THE 
DECEMBER 5, 1874.] 
€? GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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yermilio! 
ost probably, si collector, Mr. W. 
bye here in the Western 
ke 
I hav 
SE aeipication. z G. Rch 
FLOWER GARDENING AT 
CLEVELAND HOUSE, CLAPHAM PARK. 
_ WHEN the fashion of summer bedding first cam 
e to oe wit 
who could propagate and find room to plant the 
greatest num mbers, The s system became a complete 
rage, 
In hundreds of places it completely elbowed out of 
ofthe way in any corner, comparatively neglected for 
_ things of short and uncertain dur. “he garden 
foe more than half the year was per “bla , to relieve 
which rted 
t when at its height, 
yi r the greater part of 
he year with a palasio o of glaring chars during the 
and 
approved 
m datn pars a where all has b 
oved tha 
bo 
en, s 
of Brown and Repton, what 
experience could you see th e doings 
y a fine old place! soon 
ave thought of tattooing your faces s 
$ n such situations. t there 
eat may be hideously Gat 
in co 
rried to—the 
of colour introduced, to athe exclusion of beauty 
Seog ae, rrors in the 
bedding, 
here form pen 
floweri lants. No 
arie baii lei 
stand where it can istract 
draw or di 
n view, which it must 
co ptcetin ent af mansion com- 
xJ€“— 
splendid orange inside; er — it would appear to give 
: i a group of the scarlet and 
It was discovered 
Dav 
Cordilleras of South 
aoe such, Yet En is scarcely a place in the 
kingdom, large or small, wherein a situation cannot be 
found go may with tage be ied by 
ern Hower-garden without interfe: b - 
ably with the surroundin Tea, lg ay 
rather, i 
instances nothing could be bett 
and withdra aie a calculated” to attract 
in the dietas 
or I2 acres in 
extent, the garden inept occupying, say, one-sixth 
o the whole, the rest devoted to meadow, and pas- 
is just the place to illustrate the most ap- 
phopriats site aad a flo 
purpose of withdrawing the 
to ‘tse condition al deficient in sare ey 
ade 
credit, 
departments, w ach were equally well cared rd 
done; some eight or ten houses fill th a fine 
tion of yo stove and gree Di iingat 
the former several new Crotons, such as C. Weis- 
manni and C. Johannis, with foliage of an extraordi- 
nary size and colour; some ameme Be ort Nepenth 
Ixoras, and Dipladenias, with t 
and vigour o wth about rite that is îs evidence re 
ing it it upon an object by far the oo of i its kind 
I have ever seen, Previous to seei 
had heard much of it from persons 
artistic flower gardeni 
wi 
used 
of ao usual description, but 
the gene oduced 
of P plants, their much more than shea d strength 
no description can convey. 
ome idea "of the Is labour tg to this po may 
magin en tated, and I have no 
doubt ni hé that ‘the sees princi Par 
19,000 plants. The outside circular beds, fi 
with large foliage plants ar AS, 5, feet in high 
every plant a picture of and vi 
indenetide mt of their own ner A vontiibatad 
much to the general effect, counteracting what would 
p 
"SE 
ens—effe Eei. destroying any p ons 
yay have o wal garden art, and reducing them 
he flower gar and m by Mr. 
£88, a Ra : 5 clever cad. intelligent gardener, and 
does also the other 
There is considerably more bedding, equally ton 
ed wi 
opps ng pad a single wea 
them on the time of my i visit (the end of ognst) 5 tb 
rig ey badly healthy and tae 
a splendid 1 ror pore 
coon well bat ot ar Enar 
trained The kitchen garden was full of vege- 
tables—a state Kz marien not to bes ae everyw 
is parching season. e place altogether, so far as 
en size would pm it, Baa vidence of what may be 
ccomplis by the — of ability and liberal 
ceapnibageitiens. T. Bat 
A TO THE gga 
bed, 
The centre 
si 739-) 
ernan- 
imilar_ one of 
thera amoena, an 
m 
re, aren Fe ng 
cree of which is 
arching bands, wit ncavity directed awi ds, of 
Echeveria secunda glauca, ere g aoa of oe 
The series of circles which come 
outside the latter are compos a of a one of Aier. 
aa amoena, bordered with Pyrethrums. The four 
which encircle nl whole are filled from 
N out in the 2 gk aah 
Alternanthera versicolor, by two rows of $ zal la 
folium variegatum. e 
Re bets consist of a ~ central dagger-shaped 
m i va in a setting oe then | Very 
pascal giar ide which is a single row of 
amabilis. ‘Then follow a series of oblon alt 
with circular, panels; the oblon jong panels ae ‘planted 
th a centre of Echeveria secunda glauca ered 
circles sist of a 
Alternanthera nychioides, Th 
cen pe ak enci 
wo bands—the inner a7 Alternanthera paronychioides 
mri and m Po of Pyre 
DD. of these tie vostig Alternan- 
Sempervivum calcareu — ina 
Pyrethrums, the two outside rows being 
of Alternan thera paronychioides and Echeveria secunda 
uca outside, 
E. I, | 
wy a, G u 
G. 1, Melianthus major ; 2, Ch 
H, x, Solanum robustum ; e 
1. 1, CannaChateigrandis; 2, p re enar per 
icotiana wigandioides ; 
g 
4] 
Ts 
oo 
As 
os 
w 
J. 1, Nico’ 
splende 
tomeri M. "= 
nospora pilica, aurea ; 
gata; P. Abies polita ; 
Picea Nordm: anniana. 
re. aa tanas ts 
NOTES dries E LANSAR S 
November 7.—-The soft diprgpee Parron still spares 
the flowers the rains have left u 
e . as 
ums are again 
The year has all 
but completed its circle since first I wrote these notes, 
and I speak to-day of 
* The autumn’s leafy ne lay sitewed 
e forest pat 
The goed had lost its s haunted shade, 
The nightingale her 
Had there been in happier days a “' ayie” beyond 
the charm of waving branches and whispering leaves? 
Another French poem on a ly waren yt K -E 
known, for it was Macaulay w ault’s 
verses, and readied the last nes egg i pers 
fectly :— 
[“ Je vais où va toute chose, 
Où va la feuille de 
y's rose.’ 
the thic 
Elders are Such | once com- 
mr and then they got so wae pole often so out 
lace, that they became absurd. Every villa garden 
ak ie its statue and its rockery. es 
Batty Lang 
says : ER ‘Nothin 
ng adds so mazs to the beauty 
ne statues, and nothing 
cados,” and and. for i 
ert te Tope. he oad ice aerove of my own 
humble idea, which is a statue of Hyacinthus, 
