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These scenes of rural enjoyment, independently of their beauty to general 

 observers, might thus be made schools of botany and gardening, and serve 

 to encourage a taste for both subjects in the rising generation. 



It has always struck us as remarkable that the genus Pinus should 

 thrive so well as it does amidst the smoke of Hackney. On this occasion 

 we could not help noticing the luxuriant growth of the Pinus Laricio, 

 which is more rapid than that of the Scotch pine : its timber, as we 

 noticed in Vol. I. p. 79., is also said to be greatly superior. We are 

 very desirous of directing the attention of planters to this most valuable 

 tree, of which there is now a tolerable stock in the London nurseries, 

 and which stock will, of course, increase with the demand. We only 

 wish our readers would compare the height and annual shoots, both as 

 to thickness and length, of this specimen in the Hackney Garden, with 

 those of the Pinus sylvestris there. Among the new additions to the 

 genus Pinus, in Messrs. Loddiges's collection, is one of the finest plants 

 of Pinus Lambertz«/2« in the country. 



Clapton Nursery, H. Loive and Co., June 21. — As usual, there is 

 a very fine young stock of the rarest and most valuable Cape and 

 Australian plants, as well as a number from South America, sent home by 

 Mr. Anderson, who was, till lately, Mr. Lowe's collector, when in that 

 country. Mr. Anderson is now become a resident at Sydney, as a 

 botanical agent, and well merits employment. Mr. Lowe is always 

 remarkably successful in striking heaths : this year, he has been singularly 

 so in inarching the present year's wood of camellias on the last year's 

 wood of the stock. The operation is performed when the lower part of 

 the young wood has attained a slight degree of firmness, and the point of 

 the shoot is just developed, and no more. By these means, the whole of 

 the returning sap is insured to the cicatrising of the wound, and to the 

 promotion of the union of the scion with the stock. This takes place in 

 the short space of three weeks after inarching, and in three more weeks 

 the separation from the parent plant may take place. The advantages of 

 the plan, Mr, Lowe says, are two : first, a whole year is gained in pro- 

 ducing plants ; and, secondly, there is greater certainty of success in the 

 operation. In a small stove, facing the east, the orchideous epiphytes are 

 planted among moss and brick rubbish, on a shelf against the back wall, 

 close under the glass. They are thriving well ; they are in the hottest 

 part of the house, which, being low, and having in it several cisterns with 

 water plants, is sure to have the air always moist. There is a beautiful 

 new broad-leaved water plant here, which has not yet had a specific name, 

 or been given out. It belongs to the genus Leptanthus, nat. ord. Pontedere*^. 

 The flower bears a close general resemblance to Eschscholtzk, and the leaves 

 to those of iVymphffi'a or Villarsza. It promises to be a plant of the very 

 easiest culture, and will be a valuable addition to our stove aquatics. 

 Along the midrib of the back of the leaf of this plant is an air vessel for 

 keeping it floating on the surface. In the green-house there are a number 

 of plants of Nierembergk gracilis in flower, Mr. Lowe informs us that 

 this species will stand the open air during summer as well as N. phoenicea 

 and Petunia nyctaginiflora (two plants which ought to be in every 

 garden, whether large or small) ; it will, therefore, be a great addition to 

 the flower-garden. In a cold pit, Mahonza repens has thrown out under- 

 ground stolones, three feet in length, which have not yet emitted a single 

 fibrous root. Mr. Lowe has a good stock of new and rare species 

 of Berberis, some of which have not yet received specific names. At the 

 foot of a wall there is a magnificent Alstroenien'w, quite new, which 

 promises to equal, if not to surpass, the finest species in cultivation ; it 

 has not yet received a specific name. Against the same wall is a plant of 

 the new iSolanum crispum, introduced by Mi-. Lowe, the stem of which 



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