30a THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION.— August 19,1850. 
near it iu flower, but is as dwarf as Lilliput ; if they 
can but once get a stock of this kind, good bye to all 
other Uniques for beds. A remarkable dwarf and tree- 
flowering light one called Oiovani, all the Dindematurns 
except the original, all the Quercifoliums and Uniques, 
and many of the old Cape species which I thought were 
lost, are here cultivated in abundance for trade orders. 
f noted the following hardy plants as very striking in 
mixed borders, or as edgings, or on rockwork :—My old 
favourite CEnothera spccinsa; Coreopsis lanceolata; Cen- 
taurea argentea, the best frosted silver plant; Salvia 
Lilleannm, hardy blue, late autumn kind, very useful; a 
large variegated Coltsfoot; an elegant variegated Lung¬ 
wort; Polemonium cceruleum, a nasty weed turned into a 
graceful variegated edging; the Cocksfoot grass, Daetylus 
glomerulus, variegated (1 have two yards of edging of 
it for experiment; I think it will be exquisitum for some 
beds); Myosotis montana, the best Forget-me-not for 
pots in spring, and for rooms; Matricaria grand!flora, 
as the best double white Chamomile-like plant; Funlcia 
undulata, a variegated kind of Lancijolium; Astrantia 
major, variegated, and very conspicuous; a double 
yellow Lotus; Primula involucrata, while flowers; P. 
mollis, mentioned in one of my spring reports from 
Regent Street; Polygonum vacciniifolium, often recom¬ 
mended as one of the very best trailing plants for banks 
and rockwork; Sempervivum Californicum, a kind of 
Stouecrop-like plant, conspicuous from the dark points 
of the clustered leaves, a nice rock-plant; a frosted 
silver-like Saxifrage, in dense diminutive tufts, byname 
Cristata; another match to it is Rosularis, and a third, 
the minor or minimum of the three, called Incrustata. 
Now, of all the rock-plants, these would make the best 
“coping"for the edging; the broken burnt bricks of 
the pincushion beds all in character, aud as nice as 
a lady’s work-box, and ten times more tidily arranged 
than many of the latter. Four distinct varieties of Saxi- ! 
fraga oppontifolia and capillaria; a very prim and j 
diminutive London Pride, like Saxifrage; Sibthorpia 
Europcea, a dense hanging basket-plant, like some new 
Lyoopod ; Isolepis gracilis, alias pygmaa, one of the most i 
elegant grass-like plants for suspending iu baskets, and 
to be kept from frost; the old Disandra prostrata, to j 
hang down like Moneywort; Saxifraga sarmentosa, 
ditto; Cerastium tomentosum, to edge Geranium bods j 
with as they do at the Crystal Palace; the Variegated, j 
Mint, alias Balm, and alias Sage. Under the last alias J 
have this moment received a large bundle of this Mint , 
and a variegated Coltsfoot froth a friend to the Experi- j 
mental, which no one can possibly see this season. ; 
Salvia porpliyrantha, a dwarf, dark scarlet, mixed border- 
plant ; all kinds of Pentstemons, Potentillas, tall 
Lobelias, and other good old things, with all the i 
novelties, are tested here every season; but such 
traders must keep many kinds, whether they like them 
or not, in order to be able to meet public taste; and, j 
last of all, without going into any of the hothouses yet, 
let me recommend another model flower of my own 
making from this Nursery. Every garden in Europe and 
in America must have this flower, which is as hardy 
as a Daisy, and as lady-like as any flower of the kind 
can possibly bo. I made it by a desperate effort, which 
is yet a mysterious secret to the rest of the world, out 
of an ugly plant which is in everybody’s mouth— 
Fortune’s Calystegia pubescens. Beaton’s Calyslegia 
pubescens simplex is the true natural form of the species— 
a large, lovely, French white, single, flower, with five whiter 
ribs to it, and is as large as a flower of Ipomcea I,earn, 
aud lasts in bloom from J une to the middle of September. 
It should be grown in masses in by-corners, and allowed 
to climb over Pea-stakes, no matter how rich or how 
poor the ground is; but, of course, a rich bed is 
best for it. I shall never cease to recommend this 
hardy climber, or rather, twiner, as long as I live. 
I often wondered that public taste did not call aloud 
for it; and as long as it was confined to one private 
establishment, I could not well push it on iu the world; 
but here it is on sale at last, and get, il as soon as you 
can. Plant it for the present with the Chinese form of it, 
to see the difference between the tastes of a Mandarin 
and a Scottish Clansman named— Donaeu Beaton. 
STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS THAT 
MAY BE IN BLOOM IN JULY. 
(Continued from page 340.) 
Goodenta.— Those named are pretty New Holland 
shrubs with yellow flowers, allied to Eat hales and Lesnhe- 
naultia, requiring peat and loam, aud an airy position 
in the greeulmuse in winter, and a cool place, such as a 
cold or turf pit, in summer, especially by the end of July 
to the middle of October. Red spider is apt to be 
troul#'-ome iu summer, and Ihe chief antidotes are 
coolness at the roots, and a free application of the 
syringe. ’These plants stand a high sun temperature at 
their own homes; but then the soil is kept coolisli by a 
covering of moss or grass. We only imitate this so far 
when we surface our earth in pots with moss, and place 
one pot inside of another, stuffing the space between 
with moss. 
Hakea. —Those named, and the whole order of 
Proteads, with their most singular flowers, and beautiful 
and diversified foliage, require very much the same 
treatment, namely, plenty of air, and an open position 
in winter in the greenhouse; when the outside tempe¬ 
rature is not much under 40°, less air, and chiefly at the 
top of the house, fires being used'when the temperature 
outside approaches and fails below the freezing point; 
peat and loam mixed with nodules of charcoal or broken 
pieces of pots to grow in; a limited supply of water 
in winter, giving no more than is just sufficient for the 
plants; more air and plenty of water iu the spring 
months; a gradual hardening off, and then getting the 
plants out-of-doors in summer in an open, sunny spot, 
but so contrived that the roots and pots are protected 
from the fierce glare of the sunbeams; plenty of water 
then, with a good syringing frequently in the evening 
after hot days, and housing by the middle of October. 
ILbbertia saligna is the latest-flowering species of 
the genus, all of which are free-flowering shrubs and 
twiners with yellow flowers. Volulnlis would be valu¬ 
able but for its foetid scent ; aud Grossul aria folia is a 
beautiful trailer suspended from a basket. Saligna has 
neat Willow-like leaves, and blooms freely, and grows 
with little trouble in sandy loam. After May it will 
stand out-of-doors, or in a turf pit, until the end of 
October. 
Hovea. —One of the finest families of Leguminous 
plants, rather difficult to cultivate into fine specimens, 
unless the following are closely attended to:—Thorough 
drainage, so that there is no chance, at any time, of 
stagnant moisture, as whenever the soil approaches the 
nature of a morass, ruin is certain ; a free, open compost, 
which will pretty well drain itself, independently of the 
well-placed drainage at thp bottom of the pot; the 
compost consisting chiefly of heath-soil, with a little 
fibry loam as the plants get a good size, and kept open 
by nodules of charcoal, freestone, and pieces of broken 
pots, and a good deal of silver-sand, to make all light, 
and fill the interstices between the roughish soil; great 
care in watering in winter, and making sure that no 
worm has had a chance to choke the drainage; plenty 
of air when the outside atmosphere is free from mist, 
and above 40° in temperature; an inside temperature 
of 40° to 45° iu the coldest dark months, with a 
rise of 10° to 15° for sunshine; and if very bright, 
