May 26 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
145 
BLUE. 
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/W(J« 
1. Ne plus Ultra (Crocus) 
2. Aubrietia Deltoidea 
3. Heliopliila araboides 
4. Purple Petunia 
WHITE. 
24. 
1. Victoria Regina 
2. Double white Daisy 
3. Schizopetalon Walkeri 
4. White Petunia 
RED, 
30. 
1. David Rizzio 
2. Erythroniura Dens canis 
3. Lychnis Alpina 
4. Cuphea striggillosa 
YELLOW. 
29. 
1. Yellow Dutch 
2. Cowslips 
3. Helianthemum guttatum 
4. Calceolaria 
21 . 
•Hardy Heaths. 
26. 
Pernettya macrantha. 
YELLOW. 
22 . 
1. New large Yellow 
2. Primrose 
3. Sphenogyne speciosa 
4. Calceolaria 
RED. 
23. 
1. Prince Albert 
2. Double red Daisy 
3. Chamostoma fastiagatum 
4. Cuphea striggillosa 
WHITE. 
27. 
1. Snowdrops 
2. Erythronium Dens canis 
3. Alyssum maritinum 
4. Ditto ditto 
BLUE. 
28. 
1. Sir Walter Scott 
2. Gentiana acaulis 
3. Linuni Austriacum 
4. Ditto ditto 
31. 
Rh ododendron ferrugineum. 
RED. 
YELLOW. 
BLUE. 
WHITE. 
15. 
14. 
20. 
19. 
1. 
Large mixed Blue 
1. Cloth of Gold 
1. Ne plus Ultra 
1. 
Caroline 
2. 
Hepatica triloba 
2. Polyanthus vulgaris 
2. Double Primrose 
2. 
Double Primrose 
3. 
Calandrinia speciosa 
3. Alyssum saxatile 
3. Campanula carpatica 
Oi 
Campanula carpatica 
4. 
Scarlet Geranium 
4. Ditto ditto 
4. Ditto ditto 
4. 
Ditto ditto 
11 
. 
16. 
Kalmia 
glauca. 
Kalmia 
angustifolia. 
WHITE. 
BLUE. 
YELLOW. 
RED. 
12. 
13. 
17. 
18. 
1. 
Victoria Regina 
1. Versicolor 
1. New Golden Yellow 
1. 
David Rizzio 
2. 
Hepatica triloba 
2. Hepatica triloba 
2. Double Primrose 
2. 
Double Primrose 
Nemophila insignis 
3. Nemopbila insignis 
3. Linum flavum 
3. 
Eucharidium concinnum 
4. 
White Verbena 
4. Lobelia erinus 
4. Ditto ditto 
4. 
Scarlet Geranium 
32. 
Rhododendron hirsutum. 
BLUE. 
WHITE. 
RED. 
YELLOW. 
5. 
4. 
10. 
9. 
1. 
Sir Walter Scott 
1. Mont Blanc 
1. Blucher 
1. 
Yellow Dutch 
2. 
Gentiana acaulis 
2. Saxifraga oppositifolia 
2. Anemone coronaria 
2. 
Adonis vernalis 
3. 
Anagallis indica 
3. Glyce variegatum 
3. Viscaria oculata, var. nana 3. 
Mimulus guttatus 
4. 
Lobelia erinus 
4. Ditto ditto 
4. Scarlet Verbena 
4. 
Ditto ditto 
1. 
Daphne cneorum. 
6. 
Ledum buxifolium. 
YELLOW. 
RED. 
WHITE. 
BLUE. 
2. 
3. 
7. 
8. 
1. 
Cloth of Gold 
1. David Rizzio 
1.' Snowdrops 
1. 
Versicolor 
2. 
Draba brachystemon 
2. Saxifraga oppositifolia 
2. Anemone coronaria 
2. 
Anemone coronaria 
3. 
Sanvitalia procumbens 
3. Saji on aria Calabrica 
3. Iberis sempervirens 
3. 
Kaulfussia amelloides 
4. 
Ditto ditto 
4. Scarlet Verbena 
4. Ditto ditto 
4. Heliotrope &Verbenamix’d 
[Here is an excellent plan for a flower garden in the 
regular style ; and, had it not been that the owner of it is a 
perfect stranger to me, I could find cause to believe that he 
obtained access to our flower garden ledger at Shrubland 
Park, and took a leaf out of it, for his list, or rather the 
way of showing it, corresponds literally with the exact plan 
that has been followed out by Lady Middleton for the last 
dozen years. 
I never saw so many flower-beds before so much of one 
size, but I quite admire the system, and I earnestly entreat 
young gardeners to study the whole, as there is a system in 
every move throughout—the colours, the plants, and the 
way the beds are numbered from the centre of each group, 
each group being complete in itself, having its match three 
different ways, 32 being the centre for four groups, and 31 
the same, and only six groups in the whole, with all the 
centres in evergreen, are all as systematically planned as 
the figure is regular in itself. In reading off the style of 
planting for succession, keep the eye constantly on the key- 
bed in the corner till every bed and plant is fixed in the 
memory. Even those who will prefer other kinds of plants 
for the different seasons will do well to follow and study the 
key-bed. I had this plan and the list pasted up over the 
fire-place in my bed-room for the last two months, but the 
old fairy who used to help me to plant flower-beds in my 
dreams never came near me this time, and I am afraid to 
begin altering the arrangement at the eleventh, if not the 
twelfth hour.—D. Beaton.] 
ALLOTMENT FARMING.— June. 
Now will industry have an opportunity of showing what 
may be effected by individuals in earnest—Now the goodness 
of God becomes more particularly manifest, in rewarding 
honest industry by the increasing comforts of the homestead, 
as well as that peace of mind, and inward satisfaction, which 
is above price, and which ever accompanies the conscious¬ 
ness of duties well performed. There is now not a single 
crop in the allotment but will be benefited by a little atten¬ 
tion. Weeds will continue to advance; crops will become too 
crowded; the soil will become baked in consequence of 
dashing rains; and a constant forecast must be exercised as 
to a regular occupation of the soil judiciously. 
We will commence -with Weeds, those robbers of the food, 
and interceptors of the light to useful crops. Let us implore , 
