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the banks ; the Plesiosaur, with its reptile form and bird-like neck, is to re- 

 pose in the mud ; the Megalosaur, the most gigantic of lizards, is to rear its 

 portentous form among the rushes ; and the enormous Iguanodon, half 

 elephant, half crocodile, measuring one-hundred feet from his snout to his 

 tail, is to exhibit himself as the true prototype of the dragons of antiquity. 

 We have seen these models, and we are glad to bear witness to the admira- 

 ble skill with which Mr. Hawkins is investigating Portland cement with the 

 similitude of these hideous giants of a former world." 



It will be gathered from the above hasty glance at this great garden, that 

 much — very much — has yet to be done before all that is contemplated shall 

 have been completed ; and notwithstanding the immense number of labour- 

 ers employed, we doubt whether the Company will be able to fulfil its promise 

 to have every thing finished by May next. Surface work is soon forwarded , 

 but here the great bulk of the labour lies in moving immense quantities of 

 soil, and carrying it from one part of the grounds to another, in order to 

 raise mounds and carry out the levels. This, therefore, is a work of time ', 

 and unless the winter should be favourable, it cannot he conducted with ad- 

 vantage during that season of the year. We will, however, from time to 

 time, furnish our readers with such accounts of its progress as we shall here- 

 after think may prove interesting to them. 



ON THE BOUVARDIA LEIANTHA. 



Of the vast number of new plants annually brought into notice, how few 

 retain a lasting hold on popular affection ; yet, once in a while that event 

 does happen, and this plant is destined to be one of them. When the intro- 

 ducer offered me a plant, not having seen the flower, and warned by pre- 

 vious experience in the' matter of B. flava and B. venusta, I shook my 

 head dubiously, fearful that my employers money might again be thrown 

 away ; now, after two years experience with it,- 1 feel that I should be proud 

 of the honor of introducing such a plant. 



If I were asked what to recommend as a first rate specimen plant for 

 greenhouse culture, I would say at once, Bouvardia leiantha. Late in the 

 fall or early in the spring, cuttings strike freely, in a few weeks, in light 

 sandy soil in a slight bottom heat; as soon as well rooted, pot off into two or 

 three inch pots. When established in these, take the one desired to form into 

 a specimen plant, and pot it at once into a six or eight inch pot. These 

 should be well drained, a thin layer of moss placed over the drainage to keep 

 the soil from choking it, and the soil itself composed of green, or but slightly 

 decayed turf from a pasture, mixed with a little sand, and coarse half dried 



