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JOUBNAL OF HORTICULTURES AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ October 11, 1877 



Thus is villa gardening spreading, thus are workmen's homes 

 made bright and cheerful and cherished by the ever-welcome 

 smiles of flowers. Healthy homes and garden plots are the 

 real antidotes to the many allurements which when indulged 

 in leave behind thern bitterness and misery. The garden 

 lovers in these suburban homes work as earnestly and are as 

 proud of their achievements as are those greater gardeners who 

 honour themselves and the craft to which they belong by their 

 trophies of skill at the great exhibitions. Let the gardeners 

 from everywhere have the honours and rewards they so well 

 merit; let the affluent enjoy in fullest excellence the produce 

 of their gardens; but let also the humble earnest efforts of the 

 thousands of those with kindred tastes have that meed of 

 recognition which all gardeners are so ready to give, for by no 

 class than gardeners and garden lovers is the truth of the old 

 motto more fully admitted that " a touch of nature makes the 

 ■whole world kin." — J. Weight, Ashbury Road. 



TEERA COTTA STOVE. 

 In answer to " J. C. B.," I have used a medium-sized terra 

 «otta stove for my greenhouse for two winters, and it has 

 efieotually kept the frost out, the thermometer having been 

 50° inside when it was 12 ; outside. My conservatory is about 

 SO feet long. The drawbacks to the stove are smoke and dust, 

 and the stove pipes supplied soon wear out. I grow Fuchsias, 

 Camellias, Palms and Hyacinths principally. I should prefer 

 a boiler for heating, but it is inconvenient to fix it. In buying 

 a stove he must be careful that the rim at the top holds the 

 sand properly, and he should get two buckets. I find charcoal 

 the best fuel, but_it is very expensive. — Newtown. 



OUE BOEDER FLOWEES— LIPWOETS. 



Among the many interesting plants that have been intro- 

 duced to our shores from the North American Continent we 

 look on Cedronella cana as an acquisition. The Lipworts are 

 all destitute of any deleterious quality, and most of them are 

 fragrant and aromatic. The Cedronella is so gifted, and those 

 who like a strong aromatic perfume should be in possession of 

 this useful and beautiful Lipwort. It is of graceful habit, from 

 li to 2 feet high, often forming a miniature pyramid, having 

 whitish grey foliage and spikes of red flowers. It blooms 

 during the summer and autumn months, but it is seldom seen 

 in cultivation. 



It is usually called a hardy herbaceous plant, but it is 

 scarcely that in some districts. It must either be lifted in 

 the autumn and protected through the winter, or cuttings may 

 be struck in the autumn and kept in a cold dry pit plunged 

 in ashes. They require care, being impatient of damp. They 

 succeed well with the same treatment that is afforded Pent- ! 

 stemons. It may be increased by seed as well. If sown in 

 heat in spring and carefully tended the seedlings may be had 

 in bloom the same season. They are useful as pot plants for 

 many purposes. 



There are other kinds, as Cedronella cordata, C. pallida, and 

 C. mexicana, but there is much sameness about them. The 

 first and last named are most commonly met with : all re- 

 quire the same treatment. — Yebitas. 



NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 



The visit to Carlisle of Mr. Cutler, the energetic Secretary 

 -of the Gaedenees' Royal Benevolent Institution, was re- 

 warded by contributions which will justify Beven or eight 

 additional pensions being granted next January. 



The following new members were elected at the last 



meeting of the Hoeticultueal Club : — Dr. Newington, Tice- 

 hurst; Messrs. E. G. Smeaton, Walhani Green; T. Serle 

 Jerrold, Avenue Road, Shepherd's Bush ; and J. C. Fowler, 

 Cumberland Lodge, Lewisham. 



We are informed that Mr. Head, gardener to the late 



J. P. GasBiott, Esq., Clapham Common, has been appointed to 

 succeed Mr. Legg as gardener to S. Ralli, Esq., at Cleveland 

 House, Clapham Park. The public have, by the kindness of 

 Mr. and Mrs. Balli, derived both pleasure and instruction from 

 this garden, which, all must hope, will be none the less enjoy- 

 able to its owners in the future than it has been in the past. 

 Mr. Ralli's specimen plants which have been grown and suc- 

 cessfully exhibited by the present gardener will, we believe, 

 shortly be sold. 



A coebespondent writes complainingly that having 



travelled some distance for the purpose of seeing the Potato 

 Show at the Westminster Aquarium, he was not permitted to 

 enter the Show at all, although he paid for admission into the 

 building. He arrived at 3.30 and found visitors excluded from 

 the Show, and barriers erected, which were not removed at 

 5 p.3i., when he was compelled to leave the building to catch 

 his train for returning home. We have heard other complaints 

 of the same nature. With what object was the Show closed 

 during the time specified ? 



We are informed that the only Potatoes used at the 



International Potato Dinner were Sutton's Magnuii Bont/ji. 



As an attractive summer and autumn flowering ever- 

 green plant for covering south walla Ceanothus azueeus has 

 long been esteemed. Being a Mexican plant it is not suffi- 

 ciently hardy for the northern districts of England, but in the 

 south it succeeds well with no other protection than that 

 afforded by the wall on which it is trained. One of the finest 

 varieties of this plant that we have seen is Gloire de Versailles. 

 The flowers are much finer and richer in colour than those 

 of the species. For covering a south wall in a warm sunny 

 position this Ceanothus merits especial notice. It is now 

 flowering freely on the low south wall of the conservatory in 

 the gardens at Wimbledon House, and its flowers are not only 

 attractive when growing on the plant, but are very suitable 

 for room decoration. 



Ghent Azaleas, writes a Yorkshire gardener, are not 



only very effective when flowering in contrast with Rhododen- 

 drons, but their foliage afterwards contrasts remarkably well 

 with the somewhat monotonous aspect of those shrubs. The 

 fine glaucous blue tint of Azalea pontica is very conspicuous 

 amongst the deep shining green of Bhododendrons during the 

 summer months. Much may be done by foliage, but very 

 much more by flowers. As thriving in the open spaces of 

 Rhododendron beds may be instanced Liliums, which do not 

 detract from the beauty of the foliage of the Bhododendrons 

 in winter, nor interfere with their gorgeous display of bloom in 

 early summer. Those having an eye for natural beauty may 

 plant Tropaeolum speciosum, which, climbing over Rhododen- 

 dron foliage, gives a blaze of Eearlet in late Bummer. Will our 

 correspondent tell ua when and how to plant this Tropsolum 

 to insure ita satisfactory growth ? 



Messes. Weee & Sons, nurserymen, Wordsley, Stour- 

 bridge, have sent us a schedule of prizes value nearly £300, 

 including thirty silver cups, to be awarded at their Annual 

 Boot Show on the 20th of November next, for specimen roots, 

 Potatoes, root crops, cereals, etc. Entries for root crops (divi- 

 sion 4) close on Tuesday, October 23rd, whilst those for spe- 

 cimen roots and cereals (divisions 1, 2, and 3) close on No- 

 vember 13 th, and the latest day for receiving roots and cereals 

 intended for competition is Thursday, November 15th. 



A bed of Phal;enopsis Luddehanniana nearly 60 feet 



in length by 4 feet in breadth, and numbering some two hundred 

 fine flowering plants, may be seen, says the Irish Fanners' 

 Gazette, at Lakelands, near Cork, the residence of W. Crawford, 

 Esq., long noted for its fine collection of Orohids and other rare 

 plants. About 4 feet in width of the wall of the East Indian 

 house has been regularly lined off, wired, and padded with 

 peat and sphagnum. In this perpendicular bed, 60 feet long, 

 there are four parallel lines of Phalajnopsie, large flowering 

 plants, fifty plants in each line, and all in the rudest health. 



As the Potato has a spreading root, and the tubers 



are nearly all developed upon the under surface of the fibres 

 which run almost horizontally, it is considered by French Potato 

 growers very irjjudicions to earth-up the plants, as this of 

 necessity renders the roots more perpendicnlar. 



There are paints, washes, and heterogeneous steeps 



recommended for pbeseeving posts, but each are comparatively 

 costly, and only partially successful. One great objection to 

 the application of solutions externally rests on the fact that 

 the sap being confined accelerates decomposition in the in- 

 terior. Most foresters must have observed this. What I 

 would recommend with fencing posts is, the materials, when 

 felled, to be directly sawn into posts and stored under Bheda 

 thoroughly ventilated, where they will remain at least a year 

 exposed to sun and wind. The neck, or part between wind and 

 water, of each poBt should be slowly charred over a strong 

 fire — slowly, because our principle means heating the timber 

 thoroughly to the heart, so as to extract any moisture which 

 may be still lodged at the centre, and hardening a crust on the 

 surface of the posts. Afterwards, to prevent the posts absorb- 



