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effective appearance. Imantophyllums are | rized, and some strong 
plants are grown, a marvellous j. Iant of Allamanda Hendersoni on the 
roof yielding thousands of its rich yellow Cowers every year. The 
kitchen garden is well cropped with vegetables, and contains besides a 
number of healthy fruit trees, but the outdoor fruit crops have felt the 
effect of the late spring and dry summer. Small fruits have, however, 
been very abundant. There are several beautiful shrubbery walks 
leading to the Castle, and from the terrace surrounding this imposing 
structure lovely views are obtained across the Wear valley and its rich 
arboreal vegetation. 
A day would be required to be spent at Lambton to see all that is 
interesting and do justice to the garden, but an hour or two suffices to 
show that Mr. Hunter’s fame as a practical gardener is amply merited, 
for the whole garden and its contents is distinguished by a uniform good 
quality that is surprising considering the diminished staff of assistants 
with which he has to work.— Lewis Castle. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF AURICULAS—SELFS. 
(Continued from page 143.) 
Berry's Lord Lee. —A fine round self with a good truss of flat pips of 
a bright deep rose colour; but with no paste, or with what is called a 
IL Hands best self Seedling. —Sent to me two years ago for my opinion. 
Though all but pasteless it is well worth growing, and therefore worth a 
name, though on account of its blanket centre it would disqualify a pan. 
Pip round, indented instead of angular, of good size, flat ; colour, plum 
black extremely soft and velvety ; paste a few scattered dots of meal on 
a yellow ground ; eye lemon with low anthers, in good proportion. 
Foliage healthy, veined, serrated. 
Lightbody's Admiral of the Blues. —A poor thing except for trussing ; 
pip anything but flat, tolerably round ; colour a violet plum ; paste 
narrow, thin, angular ; eye lemon, irregular in shape, anthers above 
surface. Foliage large, broad, thickly mealed, slightly serrated. 
Lightbody's M teor Flag. —Two distinct flowers according as it is 
viewed at first opening or after it has opened a week, and, contrary to 
what is usual, the latter is the best. At first it is a flimsy uneven flower 
of a thin clarety blue colour, and will disappoint. Afterwards it 
becomes a large, circular, flat one of a clear violet blue, of no great 
substance, but which lasts long in beauty. Paste circular, of insufficient 
breadth ; eye lemon and bleaches, anthers not above the surface. Foliage 
very large and long, abundant, jagged, fully mealed. 
Maltby's Oxonian. —Cannot be discarded till a better appears of equal 
shape and similar colour. The latter indeed is found in Smith’s Mrs. 
Smith, but this does not supply all that is wanted. Pip flat, a perfect 
Fig. 28 .—Lambton Castle Fobcing Houses and Kitchen Gabden. 
blanket centre, like Flora's Flag. Eye small, round, lemon; foliage 
light ereen, glossy,, without meal. 
Clegg's Blue Bonnet. —A flower of no substance, but which like 
Meteor Flag remains long in bloom. The colour is that rosy plum 
that in the Dahlia is miscalled purple ; it is an immense trusser, not 
unshapely ; the pip lar^e, round, sufficiently flat ; paste circular, and 
brilliantly white; eye circular, lemon. Foliage light coloured and 
flimsy. 
Faulkner's Hannibal. —Both in Scotland and in Manchester this is 
said to be an alias for Hufton’s Squire Mundy. I have never grown the 
latter, without which I am not competent to decide the question ; but 
the pip that was sent me from Scotland for comparison bore no resem¬ 
blance except in colour to that of Hannibal. It is of the less conse¬ 
quence, as upon four years’ trial side by side I am satisfied the variety 
is not equal to either Blackbird or Bessie Bell. It is a bold and striking 
flower throwing immense trusses. This year, 1860, I had two on an 
extra sized plant carrying twenty-two and twenty-four respectively. 
The former alone was allowed to stand and to open all its pips, but they 
were too many for it. Pip round and sufficiently flat, colour maroon, 
paste narrow and angular, eye orange, with anthers above the surface but 
not so prominent as those of Blackbird. Foliage light green, pear- 
shaped, abundant, much veined, and mealed up the rib, very distinct. 
Gorton's Stadtholder. —A mere yellow Primula ; but as it is as yet 
the best of them it may for the present retain a place in the box; 
foliage evenly mealed and handsome. 
circle except where the inverted points leave an indentation; colour 
deep clarety violet; paste thin, narrow, undefined, showing the colour 
through; eye pale greenish yellow, anthers high. Foliage narrow, 
short, smooth, compact, low spreading, light green, slightly indented. 
Martin's Fclipse. —Pip tolerably flat and circular, of good substance, 
hardly large enough ; colour dark brownish plum ; paste circular, insuf¬ 
ficient, good as far as it goes ; eye lemon, anthers at the surface. Foliage 
very smooth, evenly mealed. 
Martin's Miss Black. —Too small. Like Eclipse. Pip of medium 
flatness, under size ; colour reddish maroon ; paste starry, and insuffi¬ 
cient. Foliage mealed. 
Martin's Mrs. Sturrock. —The best self up to this time (1860) when 
it trusses well, which is not always. Pip perfectly flat and round, truss 
good ; colour a striking full crimson ; paste good and circular, almost 
broad enough, as broad as in any self ; eye pale yellow. Foliage very 
erect, narrow, mealed, may be mistaken for that of Mary Gray. 
Parker's Metropolitan. —Pip small, round ; colour beautiful violet 
plum, lighter than Oxonian ; paste narrow ; eye orange, anthers above 
the surface. Foliage small, serrated, mealed up the rib. 
Sim's hi za. —A refined flower of a deep shade of maroon ; pip flat 
with broad petals ; paste very round and good, but not broad enough 
eye lemon. Foliage mealed but not thickly so, handsome. 
Aim's Vulcan. —A fine dark flower, often the best of them ; as dark 
as any of the maroons, perhaps darker ; not flat, circular ; paste angular 
and insufficie it ; eye full, orange ; foliage curled and mealed. 
