Culture of Nelumbiums. 



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Explanation of the letters on the plan. (Jig. 37.) 



a, Library. b, Music-room. c, Conservatory. 



d, Kitchen-garden, enclosed by a wall with battlements. 



e, Group of one kind of plant, no matter what, separated 

 from the groups in the same compartment by lines of garden 

 pinks ; which plant is preferred in order that the division-lines 

 may be green all the winter. 



j, Lawn. g, Stokehole, with a pedestal and vase over. 

 7i, A collection of i?osa semperflorens, Noisetteawa, &c. 

 z, Arcades of trellis-work for creepers. 

 Jc, Sloping ascent to terrace-walk. Z, Terrace-walk. 



1. Ferbena Aubletia 



2. pulchella 



3. Lamberti 



4. chamaedrifolia 



5. Herbaceous plants 



6. Calceolaria rugosa 



7. Lavender 



8. Rhus Cotinus, pegged down 



9. Stock, red ten-weeks' 



10. Fuchsia gracilis 



1 1 . Stock, white ten-weeks' 



12. Delphinium grandifldrum 



13. /Salvia splendens, pegged down 



14. Fuchsia microphylla 



15. Herbaceous plants 



16. iupinus polyphyllus 



17. polyphjllus albus 



18. Lobelia cardinalis 



19. Collection of varieties of hearts- 



ease 



20. ^sclepias tuberosa 



21. Herbaceous plants 



22. Carnations 



23. French marigold 



24. Red Chinese aster 



25. African marigold 



26. Clarkia pulchella 



27. Petunia nyctaginifldra 



28. yinchusa paniculata or italica 



29. Calliopsis bicolor (Coreopsis 



tinctoria) 



30. Jnagallis Webbiana 



31. fruticosa 



32. i/eliotropium peruvianum 



33. Scarlet pelargoniums 



34. i/eliotropium corymbosum 



35. Herbaceous plants 



36. .Lychnis fulgens 



37. Mignonette, .Reseda odorata 



38. Georginas, dwarf varieties 



39. Jgeratum mexicanum 



40. Lobelia fulgens 



41. syphilitica 



42. Z-upinus mutabilis 



43. Variegated pelargoniums 

 4i. Salvia fulgens, pegged down 



45. Eschscholtzia californica 



46. Pasonia, all the species and va- 



rieties of 



47. Herbaceous plants 



48. Herbaceous plants. 



Art. XII. On the Culture of Nelumbiums. By C. 



The Nelumbium speciosum should be planted about the 

 beginning of May in England. The seeds should have a small 

 hole filed in the shell at the end opposite to the point, and 

 should be then put into a basin of water, and kept warm for 

 a few days, either by putting them in the sun, or near a stove. 

 In about ten days the seed will have made its first leaf, which 

 comes out some days before the root fibre ; it may then be 

 planted in a tub of mud, and placed in a green-house, from 

 which the plants have been removed. The tub should be about 

 3 ft. wide by half that depth, filled with mud to within about 



