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JOURNAL OF HOSTIOOLTUBE AND OOXTAGB GARDENER. 



[ October 15, 18?4. 



his property was sold by anction for £G4,000 ; his residencp, 

 Chapel House, -with thirty-nine acres realising only £3650. 

 Hothamton was expunged, Bognor remains, and the only per- 

 manent record of its founder besides his epitiph in the gallery 

 of South Bersted Church, is a halfpenny token ho had etruck, 

 found sometimes in numismatic museums, bearing the legend 

 — " Hotham, Hatter." 



As Sir Bichard was not only a Southwark tradesman but its 

 reprefentative in Parliament, and consequently in constant 

 contact with London aldermen, he may have had his epi- 

 curean procUvities intensified, and consequently inclined to 

 Bognor because encircled by plucts so celebrated for dainties, 

 that they were combined into this proverb : — " A Chichester 

 lobster, a Selsea cockle, au Arundel mullet, a Pulborough 

 eel, au Amberley trout, and a Bourn wheatear." To these 

 might be added " Bognor prawns," for I hereby bear testi- 

 mony to their excellence, and probably at no one place on the 

 English coast are so many caught. In stormy weather when 

 the boats cannot venture out hundreds of prawn-traps may be 

 counted on the sea-wall. 



The mentioning Arundel reminds me of the gardens noted 

 during perigrinations into the nooks within a semicircle of ten 

 miles between that dukely town and the sea. The cottage 

 gardens aro well stocked, and the vegetables superior both iu 

 size and quality. The Brocoolis are especially excellent. The 

 Potatoes were nearly all stored long since, and the disease is 

 not said to have appeared even slightly. The farmhouses are 

 all large and substantial ; the gardens of the olden fashion — 

 large squares enclosed by substantial walls, many retaining the 

 topiaried Yews and Box so generally admired when " William 

 of Holland ruled the land." Many evidences exist of the real 

 fondness for gardening that prevails — conservatories attached 

 to the supeiior houses, greenhouses even to the minor dwell- 

 ings ; huge many-flowered masses ot Pampas Grass in even 

 small gardens, Geraniums bedded-out everywhere, especially 

 in circular beds, having large bushes of Fuchsia coecinea in 

 their ceutres. These last-named are uninjured in winter ; and 

 this reminds me that the climate is so mild that the Tamariek 

 continues to bloom in winter, and that masses of Mesembryan- 

 themum cordifolium now in flower on a south border near the 

 sea, remain out and uninjured during that season. The very 

 sign of a public-hoijse bears evidence that a fondness for garden- 

 ing prevails around. I have seen many hostelries inviting by 

 their sign, " The Shoulder of Mutton;" but nowhere, except 

 at Yapton, in one of these Sussex nooks, did I ever see the sign 

 of "The Shoulder of Mutton and Cucumbers." — G. 



STRAWBERRY CULTURE. 



I HOPE the subject of Strawberry culture will not be allowed 

 to drop yet, and that more of your correspondents will give us 

 the benefit of their experience. I have some plants of the 

 Early Prolific, and find them very early. I gathered a few 

 Strawberries on the 2nd of June last, nearly a fortnight before 

 Keens' Seedling, and the flavour was good. If the plants 

 thrive well this Strawberry will be a valuable acquisition ; but 

 I have only had the plants one season, and I can never tell 

 what a Strawberry wUl do until I have had it two or three 

 years. 



I find it impossible to secure a large crop of fruit the first 

 season on our dry soil ; the second is generally the best, but 

 not always, and after that the plants live on as long as you 

 like, but the crop is not so good after seven or eight years. 

 Although plants seldom die iu the ground, they sometimes 

 wear out in another way after a certain time, seem to get 

 tired of the soil, do not bear well even if you put out young 

 runners, and it is necessary to procure a fresh stock from 

 a distance. My object in Strawberiy-growing is to secure 

 a large crop for dessert, and I have found none to beat 

 Trollope's Victoria, with Keens' Seedling to come iu before it, 

 and the Elton after it. I have several on trial — viz., President, 

 Sir Joseph Paxton, La Constante, and Myatl's Prolific, and 

 shall on another occasion be able to tell you what I think of 

 them. — Amateuk, Cirencester. 



Make youh Tuees Beanch Low. — Train yonr Pear trees for 

 garden or field use that they will branch at a distance of 1 or 

 2 feet from the ground. The advantages are easily enume- 

 rated : — 1, It is easy to trim. 2, It is easy to gather the fruit. 

 3, FalUng fruit is little injured. 4, The branches being sturdy, 

 will not be strained by overbearing or over-weight of fruit. 



5, Soil will be kept shady and moist. 6, The trunk will be 

 protected from the scorching sun. 7, The tree v/ill grow more 

 and more beautiful. — {HorlicuUurist.) 



PORTRAITS OF PLANTS, FLOWERS, .^xd FRUITS. 



Ibis tectobuji. Nat. ord., Iridaocaj. Linn., Tiiandria Mono- 

 gynia. — Native of Japan. Flowers purple, with darker stripep. 

 — {Bot. Mag., t. 6118.) 



BoLBOPHYLLDM Datanum. Nat. ord., OrehidacriE. Linn., 

 Gynandria Monogynia. — Native of Teuasserim. Flowers yel- 

 lowish green, purple spotted. — (Ihid , t. 6119.) 



CiNXAMODENDRON coRiicosuM. Nat. ovd., Canellacfa?. Linn., 

 Dodeoandria Monogynia. — Native of the West Indies. Flowers 

 yellow, tipped with crimson. " A well-known West Indian 

 tree, as the Mountain Cinnamon of Jamaica, or Canella bark 

 of that island and St. Thomas, but not the true BriiZilian 

 plant of that name, which is its solitary congener, the C. axil. 

 lare of Endlicher. These two veiy distinct trees were indeed 

 long confounded together, and their bark is still imported 

 under the same name of Canella, and employed largely as an 

 aromatic stimulant to purgatives and tonics, being reputed to- 

 be well adapted for debilitated stomachs. The Caribs (ancient 

 natives of the Antilles) and the negroes of the present day 

 employ it as a condiment. As an aromatic, Pereira says that 

 it ranks between cinnamon and cloves. Mr. Hanbury informs 

 me that the bark was exported during the last century as 

 ' Winter's bark,' and is still found in the market ; as also that 

 it is probably the ' Wild Cinnamon tree of Sloune, commonly 

 but falsely called Cortex Winteranus,' though the tree that he 

 figures ' Phil. Trans.' xvii., 4(55 (1693), is certainly Canella 

 alba. It is a local plant growing iu Jamaica only iu mountain 

 woods of the parishes of St. Thomas-in-the-Vale and St. John."' 

 —{Ibid , t. 6120) 



Deoseea Whittakebii. Nat. ord., Droseiacf OB. Linn., Pent- 

 andria P.sntagynia. — Native of South Australia. Flowers white, 

 but the leaves, green and brown, and haired, are the chief at- 

 traction. " This charming little plant was sent to the Royal' 

 Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh by Mr. W. A. Mitchell, formtrly 

 an employe in that establishment, where it was flowered by 

 Mr. McNab in July last, and sent up to Kew for figuring, with 

 a description by my friend Dr. Balfour, who observed that the 

 sepals were reflexed, and the flowers an inch in diameter when 

 well grown and expanded, a statement fully borne out by the 

 dried specimens. The glandular hairs on the leaf are in all 

 respects like those of D. longifolia, and act precisely in the 

 same manner on being brought into contact with insects ; the 

 leaf itself, however, does not become concave, but retains the 

 remarkable convexity of surface of each half." — [Ibid.,t. 6121.) 

 Pextstehon nuJiiLis. Nut. ord , Scrophulariacefe. Linn.^ 

 Didynamia Angiospermia. — Native of the Rocky Mountains. 

 Flowers dark blue. " It was one of the indefatigable Nuttall's 

 discoveries iu the Rocky Mountains, and it has since been 

 gathered by the naturalists attached to various American and 

 English Government exploring expeditions, amongst others 

 by L'r. Lyall, of the Oregon Boundary Commission, who col- 

 l93t d it at 7000 feet above the sea, between Fort Colville and 

 the Rocky Mountains in 18C7. The plant here representei 

 was sent for figuring by Messrs. Backhouse, of York, who 

 flowered it in June last." — {Ibid., t. G122.) 



Beodi^a volubilis. Nat. ord., Liliaceie. Linn., Triandria 

 Monogynia. — Native of California. Flowers pink. " It waa 

 discovered by Hirtweg in the Sacramento Mountains, Cali- 

 fornia, in 1840, and has since been found by various collectors 

 in Sonora and other places. The scape sometimes attains 

 12 feet in length. 



" The plant figured was raised and sent for figuring by Mr, 

 Thompson, of Ipswich, in July of the present year." — {Ibid,, 

 t. 6123.) 



Clematises, Stella and Fair Rosamond. — " They were both 

 awarded first-class certificates by the Royal Horticultural 

 Society in 187-^, and certainly both well deserved that mark of 

 distinction. They belong, as already mentioned, to the patens 

 section, distinguished by its spring-flowering habit and its 

 ternate foliage, and they both have flowers which are very 

 perceptibly fragrant. Stella is an eight-sepaled variety, the 

 sepals elliptic oblong and stalkless, so that they form a full 

 solid-looking flower close up to the richly-coloured stamens. 

 The colour is a deep bluish mauve, with a conspicuous bar of 

 reddish plum colour down the centre of each sepal ; the fila- 

 ments are white, and the anthers of a chocolate purple, form- 

 ing a conspicuous central tuft. Fair Rosamond has also eight- 



