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JOURNAL OF HORTICDLTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEB. 



[ Septemier 25, 1873. 



is the S. Drummondii, with very small leaves and flowers, 

 much inferior in interest to those of the other species. 



The SoUyas are usually treated as greenhouse plants, where 

 they thrive with but little attention, and upon the window 

 they will flourish quite as well as in the greenhouse. They 

 aie, however, so nearly hardy, that wherever a south wall can 

 be afi^orded them they will grow to much greater height than 

 in pots, and produce a profusion of flowers. lu the south of 

 England, and also in Li-eland, the S. heterophylla has been 

 known to live for several years with very little protection. 

 They would not, however, resist severe frost unless well matted 

 up ; and even in mild winters we would advise the same pre- 

 caution. When the plants are left out-doors, it will be prudent 

 to strike a cutting in early autumn, and preserve from frost. 

 As they are of rapid growth, the loss of a specimen can be 

 easily replaced. The soil best suited to them is a mixture of 

 peat and loam ; some cultivators dispense with the peat. 



Sollya lincarif. 



When grown as window plants they require a rather large 

 pot, and plenty of water during the summer. The plants 

 generally throw up shoots from their base, the first three or 

 four joints of which, if taken off when a little ripened, wiU 

 readily root under a small bell-glass or tumbler, and produce 

 flowers the following season. Seeds are produced freely by all 

 the species, and they may therefore be readily increased by 

 this means. 



The long seed-pods, a group of which is represented in our 

 plate, are remarkable for hanging upon the plant at least a 

 year before they are ripe, so that the fruit of the previous year 

 is generally seen in company with the flowers of the current 

 season. The seeds are surrounded by a resinous pulp, as in 

 most other plants of the order Pittosporaceie, of which the 

 Pittosporums are the type, and from which circumstance the 

 name of that genus is derived — from^J'^'o, resin, and sj)orii7n, 

 a seed. — (W. Thompson's English Flower Garden, lievised by 

 the Author.) 



\ ORIGIN OF KUBUS ID^US, THE GARDEN 

 RASPBERRY. 



Our cultivated Raspberry is an importation from Europe. 

 Our native Red Raspberry (R. strigosus), however, is so near 

 it that the specific distinctness has been in doubt ; and speci- 

 mens from British America and the Rocky Mountains certainly 

 occur which a botanist must needs refer to R. IJaus itself. lu 

 Lis studies of the European Rubi, Professor Areschoug (in 

 " Botaniska Notiser," 1872, and in a translation by himself in 



Trimen's " Journal of Botany," April, 1873), makes prominent 

 and important the fact that R. Idaius has no near relative ; or, 

 in other words, is the sole Raspberry in Europe ; but in mode 

 of growth, in the bark, &c., as well as in the fruit, accords with 

 American species ; with one of them so closely that all who 

 have come to the conclusion that species have a history must 

 needs infer a community of origin. Ai-eschoug concludes 

 accordingly, that " this species did not originally have its home 

 in Europe, but its origin is to be found in the east of Asia — 

 viz., Japan and the adjacent countries, or perhaps in North 

 America." It is one of the members of that old boreal flora, 

 as we suppose, now mainly East Asiatic and North American, 

 which has found its way to, or held its place in, the north of 

 Europe, somewhat exceptionally. Both R. strigosus and 

 R. IdiEus inhabit Japan and Mandchuria, and Maximowicz 

 regards them as forms of a common species. Professor Ares- 

 choug adopts the now famihar idea " that the Asiatic and 

 North American floras have reciprocally mixed with each 

 other by passing Behring's Straits and the islands which in 

 its neighbourhood form a bridge between the two continents," 

 which is a partial explanation of a problem that has to be 

 treated far more generally, now that we have reason to believe 

 that this flora formerly filled the Arctic Zone. — (De. A. Gray, 

 in the American Journal of Science and Arts.) 



PLAS NEWYDD. 



Residence of the Dowagee Lady Willouohby ee Bboee, 

 Anglesea. 



No. 2. 



The house stands on a terraced eminence. The view from 

 the terrace is beautiful, grand, and extensive ; looking over 

 a lawn sloping before it down to the woods which crown the 

 bold cliffs of limestone, and across the Menai Strait to the 

 wooded shore beyond, flanked by the mountain range of which 

 Snowdon forms a portion. A vista has been cut through the 

 woods to the left, so that the pillar crowned with the statue 

 of the Waterloo Marquis of Anglesey may be seen in the far 

 distance. It is about midway between the mansion and the 

 Menai Bridge. It is a column 100 feet high, with a railed 

 gallery around its summit, commanding one of the finest oj 

 panoramic views, for the rock on which it is erected is 260 feet 

 above the sea level. The name of that rocky eminence, Cras 

 y Dinas (the Hill Fortress), is appropriate to the military hero 

 whose memorial it bears. The colossal bronze statue is the 

 work of Mr. Noble. The lawn sloping from the terrace before 

 the mansion-front is tastefully decorated with flower beds, the 

 arrangement, planting, and culture of which testify to the 

 skill of Mr. Wright. Our engraving furnishes a perspective 

 view of the beds. It is from a photograph by Mr. Ambrose, 

 of Beaumaris. 



Mr. Wright most obligingly furnished us with a ground plan 

 of the flower beds, but they are too numerous and too intricate 

 for us to have engraved. Nor would an engraving give even a 

 slight idea of the intense richness and beauty of the arrange- 

 ment ; it must be seen to be appreciated. 



The stove represented in our engraving is small — 26 feet by 

 18 feet, but in it Mr. Wright has contrived to cultivate the 

 largest variety of plants we ever noticed in so confined a space. 

 The plants are literally crowded, yet not one is unhealthy. 

 There are two tanks 4 feet 4 inches, planted with Water Lilies, 

 A'C ; bed between. Palm in the middle, filled up with Lyeo- 

 podiums, variegated Begonias, Sanchezia nobUis, Dracaonas, 

 Ferns, &c. Chmbers in Stove : — Allamanda Schottii, Pergu- 

 laria odoratissima, Ipomaja Learii, Stephanotis floribunda, 

 Passiflora princeps, BougainviUiPa glabra, Stigmaphyllon aris- 

 tatum,Lagerstra;miaindica. OnPillars : — Begonia fuchsioides, 

 Coleus Her Majesty, &c. And in the greenhouse, also of 

 diminutive size, are Jasminums, Marfchal Niel Rose, Tacsonia 

 Van-Volxemi, Heliotrope, Kennedya Comptouiana, and Ca- 

 meUias. On the back wall — Pelargoniums, Fuchsias, Coleus, 

 Ferns, Begonias, Celosias, Balsams, etc. 



One of the peculiarities of the flower garden we must not 

 omit ; it is a remnant of the old styles of bedding, and deserves 

 not to be obliterated, having the beds enclosed by flat very 

 broad edgings of Box instead of grass. 



About three-quarters of a mUe from the mansion is the head 

 gardener's house, and it not only is such a residence as is 

 fitting for the man who is the best educated man attached to 

 an aristocratic establishment, but deserves a special notice for 

 its own merits. It is a fine old house, vdth walls so thick that 



