THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, October 20, 1857. 
comfort rather than splendour being evidently the end 
aimed at. I left the palace with a hope—in which I am 
sure I shall be joined by all—that it may prove as happy a 
home as it is a beautiful one for its future royal mistress. 
Returning to Berlin (September 10th) I found many of 
the trees in its neighbourhood completely denuded of their 
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foliage from the extreme dryness of the season : but what 
was more extraordinary, some of the Limes were makine 
young shoots, and several of the Horse-chestnuts were flower¬ 
ing reely. It looked like a meeting between spring and au¬ 
tumn. 1 heir flowering so late is perhaps caused by a showery 
day or two which we had a few weeks previously._ Karl. 
CLEMATIS GRAHAMI. 
Raised from Mexican seeds received in 
February, 1846, from Mr. Hartweg, who col¬ 
lected them on the mountain of Anganguco. 
A dioecious scrambling shrub, of which the 
male only has flowered. It has much the 
appearance of C. Virginiana , but its leaves are 
pinnated. The leaflets are ovate, slightly 
cordate, acuminate, with a few coarse serra- 
tures at the side. The flowers are small, 
downy, pale green, and produced in axillary 
and terminal slender downy panicled corymbs. 
They have no beauty, nor is the plant of 
much moment to gardens. 
It proves to be a hardy climbing plant, 
flowering freely in August and September, 
and suited for covering trelliswork. It grows 
vigorously in loam, and multiplies abundantly 
by cuttings.— (Horticultural Society's Journal.) 
POTATOES RAISED FROM SEED. 
A cottager in the parish I now reside in 
has several rods of land planted with Potatoes 
he raised from seed three years ago. A few 
days since he took them up, and their pro¬ 
duce is much better than that of older varieties 
growing by them, but yet they are very much 
diseased. I account for that, in a great 
measure, on the score that his garden is 
close to a small river, which, when full, is 
level with the garden. He raised the seed¬ 
lings upon a slight hotbed covered with a 
frame of oiled canvass, and as soon as the 
plants were strong enough to bear handling, 
and all fear of frost was gone, he planted them 
out. The first year they produced some from 
the size of a pea to that of a walnut, and last 
season some were of a very good size for table, 
and now they are in perfection; so it takes 
three years to prove them. Next year I intend 
to take some of the best of them and plant 
them on good land, and will then, if I am 
spared, publish the result. There are some 
of all sorts, sizes, and colours. 
Upon reading Mr. Appleby’s article on the 
“ Potato Disease and its Prevention ” I was 
induced to take up a few, the produce of 
tubers brought me from Switzerland, on June 
8th, that being late to plant Potatoes. They 
were not quite ripe when I took them up, hut 
I intend keeping them for seed. The seed 
came from Mount St. Bernard, where the dis¬ 
ease had not been known for four or five years. 
Part of the produce of those given me are slightly 
diseased, though only a very few, whilst with older varieties 
it is more prevalent this season than it has been at all, 
especially on the stiff land. 
The Ash-leaved Kidneys which were allowed to remain in 
the ground until after the rain we had the first part of 
August were nearly all rotten, while those taken up pre¬ 
viously to that were nearly all sound, and have remained so. 
When writing upon the cultivation of the Potato in your 
number for February 3rd, page 305, I said I could not 
procure the true Lapstone Kidney. Since then I have been 
presented with nearly a bushel by a gentleman near Man¬ 
chester, where they are grown extensively as the best 
general Potato. Truly thankful I was to receive them. I 
gave a few to several of my friends round, and they all in¬ 
form me of their good qualities, being abundant croppers, 
excellent for table, and very few diseased. I cannot too 
strongly recommend them to be grown by all possessing a 
garden, and wishing for a really good Potato, but they 
must be the true stock. They are something in shape 
like the Fluke , but very different in the stem and leaves.— 
S. Taylor. 
P.S.—The monks of Mount St. Bernard have a piece of 
land which they cultivate as a kitchen garden for themselves, 
chiefly growing the Potato I have mentioned. It has a 
white skin, but rather deep eyes, and the haulm grows very 
rank. I had only five large tubers given me, but they made 
several sets. Probably next year they may not grow so rank. 
They appear to be an excellent Potato, but I shall not 
make use of one until I get a greater stock of them. 
