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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



t April 5, 1877. 



Bcribers not only to send lists themselves, but to ask their 

 friends also to forward them. Any notes also on the oanses of 

 oanktr io tbe different varieties will be acceptable. — Lewis 

 A. KiLLiCK, Mount Pleasant, Langleij, Maidsto>ic. 



EARLY WRITEBS ON ENGLISH GARDENING. 



No. sn. 



HORACE WALPOLE. 



Walpole was one of the most influential promoters of 

 landscape gardening, for he not only advocated in his publica- 

 tions, but illustrated it by the arrangement of his grounds at 

 Strawberry Hill. 



He was the yonngost son of Sir Robert Walpole, Prime 

 Minister of George I. ; was bora in 1718. He was educated 

 at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. In 1738 he entered 

 upon public life as Inspector; General of Exports and Im- 



oluding chapter of his " Anecdotes of Painting in England," 

 which, though printed in 1771, did not appear to the public 

 until 1780. 



In this essay, being determined to demonstrate that rural 

 gardening was the true and new taste, to establish the opinion 

 historians both sacred and profane which appeared to militate 

 against his doctrines are passed over with indifference and 

 contempt. To his sketch of the improvements introduced by 

 Bridgeman and Kent, and those garden artists their immediate 

 successors, we may afford the best praise. He appears to be 

 a faithful and is an eloquent annalist. 



ME. LUCKHUEST'S OLD ROSE. 

 I \Yisn he had told us the colour. I think the Rose must be 

 one of those three — Pierre de St. Cyr, Triomphe de la Daohere 

 (introduced thirty-one years ago), or Janne Desprez — a Bour- 



Fig. 33.— HOBAOE WALPOLE. 



ports, which ofGoe he exchanged for Usher of the Exchequer. 

 He was also appointed Comptroller of the Pipe and Clerk of 

 the Extracts. In 1739 he travelled into France and Italy with 

 Mr. Gray the poet, who had been his fellow student at Eton, 

 but at Florence they quarrelled and parted ; they were, how- 

 ever, reconciled a fow years afterwards. In 1711 ho was the 

 representative in Parliament of Callington in Cornwall ; in 

 1747 he was elected for Castle Rising, and in the two succeed- 

 ing Parliaments for Lynn. In 17C8 he retired from public 

 business to his seat at Strawberry Hill, near Twickenham. In 

 17yi he became Earl of Orford on the death of his nephew, 

 but never appeared in his seat as a Peer of Parliament. He 

 died March the 2nd, 1797. 



That the Earl of Orford was a man of taste and au encourager 

 of the men of genius of his age is the best light in which as 

 a public character we can look upon him. That he was gifted 

 with a strong genius, though often asserted, is very doubtful ; 

 that his researches were frequently superficial his writings 

 testify, and this is farther supported by the fact that he was 

 a sceptic. He very powerfully contributed to abolish the 

 mathematical style of gardening, being one of the most strenu- 

 ous advocates of landscape gardening, as is manifested in his 

 only literary production that we shall mention, being an essay 

 ' On Modern Gardening," written in 1770, forming the con- 



bon and two Noieettos. Sir Joseph Paxton answers mnoh to 

 the description. If it ia a Hybrid Perpetual it is either Anna 

 Alexieff or Madame Louise Carique. If it is a white Rose it is 

 La Biohe. I think it is either Pierre de St. Cyr (pale pink) or 

 Triomphe de la DuchOre (pale rose). — W. F. EADCwrFE. 



CLIANTHUS DAMPIERI. 



Now and then we see a plant of this, but rarely a well-grown 

 specimen. No finer subject (if indeed any can vie with it 

 among greenhouse plants) is found among the Leguminosffl. 

 Its (juaint flowers, 3 to 1 inches in length, are borne in clusters 

 tour to seven in number upon a rather stout erect stem ; they 

 depend gracefully, are of a fiery scarlet colour, with a glossy 

 deep bluish-black centre or boss, which [seen amid or above 

 the elegant light shining glauoous-green foliage have quite a 

 striking effect ; but what must be the effect of G. Dampieri 

 var. Deutsoh Flagge or German Flag — representative in the 

 colour of its flowers of those of the national flag of those 

 countries ? It is said to have been raised by L. Vieweg of 

 Weglebon, and " comes true from seed." My desire to behold 

 this, or, better, to possess a few seeds, is so(ardent that I hardly 

 care to describe it. It is alleged to be'black, white, and red. 

 " The upper part fiery soarlet, centre glossy bluish-black, keel 



