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interesting kind of Fuchsza, as we guess, some variety of F, gr&cilis, was 

 abundant in blossoms. Its petals, in many of the flowers, become un- 

 rolled and stand separate, and so contrast more livelily and airily with the 

 crimson sepals : this character, added to the free graceful habit of the 

 plant, renders the kind a very pleasing one. Among the species imported 

 here by Mr. Gordon, one is presumed to be a species of the very rare and 

 interesting labiate genus Gardoquia : Mr. Dennis's plants of it have not 

 yet flowered. The pelargoniums have passed the zenith of their beauty, 

 but plants in blossom, of three of the choicer varieties, were shown to 

 us J namely, habranthum, olympicum, and Lord Ravensworth. Pelar- 

 gonium habranthum has a very large blush or rose flower, with a 

 large dark spot in each of the upper petals ; it grows and flowers freely : 

 plants of it, according to their size, are priced at 2]s. to 10s. Qd. each. 

 P. olympicum has rich, very dark upper petals (the most so of the kinds 

 in this mode), and its lower petals each marked with a spot ; it flowers 

 very freely, price 10^. (yd. to 3^. Lord Ravensworth is of the type shown 

 in P. ignescens, and has a fine scarlet flower, with a large dark spot in 

 each of the upper petals, price 2 k. a plant. Of plants of the cockscomb 

 we had never before seen so many ; a whole range of lights and the 

 stage and shelves of a green-house were filled with them ; all of them 

 looked in high luxuriance, and their combs were looking beautiful. 

 The globe amaranth (Gomphrena globosa), the purple and the white, is 

 the tender annual which Mr. Dennis is this year, next to the cockscomb, 

 growing in the greatest quantity : last year he grew the ice plant in 

 the same wholesale manner. Among the hardy plants, we were pleased 

 with part of a bed of ijchnis chalcedonica, white-flowered; Francoa 

 appendiculata, of which Mr. Dennis has a good stock of young plants ; 

 with Z/ilium canadense, and Catananche caerulea bicolor. ' 



It is well known that the flower-buds and the blossoms of georginas are 

 frequently a good deal mutilated by the erosions of the earwig, and per- 

 haps by those of the woodlouse also. Earwigs feed by night, and hide 

 themselves by day ; and, in conformity to this their habit, Ms. Dennis has 

 had a thumb or sixty pot, with a minute tuft of hay in it, hung invertedly 

 on the tip of the stake to which each plant of georgina is tied tor support. 

 The earwigs, on the arrival of daylight, pass up the stake, and hide in the 

 hay in the pot, where they are readily discoverable for destruction. — J.D. 



Weeks' s Horticultural Bazaar. — Mr. Weeks has fitted up a range of 

 buildings with glass on all sides, and a roof partly glazed and partly 

 opaque, for the display of various horticultural contrivances, as well as for 

 the sale of plants in pots, and of fruits and cut flowers. There are also 

 rooms, in which fruits and confectionery may be eaten. The principal 

 object, however, is to display, on an extensive scale. Mi*. Weeks's newest 

 mode of heating. This mode, which we have already noticed [p. 34.], is 

 most immediate in its effects; and we have no doubt about its merits 

 except as to the durability of the apparatus, of which Mr. Weeks, on 

 his part, has equally no doubt. A year or two will decide this point ; and 

 we have -suggested the idea of taking down that part of the apparatus 

 which surrounds the fire, once a year, and examining it, in the presence of 

 competent judges, in order to ascertain whether it is at all, and if so, to 

 what extent, incrusted with earthy deposit. Mi-. Weeks here exhibits a 

 very beautiful application of his mode of heating to the warming of cis- 

 terns of water under pits, for growing melons, pine-apples, &c. ; he has 

 put the same mode in practice on a large scale at Mr. Tattersall's, in Lower 

 Grosvenor Place, and is about to do the same at Woburn Abbey and other 

 country seats. We are glad to find that Mr. Weeks is putting up a num- 

 ber of hot-houses, to be heated by his apparatus, in different parts of the 

 country, so that this mode of heating will soon become extensively known. 



