Barr <f Sttgden, 1869.] 
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“Last year, in Battersea Park, a few beds were planted with Echeverias and Sempervivums, and the 
ground clothed with various coloured Sedums. These, on account of their singular and grotesque beauty, 
and representing a new feature in gardening, excited a large amount of interest and considerable dis- 
cussion. Some of our best gardeners have this year produced, in their leaf gardens, curious and beautiful 
designs with the above plants ; while Mr. Gibson, the talented superintendent of Battersea Park, has 
given us, with considerable success, a miniature Alpine landscape, which would probably have been 
perfect had he shown the snow on the mountain top instead of in the valley, and the massive forms of 
the Echeveria Metallica lower down the mountain sides. The subject, however, is one which admits of 
the greatest possible diversity of taste, so that perhaps what appeared to us a misconception in Mr. 
Gibson’s arrangement, may have simply been on his part a copying of nature. Still, we think if the 
Antennaria tomentosa (which, by permission, from its snow-like aspect, wc might call the Snow-plant) 
had been on the top of the pseudo-Monte Rosa, the effect would have been more pleasing.” 
The above is a quotation from our last year's catalogue. Visitors to Battersea will this year observe 
that the pseudo-Monte Rosa is capped with the Snow-plant, Antennaria tomentosa, and the perspective is 
considerably improved. Strangers in London desirous of carrying home the latest styles in gardening 
should not miss spending an hour in Battersea Park, thejmest public resort of the kind in Europe. 
It is not at Battersea Park alone that the increased development of this style of gardening has taken place. 
A few days ago, casually calling upon one of our customers, we found that he had. replaced one of his banks of 
flowers with Sedums, Sempervivums, Echeverias, and other close-growing plants, producing a unique effect, 
Per 100. 
• s. tl. 
1861 Pansy, Bragg’s new blue, a very fine free-bloomer, darker in summer than the 
Cliveden blue - •. ^0 ^ • 
1862 Polyanthus, very fine mixed varieties, valuable for filling beds and edgings 21 0 . 
1863 „ very choice mixed varieties ~ — 
1864 Phlox fVondosa, a valuable plant, covering the ground in spring with a sheet 
of purple - - 0 . 
1865 „ Nelsonii, an effective plant, covering the ground in spring with a sheet of 
pure white - — 
1866 Pink, Cliveden spring double pure white, valuable for edgings 30 o ■ 
1867 Pink, Pearce’s Covent Garden spring blush, very effective in beds and edgings 30 0 . 
1868 Primrose, single, splendid mixed colours, white, lilac, pink, rose, &c 30 0 .. 
1869 „ double varieties, each, Is. to Is. (id. 
1870 Saponaria Calabrica, pink or white 12 6 . 
1871 Silene, Cliveden pink (S. pendula), for ribbons and filling flower beds 10 6 .. 
1872 Silene, Cliveden white (S. pendula alba), very useful 10 6 . 
1873 Silene pseudo-atocion, rose pink, charming 12 G . 
1874 Stachys lanata, a large silvery - foliaged plant, forming fine edgings to large 
beds and borders 13 0 . 
1875 Viola cornnta, Purple King. Seed, Is. per packet ; plants 30 0 . 
1376 Viola oornuta, Mauve Qneen. Seed, Is. per packet ; plants 30 0 . 
1877 Viola alba, pure white. Seed, 2/6 per packet ; plants 40 0 . 
1878 Viola lutea, pure yellow. Seed, 2/0 per packet ; plants 40 0 . 
Plant the Violas tolerably thickly, to insure a compact and continuous mass of bloom. 
1879 'Wallflower, dark rod; for ribbons, the back row of borders, andforbeds 25 0 . 
1880 single yellow ; for ribbons, back row of borders, and beds 25 0 . 
Per doz. 
s. d. 
. 5 6 
- 3 0 
. 6 0 
.. 4 6 
. 6 0 
. 5 6 
ALPINE SUCCULENT PLANTS; 
And others which may be associated with them in the new style of Miniature and Grotesque Gardening. 
