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THE LADIES MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
2.—PODOLOBIUM BERBERIFOLIUM. THE BARBERRY-LEAVED 
PODOLOBIUM. 
Synonyme.— P. trilobatum, var. Bidwelliana. 
Engraving. —Our fig. 4, in Plate 8. 
Specific Character. —Leaves ovate, acuminated, deeply spiny-toothed, but with the upper 
ones somewhat three-1 obed. 
Description, &c. —A very handsome plant, requiring the same treat¬ 
ment as the preceding species; introduced in 1839. 
All these plants are very ornamental; and as they continue in flower a 
long time, they are particularly valuable for windows, flower-stands, or 
balconies. When, how r ever, they are used for either of the latter two 
purposes, they should be grown in double pots, with the interstice 
between the pots stuffed with moss, which should be kept constantly 
moist. This mode of growing Australian plants will indeed always be 
found most successful where the pots are either exposed to the action of 
the wind, or kept in warm, dry rooms. Double flower-pots are made 
and sold by the potters, but common flower-pots placed one within the 
other will answer just as well, and be cheaper. When the space is very 
much confined, china or glazed pots may be used, as they are not porous, 
and therefore do not dry the roots so much as the common earthenware 
flower-pots, which are very porous; but glazed pots, unless there are 
several holes for drainage, are apt to become repositories for stagnant 
water, and thus to rot the roots of the plants they contain. 
THE EDITOR’S TOUR. 
(i Continued, from p. 235.) 
June 28th to July 26th .—Crosslee Cottage. During the month that 
we spent under the hospitable roof of our kind friends Mr. and Mrs. 
Woodhouse, I had abundant opportunities of remarking the very different 
habit of growth assumed by many well-known plants in England and 
Scotland. The garden at Crosslee Cottage lies high and dry, and the 
soil is light: the climate of the west of Scotland is generally considered a 
weeping one; but if I may judge by what we experienced, its tears are 
rapidly succeeded by smiles—or, to speak without metaphor, the showers 
were generally succeeded by gleams of excessively hot sunshine. This 
soil, situation, and climate, appear to be wonderfully well adapted to the 
culture of the Californian annuals, which attain here a size and brilliancy of 
colour which they never possess in England. Nemophila insignis was 
