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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
June 1. 
very large; Exquisita, variegated; Alba magna, very 
large; Orandis, light purple, next shade after Gonspicua ; 
1 Rawsonii, being the third purple shade; Symmetry, a 
I large orange, and good shape; Sinensis, the old yellow, 
I and never finer; Qladstenesii, white, and blotched; 
! Eateritia, orange, and the parent of all the best orange 
i tints, which are now too numerous by one-half; Reine ties 
Edges, inclined to run half-double, but the colour is ex¬ 
cellent, near that of Delecta, between rose and crimson. 
We want more of these delicate tints, but those half¬ 
double Azaleas are perfect frights, and all the colours in 
the rainbow will never turn the ladies’ aversion from 
such abortions. 
Now, about tho stove and greenhouse plants, and the 
I Heaths, 1 have them all booked, and they were just to 
I 0W1 } lancy, for size and symmetry, but it goes against 
i the grain to write them over again without any remarks, 
and 1 have no more to ofler; but as some might like 
i eve)1 a list ot such plants as are ready for May shows, 
| heie is a bare list ol all the greenhouse and stove plants 
j which were competed lor by twelve or fifteen growers. 
They are among the very commonest and the very 
j easiest to grow and to keep of all other plants. 
I Adenandra speciosa (old Diosma). 
| Aplielexis macrantha purpurea. 
„ humilis, rosea, and sesamoides, with slight 
varieties. 
Eoronia spathulata, tetandra. 
Cborozema varium nanum, Ilendersoni, Lawrenciana. 
Goleonema pulchra, rubra. 
Daviesia latifolia. 
Dillwynia ericifolia. 
Dracocephalum gracile. 
Epacris grandiflora, miniata, paludosa. 
Eiiostemon intermedium, myoporoides, neriifolium, 
and scabrum. 
Gompholobium barbigerum, and grandiflorum 
Leschenaultia Raxteri, formosa. 
Oxylobium Pultenasa. 
1 imeloea decussata, Hendersoni, linifolia, spectabilis. 
i olygala acuminata, cordifolia, Dalmatiana. 
„ oppositifolia. 
Rhincospermum jasminoides; one huge plant 
Statice Holdfordi. 
Tetratheca verticillata. 
STOVE PLANTS. 
Alamanda cathartica, neriifolia. 
Clerodendron Kosmpferi. 
Cyrtoceras reflexum. 
Franciscea acuminata, angusta, confertiflora. 
Gardenia iortunii; splendid plants of it. 
Hoya imperialis, Paxtonii. 
Ixora cocciuea, crocata. 
Medinilla magnifica, Sieboldi. 
Stephanotis floribunda, and two Vincas, rosea, and 
oculata; the white with red eye. 
I all Cacti. There was one collection of these 
lorn Mr. Green, hi which Epiphyllum crcnatum was 
most splendidly flowered. I counted 30 flower-buds, 
besides all that were open, and anybody with a window 
can grow it. Epiphyllum Green'd, eight inches across, 
and a finer flower than Speciosissimum, but in that way. 
Mimulus. —There were 25 immense cut blooms in one 
stand, and Mr. Twigg, gardener to Thomas Lenox, Esq., 
had a collection ot them in pot plants, of which liubens, 
uitli a deep dark border, and Fascination, a speckled 
border, were my two favourites; but these Mimuluses 
aie very useful plants to flower early in pots, and later 
m the borders; they are also getting very fashionable. 
Iompone Chrysanthemums. —There were four nice 
little kinds of them from the Wellington Nursery, as 
good as others ot them were last November. 
Hie t buit was splendid, more numerous than usual, 
and quite ripe, at last, for a wonder. Among the com¬ 
petitors were the Duchess of Sutherland, Duke of Bed- 
lord, Duke of Marlborough, Duke of Northumberland, 
Duke of Norfolk, Marquis of Lansdowne, Marchioness 
of Londonderry, Earls Abergaveney, Zetland, Derby, 
&c., but her Majesty did not compete" this time. 
D. Beaton. 
OXFORD AND NUNEHAM. 
Being seldom from home, I had prepared an outline 
of a few ideas likely to bo useful, suggested from a visit 
to the Oxford Botanic Garden, and to the beautiful 
grounds ol Nuneluim, which, from their elevation and 
undulating character, must ever be a conspicuous and 
telling object in the midst of the flat country around 
Oxford. 1 find, however, that the sails have been cut 
(rom my windmill, by referring to a previous description, 
by Air. Beaton, of the Botanic Gardens, and to an out¬ 
line of Nuneham, in the last Cottage Gardener, by 
Mr. Appleby. Instead, therefore, of repealing the same 
ideas in other words, I will try and allude to a few 
matters not previously mentioned. 
I had long lelt a wish to be personally introduced to 
Air. Baxter, and was more than delighted with his-most 
kind and obliging courtesy. A vast number of plants 
are kept in the houses, but chiefly in a small state. 
There are scarcely any duplicates of anything, in-doors 
or out. The plants are kept in this small condition by 
annual repottings and partial disrootings, and by a con¬ 
stant rearing of young plants from cuttings. A few fine 
specimens, beautifully grown, were here and there set in 
prominent positions, demonstrating how fine this garden 
might become in specimens of luxuriant growth, did the 
proprietors of the garden give suitable encouragement in 
the way ol house-room. Several new houses have been 
erected within a few years, and in these—chiefly devoted 
to tropical plants—everything seemed in luxuriant 
health. AY hat struck us as the most conspicuous and 
numerous in the groups of plants were the Ferns and 
the Succulents. Had time permitted, I would have 
selected a list of the best of the last-named of these for 
small greenhouses. Many were blooming with the 
greatest profusion, and Air. Baxter well remarked, no 
plants required less care. To many amateurs, who can 
only attend to their miniature greenhouses morning and 
evening, such a class of plants are invaluable, as, in¬ 
dependently of their beautiful flowers, there is something 
quite grotesque, singular, and interesting in the many 
shapes and forms they assume; while the neglect, not of 
one day, but of several days, will not injure them. All 
intending cultivators would find an inspection of these 
suculents pleasing and profitable. 
Another fact struck us forcibly, that here, in the 
classic garden of Oxford, as well as elsewhere, the love 
of the science ot vegetation in the abstract was begin¬ 
ning to wane before the love of the simply beautiful. 
Few public, or subscription Botanic Gardens, have been 
able to support themselves merely as repositories illus¬ 
trative of science. The growing of plants for ornament, 
if not for commerce, and the allurements of the beauties 
of a modern flower-garden, have been introduced, not 
merely as measures of a prudent yielding to the times, 
but as the stern demands of necessity to maintain an 
existence. Incorporated and national gardens, though 
not subjected to the same necessity, have not considered 
it beneath them to yield to the popular taste. Hence, 
notwithstanding the scientific arrangements at Ivew, 
which is in every worthy sense now a national garden, 
and of which every Briton may be proud, instead of 
ashamed, as a part of his own property—“ our garden" 
—the massing of colours, and the grouping style of 
flower - gardens has been introduced to gratify the 
millions in summer. No doubt, influenced by a similar 
