October 3. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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and a period of settled fine weather following, has 
induced our weather sages (in spite of their grumbling) 
to call the season, on the whole, a favourable one. 
Certainly, the effects of the last month or five weeks has 
been beneficial, to an extent that will tell another 
season as well as this one. Fruit-trees have recovered 
wonderfully, and few people ever remember flower- 
gardens more gay, while many thiugs in the vegetable- 
garden line have attained an unusual growth. The 
Brocoli, and other things, where the ground lias not 
lacked moisture, having grown very much, and it is 
needless to say, the most important product of any has 
been both plentiful and good. Now, with all these 
blessings, we ought not to grumble at something cross¬ 
ing our views in the spring; for after all is said, the 
party who holds the balance must do it in a very unfair 
way who does not aver that the good far outweighs the 
evil, even when to the latter we add all that grumbling 
at neutral things, which, as a nation, wo are supposed 
to be addicted to, and the present suspense in that way 
will, very probably, not be of long duration. 
J. Robson. 
BEDDING-OUT IN THE FLOWER-GARDENS 
AT THORNHAM HALL, SUFFOLK. 
Having great pleasure in the perusal of the accounts of 
flower gardens and their occupants, I beg to give (for the 
gratification of others, like myself) a brief description of the 
plants used for bedding here. The names of the plants are 
taken as one walks by the side, from the mansion. Nearly 
all of the following beds contain from two to three hundred 
plants each. Those marked with an asterisk have been 
much admired:— 
1 Geranium, Frogmore. 
2 Salvia, patens. 
3* Lobelia, ramosoides; splendid for beds or borders. 
4 Geranium, gold-edged. 
5 Geranium, Mangle's Silver; fine for beds or borders. 
0 Verbena, Rubens; one of the best for bedding ; very 
coriipaet. 
7 Verbena, Defiance ; fine, in large masses. 
8 Petunia, seedling; good white. 
9 Petunia, Crimson King; fine colour; much diseased 
here. 
10* Geranium, Unique (Rolliuson’s); very fine. 
11* Geranium, White Ivy-leaved ; beautiful variety. 
12* Geranium, Punch ; first rate; many of the individual 
blooms measuring 1 (it inches in circumference. 
13 Calceolaria, Bugosa; good old bedding variety. 
14 Agathrea, cudestis ; compact. 
15* Geranium, Mountain of Light; a most beautiful 
variety, all that can be desired in point of contrast. 
Ill Verbena, Lady of the Lake ; good bedding sort. 
17* Geranium, Flower of the Day; which it cerlaiuly is; 
iu fact, no parterre is complete without it. 
18 Lobelia, ramosoides. 
19 Fuchsia, Globosa ; good old bedding variety. 
20 Geranium, Mangle’s Silver; very pretty. 
21 Geranium, Golden Chain; fine for borders. 
22 Verbena, pulchella; blue, compact, and good. 
23 Verbena, White Perfection ; fine white. 
24* Geranium, Tom Thumb ; plants two years old. 
25 Same as 24. 
20 Verbena, Iphigene; good bedder. 
27 Same as 20. 
28 Geranium, Tom Thumb. 
29 Same as 28; the four beds of Tom Thumb are all 
round a fountain, and are complete masses of 
bloom, proving that old plants are so far preferable 
to young ones. 
30 Verbena, White Perfection. 
31* Verbena, pulchella; dwarf blue variety. 
32 Geranium, Golden Chain. 
33 Geranium, Mangle’s Silver. 
34 Fuchsia, Globosa. 
35 Lobelia, ramosoides; a general favourite. 
30 Geranium, Flower of the Day. 
37* Verbena, Nationale; pink. 
38* Ileliotropium, Gem; Salter’s, very good; requires to 
be planted rather thick. 
39 Calceolaria, rugosa. 
40 Geranium, Ceriso Unique; planted in pots ; it is quite 
unique. 
41 Geranium, florfebunda; admired by all that see it; 
quite the ladies’ favourite. 
42 Geranium, Gold-edged ; rather naked looking. 
43 Petunia, seedling; white. 
44 Verbena, St. Margarette ; one of the best for bedding. 
45 Verbena, White Perfection. 
40 Lobelia, ramosoides. 
47 Salvia, patens. 
48* Calceolaria, Kentish Hero; the Hero of its class; 
blooms of which require thinning two or three 
times during the summer, otherwise the plants 
exhaust themselves so much. 
49* Calceolaria, Sultan; a noble variety; this, like the 
Hero, requires thinning, and rich food. 
50 Fuchsia, old Scarlet variety," with scarcely a bloom on. 
51 (F.nothera, macrocarpa ; fine on poor soil. 
The following are bods of the same size, with a border to 
each. 
52 Fuchsia, globosa; border, White Alyssum. 
53 Verbenas, several varieties ; border, Gazania uniflora. 
54* Calceolaria, rugosa, and a bronze-coloured variety; 
border, Lobelia, erinus ; these two planted together 
have a charming effect. 
55 Fuchsia, old Scarlet; border, White Alyssum. 
50* Geranium, Mangle’s Silver, Harkaway, and Lobelia, 
ramosoides ; border, Geranium, Annette ; a very 
pretty, basket-like bed. 
57* Geranium, Graveolcns ; Verbena, Defence; and Helio- 
tropium; border, White Alyssum. 
58 Calceolaria, bronze colour ; border, Ivayii. 
59* Geranium, Mangle’s Silver; border, Lobelia, ramo¬ 
soides. 
00 Geranium, Frogmore; border, white Alyssum, and 
Lobelia, ramosoides ; rather singular. 
61 Same as 60. 
62 Fuchsia, Globosa ; border, white Alyssum. 
63* Geranium, Flower of the Day ; Fuchsia, Tom Thumb ; 
border, Lobelia, ramosoides; very good. 
04 Calceolaria, bronze colour, and rugosa ; border, Ivayii. 
65 Geranium, Graveolcns; Verbena, Defiance; Helio- 
tropium ; border, white Alyssum. 
06* Calceolaria, rugosa, and bronze-mixed; border, Lobelia, 
ramosoides. 
07* Verbena, Defiance ; white perfection ; border, Gazania, 
uniflora. 
08* Salvia, patens; border, Calceolaria, rugosa. 
69 Same as 68. 
70* Geranium, Mangle’s Silver ; Verbena, venosa ; border, 
Lobelia, ramosoides; very good. 
71 Fuchsia, Old Scarlet. 
72 Gaillardia, Petunia, Calceolaria, and hybrid bedding 
Geraniums; border, Box. 
73 Marigolds and Asters ; border, Ivy. 
74 Same as 73. 
75 Same as 72. 
The following are much smaller beds, and average twenty 
plants to each bed; part of the walks here are covered with 
pounded brick-dust, and part with pounded oyster shells, 
which gives them a novel and nice appearance. 
70 Calceolaria, rugosa. 
77 Geraniums, mixed sorts. 
78 Verbenas, mixed varieties. 
79 Ileliotropium, cornea. 
80 Geranium, Frogmore. 
81 Alyssum, variegated. 
82 Calceolaria, bronze colour and rugosa. 
83 Salvia, patens. 
85 Geranium, Tom Thumb. 
80 Calceolaria, bronze colour and rugosa. 
87 Geranium, Frogmore. 
88 Alyssum, variegatum. 
89 Verbena, mixed varieties. 
90 Heliotropium. 
