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THE LADIES MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
VISITS TO NURSERIES. 
Waterer 9 s Rhododendrons , Kings Road Chelsea.—-Of all the splendid 
gardens I have seen, I think I never met with one which appeared to me 
more beautiful than this. Let my readers imagine a tent, many feet wide 
and long, covering a garden entirely filled with rhododendrons, azaleas, 
and kalmias, all in full flower and in the highest state of beauty. Some 
of the tree rhododendrons were ten feet or twelve feet high, and among 
the different kinds were all shades, from the darkest crimson to the 
palest pink ; all the colours being softened and harmonised by the shades 
thrown upon them by the canvas covering. As rhododendrons are 
generally nearly out of flower, I was quite surprised to find those of 
Mr. Waterer in all their beauty ; but the fact is that they are preserved 
by the canvas covering, which will keep them in a fresh and growing 
state for some weeks. They are really so beautiful, and the price of 
admission is so low, that every lover of flowers should pay them a visit. 
What adds to the wonder is, that they have all been removed, when just 
bursting into flower, from Mr. Waterer s nursery at Knaphill, in the 
neighbourhood of Bagshot, several miles from London, and apparently 
without sustaining the slightest injury. 
Mr.Catleugh’s Geraniums {Pelargonium). —I had heard so much of these 
geraniums, that I suppose I could not fail to be disappointed, for the imagina¬ 
tion always very far exceeds the reality of everything, and probably this 
was the reason that I did not like Mr. Catleugh’s plants. They were, how¬ 
ever, too large to please me, and the immense number of flowers made each 
appear smaller than it would have looked on a smaller plant. The 
nursery contains very little of any interest but geraniums, and they 
appeared almost innumerable. 
Mr. Knight’s Exotic Nursery. —We called here to see the white rho¬ 
dodendrons in flower, which were standing in the open ground, and which 
I have before mentioned (p. 161). They were very beautiful, much 
more so indeed than I could have supposed. 
VISITS TO PRIVATE GARDENS. 
Mrs. Lawrence’s at Ealing Park. Beautiful as Mrs. Lawrence’s plants 
always are, I think her heaths surpass anything I have ever seen in her 
grounds. She has lately had a house built purposely for them, and their 
beauty is beyond anything that the warmest imagination could have con¬ 
ceived of such plants. For my own part I never was very fond of heaths, 
but a sight of Mrs. Lawrence’s heathery has quite converted me, and I 
acknowledge, that grown as she grows them, they are splendid plants. 
