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On one side of the grounds, and concealed from the view 

 of those walking in the principal garden, is a large conser- 

 vatory, which we all agreed in pronouncing to be well a- 

 dapted for the culture of plants, and which we found to be 

 richly stored with exotic rarities. We were here gratified 

 with beholding a healthy Araucaria excelsa, fifteen feet 

 high. There is likewise a plant of this rare pine formed 

 from a cutting ; but, though six or seven feet high, it still 

 retains all the characters of a branch, without giving any 

 indication of forming a leading shoot. A plant of the Ca- 

 mellia Sesanqua, which is still rare at London, but had 

 been procured from thence by the zeal of M. Boursault, 

 has attained a large size, growing in a very lax and depen- 

 dent manner, and making very long shoots. We could not 

 help remarking, that many of M. Boursaulfs rarest and 

 finest plants had been imported from the English capital. 

 The red sweet-scented China-rose (or Knight's animated, 

 which is distinct from the blush sweet-scented), was still 

 covered with flowers. Ekebergia capensis, Bouvardia tri- 

 phylla, and many other rare plants, were growing well. Ci- 

 trus aurantium trifoliata was now in fruit. Epacris gran- 

 diflora is here propagated by layers ; and we remarked, 

 that the gardener had been very successful in striking the 

 Ardisia crenulata from cuttings. A double-flowered white 

 oleander was still in beauty, and seems to be a variety of 

 the Nerium not known at Edinburgh. Astragalus longi- 

 florus had been in flower. 



The stoves or bark hot-houses are on the opposite side 

 of the garden, and very extensive. They, too, are well 

 furnished with rare tropical plants. Strelitzia parvifolia 

 had been beautiful. Cyperus Papyrus was still in flower, 

 and Gloriosa superba likewise shewed its blossoms. Glob- 

 ba nutans made an elegant appearance, and Plumeria ob~ 



