THE LADIES MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
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VISITS TO THE NURSERY AND PRIVATE GARDENS. 
Lees Nursery , Hammersmith , March 15.—Among the plants in flower 
was a specimen of Erica hy emails ^ which I was assured had continued 
producing a succession of flowers since last July. Some plants of 
E. Archerii and E. Sebana , also continued in flower, and numerous 
others were covered with blossom-buds. A few Chrysanthemums were 
still in flower, and among others, the King, C. striatum , and C. grandis , 
which was the more remarkable from the latter being one of the early 
flowering kinds. Amaryllis miniata , a very showy plant, was beautifully 
in flower. In the orchideous house was a remarkably healthy plant of 
the common scarlet geranium, which had been put in as an experiment 
to try how it would bear the heat. The Camellias were only partially 
in flower, as they have not been forced. The season is not yet sufficiently 
advanced for seeing this nursery to the greatest advantage ; as it is cele¬ 
brated for its roses, and other flowering plants in the open air, which are 
not in their full beauty till May and June. 
Mr. Penns Garden , Lewisham , March 13.—This was the first time 
I ever visited any hothouses heated on Mr. Penn’s principle, and I was 
certainly much gratified, as I think I never saw flowers more brilliant in 
colour than those in Mr. Penn’s stoves. Passiflora racemosa , and Abutilon 
striatum , were particularly beautiful; the latter having a greater pro¬ 
fusion of flowers, and much larger leaves than any other specimen I 
have seen. Some of the plants were superb ; particularly JEschynanthus 
grandijlorus , Bilbergia iridifolia , Dendrobium Pierardi and Gongora 
atro-purpurea , the latter having four or five spikes of flowers. I did not, 
however, find the atmosphere so agreeable as I expected; and indeed 
it did not appear to me different from that of other stoves. 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Tuesday , February 16.— In a communication from Sir Charles Lemon, 
it was stated that a quantity of cuttings of the Nepal Tree-Rhododendron 
some bearing unripe capsules and others flower-buds, having been kept in 
moist mud in a stove, the capsules had swollen and the flowers expanded; 
and the cuttings had formed shoots of about five inches long. 
A paper was read detailing some very interesting experiments performed 
at the Society’s Gardens, to try the effect of Kyanized wood on growing 
plants. Two boxes, one of Kyanized wood, the other not, were filled 
