4(U HORTICULTURAL TOUR. 



beautiful; and in the spring, we doubt not, the exuberant 

 production of yellow {lowers must have bad a very charm- 

 ing effect. As far as we have had an opportunity of remark- 

 ing, the only collection of such trees which could bear a 

 comparison with this, is that contained in the spacious con- 

 servatory at Milburn Tower, the seat of Sir Robert Lis- 

 ten, Bart, near Edinburgh. 



In the other conservatory, which partakes of the nature 

 of a dry-stove, many kinds of Aerides, or exotic plants 

 which are found parasitical upon trunks of trees in tropical 

 forests, are, or rather have been, cultivated with much 

 pains. Stems of decayed trees have actually been planted 

 within the house ; and species of Epidendrum, Cymbidi- 

 um, Vanilla, Dendrobium, fixed upon these. By inserting 

 their roots partly in the bark, and tying some moss (hyp- 

 num and sphagnum) around the place, many of these cu- 

 rious orchidcous plants readily grew, and some of them 

 produced their flowers in abundance. Still, the old trunks 

 are in several places clothed with their trailing shoots. 

 The original plant of Cactus speciosus of Bonpland still 

 exists here: it first flowered in 1811. C. speciosissimus 

 produced its brilliant blossoms this season ; and a fine 

 painting in oil-colours was made from it, by Mr George 

 Fogo, an artist of Scottish origin, now resident in Paris *. 



In the stove are many excellent tender exotics. Pothos 

 macrophylla, being very large, made a conspicuous appear- 

 ance. The papaw-tree (Carica Papaya) was now in fruit. 



A small greenhouse seems chiefly appropriated to the ge- 

 nera Erica, Diosma, and Struthiola, from the Cape of Good 



• Both of these fine Cacti have produced their flowers in the rich collec- 

 tion of Professor Dunhar, at Rose Park, near Kdinburgh — Mr Fogo is now 

 in this country, exhibiting a painting of the Surrender of Parga, executed by 

 him and his brother August 1822. N. 



