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smaller, and are grouped into denser heads than are those upon the other. 

 The corollas of the two trees are not of the same colour,, although both are of 

 the variety called the scarlet-flowered tree rhododendron. Mr.. Scott showed 

 us, also, one or two plants of the pink-flowered tree rhododendron, and of the 

 white-flowered tree rhododendron. Of the scarlet and pink flowered varieties, 

 plants are here on sale ; but those of the pink-flowered are yet high-priced. 

 The last of the flowers (beautiful, indeed, they are!) of the R. campanulatum 

 were now falling. They had been in perfection in the second week in 

 April ; and as many as thirteen had been counted in a head. This exquisitely 

 ornamental plant (see IX. 485.) is asserted to be nearly hardy in Britain : it 

 is from Nepal. Mr. Knight has a store of seedling plants of "it. A few hy- 

 brids of the R. pontico-arboreum kind were placed in the ranks of the plants 

 in the conservatory ; and, though " hybrids," as some would reproachfully 

 term them, were ornamental in their heads of pretty blossoms. In a frame 

 were plants of those interesting dwarf species, i?.Chamsecistus, lapponicum,and 

 chrysanthum. The plants of R. Chamascistus were flowering rather freely : 

 their pale delicate corollas, large for the plant, are very pleasing. In this 

 frame were also a plant of the white-corollaed Menziesz'a poliifolia, from Ire- 

 land ;. plants, in flower, of the M. cserulea, from Scotland ;. and of the Cha- 

 maeledon (Azalea) prociimbens, also from Scotland, and in flower. Of aza- 

 leas in the houses, the most superb was a plant of the. A. /edifolia (indica 

 alba). It was more than a yard high, its branches spread almost 4 ft., and the 

 large white corollas well-nigh touched each other over the whole of the upper 

 part of the plant. The flowers give out, too, a pleasant delicate odour. Of 

 A. sinensis we saw some last flowers. There is a peculiar beauty in the 

 colour of the corolla of this species. Of A. indica, purple-flowered, double, 

 two plants bore flowers. The rarer Chinese kinds of Azalea, introduced by 

 Mr. M'Gilligan (IX. 474.), are, we learned, doing very well; and that plants 

 of them, for sale, at moderate prices, are expected to be ready in autumn. 



In Leguminosae the most beautiful of the plants in flower (except the Wis- 

 taria Consoquawa within the conservatory, and one in the open air) was Ken- 

 nedys dilatata : it is a lovely green-house twiner. The other plants we noted 

 are, Acacia pentadenia Lindl. and cordata, Oxylobium retusum, Gastrolobium 

 retusum, Pultense v « villosa, and Adesmia viscosa: of the last, a plant 10 ft. 

 high, has stood out through the winter, unhurt, trained to a western-aspected 

 wall. Of the Leguminosae raised by Mr. Knight, from seeds collected by Mr. 

 Baxter, the following are the names of some : — Gompholdbium venulosum, 

 capitatum, Knightwwmm, tenue ; Burtonz'a conferta, Dillwynja? glycinefolia, 

 Chorozema ovatum, Scott/# las v vis, and some others. 



In Vvotedcece the foremost objects are two blooming plants of Telopea 

 speciosissima, each more than 6 ft. high, topped by striking (as Telopea signi- 

 fies) heads of flowers. The stock of plants of banksias and dryandras raised 

 from Mr. Baxter's seeds has been much reduced by sale; those left are looking 

 well, and amongst them we were shown plants, two or more, of the rare 

 Hemiclidia Baxterc. BankszVz Goodii, raised here, is dead, and is, therefore 

 probably lost to Britain. 



Of other plants noticeable (without mention of the orders to which they 

 belong) are the following: — Pergularia odoratissima, whose fragrance perfumed 

 the stove in which it, with the Orchideae, grows; Solly « heterophil la in the 

 open air, wholly unscathed by the past semblance of a winter, abounding in 

 deep green leaves, and showing buds of countless blossoms which will adorn 

 it through the summer. Cephalotus folhcularis; Dionse v a Muscipula, plenty 

 of; and ^splenium Nidus ; Aponogeton distachyon, Begdm'a keracleifdlia, Pit- 

 cairma albiflos, and Lantana Sellozin the stoves: and, in other compartments, 

 these : — Anthocercis littorea, Bor6n/a serrulata, Sarracema flava, Ribes spe- 

 ciosum, Gevardia ^uercifolia, Sparaxis grandiflora, Alstrcemeria oeulata, Hya- 

 cinthus amethystinus, Funkia Sieboldtiawa, Phlox verna, Primula pusilla, 

 Zappara'a nodiflora var. rosea, and Trillium grandiflorum. — J. D. 



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