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JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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be amply repaid by their success. Some of trie Sedmns and 

 Seinpervivums thrive best on the sunny side, and require but 

 little moisture, while the Primulas, certain Saxifrages, Gna- 

 phaliunrs, Gentians, and others like a little shade during the 

 summer and a greater amount of moisture than the more 

 succulent species. A few shrubs may be added, but not many, 

 unless, as already remarked, the speedy covering of the whole 

 is wanted ; but even where only dwarf plants form the bulk of 

 those planted, I would have one or two spreading shrubs as 

 well, say Cotoneaster microphylla, or, what is still better, 

 Juniperus repens ; a tree Box or two might also be admissible. 

 The intending planter will best choose for himself from amongst 

 the following plants, to nearly all of which I have added a few 

 remarks. 



HERBACEOUS AND ALPENE PLANTS. 

 Achillea tomentosa. — A pretty, white-leaved, dwarf-growing 

 plant. 



Achillea umbellata. — Umbels of bright yellow flowers ; foliage 

 also pretty. 



Ajuga reptans rubra. — A dark-leaved plant, makes not a bad 

 edging for beds. 



Ajuga reptans variegata. — A white-leaved plant of low growth. 

 Alyssum saxatile. — A dwarf variety of this is very useful in 

 many ways, and no plant presents a more golden appearance 

 when in flower. 



Alyssum saxatile variegata. — A variety with silver-edged 

 foliage, not so good a flower as the preceding. 

 Androsace lanuginosa. — Dwarf and pretty. 

 Aquilegia. — A good dwarf specimen of this genus is useful. 

 Arabis albida variegata. — This is one of the most useful edg- 

 ing plants I have, especially for winter ; in rockwork it is also of 

 great service. 



Arabis lucida variegata. — I have not been able to make much 

 of this. I imagine it succeeds best in peat, or soil approaching 

 that character. 



Armeria vulgaris (the common Thrift) is well deserving of a 

 place, and so are some others, of which I have not the botanical 

 name ; but they are taller in flower-stems, while the plant has 

 nearly the same low compact habit of growth. 

 Aubrietia purpurea. — Good. 



Aubrietia purpurea variegata. — Very pretty, and well deserv- 

 ing extensive cultivation. 



Aubrietia Campbelli. — Darker-coloured flower than purpurea, 

 which it resembles. 



Bambusa Fortunei.— Very pretty, but of doubtful hardiness. 

 It is deserving of a trial. 

 _ Caltha pahtstris flore-pleno. — Planted on the shady and moist 

 side of a mound this looks well when in flower. 



Campanula.— This extensive family presents both tall and 

 dwarf members, both good. Among the latter, C. pumila and 

 pumila alba, which differ but little from the Carpatica section. 

 All are of easy growth. C. pulla, C. garganica, and C. turbinata 

 are also dwarf, and all are good. There are besides several good 

 tall specimens, but they are better adapted for the herbaceous 

 border than the rockery. 



Centaurea candidissima and C. gymnocarpa, though not 

 usually^ regarded as hardy, nevertheless often withstand the 

 winter in favourable localities, and may be tried. 



Cineraria maritima and C. acanthifolia may also be tried, 

 C. maritima is all but hardy, and looks' well in every position. 



Cheirantlius ocliroleucus. — A neat, dwarf-growing plant, so is 

 C. Marshallii ; and the ordinary Wallflower'is also good. . 



Cerastium tomentosum deserves a place, but do not let it over- 

 run less robust plants. 



. Convallaria. — The Lily of the Valley is better in a bed by 

 itself, but a plant of Solomon's Seal (Convallaria Polygonatum), 

 is good, overlapping smaller plants- with its graceful Pern-like 

 pendants. 



Coronilla gibraltarica. — A bright yellow flower, but liable to 

 overgrow its neighbour. 



Cyclamen europwum. — Exceedingly pretty where it does well, 

 but it is not in every place it will do so. It is a plant well worth 

 trying. 



Dactylis glomerata variegata. — This pretty variegated Grass 

 prefers a moist to a dry situation. 



Dianthus petrmus and fimbriates, both distinct from the com- 

 mon Pink and Sweet William, are worthy a place. The common 

 white Pink is, perhaps, the most useful of all. 

 Doronicum caucasicum. — Pretty, rather tall. 

 Bryas octopetala.—YeTj neat, but said to be eclipsed by 

 D. Drummondi and integrifolia. 

 Epimedium alpinum. — Dwarf. 



Eranthis hyemalis. — The early-blooming Winter Aconite, one 

 of the most charming early blooming plants we have. Too 

 much cannot be said in its praise. 

 Erinus alpinus. — A pretty dwarf-growing plant. 

 Erythronium dens-canis (Dog's-Tooth Violet).— A plant pretty 

 alike in foliage and in flower. There are different varieties of it 

 all more or less good. 



-A grey-looking Grass, well worthy of cnlti- 

 -A very pretty-leaved plant often 



Festuca glauca- 

 vation. 



Fwrikia Sieboldii variegata.- 

 met with in greenhouses. 



Geniiana acaulis and caucasica are both good, as are some 

 others, but I have only grown the above ; but all neat plants of 

 this genus may be regarded as eligible. 



Gypsophila gracilis. — A pretty white-flowering plant. 



Selleborus niger vernalis (The Christmas Rose). — This plant 

 is indispensable for rockwork. It likes the shady side and mois- 

 ture rather than dryness. There are other species also good. 

 Even H. fatidus may be admitted for its Palm-like foliage. It 

 is, however, taller than most of the plants enumerated. 



Hepaticas. — The white, blue, and crimson are all deserving of 

 culture. Their merits are too well known to require further 

 comment. 



Iberis corifolia, I. gibraltarica, and I. sempervirens are all 

 dwarf, and deserving of attention ; the first in particular is very 

 showy. — J. Robson. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 

 The largest quantity of the different varieties of Golden 

 Tews we have ever seen are at the Great Berkhampsted Nur- 

 series of Messrs. Lane & Son. There are acres of them in 

 single pieces, and the effect produced by this mass of gold set,. 

 as it were, in a framework of green Conifers is very rich indeed, 

 and furnishes a model for planters to follow who are desirous 

 of introducing rich and harmonious colouring into their garden 

 scenery. It has often struck us that there is a great want of 

 taste in the way ornamental plantations and shrubberies are 

 usually planted. Although the planter, like the artist, has 

 every shade and variety of colour with which to work, how 

 rarely does he take advantage of the opportunities at his dis- 

 posal ! Could planters but exercise the same skill, and exhibit 

 the same taste that flower gardeners have done during these 

 later years, and paint with trees as they have done with flowers, 

 only less gaudily, how much more cheerful and picturesque our 

 plantations and shrubberies would appear. 



One of the most effectual means for keeping off the 



Turnip Fly is to strew spent hops between the rows of Turnips- 

 Whether the effect is of a narcotic character or not we do not 

 pretend to say, but it is a most effectual check to the ravages of 

 this troublesome pest, and has been used with great success 

 this season by the market gardeners about Chiswick, Turn- 

 ham Green, and Ealing. 



There is now in full bloom in the open air at the 



Berkhampsted Nurseries a luxuriant plant of Castaxea Chry- 

 sophylla, or Golden-leaved Chestnut. It is perfectly hardy, 

 and forms a handsome large shrub. 



At the sitting of the French Academy of Sciences on 



September 9th, a number of communications on the subject of 

 the ravages of the Phylloxera vastatrix in the vineyards of 

 France were read by M. Dumas, and referred to the Phylloxera 

 Committee of the Academy. It appears that the disease is 

 making fearfully rapid advances in Provence, threatening the 

 speedy entire destruction of the crop. In the department of 

 Vaucluse it is also rapidly increasing ; while in that of l'Herault 

 it is rather diminishing. All the correspondents agreed that 

 when once a plant is attacked cure is hopeless, and that it is 

 almost impossible to prevent the parasite spreading to neigh- 

 bouring plants by any other means than complete submersion 

 under water, though the application to the roots of a soil com- 

 posed of sand, manure, and some insecticide, will delay it for 

 some years. There is no doubt that the wingless insect migrates 

 above ground from the diseased to the healthy plant, and is 

 carried in great quantities by the wind. M. d'Armand, of 

 Marseilles, demanded that a prize of 500,000 francs, or, if 

 necessary, 1,000,000 francs, be offered by the State to anyone 

 who shall discover a means of arresting the disease. The pest 

 has made great advances also in Portugal, especially in the 

 neighbourhood of Porto, Villa Real, Douro, and Santarem ; and 

 a Royal Commission has been appointed to investigate fully 

 the causes of a disease which threatens the destruction of one 

 of the most important branches of national wealth, and the 

 best means of curing it. — (Nature.) 



WORK FOR THE WEEK. 



KITCHEN GARDEN. 



The continued fine weather has been very favourable to all 

 operations in the kitchen garden, and also to the crops. 



