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plete the tableau. This is, at night the most attrac- 

 tive part of the exhibition. 



Rossitor, the horticulturist, has fitted up one of 

 the enclosures with trees and plants of the country ; 

 and, under a shed adjoining, is a collection of logs 

 of Brazilian woods with the bark on, as well as sam- 

 ples of the same plain and varnished. One apart- 

 ment is devoted to the fibres, with cordage and cloth 

 made from them ; they are so numerous and varied 

 as to bafile description. The potato tribe is well 

 represented, and one potato from the valley of the 

 Amazon, measures twenty inches in circumference, 

 and weighs thirty pounds ; some of these are grow- 

 ing on the shelves, and the stalks are green and 

 vigorous. 



Bedding Lilies.— 7Vie Gardener s Chronicle 

 says : — We cultivate Gladioli in profusion, it is true, 

 but the noble Lilies, by far finer than any Griadiolus, 

 are rarely grown in our gardens ; though, when 

 once planted, they require no attention, except to 

 be kept clear from weeds. No gardener who had 

 on:e seen what beautiful beds may be made of this 

 family alone, could resist the temptation of such a 

 glorious garden ornament. With such kinds as 

 Lilium testaceum and Tigrinum Fortune! in the cen- 

 tre, surrounded by the queenly candidum, burnished 

 croceuu], spotted canadense, pomponium, and col- 

 chicum, and the vivid chalcedonicum, and gradually 

 worked down to the edge with such dwarf but beau- 

 tiful kinds as pulchellum, eximium, longiflorum and 

 tenuifolium, a large circular or oval bed might be 

 made on the grass, in some isolated spot, which, for 

 the highest beauties of color, form and fragrance — 

 for, in fact, almost every quality by which vegetable 

 beauty endears itself to us,— could not be equalled 

 by any arrangement of in-door or out-door plants 

 that we can call to mind. The only precaution we 

 need mention is, that to grow Lilies well they 

 should have 3 feet, or nearly that, of free loamy 

 earth, with a good dash of vegetable mould in it. 



Some may say such an arrangement would "inter- 

 fere with our bedding;" but there are very few 

 gardens which could not afford a quiet spot for some 

 such arrangement as this ; and it is our lot to yearly 

 walk by scores of miles of Grass margins to planta- 

 tions, and undulating fringes of turf in pleasure- 

 grounds, where select beauties of this kind might 

 be introduced without in the least interfering with 

 anything, but, on the contrary, adding a distinct and 



marvellous charm to spots which before presented 

 nothing but blank vacuity, as regards floral beauty 

 or interest. Lt tenuifolium would flower very early 

 in summer, brilliant as the Scarlet Pelargonium, 

 and then the stately group would come in one after 

 another, till lancifolium, (which does beautifully in 

 warm places and in light, well-drained soils, in the 

 open air,) in great variety, passed on her way in 

 autumn. 



Close-pruning Grape-vines under Glass.— 

 The editor of the Gardeners' Chronicle asks: — The 

 fine old Vines at Cumberland Lodge and Hampton 

 Court are pretty well known ; but in those gardens, 

 though the bunches are numerous and the Grapes 

 excellent in quality, the bunches rarely exceed from 

 half a pound to a pound in weight. Still the weight 

 produced is enormous, and leads us to ask, if a 

 single Grape-vine, with roots uncontrolled, will as- 

 sume such unusual proportions with such remarka- 

 ble results, are we right in confining our house 

 vines to a single rafter, their roots being of course re- 

 stricted in the same proportion ? 



Orange-tree Plagues in Europe. — "The Coc- 

 cus hesperidum, of which mention has been made 

 as one of the afflictions from which the Orange trees 

 have suffered seriously, is an insect well known to 

 English exotic gardeners as attacking the Orange- 

 trees in greenhouses, &c. It is one of the 43 spe- 

 cies of the genus Coccus, (order Hemiptera,) and is 

 commonly known as ihe greenhouse bug. It is oval, 

 oblong, brownish in color, and covered with a sort 

 of exuding varnish. The male Coccus of this spe- 

 cies is a minute fly. The female having no wings 

 when young, runs over the trees, and finally settles 

 upon some leaf, where she deposits and hatches an 

 infinity of eggs, and then perishes. The more dis- 

 tinguished species of this genus is that which feeds 

 chiefly upon the Cactus Opuntia, which is therefore 

 denominated the Coccus Cacti, and the origin of 

 which has been traced to South America. This 

 species is the valuable (though no less destructive) 

 Cochineal insect of commerce. Frequent manipu- 

 lations, and treatment with any pungent, insoluble 

 powders, (not injurious to vegetation, ) such as pep- 

 pers, raw sulphur, &c., are amongst the best of cor- 

 rective appliances as against the Orange tree Coc- 

 cus. The Lagrima is one of those maladies which 

 commonly result in all organic bodies as the eflfect of 

 exhaustion, and is probably due, in these islands, 

 to the unchecked depredations of the Coccus. It 

 is a degenerated form of Orange dew, otherwise 

 known as Orange manna." — Consul Vines Report 

 to the English Government. 



