1876.] 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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fordshire, England. I am happy to say he was 

 flourishing in his new home. As an evidence of 

 the interest taken in horticulture, the Welling- 

 ton Horticultural and Botanical Society had 

 been established at Port Nelson before it had 

 been settled two years. Very pleasant, short 

 and sweet, I may say, were the few days I spent 

 with the good folks. They assured me bounte- 

 ous heaven had blessed their endeavors, as I bid 

 them farewell on deck of the good ship " Speed- 

 well." In a few hours after leaving Cook's Strait 

 the cloudy curtains of night gradually fell over 

 land and sea, and veiled forever the writer's view 

 of New Zealand in " its primal dress of sheeny, 

 cooling green." 



VISIT TO CARROLLTON. 



BY J. C, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



As the season of beautiful flowers — in the 

 flower-gai'den at least — is drawing to a close, it is 

 perhaps a good time to communicate anything 

 new or interesting to the Gardener's Monthly, so 

 that each may have the experience of many. 

 In a visit recently paid to Carrollton — of Charles 

 Carroll fame — the country-seat of Jno. Lee Car- 

 roll, present Governor of Maryland, the 

 writer was very favorably impressed with the 

 style of ornamentation in use at this place. A 

 liberal use is made of flowering-shrubs, paeonia, 

 <fec., which commencing to flower in Spring carry 

 the bloom till the bedding plants proper are in 

 full vigor. I would here remark, however, 

 that a freer use of choice evergreen shrubs would 

 greatly add to the beauty of the place — a matter, 

 doubtless, which the present gardener, Mr. Flit- 

 ton, a man of great experience and superior 

 knowledge in the profession, will attend to. But 

 to the heading proper. The first pair of oval 

 beds, looking from the porch, are Abutilon 

 Thompsonii, kept in the centre at about 

 eighteen inches, graduating to edge, edged 

 with Achyranthus Gilsonii. Continuing on be- 

 yond some intervening beds, we come to two 

 long, irregular beds, edged in front with Alter- 

 nanthera paronychoides, clumped with Coleus 

 of the finest varieties — grand in luxuriance and 

 coloring — backed with fine plants of Plumbago 

 capensisi with its profusion of light blue flowers, 

 showing splendidly above the Coleus. Again, 

 beyond these, at the extreme limits of the 

 flower-garden, are two circular beds fihed with 

 Plumbago and Achyranthus, and edged with a 



double row of oak-leaved and scarlet Geraniums ; 

 looked at from the i^orch, they have the appear- 

 ance of the most perfect bouquets ; the graceful 

 outline and perfect blending of colors is some- 

 thing remarkable. This may not be a new idea 

 to some, but it is novel to the writer; and I 

 think the effect of Plumbago capensis, with its 

 profusion of light blue delicate bloom amongst 

 and above so much rich coloring must be seen 

 to be appreciated. One other little matter of at- 

 traction consisted of two beds of scarlet Salvia, 

 the plants about not over 18 inches in height, 

 liberally covered with loi^ spikes of intense 

 scarlet flowers, so distinct in habit, and so supe- 

 rior to other beds of Salvia splendens, in the 

 same garden, that I am induced to ask, is it an 

 improvement? Perhaps Mr. F. will inform the 

 readers of the Monthly, he not being at home on 

 my visit. 



FOREST HILL CEMETERY, UTICA, N. Y. 



BY W. H. ARNOTT. 



In paying a flying visit to this famed city of 

 Central New York, I have been induced to see 

 its beautiful cemetery, especially its conserva- 

 tory, which is at present so interesting to all for 

 its novel use. Upon reaching the cemetery I 

 found, to my surprise, one of your own corres- 

 pondents, and late gardener to that famed es- 

 tablishment of Mrs. Packer, Brooklyn, Rod. 

 Campbell, who has the entire charge of all here. 

 Not to dwell upon personalities, I will try and 

 describe to the readers of the Monthly, through 

 your kindness, something about this conserva- 

 tory chapel. This building is built in the shape 

 of a triple arch, the centre one reserved for fun- 

 erals and the two smaller ones for plants planted 

 out in prepared borders, and in these beds are 

 planted some ten huge Camellias, about the best 

 of Avhites I have seen in tliis country as to size 

 and shape. One of these trees was at one time 

 the property of Thorburn, of N. Y., and 

 lately the property of James Parks, the cele- 

 brated Brooklyn florist. All these trees have 

 been removed from Brooklyn to Utica, no 

 mean undertaking for so large plants, or rather 

 trees, and were planted in this conservatory 

 chay)el, and are looking remarkably well consid- 

 ering it takes so long a time for such large trees 

 to recover and take hold of their new abode, 

 which is well-known to practical men ; and in a 

 few years these Camellias will be objects worth 

 looking at, if they only receive proper care. 



