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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, August 30, 1859. 
is an orange-yellow flower, a composite, or compound 
flower, with a yellow Daisy-like centre; the outside ray 
of petals being also yellow, with a purple ring at the 
bottom of the petals, and a white spot on the purple of 
every petal: very handsome indeed, and the genus has 
been a great favourite as long as I remember. 
It is a new Gazania called splendens, the best bedder 
of all the family and its relations ; a five-shilling-piece 
could be placed inside a flower of it wide opeD, and 
nothing seems to be more free of bloom. It will prove a 
benefit to such places as Shrubland Park, as it will 
keep in pots till it is in full flower, and till some earlier 
flowering-plant is out of bloom, and this to make the next 
change. It will be in first-rate style from July to October ; 
and everything about it is quite genteel and most pro¬ 
mising. The bed of it I saw was between forty and fifty 
feet long, and four feet wide, and the whole was one 
sheet of bloom, and not a blossom was half an inch higher 
than another; the whole being under nine inches from 
the ground. The only drawback to this genus for bedders 
is, that on cloudy days the blooms do not open. 
Upon a rough calculation, Messrs. Henderson have 
10,000 plants of Gazania splendens ready to send out 
now, so that any one may see it yet this season, and buy 
plants enough of it to make a large bed next season, to 
come on after a Tulip-bed, or some late bulb, or late 
spring-flowering bedder. 
It was also a good time to see all Messrs. Hendersons’ 
ways of bedding, bordering, and walling climbers for a 
first-rate flower garden. But before entering on their 
beds, I shall tell what will surprise some very good gar¬ 
deners on the outskirts of the shooting-grounds through¬ 
out the three kingdoms. Large numbers of bushes, and 
of half-standard bushes, averaging thirty inches high 
and thirty inches in diameter of heads, of Bouvardia tri- 
phylla and splendens with their hybrids ; also Bouvardia 
longiflora, at that age and size, are there one mass of 
bloom the whole season. At the beginning of the bedding 
sj T stem these were the lowest bedders we had. 
Bouvardia leiantha, same size and bigger, is just coming 
into enormous heads, numbers of bloom; then cut round 
the roots, like as for lifting a Chrysanthemum, any time 
before the 20th of September, and the first dull or rainy 
day up with them, and pot them, and they will bloom, 
in-doors, the whole wintfer. All the gardening in the 
world will not get them half so good by any other 
method, or by all the older ways put together, and the 
Ixoras are not one whit finer in summer than these are 
in winter. 
Another winter plant to be done the same way—that is 
to say, to keep it till it is too big for your room, like any 
Bouvardia, to stump it in in the spring for cuttings, or 
for keeping into some given shape, to plant it out the 
beginning of July, and when all the tops are just like 
the tops of all good Laurustinuses are at this moment, 
prepare the roots for lifting, and pot them the same time 
as the Chrysanthemums, Bouvardias, Lantanas, and all 
others, the subjects for the new style of going a-head at 
“express ’’ speed, aud that other is Clerodendron Bungei. 
That very Clerodendron is anybody’s plant, as hardy as 
a Hydrangea, and may be grown and bloomed on the 
same model, single stems six to nine inches high, and one 
“ prodigious ” head of bloom ; or the plant up to nine 
feet high and nine feet through, after the manner of Her 
Majesty’s Laurustinuses, and to bloom from the end of 
September to the first of March just as thickly as the 
Laurustinuses. And like it, all Bouvardias and Lantanas, 
with this Clerodendron and others, which we shall hunt 
out, may be made into standards and half standards, 
which, the older they get, the more they are pruned in 
and stumped, like red and white Currants, or like red and 
white Geraniums, on Harry Moore’s plan, the more they 
are ready to plant out in June; and the more bloom they 
make, and astonish such people as had only seen them on 
the common puny pot culture of former days. Of all the 
hybrid Bouvardias, Hogarth is my favourite for a half 
standard, the stem to be not more than a yard high, and 
the head a yard or four feet in diameter. All the shoots 
forming the head to have been so stopped in former years 
as now to present a head just like the head of a Laurus- 
tinus, which would bloom out in the border from July to 
October, just like Ixora Javanica. 
Then the Lantanas to be done nearly in the same way ; 
but for a change I would have them managed like scien- 
tific-formed pyramids—no suckers from roots or collar, a 
handle of six or eight inches of hard and disbudded 
wood to all my pyramids ; the bottom branches next the 
handle to be the longest, and the pyramid to be a blunt, 
rounded, and reduced top, as high as my head-room 
would allow. The Bouvardias would also make ex¬ 
cellent pyramidal plants.” All the highest and novel- 
coloured Geraniums of the Nosegay and Horseshoe breed, 
and all Fuchsias, I would have in moveable pyramids 
with short handles, and standards and half standards of 
Fuchsias besides. At the end of the season they would 
all need to be very closely pruned in, and to be kept half 
dry all the winter, and very cool; if the frost is -barely 
kept from them it would be enough. My word for it, 
they are worth the ambition of the best gardeners, and 
would make a “show” at home the whole season, and 
be the talk of all visitors who never see such thrifty 
gardening at regular shows anywhere. 
Out of two dozens of kinds of Lantanas which I saw 
bedded out, in specimen plants, at this nursery, I made a 
selection of six kinds, and ordered one plant of each for 
the Experimental; but as I make a rule of never pressing 
my fancy^on my readers, unless there is an artistic or a 
scientific reason for so doing, I shall merely give the 
names of the kinds, leaving a score more kinds, and all 
of them distinct, for others to choose their fancies. They 
are all of the habit of Lantana crocea. Boule de Niege, 
a pure white, and half dwarf; Flava lilacina, yellow 
centre and lilac sides to the truss ; Marquis de Laporta, 
and Xanthina superha, as free growers as the old crocea ; 
Imperatrice Eugenie, a lovely half dwarf bush with lilac 
and pale white flowers; and Lutea superha, the- best 
yellow. 
Hahrothamnus elegans submits to the same mode of 
training and pruning, and stands out on the border, which 
has suggested this recommendation of a new style of exhi¬ 
biting bedding plants on the mixed border ; for, recollect, 
all the Bouvardias and all the Lantanas make flower¬ 
beds just in the manner as Verbenas, and bloom as freely, 
and they strike just as easily in the spring or autumn. 
Chloris radiata, two kinds of, in mathematical arrange¬ 
ment of bloom, as at the Experimental, and as stated 
already from hence. But now I have got to the bottom of 
the story. This singularly beautiful or curious Grass is a 
native of the Blue Mountains, or some such, in Jamaica. 
Like Barley and Wheat, it is an annual; but, like them, 
you may sow it in the autumn, biennial fashion, keep it 
from the frost, which is all it needs, and turn it out at 
bedding time, and by the middle of August the harvest 
of it is ripe, and very curious indeed. After counting 
the cost, keep it for placing among other “ everlastings,” 
to help out the glasses in winter, and be thankful for a 
skeleton umbrella multiplied by the number of straws. 
It may also be a spring crop, sown with the blue Lobelias, 
and treated like them to planting time. 
Pylogine suavis is a new, fancy, fast-growing, sweet- 
scented, genteel-looking, soft-wooded, summer climber, 
which was mentioned three or four years back from 
Berlin, by “Our own Correspondent” Earl. The Expe¬ 
rimental is indebted to Mr. Thomson, of Ipswich, for this 
novelty; and a large space on the boundary wall is 
covered with it, “running” as fast as a courier, and 
looking as fresh as the first growth of spring—every leaf 
quite shining, and the size of a Gooseberry leaf; the 
habit being after the Briony, with tendrils to hook by, 
and the whole surface of the plant literally studded with 
