palmatum, Cheilanthes | and montanum, from the mountains of Greece, which 
tomentosa, the no e Lomaria magellanica, and m in December, nd forms with the Crocuses 
any 
| other Ferns iiie supposed to require pues: 
frorn frost, live here s tn any, some of them in | flowering things 
cavernous recesses, The last named stood a EPRE ium ; Sedos i 
f 0 A L i 
- | going very defensible Then 
Pampan ad cen 
beco: x ponent 1 fav 
apa od ; Lychnis’ pyrensn M very wt 
Trifolium alpinum, a 
mái discovered in "Teese, 
Pinghioalk grandiflora, Hier 
others. , Running | along “sa si 
easing perennial ; 
w and remarkable qe found 
3 
e hope to 
manner hi the en espec ially a 
liberal prizes are offered for ‘their s production. Nothing 
ean be more charming than of those with rosy- 
tinted, icctoured, or rites iod own; nothing 
more beautiful than some of those with red-zoned | 
leaves, 
NOTES ON GARDENS.—No. L. 
Pais Be York. (Third Notice.) 
THE presence of a Tree Fern or rare Trichomanes is | 
not always indicative of choice things in the ha ady 
frequ 
tufty lines, almost as pe abe heads composed of t fow d 
asses of Silene acaulis. In its own class of colou han a Fiore. Ne 
there is nothing equal to iy! Ligon 2 thousands | came Lycopodium rere a p 
of were “getting u riou of t the jan ich I 
rr ti, indicating its bein 
much as it deserves. 
V 
* 
bO UD 
ve uec there is a fine bed of it, like a fairy Pine 
; and L. lusdulm, another erect Disadian with 
and R. flammea 
ound | Li inum a; Arotostaphylos uu rarely seen 
8, some new to the | Mni Ace nova- — Aster iano tk 
by the mee | foliu a dwar f bie anchin ng spec s with bri right purp ple 
Taak aura; I can fancy that many wil be deligh 
to hear of the existence in cultivation ^: so “of | mæcistus, and R, lapponicum, just "ert wat in a very 
So, to begin wit rchids—in addition | doubtful state ; Meconopsis, an imposin 
8 | to those already mentioned ‘there is Orchis. 
ies from 
cornuta the Himalayas, with large lemon- cotoatad iar owers on 
anonine exn 
s dido or Tete ui | 
dulged in. With a cn ing that the interest | Cyp 
admiration run out, 
sibés, and wandered 
v 
are rare! 
was cnet ae the sands of a 
rys p 
e | and others of more frequent occurrence. 
r spikes 5 feet high; Y gem nanum, another gem 
of unusual interest 
Europe. 
Orchis ; Cypripedium acaule, a fine North A a 
species, usually with a single pair of leaves, - 
ripedium parviflorum; Orchis Robertiana fro 
| Sicily; ray ern alpina ; Goodyera pubescens wi ith |N | 
| reticulated Anæc ochilus-like tema ma a agree: mnm | 
ieee icta, Serapias rviflora, cpm 
y of space ‘amo pei them 
lionacea, Oph hes bigh. " Great 
of such a collection during the present famine 
interest in - — plant way, is of po & hopeful 
ee sign. Now other most remarkable plants 
veg s irran bearing a profusion o - pale e ierra between tke 
hei 
, | blue flowers about the size of a florin; , Geran nium extremes of ieat to men ty a ity, scores of first-rate 
ight 
d 
lants of Linaria utiful and con- 
pedo, blooming pian i E is corgmibs of bluish-lilac | m 
owers being ^ an orange centre, and 
Contrasting amicably. nA as silver hue of its leaves 
as a It flowers the first 
ie — irem two or 
iz * “home » is, I believe, at — Bank; Oxytropis 
y 
P 
FTAL? 
pee and cyan 
atus; Vicia semi "its aiia 
ratati and Aid all vie. flowered spe cios 3 
g R. glacialis, ret Ruskin p —À 
inits stony icy resorts ; pec tent! 
erica, its leaves s beau tifally sarbled with white, and deli d 
sever © other Pyrolas = oe species, I took lea’ 
oved to be a porteaily hardy peren: 
Gebleri, imbri icata, _brachyp 
and excisa, with m 
strength 
trey ol 2 vee with th 
te ate: ants, grown "di pe paw plunged to co 
ossy, clean, 
e a sea | 
Gen: 
s 
ny ack boo 
J 
mo — the species w hich hat w g ca 
adoris the high wiss mountains, a little I should | frequently during the c 
below the line” at ‘perpetual — with tufts of deep | su pid ride to Yor 
ue, is mixe d u p here — there with ture d rn pore vati s" da 
having rounded | of the tapal Fernery,” but for real foet of interest 
amidst kissing” 
aa kinds; vom a. bava 
—— leaves. 
gee tal 
isl 
a 
€ 
ERTE 
SERE 
E is said to be a more rapid gro 
Baci s ot 
d is considered by the Messrs. William 
ul than it, w saying a 
d | I should ao tle ovn ami M 
|n e great Alpine n d 
X G. verna, an 
house more beautifi which is 
of a much brighter blue, 
rop, and even with the Aconite. 
NEW FRUITS. 
Mr. Atkins, ., Apple : Schiebler’s Taubenapfel (Oberdieck). — 
collected this p plant on the Swiss — sent me a f: 
w Apple, as hee fori in gms omini 
i 
d: 
is reached a winding path 
of which op [at = Welling- 
last sp masses of the "wes 
loveliest ar and I shall not D ae — their tme Apple), by eens 9 berdieck, one 
* first best | th Of this new "der, 
appearance;" I believe it to be t the à pom 
| Nove: for secre wo ork, as Myosotis a pmi cannot | they publish — following account, accom 
sore 
= 
ga biflora, anew 
ie 
Deed ce a the 
and ip | selected little bit 
and ravine, Md lake, four 
|f is utterly 
dit aokissde ce Aga the lofty mountains around Zermalt 
in Switzerland, of the S. M omg a DA and poe shape — — 
that species ha aving trailin ng “ y 
of the compo 
Four hundred tons o Pom" Han m the m 
í MES 25 feet in heig i ween 
ner a placid sheet of UE water, wad pre- 
fissure, soil, shade, 
ua, and rarer still, S. 
€ ‘Phe fi 
|tonder, juiey, wi 
alo oon? a 
ostly in 
table fruit of the first = 
eee gione and F 
very rare 8 Species, recently had from the Alps, t iramana t pei the end of December, and 
