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exuberant foliage. A specimen of Magnolia conspicua, in the plea- 

 sure-ground, grafted upon a stock of Magnolia acuminata, is in 

 all respects more vigorous than one raised in the usual manner 

 upon a stock of Magnolia obovata; its foliage is deeper in colour 

 and thicker in substance, and its flowers much more numerous. 



" A fine weeping ash, also in the pleasure-ground, which had 

 remained for several years stationary in height, suddenly made 

 a strong perpendicular shoot nearly 10 ft. in length, which now 

 forms the head of the tree; its luxuriant branches having quite 

 overwhelmed the original tree. Quercus fastigiata, on the 

 banks of Milford Water, is interesting, from its perpendicular 

 habit, resembling that of the Lombardy poplar." 



Besides the shrubs above enumerated, we noticed Z)iospyros 

 virginiana, Nyssa aquatica, ISfegiindo JraxlmfbYia. ; Liquidambar, 

 both species ; Dirca palustris, 3 ft. high, with a stem 6 in. in 

 diameter ; Z£ubus nutkanus, which has the habit of the Virginian 

 raspberry, and bears an eatable fruit, resembling the cloud- 

 berry in size and appearance; B. spectabilis, and several other 

 species ; all the new species of Berberis and Mahonia ; a com- 

 plete collection of named vacciniums ; all the azaleas, both of 

 the British and Continental nurseries, besides numerous new 

 hybrids already mentioned, some of which were still in flower, 

 while on others the capsules, impregnated with a view to new 

 varieties, were nearly ready to gather ; and a good collection of 

 roses, standards, and dwarfs, among which was the Highclere 

 seedling, one of the most beautiful of the tea-scented China 

 roses and a free flowerer throughout the whole season : budded 

 in May, these roses will flower in the August of the same year. 

 The best stock for this and the other China roses is the B. 

 Banksz'tf?. Among the herbaceous plants, which were now in 

 splendid beauty, producing most brilliant masses of colour in 

 groups on the lawn, were, Z/ilium tigrinum and L. canadense, and 

 Yucca glaucescens, which has the habit of Y. filamentosa, flower- 

 ing yearly, but much more freely, with larger and more numerous 

 blossoms, and more elegant foliage. This plant was first given 

 to the nurseries from Highclere. Campanula lactiflora forms a 

 fine lawn plant, either singly or in large masses ; the lobelias, 

 georginas, lupines, phloxes, potentillas, asters, gladioluses, pe- 

 tunias, mimuluses, and many of the new Californian plants in- 

 troduced by Douglas, added to the beauty of the scene. It 

 deserves particularly to be remarked, that the dark purple candy- 

 tuft and Clarkz'tf pulchella form the best masses when mixed 

 with mignonette, and the same may be said of other showy but 

 naked-stemmed annuals ; and, farther, that all these flowers, and, 

 in general, all the ornamental shrubs, are introduced in masses ; 

 sometimes, as in the case of the snowberry, of one species 

 only; and in others, as in i?ubus, Erica, i^hododendron, &c, 



