Atgist 30, 1877. 1 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENED. 



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Melville, informs us tbat his neighbour Mr. Wood, gardener to 

 Sir Erekine Perry of Fulmer, near Slough, has upwards of 

 fifty flowers on one stem of LiLirjm auratuh, the plant being 

 grown in an 8-inch pot. The plan of culture adopted by Mr. 

 Wood is to shake out the plants, removing all the soil from 

 the roots, immediately the flowers fade, and repot in fresh 

 compost — loam, leaf Boil, and sand, and place out of doors. 

 The plants are buried in ashes out of doors, and there pass 

 the winter. We Bhall be glad to hear more precise particulars 

 respecting these plants and Mr. Wood's sucaessful mode of 

 growing them. 



Our readers will be glad to learn that the success of 



the Carlisle International Exhibition is now rendered cer- 

 tain by the large number of entries and the completeness 

 of the arrangements made by an energetic Committee. The 

 preparations are nearly finished and the show-ground en- 

 closed, and the erection of the marquees has commenced. 

 Horticultural buildings and many miscellaneous articles 

 have also begun to occupy the space allotted to them. The 

 weather, too, has fortunately improved, and everything looks 

 favourable for the Exhibition next week, which will be a great 

 success if the bright days continue. The large premiums 

 offered by the Committee have attracted a great number of 

 competitors, and exhibitors are daily applying for space. The 

 general attractions of the Show will be numerous and varied, 

 and not the least will be the presence of the splendid band of 

 the 2nd Life Guards in uniform during the three days, under 

 the leadership of Mr. Winterbottom. The Judges' dinner will 

 be presided over by the Lord-Lieutenant of Cumberland, Lord 

 Munoaster, the Mayor of Carlisle being Vice-Chairman, and 

 will be attended by a distinguished company, including the 

 ladies who will honour this Exhibition by acting as Judges of 

 the bouquets and cut flowers. 



We are requested to state, that in consequence of the 



Great International Show at Carlisle being held next week, the 

 usual monthly meeting and dinner of the Hobticultubal Club 

 will be held on September 18th, instead of September 4th. 



We have received from Mr. Moorman a sample of the 



Snowflake Potato, asking our opinion of them. It is as 

 follows : — More attractive-looking Potatoes were never grown. 

 The tubers are of the right size for table and contain few eyes, 

 and these small and indistinct, involving a minimum of waste 

 in paring. When cooked the Potatoes are almost as white as 

 snow and are extremely delicate in flavour. They are not like 

 the proverbial " balls of flour," but are sufficiently mealy for 

 many palates. Not a speck of disease was found on the tubers. 

 As Snowflake is productive it must be pronounced an excellent 

 seoond-early variety for table use, and its handsome appearance 

 renders it indispensable for exhibition purposes. 



The Dahlia quarteb in Mr. Turner's nursery at Slough 



is now highly worthy of inspection. Athough late, the show 

 varieties are producing some grand blooms, and the bouquet 

 and bedding varieties are in splendid condition. Xellow Pet 

 amongst the bedders is especially fine, but all are good and 

 eminently worthy of culture for producing a rich and varied 

 effect during the late summer and autumn months. The Car- 

 nations are nearly all layered— a splendid and unrivalled stock, 

 and the winter-flowering varieties are remarkable by their 

 health and numbers. Chrysanthemums appear to be receiving 

 special attention, and a grand and novel display may be anti- 

 cipated. The Btandard plants are unusually fine, the grafted 

 heads being as healthy as those not grafted. The plants were 

 kept close for a week or two when the grafts were put on, but 

 they are now growing in the open air, the unions being com- 

 plete. The huge Roses in pots are under glass ; they have 

 made excellent growth, and will shortly be placed in the open 

 air for a week or two. Camellias, Azaleas, and Oranges are in 

 admirable condition. The Camellias are placed continental 

 fashion — between close rows of Lombardy Poplars, where they 

 have shade without drip. Liliums, especially L. auratum, are 

 remarkably fine. Roses are flowering with great freedom, but 

 some not flowering are particularly noteworthy — plants in 

 pots of Marechal Niel for roof-decoration, this season's growth 

 of which is wonderful. The carpet and other bedding render 

 this nursery additionally attractive during the summer ; but 

 the great feature during the next six weeks will be the Dahlias 

 above noticed. 



- An effort is being made by the inhabitants in the 



neighbourhood of Eew to have the gardens opened at an earlier 

 hour than one o'clock, also to prevent the wall which surrounds 

 She gardens being raised beyond its present height. It will be 



desirable to open the gardens earlier, particularly on special 

 occasions, such as bank holidays, if that can be done con- 

 sistently with securing their efficient management. The 

 changes which are being sought for, and apparently in a 

 reasonable manner, are worthy of muoh consideration on the 

 part of the authorities. 



Mb. W. Taylob writes to us that Potatoes abe worse 



diseased at Longleat than they have been for many years. 

 Aahleaf and Myatt's Prolific were taken up early in July before 

 the last-named sort was fully grown, as the disease was already 

 very threatening. Not a tuber of these has taken the disease, 

 and all are perfectly sound excepting where the skin was 

 broken by rough handling, and these have shrivelled some- 

 what. They require very careful handling when taken up 

 early. Fortyfolds, Dalmahoys, Regents, and other second 

 earlies were too small to be of any use when the disease 

 appeared. In the light soils the disease does not appear to be 

 quite so bad as it is in heavy soils. 



■ A Carlisle correspondent writes that visitors to the 



great Show will find much to attract in the admirably-kept 

 nursery of Messrs. Little & Ballantyne ; also in the nurseries 

 of Messrs. Clarke, Brothers, Stanwix ; Messrs. J. Hamilton 

 and Sons, Messrs. Joseph Hamilton & Son, Mr. Armstrong, 

 Belah Gardens, &a. There are many fine gardens belonging 

 to noblemen and gentlemen within short distances of Carlisle 

 worthy of a visit, and visitors will be freely welcomed at them 

 all during the International Show. Oar correspondent espe- 

 cially recommends a visit to Lowther Castle, the seat of the Earl 

 of Lonsdale ; Brougham Hall, Lord Brougham ; Eden Hall, 

 Sir R. C. Musgrave, Bart. ; Corby CaBtle and the lovely scenery 

 of Corby woods, Philip Howard, Esq. ; Naworth Castle, the 

 Earl of Carlisle; Rickerby House, Miles Maclnnes, Esq.; 

 Netherby, Sir F. U. Graham, Bart. ; and last, though not least, 

 the unequalled beauties of Drumlanrig Castle, the seat of his 

 Grace the Dake of Buccleuch : these are within easy distance 

 of Carlisle, and can be reached by rail or road. 



NOTES FROM CORNISH GARDENS. 



L&HOBEAN. 



Is a quiet secluded valley, amidst steep hilly wooded slopes 

 in a cosy nook at the head of the waters of Lamorran Creek, 

 away from the beaten track of the busy world's highway, is the 

 residence of the Hon. and Rev. J. T. Boscawen, well known to 

 men of science and horticulturists as a wise counseller and 

 friend, who, although thus living apparently apart from the 

 world, is one of its most busy workers, ever ready to aid in 

 promoting those arts which he loves and understands so well, 

 and who has turned the very quietness and seclueion of his 

 home to good account by solving many a horticultural pro- 

 blem, evolving lessons of such value by the wonderful results 

 obtained in his garden that I can think of no more fitting title 

 for it than that of a book written by the hand of a master, every 

 page of which contains lessons as novel as they are useful. 



It has very lately been my privilege to enjoy the hospitality 

 of Mr. Boscawen — to see his garden, to study the lessons which 

 it teaches, and in some measure to grasp their meaning, 

 sufficiently so I hope to enable me to explain their full signifi- 

 cance, and to show how what is really a great and pioneer work 

 may be accomplished within small boundB and without many 

 of those facilities which by many gardeners are considered indis- 

 pensable to success. It was not long ago that I strongly en- 

 forced the importance of planting objects of interest in gardens. 

 At Lamorran this principle was long ago understood and acted 

 upon, and the result in this sense is a garden so abounding in 

 plants and trees that are alike so varied and beautiful as to 

 positively embarrass one. It is a veritable storehouse of 

 treasures rich and rare, so Bkilfully cultivated and arranged in 

 such good taBte as to be always fresh and always attractive. 



When Lamorran House was built upon a narrow plateau 

 upon the face of and near the foot of a steep slope Mr. Bos- 

 cawen had to make immediate provision for screening both it 

 and the garden, which he contemplated making, from the 

 scathing blasts which so frequently rush in from the mighty 

 Atlantic over every part of Cornwall. Dense wild woods clothed 

 the Blopes and shut in the valley above the house ; but below 

 it was the bare expanse of water, a gradually widening valley 

 with trees on the hillside beyond the water, but with its own 

 particular slope almost bare of trees. W na t was to be done ? 

 Throw up a barrier and plant sturdy fast-growing trees across 

 the valley down to the very edge of the water ? Expediency 

 might suggest such a course, but correct taste never would 



