Novembeu 1. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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twenty-fivo feet in circumference. The branches from 
the trunk are nearly horizontal, and are clothed with 
numerous, slender, pendant, scaly hrauchlets, of a lively 
green, serving the purpose of leaves, as is the case with 
the Cypress and Arbor Vitas. The wood is close-grained 
and more durable than the White American Pine, and 
has an ai'omatic smell. There are some specimens of 
this very handsome Pine in the greenhouse at Kew that 
have attained the height of five feet in pots. If they 
were planted out in a large, lofty conservatory, they 
would rival in beauty the beautiful Araucaria excelsa. 
The plant strikes easily from cuttings, and is now to bo 
found in most of the nurseries near London. 
Daceyiuuji Mai (Mai D.), so named by Mr. Cunning¬ 
ham, who discovered it in New Zealand. Very little 
is known about this species, though it is, I believe, in 
Messrs. Knight and Perry’s uuitiue collection of these 
interesting plants. 
Bajimara.— The Dammer, or Amboyna Pine, a very 
remarkable genus, but, like the preceding one, not quite 
hardy in this country. The genus difi'ors from other 
Coniferffi in its leaves, which are broad and long, like a 
more common deciduous tree. The name, Dammara, is 
derived from the Malay language, the word being ap¬ 
plied by the natives to the resin the plant {D. orientalisj 
produces. This resin is very curious ; it is transparent 
as crystal, and hangs from the trees like icicles, a foot 
long, and three or four inches broad. It is much prized 
by the natives, and used as incense. The trees attain 
the height of eighty feet. 
Dammara orientalis (Eastern Dammer Pine, or 
Amboyna Pitch-Tree). 
Dammara Australis (Southern Dammer, or Courie 
Pine).—This is a tree that strikes Europeans with sur¬ 
prise in its native woods, where it grows seventy feet 
without a branch. This peculiarity renders the timber 
valuable from the absence of knots ; and added to that 
is the fact, that the timber is excellent. It produces, 
also, resin as abundantly as the eastern species, and is, 
besides, much hardier. In the warmer parts of Europe, 
this tree, on account of its valuable properties, should 
be planted largely; but in this country we must be 
content to admire its beauty in our lofty conservatories. 
Fren'ela (ileaning unknown). — This genus was 
established by INIirbcl, and is used by Messrs. Knight 
and Perry in their excellent Synopsis of Coniferous 
Plants, to which I am largely indebted for many facts 
on this interesting tribe of trees. 
Erenela Australis, Cupressus Atistralis in The Cot¬ 
tage Gardeners’ Dictionary (The Southern, or Oyster 
Pay Pine).—This tree is found on the eastern coast of 
Tasmania, better known as Van Diemen’s Land. Mr. 
Jlackhouso says, that though the tree is small, seldom 
exceeding fifty feet high, yet it is useful for building 
purjioses, and has an aromatic smell. It is the Thuja 
Australis of Desfontaincs. 
Erenela cupressieormis (Cypress-like E.).—New 
1 lolland. 
Erenela Eotiiergillii (Eothergill’s E.).—Native of 
Now Holland. 
Erenela macrostachya (Long-spiked E.).—New 
Holland. 
Erenela triquetra (Three-sided E.).—New Holland. 
All these are greehhouse or conservatory plants, 
though some of them have lived for some years in the 
south of England and north of Ireland without protec¬ 
tion. They are singular, curious trees, having much the 
a])])earauce of the common Equisetum or Mare’s-tail of 
our swamps, magnified into trees. They are all easily 
grown in sandy-peat and loam, and propagated by 
cuttings. T. Appleby. 
{To be continued.) 
ON THE EORMATION OP SUBURBAN 
GARDENS. 
It very often happens that a space of moro or loss 
extent is found at the sides or back of many of our 
villa, or suburban houses, which the taste of the owner 
would bo glad to see converted into something useful. 
I do not here mean those “ front gardens,” about the 
laying-out of which so much dilference of opinion is 
abroad, but those slips or yards at the less exposed sides 
of the house; and which, though often hemmed in with 
buildings, are yet free from that incessant trafiic which 
marks tlie “ kitchen or stable yard: ” in fact, I mean 
those snug out-of-the-way corners, whore the ordinary 
business of the household brings but few trespassers. 
Many of these little spots arc highly cultivated, and 
aflbrd the occupant many a pleasant hour, when the 
stern business of city concerns arc over for tlie day ; 
while, on the other hand, we have been pained to see 
the evil effects of attempting too much on such little 
spots. It is in vain to think of making a park out of a 
pocket-handkerchief; and it is equally vain to think of 
growing many of the more cumbrous vegetables on a 
spot not much larger than a dining-room carpet. In 
vain does the anxious proprietor (in the afternoons 
when he returns from the scene of his city labours) 
look for the smaller vegetables and other crops, pro¬ 
gressing under a heavy load of scarlet runners, or 
“Somebody's” tall marrow peas, which he was induced 
to buy and jilant upon the authority of their raiser’s 
advertising claims. I say, in vain he may look for any 
thing in the shape of onions (except an elongated stem 
like bullrushes), where the better half of his bed is 
overwhelmed by the pondrous mass of scarlet runners, 
which his sticks have inefi'ectually struggled to main¬ 
tain in an upright position. A similar disaster will 
most likely befall any small produce that may have a 
tall growing potato for a neighbour; and, in fact, the 
anxiety to obtain so much from so limited a spot leads 
to disappointment quite as great as that of attempting 
to give the few rods of ground in the “ front garden ” a 
“ park-like appearance.” Objects of art may bo exhi¬ 
bited in miniature, but those of Nature can rarely be 
made so to conform with anything like a satisfactory 
result; therefore, the inexperienced suburban occupant, 
who has such a small plot to occupy with some of the 
useful productions of cultural science, must remember 
that the very excellent things he is accustomed to look 
upon in Covent Garden, and other markets, are the 
produce of many districts, wide apart, but which the 
experience of many years has proved to be the best for 
producing each of them in that perfection he sees so 
good. Though ho cannot reasonably expect to equal 
them, yet he may grow many things to a tolerable degree 
of excellence, provided his soil, situation, and other 
things be all favourable. 
Now it often happens that ground in the immediate 
contact with buildings has received an accession to its 
ordinary condition, in the shape of largo quantities of 
earth and other materials dug out of the foundations, 
&c., of the surrounding structures; yet it rarely happens j 
that those who have the care of depositing such matters ' 
have any regard at all for any future use the ground 
may be put to; unless, perchance, they think it a suit¬ 
able place on which to pile uj) some more of their 
bricks and mortar; therefore, it is not unlikely but the | 
amateur, when he first ])uts his spade in the “ back j 
yard,” finds its downward jirogress arrested by some j 
stone too ugly to work even into the foundation; or, it 
may be, the spade may bo drawn up with a material ' 
clinging to it which he in vain tries to disentangle, so 
often docs the stiff adhesive clay of the subsoil get brought | 
to the top when there is no ultimate object in preventing i 
its being spread there ; should the latter be the case, | 
