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THE FLORIST. 
varieties of this. One kind is remarkably close-growing and elegant; 
indeed, I scarcely know a more elegant tree in its present state ; the 
others grow taller and looser. Height from 10 to 16 feet. The most 
ornamental kind can hardly be planted in too great quantities where 
it will thrive, for its beautiful symmetry and appearance. 
Juniperus chinensis. —Male and female. The male Chinese Juniper 
is the plant most commonly known as such; it grows more upright 
than the female. Height 12 feet, and 5 feet through. The female 
grows more bushy, but is equally handsome. Height 10 feet, by 
7 feet diameter. Two valuable evergreens, suitable for any situation. 
Thuja Siberica Wareana. —Decidedly the best of its class : 10 feet 
high in eight years. 
Thuja tartarica, or orientalis. —About the same growth as the above. 
T. aurea. —Valuable for parterres and small gardens for its globular 
shape, and the tips of the young wood change to a gold colour during 
winter and spring, until the new year’s growth commences. 
Thuiopsis borealis. —Season’s growth 12 inches. 
Juniperus excelsa. —Fifteen feet by five. The situation here too 
dry for this species. 
Cupressus Lawsoniana. —Year’s wood 12 inches. This will prove 
a beautiful thing as its growth developes itself more fully. 
Libocedrus chilensis. —Year’s growth 6 inches. Situation and soil 
too dry for this plant, which in some situations I have seen very fine 
and free growing. Neither Fitzroya patagonica nor Saxe-Gothsea 
conspicua thrive here, I expect for the reasons assigned for the Libo¬ 
cedrus. The same may be said of the Cephalotaxus, whose growth has 
hitherto been a failure. 
I have only a small plant of Abies Kcempferi , which is doing well. 
MESSRS. E. G. HENDERSON’S NURSERY, ST. JOHN’S 
WOOD. 
Many of the finest novelties in the way of flower garden plants having 
been sent out from this enterprising establishment, we recently paid it 
a visit, for the purpose of ascertaining what were likely to be sent out 
as new plants in the spring of 1859. 
We were delighted to find that the Messrs. H. are rapidly getting 
up a large quantity of a new Golden Chain Geranium, which evidently 
possesses greater merits than the old Golden Chain, which our readers 
are aware is not sufficiently hardy in constitution to withstand the wet 
weather of autumn. We are also of opinion that cold as well as wet is 
the cause of this valuable Geranium losing its leaves in autumn ; and 
having planted it in various mixtures of soils without being successful 
in causing it to retain the foliage so perfectly in autumn as m summer, 
we conclude that a more hardy constituted Golden Chain is an 
acquisition the flower gardener must in future endeavour to possess. 
We were informed that this new Golden Chain had already been tested 
