. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. An avenue 6 feet wide runsfrom one extremity of the house to the other, travers-ing round the centre group and both sides of the straight walk are lined with Ferntrees of equal height (6 to 7 feet) from New Zealand,Port Natal, and Hueensland, and contain thefollowing specimens, viz., Cyathea dealbata, Dregii,excelsa, medullaris; Alsophila Cooperi, Leichardtiana,australis ; Dicksonia antarctica and have been the only plants specially bought forthe Palm-house. The walks ar
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. An avenue 6 feet wide runsfrom one extremity of the house to the other, travers-ing round the centre group and both sides of the straight walk are lined with Ferntrees of equal height (6 to 7 feet) from New Zealand,Port Natal, and Hueensland, and contain thefollowing specimens, viz., Cyathea dealbata, Dregii,excelsa, medullaris; Alsophila Cooperi, Leichardtiana,australis ; Dicksonia antarctica and have been the only plants specially bought forthe Palm-house. The walks are skirted with an ornamental borderabout 2 feet high, composed of bricks and cement,with a tasteful coping, so that the walks afford asmuch space as possible for the accommodation of thenumerous visitors, especially on Sundays and holidays,when the house is crowded, and at the same time, notto encroach upon the space for the plants, theborder juts in and out at right angles forming apattern a la grcc. The floor is tiled with red and blueoctagon tiles, which produce a very pleasing Fig. 26.—AGAVE FLACCIDA. these Ferns is planted with Lycopodium, which hasgrown so luxuriantly that it forms a splendid greencarpet In the western octagon is constructed agrotto from stalactite, specially imported from theBlack Forest in Germany. The grotto is about10 feet high and 8 feet broad. At the back of thegrotto there streams, over quartz and sandstone rocks,a cascade, into a small basin. The large pieces ofstalactite are put together in a wild and irregularmanner, and the effect produced is striking. The topof the grotto is embellished with Dracsenas, Palms,&c., intermixed with climbers, viz., Antigonon lep-topus, Cissus discolor, Asparagopsis javanica, Echitesrubrovenosa, &c., which hang in festoons over thestalactite. The interior wall of the grotto is plantedwith Philodendron daguense, melanochrysum, Pothosargyn^a, macrophylla, &,c., growing on the stalactite,and spreading their
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