THE LADIES’ MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
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" The seeds of the two Acacias, the Callistachys, and the Polygala, being 
the strongest, yon should cover them the depth of half-a-crown piece, and 
the others will do quite well with a covering the thickness of a sixpence. 
Do not give them much water, merely keeping the soil a little moist; if 
you place them in the front of the frame, it will shade them a little, and 
then they will require less water. You may leave them in the frame a 
week or ten days after they are up, unless you see they are growing 
weakly, when you must remove them to a window in a warm room, 
which will be a better change for them than to place them in a greenhouse 
at first. You need not be in a hurry to transplant them till the young 
plants are well hardened ; and choose a cloudy day for this first potting, 
or when there are likely to be two or three wet days. This will save you 
the trouble of shading the young plants, and the moist, cloudy weather 
will be better for establishing the young plants in their new pots. If 
the plants come up thick, you may plant three or four of them in one 
small pot, keeping them close by the side of the pot. When they have 
been six weeks or two months in this pot, you may then pot them in 
single small pots. There are many splendid annuals in central Australia, 
where your son is settled; and also low herbaceous plants, that will look 
as well in beds as the scarlet verbenas; but people who are not much 
acquainted with plants never think of gathering seeds of these, because 
they think they are weeds; and so they are in that country, growing 
among rough grass and low herbage. Dr. Lindley published an account of 
a vast number of these beautiful plants ; and you ought to see his book, 
and, if possible, send a copy of it to your son. Mrs. Loudon can best 
tell you how and where you can see this work. 
I am, madam, respectfully your obedient servant, 
D. Beaton. 
Shrubland Park, March ±th, 1841. 
TREES IN KENSINGTON GARDENS. 
Madam,— As I observe you are so indulgent to your readers as to 
gratify their curiosity by minute attention to their queries, I venture to 
send you one which, although it does not come under the head of flowers, 
or the operations of gardening, I hope you will have the kindness to 
reply to. 
I am a frequent visitor of Kensington Gardens, and have been much 
puzzled this spring in endeavouring, but in vain, to ascertain the name of 
some strange-looking young trees in the new belt of plantation on the 
south side of the gardens. The trees I allude to are tall and slender, 
with pendulous yellow or golden-coloured branches, twisted and straggling 
