840 THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION.— August 12, 1850. 
Madame de Valliere, a new cast of shot-silk, purple and 
lavender colour, in the way of Parfum Madeline, which 
it will supplant. General Bosquet and Blue Bonnet are 
the bluest, or nearest to blue. John Edwards, a good 
orange-scarlet, with a yellow eye. La Stella, dark orange 
scarlet. ImperiaHs, another mulberry colour, and a 
dwarf grower; and Viscountess Emlyn, a white, of good 
habit, and a well-marked eye ; and Geant des Batailles, 
the best dark scarlet bedder that has been had yet; it is 
as strong as Robinson’s Defiance, but as close a grower 
as Melindris major. Wonderful is still the best plum- 
j purple, with a white eye. 1 have not seen a whole bed 
! of it yet. Brilliant de Vase (not Vaise), a line orange- 
scarlet, with a white eye. All our florists are wrong in 
writing Vaise for Vase; there is not such a word as Vaise 
in the French language. It may be a slang word among 
fellows who bud Roses and lay Pinks without a shoe or 
stocking on, but “ dress” at night for the theatre; but I 
must have a whole chapter some day on the corrections 
of the spelling of bedding-plants. A new world has 
opened before me in this Experimental Garden—more 
catalogues, more names, more confusion, and more dog- 
Latin than the old world has any conception of; and if 
I add that more time is needed for ray review of the 
Wellington Road Nursery, you may expect nothing 
short of cream cheeses next week. D. Beaton. 
STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS THAT 
; MAY BE IN BLOOM IN JULY. 
( Continued from page 828.) 
| Adesmia Uspallatensis. —A twiggy, thorny, slender 
j shrub from Chili,with line, brightyellow,pea-like flowers, 
\ striped with red, with very singular hairy pods or seed- 
vessels. Viscosa has plso yellow pea-blossoms, and beau- 
I tiful pinnated Acacia-like leaves. Loudonia, which blooms 
earlier, has also pretty silky pinnate leaves, and all make 
nice little bushes for a cool greenhouse in summer. The 
base of a conservative wall, covered with glass, would 
just be the house for them, more especially if the enclosed 
I place had a hot-water pipe, so as to keep out more than a 
! few degrees of frost. Propagated easily by cuttings, and 
| grown well in peat and loam. Worthy of being oftener 
| seen. 
j Aloe. —Many of these little plants are exceedingly 
! beautiful. They always look best when they have a 
small house, or part of a house, to themselves. They are 
peculiarly worthy the attention of amateurs who cannot 
give minute attention to their favourites. Given, a light, 
sandy, loamy soil, with a few pieces of brick-rubbish; 
freedom from fro3t in winter; almost complete dryness 
at that season ; waterings given first moderately, and 
: then copiously, as the days lengthen in spring and 
summer, and then gradually lessened in autumn, and 
withdrawn almost entirely in winter, with full exposure 
to sun in summer; and the interest they will create is 
certain. 
Alona. —Those mentioned, as well as cccleslis, are some 
shrubby plants, with large blue, Nolanaliko flowers, 
from Chili, and are well worth cultivation in peat and 
loam. Propagated by cuttings. Are likely to be useful 
in the flower-garden if fairly tried. 
Ariellus lychnjtis. —A neat South African little 
shrub, with purple, Astcr-like flowers, and growing freely 
in sandy loam, and propagated by cuttings. 
Anacampseros. —Most of the Houseleeks will propa¬ 
gate by the leaves alone, though you must wait longer 
for the plant than if striking a cutting. In either case, 
the base should be well dried before either the leaf or 
the shoot is inserted : treatment much the same as the 
Aloe. 
An 0 >i AT n EC a ett u e n t a . —This cl w at f Bummer flo we ring 
bulb is not grown at all in proportion to its merits. 
Propagated by division and by seeds. Seeds sown in a 
little heat in March will bloom the same summer if 
well done. Any light sandy soil suits it; and for 
window, greeuhonse, and a neat little bed out-of-doors 
in July and August, it is alike suitable. 
Anthyllis Hermannl®. — A neat little shrub, rather 
spiny, with downy leaves, the pea-like little yellow 
blossoms being clustered at the end of the shoots; 
easily managed in peat and loam ; the greenhouse kinds 
forming good neighbours to Adesmia. 
Arctotis and Arctotiieca are Aster-like herbaceous 
plants, with showy flowers, and requiring the protection 
of a pit in winter, or a cool greenhouse. Sandy loam 
will suit them. 
ARTiutoroDiuM.—A family of herbaceous Lilyworts, 
allied to the Anthericum section; requiring protection 
in winter, and growing freely in peat and loam ; worthy 
of more attention than is generally given to them. 
Babingtonia. —A pretty little shrub, with small pink 
flowers, allied to Leptospermum, and, like it, liking fibry 
peat and loam, and a cool greenhouse. Bceckia is a 
near neighbour, and requires similar treatment. Baros- 
via and Beanfortia, so far as treatment is considered, 
may be called others of the same. 
Berardia.— A twiggy, Heath-like shrub, from the 
Cape of Good Hope, and requiring less care, and treat¬ 
ment similar otherwise to a Heath, with the exception 
of using sandy loam for the chief part of the compost. 
Berzelia requires similar treatment. 
Billardiera is a genus of Australian and Van Diemen’s 
Land plants, next-doorncighbour to a. Solly a,Mid requiring 
similar treatment. They are all climbers and twiners, 
producing small pendulous flowers in great profusion. 
The colour in anyustifolia is dull cream ; in parvifolia, 
blue; lonyifora, crimson; ovalis, greenish-yellow; and 
scandens, bluish-purple. They do well on trellises, or 
round short columns; grow nicely in peat and loam, 
thoroughly drained; and are just the thing for a con¬ 
servative wall covered by glass, and heated in severe 
weather in winter. I have had several of them stand 
out in mild seasons; but they are not at all to be de¬ 
pended on. I have had Sollya hctcrophylla on a wall 
for several years; but the frost masters them at length. 
Sollya linearis is the most showy for a pot in the green¬ 
house, if kept cool and sturdy ; few things arc more 
graceful and pretty. 
Borronia. —These have chiefly yellow pea-blossomed 
flowers, and just require less care than Iloveas, Kcottias, 
and Teinpletouias, namely, to bo grown in open, sandy, 
peat and loam, well-drained, and with pieces of char¬ 
coal and broken pets mixed with the soil ; to have 
plenty of air in winter when the outside temperature is 
40°; to give top air chiefly when under that figure; 
and in dull weather promote circulation in the atmo¬ 
sphere by gentle fires during the day, even if they 
should not be wanted at night. Cuttings strike in 
silver-sand under a bell-glass. 
Bravoa. —A pretty little thing, requiring treatment 
similar to an Ixia, which has repeatedly been given. 
Brugmansia or Datura. —1 introduce this here to 
meet a complaint of large, healthy-like plants not 
flowering, though growing freely, and producing a forest 
of thick, stubby, short shoots. The profusion of the 
shoots is the cause. When 1 have kept plants in a 
shed, &c., free from frost in winter, and planted them 
out, they did little good as respects flowering, unles^ 
they were either freely pruned back, or the buds on the 
shoots were taken off, leaving only a shoot to come 
every six or eight inches. The young shoots of the 
current summer are what produce the bloom chiefly, 
and they will not bloom unless they are growing pretty 
freely. In such thick-clustered bushes, 1 have had 
them soon flowering freely, just by taking away some 
