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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, October 20, 1857. 
HUGELIA ELONGATA. 
This is Gilla elongata of De Cand. Prodr., 
ix. 311. Raised from seeds received from 
Mr. Hartweg, who found it in fields near 
Monterey, in California. 
Stem about six inches high, very little 
branched, much covered with cottony wool. 
Leaves also cottony at the base, but green, 
and nearly smooth near the point, which is 
somewhat spiny, filiform, with two or three 
long segments of the same form. Floweis 
deep blue in cottony heads, closely surrounded 
by long pungent linear bracts. Anthers white, 
projecting beyond the corolla. 
This quite agrees with the specimens 
formerly gathered in California by Douglas. 
It is rather pretty, on account of the contrast 
between its grey woolly leaves and brilliant 
blue flowers, and will make a variety among 
hardy annuals. . . n .. 
Like most plants of the kind from Cali¬ 
fornia it flowers very early. The plant now 
figured, sown in May, flowered in August. 
By successive sowings it is, therefore, possible 
to have a continuation of it during all the 
season of growth. — (Horticultural Society s 
Journal.') 
NOTES FROM THE CONTINENT.— 
No. 12. 
POTSDAM. 
Leaving the palace and gardens of Sans 
Souci behind me I visited one of its acces¬ 
sories called tlie Paradise Garden. Here I 
found a pretty little house built on the model 
of those at Pompeii, surrounded by a garden 
as nearly Italian as circumstances permit. 
There are baths with small fountains, over¬ 
hung by Lime trees, so trained that their branches inter¬ 
lace horizontally at about eight feet from the ground, 
making a delightfully cool shade in summer, but allowing a 
few rays of sunlight to fall upon the sparkling water or 
chequer the green sward. There are plantations of Mulberry 
trees, and long, straight, trellis-covered walks, where over¬ 
head hang many kinds of Gourds, their fantastic shapes and 
the bright orange colour of many producing a pretty effect. 
In addition to these there were miniature vineyards and 
little fields of maize. This garden has won the approbation 
of Sir Joseph Paxton, so that any praise from me would be 
unnecessary. 
On quitting this tasteful little spot I passed through a 
Russian colony, consisting of about a dozen log-built cot¬ 
tages, each surrounded by its piece of garden ground. There 
is a chapel built also in the Russian style, with its three bulb¬ 
like domes. The whole are situated on land given to them 
by the late king, who was by marriage connected with Russia. 
At the Marble Palace, picturesquely situated by the river 
side, I found nothing of horticultural interest. It is only 
occasionally used as a summer residence by members of the 
royal family. 
About an hour’s walk from this place, and upon the oppo¬ 
site side of the river, is the Palace of Babelsberg, which 
must be of interest to every English reader, as it will form 
the future home of the Princess Royal. The building is in 
a style half baronial, half castellated, and as it is placed on 
the brow of a hill it is a conspicuous object from Potsdam. 
The view on every side from this castle is panoramic, and 
more beautiful than is to be found for many miles round. 
Standing upon the front terrace a green slope leads down to 
a beautiful sheet of water—one of the many lake-like ex¬ 
pansions of the Havel. Here float several model ships of war 
and the pretty little steamer presented to the king by the late 
Emperor of Russia. Where the river again contracts it is 
crossed by a long bridge leading towards Gliencke, which is 
just visible amid the trees. A little further to the left is the 
Marble Palace. The background is formed by a range of 
hills partially covered with plantations. On the summit of 
the one immediately fronting us is an unfinished palace ; on 
another we catch a glimpse of the new orangery. On the 
extreme left is the beautiful town of Potsdam, with its stee¬ 
ples and domes, and beyond, far away, gleams the silvery 
river. Sans Souci itself is hidden by the trees, but the 
great jet of tlm fountain forms an interesting point in this 
glorious landscape. 
After this slight attempt to give an idea of the pano¬ 
rama let me say a few words on the garden which more 
immediately surrounds the castle. The flower garden is 
not large, but laid out in a scroll-work pattern, the design 
being far too complicated. It must cost an immense 
amount of trouble to keep in order strips of flower-beds only 
a few inches across, and to clip the intervening turf with 
shears ; still it is done, and from the balcony above it looks 
like a piece of beautiful embroidery. Between this and the 
park is the fernery, where many kinds of hothouse Ferns 
are planted out during summer and do well. There is a 
new rosary, where a circular arcade of wirework for the climb¬ 
ing varieties surrounds a number of beds of Roses pegged 
down. Souvenir de Malmaison and Geant des Batailles were 
the only sorts flowering, the first freely, the latter only par¬ 
tially. One of the sloping banks by the side of a walk was 
covered with grey Moss, and in it a scroll-work pattern 
planted with dwarf Box. Seen from a distance the effect was 
curious, if not pretty. The park is extensive, undulating, 
and picturesquely planted. There are four new vineries 
built this year, but in these and a few other greenhouses at 
some distance from the castle I found nothing worthy of note. 
There is a large poultry-yard, fitted up with every con¬ 
venience for its numerous and beautiful inmates. I may, 
perhaps, be allowed to add that, through the kindness of 
the gardener, I was permitted to go through the apart¬ 
ments of the castle, and found that, though neither very 
spacious nor gorgeous, they were fitted up most elegantly, 
