Junk 8. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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being put out. The flower-garden presents such a bare 
appearance .just now, and has the whole of this month. 
Miss V- will also l'eel greatly obliged if the Editor will 
insert a list of pretty, hardy Perennials, to plant in borders 
and shrubberies, as there seems to be a great want of such 
amongst the old Perennials. The Penstemons do not make 
much show ; and Alstromerias, and all such, are too delicate 
for our climate.” 
[The following list are such as may, probably, supply the 
plants that will meet your wishes:— 
Hesperia Matronalis (Dames Violet), or, which is more 
commonly called Rocket. There are several colours of these, 
both of single and double flowers, and all of them meriting 
attention as flower-garden plants, from their being so showy 
and sweet-scented. They should be taken up every year 
after flowering, divided, and planted out again in fresh 
places. The soil cannot be made too rich for them. 
Barbarea vulgaris plena. This double variety is commonly 
called, the Double Yellow Docket, and it is a neat companion 
for the other Rockets, flowering at the same time. A few i 
dozen bunches of these Rockets, of the different colours, 
yellow, white , and purple, and then the single, white and pale j 
purple, would alone make a garden, however great or small, 
look very gay in the month of May, if a proper distribution 
be made of them. 
Aquilcgias, or Columbines, are an endless race, for they 
may be collected with flowers various in form and of all 
shades of colour, and from pretty single to the most double. 
Ranunculus aconilifolius plenus, white, is a beautiful plant 
for a cool situation. 
R. bulbosus plenus; yellow; and 
R. gramineus; creamy-white. 
Caltha palustris plenus; yellow. 
Cheiranthus Marshallii; deep orange. 
C. a/pimis; yellow. 
Viscaria grandiflora; yellow. 
Aubrietia purpurea; purple. 
A. deltoidea; purple. 
Alyssum saxutile ; yellow. 
Tberis saxatilis, white. 
7. sempervirens; white. 
Arabis alpina; white. 
A. grandiflora; white. 
A. grandiflora variegata; white. 
Centaurea montma ; purple. 
Symphytum Bohemicum, or coccinea ; red, or scarlet. 
Melittis grandiflora; white and violet. 
M. meltissophyllum; purplish-wliite. 
Lamium maculatum; purple. 
Dodecathcon media ; light purple. 
7>. gigantea; light purple. 
D. elegans ; purple. 
Campanula speciosa ; blue. 
Geum chielense; scarlet. 
G. chilense grandiflora ; scarlet. 
Salvia sibirica ; purple. 
Polemonium cceruleum, cceruleum album, and cceruleum 
grandiflorwn. 
Polemonium replans; blue. 
Lilhospermum purpureo-cceruleum; blueish-purple. 
Trollius Asiaticus; orange-yellow. 
T. Europceus ; yellow. 
Smilacinu trifolia; white. 1 
Convallaria maja/is ; white. 
Polygonalum multiflorum; white. 
Aster alpina; light purple. 
Phytcuma hispanica; deep blue. 
Saxifraga cordatu ; light purple. 
S. crassifolia ; light purple. 
Penstemon spicatum, or procerus; purple. 
Phlox procumbens; purple. 
P. subulata ; flesh-coloured. 
P. suaveolens ; white. 
P. suaveolens variegata ; white. 
Viola monlana ; light purple. 
V. calcarata ; purple. 
Saxifraga granuluta pleno; white. 
S. vmhrosa; reddish-white. 
Dielytra formosa; crimson. 
Pancratium Illyricum ; white. 
Geranium striatum ; striped. 
G. ibiricum; deep blue. See many others already 
mentioned in this volume. 
Cardamine pratensis pleno; pinkish-white. 
Alchemilla vulgaris; green. 
A. Alpina; whitish-green. 
Lupinus polyphyllus; blue. 
L. grandifolius ; reddish-blue. 
Veronica pallida; whitish-blue. 
J’. gentianoides; whitish-blue. 
Even a few bunches of each kind mentioned in the above 
list would make a cheerful appearance in the open borders 
during May. Many others might be mentioned. 
Then, there are the Pceonies —nearly all May-flowerers; 
and few are more showy than they are. 
To the foregoing may be added:— 
Arabis verna ; reddish-pink. 
Anemone appennina ; light blue. 
A. ranunculoides ; yellow. 
A. nemerosa pleno ; white. 
A. hortensis, and its varieties. 
A. coronaria, and its varieties. 
A. pulsatUIa, and its varieties. 
A. sylvestris; white. 
Many annuals, either from self-sown seed, or purposely 
sown in some by-place for transplanting out in the borders 
in the early spring months, to flower in May, are very de¬ 
sirable, and very showy ; such as the different kinds of 
Candytufts, Clarkias, Collinsias, Godetias, Erysimums, Silenes, 
Linarius) Ge/ias, and very many others; indeed, it is seldom 
one sees a fine specimen in bloom of an annual plant except 
from such as are autumn self-sown, for we are apt to 
sow them too thick ever to make fine plants. Self-sown, 
solitary plants, which have escaped the hoe, if lifted with 
care into proper places in the borders, after being dressed 
off in early spring, generally become very superior plants. 
Of course, the surest plan is to sow very thinly for the 
purpose of planting-out in the borders in the spring.] 
AGRICULTURAL. 
EDIBLE-ROOTED RArE. 
| “Will you oblige me by mentioning if there is any dis¬ 
tinction between Edible Rape and Common Rape. I could 
not procure the former from my London seedsman, neither 
were the Horticultural Society aware of it as a decided 
variety. Please mention, also, any good method of pro¬ 
serving eggs for winter use.—T. P. M.” 
[You probably mean the Edible-rooted Rape. It has a 
carrot-shaped root which is in flavour like a very mild 
Turnip. It is scraped like a carrot when cooked, the skin 
being too thin to admit of peeling. It is certainly a variety 
of the common Rape. The London Horticultural Society 
should have known more about it than you state, for it was 
one of their own Vice-Presidents, Mr. Dickson, who first 
brought it to notice. He states, “in France and Germany 
few great dinners are served up without it, in one shape or 
other.” It was noticed by Gaspar Bauhin as long since as 
1071 ; and is Lc Navet of the French ; Teltow Ruben of the 
Germans; and the French Turnip of our gardens. Mr. 
Dickson adds, writing in ISO. 1 ), “ For above twelve years I 
have seen this plant brought to market in Covent Garden, 
but only by one person; and I believe it lias been sold 
J chiefly to foreigners, though when once known, it will be a 
very acceptable root in most families." You will get seed of 
it at Paris. The principal crop should be sown in the two 
| last weeks of July.] 
POULTRY. 
HONESTY IN EXHIBITING. 
“ Tt is satisfactory to find the subject of maintaining a 
character for justice and honesty in conducting poultry J 
shows is brought into notice in the pages of The Cottage 
Gaudf-neh. It is much to be feared, that unless rules 
are enforced, and false statements investigated, discredit 
will be thrown on poultry shows in general; and it would be 
j disappointing to find, that after the passing of the excite- 
I ment of novelty, which has raised them to so great inr- 
