560 Pines and Flonxiering Plants at Dropmore. 



Pinus Lambertiana. Pinus nigricans. 6'edrus Deoddra. 



^axifolia. Pichta Fischer. Also an unknown spe- 



L'laveawa, ponderosa. cies, sent here for 



monticola. Sabinzawa. Deoddra. 



grandis. Sabinmwa var. Araucdria [Altlngia] 



hispanica. Gerardiana!. Cunninghami. 



amabilis. nobilis. Ddmmara australis. 



I shall also give you a brief notice of some of the new and 

 beautiful plants which we bed out, group, or otherwise apply 

 for the decoration of the out-door garden during summer. 



Yerbena venbsa is one of the greatest treasures of the gar- 

 den when planted out in a bed ; and we have a bed of plants 

 of it arranged by the side of a bed of Ferbena chamsedrifolia, 

 and the abundant blossoms of the two, those of each so beauti- 

 ful and so unlike those of its neighbour, supply superb masses 

 of colour, mutually relieved and enhanced in splendour by 

 the striking contrast of the colours of the two. /^erb^na 

 venosa may be readily multiplied by cuttings inserted under 

 a hand glass, or in a frame with a little heat. It has a pecu- 

 liar property of throwing up suckers at a distance from the 

 root, which soon make a good thick bed. Any light soil 

 suits it. 



Yerbena Sabim ? is quite a new plant here. I am preparing 

 for a bed next season. It is a procumbent and delicate little 

 plant, well adapted for beds, or to hang over the sides of 

 flower baskets. 



Nierembergia phcenicea is also a fine plant for grouping 

 into beds, but should not be planted thick, or it becomes 

 too much crowded. 



NicotxaxiSi longifl&ra is a beautiful plant to stand singly in 

 borders. It grows three feet high, and produces a mass of 

 large white flowers, which close for a few hours in the middle 

 of the day. Its seeds should be sown in the autumn ; and, if 

 the plants arising from them be kept in a cold frame or green- 

 house, they will flower earlier and finer than if not sown 

 until the spring. 



Calandrinio, grandiflbra is also an eligible plant for borders. 

 It attains two feet in height, and is very showy. 



Salpiglossis, the species of, do well here, treated after the 

 same manner. 



Argemb7ie gratidijlbra is also a great acquisition to the 

 borders. 



A great many plants are naturalised throughout the ivoods 

 here ; and it will be my study to scatter all the seeds I can 

 procure, in every wild part, which, if they grow, will eventu- 

 ally supply great pleasure and amusement to the traveller. 



