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JOURNAIi OP HOETICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



r September 1, 18C3. 



for chimneypieces, &c. I have some now under glass that 

 look as fresh as when cut two years ago. 



Ehodanthe maculata is best hung up by the stem, flower 

 dovmwards. 



I have seen in a window one of the Campanulas. It seems 

 like a trailing plant, and covered with light blue stars, and 

 is very pretty for a window. Can you inform me which of 

 the CamiJO.nulas it is ? 



A few of my Gladiolus have faOed as you described, but 



think it proceeds from the di-y hot weather, as the bidbs do 

 not aj)pear diseased. I may remark that it is only those 

 that have been in the ground all the winter that are thus 

 affected ; those I potted and afterwards put out are not so. 

 Can any of your coiTespondents give a few recipes for cheaply 

 dyeing gi-asses — say green and ciimson Y 



Is there any other Everlasting-Flower you could name 

 requii-ing the same culture, &c., as Xeranthemum, Acrocli- 

 nium, and Khodanthe ■' — T. H. C, WalsaM. 



FLOWEE-GAJIDEIS' PLAN. 



I AM recommended to make a garden (as by plan), de- I coloured gravel 

 scribed as " an embroidered garden with Box-edgings and | tended for ; but haviui 



I think it would suit the place it is in- 

 had no experience of such gardens. 



I should be glad if you would inform me whether they ai-e 

 kept in order without any very great amount_of skill and 

 labour. — New Forest. . — - — 



[We think your embroidered garden wiU look very weU, 

 and more especially so if you can look down upon it— that 

 is, if the beds are from 15 to 30 inches below the ground 

 surrounding it. 



But for such a garden there are t«o many shaa-p points. 



and though they look rather weU with Box or stone edgings, 

 they woiiid be annoying on gi-ass. 



We should deceive you were we to say such a garden 

 would be easily kept. The Box must be regulai-ly and often 

 clipped, and tlie cliiipings must chiefly bejnckedup by hand. 

 We presume the centre is to be grass : if of a briglit colour 

 it would kill the other beds.] 



