February 13. J 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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in a greenhouse with Cape Pelargoniums, at the Kew 
Gardens last summer, and being new to us, we made a 
hasty examination of it, and notwithstanding the au¬ 
thority of the Prodromus, we hesitate not to assert the 
impossibility of establishing it as a legitimate genus. 
Nevertheless, we would recommend it as a fit associate 
tor a few Styleworts (Stylidium) in the window ledge of 
the cottage, having much the same habit of plant, and 
style of flowering on short rigid stalks, which end and 
flower in a spike, the individual flowers arising from a 
glume or chaffy scale with which the flowering parts are 
thickly set, keeping the calyx out of view within their 
embrace. We have not heard by whom it was intro¬ 
duced, or from what country, but from the name it bears 
in nursery gardens, Statice Arrarati, it may have been 
found on that mount, and, for aught that we know, have 
been amongst the first flowering plants which gladdened 
the eyes of Noah after the deluge. Whether that be so 
or not, the plant is of that class called alpines, and we 
believe hardy enough to live out a few years on dry 
rock-work; but even with some advantages in site and 
aspect, rock plants or alpines never make more than a 
few years stay with us; therefore, we woxdd advise this 
new plant and candidate for rockeries to be kept in a 
little pot full of some porous earth, and to be chiefly in¬ 
creased by seeds, which it will ripen quite freely, if it is 
grown in a pot, as we ourselves can testify from the 
plant we examined at Kew. 
There is a very faithful coloured plate of it given in 
The Gardeners' Magazine of Botany, a work so far in 
advance of all that relates to practice and high art, that 
it seems hardly necessary to point to it as a standard 
authority. Acantholimon, or, in truth, Statice gluma- 
ceum, belongs to the Natural Order of Leadworts (Plum- 
baginaceee), and to 5 -Pentandria 1 -Monogynia of the 
Linnscan arrangement. It has been cultivated in the 
vicinity of London for at least five years. Branches, 
naked at bottom with leaves bending back at top; 
yearling shoots diamond-shaped,leaves crowded. Leaves, 
equal, prickle-pointed, lowest flat, upper throe-sided. 
Flower-stem, downy, flowers in two ranks in flattened 
spikes of seven or nine florets; bracts broad, longer 
than calyx-tube; limbs of calyx without a prickle, 
marked with blackish veins. 
We may conclude by observing that Statice is derived 
from the Greek statizo, to detain, alluding to the utility 
of this plant in holding together sandy soil. 'Thrift, the 
English name, alludes to its hardy nature, no high¬ 
land nor lowland, no exposed sand, nor enclosed city 
garden bring death to it. In the time of Queen Elizabeth, 
Gerarde tells us “ it serveth very fitly ” for edgings, and 
it was then known also as Lady’s Cushion, and Sea 
Gillofiower. B. J. 
THE ERUIT-GAKDEN. 
1’ORM.VTLON OF FRUIT AND KITCHEN-GARDENS. 
(Continued from page 116.) 
In order to understand this subject in all its bearings, 
our readers will do well to turn back to page 146, and 
observe the proposed order of the subject. It was there 
remarked, that in consequence of the varying circum¬ 
stances of families, no one rule can easily be laid 
down for planting kitchen-gardens with fruit-trees, inas¬ 
much as one family requires early fruit, others the 
reverse. Thus it seems necessary in advising on this 
head to avoid the extremes, and to shape our obser¬ 
vations to what may be considered the generality of 
cases, those in which the {proprietor desires a constant 
and well planned succession of the best fruits at every 
season. 
We are now about to show how a kitchen-garden may 
be established without cropping the borders with vege¬ 
tables, and this, in order that the roots of every fruit-tree 
therein may receive culture of a special character when 
necessary ; as, also, that general principles may be carried 
out at all seasons without hindrance; for such must ever 
occur when the borders contain other crops; and it is 
not too much to affirm, that the greatest portion of the 
ill-success so frequently complained of, has arisen from 
unworthy compromises, forced on the cultivator by the 
injudicious cropping alluded to. 
As general principles, applicable in common to the 
roots of most trees, we may mention top-dressings, mulch¬ 
ings, &c., the former being chiefly the application of 
good soils or composts on certain occasions. As special 
ones, root-pruning instantly presents itself, and, indeed, 
the application of particular manures or composts, be¬ 
sides other matters equally important—such as watering 
in droughts, &c.' Now, these things, we repeat, cannot 
be carried out with certainty and facility by the old 
system. 
Let it be understood at once, that the remarks which 
follow have particular reference to a dwarfing system; 
the ordinary orchard standard we have nothing to do 
with at present. We, therefore, have to urge the use of 
trellises, especially for small gardens, as producing less 
shade to the adjoining borders; as insuring an earlier 
fruitfulness ; as enabling the proprietor to indulge in a 
greater amount of good fruits; and, finally, as being a 
source of much pleasure to those who feel an interest in 
horticultural affairs, and who have occasionally to per¬ 
form the manual operations with their own hands. 
TREr.i.isES. —This understood, wc come to the character 
and form of trellises, and these are various. The follow¬ 
ing are the principal at present in vogue:—The Perpen¬ 
dicular Espalier Rail. The Horizontal or Table Trellis. 
The Saddle Trellis. The Inclined Trellis. The Trellis 
Arcade. Others may be suggested, but these are the 
principal, and we will give a brief description of each 
before proceeding farther. , 
The Perpendicular Espalier Rail. —This being 
well known, needs little description. It is generally 
about five feet in height, and composed of parallel rods 
running in a horizontal form at about five or six inches 
apart. Such may bo found in many of the old gardens 
of the nobility; and when established on sound prin¬ 
ciples, arc well adapted for most fruits, especially for 
apples. Some of the cherries, too, such as those of the 
Bigarrcau section, and some coarse wooded pears, which 
are rather unmanageable under a more prim mode of 
training, may well find a place here. 
The Horizontal or Table Trellis. —This is well 
represented by an ordinary iron field hurdle thrown into 
a horizontal form, and supported a foot above the 
ground at each corner by some means. We have used 
these for some years, and find them well adapted for our 
more tender pears. Almost all our more delicate-wooded 
fruits would succeed on them. The cross bars should, 
if possible, run only north and south. 
The Saddle Trellis. —These are in extensive use in 
Her Majesty the Queen’s gardens at Frogmore, and are 
a very useful form of trellis. They are generally about 
four feet high at the centre of the curve, and the training 
bars arc carried to within a foot or so of the ground. 
