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spacious and -n-ell ordered and kept, and furnislied with some 

 fine ornamental trees. There are four good Araucarias, two of 

 especial merit, intact by winter frosts ; two cedars of Lebanon of 

 different ages and sizes, but neither of them tall ; two deodars of 

 considerable size ; Quercus Ilex, Fagus incisa, and Sorhm Aria, 

 one of each, and all thriving ; Picea Cephalonica, a stately tree ; a 

 very leafy and well-shaped variegated sycamore, but not very 

 large ; a fair bush of weeping holly ; and a weeping ash. The 

 attention of visitors is particularly directed to a tall Eucalyptus 

 mminalu, whose willowy offshoots ascend from a short thick bole. 

 This tree was cut down by a severe winter in 1860 to six feet 

 from the ground, and its vegetative power remained so long 

 dormant that it was about to be removed, when sprouts appeared, 

 and it has attained its present remarkable growth since. The 

 circumference of the base is 9 feet 1 inch. 



The gardens were shewn by Mr Garret, the present skilful 

 gardener. They are very extensive, as well as the range of 

 greenhouses. The business of the Club is principally with 

 flowers, and there is here an opportunity for examining a con- 

 siderable variety in the herbaceous borders, which have been 

 established for three years' duration. Only a few things can be 

 glanced at, chiefly because they are not everywhere : — Galega 

 officinalis (Goat's Rue), white variety; Erodium Manescavi {])x\r-^\Q 

 Erodium), size of flower that of Geranium pratense ; double 

 potentillas, some very large flowered ; a good plant of Lychnis 

 vespertina alhaflore pleno, which Mr Garret had raised ; Campanula 

 coroniensis, a fine dark blue flowered stan ding-up plant ; Delphin- 

 ium Cashmerianum (purple) ; Phyteuma Charmelii (blue) ; and a 

 large orange sunflower, allied to Doronicum. Gooseberries are 

 trained against a north wall, and, being covered with a net, can 

 be kept long into the autumn. 



Among the associates of the Geraniums, Pelargoniums, Fuch- 

 sias, Coleuses, Begonias, etc., the usual occupants and ornaments 

 of the green and hot houses, the following may be mentioned : — 

 Dichsonia Antarctica, tree fern in a pot ; Coprosma Baueriana varie- 

 gata, a green and yellowish white-edged foliaged shrub ; Tman- 

 tophylhum miniatum, a purple-flowered amaryllis-like plant ; a 

 yellow, partially double, large flowered Abutilon — Waverley. 

 In another house are Tacsonia Van Volxemii, as a creeper ; an 

 excellent double begonia ; a fine strain of Amaryllis, having 

 from four to seven flowers on the spike, raised from seedlings, 



