IIS HORTICULTURAL TOUR. 



Paris what the collections of Lee and Kennedy, Colvills, or 

 Loddiges, are to London. It forms an emporium of rare 

 and beautiful exotics, for the supply of amateur cultiva- 

 tors. The plants are tended with much care, and evident- 

 ly managed with great skill, being generally in a very healthy 

 state. The whole establishment has a highly respectable ap- 

 pearance ; and this is no slight praise from persons accus- 

 tomed to see the best kept nurseries in the world. The ex- 

 tent of sunk glazed frames, for the propagation of scarce and 

 tender shrubs, by layering and by inarching, is very great. 

 The circumstance of the frames being sunk, facilitates very 

 much the means used for the exclusion of the frosts of win- 

 ter, which often reach degrees of intensity little known in 

 Britain. Mr Cels not only appears to be a very expert and 

 successful cultivator, but we have reason to believe that 

 he spares neither trouble nor expence in the introduction 

 of new plants. Since the peace he has yearly procured 

 many rarities from London. A plant marked GompJiolo- 

 b'ri species was pointed out to us as a novelty : it shewed, 

 at this time, light blue flowers, in a state of decay, and 

 we were told that plants would be ready for sale against 

 next spring. As it is not very readily propagated, it 

 will probably continue for some time to be regarded as 

 rather a rare plant *i The borders were adorned with many 

 specimens of double-flowered Althaea frutex (Hybiscus sy- 

 riacus) both white and purple ; Anagallis fruticosa, a bi- 

 ennial planted out during the second year, and now cover- 

 ed with its bright orange flowers; Daphne Gnidium, and 

 other ornamental shrubs of the rarer kinds. Dahlias were 

 common ; and, at this season, the single pure white variety 

 had a lively effect. Mimosa speciosa appeared rising out 

 of a unk pit in the most vigorous style imaginable: only 



• We believe it it the Hovea Celti of the Jiotanicat Itegistcr. 



