THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
April 
30 
heaven have nourished it; the light of the glorious 
sun has brought forth its bright tints and fragrance ; 
and your own care and forethought have protected 
it from cold blasts and adverse frosts; and how de¬ 
lightful it is when all those concurring causes unite 
favourably to bring forth the beauties of your flower- 
garden! How thankful we ought to be that there 
are so many simple, enjoyable pleasures for all classes 
of mankind—the rich and the poor—to all, the real 
pleasure and delight of enjoying a garden is open. 
Cultivate, then, your flowers with all your heart; and 
let no pleasures, falsely so called, draw you away from 
the delights a well ordered and tended garden will 
afford. 
FLORISTS’ FLOWERS. 
Anemones. —The double ones will now be coming 
into flower. To keep them in great perfection as 
long as possible shelter them from the sun and wet. 
Should the weather be dry, give a good steeping of 
water frequently, without wetting the flowers. Stir 
the earth, also, at times, or it will crack, and let the 
moisture out and the drought in, besides injuring the 
roots. 
Dahlias. —Dried roots may now be planted in the 
borders. Open the place where you intend to plant 
a root, about a foot square and eight inches deep; 
then put in the hole a good spadeful of rotten ma¬ 
nure ; mix in well the soil, and then put in the root, 
covering it about two inches. By doing this, your 
dahlias will grow strong and flower fine. 
Cuttings of Dahlias, as soon as they are rooted, 
should be potted off singly into small pots, and kept 
in a warm frame or pit until thoroughly established. 
Such as have been potted some time may be placed 
in a cooler frame and have plenty of air given them 
to harden them, so as to be able, as soon as possible, 
to set them out of doors for a time previously to 
planting. 
Cuttings of verbenas, fuchsias, petunias, and other 
plants, intended to furnish beds, or to plant out 
amongst other flowers, should be treated similarly to 
the dahlia cuttings, always bearing in mind not to 
be in a hurry Too much haste is often loss of speed. 
If the cuttings are exposed without proper and gra¬ 
dual preparation, they will receive such a check as 
will take weeks, perhaps months, to recover. 
T. Appleby. 
GREENHOUSE AND WINDOW 
GARDENING. 
Greenhouse Climbers. —The first climbing-plant 
that should occupy the front border of a cool conser¬ 
vatory or greenhouse—whether belonging to Queen 
Victoria or to Mr. John Smith—is, unquestionably, 
the Sweet-scented Mandeville (Mandevilla suave- 
olens) ; one of the most beautiful things we possess, 
and as easily managed as any plant I know. It is 
a recent introduction from Bolivia; and named by 
Dr. Lindley in compliment to Mr. Mandeville, who 
was lately our consul or minister at Buenos Ayres; 
from whence and from the adjoining countries he 
sent us many fine plants. Its second name is very 
appropriate, and means sweet-scented. As being from 
Bolivia, it must be a rank republican; and, like other 
good people of that stamp, is not very particular how 
it lives. Any common garden soil, therefore, will do 
for it; but on no account will it put up with close 
confinement, and any artificial heat during its grow¬ 
ing season is altogether repugnant to its nature. It 
will even do little good in a pot. It is true you may 
get a few dozens of flowers occasionally from one in 
a large pot; but give him freedom to spread his roots 
far and wide, and it will produce them by the thou¬ 
sand from July to the end of October. One against 
the conservatory wall here produced 17.000 flowers 
last autumn, and it never misses. Each flower is 
large, sweet-scented, and as white as the poet’s newly- 
drifted snow. There was almost a general disap¬ 
pointment respecting this charming plant on its first 
introduction, caused, by people growing it in the 
stove. This often happens when we receive plants 
from a country like Bolivia, having a great range of 
temperature, unless the particular locality is stated. 
Bolivia, as is well-known, comes in between Chili 
(the calceolaria country) and Peru, and occupies more 
than 200 miles of that desolate coast where rain never 
falls; and is as large as England, Ireland, and Scot¬ 
land, with France, put together. It is, also, the 
highest inhabited country on the earth, and is almost 
as if it were out of the world; so that we know very 
little of it than as being the great source of the gold 
and silver mines of Peru, before the subversion of the 
Spanish authority in South America; and, within the 
last twenty years, it has been clearly proved that the 
highest portion of the great Andes chain is in Bo¬ 
livia ; the highest point being more than 3,000 feet 
higher than Chimborazo, which was considered the 
highest point of the Andes by Humboldt. Conse¬ 
quently, this Bolivia must exhibit every degree of heat, 
from that of the tropics down to that of regions of 
eternal snow; and our beautiful mandeville would 
indicate a climate analagous to that of central Italy, 
for when the shoots are three or four years old they 
will stand 10 degrees of frost with little injury. If it 
could be protected a few years on an open wall out 
of doors, so that its roots were once fairly established 
in a dry border, it might be allowed to be cut down 
every winter by the frost; or, what would be better, 
to be cut close to the surface of the ground with the 
knife early in November, and a bushel or two of dry 
coal-ashes placed over the roots. It would spring up 
again in May like the dahlia, and would flower in 
the autumn magnificently. Any one who has ma¬ 
naged the coral-tree (Erythrina crista-galli) out of 
doors, will find the same treatment applicable for the 
mandeville. In a cool greenhouse it grows with 
great freedom, and the long shoots are as pliable as 
whipcord, so that they may be trained in any direc¬ 
tion. It does not keep green in winter, therefore 
will not obstruct the light at that season ; and, as it 
blooms on the current season’s growth, like the grape 
vine, it may be pruned in the autumn as close as any 
vine; that is, to within a joint or two of the old wood. 
This mandeville is also peculiarly applicable for 
a new mode of furnishing the outside front of a 
greenhouse with choice or rather the choicest exotic 
climbers in summer, which I would recommend with 
the utmost confidence to every one who has a green¬ 
house or domestic conservatory, having adopted the 
practice for many years with the best results. The 
plan is thisas soon as the front climbers inside 
a greenhouse are fully established, when tliey are 
dressed in the spring, I would reserve one-half of 
their main leading shoots, only tying them up in a 
temporary manner; and when the May frosts were 
over, I would draw them outside, either at the top or 
bottom of the front lights, and train them in every 
available space, up or down, or right and left; so that 
