In Mr. Pontey's Plymouth Nursery, there is a straight walk from the entrance, the longest of the kind we recollect to have seen; Mr. Pontey says it is upwards of a quarter of a mile. On each side there is a border with specimens of the more showy or rare trees and shrubs. Among these we noticed good specimens of a variety with very large leaves raised from seed of Pyrus Sorbus vestita; P. Aria fr. luteo with large yellow fruit; fine specimens of the different varieties of P. arbutifolia, P. spuria, and P. Aria grï¾µca; Cotoneaster acuminata, frigida, and affinis; Berberis umbellata a new species, and Deeringia indica, with many others. Against the gable end of a house, the Isabella grape was covered with bunches of its fine black fruit nearly ripe. Among many plants in the houses, we observed a good stock of a new tropï¾µolum, supposed to be T. azureum; of two new sorts of yuccas, one with narrow leaves from 5 ft. to 6 ft. long, and the other with broader leaves, said to grow from 6 ft. to 8 ft. long. There are a great many other greenhouse and hothouse plants, including Daubentonia Tripetiana, heaths, pelargoniums (of which Mr. Pontey has four new sorts, for which he asks from a guinea and a half to three guineas each), Cacti, bulbs, and Orchideï¾µ, Mr. Pontey having lately received large collections of these from South America and the Cape. In a word, we found nothing wanting that is to be expected in a complete nursery. The grounds are exceedingly well laid out, and remind us of the Edinburgh nurseries, as do those of Messrs. Lucombe and Pince, and Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter; and, like them, they are kept in excellent order. The houses are all heated by Corbet's open gutters, which Mr. Pontey, as well as Mr. Pince, and all other nurserymen and gardeners that we have seen who have tried it, agree in most strongly recommending.
