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From observations taken near London during forty-three years, the average day temperature of the week is 73.0^ ; and its night temperature 

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OElsAMENTAL PLANTING.— No. 7. 



BOADSIDE SCREENS, SELECT SHRUBS, KOSES, CLIMBIXG AND 

 FLOWERrSG PLJINIS, FOR [A SMALL GARDEN. 



I N the immediate vicinity of all large towns 

 there are niimerons houses of a superior 

 order — houses of taste, where attempts at 

 gardening may invariably be seen, affording 

 stronger evidence than anything else with 

 which I am acquainted of the univer.sal fond- 

 ness for the pure fresh beauty of Nature. 

 Many of the inhabitants of such houses are 

 enthusiastic and veiy successful horticultu- 

 rists, subscribing to the Journal, often, per- 

 haps, seeking for the information in its pages which they 

 do not find, or finding, are unable to apply, because it does 

 not plainly appear to adapt it.self to their particular case ; 

 and so I purpose devoting this paper to a consideration of 

 the formation of screens and hedges for roadside houses, 

 with a selection of shrubs suitable for very small gardens. 

 It is not often that roadside screens are at all orna- 

 mental ; they are, as a rale, just a confused thicket, a 

 "rough-and-ready" and most unsightly assemblage of 

 unhealthy shrubs, bare-hmbed and dust-laden, forming a 

 miserable disfigurement, and seriously affecting the general 

 appearance of the oft*n pretty garden, which, if rightly 

 managed, they ought materially to embellish. Now, there 

 are two ways of forming such screens so as to render 

 them ornamental as well as useful. The first and most 

 desirable consists of a belt of two or three rows of 

 mixed shrubs ; and the second, which is best adapted to 

 very confined spaces, is in the form of a hedge, which 

 form the unsightly mixed screens that are so common 

 usually take. In making such hedges it should be taken 

 as a fundamental rule which may not be broken with 

 impunity, that only one kind of shrub is to be used in 

 the same hedge, and that whatever shrub is chosen it 

 must be of a dense habit of growth, and either of an 

 evergreen or sub-evergreen character. Perhaps the best 

 shrub of all which might be named for such a purpose is 

 the common Holly ; its many excellent qualities have 

 been fully explained in former papers, and to its hardi- 

 ness, density of growth, and ornamental appearance, its 

 immunity from the baneful effects of smoke and dust 

 may here be added as an important qualification for such 

 a purpose. Rhododendron ponticum and its varieties are 

 also good, and may be introduced with confidence ; for I 

 do not purpose keeping the hedge clipped to a formal 

 outline, but would much rather plant it a few feet inside 

 the fence, so as to let the branches have as much freedom 

 as possible, prefei-ring to keep them in form by judicious 

 praning with the knife when requisite. Then there are 

 Yews, Portugal Laurel, double Furze, Box, Aucuba, 

 Berberis, the l)eautiful .Tapanese and Chinese Privets, 

 and to these may be added the Irish Ivy (Hedera cana- 

 riensis), and the beautiful and very robust Hedera Ra;g- 

 neriana, witli its stout, glossy, heart-shaped leaves, either 

 of which may bo so trained upon woodwork or wires as 

 to form an elegant screen. 

 No 6M.— Vol, XXV., Kew Semis. 



AU shrubs will not thrive equally weU in the same 

 neighbom'hood, and veiy often it is not altogether the 

 soil that causes failures so much as the constant assaults 

 of foul dust and smoke, which clog the pores of foliage 

 and branch, and the poor shrubs, uncared for till they 

 are dying or dead, and unwashed save by any chance 

 shower, soon become unhealthy, and if sufficiently sturdy 

 to retain life, the puny growth and dull-hued foliage are 

 anything but ornamental. Health may be maintained, 

 fi'eshness, and therefore beauty, may be imparted to shrubs 

 that are thus exposed to adverse influences, by a free 

 and regular daily washing of clean water by means of a 

 syringe. Ample demonstration of the great value of this 

 plan may be found at Battersea Park, where the portable 

 hose appears constantly at work, the vigorous health of 

 the shrubs showing plainly how beneficial its miniature 

 showers are. 



Mixed belts may be formed of the shnibs selected for 

 hedges, and if more are required for variety, there might 

 be some Laurustinus, Mahonia, Arbutus, Bay. and Phil- 

 lyrea. Conifers do not thrive well under the influence of 

 smoke ; it may, however, be useful to note here that 

 Thuja Warreana and Thujopsis boreahs form excellent 

 and most compact screens or hedges. 



The gardens to which these notes are applicable are 

 usually so small that the shrubs introduced into the 

 interior .should be few and select. In the following lists 

 the shnibs named are of moderate growth, and the whole 

 of the varieties are choice and distinct. 



Twelve mixed shrubs : — 



1. Berberis Darwinii. 



2. Arthrotaxus Belaginoides. 



3. Dentzia crenata flore-pleno. 



4. Eibes sangninemn. 



5. SantolinaCham£ecyparisaus. 

 (J. Skimmia japonica. 



Twelve select Eoses : — 



1. Baroness Rothschild. 



2. .John Hopper. 

 Lonisa Wood. 

 Madame Victor Verdier. 



5. La France. 

 G. Dr. Andry. 



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7. Spiraea arifpfolia. 



8. Syringa persica. 



9. Syringa alba. 



10. Tamarix germanica. 



11. Berberis japonica. 



12. Retinospora ericoides. 



7. Paul Verdier. 



8. Alfred Colomb. 



9. Duchesse de Caylus. 



10. Baron Haussman. 



11. Mdlle. Bonnaire, 



12. Duke of Edinburgh. 



Six select climbing plants : — 



4. Ampelopsis Veitohii. 

 ,'). Lonicera iiexuosa. 

 6. Clematis Jackmauni. 



1. Escallonia Ingramii. 



2. Escallonia pterocladon. 



3. Ceanothus azureus. 



Twelve other desirable hardy shrubs and flowering 

 plants : — 



1. Tucca recurva. 



2. Yucca gloriosa. 



3. Gj-nerium argenteum, 



4. Erica o.arnea. 



5. Hydrangea Otaksa. 

 C. Hydrangea bortensis. 



— Edward Luckhurst. 



Pasonia lactea. 



Colonel Malcolm. 



Hippolyte. 



Comto do Flandres. 

 Pemettya angustitolia. 

 Deutzia gracilis. 



PHLOX CULTUBE. 

 The varieties of Phlox pyramidalis and P. deeussat& 

 are the most useful of herbaceous plants for a small 



No. i;93.-V0L, L., Old .Seiiies. 



