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cite of growth of N. distillatoria, with pitchers resembling those of N. ampullaceum ; both leaves 
jjt pitchers are very thickly and freely produced. It is a very interesting, hardy-looking species. 
Tore'nia asia'tica. This is a dwarf -growing, much-branching, trailing-like stove plant, 
1 ring most lovely flowers. It has ovate, serrated, opposite leaves and flowers, which are pro- 
< :ed very freely towards the points of the shoots, and consist of a rather large green calyx, in 
i ich the flower is situated as in a sheath. The corolla approaches campanulate-shape, and has a 
1 ie which is deep purple inside. The limb is four-lobed, the lobes wide-spreading, their ground- 
( our purple lilac, and the two lateral and lower ones have a very deep velvety black-purple 
1 tch on each, which by its brilliancy casts a shade on the ground-colour of the limb. It was 
spit to the last Chiswick exhibition from Kew, and was exhibited in a box, which sheltered it 
, ! )ve and on three sides, and the shade it was thus favoured with heightened in a peculiar 
Miner the charm of its flowers. 
Tropas'olum spes. — A curious plant, a member of this genus, covered with a glaucous hue, 
; 1 having many-cleft rotate-like leaves, with greenish- white flowers, of no beauty, but singular, 
was sent to the first Chiswick exhibition, by Mr. Green, gardener to Sir C. Antrobus, Bart. 
OPERATIONS FOR JULY, 
This month ushers in the period when the culturist generally, as well as those who do not engage 
•ectly in the actual operations of the garden, begin to reap, in the out-door department, the fruit 
, their labours ; it occurs more in the case of the highly kept, modernly-managed gardens, than 
- ose which are less so, for those gardens most strictly managed in the modern style, depend prin- 
pally for their chief beauty and general display of flowers, upon the tender and exotic plants, and 
these are seldom all turned out, and each point of the gardens completely furnished, till at least 
e middle of June, it will be easily understood little effect is produced by this period, though indis- 
lct glimpses of beauty begin to appear. The less scientific, more usual gardens, so to speak, from 
insisting of less costly materials, and being composed of those plants, shrubs, and trees, more 
I iturally accordant with the climate of England, have, in proportion to the extent they are employed, 
greater or less display of flowers, a more or less engaging aspect, from as early a period as the 
immencement of vegetation in spring. The two kinds of gardens alluded to, have each their 
ispective excellences, advantages, and disadvantages. That most delightful is, perhaps, the one 
hich combines a nicely regulated, judiciously arranged, and amalgamated portion of the features 
‘ each. But to the operations of the month : — 
The state of the weather is the great regulator of the principal work at this season : the hinge 
ion which the main garden work turns. If we are to experience a continuance of the drying, hot 
eather that has characterised the preceding month and chiefly that of May, our principal business 
II easily determined, and is comprehended in watering and shading. Would that the result 
c our labours was generally as satisfactory in the former, as it is in the latter practice ! But small 
3 is the result compared with the amount of labour, expended, it is our own fault if there is not 
)me proportion evident ; for instance, if the care we exercise is restricted to the mere application 
f water, without any effort to insure any of it effecting what it is capable of, a great deal of labour 
i certain to be thrown away. Briefly to turn our attention to the flower garden, and the method 
f procedure there in reference to watering : — All we can do at most, is to preserve plants alive and 
laintain them in good health ; but we may make a great outlay of time and labour, and only effect 
ais, or effect it with comparatively little. It is the experience of every one in hot drying 
masons, that however much water we may pour upon the surface of the earth we wet no more 
ian the surface, for it will escape in all directions upon, but will not enter the ground. The surest 
lethod of inducing it to do so, or rather the most serviceable plan of applying water to plants in 
lie open ground, as we have directed in a recent calendar is, to remove the surface soil to a depth 
f an inch or two under some circumstances, and more or less according to the nature of the plants 
ccupying the ground, and about to be watered, and loosen the soil exposed with a small fork or 
ui table instrument, and then at the time of watering pour on sufficient to completely saturate every 
•article within reach of roots ; which will do more lasting good by being practised once a week or 
