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TPIE COTTAGE GAKDENER. 
October 14. 
is really so complete, as to leave nothing to be desired. 
It is on tlio reverberating princiide; and the ash-pit 
doors, which slide on a roimtl bar oi' iron, give the most 
complete command over tlio apparatus. 
One thing, as connected with the heating, we had 
almost forgotten to name, and that is, the propriety of 
liaving sliders or openings in the walls of the chamber 
that contains the pipes for bottom-heat; these, when 
the bottom warmth proves too strong, may be opened 
for awhile, and the surplus heat discharged into the air 
of the house. By such means, the bottom-heat and air- 
heat may be made “ to play into each others hands.” 
Having now disposed of heating matters, structure, ifec., 
we sliall, in a future number, take up cultural details. 
R. Errinoton. 
BEDDING, HERBACEOUS, AND ROCK 
BLANl’S. 
The prettiest plant for a flower-garden, that I have 
seen this season, and one that is very little known out 
of London, is called Oatira Lindlieimeri, named after 
some German of the name of Lindheimer, and is pro¬ 
nounced as if written Lyndhy'mer, with the accent on 
the ei. I’or those who arc looking out for good her¬ 
baceous plants, here is one of the gayest, and although 
not yet proved, I am quite sure it will make as showy a 
bod as any j)lant wo now possess of a light colour. It 
is now (2nd October) beautifully in bloom in my own 
e.'C|)erimontal border, and I think we can always rely on 
it irom early in Juno to the end of Sejflember. It will 
seed as ireely as the ]>oppy, and it is perfectly hardy. 
Here, then, is a treasure, a novelty, and a gay flower to 
the bargain. \ received my plant of it from the Hor¬ 
ticultural Society. Fellows of the Society are entitled, 
by long usage, to any little thing that can be spared 
from their garden ; and many persons Join the Society, 
not for encouraging the growth of cabbages, but alto¬ 
gether lor what stray plants they can call for from the 
garden ; and some members do call for things most out¬ 
rageously, and say all sorts of things if their demands 
are not complied with by return of ]>ost or train ; but 
since 1830, I never heard of any complaints of one 
member being favoured more than another, in this 
respect. On the other hand, many of the members 
thiuk^ it below their dignity to ask for anything from 
the Society, and would rather sec part of their funds 
expended in keeping a collector or two, in distant parts, 
searching for new plants. At present, the Society has 
no one “out” on such a mission, excepting the ninth- 
])art-of-a-maii who went out some time since to Oregon. 
My plant ol Qaura Lindkeimcri is not likely to ripen 
seeds this year, having been removed at the wrong time. 
Whether it is in the nurseries or not 1 have not heard; 
but there are several large plants of it in the garden of 
the Society, in the American ground, in patches, and the 
idea of making it into beds occurred to me the moment 
1 saw it. J ho ))lants of it at Chiswick are two or three 
years old, and between two and three feet high; the 
upper hall being covered with flowers in the terminal- 
spike fashion, every branch ending in a si)ike of flowers 
J be plant grows in a dense mass ; the spike begins to 
ilower Irom the bottom, and before it has done flowering 
at the top, some of the seeds are ripe on the lower part, 
just as t\\Q Olarhiaa and Uodetias do. The ])lant forms 
a section of the same order ((tnngi'ads), as the Clarkias, 
Hmotheras, Fuchsias, and the like. The flowers are 
pure white, starry, and as large again as those of Jas- 
minum gmndijlorum, and the calyx is larger than usual, 
and of a deep pinkish-red colour, throwing a shade of 
nench-white on the flowers as they tremble in the air ; 
altogether very j.retty and pleasing. If wo go right 
with tins new bedder, wo need not have it above eighteen 
or twenty inches high, or about the same size as a good 
bed of Salvia cliamcedrioides, and this is the only plant 
with which 1 can compare its style of growth and 
flowering, only that this Oaum will produce three spikes, 
01 - three times as many flowers as the Salvia. 
One may bo excused for erring in first experimenting 
on a plant for a new purpose. But the following is 
the way 1 would try our jiresent subject. Sow seeds of 
it the first week in March, and as soon as the seedlings 
were up, give them as much air as to Calceolaria 
seedlings. Rot them first into store pots, and afterwards 
into single pots of the smaller size, and by the end of 
-April tliey would bo fit to plant out in a nursery-bed, 
or border. Here I would let them remain till about 
Midsummer, then 1 would plant them out into the 
flower-garden, where a bed of annuals were beginning 
to fade. AVhen the white and red Clarldas are sown in 
the second week in A])ril, they generally begin to look 
seedy by the last week in July, and this Oaura TAnd- 
lieimeri would bo an excellent substitute for a bed of 
white Clarldas in a regular arrangement of colours. 
Seedlings of the Qaura would be coming into bloom by 
that time, or if they were in full bloom, they would 
remove from the nursery-bed with no harm. Some 
persons would prefer keeping them in ])ots all the 
while, but that is too extravagant for half the world, 
because of so much watering, and too slovenly for any 
good gardener, for unless a gardener can remove nine- 
tenths of all his annuals, withourt hurt, from a nursery 
to a flower-bed, anytime before they are in bloom, why, 
he may as well bundle up and bo off to “ the diggings.” 
The second year there wall be no difficulty in having the 
bed of Qaura, by treating the jdant as a biennial. Sow 
it towards the middle or end of May, in the ojien ground, 
in the reserve garden, and if it should throw up for 
flower in the autumn, let the flower-stalks he cut off ns 
fast as they appear. It will then be in good order to 
plant out next spring wbero it is to flower. After that, 
old plants of it may bo divided every autumn or spring, 
so that the jilants do not get too high for a bed, or, 
perhaps, seedling plants will be found preferable. 
Salvia coccinea. —I saw jihmts of this old and long- 
forgotten Salvia in the same collection, and it is well 
worth being saved and propagated for bedding-out. 
The only other one of the genus which will remind 
gardeners of the aspect of this Salvia, is one that was 
common twenty years ago, and called Pseudo coevinca. 
But this old one does not appear to be so strong, and is 
a more close and freer bloomer. | 
I also saw a variety of heddimj Qeranium, related to . 
the Qolden Chain, but a much stronger, and a larger- 
leafed kind, with the yellow on the leaves jialer. Wbero 
the Qolden Chain succeeds, as it does at Shrubland Park, 
this will never he a rival to it, but where the soil does 
not suit the Qolden Chain, this will ho a good, indeed 
the best, substitute for it. 'fhey had no particular name | 
to it. Putudt was the iiest scarlet in the flower-beds 
hero, and it stood the heavy rains better than I'om 
'Thumb. There was also a fine largo bed of the Salmon 
Qeranium, and Lady Middleton was a great favourite, 
and preferred before either Cherry Chech or Judy. 'I’here 
was a large bed of a neutral tint, made of i'erhena 
trijida, a close grower, and greyish flowers, which arc 
very sweet, and the kind is well worth growing, not for 
bedding, but for cut flowers for nosegays, to bo used as 
flowers of the Heliotrope. 'The best new I'erhena I 
have seen this year, for a distinct bed, was at Mr. 
Jackson’s nursery, next door to mo, it would make the 
best pink bed of all 1 have seen; the flower is a bright 
reddish-pink, with a large white eye; the jdant was in 
a ]int, but the habit appeared to be well suited for a bed, 
and the name is of foreign accent, Madame Comonissam, 
or some such word, for the tally was not very clearly 
written. 
