THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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May 
may do if tlie stakes are driven in some time after 
the plants are established. 
TWELVE FIRST-RATE NEW DAHLIAS. 
Mr. Selilon (Turner’s), rosy purple; Nymph (Stem’s), white, 
edged with cherry ; Lilac Standard (Stein’s), rich lilac ; Grenadier 
(Turner’s), tine ruby; Elizabeth (Daniels’), peach blossom; Duchess 
(Bushell’s), white ; Beauty of Hastings (Barham’s), white, edged 
with crimson ; Purple Standard (Keyne’s), purple ; Queen of the East 
(Burns’), blush ; Fearless (Barnes’) lilac ; Beauty (Turner’s), white, 
edged with crimson; Dreadnought (Collison’s), purple maroon. 
The above are new ones, “ let out,” as the phrase is, 
this year, the prices being from 10s. M. to 7s. 6 d. 
each. 
TWELVE GOOD CHEAP DAHLIAS. 
Yellow Standard (Stein’s), fine yellow;* Captain Warner (Girl- 
ing’s), crimson ;* Andromeda (Collison’s), ruby ;* Gem (Oakley’s), 
white, edged with lavender; Berryer (Turner’s) ; Louis Philippe 
(Turner’s), very dark ; Sirs. Anderson (Gilding’s), peach blossom ; 
Antagonist (Bragg’s), pure white ;* Box (Drummond’s), deep scarlet; 
Shylock (Collison’s), rich scarlet ;* Standard of Perfection (Keyne’s), 
crimson ; Sir E. Antrobus (Keyne’s), good, red.* 
These are all good show flowers of excellent qua¬ 
lity. Price, from Is. to Is. %d. each. Those marked 
thus * are low growers, about three feet high ; and 
the rest from four to six feet. 
TWELVE FANCY DAHLIAS. 
Jenny Lind, crimson and white ; Viscount Rossequier, white and 
purple ; Madame, purple and white ; Mrs. Shaw Lefevre, crimson, 
purple, and white ; Roi de Pointz, maroon and white ; Bouquet de 
Brueil, red and white ; Adolph Dubras, nankeen and white; Her- 
mina, red and white ; Mimosa, yellow and white ; Picotee, yellow, 
striped with light red; Triompe de Magdeburgh, scarlet, tipped with 
white ; Miss Blackmore, white, tipped with purple. 
Fancy dahlias are such as are curiously mottled, 
tipped, and beautifully variegated. They are mostly 
French varieties, and are very handsome; very suit¬ 
able to grow in beds on a lawn or amongst shrubs. 
Dipladcnia crassinoda (trellis), B. 1 4j feet high by ft foot diameter 
Epacris grandillora, B. 1 & 2, H. 1 .6 4 
Erica persoluta alba, B. 1, H. 1 . 
• 4i 
3 
,, Hartnelli, H. 1 & 2. 
. 4 
24 
,, intermedia, B. 1 & 2 
. 4 
3 
„ perspieuanana, B. 1 
. 2 
14 
„ Linnseoides, H.I. 
. 3 
2 
,, elegans, B. 2, H. 2 . 
. 2 
G 
,, Cavendishiana, B. I & 2 . 
. 3£ 
2.V 
,, depressa, B. 2, H. 2 
. 2* 
24 
,, ventricosa coccinea, B. 1 . 
. 2 
3 
„ „ „ minor, B. 2, 
. 3 
34 
,, Bergiana, B. 2 
. 3J 
24 
Eriostenion buxifolius, B. 1 & 2, II. I 
& 2 
• G 
3 
,, cuspidatus, B. 1 
,, myoporoides, B. 1, H. 1 
. 5 
24 
. 4 
3 
,, neriifolius, B. l 
. 24 
2 
Franciscea Angusta, B. 1 , H. 1 . 
• 4 
24 
,, macropliylla, H. 2 . 
Gardenia Fortunei, B. 1 . 
. 3 
2 
. 34 
24 
Gompholobium splendens, B. l . 
■ 2 
14 
,, polymorphum, B. 1 & 
,, barbigerum, B. 1 , H. 
2 , H. 
1 . 
2 . 24 
. 3 
24 
2 
Ilelichrysuni argenteum, II. 2 . 
. 4 
3 
Hovea Celsii, B. 1 
. 3 
li 
Ixora coccinea, B. 2 , H. 1 
,, grandiflora, H. 2 . 
. 44 
24 
. 4 
2 
,, crocata, B. 2 , H. 2 . 
Leschenaultia Baxteri, B. 1 
. 3 
24 
. 2 
14 
„ „ major, B. 1 
, 2 
2 
,, formosa, B. 1 , H. 2 
, 24 
2 
Oxylobium pultenseoe, H- 2 
. 3 
2 
Pimelea linifolia, B. 2 , H. 1 
. 3 
24 
,, spectabilis, B. 1 & 2 , H, 1 & 
2 . 
. 4 
4 
,, rosea, B. 1 
. 24 
14 
,, decussata, B, 2 . 
. 3 
2 
,, diosmtefolia, B. 1 , H. 1 . 
. 4 
3.4 
Poly gala cordifolia, B. 1 . . 
2 i 
• 
24 
,, oppositifolia, B. 2 
. 4 
34 
„ dalmaisiana, B. 1 , H. 1 
. 3 
24 
,, acuminata, B. 1 , H. 1 • 
. 5 
4 
Podolobium trilobatum, H.I 
. 4 
3 
,, Staurophyllum, H. 1 
. 5 
4 
Prostanthera violacea, H. 2 
. 3 
24 
Tetratheca vertieillata, B. 2 , H. 2 
. 34 
24 
Vinca rosea, H. 2 
. 24 
24 
(To he continued.) 
PRIZE PLANTS. 
The following are lists of the plants which were in 
the collections taking the first and second prizes, 
at the great May shows of the Horticultural and 
Royal Botanic Societies. We add the size of the 
largest specimen of eacli; and in the lists, H. intends 
Horticultural, and B. Botanic Society. The figures 
1 & 2 shew whether a first or second prize was there 
obtained. 
STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS.—MISCELLANEOUS 
COLLECTIONS. 
3J feet high bv lA foot diameter 
3 by 2 
Acacia pulchella, B. 2 
Adenandra fragrans, B. 2, H. 1 . 
,, speciosa, H. 1 . . .32 
Aotus gracillimus, B. 2 . . . . 24 24 
Aphelexis humilis, B. 2 . . . .32 
„ sesamoides, H. 1 . . . 24 2 
,, ,, superba, B. I & 2 ,3 2 
,, spcctabilis, H. 1 . . .32 
,, spectabilis grandiflora, B. 2 . . 2j 2 
,, purpurea, B. 1 . . . 24 24 
,, „ ma'erantha, B. 1 & 2,*H, 2. 3 24 
,, ,, grandiflora, H. 2 . .2 
Azalea indica rubra plcno, B. 1 . . .4 3 
„ ,, conqueror, B. 2 . .22 
„ ,, refulgens, B. 2 . . 4 2j 
,, Murrayana, H. 2 . . . .325 
,, variegata, B. 2, H. 1 & 2 . . 34 3 
„ splendens, H. 2 . . .32 
„ lateritia, B. I . . . . 4j 3j 
,, alba, H. 2 . . . . .44 
,, exquisita, B. 1 . . . 4j 3j 
,, daphneflora, H. 1 . . . .44 
,, formosa elegans, B. 2 . . . 3 l| 
,, fastigiata lutescens, H. 1 . . . . 3 24 
Boronia anemonaefolia, B. 2, H. 2 . . 3j 2 
,, serrulata, B. 1 & 2, H. 1 & 2 . .3 2 
,, pinnata, B.1&2, H.I . .3 3 
Bossiaea disticha, B. 1 . . .33 
Chorozema Hcnchmanni, B. 1 & 2, H. 2 . 3j 
„ Angustifolia, H. 2 . . 2 
,, Lawrenceana, B. 1, H. 1 . .4 3 
,, Varia nana, B. 2 . . .32 
Clerodcndron Ksempferi, B. 2 . . . 4j 3 
Daviesia latifolia, B. 2 , , . . 3 l4 
EXTRACTS EROM CORRESPONDENCE. 
Lime Burning. —A clerical correspondent, writing 
to us from the neighbourhood of Faversham, Kent, 
says: — “Lime is expensive stuff. I make it as I 
want it. I had a small load of chalk, price Is. 6d.; 
a bushel of lime would cost the same. I put a lump 
or two on my lire, and in two or three days, of course, 
I have several small pieces of very respectable lime. 
But besides this, my lire is improved; for, as soon as 
the chalk is red hot, it throws out considerable heat, 
and also heljis to keep the coals alive; in fact, it acts 
very much as a fire-brick. A third advantage is, that 
my lime is always fresh; and a fourth, that I have a 
supply of chalk at hand as well.” 
Farmer’s Glory Potato. —A clergyman, writing to 
us from his vicarage, near Brighton, says:—“With 
regard to potatoes, I noticed some time back a cor¬ 
respondent of yours mentioned the Farmer’s Glory 
potato as the worst he tried out of twenty sorts. In 
this place I have grown it, and it is the only potato 
which escaped last year; thus proving the truth of an 
observation of yours, that locality has a great deal 
to do with the potato’s liability to the blight or 
disease.” 
Evergreens for Walls. —Among yourlistof ever¬ 
greens for covering an old wall, you forgot the beau¬ 
tiful Gum cistus, with its delicate short-lived blossoms. 
My little garden is enclosed with a wall a yard and a 
half high ; against it I have a fuchsia, cistus, rose, 
Pyrus japonica, Kerria japonica, ribes, rose, pyra- 
cantlius (very pretty), peach (raised from a stone), 
white jessamine, currants, fig (of my own raising, with 
figs on it), lavender, grape vine (raised from a raisin - 
pip), rose and honeysuckle, ivy, coral-tree, passion 
