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tasted than the ordinary Brussels | bagno plants in pots. his arrangement i is adopted | lace-work ; this plant is on a trellis about 3 feet hi 
Sprou ui. d d fresh ils of plants roa be intro- | and 2 feet 6 inches bora = 
of es good specimens are tributed by dn rding to season. Avzaleas, Cinerarias, | with sica As mples of h i X 
v Vetch an A others, We also potra a pe variegated | and e iet fiiio are po course of preparation for this ved rec E uw and Ars is now IN EM 
I purpo: R assidora laurifolia is also grown here 
H ge to be all one sort, although Snow’ ^ On the e in front of the house are some good | M ros ha of " fruit, as are also Anona muricata, or 
Osborne’ Warnes and other names are applied to Lev De e and Araucarias, quite 20 feet in | |Sour So nona reticulata, or Custard Apple; 
| Good heads of it come from Mr. B udd, Mr. Ford, fe pA Taxodium mpervirens, 30 vx in height ;| Anona Arne a fine plant, 8 feet bleh ond 
Mr. Fris! isby. ener gA ed feet in height; — bush of | |Spondias lutea and purpurea, both Hog Piums of 
E tiful 15 in height, and as much through. |the West Indies, Ochro is the native name of a 
nd good. poe are id hed pA Mr. my Mr. The lawn is Arnain an ornamental lake, in which | Malvaceous plant which grows vigorously, and 
Ingram, N Mr. Frisby, Mr. Dr ewitt, and Mr. Ford. | is an island, approached at its southern extremity by | bears fruit used as a vegetable, and much esteemed. 
Cabb ly confin arly Dwarf York | means of a bridge. On the are several trees, Kurrup tree, also a native name, represents a young 
kind e, how wever, noticed examples t the Fear-| whose branches form an epustbis vtm in summer. | plant with een foliage. The Cassava, or Mani- 
nought, Mr is very well spoken of; and of Lock-| There is also a boathouse, which, seen from the hot, from the ct wi which is made the Cassava 
hart's ae em The last comes from the Royal| lawn, is rather a pretty object. ih gravel walk | mer also ndis Aye does likewise the Carica 
Garden: , Frogmore ; the others from Mr. Ford, Mr. encircles the dod c" is margined here and there | Papaya, or Papaw Aon hich 
i Budd and others. with de of Rhododendrons, and is fed Ae A Ls "s in Countries v hang fresh 
y inese Yams paaa specimens are shown t n this tree, with the view to make it tender, 
» Mr. Tillyard, gr. to J. Kelk, Esq., who also has very disant. I "yh a fruit, which, chong insipid to English 
1 A ow iron fence divides the lawn from the in | tastes, is esteemed in the West Indies, Persea gra- 
which Mr. Tillyard is most success ey which, planted here and there, are masses of Rhodo- | tissima, so much esteemed in the West Indies as the 
gel amies d the late dry season, appears | dendrons and fine specimen Conifers, bá. which, | A do P. is also in | Mr. Hinde’ collection : as are 
= ^ rw ge yel d sort is Ivery’s Nonsuch, from ey the windows, have = prem effect. i n 
Hall, gr. ptain Tyrrell, of Ealing ; and the | miles prp to the w . George's re he prt or Er which is said to be a very pleasant 
bei white, rated Wie Invincible, i is won by the patini of the Diiia « of E Elles mere, ity red | | fruit; togethér with Aromatic Cherry? Achras Sapota, 
me exhibitor. Mr. Budd and Mr. Ford also both | with Scotch Fir, which has a ceo rem bei, |or Sapodi illa Plum, whieh is used in ite — country 
. iow well i in this class. espec ially in | winter ; to the south East Horsley Towers, | as an article o dess sert ; Mangife ora indica, o ‘uae 
Endive, consisting ‘of French, Moss, Curled, and | th | frui 
Batavian, is exhibited by Messrs. Veitch, Frisby, and | On the lawn is a fine specimen of the Tulip-tree, quite | | and Anacardium slau: or Cashew Nut. 
others. 70 feet high, d very symmetrical i in form. „During | In the third division we obse! dt rens aw malaccensis, 
Among Miscellaneous articles are Mushrooms, a | the past summer this the famed Rose-apple 2 the East; E. Korthal eit 
Brombam Hall Melon, new Asparagus, French Beans, | 1 ts of which are stil hanging | in appearance like the last; E. acris ; Galipea 
Seakale, “Chicory roots, and an interesting collection of to the | tissima, a large- — LAU plaut, eed in ite 
Gourds ; the last | from Messrs . Sutton, of Reading. On ive west ym of the house are the fruit garden | native country for ts bark ; Saceharum officin m, the 
have a fine fuper, of and houses Foremost among pe — a house Sugar-cane; an S. violace! a ae stem: "P in "Viol 
agricultural and other int in little glazed cases ; l frui imeem are Mr. Hinds' | colour, The Sugar-canea are growing very ý iuzucidntly, 
Grasses, Kohl Rabi, Long and Globe Mangel, Champion particular Roaster? and as he t high. Andropogon 
and pester Swedes, Potal , all so tastefully | in the West Indies, where he ‘studied the "Aulae | Behonentben, or — Grass, is irs doing well. 
arranged, and occupying so — cT in tl tiful are placed at the end of this 
estern Arcade, as to form quite m agricaltural built to his own ideas what would be housa, which clone gir dena it a nobleaspect. The greater 
exhibition of itself, well worth eg Fn. ellin ing z most ibia pee E ie build grinding ‘This house — ber" — plants have been raised 
South Kensington to see. Mr. Veitch has was put up by Mr. Ormson in August, 1863, and the from seeds t lavi been 2 from the West 
good nd of seeds and roots, Paver of Kohl mt d the nk m we shall proceed to give | Iii nds Mr. Hinds, and cannot fail in the course of 
Rabi, Mangel, Turnips, Parsnips, Whit — dm t of, vili e best to show how far Mr. |a wo to form a deine ‘of great attraction at 
the Chance, a large productive Cattle Pota well Hinds’ a plane have By jf ei 
as Prince of Wales's e Royal Asi d. other| The house is 75 feet — 85 | i. Vy! -— - -— "The West India Yam is planted out in the heated 
vari ot eg Mi» neath Se Agricultural Cabbages and - amas — l 
roots also co Mon: verc three compartme The! 1 fal 
Among Mite we submit the nspection o of the | central diis and two borders the centre is a — ar are aiv to be much superior to med € re 
Floral Committee, the following Aera First-class | D, 20 feet by 20 fee wa. Al Chinese Yai am. m i vg Bean is also planted out 
Certificates, viz., a handsome em t-flowered Manettia, the — MM a hollow hamber 
"ub e foliage, from resto ; and Asplenium the central portion has eight 4- an pipes, eot y 
Mets B,J, Gray, Esc, of. Exeter ood rendi e three 4-inch p pipes to each. These are | du 
Of 2er of ‘the Did. here enumerated there are 
uplicates, and all DUM be iaia aid to be i n perfect 
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Aotices of Books. xL 
De Nederlandsche Boomgaard. By the Society for| i, a 
Regulating and Improving the Varieties of Fruit | tan 
Trees at Boskoop. heating E 
(Continued from p. 618). : In the fruit garden, and near the tropical fruit 
l k this work we have now received both a French and | Bides are raised en house, is a Musa house, about 20 feet by 20 feet. 
rman text for Parts 5 to 8, containing figures and | This has a centre 
description of the following varieties of Apples:— | placed all over these rt ao of —€— tropical house. Four plants of Musa 
. Süsser Paradies Apfel, Tonis de Paradis |224 in these the plants laced. The intervals | Ca vendishii occupy the bed, each bearing gbaa iE 
eri . Prett: but described as only of third-rate puros the boxes are filled d with good loam, in order fruit, t, which must average when ripe from 60 to 
q » to give the plants an opportunity of rooting into i t|901b.each. One of these fine enm is nearly ripe. 
No. i. Du Halder. ‘The authors of the Annales de when the boxes become decayed ; and so desiro mis These specimens are are planted in tubs and T into 
M io tho v OH kp 4 Bae - "gre of this class of fruits, that he has had a eodeni In this house Carica P is bearing fruit in 
Tiare, Bal cy ce at Faquemont, in the province of in, in the West ^ its first frait just 7 = 
Deth M m they are now growing in at Byfleet. At one|been taken from it, the heaviest of which cuad 
PW DE or ‘Hollands h e Goldrei o. "The Th end of the house is a large tank of water heated by | 1 lb. 9 oz. It has some eight fruit upon it of various 
oe 5 gne doge : ope" for the ae » of the Pa dà at the other | sizes, all green, and about as many more at the top, 
Society's Catal otim B Bio wk vus tank with cold wa! This we uuder-| with the flowers just fallen off; the latter are of a 
tion of jme ein Api pei hi ra ed atot beot was al caught from the Toot o of the house. de icate yellow colour. Shed m er. 5 also a cue 
lant now, siti riui its being a 
ir modbr TV A nsidered good for table and growing hi ere, viz. Musa paradisinca, which is 15 fee v hx petual bearer. The fruit is "borne close to the 
^" - high, with leaves 6 feet long ; Musa sa serrer equally and is almost des d 
~ No. 12. Pane: us Fin ‘Rouge. This is the — mde ; and Musa vittata, 18 f eet high. yas called the Dwarf Carica, whic! fruited. 
plant was purchased from Mr. van Houtte, but where | In use is a young plant et [^ qe. Ooooiii t 
: well pr pen as 2 is here, it be ee much of its then | tree peor oh MÀ E the same variety as 
i ishii grows very reca and | the one that Boni) fru on, the leaves and stem ; 
4 i 3i this euer will thrive in a comparatively | having that peculiar el ing US 
fes too wii. auk fio the | 000b: it does nc ain the size or exhibit de tori add a Finery, si 
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resting placo is about t much resembi Pear in form, but smaller; P.| On w of 
Weybridge "Tie r aes at bal erg farerne, i the M iod Veit, edd ma He í— eee ae the fruit looked cir m 
neermiary atlached i which much resemble those of iferum ; P.|had very li our, doubtless on accoun 
About £0 feet long 2 i zi , or common Guava. The Pridiums have mie e n The 
part of the house, and it has a glass front facing vigorously, and many of them are quite 6 feet plants were forced in the —À the summer 
thelawn ; theroof is curvilinear, and it is ventilated Laurus Cinnamomum, the true Cinnamon, is| were shaken out and repotted into 2 Taisa pots, aid 
| the sides and top. The walls are covered wi high; Laurus Cassia is a fine healthy plant into heat in October, and well they have repaid 
ias, A Neriums, and Orange trees, and th h. Passiflora quadrangularis or Granadilla, | the trouble. i 
roof is ornamented with Cobcas and Passion-flowers. tida, or Love in a Mist, are likewise culti- Ata the back of this house, against a south wall, is a 
A walk runs down and across the centre, This last bears a very singular fruit, about | long range of glass, an orchard house 65 feet by 12 -— 
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| . the sides, making four borders, which are ith | the size of a small Gooseberry, covered by a beautiful \wi GE Gir trees for the most part turned. out and traine 
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