November 7.] 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
85 
Tt has not yet appeared in any English catalogue, but 
Stendel has it in liis Nomenclature. It was named by 
Dr. Wallich, in compliment to a Scotch gentlemen, 
whose patronymic dates back time out of mind, and is of 
Gaelic origin, a language which is overloaded with con¬ 
sonants, and vowels too, that are never sounded. Gol- 
quhounia, sounds as if written Cohounia, with the accent 
on the u. Thoso who have the shrub in the open ground 
now should see about some winter protection for it, as it 
is too young yet to stand exposed; and those who have 
it not, may avoid some disappointment on a future day 
by making a memorandum of it. 
I intended to get in some account of a, newish hardy 
evergreen climber just coming into bloom with me, but 
tl le man with his teazing took up too much of my time 
this week. D. Beaton. 
GREENHOUSE AND WINDOW 
GARDENING. 
Preserving Bedded-out Plants : Propagation — 
Scarlet Geraniums. —From the numberless inquiries 
upon this subject, notwithstanding all that has been said 
previously, it would appear that a few more statements 
would be acceptable, and of a more lengthy character 
than can be squeezed into the correspondent’s column. 
To our friend, Mr. Beaton, belongs the pleasure of treat¬ 
ing of these matters in a wholesale way, but many of oot 
friends who style themselves window gardeners, even 
though possessing a small box of a greenhouse, and a 
few yards of flower-garden, have not yet so got into the 
habit of generalising, so far as gardening is concerned, as 
to p>erceive that the same principles of treatment that 
are applicable in large places are equally applicable in 
small ones ; and, therefore, they expect that something 
shall appear just to suit their own individual case; and 
hence it is that forests of questions and inquiries are 
made which already have been so repeatedly answered, 
that were it not for the large mindedness which the study 
of gardening fosters, our more experienced readers would 
look upon any further allusion to such matters as a per¬ 
fect dose of repetition. 
Having transferred from their window-sill, or their 
small greenhouse, into then- flower pilot some favourite 
pilants, which they had tended with anxious care dining 
all the vicissitudes of winter, by the time that the leaves 
of autumn are tinged with yellow, they begin to have 
many a consultation with themselves how they shall save 
their favourites from the icy king, so that similar atten¬ 
tions, which delight as well as employ, may again be 
afforded. Hence, when visiting a gardener of some ex¬ 
tent, and knowing the simple-minded communicativeness 
of gardeners in general, after clearing the way with suc¬ 
cessive notes of admiration (which the knight of the 
spade takes merely as a matter of course, without feeling 
a bit of vanity or inflated importance, being too well 
aware of deficiencies which liis visitors do not perceive), 
statements are then made in easy confidence, as to what 
they have got, and what they have done, and what they 
expect to do; and then, without a direct reference to 
their own special proteges , they inquire how the plants 
in such and such beds are to be preserved during the 
winter. 0 for the pencil of a Cruiksliank to depict 
the serio-comic appearance their countenances often pre¬ 
sent, when told that the most, or all of them, woulcl be 
killed with frost!—a portraiture made up of the doubting, 
the incredulous, with a dash of the felt-to-be-cruel and 
horrible—and all the more pleasing, because, like every 
frue amusement, such sensations revealed in the counte¬ 
nance proceeded from the development of the nobler feel¬ 
ings of our nature, those winch lead us to attach our¬ 
selves to objects with wliich we have long been pleasingly 
familiar. This feeling of attachment is identically the 
same, though varied in its appearance, when manifested 
towards a rational creature like ourselves, to an animal 
wliich we pet, or a flower that we tend. So much is this 
the case, that we rarely find a strong kindly regard 
manifested in any one of these directions, but we can 
predicate, with tolerable certainty, as to the views enter¬ 
tained with respiect to the others. Whoever knew a pier- 
son that was doatingly fond of plants and flowers, that 
was not kind, and feeling-hearted, and beneficent to 
their fellow-creatures ? 
Gardeners are not less attached to their flower-garden 
and other plants than are our amateur friends in gene¬ 
ral ; but as the saving of all they require would demand 
a space under glass, not of a few yards, but the large 
fractional part of an acre, they make a virtue of neces¬ 
sity, and knowing that though each plant is perfect in 
itself as a whole, it is, nevertheless, composed of an as¬ 
semblage of distinct individuals, they take some of these 
individuals, in the shape of cuttings, which occupy but 
little of their valuable room in winter, and by their care 
and attention endeavour alike to preserve the race, imi¬ 
tate, if not excel, their previous splendour, and, as man¬ 
kind do in other cases, love these young plants all the 
more for their parents’ sake. Once let om friends, young 
in gardening, get into the habit of looking a-liead, of 
acting with the same forethought in then gardening 
matters that they display in the other avocations of life, 
and they will feel more independent at the apiproacli of 
winter, and have fewer questions to propose as the 
eleventh hour is passing into the twelfth, as to how their 
favourites are to be saved; though, in the meantime, 
they may rest assured there is no necessity for apologis¬ 
ing for trouble given, as the answering of then inquiries 
is ever looked upon more in the light of a pleasure than, 
a labour. 
For instance, and as confirmatory of these remarks, 
what more splendid—what more prized for window and 
diminutive flower-plot—than the Scarlet geranium ? as 
evidenced in the inquiries about the modes of its pre¬ 
servation. A fortnight ago the matter was adverted to ; 
the modes in which it may be kept will also be found 
referred to in another pi art of this day’s paper. We 
allude to it no farther here than to state, that to pre¬ 
serve such plants in dry cellars, dark rooms, and hay¬ 
lofts, those possessing the greatest firmness and least 
succulence in the stems are to be preferred, because they 
are less likely to damp, and more stored with perfect 
organised fluids; and hence plants grown in pots are 
always preferable to those grown in the open garden, 
just because they are firmer and shorter-jointed. In 
keeping them two things must be attended to:—’First, 
the roots and piart of the stem should be kept in a 
material so dry, such as earth, that there will be little 
danger of rotting with damp; and, secondly, the air 
around them should neither be so dry nor so hot as to 
cause the evaporation of the stored-up juices. To hus¬ 
band this all the more, the leaves, should be completely 
removed, and the succulent points of the stems. 1 knew 
of one instance, where the proprietor—resolving to be 
sure—stored away pi art of his plants over a boiler used 
almost every day for farm-purposes ; another part were 
stored near to and over an oven. In the one case the 
plants were parboiled with steam; in the other, they 
might as well have been kiln-dried or made into char¬ 
coal. Until the buds begin to break—when light must 
be given, and moisture administered by degrees—they 
will just require a little more attention than the pro¬ 
perly keeping of potatoes. Success in every instance is 
not, however, to be expected, whatever the amount of 
care you give them. If you take them up now, repot 
them, and put them in a greenhouse, you will keep them 
more easily; but, as they will lose many of their leaves, 
they will not be much of an ornament during the winter. 
To secure a few flowers and a fine foliage during winter, 
