THE WELLINGTON NURSERY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4438, 10 June 1875, Page 2

THE WELLINGTON NURSERY.

This nursery is situated in Abel Smithstreet, near the residence of the Ven. Archdeacon Stock It contains about 1J acres of land, which are planted with a varied and choice collection of shrubs, fruit trees, forest trees, and plants. The garden is planned in the usual nursery style, the long grass walk, which extends the entire length of the grounds, having a very pretty effect. The flower-beds in front of the house are tastefully laid out, and filled alternately with Silene pendula, Lady Plymouth geranium, bicolor geranium, and Echiverias, the Silene greatly adding to the beauty of the garden, with its pretty pink winter-blooming flower. A chief feature in the arrangement of the different shades of flowers, is the ribbon border, so much in vogue in English nurseries. It consists of Lobelia pumila, Pyrethrum (Golden Feather), Tresine herbstii, Cineraria acantifolia, scarlet geraniums, and verbenas, all of which look charming notwithstanding the winter weather. On either side of the long grass walk are planted a large number of specimen plants, all of which are labelled with zinc labels, on which the name, order, and habitat of the plant are printed. Among these specimens is a variety of the (Jyprosina, native Banerana, the beautiful glossy foliage of which makes it particularly striking. This plant, we are informed, was found by the Ven. Archdeacon Stock. The " Monkey Puzzler and the Abies nordmaniana are • also conspicuous plauts. Mr. Budden, the proprietor' of the nursery, has found that the English ■ broom is not suitable for hedging purposes, as a species of blight attacks and speedily kills it. The best plant for this purpose has been found to be the Enonymus japonica, which is a very strong and fast growing shrub. It is exceedingly useful to protect young plants from the high wind prevalent in this part of the island. The numbers of poplars, oriental planes, laurestinaa, enonymi, sycamores, oaks, elms, cypruses, cedars, and spruces are very large. The next feature to attract the attention is a small glass-house, which is known by the name of the " stove." In it the plants are of a choice description. To name the following plants will sufficiently support such an opinion :—Marcanta regalis, the shield plant, with its bronze colored _ leaves; the Cyprepediuin insigne (ladies' slipper), a most beautiful wiuter-blooming plant; Bajonica, with its immense frosted leaves; Dieffenbachia picta, and Pandanus vietchi, a specimen of the screw-pine; Euphorbia jacquiniflora, which has a small scarlet flower on long racemes of bloom. The appearance of the variegated foliage is very striking, the effect of which it is impossible to convey without inspection. For the other branches of the establishment we must refer our readers to the nursery itself.