- Bambusa aurea
A very hardy and graceful Chinese species, differing but slightly from B. viridi-glaucescens in size and habit, and forming elegant tufts with its slender much-branched stems, which attain a height of from 6½ ft. to 10 ft., and are of a light-green colour when young, changing into a yellowish hue, and finally becoming of a straw-yellow when fully grown. The leaves are lance-shaped acute, light green, and are distinguished from those of B. viridi-glaucescens by having their under surface less glaucescent, and the sheath always devoid of the long silky hairs. The preliminary remarks on culture, etc., will apply to all the species here described. - Bambusa falcata (Arundinaria falcata)
A very ornamental species from Nepaul and the Himalayas, and at present the only kind of bamboo much planted with us. It grows from 7 ft. to 20 ft. high, and has woody, twisted, smooth stems of a yellowish-green or straw-colour, knotty, bearing on one side of each of the knots a bundle of small branches equally knotty and twisted. The whole plant has a pale yellowish hue, except in the young spikelets and sheaths, which are occasionally purplish. The leaves are of a fine delicate green, from 4 ins. to 6 ins. long, ribbon-like, linear-acute, sickle-shaped, in two rows, short-stalked, and sheathing. It is hardy over the greater part of England and Ireland, but only attains full development in the south and west. I have seen it attain great luxuriance in Devon, and nearly 20 ft. high near Cork, though in many districts it is stunted. It loves a deep, sandy, and rich soil, and plenty of moisture when growing fast. - Berberis nepalensis
The noble habit of this plant makes it peculiarly valuable, possessing, as it does, the grace of a luxuriant fern with the rigidity of texture and port of a Cycas. The leaves are occasionally 2 ft. in length and of a pale green colour, sometimes with eight pairs of leaflets and an odd one: some of the leaflets 6 ins. long and nearly 2 ins. broad, with coarse spiny teeth on the margin. The inflorescence is very striking and beautiful. The Nepaul Barberry is one of those subjects that are too hardy to perish in our climate, yet which do not usually attain perfect development in it. It exists about London in the open air, and flowers in early spring; but the leaves seldom attain one-fourth of their full development, and the plant scarcely ever displays its vigorous grace. In mild parts, principally in the south and south-west, it grows more freely, and when judiciously placed in sheltered positions, in deep and rather sandy soil, it becomes a beautiful object. Where it thrives in the open air, it may be most tastefully used in the more open spots near the hardy fernery, here and there among “American plants,” or other choice s - Aralia japonica
A valuable species, quite distinct from any of the others, with undivided, fleshy, dark-green leaves. It is usually treated as a green-house plant, but is hardy and makes a very ornamental and distinct-looking shrub on soils with a dry porous bottom. It grows remarkably well in the dwelling-house; in fact it is one of the very few plants of like character that will develop their leaves therein in winter. Not difficult to obtain, it may be used with advantage in the flower-garden or pleasure-ground among medium-sized plants—say those not more than a yard high. It would form striking isolated specimens on the turf, and is also very suitable for grouping. A native of Japan. - Aralia papyrifera
(Chinese Rice-paper Plant).—This, though a native of the hot island of Formosa, flourishes vigorously with us in the summer months, and is one of the most valuable plants in its way, being useful for the greenhouse in winter and the flower-garden in summer. It is handsome in leaf and free in growth, though to do well it must, like all the large-leaved things,be protected from cutting breezes. - Asplenium Nidus-avis
This is a remarkable fern, which has been placed out of doors in the garden in summer, from early in June to October; but it is not vigorous or hardy enough to be generally recommended for this purpose. However, as it may have been noticed in abundance at Battersea Park, I allude to it here. The leaves are rather broad, pointed, and undulating, nearly 3 ft. long, and form roundish, spreading, nest-like tufts. It is a favourite subject in places where large collections of tropical ferns are grown, and in such places a plant may be tried in the open air in a very warm, shady, and perfectly sheltered position. E. Indies. - Ailantus and Cannas
Suggesting the effects to be obtained from young and vigorous specimens of hardy fine-leaved trees. - Anemone japonica alba
Type of fine-flowered herbaceous plant for associating with foliage-plants. - Aralia canescens
Deciduous fine-leaved Shrub; hardy everywhere. - Acanthus latifolius (lusitanicus).
Ornamental foliaged herbaceous Section; retaining its leaves till very late in the year. The leaves of this are bold and noble in outline, and the plant has a tendency, rare in some hardy things with otherwise fine qualities, to retain them till the end of the season without losing a particle of their freshness and polished verdure. In fact, the only thing we have to decide about this subject is, what is the best place for it? Now, it is one of those things that will not disgrace any position, and will prove equally at home in the centre of the mixed border, projected in the grass a little from the edge of a choice shrubbery, or in the flower-garden; nobody need fear its displaying anything like the seediness which such things as the Heracleums show at the end of summer. - Shady and sheltered Dell
Shady and sheltered Dell, with Tree Ferns and other Stove Plants placed out for the summer. - Young Conifers and hardy fine-leaved Plants
- The Twins
Boy and Girl looking out at the night - The three daughters of M Dupont
Doing the laundry - Young Girl
Young girl with outstretched arms - The Baby Show
Looking after the baby - The Magic Hill
Children gathering flowers - The Princess and the Apple Tree
Children reading a book - Poor Anne
- Sand Babies
Children playing on the beach - Sparrow Tree Square
Children playing - Barbara's Birthday
- Castles by the Sea
- Miss Waterlow in bed
Mother Tucking young girl into bed - A Voyage to India
Young girl looking out the window at the rain - Tourelle de la Rue de L’Ecole.-de-Médecine b
- Tourelle de la Rue de L’Ecole.-de-Médecine
- Tourelle de la Rue de la Tixéranderie
- Rue Pirouette aux Halles (D.49), third state
- Rue des Toiles à Bourges
- Saint-Etienne-du-Mont
- Porte d’un ancien Couvent à Bourges
- Rue des Chantres -b
- Rue des Chantres
- Nouvelle-Calédonie
- Océanie, Pêche aux Palmes
- Partie de la Cité vers la Fin du XVIIᵉ Siècle
- Le Pont-Neuf et la Samaritaine
- Le Pont-Neuf
- Le Stryge
- Le Petit Pont
- Le Pont-au-Change vers 1784, d’après Nicolle
- Le Pont-au-Change
- La Tour de L’Horloge
- Le Ministère de la Marine -fifth state
- Le Ministère de la Marine
- La Pompe Notre-Dame
- La Rue des Mauvais Garçons
- La Salle des Pas-perdus à l’ancien Palais-de-Justice
- La Galerie Notre-Dame
- La Morgue
- L’Arche du Pont Notre-Dame
- L. J.-Marie Bizeul
- L’Abside de Notre-Dame de Paris
- L’Ancien Louvre, d’après une peinture de Zeeman
- Charles Meryon. By Félix Bracquemond
- Collège Henri IV
- Entrée du Couvent des Capucins à Athènes
- Armes Symboliques de la Ville de Paris
- Bain-froid Chevrier