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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[May 16. 
A FEW VERY CHOICE STOVE, GREENHOUSE, AND 
HARDY PLANTS. 
We give this, •with their usual price, at the request of 
“ T. W.," and other correspondents. These are additional to 
Messrs, Henderson's list, which we have begun publishing:— 
STOVE PLANTS. 
s. d. 
Allamanda grandiflora. 5 0 
Aphelandra aurantiaca. 5 0 
Clerodendrum splendens.... 4 0 
,, fallax. 3 6 
Franc.i3cea Hopeana. 1 6 
,, latifolia. 2 6 
,, hydrangeseformis . 3 6 
Hoya Imperialis . 5 0 
* „ belli.... 7s* 6d. to 10 6 
Henfreya scandens . 
Jasminum sambal. 
Ixora odoratissima . 
,, grandiflora . 
Ipomcea Horsfallia . 
,, Waldeckii. 
Manettia bicolor . 
Rhyncospermum jasminioides 
Stephanotis floribunda. 
s. d. 
3 6 
3 G 
7 6 
0 
0 
6 
6 
6 
6 
greenhouse plants. 
s. d. I 
2 6 ! 
7 6 
1 6 1 
2 G i 
Tecoma jasminioides . 
Zygopetalum Mackayi. 
Leschenaultia formosa. 
,, biloba superba.... 
(both beautiful) 
Pelargonium tricolor . 1 6 
,, rosetta . 2 0 
,, Maid of Anjou.... 1 6 
,, Anais. 2 6 
Tropoeolum Lobbii . 1 6 
,, Jarrattii. 3 6 
,, Brachyseras. 3 6 
Trymalium odoratissimum.. 2 0 
Azalea indica lateritia striata 3 G 
,, purpurea macrantha 2 6 
,, triumphans. 2 0 
Abelia floribunda (nearly hardy') 2 0 
Aphelexis macrantha purpurea 2 G 
,, ,, rosea .. 2 6 
Boronia serrulata. 1 6 
Boronia triphylla. 
Brugmansia sanguinea (large 
tree) . 
Daphne indica rubra. 
,, hybrida... 
Epacris hyacinthiflora. 
,, candidissima .... 
Fuchsia—Comte de Beaulieu 
,, Cassandra. 
,, One in the Ring .. 
Hovea ilicifolia. 
,, Celsii. 
Kalosanthes coccinea . 
,, nitida odorata .... 
Kennedya inophylla. 
,, pannosa. 
,, Marryattce . 
Primula attaica. 
Mandevilla suaveolens .. : 
s. d. 
2 6 
0 o 
0 0 
0 0 
0 0 
0 0 
HARDY PLANTS. 
Clianthus puniceus . 
Erica arborea. 
,, vulgaris pleno .... 
Gaultheria shallon. 
,, procumbens. 
s. d. 
1 6 
1 0 
1 0 
1 0 
s. d. 
Stauntonia latifolia . 5 o 
Tropceolum speciosum. 1 6 
,, tuberosum . 1 6 
Weigela rosea . Is. to 2 6 
Zauchsneria California .... 0 0 
HINTS ON GARDENING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. 
{Continued from page 24.) 
I trust none of my young friends have misunderstood my 
last hint on serving themselves, so as to suppose 1 advise 
them to seek no counsel from the gardener, or to take their 
own way whether right or wrong. So far from that being 
the case, I give you, as my next hint, 
Never be ashamed to ash 'if you do not know how to set about 
any work. —I believe few people who have taken any interest 
in the actual operations of gardening, are aware how very 
ignorant beginners (even when not young) are on the sub¬ 
ject. There is, generally, a confused idea that it is very diffi¬ 
cult to understand about gardening, and sometimes an amus¬ 
ing and amazing ignorance, as to the difference between 
roots and seeds, and as to the time for planting and sowing. 
In some there is a dread of daring to do anything that is not 
in “ the hook; ” and in others, a daring to do and try all 
sorts of experiments, because they will not ask advice. I 
know a lady who got a plant of Primula farinosa (mealy 
primrose) from a friend who had brought it from its native 
dwelling in a marshy place; hut as the lady who received it 
knew little of plants, and did not ask advice how to treat the 
pretty little wild tlower, it was planted in the warm sunny 
border before the greenhouse, and of course died in two 
days. I knew another who planted a bed of Ranunculus 
roots with the claws (or root ends) up ; hut she was excus¬ 
able, as she had no one near to ask about them. 
Try to have plenty of Common Flowers in your little Garden. 
—These are generally sweeter and make more show than the 
new and rare plants, besides being easier to cultivate. When 
what are called “florists’ flowers ” are cultivated, the object 
being to have fine blooms, quantity is sacrificed to quality, 
and auriculas, polyanthuses, pinks, carnations, &c., are only 
allowed to flower on one or two stems. But I suppose you 
wish your little gardens to look bright and showy, and occa¬ 
sionally, perhaps, you would like to pull a nosegay from your 
own flowers ; and, for this purpose, freely flowering old 
friends, however common, are the best. Indeed, I dare say 
many of you have felt with me on going to see a fine collec¬ 
tion of plants, that you are disappointed by the garden not 
looking gay; the plants may be rare and valuable, hut the 
tallies were more striking than the flowers, and, except to a 
botanical cultivator, it was less interesting than a garden 
where common flowers grow in masses. 
Endeavour to have a succession of flowers .—I believe my 
young readers will find this difficult at first, for most youthful 
gardeners have periodical fits of gardening, strongest in 
spring, hut occurring at intervals through the summer when 
any bright or sweet flower catches their fancy, and a hit of it 
is begged for “ my garden." Between these fits of zeal the 
poor garden is too often left desolate and waste, and the 
young gardener gets discouraged because her garden is dull 
while others are gay; and she fancies it is owing to the soil or 
situation, or any thing rather than to her own want of per¬ 
severance and forethought. I know nothing better for teach - 
ing young people, to follow good “ Mrs. Think-in-time's ” 
maxims, than the love and practice of gardening; for you 
must think and plan beforehand, and you must work at the 
proper time if you wish to succeed in haring a succession of 
flowers. At first you will uot know v T hat flowers you should 
expect to follow each other, or how to arrange them, so as to 
make the gayest show; hut keep your eyes open, look at 
every garden you visit for hints, mark down in a little hook 
what flowers you see in bloom in other gardens during each 
month, and try to get some of each kind for your own little 
plot. Do not, however, in your eagerness to have some 
favourite flower which your have forgotten till you see it in 
blossom, transplant it in full flower to your plot; rather wait 
till the proper time for lifting it comes, which is generally in 
autumn; mark it down in your little book, and get it at the 
proper time. I must confess I am not yet cured of this 
childish trick of lifting plants in full flower, and sometimes 
when lifted with a hall of earth plants do flower on and look 
as if they never knew they had been lifted, but somehow' 
next year they seldom flower so well, and I generally regret 
afterwards that I had not waited patiently till the plant had 
done flowering before I moved it. 
I)o everything in its proper time is as good a rale in gar¬ 
dening as in other things. I will try to suggest some com¬ 
mon flowers'In the order of their flowering, hut as I can only 
give hints my young friends must study the garden and The 
Cottage Gardener for themselves, and get then- plots into 
flowering order by dint of forethought and care. About the 
first common flowering plant I have in my little garden is 
the Winter Aconite, but its bright yellow flowers come out in 
such cold weather in February that I seldom see more of it 
than in a hurried morning visit to my garden. Then come 
bunches of Snowdrops and Crocuses, and before these are 
quite over my blue and pink Hepaticas are in flower ; these 
last till about the end of March, when blue Grape Hyacinths 
and yellow Daffodils succeed them. I have also Wood Anc- 
monies and a small white Saxifrage, and sometimes a bed of 
Hyacinths that had flowered last year in the house. April 
and May you can have no difficulty about, for primroses, 
cowslips, polyanthuses, auriculas, pansies, wood hyacinths, 
wallflowers, and gentians, are in flower; and jonquils and 
narcissus, if you can get a few bulbs of each, are delightful 
additions. In June I have some of the above named still 
flowering on, and, in addition, Tulips, some Phloxes, and 
White Roses; this early-flowering, old fashioned rose, I have 
heal’d called Prince Charles’s Rose, and I believe it used to 
be customary among the Jacobites to wear one of these roses 
if it could he had on the 10th of June, which was the prince’s 
birth-day; if not in flower by that time (which it seldom is) 
a Guelder rose was substituted for 
“ The flower that I lo’e best, 
The rose that is like the snaw.” 
Then come on gradually the annuals which you have sown 
in April and May; some of these your little gardens should 
never want; there is the pretty little blue Neniophilis insignis, 
Lupinus nanus, and Virginian Stock, which each appear soon 
enough above ground to satisfy a young gardener, while 
mignionette, sweet peas, Clarkia pulchella, Venus’s looking- 
glass, nasturtiums, and many others, will enliven your little 
gardens in July and August. There are several species of 
Campanula, too, which make a pretty variety, whether it 
he the tall Canterbury bells, or the intermediate-sized 
biennial, or the pretty little blue or white harebell. Then 
roses and pinks, and so many other plants are in flower 
that the difficulty for young gardeners is to select what 
them gardens will contain. By September and October, you 
