JOUBNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ January US, 1877. 



'I'he caltare of this beautiful Lily has been fully deecribed in 

 your pages in previous numbers. 



SCHIZOSTYLTS COCCINEA. 



CTJ5IS0.\ SCHIZOfllYLIS. 



Tins (ilaut has been frequently mentioned during the past 

 jear. It is thus noticed in the " BjtaniealMagaaine." ItBeems 



Fig. a—Schizostjiii .;ii,. ;l. i. 



to have been first flowered by Messrs. Backhouse & Son at their 

 nursery at Vork in November, IHdli. It inhabits eastern rivers 

 of South Africa, called Ksbousie and Keir-kamma, in K'attir- 

 land. Dr. Harvey possesses specimens of the same plant 

 gathered by Cooper near 1 irackeneberg Mountain ; and also 

 from Mr. D'Urban, who found it l>y the Kaboaeie river in 

 British Ca£fraria, in both oases growing very near water. 



Again, Dr. Harvey has detected it in Mr. Sanderson's collec- 

 tions from Natal, and in Mr. Hutton's from the Katberg, 

 altitude 3000 feet, who speaks of it as a '' beautiful pink Hes- 

 perantha," showing its affinity in hU eyes to that genus, to 

 which Mr. liackhouse also detected a resemblance. 



It is a plant of great usefulness, alYording brilliant spikes ot 

 flowers during the autumn months. These are effective for 

 the decoration of vases iu rooms, the flowers expanding in 

 water after the manner of Gladioluses. The plant.<; are also 

 very valuable for conservatory decoration during the late 

 autumn and eatly winter months. When employed fuv this 

 purpose clumps only need to be dag from the open ground 

 early in October and potted in light rich soil, and if placed in 

 a genial temperature flowers will be prodaced until Christmas, 

 The plant is hardy and will grow freely in ordinary garden 

 soil. It is highly worthy of extensive cultivation. 



ADIANTDM CAPILLUS-VENERIS- LANDSLIPS. 



I PEME.MiiER one year judging at Hereford with Mr. t'harles 

 Turner and Hercules. We had some bouquets to judge which 

 were composed of Roses and wild foliage. One lovely bouquet 

 was made up of Maiden-hair Fern, and I objected to it as not 

 being wild foliage. "Sir. Charles Turner, however, said that he 

 did not think we could disqualify it, as the Maiden-hair Fern 

 did grow wild in some part of Devonshire, although, he added, 

 there could be no question it did not grow near Hereford. So 

 we gave (unwillingly) the bouquet the first prize. Since then 

 I have tried to find this Fern, and have as'ked large Fern- 

 collectors if they have ever found it wild. There is rather a 

 celebrated collector at Lyutou in North Devon, and he told me 

 he had walked all along the north coast of Devon and Corn- 

 wall looking for it iu the places where it was reported to grow 

 luxuriantly, and be could only find one small plant near Bos- 

 castle. Judge, then, of my surprise and delight when a lady 

 of my acquaintance found this Fern (Adiantnm Capillua- 

 \ eneris) growing iu the lane that leads from the Charmouth 

 road to my church, in the very hedge that divides Devon from 

 Dorset. 



I write this for the purpose of asking any of your readers 

 if they know of any other places where this I'ern grows. 1 

 am told that it is to be found iu the neighbourhood of Bridge- 

 water. 



One of the Editors of our Journal will be interested in 

 hearing that there have been several fresh landslips at and 

 near Lyme Regis. An immense amount of earth fell on the 

 Esplanade at Lyme, completely blocking the road ; whilst at 

 Whitlands, the farm next to Dowlands (where the great land- 

 slip is), about seventy acrois have subaided, and some cottages 

 have been rendered so unsafe that the occapauts have had to 

 leave. The road, toj, from Charmouth to Lyme is quietly 

 settling into the sea. W'vi.n Sivauk 



-\NEMONE FDLGENS. 



Foe the information of " G. S ," in notice to correspoudenta, 

 page r>38 of our Journal, respecting Anemone fulgens — I do 

 not disturb my plants. They are grown in a full exposure to 

 the sun, planted by the edging of the beds in our flower garden ; 

 in that position they are quite at home, and during the spring 

 time reward us with a profusion of brilliant flowers. Glowing 

 as the description may have been that " Q. S." has read, it can- 

 not convey au adequate idea of the effect that is produced by 

 lines of tbi^, oae of the most striking of our spring flowers. 

 It ought to be in every sunny flower border iu the three king- 

 doms, for we have no flower in cultivation that can surpass our 

 Windflower in early spring and summer time. The soil in 

 which the plants are growing is good loam mixed with leaf Boil 

 and coarse grit. — H. 



EARLY WRITERS. ON ENGLISH GARDENING. 



No.. 20. 

 .TAMES LEE. 



Jaues Lkr was one of the best gardeners of his time. He was 

 born in Scotland of respectable parents, but not in a station 

 that allowed them to give him any farther education than is 

 in the power ot everyone to attain in that part of Britain ; and 

 which, at that period, was generally superior to what those of 

 that rank in England can arrive at. He discovered very early a 

 strong taste for botany, and we are warranted in astettirg that 

 when a yonth of fifteen or eizteen be was well ac(juainted with 



