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[or fine alluvial] soil without any mixture ; they had grown long in this 

 soil in good health. The old plants are now in good health, and a number 

 of smaller ones are potted off, and doing well ; we therefore hope to pre- 

 serve them through the winter, and by another season to do some good 

 with them. Mr. Reeves says the variegated sort is more delicate than the 

 old varieties of Azalea indica. 



" Mr. M'Gilligan (I know not if I spell his name rightly) has the entire 

 merit of preserving these plants alive, and presenting them to the English 

 gardens. He is purser to the Orwell, is a native of Banffshire, and is pas- 

 sionately fond of plants. Although the officers of this ship were partners 

 in a small shipment of azaleas, their plants all died before reaching Eng- 

 land, with the exception of one which lived a few days at Mr. Knight's, 

 but died, as did also four of Mr. M'Gilligan's, in a very short time. — 

 A. Scott. Exotic Nurse)'y,July 13. 1833." 



The floricultural world is much indebted to Mr. M'GUligan, and we hope 

 some botanist will perpetuate his name by applying it to some plant, 

 either generically or specifically. 



The F'ulham Nursery. — Messrs. Whitley and Co. cultivate upwards of 

 ninety hardy kinds (varieties and species) of Azalea, and most of these 

 blossomed freely and finely with them this season. The varieties differ, 

 in the period of opening their buds, sufficiently to produce a welcome 

 succession of these exquisitely elegant and beautiful flowers, whose 

 charms are the more observable from the leaves being but partially ex- 

 panded at the time the blossoms are displayed, from the beginning of May 

 to July. Many species of the pine and fir tribe are grown in this nursery. 

 Mr. Whitley conceives that, amidst the regard which the species of this 

 tribe have of late received from amateur planters, Pinus Cembra, the 

 Siberian pine, is not estimated in proportion to the beauty of its habits 

 of growth, and to the merits of its timber : on the latter quality, however, 

 we are at present but partially informed. We agree with Mr. Whitley in 

 deeming the Pinus Cembra, or aphernousli as it is called (we know not 

 the meaning), a tree of great beauty ; and add, from the private letter of a 

 gentleman distinguished for his love of the beauties of nature, the following 

 words in its praise : — "I wish, if you are a lover of trees, as I am most 

 enthusiastically, you could see my trees of the aphernousli. I have three 

 upwards of 50 ft. high, in perfect health, and without a dead twig. . . . 

 The tree is quite conic. It has some curious properties, such as closing 

 up densely before snow, so as to prevent the weight breaking it." — J. F. 

 M. D. Westfelton, near Shrewsbury, Dec. 9. 1832. Another pine which 

 we ardently desire to see in extended cultivation is the Pinus Laricio, first 

 brought into notice by Mr. Neill, in his Horticultural Tour in 1819, and 

 recommended by us in the present and in former volumes. — Cond. 



At ColviWs Nursery, at which we had not time to call, we observed 

 (July 15.), in passing. Yucca gloriosa, or some species allied, magnifi- 

 cently in blossom ; and plants of Y. filamentosa, and a kindred species 

 or two, are in flower beside it. The tip of the flowering scape of Y. glori- 

 osa must be 7 ft. or 8 ft. from the ground : we have never seen so fine a 

 specimen. 



Dennis and Co.'s Nursery, Grosvenor Row, Chelsea. — We had, on 

 July 15., the pleasure to observe many objects which interested us; and, 

 among the plants, the following deserve mention : — Thalia dealbata and 

 Calophanes (Ruelh'a) oblongifolia were flowering in a cool damp green- 

 house. Of Cereus speciosissimus, numerous plants placed in the open 

 air were displaying many fine blossoms. The ripe fruit of this and other 

 species of Cereus is most deliciously fragrant, as Mr. Dennis a good while 

 ago made known to us. Fuchsia globosa in the green-houses was most 

 beautiful j quite small plants of it were laden with flowers. A new and 



