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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
{ Decemter 12, 1878. 
when sitting as judge on circuit an old woman was brought 
before him charged with witchcraft. To support the accusa- 
tion several witnesses swore that the prisoner had a spell with 
which she could either cure such cattle as were sick or destroy 
those that were well, and that the spell was now in court, upon 
which statement the Judge desired that it might be handed up 
to him. It was a dirty ball, wrapped round with several rags 
and bound with packthread. These coverings he carefully 
removed, and beneath them found a piece of parchment, which 
he immediately recognised as his own youthful fabrication. 
For a few moments he remained silent, then told the jury the 
whole story,"with such effect that his old landlady was the last 
person tried for witchcraft in that county.” 
CARPET BEDS. 
Iyjtheir estimates of carpet beds some admirers give the 
for. Of course they are neither so large, nor in the best of 
seasons is the flayour to be compared to that of the summer 
sorts, but coming in as they do on the verge of the dead sea- 
son, when all other small fruits are past, it is only reasonable 
to suppose that were they better known.they would be more 
extensively cultivated. 
Nurserymen catalogue several sorts, but that known as the 
October Red appears to be the most useful. Certainly here 
in the west of Scotland it is the only one that I have seen do 
anything like well, but my acquaintance with the other kinds 
is very slight. 
The best time to form a new plantation is from the middle 
of November up to the present time; but they will do fairly 
well planted any time during the winter. A warmer and more 
sheltered situation should be given them than is required for 
the summer-bearing sorts, say a border on the south side of 
a good Beech or Holly hedge. This is even preferable to a 
palm_to simple designs, others prefer patterns more intricate. 
Fig. 67.—Carpet Bed at Regent’s Park. 
1. Draczena australis. 
2. Coleus Verschaffeltii. 
3, 3. Pyrethrum Golden Feather. 
4,4, Alternanthera amabilis. 
5,5. Echeveria secunda glauca. 
6. Alternanthera paronychyoides. 10. 
7. Alternantheraameena spectabilis, | 11 
8. Mesembryanthemum cordifolium | 12 
yariegatum. 
The diagram annexed is of a bed that was highly approved 
of in Regent’s Park last year, and is noteworthy by the deli- 
cate tracery of its pattern and its general artistic appearance. 
It was tastefully planted, as may be seen by an examination 
of the figures and corresponding references. Apart from the 
applicability of the designs for a round bed the tracing of it 
by young gardeners during the long winter evenings would 
be commendable employment, as competency in geometrical 
drawing is an important element in a gardener’s qualifications. 
Every young man aspiring to the position of a skilled gardener 
should persevere until he can draw the pattern of this bed 
readily and correctly. 
AUTUMN RASPBERRIES. 
AUTUMN-BEARING Raspberries are well worth cultivating; 
even where the conditions of soil and climate are so unfayour- 
able as to make the returns both small and uncertain. Rasp- 
berries in the two last months of the year—sometimes in mild 
seasons even a dish at Christmas—are something worth running 
the risk of occasionally losing both a little ground and labour 
9. 
. Lobelia pumila grandiflora. 
. Antennaria tomentosa. 
. Box edging. 
wall, as the heat there is not so intense in summer, and the 
shelter in autumn is quite as good. 
This border should be trenched to a 
good depth—not less than 2 feet at 
least, and well manured at the same 
time with rich dung. The plants may 
be put in rows across the border 25 feet 
apart, and allowing not less than 4 feet 
between the rows. <Any closer plant- 
ing than this, even in a small garden, is 
not in the end economical. The canes 
that are planted should be allowed to 
remain until they are in leaf, as they 
help to spur the roots into action, when 
they may then be cut off close to the 
ground, as it is the canes of the cur- 
rent year which produce the fruit. The 
crop the first autumn will be nil or 
next to it, and the canes should all be 
cut down in December. If many suckers 
have been thrown up between the rows 
they should be carefully forked out, but 
anything like a general deep digging 
should be avoided, a good top-dressing 
of decayed cow dung being much pre- 
ferable. 
This propensity for sending up nu- 
merous suckers far and near is one of 
the worst traits in the character of the 
October Red Raspberry, and if any semi- 
natural system of cultivation be at- 
tempted a fruitless thicket is sure to 
be the result. 
When the young canes have grown 
6 or 8 inches in spring, half a dozen of 
the strongest on each stool should be 
selected and tied up to a stout stake, 
and the others cut away, as also should 
be all succeeding shoots which appear 
during the summer. 
The other sorts most commonly grown 
are the Autumn Black, the Large Orange, 
and the October Yellow, which is a va- 
riety of the Red, but more insipid. The 
October Red is said to be a cross between the old Double- 
bearing Red and the well-known Fastolf—R. D. TAYLOR. 
Echeveria metallica. 
THE ROSE ELECTION. 
Ir Mr. Hinton will not think me too late in doing so, I beg 
to tender him my acknowledgments for the pains he has taken 
to bring the election of 1878 to such a successful completion, 
and I feel sure there must be hundreds who, like myself, have 
read with very great pleasure and satisfaction the weekly 
contributions that have appeared in your Journal, And when 
we consider that Mr. Hinton’s task has been purely a labour 
of love, we must all feel deeply indebted to him for the trouble 
he has taken to make the election as complete and useful as 
possible. Useful I said, for has not a ‘\WyLp SAVAGE : 
| acknowledged its utility? Then how much more must civilised 
and rational people do so? 
Of course there are Roses omitted and others included in the 
list which some of us no doubt have thought mizht haye been 
' otherwise arranged ; but taking into consideration the varieties 
of soil and climate, the differences of aspect and situation, 
