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THE COTTAGE GARHENER. 
“ An Exact Account of all the money received, and paid 
to labourers for keeping of the Botanic Garden at Chelsea, 
by Philip Miller, gardener, from Christinas, 1705, to 
Christmas, 1766. £. s. d. 
The annual salary received from the Apothe¬ 
caries Company. 50 0 0 
Taken at the gate for shewing of the garden . 31 4 0 
Total . .181 4 0 
Paid to three men, for 52 weeks, at nine shillings 
each. 70 0 0 
To a fourth man, for 8 weeks in summer . . 04 0 0 
£74 0 0 
Add to this money paid for freight of several 
parcels of seeds, which came by the post, 
and also for freight of plants with charges 
at the Custom House . . . . 15 5 0 
£89 5 0 
By which it appears that instead of having any money 
for my own care and labour; I am considerably out of pocket. 
And from the inclemency of the present season, I have not 
received from the gate four shillings per week since Christ¬ 
mas last, so that unless the Worshipful Company of Apothe¬ 
caries do not assist me, it will be impossible to keep the 
garden with the present stock of plants in a proper way.” 
“ It is generally believed,” says the friend who pos¬ 
sesses the original, “ that Miller was a man regardless 
of accumulating wealth, and from the statement which 
he here gives, it is evident he had, from his connection 
with the Aj)othecaries at least, little opportunity of doing 
so, even had he been so inclined. Fifty pounds a-year 
to Philip Miller; and that too in 1766, when he had 
been forty-four years in their service ! Generous 
Apothecaries! And out of the sum of fifty pounds 
a-year, with the chance of admission fees, which during 
this year amount to £31 4s., he is called upon to pay 
’ three men, for fifty-two weeks, nine shillings each,’ 
and ‘ to a fourth man, for eight weeks in summer, £4/ 
besides £15 5s. for carriage of seeds and plants ‘ with 
charges at the Custom House.’ ” 
NEW PLANTS. 
THEIR PORTRAITS, BIOGRAPHIES, AND CULTURE. 
J wo-coloured Episcia (Episcia bicolor).—Gardeners 
Magazine of Botany, vol. iii., 161.—This new plant is 
one of those little Gesnerworts common in tropical 
America, where they lead a kind of g-wasi-parasitical life, 
rooting on the stumps of dead trees, or nestled up among 
the forked branches of living ones, deriving much of 
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their nourishment from the excessive moisture in the 
atmosphere, and with their hair-like roots seizing on 
such dead and decaying vegetable matter as come within 
their reach. The present species was discovered in New 
Grenada, by Mr. Purdie, whence he sent it to the Royal 
Botanic Garden, at Kew, where it first flowered in 1847. 
It is said to be a free-flowering plant during the summer 
months, the flowers opening in succession, and lasting a 
considerable time in perfection. The leaves appear com¬ 
paratively large for so dwarf a species; they are not un¬ 
like those of a Gloxinia, whilst the mode of flowering in 
clusters is after the manner of a Nymphaa. The indivi¬ 
dual flowers are very pretty, with a white throat and 
eye, and the five divisions of the limb are of a light 
purple colour ; the throat, or mouth, of the tube, is also 
spotted with purple dots; the whole collected together j 
into a cluster, in the midst of the bright green leaves, j 
have a gay and agreeable effect. 
The genus was named by Martius, and is derived from 
epi, upon, and scia, shade; the plant delighting in shady 
places. All Gesnerworts (Gesneracese) are referred to the j 
second order of the fourteenth class in the Linnaean i 
system, Didynamia angiospermia. B. J. 
Propagation and Culture. —This is a very desirable 
little plant for amateurs with small stoves, and for gar¬ 
deners who have to provide little gems for furnishing 
china stands for all sorts of odd places and corners j 
about the drawing-rooms. There can be no doubt about 
its readiness to increase from cuttings of the short side- 
slioots, and from individual leaves. The best compost 
to grow it in is one-half peat and one-half rough leaf- 
mould, with a little sand to keep it open; but I have 
grown suoh plants in nothing else but green moss, and 
I have seen several allied species do very well in pure 
sand. The great point is to give them a close, moist 
heat, in a frame, in the spring, and as soon as flower- 
buds appear, to inure them by degrees to stand in a cool, 
dry place to flower in, and after flowering to allow them 
no more water than will keep them from casting then- 
leaves before they are quite ripe. D. Beaton. 
THE EliU1T-G AliDEN. 
the white currant.—rest-pruning, &c.— ( Continued 
from page 60). 
After such full advice concerning the Red Currant, 
there is no occasion for lengthened observations: still 
there are some features connected with the White Cur¬ 
rant and its culture, which demand a special notice. 
The white kind is, we think, more ornamental when 
in full bearing and ripe than the red; perhaps because 
the last produces much less breast-wood or annual spray. 
It is, however, altogether less gross, and seldom acquires 
that massiveness in the older wood to which the red 
attains. Under these circumstances the fruit, which, 
in the superior Hutch kinds, is larger in the berry, 
makes a greater display in a much less compass, and J 
for such reasons is eminently fitted for a course of 
training in the immediate vicinity of the flowers, if 
necessary, or in combination with espalier fruit trees. 
Preservation of, and retarding the fruit, too, ought to 
be had in consideration, when determining their situa¬ 
tion ; and as “ rest-pruning ” must ever be liable to 
