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JOUBNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



( January 18, 1877. 



for their coning since. As far as I recollect there are three of ] subject, but it may suffice for all practical purposes to illustrate 

 these trees planted in a triangular form on a slightly elevated - what I mean by one or two instances of my experience in 



mound which have coned and ripened seeds for several sue- 

 cessive years previous to the date above mentioned. I believe 

 Mr. Wrey has raised several plants from the seed. In 1874 

 the reverend gentleman gave seeds to many of his friends and 

 acquaintances, with directions for their successful growth. 

 — J. Cole McAbbell. 



SOME SPECIES OF PRIMULA.— No. 3. 



Foremost among the genera, companions of my early days — 

 genera now neglected— I place Primula. Where now can the 

 species amcena, verticil- 

 lata, Pallasii, villosa, fa- 

 rinosa, nivalis, margi- 

 nata, and others be 

 found in England? 

 There are a score of 

 species, many of them 

 formerly cultivated in 

 our gardens, yet how 

 rarely now do we meet 

 with any but varieties of 

 the Primrose, Polyan- 

 thus, and Auricula. 



We have published 

 notes on two species, 

 and we purpose afford- 

 ing similar justice to a 

 few more. 



Pbimdla tillosa, or 

 MocNTAiN Pbimdla. — 

 Mr. Curtis, in the first 

 volume of " The Bo- 

 tanical Magazine," pub- 

 lished in 1787, says, 

 " This plant has been 

 introduced pretty gene- 

 rally into the nursery 

 gardens in the neigh- 

 bourhood of London 

 within these few years. 

 Mr. Salisbury informs 

 me that a variety with 

 white flowers, brought 

 originally from the Alps 

 of Switzerland, has for 

 many years been culti- 

 vated in a garden in 

 Yorkshire. 



" It is not noticed by 

 Linnfflus. Professor 

 Jacquin, in his " Flora 

 Auatriaca," has figured 

 and described a Primula, 

 which, though not agree- 

 ing so minutely as could 

 be wished with the one 

 we have figured, is 

 nevertheless considered 



by some of the first botanists in this country as the same 

 species. He gives it the name of villosa, which we adopt, 

 though with us it is so slightly villous as scarcely to deserve 

 that epithet. 



" It varies in the brilliancy of its colour, flowers in April, 

 and wiU succeed with the method of culture recommended for 

 the round-leaved Cyclamen." 



The leaves are fleshy, slightly hairy, rhomboid, toothed on 

 both sides towards the end. Scape an inch long, bearing one 

 or two flowers; these are purple, segments heart-shaped, eyes 

 pale. Calyx not mealy, hairy, bell-shaped, half the length of 

 the tube. 



It is a native of the Swiss and Carinthian Mountains. 



Fig. 6. — Primula villosa, 



KEEPING LATE GRAPES. 



Are your correspondents, who in previous numbers attribute 

 the cracking of the berries of Grapes to excess of moisture at 

 the roots and to a deficiency of foliage to appropriate the ex- 

 cess of moisture, correct in their assumptions ? I think not 

 entirely. I have not time at present to enter fully into the 



keeping late Grapes. When with Mr. Brunlees of Argyle 

 Lodge, Wimbledon, he suggested as a means for preventing 

 the cracking of the berries the thinning-out of the lateral 

 branchlets, and by degrees the whole of the wood of the current 

 year's growth nearly close to the bunches. I acted on the sug- 

 gestion and found the fruit keep in excellent order, and have 

 practised the same thinning-out by degrees of superfluous 

 wood and foliage ever since. The Grapes this year are keep- 

 ing first-rate, notwithstanding the borders are saturated with 

 wet. We have Black Hamburghs perfect in outliae of bunch 

 still ; in fact, aa many as will see us into February. 



The only Grapes 

 which have not kept 

 satisfactorily this sea- 

 son were some Black 

 Hamburghs ripened in 

 August in a span-roof 

 house and planted in 

 the pit inside the house. 

 The roof is nearly de- 

 cayed, and the rain kept 

 a continual state of 

 dampness in the house 

 in October and Novem- 

 ber, so that we were glad 

 to cut the fruit. Strange 

 to say, on giving the 

 border a winter dress- 

 ing lately it was found 

 in a rather dry state, so 

 that moisture in excess 

 at the roots could not 

 militate against good 

 keeping in this instance. 

 I think "A Northern 

 Gardenbb" hits the real 

 cause of the mischief. 

 Until a few weeks back 

 — in fact, till the foli- 

 age was all but entirely 

 off the Vines, aa there 

 are still a few leaves 

 hanging, we kept aa 

 nearly as possible a tem- 

 perature of 50° and never 

 attempted to dry up 

 moisture on fine days, 

 as there is as much 

 harm done this way aa 

 any other. A tempe- 

 rature of 45° is the low- 

 est I like to see the 

 glasses registering now. 

 What with the require- 

 ments of a family to 

 supply during winter 

 and spring, and a large 

 flower garden to stock 

 m summer, we require 

 all our glass for storing and growing plants as well as fruit, 

 so that the Grapes here do not receive what might be termed 

 the best accommodation. No kind of fruit will keep well when 

 the temperature fluctuates much, nor when there are extremes 

 of dryness and moisture, and Grapes do not require much 

 moisture in the atmosphere to induce their decay. — E. P. B. 



BARHAM COURT. 



THE SEAT OF ROGER LEIGH, Esq. 



Theee are several places in England named Barham, the 

 name signifying in modern English a fenced residence — that 

 is, a house in an enclosure. The word Court added means 

 that it was the enclosed residence of the feudal lord. Anciently 

 it was spelled Bereham, but this had a similar signification, 

 for Ilrr is the Saxon for a hedge. Barham Court is a manor, 

 and in the time of Henry II. had for its lord the Archbishop 

 of Canterbury, of whom it was held by Sir Eandal Fitzurse, 

 one of the assassins of Archbishop Becket in 1170. He fled, and 

 one of his relations took possession of the manor and assumed 

 from it the name of Berham. It remained in the possession 



