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whole of the Union and of British America was supplied. The great 

 importer of French seeds was M'Mahon of Philadelphia ; and the 

 Montreal nurserymen were, and are, Guilbault and Co. Many others 

 have since arisen, and among these, at Montreal, our much esteemed friend 

 and correspondent, Mr. Cleghorn. We hope, now that the connection 

 between America and England is every year drawing closer and closer, 

 that nursery articles will form important objects of export from this 

 country ; and, indeed, we have no doubt that this will be the case ; for so 

 high is the price of labour in America, that a London grower can undersell 

 the Americans in all their own trees and shrubs. This would be still 

 more the case than it is at present, if the south and west of Ireland were 

 in such a state as to admit of the safe employment of British capital there 

 in nursery cultivation. All Europe might be supplied with nursery 

 articles from Ireland, if that country were only tranquil ; for there is, per- 

 haps, no soil or climate in the world better calculated for the propagation of 

 trees and shrubs. 



In Colviirs Nurseri/ there are some fine plants of the Palo de Vaco, or 

 Milk Tree, which ought not to be lost sight of by amateurs. Mr. Kewley 

 has here extended his siphon mode of heating, with his usual success. It 

 is remarkable that, though several attemps have been made, there has not 

 been a single successful imitation of this mode. Mr. Kewley is not only 

 a thoroughly scientific man, but he possesses the secret of joining his large 

 pipes in such a manner as to be perfectly watertight. Some Orchldese, 

 here impregnated artificially, are ripening their seeds. (See Vol. VIII. 

 p. 473.) 



In Mr. Knight'' s Nursery, the plants raised from Mr. Baxter's seeds are 

 in excellent condition. The Vrotcdcets are admirable plants. Telopea 

 speciosissima is coming into flower. One of the magnificent tree rhodo- 

 dendrons is sold to the Duke of Devonshire. 



In Mr. Malcolm^ s Nursery, the magnolias are promising abundance of 

 blossom, and the stock of American and other peat earth shrubs is a 

 sample, and eligible for removal as usual. The heaths, and the other 

 green-house plants, look remarkabl}' well at Mr. Lee's, as do the herbaceous 

 plants at the Fulham Nursery. We must, however, defer our further 

 observations on these and other nurseries till next Number. — Cond. 



Mr. Dennis and Co's Neiv Grounds, in the King's Road. — Mr. Dennis 

 has been busy, during the autumn and winter, in introducing perennial 

 plants and some shrubs into this occupation ; and one good-sized green- 

 house is already erected, and filled with plants. It has a most capacious 

 lean-to shed at its back, and under the floor of this a cellar, more than 

 6 ft. deep. As the subsoil here is wholly gravel, and consequently dry, 

 this cellar will, we presume, be found most eligible for the preservation 

 from frost of the tubers of georginas, for the cultivation of a very extensive 

 collection of which Mr. Dennis is so noted. He last year flowered that 

 choice and remarkable variety, Levick's Commander in chief, whose 

 prettily formed flower is of crimson colour, variegated with darker stripes : 

 it is figured in colours in the first number of Harrison's Floricidtural 

 Cabinet. While we were with Mr. Dennis, in his grounds in Grosvenor 

 Row (March 2d), a basket of georgina tubers, from Rouen, was delivered 

 to him, and he informed us that he has, since the autumn, made some 

 valuable additions to his collection by choice varieties, which he has pro- 

 cured from different parts of this country, and from France and Switzer- 

 land, and that he consequently anticipates a corresponding improvement 

 in his display next autumn : his additions, he remarked, have been greater 

 than in any previous year : he has resolved to commence planting out 

 much earlier this year than he did the last. The numerous pelargoniums 

 which Mr. Dennis cultivates were looking promisingly, but none of them 



