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VISITS TO NURSERIES. NO. VII. 
MESSRS. ROLLISSONS’ TOOTING NURSERY. 
The grounds and houses belonging to the Messrs. Rollissons, 
are so extensive, so varied, and so valuable in their contents, that 
it would be impossible to do any thing like justice to more than a 
single department in one number of our journal. Therefore we 
have restricted our present remarks to a brief survey of the green¬ 
houses and stoves, and shall reserve the other grounds for a future 
opportunity. These houses contain the most extensive, the most 
varied, and the most healthy collection of intertropical and other 
warm country plants, which we ever witnessed ; and if, taking it 
in all points of view, this collection has a rival in England, we 
are quite sure that it has no superior. 
The nursery is situated in the parish of Lower Tooting, in the 
county of Surrey. On entering the shop, which is placed on the 
side of the public road, the first house one enters is a large green¬ 
house of about 150 feet in length. This house is, for the most 
part, filled with Rhododendrons and Azaleas, intermixed with 
some fine specimens of greenhouse plants. It contains a fine 
plant of the rare Acacia Cultriformis, which plant is very difficult 
of cultivation ; also Acacia pentadina a beautiful species, rutifolia, 
and nigricans ; Hovea linearis, and Celsii, all large specimens. 
There is a choice assortment of the most splendid Rhododen¬ 
drons,—amongst them are some fine plants of that lovely species, 
the Rhododendron Rollissonii, which is, without exception, 
the most magnificent of the genus. There are many others 
here, not inferior in point of beauty, though differing much in 
colour. In the lower portion of the same house there is a splendid 
collection of Azaleas. In the centre, on the wall at the back, 
planted out, is a splendid specimen of the Wistaria Sinensis, 
which runs nearly the whole length of the house. In the early 
part of the season, this plant has a most noble appearance, being 
one mass of beautiful light blue flowers ; and it flowers very often 
from the young wood as well as from the old and ripened wood, 
so that it may be said to flower for the greater part of the year. 
On leaving this house, one enters the heatli-house, which is 
100 feet in length. Here one finds the most splendid collection 
of heaths—(the Messrs. Rollissons have always been noted for 
