ADVANTAGES OF A SMALL GREEXHOUSE. 



gardens, not only by excluding old and good plants, merely because they 

 had long been denizens amongst us, but by introducing many which have 

 no other merit to recommend them than novelty; how many of the 

 plants of New Holland are cultivated, scarcely worth the pot in which 

 they grow, othei'wise than in a botanical point of view, as may be 

 instanced in the genera Eucalyptus^ most of the HaJcea, Petrophila, and 

 Isopogon, We repeat, that if greater attention was paid to the selecting of 

 fine flowering plants, and cultivating individual specimens well, instead of 

 crowding our greenhouses with inferior plants, to the destruction of each 

 other, they would present a very different appearance to what they usually 

 do. Next to forming selections, instead of attempting collections, we 

 would recommend to cultivators, and to amateur cultivators in particular, 

 to confine their culture and attention to some one of the divisions we have 

 enumerated. In this respect, our continental neighbours far excel us, 

 and by confining themselves to the cultivation of certain families, they 

 have become conspicuous in these departments. 



How far the florist has excelled the general collector in this particular, 

 we need hardly state ; by confining himself to his tulip bed, his auricula 

 stage, or his cai'nation stand, he is enabled to cultivate them in great 

 perfection, — not so the general collector ; — the florist has the economy of 

 those three famihes to study, while the general cultivator has probably 

 that of three thousand, and those congregated from the most opposite 

 quarters of the globe, and existing under the greatest diversity of circimi- 

 stances. We might justify these opinions by refering to the success with 

 which Messrs. Rollisons, of Tooting, cultivate the Ericas, and latterly 

 the Orchidecs, and of Messrs. Chandlers, of Vauxhall, in the culti- 

 vation of Camellia, were such proof necessary ; but it speaks for itself, and 

 the same reason applies to every pursuit of mankind ; where undivided 

 attention is given to any of our pursuits, an approximation to perfection 

 in that pursuit may be expected. The divisions or groups into which we 

 should like to see all greenhouse exotics arranged, would be something 

 like the following : 



The Heathery, 

 The Geranium House, 

 The Camillia House, 

 The Bulb House, 

 The Succulent House, 

 The Mixed Greenhouse, 



The Orangery, 

 The Conservatory, 

 The Plant Veranda, 

 Protecting Tent, 

 Cold Pit, 

 The Stove. 



