THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. ArRin 19. 1859. 31 
sent them on the wide world without a nurse or protector. 
13ut I would strongly advise that cross to be tried again. 
Some Acacias were still in bloom, as Drummondi, 
lancifolium hybrida (an improvement on armata), hispi- 
dissimum, in the way of grandis, but more slender. All 
these, with spring bulbs and Mignonette, made up a 
handsome show-house. 
The only real novelty in the show-house was a plant, 
looking between the aspects of Humea and Enchusa, or 
rather atreeEckium, the name is Musschia Woolastonii. 
It has not ilowered yet; but as the genus Musschia stands 
close to Trachelium and Adenophora, we may judge 
what the flowers will be—either a spike will rise from the 
centre, or a panicle or strong raceme covered with blue, 
white, or lilac campanulate flowers; apparently a fine 
thing. 
The young leaves of Euonymus fimbriatus are here as 
good for show as crimson flowers; but they soon turn 
purple, and then green. The spring Cyclamens deserve a 
special notice, where one secs them liberally used in the 
show-house. 
The next house is called the Camellia-house — a large 
house 120 feet long, where the chief of the stock is 
wintered and flowered; but about this time all that re¬ 
main unsold are removed to close pits to make their 
growth and set their bloom for another year. One of 
the very few kinds of Camellias which were then iu 
bloom, is a first-rate beauty called La Heine, a delicate 
soft white, with a creamy I ingc at bottom, and also shaded 
and striped occasionally. To get young Camellias to 
make free, vigorous growth, and set abundance of bloom- 
buds at the same push, they must be grown in damp, close 
pits, and sun heat is better than any other for them ; but 
the sun must not touch the young leaves till they are ripe, 
except early and late in the day. And the best way to 
get young Camellias to grow fast into specimens, without 
regard to blooms in the meantime, is to plant them out 
of the pots into nice, rich, mellow stuff, in a cold pit, and 
to hasten them on with sun heat the whole summer long ; 
then, if the roots are good, the plants will make three 
vigoroxxs growths in one season, or just as much as they 
would, or could, iu three years by the common method. 
That I can vouch for, as well as report it. 
The Camellia-house is now filled with the best kinds of 
greenhouse exhibition plants, set like the bedding-out 
system—that is, a space is given on the stage for every 
kind of plant, and every plant of that kind is in that 
space ; and an edging, as it were, of some conspicuous 
plant, divides one space from another,—here stand Aphe- 
lexises, by the scores, in bloom-bud; Pimelias the same; 
Gastrolobiums, Boronias, Dillwynias, Eriostemons, Gom- 
pholobiums, Leschenaultias,Epacrises,Bouvardias, Choro- 
zemas, Grevilleas, Adenandras, Correas, Tctrathecas, Sta- 
tices, Lantanas, Mirbelias, Pleromas, Oxylobiums, Pul- 
teuceas, Templctonias, Eutaxias, and Eurybias, Gardo- 
quias, Gnidias, Bossiacas, and every other kind that is 
worth a place in the show-house, or for exhibition, from 
these and other popular genera of greenhouse plants. 
But I can only mention a few out of so many. 
Hibbertia perfoliata, is a good exhibition plant, besides 
being a thorough good thing, and not liable to insects 
or mishaps. Polygala JDalmaisiana, the best of that 
race; not from Dalmatia, but a cross from grandflora 
and eordala, by M. Dalmais, a foreigner. Muraltia 
Lfeisteria, in bloom all the winter, has been trained for 
the shows. Lavandula dentata, to give a delicious scent 
iu a small compass. The two Diosmas, ambigua and 
capitata, and Ulrica regerminans, have each of them a 
peculiar scent of its own, and different from all the flower 
scents. They say, that plant-hawkers, in olden times, 
could smell Erica regerminans, three miles off. Ifa/cea 
Victoria, a broacl-leaved kind, the best of them all, and 
tiro one with the least of the family appearance. Eurybia 
ilicifolia, looks much like Ccanothus rigidus; Tremandra 
ericifolia, fine; but very much finer is Tremandra eriei- 
folia densa, aforesaid. Grevillea lavendulacea, a fine 
dwarf thing, with all the parts of the flower like crimson 
claws. Gastrolobium JDrummondii, now like to be catkins- 
flowcred, but soon will be in clusters of terminal spikes 
of yellow pea-blossoms, with brown spots. Pimelia 
diosmafolia, the grand secret of being the best stock for 
working the others on; it is as much superior to decussata, 
as a stock, as a spectabilis is in respect to bloom ; graft 
it very young, and quite low, and, in two or three years, 
no one could tell the plant was ever grafted; spectabilis 
rosea is a Pimelia that is little known out of London. 
But talk of grafting, after seeing 1ihododendron Edge- 
wortlni iuarched at the back of this house. This is a 
straggling-grower, that would do well as a pillar plant 
for a lofty conservatory. It is up ten feet in three years, 
in the Crystal Palace ; but what I was going to say about 
the effects of inarching it here, is this :—The long 
rambling shoots had to bo bent down, half doubled, to 
get to the bottom of the stock; and that so completely 
checked the growth, that all the points of all the inarched 
shoots ripened so completely, as to have the next start a 
flower-bud. It would have been just the same had the 
shoots been merely turned back, or doubled, on them¬ 
selves—evexy one of them would have bloomed that way, 
as well as they do from inarching. 
The next turn brought us among pits of seedling 
Pinuscs, young Heaths, Epacrises, and Camellias. As at 
the Clapton Eursery, here were seedlings of Wellingtonias, 
Picea JYordmanniana, Finns Harhocgii, Cupressus Law- 
soniana, and the same producing cones, perhaps for the 
first time in Europe ; Juniper us Phoenicia, and others 
running in that style. 
Here Epacris la-cigala, a pearly white one, shows how 
desirable it is for a private collection; as it never comes 
into bloom, or need never come, till all the rest of them 
are out and done with. 
In front of these ranges of pits stood the stock of spring 
flowers and herbaceous plants in pots. The blue Genii- 
aniella acaulis does remarkably well here in rows and in 
pots ; but for pots it is best to lift it a month before 
blooming time. Cyclamen vernum, count, Europannn, and 
Europceum album, liederaefolium and Atkinsii ; also re- 
pandv/m, robustum, and Ibericum, which, like Aikinsii, 
are seedling forms of the above, are all hardy, and are 
among the hardy herbaceous plants. Phlox nivalis, pro- 
cumbers, subulata, and verna, all dwarf kinds and spring 
bloomers. Pamondia pyrenaica, Pyrola rotundfolia, 
Silene maritima plena ; double white Primrose, double 
yellow ditto, double purple, and double lilac of the same. 
Omphalodes verna ; Epimedium grandiflorum, and vio- 
laceum ; Anemone apennina, alpina, cerniia, rosa pleno, 
Japonica, and its hybrid ; vitifolia, and its hybrid; Aqui- 
legia cximia, and glandulosa ; Calandrinia umbellata ; 
Cerasiium tomentosum; Lotus corniculatus fiore pleno; 
Dodccatheon elegans, alba, and media; Gaura Lindeni- 
ana ; Erythronium dens-eanis, albflorum, and majus ; 
double white Hepatica at last; double red, double blue, 
and half-double ditto; and all the single Ilepaticas—a 
rare chance ! Genista tinctoria fore pleno ; the great Sun¬ 
flower of California, Helianthus Cal formers ; Platycodon 
grandiflorum; Saxifraga granulatapleno; Tritoma uvana, 
and Burchellia; Soldanella alpina, and -Montana; Seilla 
prcecox ; Primula denticulata ; and Saponaria ocymoides, 
are all most worthy for the mixed border ; to say nothing 
of all the finer Pseonias, Pentstemons, Statices, Veronicas, 
Phloxes, Tigridias, Delphiniums, Antirrhinums, Dian- 
thuses, Campanulas, Gentianas, Lobelias, CEnotheras, 
Lychnis, Saxifragas, Sedums, and Sempervirens, with 
hundreds more of that stamp, and in the most thorough 
order as to health, size, and proper naming. Verily there 
need be no lack of herbaceous plants, of rock and spring 
border-plants, in the face of such a collection. 
Hardy and greenWuse Ecrns and Lycopods, Hollyhocks 
of the first water, Cinerarias the same, Calceolarias, herb¬ 
aceous, shrubby, and bedders, Carnations, Pinks, and 
