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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
April 1. 
A. Boarded walks. 
b, Beds for Camellias. 
Scale £ in. to u foot. 
c. Glass uprights. 
d. Beds for Climbers. 
e. Asphaltate. 
a. Walls stuccoed. 
list of plants, and an ingenious young man stamping 
the names on the zinc plates, and, at the same time, 
stamping the names on the plates of his memory, never, 
whilst life remained, to be obliterated or forgotten. The 
stages, I may just mention, are formed in steps with 
Yorkshire flags, and are almost indestructible. 
Beyond this greenhouse we entered the grand central 
domed house, not quite so large as that at Row, but still 
of a respectable extent. Here many of the Palms were 
very large, reaching quite up to the roof, sixty feet high. 
The finest plant is the Phcenix dactylifera, or Date 
Palm, with a stem three feet in diameter, and a fine, 
branching head of enormous leaves. The blank wall at 
each end of this house is covered with a bank of Perns 
on rockwork. 
Adjoining the Palm-house is a stove, chiefly filled with 
large Ferns. On the front is a stage, next the glass, 
filled with many stove plants in flower, especially the 
following :—Franciscea latifolia and Ilopeana , the blue 
Hebeclinium, with fine, large heads, several Biynonias, 
Clerodendron macrophyllum, Phaius Wallicliii, Euphor¬ 
bias, &c. 
The greenhouse adjoining to this stove had in it a 
great number of well-grown and finely-formed Heaths, 
which would not have disgraced the garden of a London 
exhibitor. This house is kept very cool; hence, the 
Dielytras seem only just showing flower. On a shelf, 
or, rather, platform, behind, was a fair collection of dry 
stove plants, evidently in a too cold climate. 
The next house is the corresponding 6mall-domed 
greenhouse conservatory, and adjoining to it is the 
Victoria House. As the Victoria is now in a small 
state, in a nursing house behind the range, the house is 
made use of as a forcing-house. Here the Rhododen¬ 
drons, Azaleas, &c., I noticed in flower in the Camellia- 
house, had been nursed and brought into bloom. This 
is a novel use to devote a Victoria-house to; but, never¬ 
theless, a very useful one. The large tank in the centre 
was empty, and their large bushes had plenty of room 
to expand their blossoms. T. Appleby. 
