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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
June 15, 
mountains, that no one can tell which of them is the 
source of the burn; but being all of the same tempera¬ 
ture, any one of them will be most grateful to the weary 
traveller when lie happens to pass that way in the dog- 
1 days; but not more so than a hint from a pure spring 
j of fashion is to the old gardener when the wind cuts 
| over the Baltic. Madame Rosalie, white and red; and 
Delicatum, nearly white ; Madame Son toy, red and 
; white; and Triumphans, a rich crimson, light eye and 
| feathery front, make up the group from Mr. Turner; 
| and against them Mr. Gains set up Fairy Queen, Odorata 
Macjnificn, Delicatum, Princess Maria, Hero of Surrey, 
and Signora Oaroloni —the latter much in the way of 
I Heine des Francois ., 
In Mr. Henderson’s group were Lady Hume Campbell, 
perhaps the richest and highest-coloured of all the fancy 
I Geraniums; at any rate, the palm is between her ladyship 
J and Miss Shepherd ; in Mr. Turner’s lot Criterion is 
next to ]iudy Hume, but lighter; Annette is a large 
white flower, with a scarlet blotch and a few faint 
streaks—a fine flower; Queen of France (but not the same 
as Heine des Francois), Electro, and Princess Alice 
Maud. 
The only good fancy seedling was from Messrs. Hen¬ 
derson and Son—it is named Bridal Beauty ; a light one, 
with back spots of scarlet or crimson, but is not so good 
as many more of them. The private growers sent more 
known sorts. 
New Plants. —There were several new plants, but 
few that can become generally useful. The yellow 
Leptosiphon, and a Phlox called General Radeltzld, in the 
way of Mayii, were much admired by every-day growers. 
A cut shoot of a Bipladenia, in the way of Crassinoda, but 
the flower so drooped that T could not well judge it. A 
most beautiful Hoya, with the flowers looking quite 
woolly, and the plant like an FHlschynnnthus, from Pine- 
Apple Place; also a yellow Uompholobium, with a soft 
flower and growth, like Leschenaultia, and others Two 
or three Gloxinias ; a GesnerS, with leaves like Discolor, 
and flowers like Penstcmon Gentianoides, from the 
Wellington Nursery. A white, tall Didiscus pilosus, of 
no beauty, from some one. A white seedling Rhodo¬ 
dendron, and two very large Pitchers on a dwarf Pitcher 
plant, both from Mr. Yeitcli; a variegated Azalea; a 
low Bromelia-lonVmg plant called Nidulariafulgens, from 
the Messrrs. Rollinson, is a very striking thing, from the 
centre leaves coming up in a spreading mass of bright 
crimson; also Qaulthena pulchra, with rose-blossoms; 
and the new Europedium Lindeni, the most singularly 
curious of all the ground orchids known to cultivation. 
The whole plant looks like Cypriptdium caudatum, 
which has two long tails banging down from either side; 
now you have only to spin out the pouch of this plant, 
and make a third tail of it to hang down between .Jhe 
first two, and you have Europedium Lindeni to a hair’s 
breadth. This genus wants the slipper, or pouch, of 
the Cvpripeds, and the species called after Mr. Linden 
has three tails, ten inches long; in all other respects it 
looks the tailed Cypriped. D-. Beaton. 
(To be continued.) 
THINGS TO BE THOUGHT ABOUT. 
CAMELLIAS DONE BLOOMING. 
1 “ Mil A. tells me to place my Camellias out-of-doors 
now, as they have been proved to be as hardy as a Laurel 
in most parts of the country. Mr. B. says, if I do so, 
f may sing in vain for Camellias at Christmas.” Mr. B. 
: is most likely right. The comparative hardiness of a 
plant is one thing ; the getting it to bloom at a definite 
and a desirable period is another, and often a very 
| different affair. Camellias that bloomed early last 
winter, that were cleared of their blooms, and placed in 
a forcing house early this spring, to make their young 
wood, will now have clusters of bloom-buds forming at 
their points, and may be removed to some intermediate 
temperature to harden, and ere long be placed in a 
shady place out-of-doors. Were you. satisfied with ! 
obtaining flowers in March, April, and May, you might 
turn your plants out now that have just finished ; 
their blooming; first in a shady place; and then rather I 
more in the sun in the course of six weeks, using the I 
syringe over them morning and evening, when no rain 
is falling. But if you wish to see blooms from such 
late flowering plants in winter, when, of all other times, 
they are the most delightful, then, if you have a green¬ 
house-vinery, the plants will be benefited by a warm 
standing place for six weeks to come, under the Vines; 
and if there is merely a greenhouse, then, for a similar 
period, you may act towards them as suggested for 
Azaleas the other week. During the period that the 
young wood is progressing, a shady, close atmosphere 
will be desirable, with plenty of moisture at root and 
branches; but when the shoots are from three to six 
inches long, less moisture and more air will cause the 
formation of flower buds; and gradual and fuller ex¬ 
posure to light, until the plants stand out-of-doors 
before housing for the season, will give the buds fulness 
and ripeness, which will continue swelling and opening 
during the winter and spring. 
HEATHS WITH SOFT-WOODED PLANTS. 
“ I find it extremely difficult to keep up a collection 
of theso in company with a showy collection of soft- 
wooded plants.” This is merely a common complaint. 
The thing may be, and is, often done; but requires a 
great amount of enthusiasm, joined to an intelligent 
carefulness. I have previously alluded to the kinds of 
Heaths best fitted for this purpose, and to the mode of 
keeping them in a part of the bouse by themselves. 
I say nothing now of the style of mixing plants in green¬ 
houses, that the plants in flower may be equally mingled; 
most minds would prefer to see beauty in masses. Good 
growing plants, not in bloom, would give, as it were, 
a resting-place between separate blazes of colour. Be 
this as it may; a very hardy Heath will not long possess 
its hardiness aud health when choked partly up with the 
neighbourhood of Geraniums and Cinerarias. The 
atmosphere requires to be much more airy, and the 
water must be purer. I have known fine hard-wooded 
plants sent to their last home, just because the strong 
manure solution that did no harm to a Fuchsia or a 
Calceolaria, was as good as a dose of poison to them; 
and the mechanical wielder of the water-spout never 
thought of making the slightest distinction. “ W 7 hat is 
good for the one must be good for the others”—solilo¬ 
quises water-pot holder. A pig and an ox thrive on oil¬ 
cake—a Fuchsia rejoices in a fair amount of guano; 
ditto, so must a Heath? Ah, no! there is no solilo¬ 
quising. This would augur an amount of philosophy 
dangling at the end of the spout of the water-can, 
which, if it exists at all, scarcely gets farther from the 
brain than a drowsy perception, ever ready to tell you 
of its clever existence, except when it is actually needed. 
I shall never forget tw r o statements, made by my second I 
preceptor, the late Mr. Stewart, of Balleyfield. The 
first was a sound propositionAttention to trifles is 4 
the foundation of good gardening.” The second, was a : 
stern rebuke to a fair number of young blue-aproners:— 
“ I have no doubt you are wondrously clever when you 
are inside your rooms in an evening ; unfortunately for 
me, you seem to keep the whole of it there.” Need we 
wonder, that when trifles become too trifling for 
thought, and when intelligence and consideration are 
brought to bear on a subject, at every and any oppor¬ 
tunity except when it is wanted to be reduced to practice, 
