THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION, Apeil 14, 1657. 
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No. 14, Calceolarias. 
No. 15, Tom Thumb. 
No. 16, Salvia patens, pegged down. 
No. 17, Tom Thumb. 
No. 18, Calceolarias. 
No. 19, Emma Verbena. 
No. 20, Tom Thumb. 
No. 21, Lobelia ramosoides. 
On the opposite half Ageratum matched the Salvia 
patens , and the Emma and Andre Verbenas were 
“ crossed,” that is, one took the place of the other. 
In September this arrangement was not quite as when 
it was planted. The Lobelia ramosoides and some other 
plant which I did not book had failed more or less, and 
others were put in place of them. D. Beaton. 
THE ELBOWS OR BENDS OF IRON PIPES. 
As one or two of your correspondents appear to want 
assistance or information how to avoid the extra cost which 
they describe as extravagant and exorbitant, allow me to 
supply the information, which I think would best have come 
from some more reasonable iron-founder. The proper, usual, 
and sufficient extra charge is one shilling, say one shilling 
for each bend or elbow. I have been supplied by various 
iron-founders, and have always found them satisfied with 
that charge, and should be disposed to view' with suspicion 
any tradesman who endeavoured to obtain from a customer 
any very large amount on the pretence of the extra cost of 
moulding bends or elbows. — W. K. W. 
A SKETCH OF THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE’S 
GARDENS AT CHATSWORTH. 
( Continued from page 6.) 
Next in order from the Victoria house are the Orchid 
houses. This range consists of three houses—an East Indian, 
South American, and Mexican. The first we enter is the 
Indian, and here the lover of Epiphytes and aerial cultivation 
may drink his fill. The whole or greater part of the plants in 
this house are suspended in baskets. The Vandas, Sacco- 
labiums, and Aerides are good, and of the latter we notice 
single plants a yard or more in diameter and as much in 
height, and of several other varieties individual plants are 
particularly fine. The beautiful little Saccolabium miniatum 
we pass in flower, as well as a plant of the miniature Phalas- 
nopsis rosea. The large and curious-flowered Angrcecum 
eburneum and the Phalaenopsis-like-leaved Trichoglottis pal- 
lens are likewise at present in flower. The most striking 
objects, however, that present themselves upon entering are 
the Phalcenopsis amabilis and grandijlora, a number of re¬ 
markably fine plants, some of which are arranged upon the 
front shelf, and covered with a profusion of bloom. In the 
next house are two immense plants of Dendrobium Paxtoni , 
one of which numbers over one hundred of its large and 
brilliant spikes of pendulous bloom, and is truly a mag¬ 
nificent object. Here is also a choice collection of Cattleyas, 
Deudrobiums, and some admirable plants of Oncidium am- 
pliatum, 0. ampliation major, Lanceanum , and Cavendish- 
ianum. The best plants of the group of Cattleyas and On- 
cidiums, however, are decidedly C. ampliatum major and 
Cuttleya labiata. A plant of the latter some months since 
presented a splendid appearance, numbering thirty distinct 
blooms; and of the former we are strongly impressed with 
the idea that we might travel from the Channel to the 
Tweed without meeting with a more noble or interesting 
specimen than the one now before us. A plant of the 
Stag’s-horn Fern, Platycerium grande , some four feet in 
width, upon entering, and an equally fine one of Nepenthes 
distillatoria, upon leaving, are both worthy of notice. The 
Mexican house boasts of some remarkably fine plants of Den¬ 
drobium nobile, intermedium , moniliforme, and others, most 
of which are in flower, and a good general collection of Stan- 
hopeas in flower. We notice Cyrtochilum maculatum, Sophro- 
nitis cerium, grandijlora, and violacea; the sweet-scented 
Epi-den drum Jragrans, the curious Cypripedium insignis, with 
its beautifully white-tipped flowers, seemingly gazing you in 
the face as you pass; the sombre - coloured Cypripedium 
venustum and the large, white-flowering Ccclogyne cristata ,— 
these and a few others are the piincipal ones we noticed in j 
flower. Plants of Leelia anceps , majalis , autumnalis, and j 
Dendrobium Farmerii, &c., are abundant; and we should ' 
mention.a fine plant of a lovely, unnamed, and, it is be¬ 
lieved, unique Dendrobium that throws in the shade all the 
Dendrobium flowers we have ever had the privilege of 
admiring. In front we remark a number of Australian and 
North American Pitcher plants, Cephalotus follicularis and 
Sarracenia purpurea, with the (if we may so term it) cham¬ 
pagne-glass-shaped Sarracenia Drummondi, and with a 
glance at the curious Elk’s-horn Fern, Platycerium stemmaria, 
we quit the building, and find ourselves in the kitchen-garden 
department, and without further preface proceed to the 
Pinery. This building is heated by the old brick flues, which 
are still found effectual in heating almost the whole of the 
forcing houses. The Pines are here all planted out, and 
appear very healthy and flourishing. They consist chiefly 
of Providences and Cayennes, and a peep at them will go far 
to prove that planting out is not only the most natural and 
least troublesome mode of cultivating the Pine, but is also, 
we venture to assert, the most productive. 
Passing a large and excellent ridge-and-furrow Vinery, we 
enter one of the four divisions into which the kitchen garden 
is divided. Our route lies through an early house for forcing 
pot Vines, which are here shifted from pots into raised pits 
on either side of the pathway. This leads us into the large 
Peach house. This extensive house is almost wholly filled 
by one tree, from seventy to seventy-five feet in the spread of 
its branches, and from seventeen to twenty feet in height; 
and it may, indeed, be termed the perfection of a Peach tree, 
for its size is only equalled by the quantity of fruit it pro¬ 
duces (from seventy to eighty dozen annually). • Connected 
with this range is a smaller Peach house, in which forcing 
has commenced for some months, passing through which 
we proceed to the Melon ground. Here are a number of 
succession and fruiting Pine pits, and several Strawberry 
terraces, winding round one of which we enter and inspect 
the Cucumber house. It is a lean-to ridge-and-furrow 
building, with a good southern aspect; the width of the 
house inside in the clear is ten feet; it is well ventilated by 
ojienings in the front parapet wall, and by corresponding 
ones in the back wall. On either side is a row of pits over 
tanks, and between the back range of tanks there is a space 
of four or five inches for the free circulation of air, and 
twelve ditto in front, to make room for the hot-water pipes 
by which it is heated. Altogether it is an admirable house 
for forcing crops of early Cucumbers, with which at present 
it is well supplied. 
From this house we retrace our steps to one of the prin¬ 
cipal ranges of forcing houses, and enter a range of Vineries 
249 feet in length, and subdivided into eight houses. These 
are all furnished with strong Vines of the Black Hamburgh , 
the Sweetwater, Frontignac, and the Cannon Hall Muscat. 
One house, howevei', can only boast of Grapes at present, and 
these are a few straggling bunches of West's St. Peter’s, the 
remains of a fine crop, which are to be succeeded by the pot 
Vines, this being the range of late Vineries. At the rear of 
these Vineries is the Mushroom house, on a line with the 
sheds for packing fruit, &c. It is of considerable length, 
and has three tiers of beds on one side of a walk of good 
width, and two on the other. The fronts and supports of 
the beds are of cast iron, painted red, and the floor of the 
hom e is cemented. Some object strongly to iron or slate 
beds, but here iron ones answer admirably. 
The general crops in the different quarters or divisions 
last season have been good, but the wall-fruit trees are j 
miserably indifferent. Notwithstanding that one fine Peach- 
wall has been cemented and heated, still scarcely a Peach 
worth picking has been produced, and both trees and fruit, as 
far as our observation extended, have been a total failure. The 
splendid crops of fruit, however, grown under glass make j 
some amends for the deficiency out of doors, and attest to | 
the ability of the conductor where he has the climate at his i 
own command; for be it remembered the atmosphere and 
air of the Peak are not to be compared with the light breezes 
