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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENED. 



[ October 12, 1876. 



9. Marquise de Castellane 



10. Dr. Andry 



11. Senateur Vaisse 



12. Louis Van Houtte 



13. Xavier Olibo 



14. Pierre Notting 



15. Dupny Jamain 



16. Souvenir d'un Ami 



17. Dote of Wellington 

 IS. Madame Lacharme 



19. Francois Michelon 



20. Chesliunt Hybrid 



21. Devoniensis 



22. Marguerite de St. Amand 



23. Madame Victor Verdier 



24. Madame C. Crapelet 



25. Madame C. Wood 



26. Monsieur Noman 



27. Mdlle. Marie Cointet 



28. Mdlle. Marie Rady 



29. Mdlle. Annie "Wood 



30. Reynolds Hole 



31. Duke of Edinburgh 



32. Due de Rohan 



33. Francois Louvat 

 84. Marechal Vaillant 



35. Felix Genero 



36. Comtesse d'Osford 



37. Mdlle. Eugenie Verdier 



38. Ferdinand de Lesseps 



39. Gloire de Santenay 



40. Fisher Holmes 



41. Horace Vernet 



42. Thomas Mills 



43. Auguste Eigotard 



44. Devienne Lamy 



45. Souvenir d'Elise 



46. Catherine Mermet 



47. Perle des Jardins 



48. John Hopper 



49. Ducheese de Caylus ' 



50. Camilla Bernardin 



(To be continued.) 



MIXED BORDERS. 



Mixed boedebs are especially enjoyable during October and 

 the beginning of November when we are so fortunate as to 

 have fine mild weather, and when Geraniums, Verbenas, and 

 the ordinary bedding plants can only be distinguished by their 

 leaves, and those grown solely for their beauty of foliage are 

 beginning to look dingy. There are at present in full beauty, 

 and likely to continue for some time if the weather permits, 

 amongst hardy perennials some of the handsomest flowers in 

 existence : and, not only handsome flowers but handsome 

 plants — plants with elegant foliage and symmetrical growth, 

 which will bear examination individually as well as collectively, 

 and to which most indoor plants as grown by ordinary culti- 

 vators at this time of year will bear no comparison. Where 

 cut flowers, too, are much in request the mixed borders afford 

 an almost inexhaustible store, and many of the flowers last 

 good a very long time. 



I think one of the principal reasons why hardy perennials 

 do not receive more favourable attention is that those who 

 make borders of them attempt too much in one place. The 

 principal advocates for Buch borders claim as their especial 

 merit that there is always something coming into flower and 

 something going out. The " something coming in " is very 

 well, but the other part is not so pleasant. It is not everyone 

 who takes delight in examining withering flower stems and 

 seed pods, and therefore to make these borders as attractive 

 as possible to everybody they should be arranged more accord- 

 ing to the time of flowering of the different subjects. It may 

 be unscientific, but gardeners have to please the many, and 

 not the few who are learned in botanical lore. 



My noble employer, when making a new garden three years 

 ago, stipulated that little or nothing should be planted there 

 which flowered before July ; and although owing to this de- 

 cision I was obliged to exclude many very beautiful plants, I 

 now see the wisdom of this arrangement and would carry it 

 still further. In many extensive pleasure grounds, where there 

 is an attempt at landscape effect, and where formal beds and 

 the ordinary bedding plants are entirely out of place, owing, 

 perhaps, to the owner's uncontrollable passion for flowers, we 

 often see a vulgar blot on the most beautiful scenery by the 

 introduction of such flowers and flower beds ; while suitable 

 flowers tastefully planted would give all the requisite brightness 

 and sweetness without jarring on the taste of the most refined 

 and critical artist. 



There is no reason why there should not be a hardy peren- 

 nial garden for each of the four seasons, or even for every 

 month in the year, where there are perhaps half a hundred 

 acres of woodland walks and kept pleasure grounds ; and it is 

 surprising when one makes out a list what a host of beautiful 

 hardy plants there are for every month, even through the 

 depths of winter. Spring gardening as done in the present 

 day is frequently an abomination. Formal beds of Daisies and 

 Primroses are incongruous, and the plants do not look half so 

 happy aB the Primroses in the woods and lanes or the Daisies 

 in the cottage garden. I have not a word to say against 

 parterre gardening in the proper place ; Geraniums, Verbenas, 

 and the like do not look bo well anywhere else as they do in 

 massive formal beds, and at the time they flower there is such 

 a predominance of lively green all around that the eye can 

 bear a great deal of colour without pain if the colours are well 

 arranged and the plants used are suited for the purpose. 



I will now name the beet of the hardy plants which are 



flowering to-day (October 6th), and which are likely to con- 

 tinue for some time, omitting all such as have yet to flower,, 

 and they are many, as well as those which are just going out 

 of flower, and they are more numerous still. I should be glad 

 if those of your readers who are conversant with the subjeot 

 would add to the list all the good hardy early Ootober flowers 

 which come under their observation. I do not want those of 

 botanical or microscopical interest only, but such as will com- 

 mand attention from everybody, and of such I believe are the 

 following : — Achillea ptarmica flore-pleno ; Anemone vitifolia,. 

 A. japonica, and A. japonica alba; CEnothera macrocarpa, 

 CE.riparia; Tritonia aurea ; Polygonum Braunii, P. Sieboldii; 

 Chelone Lyoni ; Helianthus multiflorus, H. orgyalis ; Colchicum 

 in great variety, Crocus ditto, Sedum spectabile ; Lilium spe- 

 ciosum, L. Bpeciosum album; Phygelius capenBis, Galatella 

 cana, Tritoma grandis, Alstromeria psittacina, Phloxes in va- 

 riety late planted, ChrysocomaLinoeyris ; Aster patens, A. longi- 

 folia variegata, A. tenuifolia ; Aconitum autumnalis, Core- 

 opsis lanceolata ; Stevia mexicana, S. caneECens ; Plumbago 

 Larpentfe, Tricyrtis hirta, and Violets. The foregoing are per- 

 fectly hardy ; a few others not quite so hardy and worth the 

 trouble of sheltering in such parts of the country as they 

 require it are herbaceous Lobelias, Pentetemons in great va- 

 riety, Fuchsias (the beet varieties of these are, I believe, ae 

 hardy as F. Eiccartoni if treated in a similar way, and they 

 are very beautiful outside now), and Hydrangeas. 



In addition to these I have many half-hardy plants in mixed 

 borders in fine bloom now, but which I hope to separate from 

 hardy plants as soon as my stock of the latter becomes suffi- 

 ciently rich. Among the half-hardy plants are Salvia patens, 

 S. splendens ; Chrysanthemum frutescens, C. carinatum in 

 variety ; Coronilla glauca (struck from cuttings in the spring 

 and now 3 feet high and full of flower), Marvel of Peru, Inter- 

 mediate Stocks, Mignonette, Antirrhinums, French Marigolds,. 

 African ditto, Sweet Alyssum, Sanvitalia procumbens, CoreopBis 

 tinctorea, Alonzoa Warscewiczii eompacta, Heliotropes, Ama- 

 ranthus atropurpureus, and Dahlias, of which the following 

 are amongst the best as good showy border flowers producing 

 an abundance of bloom of good quality without any nursing 

 and shading — namely, Charles Backhouse, brightest Ecarlet;. 

 Criterion, rosy lilac ; Andrew Dodds, dark crimson ; James 

 Cocker, dark purplish crimson ; Toison d'Or, yellow, neat 

 habit; Netty Buckle, light lilac; Flag of Truce, white; Lady 

 Dunmore, crimson and orange ; Queen Mab, scarlet and white,, 

 very showy ; Lord Derby, purple ; Bird of Passage, white and 

 rosy lilac tipped, small, but exceedingly pretty; and Chair- 

 man, orange. — William Taylor. 



WIMBLEDON HOUSE.— No. 2. 



THE RESIDENCE OP SIR HENRY W. PEEK, BART., M.P. 



On page 262 the ornamental grounds and flower garden of 

 this fine suburban residence were described, and there remain 

 to be noticed some other departments which are under the 

 gardener's care. As was notified in the previous article, the 

 mansion is connected with the flower garden by an avenue of 

 Elms. These are Btately trees, and form a densely shaded 

 walk — a shelter alike from rain and sun — and a moBt agTeeable 

 promenade. The mansion is commodious, but not elaborately 

 ornate, and its situation is attractive and salubrious — attractive 

 by the fine trees by which it is surrounded and the beautiful 

 park-like view from its windows, and salubrious by its gravelly 

 soil and its contiguity to the wide expanse of Wimbledon Com- 

 mon, which is as famed for the purity of its air as it jb for the 

 annual popular volunteer fetes, which were opened by Her 

 Majesty The Queen, who fired the first shot on July 2nd, 1860. 



On the lawn near the mansion are some fine old Cedars of 

 Lebanon with seats around their stems, and a noteworthy 

 specimen of that distinct and ornamental deciduous tree — 

 Salisburia adiantifolia, the Maidenhair Tree. This tree is a 

 native of China and Japan, and is there known as the Ginkgo 

 tree. In its native country this tree attains to a height o'f 

 100 feet, and it grows generally in a conical form, but the 

 Wimbledon specimen is of spreading habit ; it is, in fact, much 

 broader than it is long, its height being 45 feet, while the 

 spread of its branches is 56 feet, its stem being 8 feet in cir- 

 cumference at 3 feet from the ground. The Salisburia is an 

 elegant tree throughout the summer months, and is diBtinctby 

 its wedge-shaped deeply-lobed leaves, whioh in the autumn 

 assume a bright golden hue, rendering the tree conspicuous 

 and ornamental. It is perfectly hardy, and should be more 

 commonly seen in pleasure grounds. 



