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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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a magnificent fruit ; General Todtleben, large and aromatic, 

 with rose-coloured flesh ; Marie Guise, a March Pear, very fine, 

 still in the fruit room, and many others, these being what I 

 thought the best. 



There can be no comparison as to amount of crop between 

 these diagonal and horizontal cordons, as is evident from the 

 development, and diagonals are as easy — nay, far easier to 

 prune. Diagonals are being generally adopted in this islaod, as 

 they have been so successful in our gardens. — T. Brehaut, 

 Richmond House, Guernsey. 



GARDENS AND GARDENING AROUND 

 HAMBURG.— No. 3. 



CONSUL SCHUTTE'S, FLOTTBECK, HOLSTEIN. 

 This is a neat little place of a few acres, the principal fea- 

 tures of which consist in the cultivation of hardy fruits. 

 Apple and Pear trees are cultivated to a good extent, and great 

 attention is paid to tbeir training and other management. 

 The collection of pyramidal Pear trees, from 6 to 12 feet in 

 height, was all that could be desired, and well laden with fruit, 

 the varieties which seemed to succeed best being our own pets, 

 Louise Bonne of Jersey and Marie Louise. Some trellises, about 

 5 feet in height, were finely covered with Pear trees, planted 

 about 2 feet apart, and trained up to single, or sometimes to 

 two stems, at an angle of 45°, a sort of "cordon oblique," as 

 the French would call it. These, spurred-in somewhat closely, 

 were very perfect examples, and looked extremely well, the 

 trees in most cases being well covered with fruit. Apple trees 

 trained in the same fashion did not look so well. Round the 

 edgings of the walks were planted Apple trees from 3 to 4 feet 

 apart, and trained as cordons, some of the trees being full of 

 fruit, and extremely pretty they looked, carefully tended as 

 they were here. It is worthy of remark that those grafted on 

 the French Paradise succeed better than those on the ordi- 

 nary stock. We remarked the difference between one line and 

 another, and Herr Wundell, the obergartner, stated that it was 

 owing to the variety of stock ; that he had always observed 

 Apples grafted on the French Paradise come into bearing much 

 sooner than those on the common Dutch Paradise. The 

 French Paradise is, in fact, the favourite Apple stock in this 

 part of northern Germany, which, be it remembered, is much 

 colder in winter than any part of England. We also observed 

 here a very creditable houseful of Grapes, much better than is 

 generally to be seen out of our own beloved land. 



CONSUL WESSELHOEFT'3, TEUFELSBRUCKE, ALTONA. 



This is another place greatly celebrated, and justly so, about 

 Hamburg for its fruit culture. Here it is hothouse fruits — 

 Grapes, Peaches, &c, which form the chief feature ; and we 

 feel bound to say that we have in very few instances on the 

 Continent seen better examples of Grapes than we saw here, 

 vieing in many respects with our English productions. 



The situation of the gardens is somewhat low, which is in 

 the first place disadvantageous to Vine culture. Herr Wessel- 

 hiieft has, as far as we remember, three vineries in all, in 

 which we observed examples of all our approved English sorts, 

 and many of them doing remarkably well, all trained and 

 treated on the most approved principles, or according to the 

 dictum of The Journal of Horticulture, of which Herr 

 Wesselhiieft is a constant reader. Some examples of Muscat 

 Hamburgh were especially fine ; Muscat of Alexandria, how- 

 ever, was almost a failure on the planted-out Vines, every 

 bunch having shanked, and it always does so we were told, while 

 other varieties in the same house succeed so well. We attributed 

 the cause of thi3 to irregularity of heat or moisture about the 

 roots while the fruit was progressing. The same variety in a 

 pot was very good, as likewise some other examples of Vines 

 in pots. Herr Wesselhoeft obtained a gold cup at the great 

 Show for an exhibition of fourteen varieties of Grapes. 



We next find ourselves in a very neat and airy span-roofed 

 orchard house, devoted principally to Peaches, i-c, and on one 

 side of this house, plunged out of doors, was a large quantity of 

 pretty little Apple trees in pots, bearing magnificent crops of 

 very handsome fruit. The trees were of the bush form, about 

 i feet high, worked on the French Paradise stock. The examples 

 of White Calville (Calville Blanche), &c, were very fine, such 

 as would have delighted a Rivers. In the grounds were a very 

 fine lot of pyramidal Pear trees, bearing, however, we were 

 3orry to see, bnt very little fruit, the leaves nearly destroyed 

 by the ravages of some insect. The various flower beds were 



also filled with the usual display and well attended to, every- 

 thing betokening the employment of much care and a sound 

 knowledge of the business on the part of Herr Wesselhoeft, 

 who, we believe, is his own gardener. 



PALMAILLE 22, THE RESIDENCE OF HERR POTS BAUR, 

 ALTONA. 



This is a small villa garden, lying off the principal street 

 of Altona, which has an air of considerable grandeur about it 

 through its great width and the fine lines of trees along both 

 sides of it. The obergartner at this place is Mr. Hinrichs, an 

 old Chiswick man, and to him we are indebted, for the most 

 part, in accompanying us to the various places for a great por- 

 tion of the information we were enabled to acquire. Here 

 Mr. Hinrichs is adopting many of our English modes of gar- 

 dening, especially in respect to Grape culture, and although the 

 Vines are yet young, they promise well. The garden lies high 

 on the side of a steep bank, so that gardening is carried on 

 with difficulty. It is very tastefully laid out, we believe by 

 Herr JurgenB, the great landscape gardener of Hamburg. In 

 the houses we observed some nice examples of a plant not much 

 known amongst us, yet very suitable for autumnal decoration 

 of the conservatory — viz., Scutellaria Mociniana or majestica, 

 a Justicia-looking plant. Here also Mr. Hinrichs had some 

 fine plants of Torenia asiatica perfectly covered with bloom, 

 standing in pots along the edges of the walks. But the chief 

 ornament is the collection of Orange trees in tubs, which were 

 awarded the gold medal at the great Exhibition. 

 FLOTTBECK PARK, HOLSTEIN, 



THE SEAT OF FRAO SENATOR JENISCH. 



This is a noble demesne of considerable extent. It is what 

 we would call in England one of our fine old places, with a 

 history attached— a history, too, of gardening. During the 

 life of the late lamented Senator in years gone by, before gar- 

 dening had become quite so popular as it is now, the gardons 

 at Flottbeck and its talented gardener, M. Kramer, had become 

 celebrated throughout the Continent and also in this country. 

 The place is altogether old and venerable, the park surrounding 

 the mansion spacious and varied, with some tine old Oak treeB 

 of great size. The gardens are old, and the houses old, their 

 number being great, and some of them very lofty and large. The 

 Palm stove, in the centre of the long range, when it was 

 erected must have been considered a fine building, and it 

 would be so still with a little burnishing-up. The collection 

 of plants in the houses here is so extensive, so varied, that to 

 describe them would be impossible. It is like a great private 

 botanical garden, and, indeed, there are many botanical gar- 

 dens which do not possess a tithe of the number of plants. 

 Here we found many old plants which we had almost forgotten, 

 and many we had never seen, and the new and rare plants of 

 the Lindens and Veitches were here also. One of M. Kramer's 

 sons is at present a plant-collector in Japan, whence he has 

 sent home, whilst employed by Messrs. Veitch, many fine 

 plants. M. Kramer was the largest exhibitor of plants at 

 Hamburg, and obtained the greatest number of prizes, and 

 in his collections were some admirably-grown specimens of 

 fine-foliaged plants, Palms, Ferns, Orcbids, &c. Conspicuous 

 amongst the great mass of plants here — conspicuous to us, 

 perhaps, because we seldom see them in this country, were the 

 finely-flowered specimens of Hsemantbus cinnabarinus and 

 puniceus. The large glowing scarlet umbel -like flower-heads 

 of these plants were truly magnificent ; the former is superior 

 to the latter, being dwarfer, larger, and more Bhowy. Tbey 

 seem to flower under the younger M. Kramer's care with the 

 greatest ease. It is a plant we recommend our gardeners to 

 take to. Amongst others we noticed Aphelandra Roezliana, 

 with its beautiful silvery leaf, doing well, Curcuma rubricaulis 

 and Roscoeana, useful decorative plants, lasting such a long 

 time in flower; also Alocasia Jenning9ii, a fine plant 2 feet 

 across ; Alooasia metallica, Veitchii, &c. ; very large plants of 

 Caladiums, Sanchezia nobilis, and the new Coleuses 6 feet in 

 diameter. 



The collection of Orchids is likewise very extensive, and in 

 good condition, bnt especially so that of the Anffictoohils, which 

 were very rich. What a pity these plants are so little looked 

 after now. Here also we found Sarracenia purpurea grow- 

 ing like a very weed in the cold frames, in some places half 

 smothered with chickweed, and yet as vigorous and healthy as 

 need be. Who can refuse to cultivate this pretty and inter- 

 esting plant ? Here, again, we found our wonder, Disa grandi- 

 flora, in all its grandeur, and fully finer than those already 

 noticed, many of M. Kramer's plants bearing six, seven, and 



