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that it grows to the height of 10 ft., 12 ft., or 15 ft. ; but I should be disposed at 

 present to consider it, at most, rather as a shrubby tree than as a tree proper: 

 perhaps it will prove to be only a tall herbaceous plant. Some of the seeds 

 I distributed have been sown in the mountains, and have already grown 

 to the height of about 15 in., and produced leaves which are comparatively of 

 an enormous size." This plant will probably be a conservatory one, if not 

 a hardy annual in this country, — W. Hamilton. Oxford Place, Plymouth, 

 Aug. 20. 1835. 



Art. in. Domestic Notices. 



ENGLAND. 



A Plant of Brugmdnsia suaveolens, grown in the garden of Richard Durant, 

 Esq., Putney Hill, and now in flower there, was propagated from a cutting in 

 August, 183.3. It is in a pot 12 in. deep, by 13 in. over; its height is 5ft.; 

 and it has a single stem 2 ft. high, with a spreading top, the circumference of 

 which is 19 ft. It shows at the presei^t time 102 flowers and flower buds, 80 

 of which are expanded. Each of its pure white trumpet-like flowers measures 

 53 square inches ; so that it will, in about four weeks from its first beginning to 

 flower,produce 8586 square inches of flower,and all from less than one solid foot 

 of mould. We have another BrugmansM, that was exhibited at Chiswick last 

 year, three years old, which had upon it, thirteen weeks before the exhibi- 

 tion, 228 flowers and flower buds. Another, now in flower, one year old, 

 growing in a pot, size 16, has 40 flowers upon it. — J. Spence. Putney Hill, 

 Oct. 14. 1835. 



We shall be glad to receive an account of the mode ia which this plant was 

 grown. — Cond. 



Prugvidns'ia suaveolens W. grown in the same sort of loam and peat as men- 

 tioned above, is 16 ft. high, and had 700 flowers on it during the year 1835. 

 The flowers, when expanded, were, on an average, 1 ft. long, and 36 in. in cir- 

 cumference at the mouth. The conservatory is about 60 ft. by 30 ft., built by 

 P. Robinson, Esq., architect ; and the height of the dome is 30 ft. It is the 

 best place in the country to grow camellias ; and the worthy owner (R. Wil- 

 liams, Esq., M.P.) spares no expense to beautify his mansion, and extensive 

 pleasure-grounds; and, if he continue to enlarge them (as I have no doubt he 

 will), they will be the finest grounds in the countr^^ — --James Harbison. Bride- 

 head house, Feb. 19. 1836. 



The Chimonanthus fragra7is has produced fruit, a specimen of which I send 

 you : it does not often fruit here ; in the neighbourhood of London it may, 

 probably, do so more frequently. — Id. 



Alstrcemerias in the o^Jcn Air in Devonshire. — I send herewith a stem of 

 Alstroemeria ovata, 14 ft. long (Loddiges); and another of A. hii'tella, 11 ft. 

 long (Tate), to show, in proof of what I stated in a paper on acclimatising 

 trees, which I sent you some time since [and which shall appear in an early 

 Number], the great luxuriance with which they grow in the open air in Devon. 

 ■ — R. Glendinning. Bicton Gardens, near Exeter, August 22. 1835. 



Ijdthyrus rotundifdUus W., though one of the ver}' handsomest of its genus, 

 is, I believe, in but few collections at present ; yet few plants are more orna- 

 mental, or more deserving a place in the flower-garden, than this beautiful 

 pea. It is a perennial, quite hardy, and not much of a climber, as it seldom 

 exceeds 3 ft., or at most 4 ft., in height. It is a free flowerer, and produces its 

 long upright racemes of delicate rose-coloured blossoms as early as the first 

 or second week in May, a month earlier than most other species of its genus. 

 It generally ripens its seeds, by which, and also by dividing the roots, it may 

 be readily increased. According to all the authors that I have had an oppor- 

 tunity of consulting, it is stated to have been first brought to England in 1822; 

 but this cannot be the true date of its first introduction to this country, for it 

 is certain that it was cultivated in the Oxford carden, before the late Dr. Wil- 



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