DOWNINO'S SEEDLING GOOSEBERRY. 



A DRESSED ROAD 



]\Iay be made in this country with f^rcat advantafro without tlie use of many 

 cvcr'Tccns. In a \o\\<i; approach to the house a bed shouUl be deeply duj,^ and 

 manured as for a garden. Let it be eighteen feet broad, and as long as you 

 choose ; it looks best in a turn of the road, and, when i)raclicable, tliere shoulil 

 be some point of view from which you can look down upon it. For such a bed 

 select blooming ])lants that will give a succession of flowers all the season, and 

 regard might advantageously be had to the fact that sonic plants recpiire little or 

 no" water in average seasons, the oidy care necessary l)eing to keep out weeds and 

 have the ground frequently stirred. A fine example of this kind of beauty is 

 exhibited at Mr. Joshua Francis Fisher's, near Philadelphia. We pencilled down 

 the plants which compose it ; the smaller growing kinds are to be placed nearest 

 the road : — 



List of Plants and SJirnhs for a Dressed Harder of some extent. 



Spireas, all the varieties, 



Roses, 



Rluis Cotinus, 



Altheas, for fall blooming, 



Hollyhocks, 



Fringe trees, 



Lilacs, of sorts, 



Syringas, 



Deutzias, 



I'eonias, 



Clethras. Alnifolia and Acuminata, 



Colluteas, 



Dwarf Horse Chestnut, 



Lilies, 



Hypericums, 



Calycanthus, 



Berberis, purple, kc, 



Dwarf Shining Willow, 



Weeping Fountain Willow, 



Hydrangeas, in shade, 

 Oak-leaved Hydrangeas, 

 Variegated-leaved Hydrangeas, 

 Chrysanthemums, 

 Dalilias, 



Wiegelia Rose and Amabilis, 

 Upright Honeysuckles, 

 Cockscombs, 

 Small Thorns, 

 Petunias, 

 Verbenas, 

 Cornus Sanguinea, 

 All the hardy Yuccas, 

 Ardisia Fructo Albo, 

 Erica Vulgaris ; is found to be hardy, 

 The Daturas may be introduced, 

 Buffalo Berry, 



Stuartias, Virginica, and Marylandica. 

 &c. &c. &c. 



Select plants of similar habit to the above, and in general those that attain but 

 small height. There are numerous others, and, to render the scene attractive in 

 winter, a few low growing evergreens should be interspersed, such as — 



Arbor-vitaes, of all the newer species, 



Low growing Pines, 



Small bushes, such as the Yews, &c. &c. 



DOWNING'S SEEDLING GOOSEBERRY. 



BY L. B. 



Of all the foreign or native Gooseberries which we have had opportunities to 

 taste, for some years past, from Canada to Delaware, no variety, in our opinion, 

 can compare with Mr. Charles Downing's Seedling, .obtained from the Iloughton's 

 seed some three years ago, estal)lishing once more the fact once so startling to 

 the pomological world — so much disputed and ridiculed — but, in our opinion, so 

 perfectly logical, that "the artificial products of nature improve by successive 

 generations of seedlings." 



