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number of plants above the waterline. Among them 
are twenty kinds of Palms, thirty kinds of Bromeliads, 
all the kinds of Dracaenas and allied plants, Calatheas, 
Heliconias, Hedychiums, Marantas, Crinums, Vanillas, 
Pandanus, Musas, Philodendrons, Plumierias, and many 
more; but let us name some of the rarest and more 
conspicuous. 
JEnoholirium Jonghi is one of the newest among 
Bromeliads; Nidularium fulgens and irictum are not 
unlike it in leaf and habit; Vriesia glaucopis, speciosa, 
and psittacina ; JEchmea fulgens, discolor, miniata, and 
Melinovi; Ouzmannia spectdbilis, tricolor, picta, and ery- 
throlepis; Billbergia gigantea, another of M. de Jongh’s 
new plants ; B. splendida and marmorata, quite new ; rlio- 
do-cyanea, line; granulosa, Cray ana, Morelliana, vittata, 
and several new and not yet named ones, every one of 
which is as easy to grow as a common Cactus, and almost 
as easy to increase by side-suckers, and none of these 
Bromeliads require much room. 
Among miscellaneous plants Freycinetia Baueri or 
Baueriana, from Norfolk Island, is a rare thing ; and a 
beautiful-leaved Cycad, Carludovica pumila, in the way 
of a young Pandanus, Plumieria sp.; Doryanthes excelsa 
and Dasylirium Texanum, two conservatory plants, kept 
here to push them on in the world ; Cycas circinalis, fine; 
and several young Crinums, which look like amabilis, or 
some large kind of cruentum. Among the larger plants, 
which are of sizes for matching in pairs, take the fol¬ 
lowing :— Tillandsia vittata, Pourretia frigida, splendid 
pairs of Maranta zebrina, Pandanus utilis, Philoden¬ 
dron pertusum and pinnatifidum, Dracaena umbraculifera, 
Enckolirium Jonghi, Pandanus Javanicus variegatus, 
fine; also, Philodendron macrophyllum, with immense 
leaves; Mikania speciosa, a climbing Composite; Calanthe 
pardina, Brornelia sceptrum, Musa zebrina, Pandanus 
graminifolius, and many of those fine-leaved plants 
which have been recently imported from the Continent, 
some of which no botanist in this country lias ever yet 
heard the names. 
Pitcher-plant House. —This was the most interesting 
house in the establishment to mo. It is much on the 
same plan as the Aquai’ium. There is a large open 
tank of water down the whole length of the house, and 
inverted pots in the water to hold pots of Pitcher-plants 
out of it. Three-inch galvanised iron pipes heat the tank 
to 70°, and the house is kept up to 75°. This house 
{ promises to be one grove of Pitcher-plants in a few years. 
Some of them climb up in all directions already, and 
the air and temperature are found to be very suitable to 
• force Indian Orchids into bloom. There were quan- 
l tities of Phalsenopsis hanging from the roof for 
that purpose, alternating in the front row over the 
water with Nepenthes lanata, a rare kind, and glass pans 
filled with old and young plants of the Ouvirandra 
fenestralis, and there were some of them in earthenware 
pans, as at the Kingston Nursery ; and on my remark¬ 
ing how much better the plants in the earthenware 
seemed to thrive, I was told a secret, which is, that 
j glass is the worst thing on earth for growing any 
! tender or very delicate plants in, and the reason is, that 
] glass is so much more influenced by every or the least 
; change of temperature—a very likely conclusion; but 
who would have thought it in the middle of a tank in a 
hothouse? Nepenthes Rafflesiana, sanguinea, and Icevis, full 
of pitchers; vittata, with its clusters of speckled pitchers 
at the base of the stems, aud resting as it were on 
the top of the pots; ampxdlacea, very rich ; aud as 
climbers Icevis aud phyllamorpha run as fast as the old 
: distillatoria ; Ceplialotus follicularis, the New Holland 
Pitcher-plant, very large and full of pitchers, while my 
plant of it has stood all this year’s frost without fire heat 
! yet, and I only lost one self-sown Calceolaria Chclidoni- 
folia. Large specimens of Pl/itycerium grande show how 
well this Fern does in a high, moist atmosphere ; Pteris 
aspericaulis ditto, and also Qleichenia microphylla and 
jlabellata, and some others which have been named from 
the Fern stove. D. Beaton. 
(To be continued.) 
COMBINING THE CULTURE OF VARIOUS 
FRUITS UNDER GLASS. 
I am not surprised that many readers are much more 
taken up with variety than with rarity or decided 
superiority. It is always pleasant to help a corre- | 
spondent to produce a desired effect, even though our 
judgment would lead us to act differently in the circum¬ 
stances. It is with a corresponding reluctance that our 
duty compels us at any time to damp an earnest I 
enthusiasm. The space under glass which many possess 
is so small, that they are in danger of having too much 
instead of too little under it. Vast variety may be 
obtained in the twelvemonth by rotation of crops; but 
when many of the residents are fixtures, such as Vines, 
Peaches, &c., it would be well to remember that all 
the plants generally cultivated in small bouses will 
thrive well in proportion to the free access they have to 
light whilst growing and flowering. Much will also 
depend upon the variety of the plants chosen delighting 
in a similar temperature and atmosphere. With these 
preliminaries, and to save room, I will now advert to a 
number of inquiries. 
1. “A Clodhopper” proposes changing his present 
greenhouse into a forcing house—it is already supplied 
with Vines and Peaches on the hack wall—and adding to it 
a cool greenhouse, with a glass division between. Against 
this division in the Vinery side he proposes planting a 
Nectarine, and on the greenhouse side an Apricot, and 
to have Siveet Water Vines in the greenhouse, and 
advice is asked as to kinds, propriety of such plans, &c. 
If decided upon, a Moorpark Apricot and an Elruge 
Nectarine would do as well as any. I lately mentioned 
several instances in which Peaches were trained across 
the house in the manner proposed, and in such a house 
the Nectarine would do nearly as well as the Peaches 
against the back wall, provided it had an equal amount 
of light. No Peach or Nectarine trees will long remain 
fruitful if grown in much shade. The leaves will look 
nice and healthy, and the fruit-buds will swell seemingly 
all right; but as they begin to expand it will be found that 
many will drop, and many will be deficient in the parts 
of fructification. I have examined hundreds of blossoms 
without finding a female organ—the embryo of the fruit. 
For Peaches to thrive against the back wall of a Vinery 
the Vines up the rafters should be from four to six feet 
apart; and for a tree to succeed against a glass division 
the Vine rod should be quite as far from that end. I 
succeeded very well once with such a tree, but I could 
not let well alone. I brought the Vine stem nearer to 
it, and took up another shoot close to the division over 
the Nectarine; and though the Nectarine fruited well 
the first year, because the buds were fully matured, the 
crop got less and less, and more inferior in quality. 
In the cool greenhouse the Apricot will do admirably, 
as it is impatient of much forcing, and provided the 
roof is nearly open to the sun, so that there will be 
little or no obstruction to the light. Almost any sort 
of Vine would do better in such a house than the 
Sweet Water ; for, though very early, it requires a high 
temperature when setting, much higher than would suit 
the Apricot. An experienced person might manage what 
an inexperienced person would find next to impossible; 
and, meantime, if you resolve upon Vines, I would 
recommend the Royal Muscadine, or even a Black 
Hamburgh. 
2 . Plants, Vines, Peaches, and Melons in one 
House. — “A. C.” has a Vinery and greenhouse in i 
