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JOUENAIi OF HOETICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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from the intense heat, and I am afraid will not do for another 

 year. 



Mr. Eadelyffe is not identical with Dr. Hogg," and rather 

 belongs to the British Queen race, which it resembles. 



Mr. Peach's strong recommendation of Lucas is worthy of 

 attention, as too much cannot be said in its praise. In France 

 I never could do anything with that noble Strawberry Dr. 

 Hogg, whilst here thus far it has thriven well, and promises a 

 better result. 



As a late sort I would recommend Aromatic, sent out by Mr. 

 Turner. I had fifty plants last October, and although planted 

 so late, they all bore a comparatively fine crop of large fruit of 

 a handsome cone shape, and of exquisite flavour. They ripened 

 quite as late as Frogmore Late Pine, which is an additional 

 merit. I would advise Mr. Peach to try likewise James Veitch, 

 which will admirably suit his soil. 



I am sorry to see that Black Bess is still mentioned as a dis- 

 tinct Strawberry, whilst it is but justice to Mr. Knevett, of 

 Isleworth, that it should be grown under the true name, 

 Empress Eugenie. 



Bonne Bouche here was neither large nor handsome, but its 

 peculiarly agreeable flavour will make it a welcome addition 

 to the list. I suspect that Royalty, sent out last year, is 

 nothing else than Myatt's Eliza ; at any rate it is impossible to 

 detect the slightest difference between the two. The same may 

 be said of Brown's Wonder, quite like Cambrian Prince, sent 

 out by Messrs. Roberts, in Denbighshire, several years ago. — 

 Ferdinand Gloede, Oppendorf, Hamburgh. 



LILIUM AUEATUM MEBITS AND CTJLTUEE. 



Having read Mr. Robson's interesting article on Lilium 

 auratum (page 127), perhaps you will allow me to make a few 

 remarks upon it. I quite agree with him that L. auratum is 

 a grand flower, and where it is happily placed a most easy 

 plant to grow. This year, with us, it has prospered most in the 

 shade, where it was kept back so as not to have the tall shoots 

 hurt by the May frost.. The shelter of shrubs, as in a Rhodo- 

 dendron bed, secures not only L. auratum but the earlier, and 

 therefore more susceptible, L. longiflorum. I need hardly say 

 that the varieties of colour in L. auratum are almost endless ; 

 there are also the many-flowered varieties and the few-flowered 

 (which last I prefer), with their huge broad-petalled flowers. 

 Of these I think the dark-banded crimson-dotted variety, the 

 petals of which are hardly recurved, is the most beautiful. 

 There are also the early and late-flowering varieties, and those 

 of tall and short growth. I have just measured one in a Rho- 

 dodendron bed very nearly 8 feet high, with others not more 

 than half the height close by. 



I must demur to Lilium auratum being considered the head 

 of the Lily family. I am in correspondence with the principal 

 Lily-growers, and have found that we, one and all, have settled 

 down into what I believe to be the old faith of the Japanese, 

 that L. speciosurn (laneifolium) is queen. Its varieties album, 

 punctatum, roseum, rubrum — all are lovely, and the sub-varie- 

 ties are endless both in colour and growth, from the squat 

 compact form of the late-flowering true old speciosurn (lanei- 

 folium), with its deep crimson not mingling with the white, to 

 the stately L. speciosurn (laneifolium) splendidumof Loddiges, 

 - a plant of which I have to-day measured standing in its pot 

 7 feet 9 inches high, and at the bottom of its flowers 2 feet 

 6 inches across. 



Mr. Robson speaks of " the newer kinds of Lilies which 

 have come through his hands having botanical rather than 

 floral claims to distinction." I wish he had seen the admira- 

 tion, as a garden plant, excited at Birmingham by a spike of 

 the beautiful Lily, L. Robinsoni, brought from the Rocky 

 Mountains by Mr. Robinson. Lilium tigrinum Fortunei is 

 beautiful side by side with auratum in a Rhododendron bed ; 

 and when we get the rare tigrinum splendens 8 to 10 feet high, 

 with its noble head of flowers with the large spots, the effect 

 will be superb. In a rockwork here we have at the top a large 

 clump of L. tigrinum Fortunei in bloom, mixed with speci- 

 osurn not out ; a little lower L. supermini pyramidale, with its 

 tall graceful stem, in large bud ; and below L. Leiehtlinii in 

 bloom ; the effect is considered good. L. puberulurn is a most 

 effective garden Lily ; L. tigrinum flore-pleno too, and having 

 no pollen, it lasts well, and as the bulbs get larger it will, I 

 think, equal tigrinum Fortunei in height. There are many 

 other "new" Lilies which, though hardly yet sufficiently 

 tested in the open, will, I doubt not, hereafter have their great 

 merits done justice to by Mr. Robson in his garden, and in our 



Journal of Horticulture. — George F. Wilson, Heather- 

 bank, Weybridge Heath. 



THE CLOVENFOBDS VINEYAED. 



Having lately paid Mr. Thomson a visit, I can say [I was 

 amply repaid for my trouble in taking so long a journey. The 

 vineries are the best and largest I ever saw, and considering 

 the short time they have been planted, the crop of fruitjis 

 superb. A really good crop on Vines planted only two years 

 since is something to be proud of. 



As may be supposed, I asked to see Golden Champion, and 

 it looked in its then half-ripe state really fine. Mr. Thomson 

 told me it had shown no signs of the spot either with him or 

 his brother till last season, when he had a few berries which 

 went spotted. I could not help saying, " Then you do not 

 consider we are all muffs who have failed to grow it ? " But I 

 found it was too sore a subject to joke about. " Would that 

 my enemy would send out a new Vine," said he with an air of 

 great vexation. 



He then showed me the finest new Grape I ever saw, the 

 Duke of Buccleuch, of which he had planted scores of Vines. 

 If this do not turn out the best new Grape of our time I 

 shall be deceived. It is earlier than the Black Hamburgh, and 

 larger than the Golden Champion, and appeared in its then 

 state all that could be wished. " I will grow a ton weight of 

 this Grape next year, and if it show no fault, will let you all 

 have plants at half price who purchased the Champion of 

 me," said Mr. Thomson. If he do so, I for one shall be quite 

 satisfied. — J. R. Pearson, Chilwell. 



COTTAGE FLOWEE GABDENS. 



I have no doubt my friend, "D., Deal," will think me very 

 obstinate, but I cannot quite agree to his dictum that we ought 

 to keep bedding-out from cottage gardens. I do not see why 

 every cottager may not please his own taste. Those who may 

 like old-fashioned cottage gardens, with tall and short perennial 

 spring and autumn plants all growing together in a mixed 

 border, need not insist that his next-door neighbour should do 

 the same. I by no means wish to do away with the old plants 

 to be found in cottage gardens, but neither do I find fault with 

 those who have a small space of garden in front of their houses, 

 if they try to keep pace with tlje age, and take advantage of 

 some of the most lasting half -hardy plants to make their gardens 

 gay in summer and autumn. 



I can only say that in my own parish by far the best cottage 

 gardens are to a certain extent bedded-out, and I find those who 

 are fondest of flowers and pay most attention to them, and are 

 the most successful in keeping their cottage gardens oftenest 

 gay, are the very ones who have adopted the system of bedding- 

 out to the greatest extent. I do not want in making these 

 remarks to let your readers conclude that I am in favour of 

 cottagers adopting the bedding-out system exclusively ; but as 

 nobody, and more especially no cottager, can grow every kind 

 ef plant, I claim for cottagers, as well as others, to grow what- 

 over kind of plants they prefer. — G. P. Peach. 



GABDEN STEUCTUEES AND IMPLEMENTS 



AT THE ROYAL HOBTICULTUBAL SOCIETY'S 

 BIRMINGHAM: EXHIBITION.— No. 3. 



In continuing our remarks on the horticultural implements 

 and structures at Birmingham, we come next to Stand 64, 

 Messrs. W. S. Boulton & Co., Rose Lane Works, Norwich. They 

 exhibited a very nice ornamental conservatory, 43 feet by 19, 

 though the price, £167, struck us as somewhat large. There 

 was also a very useful tenant's portable greenhouse with centre 

 aud side staging. We were much pleased with the Melon and 

 Cucumber frames, and the portable plant-preservers, which 

 were strong, serviceable, and moderate in price. They were 

 adjudged a medal. 



In Stand 65, Messrs. Cranston & Luck, Highgate Street, Bir- 

 mingham, exhibited several of their horticultural structures.; 

 a gardener's greenhouse, 24 feet by 18, price £75, of which we 

 append an illustration, being a very efficient and useful house, 

 with a range of pits on each side and connected with the house, 

 being heated from the house and with the same apparatus as 

 the house itself. The stage for the plants is connected with the 

 outside framing of the pit, and is made to carry the house 

 itself, which can be fixed either upon dwarf walls, or on the 

 ground. The ventilation in this house and in all the other houses 

 erected in this stand was carried out by the patent system 

 which has now been for some time in use by this firm, and of 

 which we append the description given by them in their circular. 

 The houses are made of wood, and the roofs " are divided into 



