Flower Garden and Shrubbery

The Japan Rose (Camellia Japonica) must not be forgotten ; for some moat beautiful varieties, forming the pride of the conservatory, have appeared within the last few years ; particularly the waratah or ane mone-flowered, both with double red flowers and with double white flowers, the latter often called the Pompano camellia.

The Hydrangea hortensis succeeds in the open border in good seasons ; but it is always much in. jured during winter. If room can be spared in the conservatory, it makes a much finer appearance there ; and, according to Mr Hedges (Load. Hort Trans. Vol. III.), by planting it in pure yellow loam, the flowers may be procured of the beautiful blue colour sometimes observed in this species,— an experiment, however, which does not always suc ceed.

Tender

aquatics, of the genera Nympham, Nuphar, Menyanthes, and Nelumbium, are now cultivated with great success in frames resembling those used for the raising of melons. The plants are placed in cisterns, made of wood and lined with lead, about four feet in length, and two feet and a half in breadth; and these cisterns are plunged in tanners' bark or stable dung. In this way the plants flower much more freely and beautifully than when kept in lofty hot-houses heated by flues.

From the details which have been given, it pretty clearly appears, that great advances are making in the knowledge and practice of an improved horticul ture. For this fortunate state of matters, we are in

no small degree indebted to the two patriotic asso ciations, the Horticultural Society of London and the Horticultural Society of Edinburgh, already mentioned. Both consist of several hundred mem bers, all of them amateurs of gardening. Among them, horticultural knowledge must rapidly increase, and a beneficial feeling of friendly emulation can. not fail to be excited. Both societies distribute honorary rewards for excellence in any of the pro.. ductions of the garden, or for the encourage ment of well-contrived experiments. Both pub lish Transactions, which have been repeatedly quot ed in the preceding pages ; thus affording equally to the scientific cultivator and to the practical gar dener a convenient medium for communicating to the public notices of useful improvements. The London Society has already given to the world three volumes in quarto, embracing many important subjects, some of them illustrated by engravings in the first style of excellence. The Scottish Society has published two volumes in octavo, likewise meritorious as to matter, but with slender pretensions to ornament or illustra tion.