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full beauty, and the interior border might be decorated with Violets, 
spring bulbs, Mignonette, &c. We should also introduce a few Roses, 
especially the Teas and Noisettes, with the other plants, and also such 
plants as the Chinese Honeysuckle and Chimonanthus, for their 
fragrance. 
Those who have only seen climbers growing in pots, with their roots 
cramped up, and their tops confined to some formal looking trellis, can 
form but little idea of the luxuriant growth and vigour of bloom which 
they assume when unrestricted at their roots and when they have room 
for their growth to develop itself in a natural manner, which they 
would obtain under the roof of a building similar to what we are 
recommending. For the sake of uniformity, and to produce breaks in 
the wall, we would run up pilasters against the wall opposite the pillars, 
up which the tallest growing kinds should be trained, and arched over 
head, reserving the dwarfer species for the spaces between the pilasters. 
A hot-water pipe should run in the front of the house, and return by 
the back wall ) the border to be the width of the house, divided into 
compartments by 4 \ inch brick-work, to prevent the stronger-growing 
kinds robbing the weaker, and also for affording each a suitable compost. 
In a glass corridor of this description Bignonias, Tecomas, Harden- 
bergias, Kennedyas and Zichyas, Jasminums, Lapagerias, Tropeeolums 
and Convolvuli, Passifloras, Tacsonias, &c., would grow and flower in 
all their native luxuriance, producing at nearly all periods of the year a 
gay appearance. In visiting places we very frequently find kitchen- 
garden walls abutting on the dressed grounds, or even close upon the 
mansion. In one or two instances we have noticed a fruit corridor has 
been placed against it, to make a kind of screen. How much more in 
keeping with the ground in front, and as forming the line of separation 
between the dressed grounds and the kitchen garden, would a building 
of this description have been, enlivened throughout the year with a 
graceful tribe of plants, for which the wall and its architectural frame¬ 
work of glass would have been a suitable and well-placed erection. 
The principle may be adapted to a variety of purposes, by way of 
connecting different plant-houses or other buildings, so that each may 
be reached under cover. Let us hope these remarks may induce some 
one to adopt the use. 
CRYSTAL PALACE EXHIBITION. 
The first exhibition of flowers and fruits for the present season took 
place on May 22, under very favourable circumstances, both as regards 
weather and a large and lashionable company which the exhibition 
drew together to admire the beautiful productions of English gardens 
placed for competition in the grand transept and nave of this magni¬ 
ficent building. 
In our notice of these exhibitions in former years, we suggested that 
something should be done towards preventing the too great glare of light 
from falling on the plants, as it detracted very materially from their 
appearance; on the present occasion Mr. Eyles has very successfully 
