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marked out, attached to which will be a conservatory 96 feet long and 
29 feet wide. The whole place is to be remodelled, and the improve¬ 
ments will comprise a park of 400 acres, with ornamental planting, 
&c.; and nlantations to the extent of 200 acres besides. The entire 
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management is in the hands ol Mr. MTntosh, and we hope to favour 
our readers with a plan and detailed statement of this place, when the 
works are further advanced. 
We have also received reports of new works at East Barns, Dunbar. 
James Murray, Esq., who is laying out his place and building a green¬ 
house, Vinery, &c. J. Houldsworth, Esq., Coltness, Lanarkshire: 
Place remodelling; new kitchen garden; flower garden, lawns, and 
range of hothouses of large extent, and conservatory adjoining mansion. 
Mrs. Duncan Morison, Naughton, Fifeshire: a general improvement is 
being carried on at this place, including woods, new kitchen garden, &c., 
under the management of Mr. MTntosh. James Walker, Esq,, Lay, 
Ayrshire, is also making great alterations to“his gardens and grounds. 
— Palm House, 100 feet long, 60 wide over (when the division is 
removed between the old and new, it will be 100 by 120 feet), and 
72 feet high. It is provided with four flued boilers, two being sufficient 
at a time. Two of the boilers are furnished with 460 feet each of six- 
inch pipes, and all found to answer admirably. The flues are conveyed 
in tubular pipes 18 inches in diameter, underground, to a chimney 68 
yards from the premises; this chimney is 60 feet high. 
NEPENTHES. 
Until recently the only representatives of this genus were the well- 
known Chinese Pitcher plant, and Nepenthes Phyllamphora. We read 
in Paxton's Dictionary that “ Nepenthes distillatoria is a most 
extraordinary and singular plant, and ought to be in every collection of 
stove plants. It attains the height of twenty or even thirty feet, when 
its appearance is inconceivably singular, from the fine large pitchers 
which hang gracefully from the points of the strongest leaves.” 
The above statement was made nearly twenty years ago, and I think 
applies with equal force at the present day. Although the pitchers of 
Nepenthes distillatoria are less showy than many of the more recently 
introduced species, still it is a graceful and singular plant, and ought to 
be in every collection of stove plants. Nepenthes sanguinea is, perhaps, 
the most showy of the genus; the difficulty experienced in its 
propagation has, however, prevented it from becoming common. 
N. lanata is one of the most extraordinary as well as a very showy 
species ; in time it will doubtless become a general favourite. N. 
llafflesiana is scarcely less showy than the preceding; the pitchers 
are large—from nine to twelve inches in length, and beautifully marked 
and blotched with crimson. It appears to have become much cheaper 
of late, and we now hope to meet with it more frequently. 
lo the above species must be added N. Hookeri, ampullacea, albo 
