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mention, that it and all other plants which are natives of places 
where the seasons run into extremes, are peculiarly fitted for 
forcing; and may, by judicious treatment in that way, be made 
to flower at any season that may be desired. 
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ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
NEW CONSERVATORY. 
It affords us much pleasure to know that, notwithstanding the 
vast number of the more wealthy and influential part of the British 
population who are at this season careering over land and sea, by 
the aid of animal power, of wind, and of steam, the numbers who 
have visited, and are continuing to visit, Kew Gardens, have 
greatly increased during the present season. For, however stinted 
these gardens may have been in pecuniary support, they are kept 
in the finest order. All the plants are healthy ; and in the range 
from the lawns of the pleasure-grounds, through all the gradations 
to the small stoves which contain the bread-fruits, the nutmegs, 
