August 1 L. 
THE COTTAGE GABDENEB. 
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deposited mud, and will then he filled with clear water, 
i which w-ill greatly add to its beauty, and, consequently, 
, add to the beauty as well as salubrity of the place. 
The kept grounds here have, partly in consequence of 
j the change of the river’s course, been greatly enlarged, 
I and that very judiciously; so that the visitor, at every 
j step, is meeting with fresh objects at band to admire, 
and new views in the distance. Mr. Fleming has 
! carried out the planting masses of shrubs of one colour 
j with good effect, especially with the Bhododendron. 
Of this charming tribe, so varied in colour, there is, 
j at Trentham, an enormous number, and in particular 
i situations may be seen a large mass of tbe white varie¬ 
ties—in another, a mass of purple, another of rose, 
another of scarlet. These, at the part where they come 
in contact, are judiciously intermixed, so as to soften 
I and blend tbe two colours together. This attention to 
, planting trees and shrubs, so as to give masses of 
; breadth and colour, is a mark of the onward march of 
: a higher taste in laying out and planting pleasure 
grounds; and such men as Mr. Fleming, placed in a 
position to be able to carry such novel views into effect, 
may be considered as the benefactors of landscape gar¬ 
dening, especially when backed by such intelligent and 
liberal possessors of large landed property as the present 
owner of Trentham. 
In the pleasure ground there are several plants of 
Cupressus thyioides , which has proved perfectly hardy, j 
the late severe winter having not injured them in the 
least. As this is a very ornamental species, the fact of J 
its being hardy so far north as Trentham greatly adds 1 
to its value. Not far from these Cypresses I observed a 
fine plant of that rare Conifer, the Pinus Banltsiana. 
It appears to be quite hardy, also, and is forming a 
■ handsome specimen. A remarkable shrub grows near 
! to the same spot. It is a variety of our good, hardy, 
j useful Box tree, and was named Buxus spiralis, from 
! the spiral character of its branches. 
In the conservatory there was pointed out to mo a 
| seedling Fuchsia of a most extraordinary character. 
: The stem was eight feet high, and very stout; the leaves 
i broad and large, and flowers very large indeed. As an 
; addition to the ornamental plants for the conservatory 
I it will be admirable. 
Since 1 was here, two years ago, the plants in the 
j conservatory have been greatly improved both in 
j arrangement and training. They are all planted out in 
beds, (not one plant in a pot was visible) with paved 
walks between them, sufficiently wide to allow one to 
walk comfortably upon them. The pipes form the 
edging of these walks, and to hide them, hardy Lyco- 
[ podiums, and other trailers, are planted. On these beds, 
the various shrubs suitable for the temperature of a 
greenhouse are arranged at such distances as to allow 
the outline of each plant to be seen distinctly from its 
neighbour ; and, to prevent them growing 'into each 
other, the knife is freely used, and the pyramidal form, 
as much as possible, is given to them. By this pruning 
and forming, a much greater number, and, consequently, 
variety of plants, can be placed in the beds. Suspended 
\ from the roof I noticed a considerable number of orna¬ 
mental baskets filled with trailing plants, the best of 
which was the Ivy-leaved Geranium, in two or three 
varieties. Thus hanging, they seemed to me to flower- 
more freely than by any other mode of growing 
them. 
At one end of this conservatory I observed a fine 
specimen of the Trentham Scarlet Geranium, a free- 
flowering, bright scarlet variety. For covering a pillar, 
or a w-all, as in this case, this variety seems admirably 
adapted. A blank wall on one side of the house is 
! covered with Camellias, in fine health, and full of buds 
| for next season. This plant is also made use oft’ R 3 a 
! covering for an arbour in the house. Its dark green ; 
foliage make a shade, dark and impervious to the rays of 
the summer sun. 
In another part of the gardens, there has lately been 
erected a considerable range of glass-bouse to cultivate 
stove and greenhouse plants in pots, and most admirably 
they are grown. Near the same place is an aquarium 
for stove aquatics, and a span-roofed, low house, of 
considerable length, for Heaths. The grand improve¬ 
ment, however, in a gardening point of view, at this 
place, is the covering the walls with glass; as Air. 
Fleming remarked, these are not glass walls, but glass- 
covered walls. As I observed on a former occasion, the j 
gardens at Trentham are in a low situation, with a cold, 
dry subsoil, and, in consequence of these unfavourable 
circumstances, the Peach, Nectarine, and Apricot, did 
not thrive as was desirable, nor produce good fruit. 
To remedy this serious defect, Mr. Fleming had a short 
length of wall covered with glass, that is, a framework 
of cast-iron was set upright, parallel with the wall, and 
about three feet from it. Into this framework glazed 
sashes were fitted and made, so as to slide within each 
other. The top, or space between tbe wall and this 
glass front, was covered in with a curvilinear roof, 
glazed; also from this roof, at wide intervals, Grapes | 
are hanging down, the vines being planted and trained | 
up for this purpose. This experiment has answered so | 
well, that now most of the walls are covered, or going 
to be covered, in the same manner. I consider this 
invention, or, perhaps, 1 ought to say adoption, of glass- 
covered walls, an onward step in gardening. 
The fruit houses were, as usual, in excellent order; 
grapes and pines abundant, and of first quality. I 
saw the Barbarossa Vine bearing several enormous 
bunches. I was assured this new variety is excellent, 
and will keep sound till the end of March. The readers 
of The Cottage Gardener will remember, that two 
years ago I described, as having seen here, standard 
Currants, trellised Gooseberries, dwarf Apples, trained 
goblet fashion, Pears trained downwards, &c. All these 
I found now thriving w-ell and producing fruit most 
abundantly. I noticed, also, on the wall, some Peach 
trees grafted w r ith last year’s wood. The end of each 
scion was left long enough to reach into a bottle kept 
constantly full of water. This keeps the scion alive till 
it unites to the tree, and then the bottle is dispensed ! 
with. This is not new; I used bottles many years i 
ago for the Camellia, but its application to fill up vacant j 
spaces in a Peach or Nectarine is new-. 
T. Appledy. 
BOSE CLASSIFICATION. 
( Continued from page 304.) 
Class 18.— Tea-scented China Boses (Rosa indica 
odorata ).—The difference between this class and the 
17th, consists in the delicious fragrance of the flowers 
of this class. Like the China Boses, they are rather 
tender, and require protection from the severe frosts of 
winter when grown in the open air. The best sort of j 
protection are loose branches of tbe Spruce Fir, or 
branches of the common Whin or Gorse, stuck in \ 
amongst them. They require light, well-drained soil, to 
keep their roots alive and healthy. For pot-culture, or 
for forcing, there are no Boses superior to them. Ex¬ 
amples are:— 
Abricote, colour fawn, with an orange centre; large 
and double. 
Adam, blush-rose; beautiful, large, and double. 
Brule of Abydos, creamy-white, tinted with rose ; de¬ 
licately beautiful; large and full. 
Devoniensis, a well-know-n, fine Bose, of a pale yellow 
colour. 
