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having the finest and best cultivated collection of heaths round. 
London) ;—for, in the whole house, there is not to be found an 
ill-grown or unhealthy plant. On leaving the heath-house, one 
enters the camellia-house. This is a large house, and contains a 
very rich and splendid collection, with some fine specimens of 
these lovely plants,—among others there is a fine specimen of the 
Camellia reticulata, or netted-leaved Camellia. 
At the back of the camellia-house are the houses and pits for 
propagating. In one of the propagating-houses, there is a fine 
plant of the Stephanotis floribundus, a splendid climber. The 
flowers are white ; and it is a most abundant flowerer, and has a 
very sweet odour. Along with this plant there is also a fine 
plant of the Ipomea Horsfallii. 
On leaving the camellia-house, we enter the orchideous-house, 
where there is a most splendid collection, and, without exception, 
the best cultivated and the finest specimens in the country. On 
looking along this house you will see some noble plants, such as 
Cattleya crispa, and guttata; Pensterea alata; Dendrobium noble, 
and imbricata, and chrysanthim ; Oncidium Lanceanum ; Stan- 
hopea oculata, and insignis ; Lelia anceps, with eight spikes of 
flowers on it; also, a fine plant of that Renanthera coccinea, and 
another of the Epidendron tibinus,—which last is said to be 
the most splendid of all the Mexican orchidese ; with many others 
equally as fine as those that we have mentioned. 
At the back of this house is the stove, in which there is a fine 
collection R of rare and beautiful plants, among which there are 
some beautiful new climbers, such as a beautiful yellow Cobea, 
some fine Ipomem, and a very good collection of bulbs. In the 
front of this house, out of doors, in a small border, is the full 
collection of the beautiful genus Alstromoeria, growing and flower¬ 
ing to the greatest perfection, and without any protection in the 
winter. We never saw them grown so fine in pots and with the 
protection of a greenhouse, as they are doing here. 
At the back of the stove, there is a small house in the open ground 
for growing plants for cuttings; and in front of the orchideous-house, 
there are pits for the purpose of putting in the newly-potted heaths 
in the summer, for Camellias during a portion of the summer, and 
for keeping half-hardy plants in the winter. After leaving these, one 
enters the specimen heath-house. In this house there are many fine 
and rare plants of heaths, such as *Erica acuminata, acumi- 
