THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, October C, .1857. 
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superior to atone for use in flour mills, so long ago as 1841. 
The perseverance that at last carried the idea o a n 
umpliant issue was equally active in applying it to all possib e 
uses, and in these no commonplace discretion or taste was 
evinced. Let any one look over the splendid examples ot 
high art as worked out in this cheap and everlasting ma¬ 
terial, and say if art has not benefited by it, though its very 
object is to displace the sculptor’s chisel. (Isos. 4 and o.) 
if there is no compound to compare with it for excellence, 
so there is no manufacturer of cements who can show such 
a collection of magnificent designs applicable to all sorts ot 
purposes. A few of these are here figured. The vases are 
beautiful objects, to which woodcuts cannot do justice ; but 
the newest thing turned out at Ipswich is the jardinet here 
represented as it appears when planted. (Nos. l ane 
This is a grand addition to the masonry ot the terrace 
garden, and, well planted, makes a fine figure, the chaste 
ornamentation and clean snowy rim contrasting beautitu y 
with the flowers, and on either gravel or turf its tone is 
highly classical and unique. It just reminds one of the 
Italian style carrieel to perfection. It measuies six feet 
across, and is one foot deep; but of course any depth of soil 
may be placed within it, or it may be fitted to a bed already 
planted. , . , . .. 
I need only add here that, considering their excellence in 
every respect, the charges for these productions aie ex¬ 
tremely low, in no case more than the best cements, and 
that the material admits of every possible modification, 
either for facing buildings, the construction of mill stones, 
monuments, columns, bases, capitals, balconettes, vases, 
fountains, garden ornaments, and even rocliwork and 
grottoes; in fact, everything that looks well or does well in 
stone, but which if made of stone might prove far inferior, 
and ten times dearer than this well-compacted substitute. 
Shirley Hibberd. 
Li:ght. —♦Duchess of Lancaster, * Queen of Hanover 
♦Bride, Clio, Maid of Kent, and Venus de Medici. < 
White Corolla. —Countess of Burlington and Princess 
Boyal. 
N b. _The Verbenas are selected from about eight dozer 
varieties, and I believe them to be good, profuse bloomers 
and the best of it is they continue a long time in bloom. J 
do not speak of them with regard to fine-formed flowers 
Fuchsia Carolina, is still the best for single specimens ou. 
of doors, although there are others of those marked ver 
good. Viola fore-plena does best out of doors here. 
BEDDING-OUT PLANTS. 
The following is a selection from the principal families of 
bedding plants, for which J am indebted to Mr. Craig, the 
flower gardener at Ivew.— D. Beaton. 
GERANIUMS. 
Scarlet— Punch, Tom Thumb, Frogmore, Trentham 
Scarlet, selected from two dozen. 
Cerise. —Lady Middleton, Cerise Unique, General Pe- 
lissier, and Judy. 
Various. — Atro-sanguineum, Harkaway, Lucidum, and 
Baron Hugel. 
Pink or Rose* — Guelder Rose, Hydrangeaflora, Lady 
Holmsdale, Pripeess Alice, and Countess of Bective, all for 
pots. 
Variegated Foliage. —Flower of the Day, Bijou, Annie, 
Brilliant, Mangles’ Variegated, Countess of Warwick, and 
Alma : the last two I have not rightly proved. 
PETUNIAS. 
Slirubland Rose, Shrubland White, Gem, Countess of 
Ellesmere, and Imperial (for pots only). 
VERBENAS. 
Scarlet. —Defiance, Mrs. Woodroffe, General Simpson, 
Lord Raglan, Brillaut de Vaise, and Geant des Batailles. 
White. —Mrs. Holford and Mont Blanc. 
Purple.— Andre, Purple King, and Blue Bonnet. 
Blush Rose and Pink. —Hippo,damie, Reine des Ama- 
zones, Grandis, and Charles Dickens. 
Violet Plum. —Field Marshal. 
Dark Scarlet.— Tommy. 
French White. —Bernice. 
CALCEOLARIAS. 
Amplexicaulis, Salvisefolia, Trentham Yellow, and Ru- 
gosa (variegated). 
FUCHSIAS. 
Dark. — Wonderful, *Prince Albert, *Glory, Autocrat, 
Volcano di Aqua, ♦ Monarch, ♦Globosa Magnifiea, ♦In¬ 
accessible, * Carolina, and * Viola flore-pleno. Those marked 
♦ I have proved to do well out of doors. 
MEETING OF THE BRITISH POMOLOGICAL 
SOCIETY. —October 1st. 
On Thursday last a Meeting of the British Pomologices 
Society was held at the rooms, St. Martin s Hall, Long Acie. 
Mr. Hogg, V.P. in the chair. 
Two bunches of Black Prince, and two of a variety of 
Cliasselas Grapes called Lawyers' Sweet-water , were brought 
by Mr. Paul to show the results of the heat of the past summer. 
Both of these varieties were grown in the open ground lied 
to stakes,in the same way as they are cultivated in the vine¬ 
yards on the Continent; and both varieties were well grown 
and in a fair state of ripeness, and the berries of the 
Black Prince were beautifully coloured. 
Mr. Thompson, of Bramham Hall, Yorkshire, again sent 
some hunches of his Black Hambnrghs , grown against a 
wall warmed by the superfluous heat from the houses, 
and they were very well flavoured; hut we regret that on 
this occasion, as well as the last, Mr. Thompson had to 
state in a communication that these were not so good as 
some he had gathered. We could have wished that Mr. 
Thompson had kept one hunch for the purpose of sending 
to the Meeting, as it is important in such matters that the 
Society should have an opportunity of judging of the highest 
possible degree of excellence to which such subjects can he 
brought, as it is for the encouragement and promotion of 
such that the Society has been particularly instituted. Mr. 
Thompson also sent a specimen of his Grape guard, a very 
useful and certainly most effectual contrivance for protect¬ 
ing Grapes from the attacks of wasps and flies. There 
could ho no doubt about the applicability of these to the 
purpose intended, and the chief question which arose was 
that of expense. It was stated that the cost of each is 
from Is. 3 cl. to Is. 6eL which becomes a verv serious affair 
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when the value of out-door Grapes is taken into account 
even after they are ripe. The Meeting highly approved of 
the contrivance, and suggested that if they could he made 
for, perhaps, half the cost, or less, they would supply a great 
desideratum. 
Mr. D. Ferguson, of Stowe, sent some loose berries of a 
Grape without a name, which he thought resembled Mr. 
Snow’s Muscat Hamburgh , hut which neither in colour, 
shape, flavour, nor in any other particular, had the slightest 
relationship to that variety. It was a nicety-flavoured 
Grape, but the Meeting could form no opinion of it unless 
it was seen in the hunch. 
Mr. Rivers, of Sawbrklgeworth, had a collection of late 
Teaches, among which were very nice specimens of Bour- 
dinc, which showed their perfect identity with Teton de Venus, 
all being furnished with a very prominent nipple on the 
apex of the fruit. In some seasons this variety produces 
fruit without the nipple, but there can be no doubt hut that 
the two are either synonymous or so closely alike as to be at 
