30 Bicton Gardens, their Culhire and Management. 



circumference of which is 34 ft., and the height 6 ft., with 1520 

 heads of flowers now expanded. However, I shall treat on all 

 these noble specimens when I come to them. 



When you were here, the two above-mentioned conservatories 

 were filled with pelargoniums, fuchsias, balsams, globe ama- 

 ranthus, Primula sinensis, Achimenes coccinea, and cockscombs 

 of fourteen different varieties. AH these plants are grown with 

 charcoal mixed in the earth, or are drained with if, and every 

 plant is fond of it. The houses are each of them about 40 ft. 

 long, 18 ft. high, and 18 ft, wide. They are both of them now 

 furnished with a row of large orange trees, banksias, many 

 varieties of acacias, including large plants of A. alata, armkta, 

 Brownzz, longifolia, pulchella major, lophantha, ^iscolor, wzyr- 

 tifolia, affinis, &c. Likewise large plants of 



JPicus rubio'inosa Swammerdiimffl! antcnnana, very rare 



Datura (Brugmansi«) bicolor Ozothamnus m;>rsoule:^ 



Candida Callistemon seiiiptvfioren i 



Hakea heterophylla ^ lanceolatus 



ikfyrica ^'uercifolia 

 Dodon«^« pinnata 



viscosa 

 Hibbertfa voliibilis 

 iJibiscus spiralis 

 Sparrmannfa africana 

 Eugenia Zigustrina 

 Leonotis Leonurus 

 Euriops pectinatus 

 Oiea europaea 

 Pr6te« villosa 

 iVerium splendens 

 Clethra arborea 

 Ruellia ^abmiana 

 Pachysandra procumbens 



A large plant of ^'loe arborescens. A pair of large American 

 aloes in each house, and many others. Likewise many old and 

 valuable Cape plants, and many that have been raised from 

 foreign seeds ; a large collection of fuchsias, cinerarias, and other 

 plants too numerous to dwell upon at this moment. 



I will now give you some account of the Orchideous and Stove 

 House, which is a fine large one, but crowded with plants to 

 overflowing. The Portland stone platform up the centre is so 

 crowded and full, that there is hardly room for the plants to 

 breathe. The Portland stone shelf all round the house is 2 ft. 

 wide, and the plants are growing almost on the top of each 

 other. The rafters are completely loaded with blocks and baskets 

 of all sizes, covered with that beautiful and interesting tribe of 

 plants, Orchidaceas; but, in my simple judgement, it does not 

 require a quarter of the care and attention to cultivate the 

 orchideous plants that many persons use. I have not yet, it is 

 true, had them all drained and potted with cliarcoal, but those I 



Cacalia repens 











Eutaxia ^axifolia 











??iyrtif61ia 











Limojiia citritblia 











Cavya angustifolia 











Goodenk ovata, fine 













Circumf. 



Hci 



ght. 



Name. 













i Ft. 



In. 1 



Ft. 



In. 



Virgllifl capensis 



12 



G 







JS'rica gelida - 



4 



6 



8 



4 



niultiflora 



\ 2 



■^ 1 



8 



6 



Indigofera purpiiras- 



_ 









ceiis 



' 8 



i 



11 







iaurus Cdvi'phora - 



114 



1 



20 



8 



