. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. DiSOEMBEB THE COTTAGE GARDENEK. 159 under the managemeut of Mr. Fortune, it is liumilialing to our boasting [uiJe of the improvements of the lOtli century to find tliat tlie discovery, a mare's nest, was very mucli inferior to Watts' stove of tlie ITth century, and was soon abandoned as impracticable. " In the centre of tlie garden is a marble statue erected to the memory of Sir Hans Sloane, by the eminent Eysbrack. The rockwork around the a(piai'ium, near the statue, is worthy of particular notice for its historical recollections. It is
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. DiSOEMBEB THE COTTAGE GARDENEK. 159 under the managemeut of Mr. Fortune, it is liumilialing to our boasting [uiJe of the improvements of the lOtli century to find tliat tlie discovery, a mare's nest, was very mucli inferior to Watts' stove of tlie ITth century, and was soon abandoned as impracticable. " In the centre of tlie garden is a marble statue erected to the memory of Sir Hans Sloane, by the eminent Eysbrack. The rockwork around the a(piai'ium, near the statue, is worthy of particular notice for its historical recollections. It is composed of the tutfa, corals, and madrepores brouglit from Otalieite by Captain Cook. The ideas which these objects immediately suggest, expand to circumstances con- nected with far distant lands, from which they are recalled by the beauty and seclusion of the home grounds, " * Where in the grass sweet voices talk, And strains of tiny music swell, From every moss-cup of the rock, From every nameful blossom's bell.' " NEW PLANTS. THETH POKTRAITS AND ><^ Ma. 's Begonia [Begonia Itujramii).-—Gar- deners' Magazine of Botany, vol. ii., p. 153.—The genus Begonia was instituted by Linnfeus to oommemorate the name of Michael Begon, a Fi-enoh patron of botany. The whole order numbers about 150 species, wliich are objects of considerable interest with our gardeners, and a bone of contention with the cultivators of botanical science—no two of them agreeing as to the place it should occupy in the natural classification of genera. Like the cucumber and the filbert, the Begoniads have the male and female organs in different flowers on the same plant, and are, therefore, referable to the 21st class of the liu- nsean system. It has been long a matter of opinion, and now of fact, that points of difference wliich separate one genus, or one species of plant, from another, are to be depended on in proportion to the nearest approach they make to the seat
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