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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION, May 19, 1857. 
greenhouse Eerns, twelve of the most handsome Sela- 
ginellas and Lycopods, twenty-four Ferns and Sela- 
ginellas most suitable for Wardian cases, and twenty-four 
of the best hardy Ferns. The same with selections for the 
greenhouse, and a most particularly useful selection of 
hardy evergreens, flowering shrubs, &c., beginning 
with Abelia jloribunda and ending with Yucca recurva. 
Instead of following up or down such lists in so 
large a nursery I must turn your attention more par¬ 
ticularly to the flower-garden plants. The very first 
plant I set my eye on in the show-house was a bedding 
plant new to me. It is as old as the Monument, but I 
never saw it, or even heard its name—a lovely blue 
Anemone , a native of Britain, and called Apennina. I 
have a picture of it now before me, and it is “ all right,” 
but you must send for it before it is out of blossom. It 
is like a single blue Hepatica , and as hardy, but grows 
ten times faster, and one can soon have a stock of it 
by planting it out in rich, sandy soil; but it would grow 
in front of a Rhododendron bed, like the Wood Anemone, 
double and single, but it shows the bloom better than 
they do. It is a stand-up flower, like the yellow British 
Wood Anemone, ranunculoides, a very scarce plant— 
one of our wants at the Experimental. 
Keeping to spring flowers, they had two beds of the 
very finest and newest Tulip for beds, quite dwarf, and 
one of the largest flowers you ever saw on a Tulip; it 
is all one colour, the most intense shade of crimson ; it 
was in full bloom in the middle of April, and the name 
is Vermilion Brilliant . A second is a little taller, a clear 
yellow, and called Canary-bird ; and a third, a light 
rose, is called Proserpine. The three will be cheap 
enough for all comers next October, and better kinds 
were never bedded. 
In a row of boxes for window-sills I saw a very nice 
Iberis, called compacta, which ought to be in every 
spring garden for a bed or edging, being the most bed¬ 
ding-like of that family; behind it in the box was a row 
of the double yellow Wallflower. I recommended Doro- 
nicum Austriacum for the same boxes next year, to be 
put at the back of Polyanthuses, or to be backed by the 
double dark Wallflower, and edged with the Sir Walter 
Scott Crocus. My own box that way was very gay 
this spring. D. Beaton. 
(To be continued .) 
PLANTS FOR A COOL GREENHOUSE. 
I had not forgotten the promise made to “ J. R.,” but 
in the multiplicity of matters demanding attention I 
imagined that already he would have found his queries 
answered in replies to others. It is not many weeks 
since that a list of plants was given that might be raised 
from seed and cultivated in a cool greenhouse, and when 
prominence is given to such replies it is for the purpose 
of suiting readers similarly situated. 
It is not so much the low temperature of which our 
correspondent speaks—the house frequently being down 
as low as 34° in winter—that will constitute his chief 
difficulty in cultivating the collection he wishes, for all 
ol them would stand such a temperature for short periods 
uninjured ; but it is the skill and attention necessary to 
prevent sudden extremes, and the necessity, if such low 
temperature is frequent, or at all continuous, to prevent 
the plants growing much during that period, that will 
constitute his chief barriers to success. If he merely 
wishes to preserve for display in spring and summer, and 
will master an article lately by Mr. Beaton on keeping 
plants over the winter irrespectively of the appearance 
they present at that time, then, if the house is often at 
34°, he may succeed with nearly all he has named, if he 
causes the plants to rest even in fine weather, by giving 
them then plenty of air, and no more water than will 
keep them from being dried injuriously. The exceptions 
would be chiefly the Chorozemas, Boronias, Hoveas, and 
Zichyas, and for these the temperature should seldom for 
any length of time be below 40°, as, if long below that 
degree, and the soil is at all moist, the roots will be apt to 
be too much chilled by radiation and evaporation com¬ 
bined. 
I should have come at once to the conclusion that this 
keeping was the chief object of our correspondent, bad 
he not praised so much the Orobus vernus, and expressed 
his desire to have more of that kind of growth. As this 
is a beautiful hardy herbaceous plant that flowers freely 
in March and April, if it was desirable to have com¬ 
panions to it in bloom w'hile the greenhouse plants were 
just arousing from their winter’s rest, then it would be 
necessary to have plants in pots equally hardy, such as 
the following:—Anemone hortensis, nemorosa flore 
pleno, pulsatilla, &c.; Alyssum saxatile; Arabis verna 
and flaccida; Auricula; Corydalis solida and cava; 
Dielytra spectabilis; Draba aizoides; Doronicum par- 
dalianches, plantagineum, &c.; Erythronium dens-canis; 
Fritillaria imperialis and variegata; Hyacinths of sorts ; 
Iberis sempervirens; Holosteum umbellatum; Orobus 
cyaneus; Folyanthus; Primula; Narcissus; Ranunculus 
ficaria, double, &c.; Ribes sanguineum, &c.; Saxifraga 
crassifolia, &c.; Scilla bifolia and Sibirica; Tussilago 
farfara and bybrida; Ulex Europseus flore pleno ; "Wall¬ 
flowers, single and double ; Violets, &c. 
I mention these because such things are not despis- 
able in small, cool, town greenhouses, where there is 
little else in bloom, and will now proceed, firstly, to 
notice the seedliugs of our correspondent; secondly, 
allude to the plants which he wishes to have; and, 
thirdly, mention a few suitable for such a cool house 
which he has not alluded to. 
The first thing that suggests itself respecting the 
seedlings is, that if they have passed through the last 
winter unscathed, and are now healthy, there seems no 
reason why they should not continue to do well; nay, 
more, if some of them continue to thrive, then I see no 
reason why such plants as Hovea may not also succeed 
even contrary to our expectations, as the temperature 
cannot have been so very low. 
1st. Dolichos lignosus is a strong evergreen climber, 
that remains evergreen in a warmish greenhouse, but 
will be nearly deciduous in one often as low as 34°. 
When it gets a yard or so in length it should be planted 
out or put in a largish pot against a pillar, and so as to 
reach a rafter or arch of the roof. It will produce 
wreaths and sheaves of purple flowers in xMay when old 
enough. As soon as they fade cut them clean away, 
tlun out the old pieces, spurs, &c., give encouragement 
to the young shoots, syringe them unmercifully with 
water several times a week in July, August, and the first 
part of September, give less syringing after that, and 
curtail water at the roots, that the wood may be ripened 
and fit to stand the cold in winter. Fibry loam will 
gi ow it well, with a little peat at the commencement. 
About the middle of March set it agoing with warmed 
water at the roots, and give less air. 
. The Tacsonia mollissima, from South America, I believe 
is much more tender. You will do little good with it if 
you plant it in trout of the house near the glass, as there 
it would be almost sure to be pinched by the cold. You 
had better, when it is from one to two yards long, and 
trained to a single stem, plant it in a large pot, and 
tiam it up the back wall of the house, and then down 
re ratter. Give little water after September, that the 
shoot may be ripened. Move the shoot in November 
10111 an ^ place it along the back wall for 
warmth Next spring pick out all the buds from the 
em as far as the top of the wall, and leave only one 
about every fifteen inches on that part of the stem which 
111118 alon £ tlie ra *ter near the glass. From these long 
