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wall of the gardener's cottage is ornamented with shrubs trained over it ; 

 a healthy Boursault's rose, being one of them, is now finely in flower : a 

 very narrow border at the wall's foot is occupied by a few species of plants 

 which have been found adaptable to that situation. Sheds wing the 

 gardener's house to the right and left, and, with a room for the accommo- 

 dation of the men (see Vol. VII. p. 617.), make up the whole back of the 

 range. This being a northern aspect, here, during summer, is kept a 

 limited but select collection of potted alpine plants, among which that 

 tiny exquisite, Linaria alpina, was about to bloom profusely, and iitho- 

 spermum maritimum (Pulmonaria maritima that used to be) was display- 

 ing its strikingly glaucous foliage, and Mitella diphylla was exhibiting its 

 glistening jet black seeds in its opening capsules, shaped precisely like 

 diminutive mitres, whence the generic name. In this collection stands a 

 plant, not now blooming, but well deserving mention here, .Ranunculus 

 bulbosus var. ochroleucus ; it was picked up in some neighbouring mea- 

 dow, by that observant and original botanist, Mr. David Bishop, curator of 

 the Botanic Garden at Belfast, and has, for three seasons in succession, 

 produced its blossoms of the palest yellow : it is a very cognisable and a 

 permanent variety, and, as such, is inserted in the just published Additional 

 Supplement to Lozidon's Hortus Britannicus. It was remarked that the 

 range traverses the garden across its centre, but the half behind the 

 range is much the smaller, and wholly occupied by vegetables and the 

 forcing-frames and conveniences, except a sunk pit, with a walk along its 

 back, inside, for the culture of the more showy tender Orchideae and 

 Amaryllises. 



To have done with the borders, I will name some half a dozen indivi- 

 duals, which, on this occasion, happened most particularly to arrest my 

 attention : — A species of Yucca gloriosa was densely in bloom, too 

 densely to make the most of itself; Geum coccineum and Quellyon; 

 Pasbnia ediilis Whitleyz, edulis fragrans, and edidis Humez; Campanula ma- 

 crantha, very fine; JVum Dracunculus, especially so, one clump of it had not 

 fewer than five extremely large spathes expanded together, and more yet 

 to be expanded ; Jnchusa italica, C'entaurea macrocephala, i~ v ris ochro- 

 leuca, the French white double rocket, and numerous others, which I must 

 omit to mention. This French white double rocket thrives far better about 

 London than the old kind, has a longer and laxer raceme, the flowers, 

 individually, being farther apart, and, I think, larger, and quite as fragrant 

 in the evening as those of the old kind. Of a gigantic variety of the 

 Norman candytuft (/beris umbellata) numerous plants, placed singly, at 

 intervals, along the border, were in blossom. This is a valuable ornament ; 

 it attains the height of 2 ft., and sometimes beyond this ; and the usual 

 colour of the species is, in many of the plants, much increased in intensity : 

 the effect of the large corymb of umbels, which each plant forms, is a mass 

 of colour of the greatest value to the purposes of the decorative gardener. 

 Among curious plants was an admirable clump of the Allium nigrum, 

 displaying not fewer than six or eight fine umbels of flowers; Phlomis 

 tuberosa ; »Spirae v a Filipendula, double-flowered, which is common about 

 Bayswater ; Jsphodelus creticus, which seems as if a more elegant edition 

 of the prevalent A. luteus ; and two fine plants, copiously in blossom, of 

 that hybrid Digitalis obtained from seeds of D. ambigua, which had been 

 artificially impregnated with the pollen of Gloxima speciosa, as already 

 noticed in this Magazine (Vol. VII. p. 582., in the note). The flowers 

 of the hybrid differ from those of D. ambigua in being slightly larger, more 

 fleshy in texture, and in having the yellow ground almost obliterated, or 

 coloured over with a reddish one, the colour being now, perhaps, a buff red 

 one; the leaves are those of D. ambigua, much increased in size, and, I think, 

 in pubescence and perhaps in succulency. jLathyrus latifolius var. albiflorus, 

 which flowered so finely in this garden last autumn, is now rising strongly, 



