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ee 1 b.), the long this time up to Christmas. In pots hey are also very are invited. Two prizes are offered ; and we leel sure 
of which, from 4 to 5 feet in —— vered beautiful, and they, have —— found to force woll. that our 83 cultiva at least, will most 
ine hill-sides in ‘countless 3 ads. ese scapes were Among Antirrhinums one was especial y worthy of | cheerfully ond to a movement by which the style of 
clothed, for nearly half their length, with a profusion | notice. amed A. Hendersoni. The and | plant-growing, so long fostered under the encou 
of elegant white flowers, very slightly” tinged with’ a | ground —. as white, n he marked jr ee | aan held out by the Stoke Newington and Highgate 
h i n san be di 
instances, I may mention Ephedra, Dictamnus, Rosa is an exact counterpart of every rn on - —_ It th ms 
Webbiana, Dianthus, and Seu ya — The is s decidedly an 1 While among border plants, flowers last season will not be found on the 2d of 
arboreous vegetation was much the on the it ma ha well e 45 Sn to Hertener November to have been misplaced ; therefore we hope to 
other side of the ba 1 tin e sido“ “of ra ravine Hendersoni, rapa ybrid, raised believe | have such an exhibition of our favourite antumn flower 
was well clothed with Pines, of all the four inary betwee een D. chilense i D. elatum * Its as shall leave an impression, that florists can | produce 
species ; the left side was u y „the “northern are azure blue, large: and attractive. Iti is just st walten vated plants, as well as fine flowers, in a cut 
faces of the ‘spurs, whic the hol generally wooded, ‘being —_ 2 . J. A. 
too precipitous, but in the hollows the prineipal di lay being over. A shrub by yello 
small — * 1 of trees, principally Pine, Walnut, and | (En ane 9 E colenaie — will also make a saan ehe : J K. You tid bettor inarch them u may e 
Sycam 
Ri 
in tre end of Marel 
plant in the herbaceous border. Among the newer Cauwations awo Piex ne tr $ tt has haay settled 
Det we — conclude ; plenty of similar information kinds of Verbenas planted out for trial, the fol- — 8 Mobing for 1853 shall be held at Derby ; 
is to be found scattered through Dr. Thomson’s pages. | lowing appeared to be the best:— Madame Legras, | pita Snow. The lutended gane 
. Notring-hill Meeting, advertise 
„ white, striped with liae up the middie 8 in onr columns ast werk 8 r 
se Ri g now postponed to the lech of September 
arden Memoranda. phigh violet, compact 3 to 3 the 3 my Re th have nee 2 ‘the right kind - 
Mr. E. G. "a = Ti w of th w. whites, 1 * unequal to some of the cuttings, Take the ame 18 * asert tiem in a shady 
j a r without gle f which there has been no need thia 
Sr. Joun’s Woop.— The Wallich Lily (Lilium Wallichi. older —2 ; Orinthey Beauty, warm Dace colour with | reason. In regard to o hybrid i-ing, remove the stamens from 
anum) has just flowered here, and a truly magnificent | a white eye, fine in form and showy ; h Kent, — ny yl — > be . 7 17 on beten un Mave —— teir 
thing it is. The blossoms are pure white, and very | one of the best — kinda; 3 — . 1 
striking, on account of their size. One which we dark . erimson, an — a Koh-i: noor, cross. To obtain the best results, employ rn Ade 
measured was 7 inches across the mouth, and that on rosy salm — one of the — flow sorts in $ — N ~ he s'i : he — 7 
3.1 3 TURN IAS: * e have seen one “or wo — 8 U s 
a comparatively small plant, which occupied a 3-inch 8 gar finally Eliza Cook, bright rose with a haion similar to yours, We fear you will not ee Fagen 
pot last spring. We may, therefore, reasonably expect | white to centre. hese are al kinds. Phloxes, perpe“unte it. 
rger flowers still from strong specimens, which, when China Asters, and other bedding plants are just now Pixxs: 4 B. The novelties of the season will doubtless be 
The h 
well bloomed, must produce a grand effect. e house | exceedingly gay, and altogether open ground plants nne mne 
in which this Lily is blooming is filled with seedlings of | look better than might be expected, considering the | cougpyte: r Prizes received for the Exhibition of the Shackle- 
Hol ; tin fu eavy rains to which they have en subjected, well, Stoke Newington, and Society, to 
Lilium lancifolium speciosum, which are now in f to h they have lately be bjected Newingto Hackney Ploral Socie be 
blossom, and are of themselves well worth a visit. All of Wysyarp Pank, Srockton-on-l'res, Tue Seat op| held on Wednesday, September 1; ‘and of tbe North Lon 
them bear close blance to iosum, as fa Marqui Lonponperry.—There is at present, Soperasber ta ane js * Nr 
as colour is concerned, but great diversity exi in a ridge and -roofed conservatory at lace, | Tetris: JC. Too much care cannot be bestowed in packing 
ong them in regard to e, some having na an Oleander with 580 fully expanded blooms upon it burbs for transmission or other conveyance : we have 
twisted petals, s and worthless, while the majority | and, judging fi the large quantity of b m- — teil 8 injury, men is ag — 
are extremely handsome in form and beautiful in colour, yet to open, there can be no doubt that it will continue | detract — heey growth and perfciton of the Mair yin 4 
and in all respects an improvement on the parent. Few | in great beauty for onl weeks to come, M. B., A u wool should be used, and enough to prevent any shakin in 
plants produce half so grand a display in = 2 ouse the box oF package; as) ball the mischief that tales 
or conservatory, at this season, as these Japan Lilies, amery arises from slack . Flow 
and yet, P to aa — puin are far from being common FLORICULTURE. Dams: W M. Hornchurch Biauty is a 3 bold 
al ther : arts > of 7 e woul — — — — colour a lively — . 3 3 and 
all, therefore, who are i interested in jar f autumn owers| Seep Savine : Dantras:—Multitudes — nov — — Pet sa z ; — a Tae 
e collections of this plant while in blossom every year submitted for inspection , ral —— nt enough, Jet compact pony an 
at Mr. Groom’s or Mr. Hen erson’s, and then we are | floral exhibitions, and no one can deny tha e Beauty, a small dull orange, with vere tips on the under 
sure that this fine Lily will meet with that encou is not progressing ; but still we have side of the | pe ale, bronze tips on the face; stout, smooth, 
ment which it so well deserves. One house here is at that less welldirected — y and forethought — e eee ay u sanare b S 
present devoted to Fuchsias, among which are some | bestowed upon the subject of seed saving than on any | tipped with white; the petals, being inclined to reflex and 
promising b one or two of the best of which | other branch of the — the common routine of abrolutely ely ribby, must prevent its taking a place amongst 
were stated to have been raised by + Smith, | cultivation which is necessary for d i 4 
y y for decorative and exhi- y T H. Not ood as many light coloured kinds 
when manager to Mr. Whalley of. Liverpool. The bitional purposes is studiously followed and well carried — in 99 — H. Eng! mod's Glock ts bold and 
kinds most — of 3 were Splendidis- out. There are few counties in England that cannot boast} graceful; corolla smooth 3 1 — he 
ose flowers are large and showy, the crimson | of at least one flower show during the season, and few purplish’ crimson, tube ent sepals pinkish white, w 
i " i oa adi h th surf its oni abe back l, a narrowness of the 
sepals being sufficiently reflexed to show off to advan-| indeed that do not lay claim to a — — in pe eit e 
2 the * violet purple corolla; Commodore, a bold particular; and appended —— —— schedules there is a — 
ood substance, with a rich plum- coloured class specially set apart for ings, which invariably 
corolla, wus bright carmine tube and sepals ; Gem of the | form the great attraction pron — — but yet, Miscellaneous. 
ason, a profuse flowerer, with smooth glossy crimson | with all that encoura; gement, the fact can — be denied | The late Mr. Downing, of New Fork. — Among the 
tube and sepals, and deep purple corolla; Hendersoni, | that we proceed in an incautious way (to use a mild | sufferers by the burning of the Henry Clay steamboat, 
a showy variety, with deep purple semi-double corolla; | term) to effect what many strive for; viz, the in the waters of the Hudson, lately recorded in 3 
and last, but not ing 4 * 1 
Mr. A 
least, Purp le Perfection, a fine, „quite new flower, | not the 1 practice, is to gat -oni seed some- known asa writer on landsca ening and rural 
with beautifully ge crimson sepals, and violet- tint after the he following method: —The gardener says architecture. Mr. Downing’s works are familiar j to a 
purple corolla, This is certainly one of the most| to his mantay We had a frost * ee ee has large class of English readers, and he had many pers onal 
desirable of the dark kinds. Among — iso cut down — — Salvias, Ver Ke. ; friends in this country. In America his death wil be 
Sorts, the best was Duchess of Lancaster ; idonia | and not a green leaf i * left on the Dahlias. ae * “Well, recorded as a national loss. 
8 though not new, is remarkable w: —.— t| says the master, “go and look after the seed, you wil! Apple Marmalacle.— Peel and core two pounds sub 
of i pup It is something in the way | doubtless save plenty, m that 1 have been produced | acid apples and put them in an enamelled saucepan with 
— Venus — but in all respects a great improve- by the latest bloo course Mr. Gardener does — pint of sweet eider, or half a pint of pure wine, and 
variety. In addition to the above, as he is — 1 — — we will cae to say is the | one pound of crushed sugar, and cook them be a gen 
— were Pay others all possessing more or less oe of a large number of those who, year by = rare three hours, or longer, until the fruit is very $ 
merit. In one of the frames we noticed several] save seed, sow it, grow it, and, alas! blow it! Now, and then squeeze it rough a colander and then 
of a very Heliotrope, called II. Voltaire- Siete long would Eng fi i | through a sieve. If not t sufficiently sweet, add powdered 
anum nanum, It has the fine deep colour of the Voltaire more t paid to saving rohi 3 75 to a iia taste, and put away in jars made air- 
Heliotrope, with good foliage and compact habit | in cother apartments than is 3 in the case of the a. by a piece of wet bladder. It is delicious a 
scarcely in any instance rising above 6 or 7 inches in| Dah Take, for nee, on garden vege- | eaten with milk, 2 still better with cream, Amer 
height. It will therefore be found very suitable for a — 8 e on — —— t sh ral urity and 3 
rockwork, or for planting round the margin of certainty ; on the —— mere ee ; yet so it is. Now, Cultivation of py ene —I make it 
filled with some — — . kinds of Heliotrope, — if the following rules are attended to they may be pro- examine the stock under my care about thie — — 
By far the most e plants in the open ground at | ductive of some good, and the present is a proper time January or the beginning of —— and those 
Present are Hell hocks and Gladioli. Of the latter, to apply them, before our plants have lost er wanted to bloom in April are then selected and 
is a fine collection — and most of the autumn vigour ; ee at 3 begin a a d i- examined as to their drainage; if their roots are 
Blooming kinds are just now in perfection, while the — to seed from the fine t, blooms that | decayed, all the mould is at once shaken off, and the 
early sor are over, and the bulbs being taken up and ced’; in net tlie sodal b of your | bulbs are then re-potted in a mixture composed of onee 
placed in their winter quarters, an operation which Dake of be produced ton, of Mr. Seldon, Tri Tamning or of | third loam, one-third peat, and one-third rotten dung, 
must be performed immediately the foliage has become | any other variety; secure the same to a stake, and with a liberal p sinew oe — nore ; they are 
withered, or most of the varieties are apt to let it arrive at maturity without overshading. Allow placed in — ure o 0 degrees Fabr., and 
push again, and thereby prevent their flowering so well | the branch, or even limb, to produce no other flowers | watered very s ping wnt res — spike has grown 
next year. in bloom now are chiefly confined to than the one selected; and moreover aim not at saving | 6 or 8 inches; mania 
aor and hybrids between it and other high- 3 naturally uncertain e nor from plants een. more ae Lee ee at is applied ; if on 
coloured late sorts. Man them are very beautiful, | that not e constitutionally si g and vigorous, nor other 3 ~ is wanted t their growth, 
and rising as they do from 3 feet to 5 feet in height, they e even the best sorts a — so far a 3 and hea withheld ; — rer on examining the 
8 showy and effec ir p place, the season that the debilitating influence of r | pots; nie oe “fou in a i: 
8 is rather in front se eee borders in the ne may be operating on the parent. By a attending | dispense with the potting at that time, as I = — 
of single specimens two together, than | to our advice you will find yourself, at the end of the them after the foliage has grown al 1 — 
asses in in Which, though te are very ants senson, as i ~ 2 of valuable material that — they have dene flowering, I place them on the 
oe a somewhat ce. A narrow | give action than whole acres of seed- | shelf of a stove, or vinery, or in a t that can n t 
a er Fer», of som e 200 ya . a — ength, contains a row * — the ne of half formed flowers, and from | warm; I then water and syringe ty sar mad an aie 
3 ia imbrica’a, intermixed with dwarf Rhodo- | degenerated or worn-out: plants As a closing eee foliage assumes:a-yellow tinge ; water 1s then g b 1 
Tons, and behind them is a row of G. Gandavensis never save a pod of seed after the second week in| withheld until the foliage has parted ‘from the bulb, 
ep ee 
e when 
webs gen Perpetual or Tree ation is another Tun Curysanriemum.—Permit to direct the their sides at the warm en 
pe which can hardly be too extensively cultivated, | attention of grow ers of this flower to ‘tie Horticultural | the stage, till the following spri he remarks, as to 
= y. 5 j L | Society’s advertisement in another page, wherein it will: —.— do not apply to all kinds alike as s Hippenstrom 
ot e best varieties of it are trained against a dwarf | be found that ae ar et of sera sere cultivated: aulieum and one or two others do lose their 
here, where, owing to their dry position and i ceeding 1] inches in inside measurement, | foliage during winter. The sof —— these is 
ve immunity from frost, they fi ung 
3 be ex on L day, Nov. ripe 12 o'clock, only by keeping them ane ee 1 and cool 
