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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION, April 14, 1857 
thriving in all sorts of soils and aspects, and its freshness 
at all seasons of the year render it the most valuable 
plant for this important purpose. 
Planting Box edgings forms a very important part of the 
gardener’s employment, and unless he plants the edgings 
; neatly they never gain him ci'edit. The mode which I 
; prefer is as follows:—First dig up your ground where your 
j Box is to be planted, or raise it above the level required for 
i your edging. Then tread it hard, and make it perfectly 
smooth with the back of the spade. If the edging is to be 
straight strain the line as tightly as possible over the 
surface; by this means you will be able to correct any 
irregularities. Then with the back of the spade pat the 
surface quite smooth, taking away or adding any soil where 
required. When the top is perfectly even the soil next the 
path must be cut away in a perpendicular form, about four 
or six inches deep, as exact to the line as possible. 
The Box must next be prepared. If an old edging has 
been taken up it must be separated into small plants, and 
cut square at the top. The Box must be laid against the 
bank, about an inch above the surface, in order to look neat, 
and banked up into its place with the loose soil thrown into 
the path by paring the edge. 
When a new Avalk is being formed the soil should be 
thrown out to the depth of about eighteen inches or two 
feet, and then filled up with rough stones to within a few 
inches of the surface, and the remaining part with gravel. 
Box edgings are very suitable for geometrical designs, 
parterres, or small flower gardens. It should be carefully 
clipped in spring, about April. — Quintin Read, Derbyshire. 
LONICERA TATARICA, var. PUNICEA. 
Raised from seeds formerly received from Mr. Fischer of 
Gottingen, and Baron Jacquin of Vienna, under the name 
ot L. Jatancapunicea. It has also come up among seeds 
from Dr. Ledebour. 
Tins plant does not seem to differ in any essential par¬ 
ticular from the old Tartarian Honeysuckle, except that its 
flowers are larger, later, and of a deep rose colour. In 
these respects it has much more value for gardens; for it is 
not so apt to be cut off by spring frosts. If uninjured, the 
rich tints of its flowers give the bush quite a handsome 
appearance among early flowering plants. 
It is worthy of note, that although this seems to differ 
from the common Tartarian Honeysuckle in no essential 
circumstance beyond what has been just mentioned, yet it 
comes true from imported seeds. It is reported that the 
berries are yellow, but of this we have no evidence.—( Horti¬ 
cultural Society's Journal .) 
