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STAKPARPS. 
This is lust the right time to set about making :!ie 
first more in the right direction of standard orna¬ 
mentals, be they Myrtles, or “/jf Jlapper,' as Dr. 
Iindley named the first incipient standards of Dem: a 
Qi'jvi 11-*: as it’ we could hare standards, or doctors, 
without nursery ; or having them, to keep them in 
the background, till they were ripe for use, orna¬ 
ment. or mischief. We needed not to have exhibited 
such standards till they were of a respectable sine, it 
is true : but that was no reason why any one should 
set his face against them altogether. 
When we first recommended standards to he made 
of all our principal shrubbery plants, in the early 
volumes of Ike Cottage Gakdexes. the process was 
to be this :—Cut down in the spring, to the surface of 
the ground, such evergreen or deciduous shrubs as 
were intended to have standards from: and the strong 
sucker-like shoots, which would rise from the stools, 
were to be layered next year, or to be earthed up so 
as to root without layering, as some of them would do 
e asily enough: as. for instance, the common Laurel, 
and even the Portugal Laurel, though not so soon. 
At that time, the great annoyance which we expe- 
riern ed from a host of suckers rising from the bottom 
of standards so prepared, did not occur to us : or if it 
did. we did not then sufiieiently perceive the evil, to 
propose an effectual remedy. But now that the Crystal 
Palace people have imported so many fine Bay and 
other standards, and standards have become a regular 
branch of nursery business, we see the error of the 
false move at the Beginning: for most of these stand¬ 
ards give much trouble to the gardener, to keep the 
suckers out of sight. And when these and other such 
standards are planted out in the open ground, the 
difficulty is much great er: and without want look* 
. the suckers would get the mastery, c*nd 
render the beautiful-lookia g . tea ' worse-looking 
than if they were allowed to take their natural forms. 
As it is. however, no one. that l know of, has ever yet 
said a single 1 against such gardening, or such 
standards. 
I could never believe that the crit icism on the “ lly 
flappers was as against standard plants in 
: \il: but. rather, on account of their being shown 
to the public before they had time to assume the 
“standard measure." And yet another side of that 
question might be taken as a liberal, and very bold 
stroke, to show to the world, that such and such 
plants were already “ on the stocks." and that thus 
the public might gain a few years bv taking the early 
hint from these maiden plants. Be that as it may, 
however, the country is now “in for it:" and the 
country party must have standards of every plant 
which can be fashioned into a stem and head tor that 
purpose ; . ... s. because “they are so in character 
with the regular style of laying our gardens." Well, 
if it 1 th while to have them. It will be surely 
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worth while ro ge; them up hi an unexceptionable 
sty e. if that be possible : and sure enough it is possible 
to have a thousand standards without a sucker to any 
one of them, no matter what the kinds mav be. 
The question was brought before me forcibly. in 
the BGghgate IS wrsery. the other day, when Mr. Cut- 
bush brought me among his extensive “ quarters of 
Sweet Bay. The long, flexible, well-ripened shoots 
» on his Ik stools, a coing to have layered this 
spring on the principle of no suckers. There 5 no 
soon he ms; about this layering, or 
whether his layers are all for standards or for T ush 
f lants. which will hot er throw up a sucker either way. 
f he can but warrant them not to do so. the plants 
will be worth just twice as much as others, which will 
choke themselves with suckers in a few years. I 
saw but one really handsome plant of the Sweet Bay. 
till I saw the French standards of them : and that ore 
was at Holly Mount, Great Malvern, when the Duchess 
of Kent and Princess Victoria lived there; and that 
.plant prods aps of black berries every year, 
which ripened in October. That was a female'Bay. 
therefore: but whether the common Bays, which one 
sees everywhere, are male or female, is more than I 
can tell. But Mr. Cutbush has both, and one of them 
is a great deal better-looking Gian the other; and of 
the “bettermes >ort he h to make the best 
standards forth v tth. His plan is very ingenious : but 
you could hardly believe now easy it is. without a 
proper explanation of it. Here it is. therefore, and 
my authority, such as it is. to vouch for the safe 
and perfect success of the mode and manner of its 
make and management. 
Th. she ' 
previous seaso: re: the stronger and the 
more lengthy it is. the more roots it will make, and 
the sooner it will become a standard* fit to be seen 
a Chiswick Show. It is to be exactly as they 
tongue Carnation layers, with this di fibre nee. that the 
tongue on the B. shoot, as on most hard-wooded 
plants, must be on the upper side of it ; whereas the 
valuation tongue is always made on the under side, 
because the shoot of a Carnation is soft and pliable, 
and will no: break, or crack, or splinter, from be tug 
“turned double." as one might say, in the laying; 
but a tongue made on the under side of a woody 
branch would cause it to split, or break r 
the bend where it is layered: therefore, tht 
made on the upper side. And when the shoot is quite 
bent, the man draws tire top part of the shoo: towards 
* himself, and that causes the tongue to k 
the opposite side, where i: is fixed a hook stuck 
down just at the bend of the layer: a handful of s. 
put round the tongue and bead facf.itatcs the push of 
the young roots when they come, aud also shortens 
the time of their coming. All this, or to this point, 
is in the old way. and the best wav for all manner of 
layers, if they are woody. I'he new principle to be 
Ko. i>7. Yol. XIX 
