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TIIE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, January 5, 1858. 
me to see that part of his Evergreen. Oaks on purpose; 
and he told me that he planted, I forget how many 
hundreds, hut I think 300 of them, in the City Ceme¬ 
tery, down at Ilford, in Essex, and that he did not lose 
half-a-dozen out of the whole lot. He and the Messrs. 
Jackson, of Kingston, have the largest quantity of 
Tree Box about London, as far as I have seen yet; and 
Mr. Cutbush has at least two miles of splendid Dwarf 
Box, every yard of which would plant more than three 
yards of good substantial edging. Laurustinus the 
same. He says the Laurustinus is the best evergreen 
for the London winter season; and Juniperus virgini- 
ana, the American “ Eed Cedar,” the next best. Then, 
Sweet Bay, Aucuba, green and variegated Tree Box. 
The variegated Fuonymus is particularly good in 
smoke, and all the varieties and kinds ; Arbor vitses, 
and also common Rhododendrons. While all kinds of 
Hollies and the Holly-leaved, or now-common ever¬ 
green Berberis will not do at all. Now, to a man like 
Mr. Cutbush, who was born within five or six miles of 
St. Paul’s, and who has to supply large quantities of 
such plants, this kind of practical knowledge is of im¬ 
mense advantage. Cupressus ftmebris, of which he 
has a large stock, is the best evergreen he finds to 
stand the winter in front halls, or anywhere about 
London houses, safe from much frost, which it will not 
stand well about London in pots, or under rough 
treatment. 
Bury hi a Gunniana and ilicifolia, two evergreen, 
shrubby, Aster-like, flowering plants, he much recom¬ 
mends, as very showy in June and July, with their 
snow-white flowers innumerable. They are as hardy 
here as Gum cistus. Eour rooted cuttings of Lib oce dr us 
Chilense, which were planted out of the same pot six 
or seven years since, are now, respectively, six feet, 
five feet, three feet, and eighteen inches high, in the 
same row. The way to account for such immense differ¬ 
ence is this : the six-feet plant is, or was, the leading 
point of a side-shoot; the five-feet, from the next 
strongest leading side-shoot; and the other two were 
from the weak side-shoots on a lateral branch. This is 
the best practical illustration I have ever seen or heard 
of, about the actual value of a choice of cuttings from 
the same plant. One of the four cuttings is worth, say, 
three half sovereigns in six or seven years; while the 
very next cutting, under perfectly similar circum¬ 
stances, is not worth more than two shillings, or two 
shillings and sixpence. 
Cuttings of most kinds of the Cypress-like Conifers 
will make upright plants, which cannot, in a few years, 
be distinguished from seedlings. The Wellingtonia 
comes as freely from cuttings as any of the race, and 
assumes the form of a seedling from the cutting-pot. 
Mr. Cutbush, who can grow variegated Hollies from 
cuttings, as freely as Tom Thumb Geraniums, but not 
quite so quickly, finds no difficulty in rooting all the 
new and finer kinds of Conifers. I counted pots of 
cuttings of the following, and not one cutting lost: 
—Thuja aurea, T. Caucasica (new), T. gigantea; 
Thuiopsis borealis ; Libocedrus Chilense, and Doniana, 
Wellingtonia gigantea ; Cupressus Goveniana, macro- 
carpa, and funebris; Fitzroya Patagonica; Saxgothea 
conspicua ; Abies Brunoniana, and Webbiana; Dacry- 
dium Franklinii, and cupressinum; and two kinds of 
Yew-like plants, called Taxus nubigenus, andjaponicus. 
Mr. Cutbush says the Deodar will make as fine plants 
from cuttings as any of these ; but that it would not 
pay to make them from cuttings, now that they are so 
cheap. He has Deodars of all sizes, as well as of 
Cedars of Lebanon ; splendid specimens of the Maiden¬ 
hair tree, Salisburia adiantifolia ; a huge specimen of 
the 'Wellingtonia, planted out “ for good ” on the 
highest part of this high-lying nursery ; and he agrees 
with me, that the Wellingtonia might be made to grow 
up into the air three times faster than it does in most 
places, where it is allowed to spend two-thirds of its 
strength ingrowing sideways. The same remark holds 
good for the generality of such habited trees. 
A large plot of the Mediterranean Heath, growing 
most luxuriantly in strong, yellow loam, and tens of 
thousands of cuttings of hardy evergreens, being put 
in during tlie month ol December, were new to me; 
but I saw the work in progress on a north, wide border. 
Twenty years since, unless these cuttings w ere got in 
before the end of September, we said it would bo all 
up with them; merely because we took it for granted, 
without ever trying, by experiment, to ascertain if the 
practice were right or wrong. 
Standard Mulberry trees took my fancy here, more 
than I recollect in any other nursery, owing to their 
size and handsome “ getting-up.” Apples, Pears, 
Peaches, Plums, Cherries, and all the rest of the 
fruits, grow very healthily in this exposed nursery, j 
The Prince of Wales Raspberry, which Mr. Cutbush 
supplied to all his regular customers, for the last seven 
years, has been so well spoken of, that he felt bound 
to make it known to all the world at last. It is just 
now about twice the strength of any of the other 
kinds grown here. The history of it is, that a black¬ 
bird, or some bird, stole a fruit of the Antwerp, and 
swallowed it, but could not digest all the seeds ; one of 
which produced a seedling in a hedge, not far off: 
and the hedge plant is now the Prince of Wales 
Raspberry. 
How to renew" an old Yew, has been experimented 
on, and proved by the father of the present owner. 
A row of Y r ews, nobody knows how old, ran across 
the Nursery,—the trunks as stout as a giant’s body; 
and their heads covered ever so much of the ground. 
Five and thirty years back the whole were cut in to 
the main trunks, not a branch or a twig being left; 
and now they form a hedge from four to five feet 
through, and twelve feet high, looking as fresh and 
healthy as if they were seedlings twenty years of age ; 
and the hedge is proof against the smallest bird. I 
once saw a Yew hedge, which was thirty-five feet high, 
in the garden of the late Mr. Lambert, beyond Salis¬ 
bury, which is the highest and the best hedge of Yew, 
or of Holly, in that part of the country. 
In bedding plants, Mr. Cutbush is very strong. 
All the best scarlet and variegated Geraniums he grows 
by hundreds and by thousands. A new variegated 
one, called Beauty, which he bought from Mr. Lowe, 
he says, will be the best bedder of them all. His 
Golden Chains look remarkably well; and he spoke of 
a new and superior kind of Golden Chain, which he 
has under experiment. His Calceolarias are very fine— 
not one of them in pots; but thousands of them are 
from cuttings, bedded out in cold frames, close to the 
glass : and a covering of mats in hard weather, is all the i 
extra care they require. 
A new bidding Geranium, of the greenhouse class, 
and called Modestum, looks like one I mentioned being 
at the stud house, last autumn. It is half-way between 
the Quercifoliums and Unique. It makes an excellent ! 
bed. Fulgidum compactum is another of which Mr. 
Cutbush speaks as most beautiful ; also, Fulgens, “a i 
free bloomer and most brilliant colour;” Dennis's 
Alma, and Crimson King, I can back him in saying, 
are two most telling in large beds. He has all the 
Uniques, the Diadematums, and Quercifoliums ; 
Turner s Alma, variegated, is also one of his pet sorts. 
Tom Thumb, and Commander-in-Chief he grows most 
of in the scarlet class ; then Punch, Le Titian, Peedii, 
Dazzle, Baron Hugel, Amazon, Cerito, Bishopstowe 
Scarlet, and Brilliant, among the variegated kinds. 
A green shoot of Brilliant in the Experimental, and 
another at Hampton Court, turned out to be the real 
