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THE COTTAG-E GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, Febeuaey 9, 1858. 299 
Herewith is a list of the plants growing on this rockery, 
among which, “ W. E.,” and “ S. P.,” will, no doubt, re¬ 
cognise some of their favourites. 
Aspcrula odorata 
Aubretia purpurea 
Antirrhinum 
Ajuga reptans alba. 
Ajuga Genevensis 
Antennaria lupina 
Arabis prmcox 
Anemone (single and double) 
Arenaria cocspitosa 
Cerastium tomentosum 
Campanula glomerata 
Cheledonium majus 
Crucianella congesta 
Caltha palustris 
Corydalis lutea 
Cheiranthus alpinus 
Convallaria majalis 
Cotyledon umbilicus 
Daphne cneorum 
Dielytra formosa 
Diaiithus deltoides 
Erica herbacea 
Eschscholtzia crocea 
Filices (various) 
Geranium sanguineum 
; ---phseum flore pleno 
Helianthemum venustum 
-fiore pleno 
Hepatica triloba 
Ilvacinthus nonscriptus 
Linaria cymbellaria 
Lotus corniculatus flore pleno 
Lysimachia nunnnularia 
Myosotis coerulea 
-- alba 
- intermedia 
Orobus hirsutus 
Oxalis acetosella 
Phlox subulata 
Polemoniiun coerulcum 
Primula vulgaris 
Polygala chamecbuxus 
Potentilla tormentilla 
- anserina 
-fragaria 
-reptans 
llanunculus ficaria 
Kaponaria ocymoides 
Saxifraga aizoon 
- graniilata 
-granulata plena 
- pedatifida 
-umbrosa 
Sedum acre 
■-- album 
-- Anglicum 
- dasyphyllum 
-—■ dentatum album 
- dentatum rubrum 
- luteum 
- populifolium 
-rupestre 
- squalens 
- Siebaldii 
-- telephium 
- arachnoideum 
Sempervivum globosum 
Silene alpcstris 
Tormentilla 
Tussilago farfara varicgata 
Tanacetum luteum 
{foliage strikingly beautiful.) 
Tradescantia virginica 
Valeriana montana 
Veronica saxatile 
- microphylla 
Vinca minor 
Viola odorata 
- flore pleno 
- tricolor 
Many of your readers possess only a small yard. It might 
become a source of great pleasure, by some such arrangement 
as the above. The small cost placing it within the reach of 
most cottage gardeners.—E, C. 
IRON STOP-COCKS FOR HOT WATER 
PIPES. 
nessing the working of these little pipes, are still credulous. 
To them I can only say, go -where they are at work—at Kil- 
lochan Castle, Ayrshire, N.B.; West House, Rotherham; 
Moreton Lodge, Buckingham ; and be convinced of both 
stopcocks and little pipes.— Cobvits. 
FORCED IIYWCINTIIS AT EDINBURGH. 
With great reluctance we are compelled to contradict your 
correspondent, “William Baxtee,” who states, in a recent 
number of The Cottage Gaedenee, that “ we stood dux at 
the wrong end ” with forced Hyacinths at the Exhibition in 
Edinburgh last spring. 
Of course, it must be apparent to your readers what position 
we did occupy; and by a glance at the report of the Show in 
the Florist for April, as well as your own journal, it will 
appear that we had a narrow escape of being placed “dux” 
at the right end. And if Mr. B. was a Judge on that day, 
he must recollect the difficult work he and his compeers had 
in judging the six collections exhibited by nurserymen ; for, 
to our certain knowledge, they were full an hour and a half 
in coming to a decision, and then we were placed second by a 
single point only. However, our opinion, and not ours only, 
is, that it was the dressing of the foliage with moss that gave 
the winners the advantage. 
On the morning following the exhibition this opinion 
was confirmed by one of the exhibitors, who obtained high 
honours, calling his gardener to show us how the Edinburgh 
growers managed to beat us. He took one of our plants, and 
placed a handful of moss upon the top of the pot, arranging 
the foliage at equal distances, and pressing a piece of moss 
tightly between the base of the foliage and flower-stem, which 
kept it in a firm position. So much did it alter the appearance 
of the plant, that we should not have known it again had it 
been done out of sight. Still, w r e consider the prize was 
justly awarded; and such opinion we publicly expressed on 
the day of exhibition. 
We consider the above statement a sufficient reply to your 
'correspondent’s question, “How did they stand with the 
growers in Edinburgh?”— Wm. Cxjtbxjsh and Sox, IJAgh- 
gate Nurseries. 
It is not my intention to say anything disparagingly of 
wooden plugs as substitutes for valves or stopcocks; for, 
! when an apparatus, with an open cistern attached to it, into 
j which the flow-pipe from the boiler discharges itself, has to 
heat houses in opposite directions, and it is desired to heat 
only one way at a time, the wooden plugs serve the same end 
as the most costly valve or stopcock. But, when no open 
cistern is used, or when only one main flow proceeding from 
the cistern heats a number of houses, the plug is useless in 
order to stop the heated water from entering any one parti¬ 
cular house; and to find an inexpensive substitute, that will 
regulate to a nicety the flow of water, is certainly a deside¬ 
ratum. The inexpensive substitutes I use are simply one-inch 
cast-iron stopcocks. They are used by many, I believe ; but 
their usefulness is not generally known. 
Perhaps it may benefit some of your amateur readers to 
learn of their existence in connection with a hot-water 
apparatus. It is true that they require a little care, as they 
are liable to get rusted-up ; but if boiled in lard previous to 
fixing, no rusting will ensue. I use them in connection with 
one-inch pipes, which serve the purpose of flows and returns 
from the boilers to the large pipes in the houses; and four of 
them, placed at intervals of sixteen feet along a one-inch pipe, 
regulate the circulation in the large pipes in four Pine divisions ; 
but by using diminishing connexions, and without the assist¬ 
ance of small pipes, they can be fitted to large pipes, and then 
serve the purpose of a fifty-shilling valve. 
In an apparatus which I had recently fitted up, I employ 
fifteen of these little stops, which cost only 4?. 6 d. each. If I 
had had valves instead, the contractor’s bill would have been 
considerably larger, without adding proportionate value to the 
practical working of the apparatus. 
In The Cottage Gaedenee, mention has been made of 
the usefulness of one-inch pipes, for the purpose of conveying 
the heated water from the boiler to the large pipes in hot¬ 
houses ; but some, who have not had an opportunity of wit¬ 
THE WEATHER AT LINTON PARK, KENT, 
IN 1857. 
Lain in inches. 
No. days 
on which rain fell 
January . . 
. . 3T3 . . 
21 
Februarv. . 
. . *27 . . 
6 
March . . 
. . 1-27 . . 
12 
April . . . 
. . 1-76 . . 
16 
May . . . 
. . 1-06 . . 
9 
J une . . . 
. . 1-67 . . 
7 
J uly . . . 
. . 1-07 . . 
8 
August . . 
. . 2-93 . . 
12 
September . 
. . 5*41 . . 
16 
October . . 
. . 312 . . 
13 
November . 
. . 2T5 . . 
11 
December 
. . -49 . . 
6 
Total 
. . 24-33 . . 
• • • 
137 days* rain. 
The prevailing winds during the 
year were 
as follows:— 
Days. 
East 
• • • 
• • 
. . 14 
South-east 
• • • * 
• • 
. 47 
South 
• • • 
• • 
. . 37 
South-west 
• • • • 
• • 
. 81 
West 
• • • 
• • 
. . 37 
North-west 
• • • • 
• • 
. 38 
North 
• • • 
• • 
. . 21 
North-east 
• • • 
• • 
. 86 
Changeable, 
or not determined 
Total . 
• • 
• • 
. . 4 
. 365 
The greatest amount of rain at any one time was on the 
8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th of September, when 2'78 inches of 
rain : 1*35 being on tlie 11th; and the longest period without 
