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metrically-shaped tree. Another point is, to allow sufficient space 
for each tree to show off the shape to advantage, and prevent 
overcrowding. Many of the finer varieties may be planted as 
single objects on the lawn and the pleasure ground. 
Varieties of the Common Holly. 
{Ilex aquifolium.) 
Albo marginatum. Silver striped. 
A. pictum. Silver blotched. 
Aureo marginatum. Gold striped. 
A. pictum. Gold blotched. 
A. pictum major. Large gold blotched, new, and very 
beautiful. 
Altaclarense. High-Clere. A beautiful variety. 
Angustifolium. Narrow leaved. 
Ciliatum. Fringed edges, curious, and beautiful. 
C. major. Broader leaved. 
Crassifolium. Thick leaved, curious. 
Crispum. Curled leaved, very distinct. 
Bonningtonia. Donnington’s. A fine variety. 
Ferox. Hedgehog. The surface of the leaf is covered with 
prickles. 
F. argenteum. Silver blotched. 
F. aureum. Gold blotched. 
Flamrn. Yellow. 
Fructu albo. White berried. 
F. luteo. Yellow berried. 
F. nigra. Black berried. The latter threo are curious when 
in fruit. 
Handsworthiana. The Handsworth Holly. A distinct, fine 
variety. 
Heterophyllum. Various leaved. A striking variety in a col¬ 
lection. 
Hodgkins. A broad-leaved, fine variety. 
Latifolium. Broad leaved. 
Laurifolium. Laurel leaved. Very fine. 
Myrtifolia. Myrtle-leaved. Very beautiful. 
Marginatum. Thick margined. The edge of each leaf is raised 
above the central part. 
Monstrosa. Monstrous. A curious variety. 
Medio pictum. Middle painted. Distinct. 
Ovata. Oval leaved. 
Pendulum. The Weeping Holly. 
P. var leg alum. The variegated Weeping Holly. 
Platyphyllum. Very broad leaved. 
Becurvum. Bent back leaved. 
Smithiana. Smith’s. 
Senescens. Aged spineless leaved. 
Shepherdii. Shepherd’s. A fine variety. 
Serratifolia. Saw leaved. 
Tortuosa. Twisted leaved. Very strikingly curious. 
TVhittingtonii. Whittington’s. Distinct and beautiful. 
Hardy Species. 
Ilex Balearica. Balearic. 
I. Canariensis. Canary Island. 
I. cassine. Cassine. 
I. cornuta. Horned. New and beautiful. 
I. Dahoon. Dahoon. 
I. Baboon dipyrena. Two seeded. An Indian species ; quite 
hardy. 
I.furcala. Forked. New and distinct. 
I. latifolia. The Japan broad-leaved Holly. 
I. Laxiflora. Loose flowered. Distinct. 
I. Madeiriense. Madeira Holly. Fine broad leaves. 
I. opaca. Dense leaved. 
I. Vomitoria. Emetic. Florida. T. Appleby. 
CLEMATIS LANUGINOSA. 
I forget now what I said about Clematis Sieboldii, but all 
these eastern Clematises require to be cut down to the ground 
every year, for the first five or six years after planting out; and 
the right time to cut them is, when the young wood has just 
started fairly for the Beason, and that will be according to the 
earliness or lateness of the spring. Lanuginosa is a much more 
powerful grower than Sieboldii; but I would not make that 
an excuse for cutting it earlier in the spring. Their roots have 
6ome analogy to bulbs, and, if you cut them so severely before 
they are in motion, the chances are that they will not start at 
all at the right time. All our finest climbers, inside and out, 
ought to be cut down to the ground, until they attain their 
size aiM strength. The only secret I ever kept, was about 
Beaumontia grandijlora. I would engage to eat roasted snap¬ 
dragons for a month, if I could not flower every Beau¬ 
montia in England, that is of full age and size, in three years. 
The first thing I would do, would be to cut down every one of 
them to the collar of the plant; and when I had them in bloom 
I would keep them so, and all new plants from them, for the rest 
of my life, without a single failure, by merely increasing them 
from layers of the flowering-sized wood. That was just how I 
had two magnificent plants of them in the conservatory at 
Shrubland Park for years, and another half-magnificent plant 
in the geranium-hou3e there, its roots being in the orchid- 
house. Also, two fair plants of them in pots, so as to make the 
bloom last all the longer. By the same trick I had all the 
Tacsonias in flower-bud on the conservatory wall, when I threw 
the spade over it; and they were so taken at my leaving, just as 
the winter was coming on, that they have not, all of them at 
once, showed flower-buds since. Ool. Bombardum used to say, 
that the more he beat hi? dog or his wife, the more attached to 
him they became, which may be doubted ; but there is no doubt 
about the fact, that the more we cut down our climbers, till they 
are of full age and strength, the more they will flower, and the 
^longer they will keep in the flowering humour.—D. Beaton. 
A NEW SPECIMEN OF ACTINIA, AND A RARE 
MOTH, AT TORQUAY. 
There have been a few rarities taken on this coast (Torbay), 
of which, being likely to interest your readers, I forward an ac¬ 
count. A few days ago Mr. G. King, our local entomologist, 
whilst cruising in the bay, in his yacht the Sparrowhawk , dredged 
up a beautiful and entirely new specimen of Actinia, of the genus 
Bunodes, which Mr. P. H. Gosse, who employed Mr. King, 
named the Bunodes coronata. In the same locality, and at the 
same time, several specimens of the Sagartia Coxinia, of Miller, 
were also brought up. The depth of water was twenty fathoms. 
It seems, indeed, that these two kinds are invariably found 
together in deep water, or, at least, not far distant from each 
other. The Coronata is a very showy kind, and is generally found 
adhering to shells. It is marked with lines of warts, which are 
small, of unequal size, and arranged irregularly. 
I may also add, that a superb specimen of the Leucania 
vitellina ( noctuoe ) moth was taken here recently by Mr. King. 
It is deserving of notice, because this insect, which is found 
somewhat abundantly in France, is extremely rare in England,— 
only five or six specimens, according to that eminent antliority, 
Mr. Doublcday, having been taken on the British coasts.—J. T. 
W., Torquay. 
A CHEAP BAROMETER, 
A very cheap barometer is made by dissolving some camphor 
in alcohol, and then throwing into the solution some soda. The 
camphor precipitates in snowy flakes, which are collected by 
passing the mixture through a filter, when they are to be put in a 
vial containing clear alcohol, in which there has been already 
dissolved as much camphor as it will take. The vial is then 
tightly corked and put where it will not be disturbed, when it 
will be found to be an excellent index of the weather. In fine 
weather the precipitate will rest on the bottom, but on the 
approach of a storm it will rise to the surface, with a tendency to 
the quarter opposite to that from which the storm is coming—the 
flakes being affected electrically. 
HAGUE’S KIDNEY POTATOES. 
My attention has been called to several statements in your 
journal, in which different persons are alleged to have raised these 
Potatoes from seed. A degree of obscurity seems to rest about 
the question, and one speculator ascribes their birthplace to 
Bartsey, a place no one ever heard of: I suppose he means 
Bardsey, the residence of the late Major Hague, my father. Mr. 
Appleby is also mistaken in naming a schoolmaster, at Newton 
Kyme, as their originator. The true history of this excellent va¬ 
riety, called Hague's (not Haigh’s) Kidney is this. The seed 
