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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, Aran, 20, 1350. 
of the latter, and the leaves are as large as those of the 
white Camellia. 
Among subjects extensively propagated for sale arc, 
Dendrobmm nobile, Thyrsacanthus rulilans, alt the Silvery 
and Golden-leaved Ferns, Farfugium grande, Fkodo- 
chilon volubile, Tropceoluvi elegans and Brilliant, Adian- 
turn Wilsonii, with fine broad leaves ; the finer Gloxinias, 
Gesneras, and Achimcnes. Of the latter, Meteor and 
Posca magnijica are the two best of the newest last year. 
Also the fine-leaved Begonias, Clematis lanuginosa and 
Mimosa prostrata, for a summer out-door climber, like 
Maurandyas, Lophospermums, and such like ; and most 
strangers point to the white bracts of Mussccnda frondosa. 
In this same house Scutellaria pulcltella, or Mexicana, 
blooms all the spring, and most of the year round. It 
should be tried out of doors as a bedder, or good patch 
plant. It is a dwarf plant with light blue flowers, and 
may be a Salvia. 
The next is the young specimen-house—the best house 
I ever saw for country gardeners to learn what is what. 
I he thick, low bushes of the blue Leschenaultia stamp 
the place; or, rather, make this house the stamp oilicc, 
tor seeing and learning, for registering, and for stamping 
on the memory the true way to eminence in plant culture 
for private families. Like all the best practical gardeners 
in the country, the Messrs. Fraser set their faces against 
the old, monstrous way of making great shrubby speci¬ 
mens of pot plants. Ilcre are seen the superiority and 
elegance of Tremandra ericifolia densa again; of Les- 
chcnaullia Baxterii major, over the best of the red ones ; 
ot Pimelia spectabilis rosea; of Lapageria rosea ; and of 
most of the exhibition plants, which are too numerous to 
specify more particularly. But I must mention one gi'oup 
to introduce a stranger to in this kind of house and cul¬ 
ture: Centaurca candidissima, the best frosted-silver plant, 
hardy, or all but such ; Correct cardinalis; Cassia Slcin- 
nerafoha, much smaller in leaf and style of growth than 
Corymbosa; Azalea vittata, hardy ; Fleroma elegans, 
a very hardy greenhouse plant; Munochcetum ensiferum ; 
Acrophylluni vcnositm; Aphlexises, of sorts; an cl the great 
stranger, Calipkuria h aim ant ha, doing ten times better 
with the group than in the stove. It has been already 
stated in our pages that this plant was probably as hardy 
as Fleroma elegans. 
The next call was at the specimen Azalea-house ; and 
the next, at the full-grown specimen of greenhouse plants, 
ready to be exhibited, and some Heaths and novelties. 
Friea Devoniana was finely in bloom. It is of the tri¬ 
color section, or between it and Hartnelli. Ncgundo 
fraxin folia variegafa is a most excellent thing, and is as 
showy in front of a shrubbery as any of the variegated 
Geraniums in the flower-beds. Weigela amabilis variegata 
was also here, and equally conspicuous. 
To go into the details of the large exhibition plants, 
either in this or in the specimen Geranium-house, would 
be to anticipate the glory of the London Shows. But there 
is a new exhibition plant, an old Sempervircns, I believe, 
which they call linear folia, and which is done like, but 
much faster than, the Ivalosantheses. In one twelve 
months this makes a bloomer as big as a Pelargonium ; the 
trusses will be ten inches across, and the flowers yellow 
like most of its kind. The Acacia longifolia magnijica, 
has been rooted here from cuttings— the first English- 
rooted plants of it I have seen.' This, and Drummondi, 
divide the palm of beauty and excellence of the family 
between them. In an intermediate stove-house were lots 
of Clematis lanuginosa, recently worked; Crotoea strict a 
and saligna, but more particularly striata grafted on 
Cornea alba, a fine spike of Gcsuera zinnabarina, in 
bloom; Tjjdccd Eclcnantii, a most capital crimson and 
orange Achimcnes. This is the best of the Tydseas, or 
upright Achimcnes, bright crimson and orange flower, 
of the size of a two-shilling piece, veined with well- 
marked lines of atro-purpurea; Exaciim zelanicum, in 
bloom, a beautiful blue Melastomad. 
The next division is the bottom-heat stove, for the 
grand stove specimens to carry the day in close-contested 
battles. All the Ixoras are luxurianting here, plunged to 
the rim of the pots in tan ; Allamandas and Echiteses the 
same, and not tied in or trained yet; Mediuillas, Vincas, 
Stephanotises, Clerodendrons—all in tan, and with the 
utmost freedom from any restraint by training. They 
do not begin to train till the bloom-buds are far advanced. 
There is a large old plant here, called the purple or blue 
Allamauda, plunged in the tan, and looks exactly like 
Echites caryophylloidcs, which was introduced to Syon 
House about the year 1830 ; but I never heard of it flower¬ 
ing in England. Echites stellaris once bloomed, many 
years back, in the Chiswick Garden. 
The last is the retarding house, with a north aspect; 
and it was then as gay as could be with fine specimen 
plants in full bloom, with a covering for the stages, be¬ 
tween the specimens, of young healthy stock of the same 
description. The sizes and a few of the kinds must 
suffice:— Azalea magnijica plena, two feet by two feet; 
Boronia scrrulata, thirty inches by thirty inches; a 
standard Azalea vittata, the same; Adenandra speciosa, 
two feet by two feet; Polygala Dalmaisiana, ditto; 
Azalea Benno, one of the largest flowered ; Erica verna, 
thirty inches by thirty inches ; Boronia tetranda, the 
same ; Epacris splcndens, three feet by three feet; llli- 
cium religiosum, in fine bloom. This is a hardy ever¬ 
green ; but to enjoy the flowers so early, it must be had 
in pots. Acacia longifolia magnijica, still in good bloom ; 
Acacia Drummondi, four feet by five feet, very fine ; 
Eriostcmons, many from three to four feet through; 
several Epacrises, and others, from two feet to five 
feet—a fine sight of blooming plants. Out in the pots 
and cradles, for Lilies, were great quantities of Tritonia 
aurca, which will soon be down to my price after all. 
The French spotted Geraniums have the best run here, 
also; fancies next, forcers and continuous bloomers next; 
but a certain class of amateurs will buy all the best great 
Pelargoniums, almost at any price. In the outside, front 
of a row of houses, was a thick ro \ of the Belladonna Lily, 
and another row of Anemone Apennina, both doing re¬ 
markably well; the Anemone was just going out of 
blossom, so it is one of our early spring fljwers. The 
yellow-wood Anemone, A. ranunculoides, blooms at the 
same time, and both die down, for the summer, at the 
same time as tile Belladonna. 
Fuchsias. — The fashion of having Fuchsias trained 
up the rafters, pillars, and posts, in show-houses, is 
adopted here as much as at Ivew ; and the more distinct 
kinds, and the strong and rambling growers, are found to 
tell best. All the following kinds are so used, and found 
to answer remarkably well :— Autocrat, Clio, Countess of 
Burlington, Donna Joaquina, England’s Glory, Etoile dit 
Ford, Fairest of the Fair, Kitty Tyrrell (a fine pot plant 
also), Princess of Prussia, Star of the Night, Souvenir de 
Chiswick, Virgo Maria, and Wonderful. Compare these 
with the kinds mentioned from ICew, last autumn, for 
the same purpose; and those who have a front border 
for climbers should plant out these Fuchsias, or some of 
them, if only to be used as annuals. It is all very well 
for first-rate gardeners and skilful amateurs, who have 
the proper conveniences to *grow specimen I uchsias, to 
surprise visitorS’f'but, depend upon it, there is no way so 
easy as to plant out vigorous young plants of them ; and 
there is no mode of training by which they look half so 
well as they do when they have their liberty in a free 
border. 
A house with Fuchsias and Tea-scented Boses, all 
planted out, and with hanging baskets of gay summer¬ 
flowering common plants, but no pot plants, and all the 
baskets so hung that they would drip only on the borders, 
would look better than some of our first-rate conserva¬ 
tories. 
Among a large lot of Amaryllis, and other bulbs, two 
opera girls (Mantisia saltaloria), were dancing in the 
