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JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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denias, Epiphyllums, young Palms suitable for table deco- 

 ration, Ferns, Arnaryllids, and numerous miscellaneous plants. 

 Passing out of doors Mr. James Cutbush incidentally pointed 

 out some frames of Mignonette — " On that spot," said he, 

 " Mignonette has been grown for fifty-two years, and we have 

 never missed a crop but once, and we always sow on August 

 31st or September 1st." But we have inadvertently somewhat 

 anticipated — it ought to have been stated before that the 

 grounds of the Higbgate and Chohneley Nursery, Finchley, a 

 subsidiary establishment, altogether extend to fourteen acres, so 

 it will be seen that Cutbush's is no mere bulb nursery, but one 

 in which trees and shrubs, both fruit-producing and orna- 

 mental, can be grown in quantity. 



Of Ivies there is a fine collection, in which we especially 

 noticed the Silver Tree, with a broad white margin to the 

 leaves ; a fine golden tree variety of the Irish ; Caenwoodiana, 

 with small deeply-lobed leaves ; algeriensis variegata, with fine 

 white variegation ; Glymii, beautifully marbled ; marginata 

 robusta, rose-edged ; and rhombea argenteo-marginata, a quick 

 grower. Aucuba japonica aureo-maculata deserves high and 

 honourable mention as one of the boldest and most striking 

 varieties of late years introduced into our gardens, so large and 

 so rich in colour is the blotching in the centre of the leaf. 

 Another very beautiful hardy variegated shrub is Ligustrum 

 lueidum variegaturn, which, for a Privet, lias a very large leaf 

 beautifully margined with yellow. Weigelas for forcing, 

 Gueldres Roses, Deutzias, &a., are largely represented. Of 

 Deodars and other Conifers there are many handsome speci- 

 mens, and of other trees and shrubs there is a very choice 

 collection. Among variegated hardy trees Ulmus viminalis 

 variegata deserves especial mention on account of its beauti- 

 ful white- variegated leaves, which the tree retains much later in 

 autumn than Acer Negundo variegaturn, though they are not 

 produced so early in spring. There is also a very pretty Elm 

 with golden-tipped leaves on the young growth. The Evergreen 

 Oaks, of which there is a larger quarter plunged in pots, the 

 trees averaging 5 feet high, are ready for immediate and safe 

 transference to other quarters, as indeed they would be at any 

 season. Laurels are extensively grown ; among them, besides 

 the common and Portugal, may be noted Laurus caucasica, and 

 colehica with longer leaves than the preceding. There are 

 many trees of the Western Plane growing on to form standards, 

 such as are employed with such good effect on the Continent ; 

 and we must not omit to mention the Populus tremula pendula, 

 one of the most graceful of all deciduous trees. Ordinary 

 nursery stock we pass over; but of Hyacinths, whether they 

 come under our notice or not at the spring exhibitions, we may 

 be sure there will be a splendid array, for between three hundred 

 and four hundred pots had been placed in that judicious seclu- 

 sion which is so necessary for the production of roots, anil, we 

 need hardly say, those superb spikes of flowers which astonish 

 all beholders, for it cannot be denied that if the Dutchmen grow 

 the bulbs, we, at least, can make them flower better than they 

 can. 



NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 

 As we formerly anticipated, the Royal Horticultural 

 Society's Country Exhibition for 1873 is to be held at the 

 Park Farm, Bath — a most beautiful spot. The Mayor writes 

 to. say that the guarantee fund is complete, and from what 

 we know of the Committee the affair is likely to be pushed on 

 to a success. 



In your Journal of the 24th nit. I see in a letter dated 



21st, with reference to field Mushrooms, " Singular it is that 

 there has not been one field Mushroom seen in the north this 

 year." This is incorrect, for I gathered in August of this year 

 very fine ones. Some were 30 inches in circumference, and all 

 were of good size. — W. H., Swinbourne Castle , Northumberland. 



Some enormous trees of the genus Eucalyptus have 



lately been found in Victoria and Western Australia. Several 

 were measured and found to exceed 450 feet in height, and 

 40 feet in circumference. It seems, therefore, that Australia 

 can boast of possessing the loftiest trees in the world. These 

 trees, as well as those of the Banksia and Acacia kind, are 

 admirably adapted to stand the long droughts which some- 

 times prevail here. 



Every year the Chrysanthemums in the Temple Gar- 

 dens are a theme in everyone's mouth. They are always very 

 good, but never have we seen them better than this year. Mr. 

 Newton, the gardener of the Inner Temple, a most worthy 

 successor to our good old friend Broome, has this year fairly 



established a reputation of being a grower of blooms which, 

 for size and quality, without " dressing " of any kind, have 

 never been surpassed. That such a result has been secured 

 by thorough good culture from first to last is evident by the 

 healthily luxuriant character of the foliage. Prince Alfred, in 

 particular, we have never seen larger nor more perfect— each 

 floret laid as if by hand, and yet the blooms have never been 

 touched. Vesta, Empress of India, White Globe, General 

 Slade, Mrs. George Bundle, and Little Harry are also very 

 fine, and among the Japanese kinds, which are rapidly rising 

 in favour, The Daimio, James Salter, and Hero of Magdala. 

 We may add that Mr. Newton has this year secured a display 

 a fortnight earlier than most other growers. In the Inner 

 Temple Mr. Dale, who is later, has Progne, remarkable for its 

 fine colour, Little Harry, Vesta, White Globe, and others ex- 

 cellent; and, though not connected with Chrysanthemums, no 

 one could fail to remark the beauty of the long stretch of lawn 

 extending towards the river. To its verdancy no doubt the 

 moist autumn has greatly contributed, but we look upon the 

 green sward of the two Temple Gardens, so gladdening to the 

 eye, not only as a proof that the smoke nuisance is abating, 

 but also as an evidence that gardening there, as elsewhere, can 

 be successfully carried on under difficulties. 



We are informed that the Rev. H. Honywood Dom- 



brain ("D., Deal," of our contributors), is preparing for pub- 

 lication a series of Treatises on the History, Culture, &c, of 

 Florists' Flowers. The first of the series, " The Gladiolus," 

 will probably be published on the first day of next year. 



WINTERING CUTTINGS. 

 At this season, when many are thinking how to keep their 

 cuttings, perhaps an account of the means I used last winter 

 may be useful. My greenhouse is on a humble scale ; it is a 

 lean-to, 10 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 5 feet 6 inches high. I 

 fitted a stove pipe inside as follows : — There is an upright 

 piece 4 inches in diameter, and 3 feet 6 inches long, in which 

 is a joint at right angles to carry a pipe 2J inches in diameter. 



The upper part of the 

 upright pipe is closed 

 with a moveable r>lug; 

 the lower end rests on 

 two tiles placed about 

 2 inches apart to admit 

 of draught. The end of 

 the horizontal piece is 

 partially closed when 

 the fuel is well ignited. 

 I burn charcoal at 3s. 

 per sack, and light the 

 stove at the bottom by 

 dropping some lighted 

 charcoal through the 

 top of the upright pipe, 

 then close the top and 

 open the plug at the end 

 of the horizontal pipe. 

 The charcoal burns 

 brightly in three or four 

 minutes. I then fill up 

 the upright pipe to the 

 rectangular joint. The stove is thus self-feeding, and if supplied 

 with small pieces of charcoal about the size of a walnut, will 

 burn without attention for nine or ten hours. The plugs I find 

 most convenient are flower-pots. For the plug marked 0, I 

 have a 48-sized pot half filled with plaster, and d is a GO-sized 

 pot, through the hole of which all fumes escape into the open 

 air. Last winter I kept some fifteen dozen Geranium and 

 Calceolaria cuttings with about three sacks of charcoal. The 

 expense of the apparatus was 8s. As will be seen from the 

 sketch, no fumes can escape, as the plug d is omtside the 

 house, and the plug c entirely closes the upright pipe except 

 when feeding the fire. This contrivance may be useful to any 

 who do not care to go to the expense of a regular flue. I shall 

 be happy to show this stove to anyone who wishes to see it. — 

 H. J. T. 



WORK FOR THE WEEK. 



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