January 27, 1863. ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



75 



We were rather surprised to find, amid such surrounding!?, a 

 walled-in garden 330 feet square. It had previously been used 

 for vegetables and fruit, but is now to be rightly and exclusively 

 devoted to the latter, with the exception of. flower-borders by 

 the sides of the walks. A new kitchen garden- is one of the 

 wants of Woodstock, as the old one between the house and the 

 river seems worn-out, and overstocked with large fruit trees. 

 But about this walled garden. We should not like it to be 

 removed, were it only for the position the walls afford for 

 creepers and half-hardy plants. These walls are 14 feet in height. 

 From the rising nature of the ground the south side rises in 

 ramps of 2 feet, with a vase and pedestal on each rise, which 

 give a good effeot. It just struck us that the somewhat heavy 

 effect would be much lessened if the south wall were lowered 

 some 5 or 6 feet, ramped as now, and the east and west walls 

 ramped to meet it, and also ornamented with vases on the rises. 

 That ramping might be confined to the half from this central 

 walk. 



The lawn is open on the south Bide with a few beds of flowers 

 in which the Prince's Feather and Love-lies-bleeding are not 

 forgotten. The walls, especially their best aspects, were densely 

 clothed with fine plants of Jasmines, Magnolias, Wistarias, 

 Solanums, Smilaxes, Passifioras, Myrtles, Spiraeas, Escallonias, 

 Edwardsias, Ceanothus, &c, and many unnamed things, some 

 of good promise, sent home to Lady Louisa from friends in 

 India and Australia. The entrances to this garden at p and a, 

 and also in the centre of the south wall opposite a transverse 

 walk, are by rich iron gates of an azure blue and gold colour. 

 The sides of the walks are roughly ribboned with flowers, and 

 rows on the sides of the transverse walk of the Anemone japonica 

 were very striking, the masses of flowers being nearly a yard in 

 width. 



Against the north wall of this garden, are five lean-to fruit- 



houses devoted to Vines and Peaches. The wood of the latter 

 was in excellent order, and the same might be said of the Tines. 

 In one house were some excellent late Grapes in September, and 

 looking as if they would keep good for some time. The wood 

 was also firm, strong, and short-jointed. The treatment of these 

 Vines is one of the most singular of which we ever heard. Mr. 

 McDonald Btated that three years before they were in a bad 

 state, all was done to coax them by surfacings, &c., and though 

 the leaves became better, no young wood of any size would come, 

 and from examining the rootB he had little hopes of their being 

 easily improved. There was no opportunity for a large job being 

 done, bo about the new year he set to work with a saw, and cut 

 clean over every Vine, about 6 inches below the surface. The 

 old roots were grubbed-up, and only a small bit of border made. 

 Of course, every attention was paid to these old Vine-stems, and 

 the movements of the sap watched most attentively, until the 

 white fat spongioles were running out by the foot. The result 

 in the autumn, as specified above, was not only good fruit, but 

 fine healthy wood. One great advantage from Buch a cutting- 

 down mode is, that like the roots from a bad cutting, the roots- 

 would all come from a common centre — a matter of more im- 

 portance than is generally imagined ; Mr. McDonald having 

 proved over and over again, that two or three sets of roots will 

 never produce fine, regular, well-coloured Grapes — a fact which 

 should be considered by those who think they increase strength 

 by laying the stems of their Vines in a house. We suppose we 

 must have looked a little incredulous about this sawing-over of 

 Vines, for we were desired to examine the cut stems, which we 

 did, and saw the strong fresh roots issuing from above the cut 

 part. This beats all our root-lifting hollow ; but, then, we fear, 

 it would require the attendance of a McDonald to make ife 

 answer so well and so early. R. Fish. 



(To he continued.) 



RHODODENDRON JASMINIFLOETJil (Jasmine-flowered Rhododendron). 



Nat. ord., Ericaceae. Linn., Decandria Monogynia. At the 

 first exhibition of flowers at the Chiswick Gardens of the year 

 1850, few plants ex- 

 cited greater attention 

 among the visitors 

 moat distinguished 

 for taste and judg- 

 ment, than the one 

 here figured, from the 

 nursery of Messrs. 

 Veitch, of Exeter. 

 Many excelled it in 

 splendour ; but the 

 delicacy of form and 

 colour of the flowers 

 (white with a deep 

 pink eye), and pro- 

 bably their resem- 

 blance to the favourite 

 Jasmine (some com- 

 pared them to the 

 equally favourite Ste- 

 phanotis), attracted 

 general notice. A re- 

 markable character of 

 its flowers is the great 

 length and Btraight- 

 ness of the tube. It 

 is a native of Mount . 

 Ophir, Malacca; ele- 

 vation 5000 feet ; 

 having been there dis- 

 covered by Mr. Thos. 

 Lobb, and transmit- 

 ted to the nursery of 

 Messrs. Veitch. It 

 seems a ready flow- 

 erer. The specimen 

 here figured was 

 drawn in September of 1849, and still finer flowering plants were 

 Bhown at the May Exhibition at Chiswick, in 1850. 



Description. — A small shrub, as reared by Messrs. Veitch, 



Rhododendron jaEminiflovura. 



1J foot high, the branches bare of leaves below, and knotted 

 where they had been inserted. Leaves crowded towards the 



upper pait of the 

 branches, lowermost 

 ones Bubverticillate, 

 on short petioles, obo- 

 vato-oblong, rather 

 acute, glabrous, nearly 

 coriaceous. Umbel 

 terminal, many-flow- 

 ered. Peduncles one- 

 flowered, short, with 

 small reddish bracteas 

 at the base, and, as 

 well as the very small, 

 shallow, obscurely 

 five-lobed calyx, lepi- 

 dote. Corolla salver- 

 shaped, white, slightly 

 tinged with rose be- 

 low the limb ; the 

 tube 2 inches long, 

 straight, scarcely gib- 

 bous at the base : the 

 limb spreading, of five 

 obovate wavy lobes, 

 almost exactly equal. 

 Stamens ten. Fila- 

 ments filiform,downy, 

 as long as the tube. 

 Anthers red (forming 

 a red eye, as seen at 

 the mouth of thewhits 

 corolla). Ovary oh- 

 long-cylindrical, lepi- 

 dote, 5-celled, gland- 

 ular at the base. 

 Style rather shorter 

 than the stamens, fili- 

 Stigma dilated, obtuse, green. It is a warm 

 " its flowers are fragrant. — (Botanical 



form, downy, 

 greenhouse shrub, and 

 Magazine.) 



