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Green-house Plants 'which have liDed 



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scription 

 scabris," 



Art. VII. Notices of Green-house Plants which have lived in the 

 open Air for several Years {chiefly in the South- West of England), 

 By A. S. 



I LEARN from Mr. J. Eaton, gardener to the Earl of Ilch ester, 

 at Melbury Park, in Dorsetshire, where I saw the plant grow- 

 ing, that the Psoralea glandul6sa {Jigs. 66, 61.) has been standing 

 there in the open air against a wall 

 for the last five or six years. " If 

 the wall had been high enough, 

 it would have been 20 ft. high ; but 

 it has been kept down to the wall, 

 which is only 12 ft. high ; and it has 

 been cramped for room on the sides 

 (there being on one side a door, 

 and on the other a pear tree); 

 but its stem is 1 ft. in girt at 1 ft. 

 from the ground." With this de- 

 Mr. Eaton sent me a specimen : it has the " petiolis 

 which, in the absence of the flowers, distinguishes it 

 from my old acquaintance, Psoralea bituminosa, " petiolis pu- 

 besceiitibus lavibusJ^ The leaves, when steeped in hot water, smelt, 

 as you once observed to me, very strongly. 



Kingsbridge. The Rev. Mr. Henshaw, Salcombe, near 

 Kingsbridge, has in his garden, which is within a few yards of 

 the sea, a number of beautiful, large, healthy orange trees, growing 

 against two walls which have been built for the purpose. The 

 first wall, next the water, has a broad coping, and glass covers, or 

 sashes, for protecting the trees in severe winters. The second 

 wall, which is a little higher up on the sloping bank of the garden 

 (or, rather, flower-garden), has straw or reed covers, which are 

 fixed to small pieces of wood driven into the top or upper part 

 of the wall ; and, as there is no occasion for covering the plants 

 on this wall for nine months in the year, this is a much neater, 

 and equally efficacious, mode of protecting the trees. The trees 

 on it are twolemons and one orange, loaded 

 with fruit. Phylica plumosa has been out 

 several winters in this garden uninjured. 

 Melianthus major [Jig. 68.), in the flower- 

 garden, is 10 ft. or 12 ft. high. I made no 

 notes at the time ; but, at a guess, the 

 length of each wall is about 100 ft., the' 

 height 12 ft. or more. The trees are 

 orange, Seville orange, blood orange, ci- 

 tron, lemon, limes, &c. ; and loaded with 

 fruit, which produces such an enchanting 

 effect, as will repay any one interested in these matters to go 

 out of his way to see them. When I saw these trees in August 



