jQly 18, 1607. 1 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



haljit. Glory of Waltham, flowers splendid scarlet, habit good, 

 neat foliage ; a ma^ificcnt bedding plant. Lilaciniira, flowers 

 a pretty shade of brit^bt lilnc, splendid truss, nnd tloe habit. 

 Memnon is a grand Stella with a magenta-coloured flower, the 

 habit is good, and the fityle of growth very neat. Turple 

 Queen is also a fine bedding Nosegay. Jason and Waltham 

 Gem are two good trold-leaved varieties. The greatest novelty 

 I saw amongst Pelargoniums was a double Tom Thumb. This 

 variety has most probably' been obtained by a sport from Tom 

 Thumb. It has the exact habit of the General, and flowers 

 quite as freely, but the flowers are double. This will be a most 

 useful variety for hybridising purposes. If wo can only get 

 our Gloire do Nancy with the hiibit of Mi*. Paul's double Tom 

 Thumb, they will bo most useful. That is at present the 

 greatest fault in them, they grow too strong. What we want 

 is nice compact plants from 'J to 15 inches high, with eight or 

 ten trusses of line double flowers on them. In this state they 

 would bo most useful for conservatory decoration. I must not 

 forget to mention the two beautiful new herbaceous Phloxes, 

 exhibited by Mr. Paul at the llo?o Show on tho 'ind, and at 

 the Regent's Park on tho ;!nl. They far surpass anything I 

 havo seen ; their names are Beautiful and Conqueror. I saw 

 a largo bed of tlicm growing at Waltham. They were a sight 

 I shall not easily forget. Beautiful is as its name implies ; 

 it has immense spikes of large round flowers, pure white, with 

 a rosy violet centre, and Conqueror is a creamy white v.ith a 

 rosy purple centre, the base of the petals round tho centre 

 being suffused with the same colour ; they appear to be very 

 dwarf-growing varieties. In walking through the nurseries 

 Mr. Paul called my attention to a pretty golden-leaved Quercus; 

 the foliage was quite as bright as Pelargonium Golden Fleece. 

 I was very much pleased with my visit to Waltham. Afy only 

 regret was that I could not spare more time to inspect the 

 numerous forms of floral beauty to be seen there. The Pioi-es 

 alono would have afforded me amusement and interest for 

 three times the time I could spare for an inspection of the 

 whole. I, however, will again visit Mr. Paul's nurseries when 

 tho Pelargoniums are in perfection, and then I hope to have 

 more time to examine their beauties. 



In concluding these few notes of what I have seen likely to 

 prove useful to the readers of " our Journal," I will just men- 

 tion a few of my own productions. These I need say but little 

 about, as they have been before the public. Amongst tho Gold 

 Zouals (as they have lately been styled), the following I am sure 

 will give satisfaction : — Perilla, Model, Compactum, Firebrand, 

 Beauty of Uibblesdale, Beauty of Calderdale, Princess Alice. 

 Tho general opinion of them is that they will supersede the 

 Tricolors for bedding purposes ; they are certainly mnch 

 easier cultivated, and are much more effective, they at once 

 attract the eye, and are seen with good effect a long distance 

 off, whilst the Tricolor loses its effect at a short distance. 

 Amongst my Tricolors I consider Lottie W^ills, Aurora Borealis, 

 Lizzie, Fanny, Beauty of Huntroyde, and Florence are not to 

 bo easily surpassed. The latter variety will be found to surpass 

 every Tricolor at present sent out for bedding purposes, I am 

 so confident of this, that I am prepared to exliibit six plants 

 of it in September, taken up from the open ground, against 

 six plants of any other variety at present in cultivation for the 

 sum of £5. — J. Wills. 



Xrvm FOn TAKING CUTTINGS. 



In the "Science and Practice of Gardenintr," page 256,1 

 find that " tho time for taking off cuttings from the parent 

 plant for propagation is when the sap is in full activity ;" but 

 upon referring to "Thompson's Gardener's Assistant " I find 

 that " tho worst time for taking cuttings from hardy deciduous 

 trees and shrubs is when the sap is in full flow " (see page 380). 

 Will you explain how writers upon horticulture so far disagree 

 upon a point so essential? — Aiiatkuk. 



[Circumstances alter cases, and, therefore, there is only a 

 seeming disagreement in the directions. In the " Science and 

 Practice of Gardening*' allusion is made chiefly to the propa- 

 gating by cuttings of tender plants that are to have the ad- 

 vantage of pots, hotbeds, »i:c., and in that case the directions 

 are right. All you havo to do is to keep a cutting in a state 

 as nearly as possible like that which it possessed on the parent 

 plant, and, therefore, care must be taken to arrest evaporation 

 and encourage rooting. As res]iccts hardy deciduous shrubs, 

 Mr. Thompson is just as correct, and this you may satisfy 

 yourself of easily by inserting & cutting of a Currant bueh in 



^ho open air now, and In^rting a similar but leafless cutting 

 during winter and spring. These are left to nature, the former 



is assisted beyond nature.] 



FLOWERS IN BLOOM DUKING JUNE. 



ACKLAM HALL, MIDDLESBOEOUOH-ON-TEES, 



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Jane S. Brompton and Interme- 

 din to Stocka. 

 Ccntaurcn montnna 

 I^ycbuiH dioicu florc-pleno 

 Iris, Vfirious kinds 

 Vtironica ^'enlianoidcs 

 Ot!um urbanum 

 Orcliie tit^tulata 

 Scfirlot Thorua, single and 



do u bio 

 Scarlet Chestnut 

 Silone qiiinqaoviilnera 

 Andromeda axillaiis 

 llesporis matronalis 

 Itanuuculas ropeua 

 Vicia Kcpium 

 Omit bot;al urn ambcUatmu 



narboneuBo 



fimbriatom 

 WciRcla rosea 

 Aijuilegia vulgaris 

 ABphodclus ramosas 

 Vironica dentata 

 Folcmonium Richardsonl 

 Lythospermnm porpu- 



rcum cicruleum 

 ^limulus lutous 

 Mule Pink 

 Diantbus ca?3lns 

 Roses, various kinds 

 Linaria cymbalaria 



bipartita and splendons 

 Erigeron canadense 

 Digitalis puriiurca and 



alba 

 j\Iimalns moschatns 

 Campanula rapunculus 

 Silene nutans 

 MfcspiUis gcrmanica 

 Alcbemilla conjoncta 

 Ncpeta violacoa 

 Cornus sauguinea 

 Aconitum napcUus 

 Geum coceinoum 

 Dictanmus ruber 



alb us 

 Papaver concolor 

 Saxif j-aga peunsylvanica 



Andrcwsii 



geum 

 Genm rivalo 

 Teucrium lucidum 

 Allium schoenoprasnm 



ureinam 

 Polvgala vulgaris 

 Orchis maculata 

 Parbarea vulgaris fl.-pl. 

 Hesperis matronalis fl.-pl. 

 Hbododendron birsutum 

 Dt'lpbiuium formosum 



Barlowii 



meholeucnra 

 Anchusa italica 



and 



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Juno 22. Orobus nigor 



Double Nasturtium 

 LlUum Martagon, parple 

 liosc», double and slnglo 



yellow Persian 

 SDa]>dragon:j, various 

 Diauthus odor at us 



doltoidca 

 Cerastiura tomentosnnl 

 Pyrethrum roseum 

 Epilobitiui angustifoliom 

 album 

 „ 24. Lathyrussplcudens 



Geranium fi;wiguineuaj 

 Plxiladelpbus 

 Sweet William, various 

 Galeobdolon luteum 

 Lamiam niaculatum 

 Campanula glomeratum 

 Parictaria ofticinaliB 

 Campanula pumila and 



alba 

 Deutzia scabra 

 Centranthua ruber and 



atbus 

 Potuutilla Hopwoodiana 



IJarratii 

 Phlox Drummondi 

 Heliotropium peruviannm 



various kinds 

 Calceolarias, various kinds 

 Achillea clavtena 



rosea 

 Nastnrtinms, various kinds 

 „ 2C. EschschoUzia calilomica 

 Calandrinia speciosa 



discolor 

 Scarlet Pelargonioma 

 Spiraea aruncus 

 Astraulia major 

 Symphytum echinatam 



asperrimum 

 Silene compacta 

 Hedycbium coronarluzn 

 Iberiscoronaria alba 



rubra 

 Papaver somnif ernm, dbl* . 

 Campanula grandis 

 Salvia pratensis 

 Ruta graveolens 

 Viola erecta 

 Scdum rupestre 

 Bexangulare 

 acre 

 Verbascum thapsos 

 Chervil 



Thymus serpyllum 

 „ 29. Morena pcrsica 



(.'ampauula p>*ramidali8 

 Saxifra^a grannlata 

 granulata plena 

 Thymus serpyllum albas 



GLASS WALLS. 



The above contrivances for more tboroughly ripening fniit 

 have lately been introduced by the inventor of tho cylinder 

 vinery, on the principle of which they have been constructed. 

 The glass ivall is placed either opposite walls of slate made on 

 purpose, or opposite to brick and stone walls already built, the 

 fruit trees being trained against the glass wall on the inside, 

 60 as to receive the reflected heat from the wall opposite. The 

 great benefit to be derived from this mode of growing fruit 

 is light given in every direction both to the leaves and fruit. 



The mode to be pursued in constructing a wall of this kind 

 opposite to one already built is as follows : — I drive into the 

 earth, about 3 feet from the old wall, square bars of wood, grooved 

 about five-eighths of an inch deep in the angles, boiled in creo- 

 sote, and thus rendered indestructible. I sUp glass down the 

 grooves until the top of the bars is reached. I then nail a 

 plate on tho top of the bars to strengthen the glass, and also 

 to admit of a cover being placed on the structure to keep oflf 

 spring frosts. I nail email rafters from the glass wall to the 

 brick or stone wall. After frosts are over I remove the co ver 

 ing, when the trees are exposed to dew and rain. They require 

 no watering and no further attention than an ordinary wall. 

 The result of this mode of culture is the perfection of growth- 



