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JOUENAL OF HOKTICTJLTiniE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



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N. Kalmiana (Kalm's), fi-om Canada ; flowers yellow, in July 

 and August. N. say;ittsefolia (Arrow-leaved), has yellow 

 flowers, from June to September. AH are floating perennials, 

 closely allied to the Nymphceas. 



Vii-LARSiA. — V. nymphaeoides (Water-Lily-like), a highly 

 ornamental floating aquatic, with heart-shaped leaves, has 

 umbels of yellow flowers, produced in profusion in June and 

 July ; England ; found in rivers. V. cordata, a North Ameri- 

 can species, with cordate floating leaves, having yellow flowers 

 in June and July. V. ovata, from the Cape of Good Hope, 

 with ovate floating leaves, has orange flowers from May to 

 July. V. lacunosa, from North America ; has white flowers in 

 June and July. The last two ai-e halt^hai-dy perennials, re- 

 quiring the protection of a gi'eenhouse in winter. V. reni- 

 formis (Kidney-leaved), V. sarmentosa, and V. parnassifoUa 

 (Parnassia-leaved), are evergi-een, half-hardy perennials, 

 from the bogs of New HoUaud, with yellow flowers, which 

 are produced in profusion in July and August. They grow 

 1 foot high, except V. pai-nassifolia, which attains 2 feet, 

 and flowers fr-om June to October. The last three requii-e 

 to be taken up on the approach of frost, and to be planted 

 or plunged in pots on the mai-gin of the water out-doors in 

 June. 



EicHARDiA. — E. sethiopioa is a charming evergi-een peren- 

 nial, growing 3 feet high, with white flowers ; from the Cape 

 of Good Hope. Much gi-own by cottagers in their mndows, 

 and mostly grown in a gi-eenhouse, but quite hardy if planted 

 under water beyond the reach of frost. E. albo-maculata, 

 highly ornamental foliage, suitable for water-basins from 

 May to October. Eequii'es gi-eenhouse protection in winter. 



Calla. — C. palustris (Marsh), fr-om North America, has 

 cordate leaves, and inconspicuous though white flowers in 

 July and August. A perennial growing half a foot high. 



Alisma (Water Plantain). — -All ai-e upright-growing 

 perennials, producing flowers in open whorls, branching- 

 more or less. A. plantago (Plantain), has white flowers 

 marked with pui-ple, growing 1 to 2 feet high ; Britain ; in 

 pools. A. parviflora (Small-flowered), growing a foot high, 

 has white iiowers in JiUy and August. A. trivialis (Trivial), 

 grows li foot high, having white flowers in June and July. 

 This with A. parviflora ai-e from North America. A. natans 

 is a floating Welsh plant, with wliite flowers in July and 

 August ; it grows 6 inches high. A. repens is also a Welsh 

 plant, growing ft-om 6 inches to a foot high, having white 

 flowers tinged with rosy pui-ple in July and August. A. lan- 

 oeolata, found in British pools, grows li foot high, with 

 spear or lance-shaped leaves ; it has white flowers shaded 

 with purple in July and August. A. ranunculoides, another 

 native species, grows about 6 inches high, having purple 

 flowers in August ; it inhabits turfy bogs, and is a pretty 

 plant. A. parnassifolia is a pretty, half-hardy aqxiatic from 

 Italy, having white flowers opening in July ; it grows 

 6 inches high. — G. Aebey. 



(To be continued.) 



SOME GAEDENS WORTH SEEING NEAE 



WAEEINGTON, LANCASHIEE. 

 I GIVE you the names of a few gardens in this neigh- 

 bourhood, also the names of the gardeners : — 



Name. Proprietor. Gardener. Station. 



"Winwick Hall ... Rev. F. G. Hopwood ]\Ir. (Jampbell.... Newton Bridge 



Appletnn Hall ... T. Lynn. E>q Mr. Jenkins Warrington 



Bank Hall Col. Wilson Paiten, M.P. Mr. Green Bank Quay 



Thelwall Hall.... J. --ioholoon. Esq Mr. Browael! .... Thelwall 



Bold Hall Unknown Unknown Warrington 



Oriord Hull J. Lytton, Esq Mr. lleddish Warrini.'ton 



Bewfay Hall Lord Lilfovd Mr. Bishop Warrington 



New Hall Sir Robert Gerard Unknown Newton iiridce 



Haydock Grange. J. Evans. Esq. Mr. Bailey Newton Bridge 



Kenyon Hall li. Dewhurst, Esq Unknown 



Culcheth Hall ... T. E. Wiihington, Esq.... Unknown 



Grapenhall Heys T. Parr, Esi Unknown 



Newton Priory... G. McCorquodale, Esq.... Unknown Newton Bridge 



I will coUeet the names of some other estabUshments and 

 give you them shortly. — E. Smith. 



CALCEOLAEIi CUTTINGS. 



A MONTH since I took a lot of cuttings three joints long, 

 put them round seven-inch pots in some loam from rotted 

 turves, with a good lot of sand added. The cuttings are all 

 aUve at present, but none rooted, although they look well. 

 Where am I wrong ? The pots are in a Cucumber-frame. — 

 A. A. 



[We do not think you are wrong at all, except in placing 

 the pots in a Cucumber-fraine, if there is any or much heat in 

 it. A cold frame would have been better. Do not attempt 

 to lim-ry them. Let them ha,ve their six weeks or ten weeks 

 to root if they like, the longer the better, provided the cut- 

 tings keep fi-esh. Keep yom- eye on " Doings of the Week." 

 Mr. Pish is quite satisfied if his cuttings stroke by Christ- 

 mas. Just keep them gi-een and all is right.] 



CocKCHArEKS. — More than 12,000,000 cockchafers have 

 been destroyed this year in the canton of Bale, in Switzer- 

 land. The amount paid by the authorities as premiums for 

 their destruction has exceeded lOOOf. — (Tlie Building News.) 



KENSINGTON PALACE GAEDENS AND 

 HYDE PAEK. 



Kensington Palace is an irregular brick edifice of no 

 architectural pretensions, btrdly placed in relation to the 

 surrounding gardens, being lower than the gi-eater part of 

 their surface. The fr-ont of the Palace is to the east, with 

 wings stretching westwai-d, and then north and south. On 

 the south is the lawn with flower-beds. Being bounded on 

 the north and west by the Palace, the beds furnish thi-ee 

 sides of the square ; but a broad walk rans along the eastern 

 side of the square to the windows of the Palace, which is an 

 anomaly in architecture, without a hall or fr-ont door. The 

 broad walk on the east side is fiirnished with flower-beds at 

 each side ; altogether it is a most incongruous piece of flower 

 garden. It will require a clever artist to reconcile that pai-t 

 of the garden with the architecture of the Palace and its 

 two side ranges of buildings. 



Tlie gardens are three miles and a half in circumference, 

 and contain a circular basin, near the Palace, with three 

 straight avenues diverging to three different points east- 

 ward. Two main gi-avel walks, each half a mile long and 

 21 yaids wide, intersect these beautiful pleasure grounds from 

 north-west to south-east with a broad, cu-cumferential walk, 

 and other gravel walks of communication to different parts 

 of these thickly-wooded and extensive landscape scenes. 

 One of the broad walks is very improperly terminated in 

 fr-ont of the boundary i-afling on the Kensington road. The 

 trees in some parts of the grounds have been planted in 

 masses of a sort, in other parts they are gathered into 

 thick groves of mixed kinds, and intersected by long 

 straight avenues from different points. During the reign 

 of George II. Queen Caroline formed what is called the 

 Serpentine river by uniting several ponds. This was the 

 first bold attempt to deviate from the straight line, and 

 to give that beautiful variety of outUne now so generally 

 admired in the winding's of a river. We were rather dis- 

 posed to find fault with the meagre manner in which the 

 long walk on the south-east side of the garden is planted. 

 It affords length and breadth for a splendid ribbon-border 

 on each side ; but when we reached Sta'nhope Gate and 

 saw the long vistas of flowering-beds and borders parallel 

 with Park Lane, we became more reconciled to the state of 

 things in Kensington Gardens. 



Proceeding from Stanhope Gate to the Marble Arch, the 

 first bed, an oblong, is Cerise Unique Geranium, edged ivith 

 Lobelia speciosa andvai-iegated Mint altei-nately ; the oppo- 

 site bed. Imperial Crimson Nosegay Gei-anium, then Purple 

 King Verbena, edged with Cerastirmi tomentosum. Second 

 bed, three rows of Chi-istine Geranium, then white Ivy -leaved 

 Geranium, edged with Cerastiura ; the opposite bed Boule 

 de Feu Geranium, then Pm-ple King- Verbena, edged with 

 Cerastium. Third bed, Trentham Eose Geranium, then 

 Mangles' Var-iegated Geranium, witli an edging of Ceras- 

 tium ; the opposite bed. Punch Geranium, then Purple 

 King Verbena, edged with Cerastium. Foui-th bed, Anthony 

 Lamotte Geranium, then Bijou, edged with Cerastium ; 

 the opposite, Stella Nosegay Geranium, then Purple King- 

 Verbena, edged with Cerastium. Fifth bed. Imperial Crim- 

 son Nosegay Geranium, then Madame Vauoher Geranium, 

 edged with Cerastium ; the opposite. Prince of Orange Cal- 

 ceolaria, then Purple King Verbena, edged with Cerastium. 

 Sixth bed, Anthony Lamotte Geranium, edged with Bijou 



