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we can only state that Magnob'a conspicua and Wistar/a 

 Consequaw« have bloomed this season more magnificently than 

 we have ever seen them before. It is gratifying to find the 

 latter plant flowering against the walls of some common street 

 houses; to which, with the Scotch labm-num, that, on the 

 same aspect^ blossoms at the same time, it forms a splendid 

 covering. Magnolm purpurea has been very fine at Mr. Lee's. 

 The azaleas promise beautifully there, at Mr. Malcolm's, 

 at the Fulham Nursery, at Mr. Chandler's, and indeed 

 every where. We hope to be able to see those of Mr. 

 Waterer and Mr. Donald in the course of next month. 

 Mr. Chandler has made considerable improvements in his 

 hot-houses, and has extended his hot water apparatus in 

 Kewley's manner. The whole of Chandler's nursery, when 

 we saw it, was in excellent order, and the articles beautifully 

 grown. The auriculas at Mr. Hogg's were excellent; and 

 Mr. Groom's tulip bed looks better this year than we ever 

 before saw it. Mr. Knight's plants are in admirable condition, 

 and his Orchideae are certainly the best grown that we have 

 seen this year in the neighbourhood of London. Telopea 

 speciossima, the waratah plant from New Holland, has bloomed 

 here in very fine style. We never saw the Chelsea Botanic 

 Garden looking so well, especially the rockwork. We are 

 happy to find an arboretum commenced, and the trees dis- 

 tinctly named, in the Surrey Zoological Gardens. It is in- 

 tended to name the shrubs and herbaceous plants in the same 

 manner, and thus, for all general purposes, to combine a 

 Botanic with a Zoological Garden. — Cond. 



At Dickson's Nursery ^ Acre Lane^ Brixton Causevoay. — On. 

 May 6. 1833. a good many auriculas were still beautifully in 

 blossom, and in a healthy and vigorous condition. Of the 

 Cape jasmine (Gardenm florida), a plant of ready sale, there 

 were numerous plants in blossom. The collection of hardy 

 -herbaceous plants here is, for a small nursery, rather rich, 

 and in excellent order, and will through the season supply to 

 the eye of observers a succession of beauties. — J. D. sen. 



Messrs. Fairbairn's. — The collection of green-house plants 

 is here of considerable extent, and kept in admirable order, 

 health, and compactness, by having a large proportion of the 

 plants, small, young, and stowed on shelves, so arranged as 

 to make the utmost of the space and the light. Numerous 

 species of hardy herbaceous plants and shrubs are grown 

 here, where I now saw, for the first time, a semi-double pyra- 

 cantha beautifully in flower. — J. D. sen. May 6. 1833. 



Dennis and Co.'s collection of pelargoniums exhibited o^ 

 May 16. a blaze of beauty. — J. D. 



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