324 THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



sideration of the planter desirous of enriching the front lines of the 

 shrubbery, and the knolls and slopes of the home park, are such as 

 0. crus-galU, and its several varieties bearing large berries, and 

 presenting splendid leaf colours in autumn ; C. Layii, one of the 

 largest leaved and most distinct of thorns ; C aronia, bearing abun- 

 dance of yellow fruit. A dozen more might be added, but we have 

 nanaed enousb for the foundation of a collection. S. H. 



NOTES ON SOME OLD ELOWEES. 



ET T. TVILLIAMS, BATH LODGE, BURSCOUGH, OEMSKIRK. 



fANT thanks to Mr. " Crusoe " for his excellent paper on 

 " Spring Elowers," in the September number of Eloeal 

 World. "We hope that, like his great namesake, he 

 may not be cast away on any desolate island, but live 

 where there are plenty of flowers, that we may hear, 

 now and then, a little about them. 



In this paper I intend making a few remarks on some of the 

 things in Mr. " Crusoe's " list, and noticing a few others not men- 

 tioned therein. 



G-ENTiAFA ACAULis, or GEXTiATfELLA, " a grand thing where it 

 succeeds," so says Mr. Crusoe, so will everybody else say : what a 

 pity it will not succeed everywhere. In the first place, all the 

 Gentians must ha\e jyure air, and to flower this charming plant to 

 perfection, it should be grown amongst stones and not in soil. 

 Everybody must have noticed that when this plant does well, it is 

 generally as an edging to gravel tcalks or in such places. If you 

 want a bed of it mark it out, and pave the surface over with boulder 

 stones, five or six inches in size or larger; brick ends will do for a 

 substitute. Pave it over the same as you see a causeway or the 

 streets paved. When finished rub in a little light soil between the 

 stones, so that thejloor -will appear tolerably level, and then with a 

 sharp stick, dibble in bits of gentian, six inches apart all over, and 

 then leave it alone. In a year or two this bed will surprise you. 

 If chimps of this pretty plant are desired in the flower borders, 

 proceed as above : place a pavement of stones in a circle on the sur- 

 face, about twelve inches wide, soil over and plant as above directed. 

 These elevated little knolls of gentian are charming in the flower 

 borders. This is the way all the choicer kinds of Sedums and Saxi- 

 frages, and such things, should be grown, when mingled with other 

 plants. If an edging of gentian is required, place a double row of 

 boulders by line neatly, give the whole a beating v^ith something to 

 render them even and firm, and plant in the interstices between the 

 two rows of stones. Just try, and report upon it by and by. 



Aeenaeia baleaeica. — This plant appears not to stand in very 

 high estimation with our friend, who thinks it not first rate. It is 

 certainly not half such a beautiful plant as A. ccEspitosa, being rather 



