Calls at the London Nurseries. 



467 



This frame may be produced at little expense. That the reader may 

 compute the cost of it in his own neighbourhood, I attach tables of the 

 weight of ii'on, as cast flat or cast round, required, according to the 

 dimensions chosen for the frame : — 



Length anc 



weight of flat iron, i in. 



Len 



gth anc 



weight of round iron. 



thick, and l^-in. wide 



. 





1 in. thick. 





ft. lbs. 



ft. lbs. 



ft. 



lbs. 



ft. 



lbs. 



ft. lbs. 



ft. 



lbs. 



1 0-93 



7 6-31 



13 



12-09 



1 



0-360 



7 2-37 



13 



4-78 



2 1-86 



8 7-44 



14 



13.02 



2 



0-736 



8 2-94 



14 



3-15 



3 2-79 



9 8-37 



13 



13-93 



3 



1-1 



9 3-31 



13 



5-32 



4 3-72 



10 9-3 



16 



14-88 



4 



1-47 



10 3-68 



16 



3-89 



5 4-65 



11 10-23 



17 



13-81 



3 



1-84 



11 4-04 



17 



6-23 



6 3-38 



12 11-16 







6 



2-2 



12 4-41 







— M.Saul 



. Sidyard S 



'treet, 



Lancast 



er, June 17. ] 



833. 







Art. II. Calls at the London Nurseries, and other Suburban 

 Gardens. 



The Hachney Botanic Garden, Messrs. Loddiges, June 21. — The first 

 thing which struck us, on our present visit to this garden, was the remark- 

 ably fine bloom of the ixias, and other Cape /rideae, in the open border in 

 front of the palm stoves. This border, which is formed of heath mould 

 and sand, is about 18 in. broad, and of the same depth. The bulbs were 

 planted in a row, within a few inches of the front wall, upwards of ten 

 years ago ; during the whole of that period they have received little or no 

 protection in winter, and they have bloomed most luxuriantly every May, 

 June, and July. The plants have multiplied to such an extent that the 

 whole border is now covered with them ; and numbers have come up 

 from self-sown seeds, among which are some new varieties. Altogether, 

 this border, covered with bloom as it now is, is the finest thing of the kind 

 that we have ever seen. 



The first hot-house we entered is chiefly devoted to orchideous 

 epiphytes ; a number of which are tied on pieces of the stems or 

 branches of trees with the bark on (about two or three inches in diameter 

 and six or eight inches long), and suspended from the roof by wires. 

 A small tuft of moss is first put on the upper side of the piece of wood ; 

 on this the plant is placed, a little green moss is then put over the roots, 

 and the whole is tied firmly down with copper wii-e, so fine as hardly to 

 be visible from below. The plants in this situation thrive most vigor- 

 ously, sending their roots from under the moss down on each side, closely 

 embracing the piece of wood, and each plant seeming as though it were 

 riding astride on its little barrel-like wooden horse. This mode of grow- 

 ing epiphytes is, at once, very successful and very curious. The pitcher 

 plant (iVepenthes) and the Sai'racenfa in this stove are growing and 

 blooming freely. In the palm-house everything is in its usual luxuriance; 

 the ferns are in most vigorous growth, and the epiphytes flowering 

 beautifully. Oncidium divaricatum and flexuosum, and Calanthe ?;eratri- 

 folia, are eminently conspicuous. There is a beautiful new lycopodium 

 (L. circinatum), the thick-set branches of which we can only compare to 

 fine chenille work in embroidery. A shower was let off, to show the 

 effect to a stranger who accompanied us. We mention this to remind our 

 readers of what has been done in this way, and what may be done again 

 in lofty conservatories. The epiphytes which required props were 

 elegantly supported by small twigs of bamboo, which are inconspicuous, 



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