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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, January 17, 1860. 
will require much more care in watering, air-giving, and general 
management :— 
A.otus gracillimus. 
Aphelexis macrantha, purpurea, humilis, sesamoides. 
Boronia serrulata, denticulata, ericifolia, cordata. 
Bossiwa taxifolia. 
Brachysema latifolium. 
Chorozema varia, ilicifolia, llenclimanni, Dicksonii, varia nana, 
varia rotundifolia, varia grandiilora, spectabilis. 
Crowea saligna, elliptica. 
Correa speeiosa, pulohella, and hybrids. 
Callistcmon lineare. 
Gardoquia Hookeri, Gilliesii, discolor. 
ITovea Celsii, lanceolata, splendens. 
Epacris (of sorts). 
Erica (of sorts). 
Eriostemon buxifolium, intermedium, neriifolium. 
Genetyllis tulipifera. 
Hardenbergia Comptoniana, ovata. 
Hedaroma tulipifera. 
Lapageria rosea. 
Kennedya rubicunda, inopbylla. 
Lalage lloveaefolia. 
Leschenaultia formosa, biloba, oblata, splendens. 
Loddigcsia oxalidifolia. 
Pimelea spectabilis, Hendersonii, rosea, intermedia. 
Phsenocoma prolifera. 
Roella ciliata, elegans. 
Pul ten £c a stricta, retusa. 
Statice Dicksonii, suffrutieosa, herbaria (more than woody). 
Telopea spcciosissima. 
Templetonia glauca, retusa. 
Tetratlieca verticillata, ericsefolia, Ac. 
Most of these must be grown in well-drained pots, and chiefly 
in sandy peat, tolerably rich, and kept open with bits of charcoal. 
The plants should have full exposure to light, and a free cir¬ 
culation of air even in winter, if a small fire should be put on 
to enable you to do it. The temperature of 40° will prevent 
them being injured at that period, if previously healthy and 
robust. Water must be given them with great care. The good 
drainage should prevent the plants ever being waterlogged, and 
the ball must never be allowed to get very dry in the interior, or 
the plants will most likely go. The chief thing, however, is the 
air in winter and spring. A little fire will disperse and keep fogs . 
pretty well out of the house; but the great thing is to prevent 
them, and soot and smoke from getting in. Eor this purpose I 
would recommend all the ventilating openings to be covered with 
fine woollen netting, or fine cotton muslin. These may require 
to be frequently changed or washed after they get dirty and 
clogged up with sooty particles. I would use something of 
the same kind all the summer. The air may just be admitted 
then all the more freely, and the paths and stages kept moist to 
prevent the air being too dry. All the plants will agree with the | 
temperature you mention in winter, allowing 10° or 15° rise 
from sunshine. The following, however, even in winter, should 
stand at the warmest end of the house—Aphelexis, Boronia, 
Chorozema, Crowea, Hovca, Roella, and Tetratlieca. When the 
plants are opeuing for bloom the temperature should seldom be | 
below 45°. When such plants as Croweas, Boronias, Ac., have 
done flowering, are pruned, and making their wood, a closeish, , 
moist atmosphere, and a temperature averaging 60°, would suit 
them best, taking care to get the wood well hardened before j 
autumn. The same, though in a less degree, may be said of i 
Epacris, TIovea, Chorozema, Ac. 
I think the following in your list will not suit your purpose, I 
and several of them are softwooded :— Balsamina latifolia, a 
Balsam that will scarcely survive the winter under an average of 
45°, and would like 50° better. JBurchellia Qapensis ought at least 
to have from 45° to 50°. Oestrum aurantiacum will require that 
to open its blooms. Coleus Blumei cannot be kept in winter .at 
much under 55° and dryish, and in small pots then. It is a soft 
herbaceous-like plant. Ipomoea Learii will do best outlie rafters ; 
but it should rarely be below 45°, and even at that will lose most 
of its leaves, but that is of no consequence if the shoots and buds 
at the base are safe. Lagerstroemia Indica; this beautiful plant 
might be kept all winter in your house at the warmest end in a 
deciduous, rather dry state ; but you could only expect to flower 
it nicely by pruning the shoots well back, and then giving the 
plant by degrees a tropical temperature. Mauraltas, Spiranthera, 
and Thibaudia arc too tender for your circumstances. R. Fish. 
FORMING PLANTATIONS 
OF EVERGREENS AND DECIDUOUS SHRUBS FOR PICTURESQUE 
EFFECT. 
It is beyond a doubt that a large number of men who call 
themselves gardeners are deficient in the knowledge of those 
artistic rules which distinguish the practitioners of the art of 
landscape gardening. Excellent as may be the qualifications of 
a gardener in a sound practical sense, acute as may be his per¬ 
ceptions of the useful—if he has not associated with those some 
; appreciation of the beautiful, he may be fit to carry out a 
garden design, but is not qualified to arrange that design. It is 
not, indeed, to every man that the eye of the artist is vouchsafed, 
nor is it every man who is born to be a Kemp or a Milner ; but 
it is the duty of every man who undertakes to form garden 
grounds to make himself in some measure acquainted with first 
principles. 
One thing has repeatedly struck me as a lamentable error most 
frequently committed. I allude to the indiscriminate mixture of 
shrubs and trees all over a place, instead of passing from one 
kind of form to another. This, which is intended to produce 
variety, most fully results in producing what is quite the con¬ 
trary— viz., the most perfect monotony. Supposing a place 
to be planted with three kinds of trees — say. Elm, Beech, 
and Oak, how different and varied would be the expression if, 
instead of being regularly mixed, one passed from the Elms to 
the Beeches, and finished with a grove of Oaks. In all these 
trees we have an individual and collective character of distinct¬ 
ness, which when massed together yields a most agreeable dif¬ 
ferent expression. 
Shrubberies depend much for their effect upon their beauty of 
outline ; parts of them should always be massive and imposing, 
while the details may be as varied and as intricate as possible. 
But as parts of a garden, the plants should not be allowed to 
assume the picturesque style; but each plant should, in itself, bo 
perfect, or in what Loudon happily designates as “the Gar- 
denesque style.” In the woods and forests one admires every 
picturesque combination, and even in gardens an occasional 
natural group may be permitted ; but a garden is truly and 
essentially a work of art, and all within it is within the pale of 
artistic management: therefore, it should have the general ex¬ 
pression of being such a work. This should be the rule; the 
natural features are not inadmissible, but they are the exceptions. 
It is amusing to see the difference of effect which can be pro¬ 
duced by various arrangements of plants according to the taste of 
the disposer; and there is no branch of gardening that affords 
greater opportunities for the exercise of talent than this. The 
arrangement of the shrubs at the Crystal Palace is charmingly 
done, and will at some future day show itself as an illustrious 
example of the taste of Mr. Milner, to whom, I believe, the 
details and finish of the work were left, and to whom I heartily 
wish success in the course he is now pursuing—viz., that of a land¬ 
scape gardener. 
Perhaps there is no class of plants which offers such facilities 
for variety as our evergreen shrubs. We have among them every 
shade of green, with great diversity of habit. We have spiral 
forms in the Cypress, Junipers, red Cedars, and Arbor vitce. 
Depressed and creeping forms in the prostrate Junipers, Savins, 
Ac. Light-flowering and graceful forms in the Cytisuses, and 
Brooms. Fine dark masses of foliage in Yews and Portugal 
Laurels; while the pendulous Cypresses are many of them ex¬ 
quisitely beautiful, particularly Cupressus Lawsoniana; and we 
have much to anticipate from Cnpress-us funebris, if it be ever 
likely to assume the beautiful form we see in our “Willow 
pattern ” China plates. Added to those already mentioned, we 
have our fine Rhododendrons blushing in their radiance of purple, 
white, and scarlet, and giving us in winter a cheerful bank of 
evergreen to look upon. 
Of the common Laurel I cannot say much, but will repeat an 
observation of my friend, the late Mr. Gilpin, upon it. “ It is,” 
said he, “ a nasty, saucy, obtrusive thing, and far inferior to the 
dark tone of the Yew and Box. Get rid of it all you can, and 
you will do well.” For my own part I cannot but think that 
there was justice in the remark of Mr. Gilpin, and that its vivid 
green is almost too outrageous to be much admired. 
The varieties of Berberis are beautiful evergreens, pretty in 
their fine, glossy, dark foliage, and pretty when arrayed in their 
gorgeous yellow flowers. They form, also, very charming front 
borders for shrubberies, and, kissing the turf as it were, are an in¬ 
valuable finish. 
