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CASSELL'S POPULAE GAEDEXING. 



E. ventricosa hreviflora. — The ventricosas are a very 

 "beautiful section. They are mostly dwarf and com- 

 pact in habit, with dense foliage, flowers long, 

 tubular, and disposed in terminal umbels on all the 

 branches. The flowers are all smooth aild destitute 

 of gum ; this variety is a rather stronger grower 

 than the majority. Flowers almost globose, of a 

 uniform deep rose. May and June. 



E. veniricosa carnea. — Leaves small ; flowers long, 

 inflated at base, soft flesh-colour. May to July. 



E. reiitricosa coccinea minor.—A. very dwarf, dense- 

 growing variety, with dark green leaves, and a most 

 profuse bloomer ; flowers long, slender, tubes china- 

 white ; limb spreading, bright red. May and 

 June. 



E. foitricosa grandiflora. — Flowers very large and 

 wholly deep purplish-crimson ; a superb form. June 

 and J uly. 



E. ventricosa magnlfica. — A somewhat stiff, erect- 

 growing kind ; an abundant bloomer ; flowers rosy- 

 red. J une and uly. 



E. ventricosa splcndcns. — This form is more hirsute 

 than any of the others ; flowersi large, the tubes 

 swollen in the middle, porcelain-white ; limb rosy- 

 purple tipped with white. June and July. 



E. ventricosa tricolor. — Flowers long, tubes creamy- 

 white, flesh-colour at neck; limb white. A very 

 liandsome variety. Jidy to August. 



E. Verno7iiana. — A grand variety, with flowers in 

 very large terminal whoils, tubes much swollen at 

 base, sharply contracted at the throat, pure waxy- 

 white, neck banded green ; limb broad and spread- 

 ing. June to August. 



E. vestita alba. — The varieties of this section are 

 not very numerous, but they are very distinct fi'om 

 all other Heaths. They are rather apt to lose their 

 leaves, and do not conform to any style of training. 

 They are characterised by their stout erect growths, 

 and dense, long, dark green, linear leaves, which 

 are soft and silky. The flowers are tubular, semi- 

 erect, slightly curved, smallest at the base, and are 

 disposed in whorls an inch or two below the points 

 of the shoot. In vestita alba the flowers are rather 

 short, piu-e white. May to July. 



E. vestita carnea. — Flowers numerous, soft pink or 

 flesh-colotir. June and July. 



E. vestita coccinea. — Similar to the preceding ; 

 colour bright reddish-scarlet. July and August. 



E. vestita rosea. — Flowers about the size of alba, 

 in large whorls, deep, rich rose ; very handsome. 

 August and September. 



E. Victoria. — A hard- wooded kind of great beauty, 

 robust in habit, and an abundant bloomer ; flowers 

 large, tubular, inflated at base, tubes purplish-crim- 

 son, neck banded with black ; lim.b white. April 

 and May. 



E. Westphalingia. — This is also called E. nndulata. 

 An erect, quick-growing kind ; flowers tubular, of a 

 imiform soft red. jMay to July. 



E. Wilmoreana. — A soft-wooded kind, with grey- 

 green leaves ; flowers bell-shaped, pendulous, purple 

 at base, tipped with white ; an abundant bloomer ; 

 one of the most popular and generally grown of all 

 early Heaths. February to April. 



THE HAEDY FEUIT GAEDEN. 



By D. T. Fish, assisted by William Carmichael. 



Place. — As to the place, near to or within sight 

 of the dwelling-house, whether that be a mansion, 

 a ^illa, or a cottage, is undoubtedly the best place. 

 It was a vulgar eiTor that demanded the separation 

 of pleasure from profit in the ornamentation of the 

 dweUing-house ; and even the highest and most 

 severely aesthetic taste of the present day is pre- 

 pared to admit fruit-trees into the home landscape 

 or garden. Perhaps the most suitable and conve- 

 nient place for . the fruit garden is the intermediate 

 area between the flower and the vegetable or kitchen 

 garden. It is only fitting that plants grown mainly 

 or wholly for their beauty should embellish and 

 en wreathe the base and the immediate foreground of 

 the dwelling-house, and our fruit trees might make 

 good their claim to this first circle of absolute 

 beauty. For what flower or flowering shrub can 

 match or excel the snowy whiteness of Cherries, 

 Plums and Pears, or the delicate and deep pink of 

 Apple and Peach-blossom ? Still, on the whole, our 

 gradation has taste, propriety, and convenience to 

 recommend it. Flowers, chaste and bright, on green 

 turf and bright gravel, to form a soft rich base of 

 beauty roimd the dwelling-house. Beyond this the 

 fruit garden, leading pleasantly on or into the kitchen 

 garden proper and culinary department. 



Of course, each may be kept pui-ely for its own 

 specific purpose, or the thre-e may be more or less 

 mixed. But, as a rule, the fruit garden will proA^e 

 most satisfactory, alike on principles of taste and 

 grounds of utility, when occupying a mid position — 

 a sort of half-way house between the purely orna- 

 mental and strictly utilitarian portions of the 

 garden. These terms, however, must be understood 

 in a limited and comparative sense. For it will be 

 one of our main objects to make the fruit garden 

 highly beautiful as well as profitable ; and even a 

 kitchen garden, skilfully cropped and carefully kept, 

 if not exactlj' a thing of beauty or joy for ever, may 

 yet yield a rich harvest of satisfaction through its 

 order, cleanUness, and plenty. 



