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GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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is well supplied with suitable plants. Aciphylla 
squarrosa is here to be met with, a plant which 
the superficial observer might well be pardoned 
if he did not recognise it as an т. but 
of whose lineage the carrot-worm entertai 
doubt. Large numbers of New Zealand icr. 
are grown here—Mutisia decurrens and Clian- 
thus m Ephedra monostachya, and even 
the L a We have not space 
y 
enumerate many of the interesting plants which 
render this a veritable garden of acclimatisation. 
It is refreshing to visit a garden where th 
plants receive the first consideration, 
—— ong the private establishments near 
Edinburgh which have much to interest the hor- 
ticulturist, but which, of course, cannot be seen 
witho express permission of the owners, 
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is the garden of Mr. 
HENRY, the fortunate introducer of so many 
fine plants, and the equally hake hybridise, 
The services which this gentleman has 
long a time rendered to horticulture iiie to 
botany, render a visit to his well-stocked garden 
y be 
m pie Fd ticketed, the various plants 
ете ti hybridising experiments, 
—— NIDDRIE, a few miles distant, 
the seat d W. С. Nau uchope, Esq., the gar- 
dener, Mr. Gordon, speaks well of a lime- 
one-third of coal refuse, and the product is 
about two ра of fine lime a-day. e 
fruit-hc iding the orchard-houses, are 
In the 
houses. = u time of our visit a great 
was made with the white-flowered Campanula 
calycanthema. By cutting the plant back a 
second crop of flowers may be produced 
. Inthe park 
cent Sycamores—often 
by the way, called тое in Scotland. 
eem Just ferire e Aw at the very base of 
a stone’s бөй, phe: with ric jp Loch 
closeat hand, is the RESIDENCE N N, 
Esq. No site can be таат i more beautiful, 
It is not many who have a noble mountain 
mass and an extensive lake, as it were, at their 
back doors, yet such is the case here. Though 
gardeni is as yet new, and probably 
vineries and greenhouses there are here a few 
good Orchids, and a rich and interesting her. 
baceous finie which yields throughout the 
year something or other of interest. 
——— Mr. NEILL FRASER'S garden at CANON- 
MILLS is of historic, as well as of present interest. 
garden in an unfavourable situation ; neverthe- 
less Mr. Fraser manages to keep it stocked with 
a rich and varied collection of Ferns, which will 
be studied with interest by those who are for- 
tunate to have the entrée. th 
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Scotland, а уш “plant of Rhamnus 
(ripening its fruit in Uber (x Figs and Mulberries, 
ripened their frui 
which ae ts against the 
walls of 
however, doubtful whether circumstances other 
than climatal change have not been the cause 
of this. In this garden is a pond—all that re- 
mains of the Canonmills’ loch—concerning 
whicb, in 1826, there was a legal contention, in 
which the botanical acumen of Mr. McNab was 
of good service. It appeared that Dr. Neill 
wished to secure compensation for the loss of 
his loch at the hands of the railway company. 
This latter body, however, urged in reply that 
the water was foul, and that, therefore, the 
Doctor was not entitled to compensation, or at 
least 
gathered Potamogeton natans in it, was enabled 
to show that the loch was not foul, and t 
verdict, we eee, went in the Doctor's favour 
in conseque 
NURSERIES. 
the nursery gardens in the vicinity 
of Edinburgh which will repay a visit are the 
establishments of Messrs. DOWNIE & LAIRD, 
show 
this раа Бо баат It is, | 
Fic, 68.—SsUN-DIAL AT NEW BATTLE, 
at West Coates, where is the elegant Royal 
eie Garden figured by us in 1872, and which 
aleas 
florists’ fatten for which the firm has a well 
merited reputation. A Lobelia we Viri in 
this establishment is worthy of notice, 
of fine free habit as to growth and bloom, and 
large white flowers edged with blue. 
Pansies and Violas 
here specimen 
most of the choice "us 
and shrubs for which there is any demand, and 
made of new florists’ flowers, of 
which there is generally an interesting display, 
© . 
Pansies and Violas are propagated here b 
thousand, and the sight of the trial beds i 
season makes one wish that these ch 
hardy plants would do as well in the South, À 
considerable number of pot Vines are als 
generally grown here, together with a lar atge 
assortment of hardy flowering shrubs to be 
forced in spring for the ornamentation of the 
Winter Garden. 
LAWSON эи Nurseri [ 
than 
—— The 
Actio over more S, main 
their ancient reputation, “ Predigt d !” is a 
adjective that may well be applied to the stog 
to be found in this establishment. This will b 
understood when it is stated that there an 
thirty millions of Larch, which, at the tim 
of- our visit, were being weeded like a 
Onion bed in London market 
Seedling plants of Rhododendron ponticum 
are counted also by the half million, Hollis 
in equal quantities, as may be judged from 
thé fact that there are 7 acres of named 
sorts. Pernettya candida, a charming white 
berried hardy shrub, is grown heré in tens of 
22 gi Un d е+ O fF oO O 
thousands, and is so valuable that we won 
we do not see it oftener. 
a great item in this fine establishment, not only 
the commoner kinds, but 
varieties. -A variet 
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exposu а 
ICE substitute for peat, and American | | 
rooted plants thrive well in it 
fact, this “pobb” is a substance of no li 
Rhododendrons fom. | 
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