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acreage is over 10,000 are Gloucester, Kent, and Worcester. The acreage for market 
gardens is largest in Middlesex, viz., 5,221 acres; next comes Essex, with 4,110 ; then Kent, 
with 4,028 ; all the other counties are far behind, those adjacent to the large towns, such as 
Manchester and Liverpool, having naturally the largest acreage. The acreage per county 
occupied as nursery-ground for growing trees, shrubs, &c., varies from 10 acres in Rutland¬ 
shire, and 12 in Bedfordshire, to 1,334 in Surrey, this latter county having by so much the 
largest acreage that even Kent, the next on the list, has only 618 acres; Middlesex has 592 
acres, Sussex has 493 acres, the West Riding of Yorkshire, 471, Derby, 402, Essex, 415, 
Cheshire, 426. While the total acreage in England of orchards is 150,600, and in Wales, 
2,535, in Scotland it is only 1,449—an eloquent exposition of the influence of climate. There 
are 35,364 acres of market gardens in England against 712 in Wales, and 2,881 in Scotland; 
9,837 acres of nursery-ground in England, 463 in Wales, and 1,742 in Scotland ; 1,325,765 
acres of woodland in England, 126,823 in Wales, and 734,490 in Scotland. In Scotland the 
nurseries have an acreage of 530 in the county of Edinburgh, 198 in Aberdeen, 115 in 
Dumfries, 105 in Forfar, 111 in Ayr, and 100 in Perth. All the other counties have an 
acreage below 100, while several have none at all. 
- Bause, tlie manager of Mr. Wills’ Nursery, at Anerley, in Surrey, 
lias been very successful in raising Lapagerias from Cuttings —a fact wliicli it 
is very useful to know in the case of the yet rare white variety (L. r. alhiflorci). 
They are put in about the month of October, and are made from well-ripened wood, each 
cutting having either one or two leaves, and they are then put in 48-sized pots, about twelve 
in a pot. A sandy soil, made up of peat and loam, the former in good proportion, is used, 
and when filled the pots are put by in a shady place, and no heat is required to assist the 
cuttings to strike. They commence to root about the following May, and by October following 
they have made shoots 4 inches or so in length, and are well established. Then they are 
potted off, and grown on into size. The Lapageria can also be propagated by layers in the 
same way as Carnations ; and, in the case of good plants with several shoots, a number of 
them can be layered at a time ; they root in about nine months. Large plants are much 
more quickly made by layers, but the advantage of propagating by cuttings is, that a greater 
number of plants can be obtained in this way. 
- bearing on the Hardiness of EiLcalgpti^ it may be mentioned that a 
specimen of E. viminalis (so named by Mr. Bentham), exists in the gardens at 
Whittinghame, East Lothian. It was grown from seed sown about thirty years 
ago, and at the beginning of 1861 had attained the height of about 25 ft., being then a very 
symmetrical tree. During the spring of that year it got nipped with the frost, and was cut 
‘ over at about 9 ft. from the ground. Eventually it threw out several shoots. The original 
plant is now between 48 ft. and 50 ft. high, the main or old stem, at 1 ft. from the ground, 
which is the smallest part of it, is 7 ft. 10 in. in circumference, and the main branch, issuing 
from near the top of the old stem, is 4 ft. 10 in. in circumference. 
- ilN Lathyrus Drummondii we gain a fine red everlasting pea. The 
flowers are of a bright carmine-red hue, several flowers being borne on the stalks 
which spring from the axils of the leaf-shoots. It is grown by Mr. Green, Hill- 
field Nurseries, Reigate, who states it is very scarce. It is perfectly hardy, but requires a 
cool, shady, and somewhat sheltered position, as hot sun and drying winds tarnish the pecu- 
• liar beauty of the flowers. It well deserves a place in a selectjcollection of hardy perennials. 
- portrait of the late Mr. Sta7idish^ painted for the subscribers as a 
memorial tribute, has been made over to the trustees of the Bindley Library by 
the committee, and will be, like the Bindley Library and the Veitch and Eivers 
portraits, deposited in the rooms of the Royal Horticultural Society. 
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^^ best variety of Py^'etlmm I'oseum which we have seen bears the 
name of Haage et Schmidt; it has full double flower-heads, the florets of which 
are symmetrically disposed, of a deep crimson, somewhat paler towards the 
centres When well grdwn, it is a very excellent and showy sorts Messrsj Rollisson and 
Sons showed it in fine bloom at Manchester. 
