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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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striking. We often lose by not placing near each other the 

 plants which not only harmonise in colour, but come into 

 flower at the same time, so that perhaps this hint as to the 

 effect of one accidental combination may be of use. — C. 



DOUBLE AND TEEBLE CROPPING. 



I THINK it would not be amiss if some of our practical 

 men were to give us a few articles on kitchen-gardening, 

 and we were to compare notes. If each gave his own expe- 

 rience it would be very beneficial to young gardeners, parti- 

 cularly in these go-a-head days, and I have no doubt but 

 that you will give us your assistance. 



In the first place I am not writing to or for our more for- 

 tunate brethren who have their two or three acres of kitchen 

 garden, and a good staff of men to work it, but to those 

 who are situated like myself, with about half an acre of 

 ground on which to grow fruit, vegetables, and salads for 

 a large establishment, and living within an easy distance of 

 Covent Garden market, which I consider makes a great 

 difference in the wants of the kitchen department. 



Now, suppose we take a piece of ground intended for early 

 Peas. After having it dug deeply and well manm'ed the Peas 

 are sown on the 1st of January, and are cleared oif by the 

 middle of July ; the ground is then dug again and planted 

 with Cole worts, not forgetting to put plenty of manure in 

 with them. The Coleworts come in nicely for early autumn 

 use, after which the ground is ridged, and Endive planted 

 in the furrows, making three crops in one year, and leaving 

 the ground in good order for the next. 



Again, by sowing the Scarlet Runners and tall-growing 

 Peas 5 or 6 feet apart, I can plant two rows of winter stuff 

 between the rows, so that when the Peas, &c., are done with, 

 and the sticks and haulm cleared off, I have a good coat 

 of manure forked in, and the earth worked towards the 

 stems of the plants, leaving all neat and clean for the 

 winter ; or', if appearances are not an object, the pea rods 

 being left form a capital protection for the more tender 

 kinds of winter crops, as Bi-occoH, Savoys, &o. 



Then, again, as regards the ground upon which the spring 

 Cabbages are growing. Between the rows of Cabbage I plant 

 Potatoes, so that when the Cabbages are cut the Potatoes 

 are ready for earthing up. After the Potatoes are taken up. 

 and the ground well manured, I generally sow my winter 

 Spinach on that piece. For early Potatoes I select a piece 

 of ground lying under the south aspect wall. When the 

 Potatoes are planted I sow Radishes and Lettuces on the 

 top, so that when the Radishes are all pulled, and the 

 Lettuces pricked out elsewhere, the Potatoes are ready to 

 flat-hoe. When the Potatoes are dug the ground is planted 

 with the first batch of Savoys, which are generally o'i' in 

 time to allow of the ground being trenched ready for the 

 next season's work. Between the rows of second early Peas 

 I generally throw out my Celery trenches, and before the 

 Celery is ready to plant I work my Cauliflowers off in the 

 same trenches, and by the time the Cauliflowers are cut, and 

 the Celery just established, the Peas are ready to come off. 

 leaving plenty of room for the Celery, earthing-up, (fee! 

 Thus by deep digging, frequent flat-hoeing, changing the 

 crops, and last, though not least, an unlimited supply of 

 manure, I generally manage to have two or three crops 

 a-year off the same ground, and seldom or never fail to have 

 a good supply of vegetables and salads — in fact the past 

 summer and winter would soon convince one whether his 

 system were right or not in that respect, and though I 

 must confess it is hard work for the land, yet in my opinion 

 the land is better every year. 



I do not know that there is anything new in my system, 

 but the desire to impart information as far as the preceding 

 random hints will do so, has induced me to pen the above with 

 the hope that some one more capable than myself will take 

 the matter up, and give us a few good articles on kitchen- 

 gardening in general, and one of the first to profit by them 

 will be— BuENTwooD, P. D. 



LrvEBPooii Floral and Horticultubal Exhibition 

 Society.— The meetings of this Society will be held in the 

 Botanic Garden on the 25th of May, the 29th of June, and 



31st of August. Liberal prizes are offered for Azaleas, 

 Pelargoniums, and other flowering plants, also for fruit and 

 vegetables. 



THE POLES NEAE WAEE. 

 About a mUe and a half from the Ware Station of the 

 Great Eastern Railway, is The Poles, the seat of R. Haubury, 

 Esq., one of those gentlemen, who, possessed of an ample 

 fortune, delight in gardening and rural pursuits. Entering 

 from the road leading to Wade's Mill by a modest lodge, 

 the visitor passes along a winding drive through a plea- 

 santly undulating park of about a hundred acres, dotted 

 with Oaks and Elms, and old Thorns, and through a belt of 

 newly-planted Rhododendrons, which when they shall have 

 attained a larger size, will, doubtless, in their flowering 

 season have a very ornamental effect. In front of the 

 mansion is a well-kept lawn, with here and there Welling- 

 tonias, Abies Douglasii, and Cedars of Lebanon, and further 

 off the pinetum. Turning, however, to the right we come 

 to the conservatory on the south side of the house. It opens 

 into the drawing-room and library, and at the time of onr 

 visit was filled with Camellias, and various other flowering 

 plants, together with a noble specimen of Cyathea medullaris. 



In front of the conservatory and this side of the mansion 

 runs a terrace, overlooking a rosery, which is planted with 

 a good collection, consisting of Hybrid Perpetuals, whilst 

 Tea Roses are trained against the sis-feet-high terrace waU. 

 The centre of the rosery is formed by a pedestal and vase 

 encircled by four quadrant beds, then a circular walk, and 

 exterior to this twelve other beds converging towards the 

 centre, the whole being surrounded by four borders sepa- 

 rated from each other by the four principal walks, which 

 meet at right angles at the vase in the centre. Above, on 

 the terrace, there are twelve beds on each side of the walk, 

 six oblongs with the corners swept out alternating with the 

 same number of circles, and the whole planted with standard 

 Roses. Continuing onwards we come to a ribbon border 

 planted with — first row, next the edge. Hyacinth Maid of 

 Perth, blush; second. Rex Rabrorum Tulips; third. Dr. 

 Lindley Hyacinth, purple ; fourth. Rex Rubrorum Tulips ; 

 fifth, double Roman Narcissus. This border had still a 

 cheerful effect, although the bright sun had somewhat told 

 on the flowers. To reach this ribbon border, however, we 

 have passed on our left the greenhouse, fernery, and 

 Orchid-houses, forming three sides of a square in which 

 was a small garden devoted to sweet-scented plants. In 

 the stove were three fine plants of Musa Cavendishii, 

 which is here fruited every year ; and Mr. Hill, the per- 

 severing and very intelligent gardener, cut forty fruit at 

 Christmas off one plant. A BougainvillEea trained on the 

 roof contributed by its rosy bracts, along with Begonias, 

 Prancisceas, and other flowering plants, to give this house 

 a gay appearance. The fernery contained a well-selected 

 and healthy collection of Adiantums, Aspleniums, Davallias, 

 Lastreas, &c., and remarkably fine plants of Cibotium prin- 

 oeps and Schiedei, Lonchitis pubescens,Gleichenias, and Ma- 

 rattias. A plant of Thunbergia Harrisi extends for 15 feet 

 along the roof, and in the course of the season produces 

 thousands of its beautiful blue and yellow flowers. In the 

 Orchid-houses, three in number, Veitch's variety of Vanda 

 suavis had three splendid spikes of bloom, and several more 

 were coming ; the lovely Cattleya Skinneri was also in fine 

 bloom, besides which there were fine examples of Aerides, 

 Ansellia africana, Vanda teres and tricolor, and numerous 

 plants of Phalasnopsis grandiflora, which is much in demand 

 for cutting ; the new and beautiful P. Schilleriana, which 

 had been in bloom for the last three months ; Brassavola 

 Digbyana, Chysis Limminghi, Dendrobiums, Cattleyas, 

 Lycastes, Cypripediums, &c. 



In these houses Alocasia metallica, pot plants of Bou- 

 gainvillsea glabra. Ferns, and Amaryllids, also found a place, 

 whilst on the roofs were trained Lapagerias, MandeTiiUa 

 suaveolens, and Hoya imperialis, which had been in bloom 

 all the winter, and was so still. In the greenhouse, too, a 

 good show of flower was kept up with Calceolarias, that 

 valuable winter and spring flowering plant, Imantophyllum 

 miniatum, Eriostemons, Chorozemas, Heaths, &c. 



Quitting the houses, on passing the west side of the 

 fernery we observed two small beds filled with Tea Roses, 



