May 14, 1674. ] 



JOURNAL OF HOBTICDLTDRH AND COTTAGE GAEDENEB. 



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primendnm solum. " So that ho must liave tegun with his 

 pen almost as soon as with his plough, for the work is dedicated 

 " To the right honorable and myspeciall good lord and maister, 

 the lord Paget, lord privie seal," an office his lordship iirst at- 

 tained in 1553, and in that year we have seen it is probable 

 Tnsser went first to Braham. Some of the lines in the de- 

 dication confirm our opinion as to the cause of his leaving 

 London — namely, that the Roman Catholic faith prevailed, 

 and was accepted by his patron ; so as he remained a Pro- 

 testant, he observes, " More in Court I may not be." There 

 he evidently had devoted himself to siuging not only in the 

 choir but on festive occasions, for in the same dedication he 

 Fays— 



" So Bynce I was, at Cambridge taught. 



Of court ten yeres, I made a say : 



No musike than, was left unsought, 



A cai'e I had, to servo that way." 



He from the first found that though he could tell what 

 ought to bo done, he could not do it himself profitably, for 

 there is a shadow over these last lines of the dedication — 



*' My musike synce, hath bepn the plough, 

 Entangled, with novae care amonK: 

 The gayn not gi'eat, the payn enough, 

 Hath made me syng, another song." 



We will make a few extracts from this unique pamphlet, for, 

 besides the copy at the British Museum, none other is known. 

 Our extracts shall be confined to subjects appropriate to our 

 pages. 



lu October he directs — 



" The mone in the wane, gather fruit on the tree : 

 The riper the better, for grafTe and fur thee." 



In November — 



" Set gardeine beanes, after sainte Edmonde the king : 

 the moone in the wane, thereon hangeth a thing. 

 Theucrease of one gallonde, well proved of wome: 

 shall pleasure thy householde, ere peskod time come." 



In March he makes a digression to " a point or two of 

 huswifrie," for the wife was then the garden manager — 

 *' In Marche and in Apriil, from morning to nifjht, 

 in Bowiug and setting, good huswives delight. 

 To have in their gardein or some other plot : 

 to trim up their house, and to Inruish their pot. 

 Have milloDS at Michelmas, parsneps in lent: 

 in June buttred beanes, saveth tifih to be spent." 



In June, writing of bees, he says — • 



" At Christmas take hede, if their hives be to light : 

 take honey and water, tcgether wel di^dit. 

 That mixed with strawes, in a dish in their hives : 

 they druwne not, they tight not, thou savcst their lyves." 



POETRAITS OF PLANTS, FLOWEES, AND 

 FRUITS. 



XipniON SiSYEiscHiUM. A'af. or*/., IridaceiE. iui?!.,Trian- 

 dria Monogynia. — " This lovely little plant is the most widely 

 diffused of all the Iridete, extending from Spain and Maroceo 

 to Turkey and Egypt, in Europe and Africn, respectively, and 

 thence eastward through Syria and Arabia to Affghanistan and 

 Beloochistan. It further, probably, passes the confines of the 

 British Indies, as my correspondent, Dr. Aitcheson, informs 

 me by a letter just received that he has found a bulbous Iris 

 in the North-western Punjab, which, from his description, may 

 well be this. It will be observed that this is the Moriea Sisy- 

 rinchium figured in this work (tab. 1407), but so indiiJerently 

 as hardly to be recognisable. It was introduced into England 

 before the days of Gerard (1597), but is still scarce, being often 

 killed by frost. Tbe plants here figured flowered at Kew iu 

 May of last year from bulbs sent by D.Haubury, Esq.,F.R.S., 

 from Calabria. Tbe bulbs are said {Bot. Mari. I. c.) to be eaten 

 in Spain and Portugal, whence Gerard and Parkinson called 

 them Spanish nuts ; but I cannot confirm this statement." 

 — (£o(. Mag., t. C096.) 



EcHiNOc.iCTCS CuMMiNGii. ^at. Orel., Caetacese. Linn., 

 Icosandria Monogynia. — " A very elegant little globose Cactus, 

 with rather large bright golden flowers, eommuuie.ited to Kew 

 by Mr. Pferfsdorff in June of last year ; it is stated by Labourfit 

 and Salm-Dyck to be a native of Bolivia, and to be very rare 

 iu Europe, but one specimen, according to the former author, 

 existing iu France (in 1817), which was in the collection of 

 M. Andry, of Chaillot. I give it the name under which Mr. 

 Pferfsdorff sends it, assuming it to be correct : it agrees with 

 Labouret's character in everything but the size of the flowers, 

 which are described as " petites," whereas these are of con- 



siderable size in proportion to the size of the plant." — {Ibid., 

 t. 6097.) 



Epidendbuji (Barkeria) Lisdletanum. Nat. ord., Orchid- 

 acea;. Linn., Gynandria Monandria.— " E. Lindleyanum is a 

 native of Costa Rica, where it was discovered by tbe late Mr. 

 Skinner. The specimen here figured flowered iu Mr. Veitch's 

 estabhshment iu December last, and has larger flowers of a 

 paler colour than those of the plant figured by Bateman, and 

 by Paxton in his Magazine." — (ibid,, t. 6098.) 



Senecio (Kleixlv) ANTEOPnoBBiuM. Nat. ord., Compositte. 

 Linn., Syngenesia superflua. — " 'J'he subject of the present 

 plate is one of the oldest Cape plants in cultivation, having, 

 according to Dodouoius, been brought to Europe in 1570, and 

 cultivated in England in Gerard's garden in 1596. Neverthe- 

 less, its recent South African habitat is up to this date un- 

 known, no accurate description of it has hitherto appeared, 

 and it has been but once seen in flower in Europe until I re- 

 ceived the specimen from which the accompanying drawing 

 was made iu January last from Mr. T. Hanbury's garden at 

 Palazzo Orengo, near Mentone." — (Ibid., t. 6099 ) 



Regelia ciliata. Nat. ord., Myrtaeea?. Linn., Polyadel- 

 phia Polyandria.— " This genus, named after the distinguished 

 and indefatigable botanist and Superintendent of Culture iu 

 the Imperial Botanical Gardens of St. Petersburg, consists of 

 three West AustraUan plauts, which, with the habit of Metro- 

 sideros, are closely allied to Beaufortia, differing chiefly iii the 

 form of the anthers and number of ovules. By far the finest 

 of them is the R. grandiflora, Benth., vhich. has never yet been 

 introduced into cultiv.ation, and iu which the apparently 

 scarlet bundles of stamens are an inch long, and the leaves, 

 which are many times larger than those of R. ciliata, and 

 clothed with a white silky pubescence. All are greenhouse 

 hardwooded plants. The species has been cultivated for some 

 years at Kew, flowering in September, and I have also received 

 it in a flowering state from Messrs. Backhouse, of York." — 

 {Ibid., t. 6100.) 



Senecio Dokonioum var. Hosjiaeiexsis. Nat. ord., Com- 

 positfe. Linn., Syngenesia superflua. — " A very handsome and 

 not uncommon South European plant, extending from the 

 Pyrenees to Transylvania, inhabiting considerable elevations 

 in those countries, attaining a foot or two in height, with 

 heads 2 inches in diameter. On the southern shores of the 

 Mediterranean it has hitherto been found only in the northern 

 mountains of Maroceo, where it was discovered on Beni- 

 Hosmar, a rugged limestone mass close to Tetuan, by Messrs. 

 Ball, Maw, and myself iu April, 1871, at an elevation of about 

 SOOO feet, growing in dry rocky places. In this state it forms 

 a very pretty rockwork plant, flowering in May in England. 

 The specimen here figured is frrm Mr. Maw's rich garden of 

 herbaceous plants at Benthall Hall, near Broseley, in Shrop- 

 shire."— (/ftirf., t. 6101.) 



B.osE—Pfach Bln.^som.—" This new Hvbrid Perpetual Rose 

 is a large, full, and exquisitely shaped flower, the tint being 

 that of a delicate peaeh-blossom, a colour which we have not 

 hitherto obtained amongst Hybrid Perpetual Roses. The 

 growth of the plant is vigorous, and the constitution hardy; 

 and whUe from its size, symmetry, and fulness it is a de- 

 sirable variety for the exhibitor, it is, on account of its colour, 

 hardiness, and freedom of growth and flowering, of undoubted 

 value as a decorative Rose for the garden. 



" It is, moreover, a veritable English Rose, having been 

 raised by Mr. WUliara Paul, of the Nurseries, Waltham Cross, 

 from English seed, and being one of a very few selected by him 

 from some thousands of seedUngs. It has, we are informed, 

 been three years under trial, and proves constant both in 

 character and colour." — {Floriat and Pomologist, 3 s., vii. 97.) 



Gooseberries — Gather ina — Henaon's Secdlimj. — " Catherina 

 was obligingly sent to us last season, with many others of 

 excellent quality, by Mr. C. Lister, of Macclesfield. It is of 

 large size and very handsome appear.ance ; it belongs to the 

 class of hairy yellows, and being possessed of a good flavour, 

 it is iu every way deserving of cultivation for its quality as a 

 dessert fruit, as well as for its merits as a favourite exhibition 

 kind. 



" Hensoii's Seedling is a novelty brought before the Royal 

 Horticultural Society last year by Mr. Hensou, of Newark, 

 near Peterborough, when it was found to be of exceedingly good 

 quality, and was awarded a first-class certificate as a new and 

 distinct variety. It is stated to be a chance seedling, having 

 been originally taken from a hedge in the neighbourhood of, 

 Peterborough, and not a garden-raised sort. However this 

 may be, it is a finely-flavoured variety, w<;'i Torthy of cult;- 



