THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, October 11, 1859. 
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orate, acute, serrated, tapering at the petioles; heads pani¬ 
culate-corymbose. 2 ft. Purple. September. Russia. 
A. CONCiNNtrs (neat). Stem simple, panicled at top ; leaves sub- I 
stem-clasping, lanceolate, lower leaves sub-serrate, smooth; 
involucre closely imbricated. 2 ft. Purple. October. North 
America. 
A. concoloe (one-coloured). Stem simple, erect, downy ; raceme 
terminal; leaves oblong-lanceolate, entire, both sides hoary; j 
involucre imbricated, scales lanceolate, adpressed, silky. 1 ft. 
Purple. October. N. America. 
A. coedifolius (heart-leaved). Stem panicled, pilose; leaves \ 
cordate, pilose beneath, finely serrated, petioles winged ; in- \ 
volucre lax, rather imbricated. 2 ft. Blue. July. North 
America. 
A. corymbosus (corymbed). Stem at top corymbose-fastigiate; 
branches pilose; leaves ovate, finely serrate, acuminate, lower 
leaves cordate, petiolate, naked ; involucre oblong, imbricate, 
scales closely adpressed. 2 ft. White. October. N. America. 
A. CYAJtEUS (bright blue). Stem twiggy, panicled ; branches 
racemose ; leaves linear-lanceolate, shining, stem-clasping ; in¬ 
volucre inner scales coloured. 3 ft. Blue. September. North 
America. 
A. desertokttm (desert). 2 ft. Blue. July. Siberia. 
A. dtjmostts (bushy). Stem much branched ; branches panicled; 
leaves linear, entire, smooth, leaves on branches very 3hort; 
involucre cylindrical, closely imbricated. 3 ft. White. Oct. 
N. America. 
A. ElEGANS (elegant). Stem branchy, corymbose; leaves sca¬ 
brous, stem-ones oblong-lanceolate, entire, pointed, radical- 
ones stalked, oblong, serrate; involucre scales oblong-wedge¬ 
shaped, blunt, squarrose. 2 ft. Blue. September. Siberia. 
A. EMINENS (distinguished). Stem panicled; branches one¬ 
headed ; leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate, edge scabrous, 
lower ones sub-serrated. 2 ft. Light blue. October. N. America. 
A. -viRGiNEYS (pure-white-rayed). 3 ft. Whitish- 
yellow. September. United States. 
A. firmus (firm). 6 ft. Red. August. N. America. 
A. floribundus (many-flowered). Stem smooth ; branches 
corymbose, branchlets pilose; leaves sub-stem-clasping, lan¬ 
ceolate, lower ones serrate ; involucre scales lax, lanceolate, im¬ 
bricated. 4 ft. Purple. September. N. America. 
A. FOLiOLOSTJS (small-leafy). Stem erect, downy, panicled; 
branches few-flowered; leaves linear-lanceolate, tapering at 
both ends, entire, acuminate; involucre imbricated, scales 
linear, acute, adpressed, 3 ft. Purplish-blue. October. 
N. America. 
A. GEAMiNiFOliTJS (grass-leaved). Branchlets terminal, nearly 
naked, one-headed; leaves narrow-linear, nerveless, not dotted, 
smooth, erect. 2 feet. Pale purple. October. 
A. Geaxdiflorts (large-flowered). Stem branched, hairy; 
branches one-flowered; leaves linear, stiff, entire, rather 
pointed, sub-stem-clasping, those on branches reflexed, edge 
ciliated; involucre scales linear-lanceolate, squarrose. 2 ft. 
Blue. November. N. America. 
A. htjmilis (humble). Leaves ovate, acute, entire, stalked, 
smooth, edge hispid ; corymbs diverging ; involucre lax, im¬ 
bricated. 1 ft. White. September. N. America. 
A. hyssop iFOLiiis (Hyssop-leaved). Branches corymbose-fasti¬ 
giate, pressed together; leaves linear-lanceolate, three-nerved, 
dotted, pointed, entire, edge scabrous; rays usually five- 
flowered ; involucre imbricated, half length of disk. 2 ft. 
Pale purple. September. N. America. 
A. TiTfvts (smooth). Stem smooth ; branches simple,usually one- 
flowered ; leaves stem-clasping, oblong, entire, shining, radical- 
ones sub-serrate; involucre imbricated, leaflets sub-wedge- 
shaped, pointed, point thickened. 2 ft. Blue. September. 
N. America. 
A. lAxus (supple-stalked). Stem lax, panicled; leaves linear- 
lanceolate, acuminate, edge scabrous, lower ones sub-serrate, 
stem-ones reflexed. 2 ft. White. October. N. America. 
A. linarifolius (Toad-flax-leaved). Stem branched above ; 
branches spreading, one-flowered, fastigiate; leaves linear, 
entire, keeled, mucronate, nerveless, undotted, edge scabrous, 
stem-ones upright; involucre imbricated, length of disk. 1 ft. 
Pale blue. September. N. America. 
A. linifolius (Flax-leaved). Branches leafy, corymbose-fas¬ 
tigiate ; leaves linear, entire, nerveless, dotted, scabrous, spread¬ 
ing, reflexed ; involucre imbricate ; ray length of disk. 2 ft. 
White. July. N. America. 
A. LtrsiTANicus (Spanish). 1 ft. Blue. June. Spain. 
A. ritxurians (luxuriant). 5 ft. Blue. September. North 
America. 
A. II achop hy Liu s (large-leaved). Stem branched, diffuse; 
leaves ovate, stalked, serrate, upper ones ovate-cordate, sessile, 
lower ones cordate, stalked, stalks slightly bordered; involucre 
cylindrical, closely imbricated. 2 ft. White. August. North 
America. 
A. mttltiflorhs (many-flowered). Stem much branched, dif¬ 
fuse, downy; branches one-sided; leaves linear, entire, 
smootbish; involucre imbricated, scales oblong, squarrose, 
pointed. 3 ft. White. September. N. America. 
{To be continued.) 
STOCKWOOD PARK. 
The town of Luton, like many others, built when fuel was 
scarce, and no railways thought about to equalise in some mea¬ 
sure the value of that and other commodities, is situated in a 
snug hollow, as if for warmth, with the ground rising steeply 
and abruptly on almost all sides, unless that marked by the 
channel of the Lea, On one of those raised platforms, not a mile 
from the centre of the town, and much nearer the neat buildings 
that are fast occupying the hillside, is placed the plain, massive 
mansion of John Crawley, Esq., surrounded by the park on all 
sides, which, and especially on the north side, is well supplied 
with good specimens of Oaks, Thorns, and other timber. Just 
beyond this north side of the park, and five or ten minutes’ walk 
from the mansion, the extensive farm-buildings, with steam- 
engine to cut, crush, grind, and saw, are situated, Mr. Crawley 
taking great interest in everything connected with farm stock 
and farm cropping. 
With the exception of the farm-buildings, the whole of the 
offices, stables, and kitchen garden, with its pits, plants, and 
forcing-houses, are clustered on the east side of the mansion, yet 
sufficiently separated from it and from each other. These, again, are 
all separated from the pleasure-grounds to the south by a hand¬ 
some conservative wall, about 120 yards in length, half of that 
going in a straight line eastward from the south-east corner of 
the mansion, where the terrace 3, in the diagram, terminates, and 
the other half turning in a bend northwards, until it meets the old 
garden wall, going in a straight line again eastward for 140 yards ; 
but 60 yards of this being lowered and topped with iron-palisad¬ 
ing in front of a semi-parallelogram of houses, whilst from tne 
rest of the common wall the fruit toees have been removed, and 
Ivy and creeping plants are taking their places. Allowing thus 
37 yards for the front of the house, and some 40 yards between 
it and the sunk fence on the south-west side, the mean length will 
be under 300 yards. Whilst the width will vary from a little 
more than 40 yards in front of the mansion to 60 yards or more 
in front of the palisaded wall. 
The youngest reader, if he make a few lines with his pencil, 
will at once perceive the simple position of the grounds, and be 
convinced that the interest attaching to them cannot be owing to 
their size or natural variations, but to the simple refined taste 
displayed in their laying-out and management. 
Before entering the grounds, or garden, from the Luton side, 
two things will be apt to strike the attention of a stranger. The 
first is, that a public path kept in excellent order passes close to 
the entrance of the kitchen garden and stables, and something 
like a hundred yards from the front door of the mansion. No 
attempt is made to conceal the one from the other. That path 
must be a great advantage as a thoroughfare between some parts 
of Luton and adjacent villages, and must he a delightful walk to 
those merely seeking healthy exercise. I have sometimes re¬ 
gretted, that, notwithstanding sundry hoops and bushes stuck in 
here and there, as quiet hints for passengers to be on their good 
behaviour, little paths would be made on the grass, just as if some 
people felt a pleasure in doing what good sense, and good taste, 
and the doing as we w’ould he done by would authoritatively 
forbid. Some of our rich commoners, who think much of the 
privacy and seclusion of their country mansions, if they could 
not remove such a path, might try and turn it a little further 
from their door. If this could not be easily done, they could 
sink it low enough with a wall, or embankment, on each side, 
so that the tallest man in walking along could see little but the 
sky, and the tops of the trees. At present there seems with the 
general public to be a growing tenacity in maintaining old path¬ 
ways. A right, however, will never be less a right when it is not 
overstrained or abused. Even under present circumstances, a 
