April 22, 1875. ) 



JOUBNAL OP HORTIODLTUKB AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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known and admired. Mr. R. Nisbet, the head gardener, has 

 most obligingly enabled ns to give details of some of the 

 flower arrangements. 

 It only needs reference to the plants used and their mode of 



diaposition, to appreciate how effective is Mr. Nisbet's mode 

 of planting. The flatness of the large bed is artistically 

 broken by the use of Dracajnas, AraUas, and Acacias. The 

 border planting is an example of brightness without glare. 



The garden is always much and deservedly admired by visitors. 

 It is unquestionably under able supervision. 



To save space we have only had half the border engraved, 

 as the other half is merely a repetition. Another border 

 exactly similar balances it. 



STANSTEAD PARK CABBAGE LETTUCE. 



I SHOULD like to say a word in favour of that excellent hardy 

 winter Lettuce Stanstead Park Eclipse, for it has often stood 



ri^ta 



I me in good stead when all others have failed. At the present 



' time I should have been quite at a loss without it for early 



spring salads. By early salads 1 mean those gathered entirely 



from the open borders, and which are always required at this 



season of the year to foUow the winter frame salads. 



The Stanstead Lettuce is a strong-growing kind, almost as 

 large as the Neapohtau, and so robust that it not only with- 

 stands the severity of such a winter as the past perfectly weU, 

 but grows and " hearts " so quickly in spring that it is fit for 

 use long before the other varieties. It is not a desirable sort 



