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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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Goossberrie?, Apples, and Pears included — were it not lor the 

 nets the birds would leaTe us nothing. — D. H. 



PLANTS FLOWERING IN JULY. 



Jjily 3. Silenc alpestris 

 iuflata 



maritinia plena 

 Potentilla alba 

 Uopwooiiana 

 aiKeutea 

 Thymus vuljiriu 

 "Serpyllum albn3 

 cepnalotes 

 Acanthus mullia 

 Achillea Bfgj'pUaca 

 aarta 

 ClaveuDie 

 Millefolium rosea 

 Ptarin:c;i plena 

 compncta 

 Eccremocarpus Bcaher 

 Epilobium .lUffuetiloUum 

 tilaux marilinia 

 Helianthua muUiHorus 



annuu3 

 Hemoracaliid flava 



fulva 

 Linariii vulgaria 

 purpurea 

 „ C. Phyteuraa orbicularo 

 Verbena venosa 



teucrioides 

 Thalictrnm majua 

 Acoaituni Kapellu3 



versicoloi* 

 Asphodelus luteus 

 ffinothera macroc.irpa 

 Fraaeri 

 biennis 

 Cineraria maritima 

 Sedura acre 

 sexiinsulare 

 ibericum 

 neglectum 

 dentatum 

 ant;licuni 

 Hydrangea japoulca varie- 



gata 

 NartheciuDi oaaifrasuin 

 Liatris elejrans 



piloea 

 Ononis rotundifolia 

 Epipacti3 palustris 

 0. Campanula tfarx.-.nioa 

 carpatica alba 

 jledium 

 moUin 

 latifolii 

 rotundililia 

 Alstr'Jmeria aurea 



paittacina 

 Orchis maculata 



pyramidalis 

 Geuni coccineum 



montanam 

 Veronica fruticaloea 

 dentata 

 incana f;lar.ca 

 sibirica 

 saxatile 

 Briza maxima 

 . Lathyms mac'llaiiloas 

 Ammobium al-itum 

 Eutoca viscida 

 Heliotropium penivi.i'.iTiin 

 Miraulus carui)iali3 

 atrosaDt;uiutU3 

 cupreus 

 lateus 

 Sanvitalia procumbeiia 

 Delphinium Ajacio 



Consolida 

 Lavatera trimestrii 

 Nolana atriplicifolia 



paradoxa 

 Oenothera Drummcndi 

 AdoniB ;£Btivalis 



auiumnalig 

 Stipapennata 

 Tai^etes patula 

 Amaranthus apeciosus 



tricolor 

 Matthiola annua 

 Salvia Horminum 

 Vi'hitlavia grandiflora 



gloxinioidea 

 Papaver orientale 

 Pectia anETustifolia 

 Pentstemon ^eutianoideg 

 , Rudbeckia amplexicaulia 

 Salvia argentea 

 patens 

 Bplendcns 

 Petunia prandiflora 

 Malva zebrina 



Morenii 

 Lantana crocea 

 Laalhcnia califomica 



13. 



IC. 



La thy ru 9 latifoUus 



— M. H., Acklam UalU MiddUshrougJi-on-Tees. 



July 16. LathjTua vcnosus 



Potentilla atrosaui^uinea 

 Pyrethrum incaniatum 



Golden Feather 

 Lopho3permum Bcaudens 

 Lotus comiculatuH 

 Lupines 



Schizanthu'? pinnatua 

 Sedum CLprulcuiu 

 Silene compacta 

 Pseudo-Atocion 

 rubella 

 Schafta 

 „ ^. Lobelia speciosa 

 ramosa 

 Erinua 

 Loasa lateritia 

 auranUaca 

 ^"emophiia indignis 

 atomaria 

 maculata 

 Phlox Dummondi 

 Tagetes pumila 

 Scabiosa candidissima 

 Tropoeolum majus 



perejjrinnm 

 EratjTOstis ele;?an3 

 Armeria maritima rosea 

 Amndo Donax variegata 

 Clematis inteirrifoiia 

 Aster Bpectabilia 

 Cousinia h>v;trix 

 Morina peraica 

 Lythrum roaeum superbum 



Salicaria 

 I>roBera an^Iica 

 rotundifolia 

 Bctonica stricta 

 Nicotiana virginica 

 Malope tritida 

 „ 2i. Nierembergia rivularia 

 Nigella hispanica 

 Oxalis rosea 



Oxyura ehrysanthemoides 

 Antennaria hj-perborea 

 Arabis lucida 

 Actxa spicata 

 Linum Lewisii 

 perenne 

 grandifionim 

 Leptosiphon denaiflorus 

 Giha tricolor 



ca pi tat a 

 Antirrhinum majus 

 Aquilesia vulgaris 



formosa 

 CalUopsis tinctona 



atrosanfniinea 

 Humea elegana 

 Hymenoxya califirnica 

 EschBcholtzia californica 

 Brachycome iberidifolia 

 Cacalia coccioea 

 Calandrinia discolor 



umbellata 

 Gaillardia picta 

 RiohardBoni 

 Fuchsia fulgens 



globoBa 

 Callirhije digitata 

 pedata 

 « 2.9. AnagalUa cfcrulea 

 tenella 

 grandiflora 

 Anchusaitalica 



paniculata 

 Arctotig breviscapa 

 Lavender 

 Lepii*j siphon aureus 



luteua 

 Linaria bipartite splendida 

 McBembryanthemum tricolor 

 glabram 

 cryatallinum 

 Myosotis palustris 

 Portulaca grandiflora 

 Iberia candidissima 

 To-nopsidium acaule 

 Iponiaea gi'andiflora 



Quamoclit 

 KaairusBia amelloides 

 Heracleum gigantenm 

 Crucianclla stylosa 

 Cnpheas 



Dahlia imperialia 

 Datura Stramonium 



atroviolacea 

 Delphinium formcsum 

 Centaurea depressa 



moschata 

 Catananche bicolor 

 Clintonia pulchella 



elegana 

 Chelone barbata 

 Cladanthus arabicug 



Nosegay Pelargoniums for Winter Blooming ? " In my humble 

 way, with many drawbacks, I followed the system indicated, 

 and was rewarded by specimens of Cybister and Stella, the 

 only Nosegays I owned, which amazed my friends and myself, 

 and induced me to procure this summer every variety therein 

 Buggesteii, with a view to the winter. 



I wonder whether I am lucky in haying all my specimens of 

 Liliam lancifolium roseum, in S inch pots, with eigliteen and 

 nineteen healthy buds and blossoms each? 



I wonder whether everybody knows that the Scarlet Lobelia 

 will flower luxuriantly, to the height of 3 feet, in 4-inch pots, 

 in dwelling rooms? 



I wonder why Sunset and Beauty Pelargoniums— the latter, 

 perhaps, capricious as her name— decline to grow healthily 

 under my auspices ? 



I wonder why I never saw till last year Tropreolum epecio- 

 sum, a hardv, tuberou?. trifoliate variety, with a luxuriant 

 habit and a'carmine blossom, figured, I see, in " Paxton,'* 

 just twenty years ago? It came under my notice in an old 

 Scotch garden, and seems to luxuriate in its new quarters near 

 Windsor. I wonder, too, why more use is not made of the 

 Tropfoolums (or Nasturtiums), for the winter-decoration of the 

 conservatory ? Sown in September they wiU euUven the house 

 for two or three dull months in the winter. 



I wonder whether we amateurs shall ever have a handbook, 

 which, in addition to telling us that Cactuses, for instance are 

 of the Cactaceous tribe, and entering into the specific dis- 

 tinctions of plants and details of the history of their discovery, 

 will inform us of their practical management? [The " Cottage 

 Gardeners' Dictionary " does so.] ,. , i. t 



I wonder, lastly, and I do it with trembling, why, when i 

 wrote to ask you for a plan for a bed on a grass plot, 18 feet 

 by 3 I was met by the chilling answer that I could get a booii 

 on garden plans for 5.^. Ur? I cannot afford such a luxury. 

 If I had asked you to recommend a nurseryman to me, 1 

 should have expected you to refer me to your advertisements ; 

 but the kind, copious, and juaicious directions with which you 

 had previously furnished me for the treatment of certain pet 

 plants, led me to hope that such a simple thing as a plan tor a 

 ribbon-border might be within your power and will to bestow 

 on me. [If you send a plan we will tell you how to plant it. 

 but we cannot undertake to furnish one.]— Kusn. 



DOUBLE GRAFTING. 



WONDERS OF AN AMATEUR. 

 I woKDER whether any amateur read the excellent treatise in 

 your number of May 23th, 1863, with regard to " Standard 



I SEE in your Journal of August 19th, page 138, an article 

 on the above, by some person styling himself " Observer, 

 who sends us spinning to the Romans. Chinese, and Tartars to 

 look for evidences of double grafting from 2000 to 10.000 years 

 ago. I do not exactly know whether these same gentlemen 

 lived and practised grafting before the stone age, or whether 

 Tubal Cain had appeared amongst them, yet such must have 

 been the case, as appears from the erudition of your corre- 

 spondent. I myself am half afraid that the edge tools were 

 not so well adapted for cutting purposes as those made by 

 Saynor in our day. , , , , ,i.„j 



As to " Observer's " instinctively having double grafted 

 when a boy, why I believe that, as I happened to do the same 

 thing myself by working eight or ten sorts of Apples on one 

 tree, only I had slyly watched my uncle doing the same thing. 

 I think fifty-five years ago last March. In this, i thinK, 

 •' Observer's " instinct had the best of it. It was a wonderful 

 performance for a boy of tender years certainly, and i am 

 pleased it has been recorded in the columns of The Jouri^ad 

 OF Horticulture, as a stimulant to others to go and do like- 

 wise. As to the more extended sense of the subject, I may say 

 that I have been a double- grafter " for a purpose," in a nursery 

 point of view, more than forty years, and I know that our con- 

 tinental neighbours have practised the same for commercial 

 purposes for at least the last half century, and many years ago 

 I could buy in the French markets Pears on Quince stocks 

 worked by the thousand for the purpose of being double gratcea. 

 And here 1 will say, that - Observer " is wrong in recommend- 

 ing the Angers Quince as the best, the Portugal so^^ u 11^ 

 and hardiest. The Angers sort here is destroyed by eve^ 

 hard winter. As to the Paris Quince I never heard of it before, 

 although I have twenty-five sorts, but this just shows that i 

 am not quite up in the stock line. ., ^ • i ^t *..T,rv^ 



What your correspondent means by " the fl«^"^l\o^. *^"„^: 



pets " that would have been made if a Frenchman had attained 



i the same fluecess in double graftuig as •' Observer s friend 



