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this species, borne at the tips of the branches, resemble, in the woods of Ame- 

 rica (Decandolle has stated), an expanded umbrella ; and the Americans call 

 the species the umbrella tree : whence Lamarck has proposed to name the 

 species Magnoh'a umbrella ; and the reforming Salisbury, dissatisfied with the 

 name tripetala, would name it M. frondosa. Magnoh'« conspicua, a plant of 

 which has this year borne 300 flowers. A plant of savine, 15 ft. in circum- 

 ference. A Yucca gloriosa had already a stem of coming flowers protruded 

 beyond the leaves. Among the standard roses the Bengal elegans was a per- 

 fect picture for buds ; its head was trained into the figure of an umbrella, and 

 a copious crop of upright buds thickly studded its whole surface. Old stand- 

 ards, of a kind presumed to be the white celeste, bore beautiful clear white 

 flowers. The boursault, trained into an arch astride a cross-walk on the lawn, 

 was brilliant in an abundance of its rich-hued showy blossoms. 



The various shrubs distributed about the lawn greatly promote the richness 

 and interest of the garden. Their upward outline gives a second terrace, as 

 it were, of verdure and of flowers, the plants beneath constituting the first ; 

 and these, here and there (as tbe shrubs themselves, and the herbaceous 

 plants growing below them, may be mutually or reciprocally dwarf or tall), 

 are blended, both into a very rich and a varied whole. The rich variety of 

 stature, from that of herbaceous plants to upwards, which shrubs and trees 

 inherit, renders them eligible instruments, in promotion of this kind of effect, 

 to any extent equal to the height of the trees employed.. 



The plants contained in the flower-beds are of showy and choice kinds; 

 and are, in their stores of blossoms, the grand fund of the splendour of the 

 garden. The principle of disposition which has been adopted is, that of 

 planting numerous plants of each chosen species or variety in a mass, usually 

 a bed to each kind, with a view to the effect of all the flowers, united, of that 

 mass ; and placing the kinds of plants, the colours of whose blossoms most 

 assimilate, asunder, in order to give the scene the enrichment of variegation. 

 Some beds are consigned to a collection of the species of a genus; and some 

 few to a miscellaneous assemblage of plants of various genera. The following 

 names of the subjects of some of the beds will illustrate the two former 

 cases: — Z)elphinium elegans flore pleno, now flowering; Gaillardia aristata 

 and bicolor, both now blooming ; the white double-flowered Provence rose, 

 some flowers, the earlier, now open ; beds of other kinds of roses : the varie- 

 ties of rose, many of them splendid, are in high esteem here ; and Mr. Redding 

 showed us Rivers's George the Fourth, and spoke in commendation of the 

 Wellington. Gilia capitata, finely in flower ; Czackk Liliastrum, its flowers 

 just declining ; heartseases, now blooming ; i?anunculus asiaticus, some varie- 

 ties from Italy, by Mrs. Palliser, now flowering; Phalangium Liliago, the 

 abundant white flowers of which supply, and, as successively expanded, will 

 for some time supply, the mass of white which the flowers of Czackia Lili- 

 astrum, now declining, have previously contributed; iSalvia fulgens and Gra- 

 hann : the plants of both these have stood in the open soil, from last year, 

 through the winter, sheltered only by a covering of dry leaves ; and all the 

 plants have emitted from the base a copious crop of shoots, in promise of 

 beauty of flowers in autumn. The broad-leaved species of Statice, not yet in 

 flower. A collection of species of Pentstemon : of these, P. ovatus and P. 

 confertus are flowering. A collection of several species of 7 v ris, some of 

 them in blossom. Several species of Zilium; with some other plants towards 

 the edge. Gladiolus cardinalis, and natalensis in the centre ; both apparently 

 recently planted out. ^Salvia chamasdryoides, Lobeh'« fulgens, scarlet lobelias 

 and Ferbena ehamsedrifdlia; pinks; Ornithogalum latifolium, now flowering; 

 /Salvia angustifolia ; Papaver nudicaule, among the plants of which are varie- 

 ties each with a corolla of one of the following colours, cream colour, cream 

 colour tinted with pink, pale yellow, rich full yellow, salmon's flesh red, 

 deeper red, and a still deeper red. The beds allotted to some of the above 

 kinds of plants are not large; and there are beds from 1 yard to U yard in 

 diameter severally appropriated to such plants as the following : — Bouvard?'a 



