60 THE IMITATION, IN CLOSED CASES, OE 
natural gravelly soil of the garden with two or 
three cart-loads of old brick rubbish, and upon 
this porous material, three or four loads of light 
sandy peat, giving loam to those plants which re- 
quired it. In addition to the plants mentioned 
above as inmates of the old house in town, are 
three species of Musa, M. Cavendiskii, M. Chi- 
nensis, and M. bicolor, Carina edulis, C. indica, C. 
gigantea , and one or two others: Stephanotus flori- 
bundus, Clerodendron squamatum, Hibiscus Mani- 
hot, Passijlora quadr angular is , P. alceformis, P. 
princeps, Jasminum Sanbac, with single and double 
flowers ; Hoy a carnosa, H. Cunning hamii, Serico- 
graphis Ghibertiana, three or four fine species of 
Justicia and Eranthemum ; many species and varie- 
ties of Achimenes, Gesneria and Gloxinia, Aristo- 
lochia trilobata, Bambusa nigra, &c. All these, 
with the exception of the Bamboo, flower most 
beautifully, and many of them ripen their seeds. 
The difference of climate in this house, when 
compared with the old locality, is strikingly 
manifested in several plants which, although 
inmates for years, never flowered in town, hut 
here do so annually. Amongst these are the 
Strelitzia Regina, Caladium esculentum, &c. I 
have not a doubt that many edible fruits would 
succeed in such a house. A gentleman from 
Shropshire once wrote me word, that he had 
