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JOURNAL OP HORTIOULTUBB AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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walk there are a great number of standard Roses, whioh in 

 summer are very beautiful. This border is 100 yards long with 

 a walk 12 feet wide ; on eaoh side of the walk spring Howera are 

 planted, such as red and white Daisies, Golden Feather Pyre- 

 thrum, Forget-me-not, Primroses, &b. 



The glass houses arc very old, aud grown in a vinery there 

 is a good Vino of Earbarossa, showing splendid bunches from 

 every eyo ; it is trained and pruned almost like a Peach tree, 

 and by this simple process Mr. Grey succeeds in getting 

 abundance of fruit every year. In this house there was a great 

 number of bedding-out plants, Humea elegans, and other 

 plants for furnishing purposes. In a small greenhouse I 

 noticed nice young plants of Adiantum assimUe, A. farleyenso, 

 A. pentadactylon, Asplenium Belangerii, A. bulbiferum.Lomaria 

 gibba, Pteris scaberula — one of the finest Pterises grown ; 

 some noble plants of Imantophyllum miuiatum, and large 



plants in flower of Amaryllis. On a shelf were a quantity of 

 large plants of that most useful Orchid Cypripedium insigne. 



Strawberries are forced in pits ; the sort most grown is 

 Keens' Seedling. Cucumbers are also grown in pits ; Tele- 

 graph is the variety reUed on. 



In the gardens Peaches have set a moderate crop ; vege- 

 tables look healthy, and are in abundance. Deep digging and 

 plenty of manure seem to be the means employed to secure 

 quick-grown and large suppUes. On a small piece of ground in 

 the kitchen garden I saw a number of young plants, which are 

 to bo grown here one year before being planted in their 

 permanent quarters ; among them I noticed Acer polymorphum 

 atropurpureum, a highly ornamental Maple from Japan, with 

 splendid dark purple foliage, forming a hardy bushy Hhrub, 

 and Aralia spinosa ; these constitute Cue ornaments for plant- 

 ing singly on a lawn or forming into groups ; they have straight 



^TEW ra THE GROUNDS AT NOKMANTON.* 



stems, and their foliage is spiny. Others were Thuja aurea, 

 Eetinospora plumosa, Sambucus racemosa in flower, this has 

 pretty red berries in autumn ; Acer argenteum, with silvery 

 leaves ; Shepherdia argentea, Cornus mascula, and Colutea 

 orenata. 



The pleasure grounds, flower gardens, and kitchen gai'den 

 are all near to the haU, and they contain many interesting 

 objects. I have only named a few of them. Good order was 

 the rule everywhere, and abundant evidence on every hand 

 that employer and gardener take great interest in the pursuit 

 of horticulture. — I. Smith, Extov Park Gardens, Rutland. 



HEATING. 

 Permit me, in reply to what " W." stated in your paper of 

 the 18th, to assure him that Messrs. Rivers have at work our 

 boilers, aud one adapted to the principle of an Arnott stove 

 made by us ; but in place of the usual fire lumps we insert a 

 close-coil pipe, which is the boiler proper. Special attention 

 is called to this close coil, as wo find others have been in the 

 market with an adaptation of the same, but the case of their 

 stove is in consequence burnt away and rendered useless, and 

 it has proved a failure ; but onr patent consists in this coil 



♦ From a photograph by Messrs. Ooaains Sf Priest, ol Grantham. 



being close, bo that no fire can exist in the stove but what is 

 encircled by this coil, the fire being fed from above by a coned 

 cylinder, and it wiU last any number of hours. Messrs. Rivers 

 have in one of their vineries one of our No. 5 stoves heating 

 some 230 feet of pipe, and it is the surprise of all who see it 

 for the great heating power and small quantity of lire required. 

 — Samuel Deabds, i/nrioic. 



NOTES ON VILLA and SUBURBAN GARDENING. 



The Treatment of Window Plants during the Summer Months. 

 —Although indoor gardening loses much of its interest in sum- 

 mer when Nature is so prodigal of her beauties in the open 

 air, still the amateur will find great interest in adorning his 

 windows with his choicest productions. Nothing can have a 

 finer effect in a drawing-room or sitting-room than a flower 

 bloomed well in a pot and tastefully trained; and windows filled 

 with healthy Pelargoniums, Fuchsias, &c., convey a sense of 

 refreshing coolness to the apartment. To keep up a succession 

 of flowering plants requires some forethought, and many are 

 discouraged by apparent difficulties. I hope by a few plain rules 

 to assist those who garden on a small scale and have no green- 

 house, in the art of securing a succession of handsome flowers, 

 BO that the charms which a household flora confers may be 

 their own. 



Presuming that you have a frame, and that your stock of 

 plants Tvas repotted according to former directions, you will now 



