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very fine MagncM/rt grandiflora. There is one of the most 

 select collections of heartsease here in the neighbourhood of 

 London ; and the demand for this little plant is so great that 

 it cannot be supplied. We saw a great many seedling 

 phloxes, some of which are very fine. Immense quantities 

 of Petunia nyctaginiflora var. grandiflora and P. phoenicea 

 are grown for their seeds. Magnoh'« Soulangefl?i« grows 

 vigorously, and flowers freely ; and the tree is considered as 

 decidedly more hardy than M. conspicua. There are hedges 

 of Cydonia japonica which are covered with flowers the 

 greater part of the winter and the whole of the spring ; and 

 Mr. Brown, jun., is of opinion that this plant will be found, in 

 some respects, better adapted for hedges than the common 

 hawthorn. The hedges of it in this nursery were quite 

 impenetrable. Mr. Brown is celebrated for having raised 

 two roses of the Bengal kind, viz.. Brown's celestial and 

 Brown's superb. They are both roses which grow^ with 

 great vigour, and they are peculiarly susceptible of training as 

 pyramids. There is here a large stock of that scarce rose, 

 the yellow Noisette, obtained by grafting portions of shoots, 

 containing only a single bud, on stocks of Brown's superb. 

 Tins is an invention of one of the Messrs. Brown. The scion is 

 not above an inch in length, and it is put on the stock, in the 

 whip-grafting manner, close by the surface of the ground. 

 The stock is of the wood of the former year, and the scion of 

 the current year. Excellent and saleable plants are thus 

 produced the very first season. There are two very com- 

 plete collections of hollyhocks now in flower, one tall and the 

 other dwarf. Among numerous things which we noted, but 

 have not time to dilate on, were, that seeds of Fuchsm globosa 

 produced plants quite different from the parent; that seeds of 

 the Datura odorata, after being a year in a hot-bed without 

 germinating, came up the following year in the open garden, 

 when the mould of the hot-bed had been spread about as 

 manure ; an excellent collection of the dark-coloured nastur- 

 tium, said to have been introduced into England by Booth of 

 Hamburgh ; fine plants of Calandrinia grandiflora, beautifully 

 in flower; and a number of seedling hybrid caprifoliums. 

 On the whole, we were highly gratified with this nursery ; 

 and we intend, in future, to visit it frequently. 



The Gardeii at the Cro'wn Inn^ at Slough. — As might be 

 expected from the vicinity of Mr. Brown's nursery, this 

 garden is well kept, and is in high order. Among the trees, 

 we were pleased to find Magnolm conspicua; and among the 

 flowers, Clarkm and the new Oenotheras. The gardens at 

 the inns at Salt Hill, Maidenhead, and Henley may be held 



