THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY 
upper end, clothed with weak scattered hairs. Leaves 
nearly round, slightly pointed, flat, as long as their foot 
stalks, with fine hair-pointed serratures, seven-ribbed when 
perfect, but with not more than three ribs on the upper¬ 
most pair. Peduncle about three inches long, more than 
twice as long as the uppermost internodes, quite erect, ter¬ 
minated by a simple cyme, consisting of one central flower 
and a pair of four-flowered arms. Calyx-tube oblong, 
slightly prismatical, closely covered with stiff white hairs. 
Petals oval, apiculate, bright rose colour. 
This very distinct species differs from those previously 
described in the remarkably circular form of its leaves. 
Ironi S. Brunonis, to which it comes nearest, it is also dis¬ 
tinguished by its flower-stalk being much lengthened out, 
the calyx shaggy, not smooth, and the flowers rose-coloured, 
not blue. 
j It is a small fleshy rooted perennial, requiring to be 
j treated like Achimenes and similar fleshy-rooted plants— 
j that i s t° say, to be grown in a mixture of sandy loam, peat, 
: a pd leaf-mould, in the stove. It is increased by cuttings or 
j pieces of the roots, placed in sand in the usual way. When 
i the plants have done flowering, they should be kept rather 
| dry and rested. 
| The species forms a very handsome and neat little bush, 
I flowering freely in the stove in November and December.— 
| (Horticultural Society's Journal .) 
NOTE ON A NEW SULPHURATOR. 
By Robert Thompson. 
The I ine mildew having become so universally prevalent, 
and sulphur proving the best remedy, various contrivances 
for distributing this substance have, in consequence, been 
brought forward. One of the most recent is called “Eggin- 
ton’s Sulphurator," of which the accompanying figure is a 
representation. 
A 
The instrument was made by Mr. Edward Egginton, of 
l Ludlow, under the direction of Mr. Corbett, gardener at 
j Downton Castle. It consists of a copper cylindrical box, 
about If inches diameter at the base, and I inches diameter 
! at the top; the height being also -I inches. A copper tube, 
' a, 8-tenths-of-an-inch diameter, enters the top, extends 
: nearly to the bottom, and is then berit upwards to within an 
inch of the top. The bottom is flat, perforated like a 
tolerably fine rose of a watering-pot, and may be removed 
; when sulphur is required to be put inside the box. In 
order to keep the sulphur suspended throughout the in¬ 
terior, a quantity of chopped wing-featliers of a goose are 
introduced ; they are cut to about inch lengths. The tube 
extends about two inches outside the top, and can be fixed 
upon the nozzle of a common bellows. 
GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION.— August 19, 1850. 309 
Tt was tried in the Society’s Garden, and was found to j 
answer very well. The sulphur is finely diffused, so that ; 
the whole atmosphere of the house is thoroughly impreg- ; 
nated, without a great quantity of sulphur being used. In j 
this respect it is surpassed by none that have come under | 
the notice of the Society. 
When a stream of flowers of sulphur is required to be J 
directed against any particular spot, the French sulphurator \ 
has the advantage ; but when the whole atmosphere of a 
Vinery is intended to be impregnated with the minute | 
particles of flowers of sulphur, Eggiuton’s sulphurator is 
preferable.— (Horticultural Society’s Journal.) 
THE SUBURBAN VILLA AND' COUNTRY 
RESIDENCE. 
NO XII. 
HARMONY.—CONTRAST.—VARIETY. 
A garden may possess all the elements of perfection, but 
the various objects composing it may be so distributed, that 
the general keeping (I use the term in an artistic sense) 
may be wholly destroyed, or it may have blended in its com¬ 
position objects that cannot be appropriately mixed up in 
the general design. Both these conditions are of frequent 
occurrence. 
In designing an entirely new garden, having determined 
on the various objects and features of winch it is to be com¬ 
posed, the great consideration is to place them in appropriate 
situations, and then to blend them into one harmonious 
design. A garden may consist of little besides the most 
simple elements, as shrubs, flowers, a gravel-walk or two, 
and some open spaces of lawn, and these of the most 
ordinary character; or, besides an elaborate combination of 
these, it may be highly ornamented with statuary, fountains, 
buildings, etc. Now, presuming the general design of a 
garden to be good, if the ornaments, the accessories, are 
misplaced, the good effect will be much injured, and will, to 
a correct judgment, which is nearly synonymous with good 
taste, seem a painful rather than a pleasing scene. A 
piece of music that will charm the most correct ear may be 
composed of the same notes as another piece that shall be 
harsh and disagreeable, though both may be performed with 
equal and first-rate ability. So, likewise, two pictures having 
precisely corresponding figures, but ill-arranged in one, and 
artistically in the other, will, accordingly, elicit widely 
different opinions as regards their merits; though, as far as 
mechanical execution goes, they may be equal. In these 
illustrations arrangement is everything. So, also, in 
gardening, the materials may be chosen with excellent 
judgment, but the arrangements may be, nevertheless, 
faulty. 
If I were writing an elaborate treatise on these subjects, 
the conditions, or qualities, expressed by the words at the 
head of this section, viz., Harmony, Contrast, and Variety, 
would each demand a separate inquiry, and admit of many 
sub-divisions. I now', however, merely allude to them in a 
cursory manner, adding a practical illustration or two of 
their violation. If they are considered separately, as well 
as in connection, it will be seen that, in reality, they express 
different conditions of the same general quality. Thus, 
Harmony, in a garden sense, signifies a general relation of 
things to each other; Contrast, the idea of pleasing variety 
with the absence of all incongruity, a condition of things 
from which all that could destroy the unity, the general re 
lationsliip, is absent; and Variety, while it introduces 
widely different scenes and objects, does so under the 
guidance of the first quality—Harmony. Thus the three 
words are here intended to express a condition of things in 
a garden, which, in a picture, is denominated keeping. 
Some time since I had the pleasure of being shown 
round the grounds of a princely mansion, which are de¬ 
servedly hold in high estimation for the general excellence 
of their arrangements. There was, indeed, much to admire. 
Independent of the beauty of their design, every part was 
in the highest possible order, and the shrubs and flowers 
were of the choicest kinds; but the effect of one of the 
most beautiful scenes was in great part destroyed by the 
