£23 THE FLORIST AND 



2 Tyson, 3 Eartlett, 4 Seckel, 4 White Doyenne, 4Louise boune de 

 Jersey, & Grey Doyenne, 6 Dutchess de Angouleme, 6 Glout Mor- 

 ceau, 6 Winter Nelis, 6 Easter Beurre. My sheet is full, if this 

 finds favor in your eyes you may probably hear from me again. 



Respectfully Yours, A. R. N. 



For the Flprist and Horticultural Journal. 



Mr. Editor : — 



The question is often asked, where can a choice collection of 

 Florist's flowers be got, such as do not need the protection of a green- 

 house with fire through the winter, nor a perpetual watering during 

 summer ? In the hope that some of our nurserymen will answer 

 the inquiry, I will, with your permission, give your readers my re- 

 collection of a Florist's garden, so as to give them some idea of what 

 really constitutes a Florist, for the name is much misapplied 

 among us. 



William Hatelie, W. S. of Duncliff Cottage, Murray field, a mile 

 west of Edinburgh, Scotland, was (and may be yet) an amateur 

 florist of refined taste. His garden I think was forty-eight yards 

 wide and sixty yards long, and was enclosed by a stone wall sixteen 

 feet high, with a small stable and carriage house on one corner ; the 

 cellar of which was divided into an apartment for keeping soil pots 

 and other garden lumber, and another to hold the cleanings of the 

 stable. The house was near the southern end ; it was a two story 

 house of white freestone with an observatory from which a beauti- 

 ful view could be obtained. 



One third of the ground was kept as a back ground, and was used 

 as a nursery for the front garden and for growing small fruits and 

 small vegetables, it was divided from the front by a trellis which 

 was covered with dwarf pear trees. The wall of the back portion 

 was filled with choice fruit-trees and that of the front with flowerr 

 jng shrubs and vines. Next to this was a border eight feet wide 

 bedded with different kinds of flowers. There was no incongruous 

 mixture ; every genus stood by itself, every species or variety was 



