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= ties, one of them globose in character, but neither | ward form; here columnar, there having the appear- so where about the time of Cha les I., but suit itably 
f them any improvemeat upon — in cultivation, | ance of richly fretted work; here a huge cliff, there | — — in appearance by the present proprietor. 
1. we except the corolla of No. I, which is very well mountain thrown down, scattering its wreck in every | Its ts bright-red coloured front, divested of all — and 
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perhaps next e will give me more additions. The near it. e grounds have been greatly improved 
Grifith’s r c ty ating a by curious vegetation still continues; and it is to all'in- | within these five yea ud a new coach-road to the 
tents and p 5 — Mediterranean. One prevailing house is at present in coures of formation. The flower- 
; HEN Mr. Griffith died he left his voluminous papers | feature of the untains, even as high m 13,000 feet, is | garden contains a nice piece of Grtiamental water, 
l and lar = colieotions of all sorts to the East India Com- | the —— of prickly Statices * A ing a section to adorned with patches of Water-Lilies, and surrounded 
pany, by w e former were ordered to be printed, 4 the term Hystrix would be a ptly —— orms by a closely shaven lawn, containing flower-beds, 
and the lator 0 be distributed. This was an act — the highest . 4 Salsoloi become very except on one side, where the object aimed at 
worthy of th he world, | eo common. Wecrossed five ridges of — — — has been the hiding of the kitchen-garden, which 
and inereased the large debt already due to it by all 10,000, 11 320, 12,180, 12,480, 12,900. We had some lies beyond it. This has been effected by a thick hedge ` 
3 my natural history. It was also a graceful | severe cold; some snow and ice. Ice was found, or of Arbor-vite trees on the top of the slope; a little - 
the 2 < one of the n most zealous and | rather some half frozen snow, in ravines at 10,500 feet | further down the bauk a row of standard Roses; tl 
distinguished of the many who have peris in the in 
any’s service, His of which so few have | was most m is was a fortunate circumstance, | scarlet Geraniums and Verbenas, the latter scrambling 
been previously published, furnish the fee biography | as it gave me specimens in flower, which elsewhere had | among burrs down to the water’s ege. Viewed from 
of aie short but brilliant career— who ean long been out of flower, or even past seeding. Mosses | the walk on the opposite side, this arrangement has a 
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and botanical notes, with two — volumes of plates ; | statement is, however, quite at variance with his bo- ful piece o ront of the houso, fur- 
; in q | nical memoranda, nished — four marble statues, a aoe Cedar of Lebanon, 
er and a considerable part ot the former consis The account he gives of the Punjaub, in a —— a mossy cupped Oak, and — forest trees, on orna- 
| od sketches and notices, more or less 88 of dated Shikarpore, Feb. 1839, is not calculated to mented by two loug parallel strips of geo 
plants om came under the author's observation while | its vegetation in public estimation: 1 — the first — being divided from the 
; in India, They constitute a mass of technical — At present I am in the worst country upon earth, | broad gravel walk in front of the house by a Grass 
. mixed with —_ ide m 5 2 ee rag , ed | that is, so far as botanical pabulum goes, for I never border about 8 feet — and a second ae 
aps of English ; an ough very far from Wott wastes as those i from the first by another strip of Grass some 
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| however, much impai ty pa — a ay nected with Seleme N being in 31e north, | remarked Caleeolarias Kentish Hero and Amplexicaulis. 
; manner in which the author’s egible ——_ — Reseda, Medi- Geraniums: Rollisson's Unique, Mangles’ variegated 
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notes made by so good an observer, during many years’ | coniferous looking tree. What a name, Furas ! when | purple, with a black eye ; Array, crimson. Cupheas of 
vel in various parts of India, and his unreserved | one so applicable as cupressoides might have been different kinds, beds of Agathea ccelestis, and 
opinions concerning passing events, communicated con- given. Around this plain, which is ia 27° 55’, Ageratum ccelestinum ; the blue Campanula car 
fidentially to his friend Dr. Dr. Wight, We must, however, | is to be seen but Tamarix, Acacia modesta, and a still | patica, —— met — a very pretty appearanee 
express our doubt of the propriety of making these more interesting Acacia, Ziziphus, Calotropis Hamil- in rows along the f the walks; Pentstemon gen- 
opinions public. The letters were never intended for | tonii, &. yet I have found some (to me) novelties | tianoides — — Shrabla „and other 
— other eye than that of the en man to whom they | which have afforded me som e occupation lately. The varieties. Round the base o of one of the statues we ob- 
full of hasty, ill-considered re- | best were a Phascum and a "Poplar. -like tree, which I | served Plumbago Larpentæ, but it has never flowered, 
Peet which the writer would have been the last man suppose is Liquidambar although, as usual, it disowns | possibly owing to its being in too luxuriant a condition; 
to put on perri as his deliberate judgment For in- | its character.” ? a dry poor soil would seem to suit it best. Passing the 
Stance, in one place, wri pon err informa co scenery of Bootan is of a very different cha- 8 the walk — through a 
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ay “It has been found that hybrids may be formed et 5 Since reaching the Faint, I may say I have done whieh seems to lus in its nearly still waters; 
tween Orchideze a ier of Lindley’s sections! This nothing, as t ho vegeti i ep mat same as that | and — ae in me brook, there is a 
an tal i his Orchid classification ! The seeds of these, of Lowe Neither id I get many p watérfall; but it was not in action when we aan 
ough they seni perfectly formed, have not been arches th hill pe — 5 r But rag enea nto the flower garden: a portion of 
m germinate, I t this startli darig the ce let 3 a 3 00 fee — old kitchen garden wall connects the Arbor-vitee hedge 
new views of classification it unk „ W eid wl there tation is almost quite tropical. * eee ove alluded to with the house, and in o render 
22 e tav rp that we do not te leaving A higher ranges, the climate being 80 ex ex- this ae ee 3 been covered w noliz 
2 uisite, and the spring vegetation so beautiful. At Big , climbing 
it eee indosi, that s — of our garden species Chupeha I i e of a halt to ascend 10,000 | Roses, &c., — at the end, next the hedge just men- 
ybrid origin, o experimental proof of it feet, and was well rewarded for my pains. t I saw | tioned, with a Fig tree, which, in the course of the 
has basn obtained, or is likely to be. The paragraph | eno ugh to make me wish to remain there re during che season, produces bushels of Figs, the young fruit 
jua quoted is, in fact, self. contradietory, for it first rains, at which pann the flora of such places can only | being always preserved from the winter's frost and wet 
. ts “ that — may be formed, and then that be said to exist nes, Bistortæ, — Iris, by a waterproof covering. A lean-to greenhouse oc- 
4 thea — have not been made to germinate ! so — Betula, Saxifra eee gro Trillium, | cupies a portion of this wall, opposite the head of the 
the Bug A evidence upon the subject is ger afin Abelia? Cerasus, Salix, Pin —— lake. It was gay with Clerodendrons, Balsams, Achi- 
is absent. No person's private letters ever Aconitum Rhododendrons, Aquilegia, Š &e., were all ob- menes, Pentas carnea, Fuchsias, the charming Dipla- 
i Griffith ; ‘ Rhododendrons | y 100 
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he was a man of a hot temper and impetuous feelings; T 3 — in ter t ecstacy, I — trusses of bloom on it, |: 
and his opinions were hotly and impetuously e xpressed, upwards of 15 species, — — might perha aps be|the house with Campanula pyramidalis, a 2 
whether in praise or in blame, without mueh considera- doubled by a longer residence. My collection will suitable plant for such situations. The small 
tion. His mind, moreover, was not so well 8 as wee. o between 1400 and 1500 A gouged including | border at the base of the wall was composed 
his eye; and eee ntly his reasoni Mosses and Hepaticee. Congrat me bag ares of little cireles, each containing a Fi a in E 
l ferior to his obser He had an "admirable skill i wd : ound Lyellia, regarding which I was — to suppose that the middle of dwarf-growiog bedding plants. These 
| which | it was a native of high altitudes, whereas I find it no circles were divided from each < by narrow walks 
‘iy are ra or — his e eee boa the higher than 4004 fih, I have only brought away about | a with Box, and surfaced with light-coloured 
8 eculy 3 Ibs. of s Bootan, aan alt 8000 to | to 
theory of v vegetation enabled him widen gave» Me ip | 
N open woods, a n othe rise somewhat dark and gloomy. In 
10,000 fet — A ia «lovely here and | the le garden is a long span- roofed foreing house, 
fth ge —— one a vast — aa spots to | in three divisions, with pits in front for growing Melons 
his was „ shown is 5 a — shy ‘pi Of all woods, give me one with in, &e. There are also a Vinery and a — 
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i lower —— ais than 8 Tue chie f vegetation cut in the forcing-house from last . > until any 
found the —.— letters to which we have referred, — | of the higher spots, at least I mean — vegeta- and in the pits in front Beechwood Melons will soon be 
À ay 19 we r a few passages which are likely to tion, consists of Monocotyledons, especially Liliacete. | ripe, being a second erop from the same plants this year. 
reade er. Writing from Cabul, How shall I deseribe the a * the Py- Ridge Cucumbers have been all killed by mildew, a 
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rs.] urious plants I have lately — k Péloriod Swertia, mildew on plants in houses, it has been N that 
a ‘Of t this place itself I am quite tired, and shall be whieh Royle 1 think ps Anes aud a curious ereeping | Sulphur-water (water after the sulphur has fallen to the 
glad when the advance, which is expected to take place | Ranunculus-leaved monopetalous plant, probably a | bottom) is equa lly efficacious with 8 the plants 
in a few days, actually appears in orders. The other Sphaceleoidea.” I What is that tt with ey sulphur 2 and it is a mu t cleanly 
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without a particle of vegetation, presenting one unvaried Garden Memoranda. thiog exh hibited the very best management, and reflected 
uninteresting brown hue. I have, in addition eee n GARDEN, GL me eo ing em now} much eredit on Mr. Speed, who is gardener 1 
long march from Candahar, also made one of 24 days infor here, for the first 7 in Europe rare and | Pymmes. 
T taan and back, which place is on the other side of beautiful Wallich 1 (L. W alichianum} re received by 
| the Indian Caucasus, though still farther within the | Mr. Moore from den, e Indian iscellaneous. 
mountains, and is famous for its caves, gigantic idols, — of t he Gade en. It 8 in —— way of tri eet 1 of seme (Nicandra eg 
and ruins, And such scenery; how indescribable! A | longifloram and exit, but has very narrow leaves. esloides).— ons contained in a com- 
bow by most ully j. | Pymmes House, EDMONTON — ee ph e om M, Ge edc te tend to — e 
ptured mountains, presenti every variety of of bye-gone days to be fo und in | made previ cre e sam in on i 
colour—here rosy, red, yellow ; there bluish, — this tamiliar 8 village, few afford more interest] tages to be derived from the use of the capsules of - 
brick-red, and presenting such infinite variety of out- | than Pymmes House, an old-fashioned edifice, built | Alkekengi in intermittent nt fevers, The author however 
