THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION, November 2."). 1850. l‘>7 
on to its native bed, and away go the waves from under 
your heels to the distance of so many yards to all the 
points of the compass. The roots might well “ run 
I near the surface” in such a bed, which suggested the 
; mode of potting to the sagacious authorities at Kew; 
which mode was, is, and is to be, in a two-feet-wide pan 
of three inches in depth, full of lumps of peat, and 
filled in with leaf-mould and good yellow loam ; but the 
grand secret is in the watering. The water must be as 
cold as the meltings from the snowy heights, and one 
gallon of it is not too much for every hour in the four 
I and twenty when the plant is in full growth; and yet 
not a drop of the quantity must ever remain stagnant 
about the roots. To attain this pitch the border for it 
in this vestibule is made thus:—A main drain is two 
! feet below the surface, and over it a rubble drainage 
| one foot in depth; over that a thin, hard, peaty turf is 
laid so close as to keep up all sediments from the com¬ 
post for the roots. This compost is a foot deep, more 
or less, and is composed of thick turf of the above 
1 description, quartered into large endurable lumps, these 
lumps being arranged as regularly as combs in a hive, 
and nearly as close, the intervening spaces being filled 
with rough, loose, rich compost, made of equal parts of 
, peat, yellow loam, leaf-mould, and small, stony gravel, 
| up to near the surface, where it is all smooth, but cannot 
bind. The Lapageria was recently planted in this, and 
started away at once, and is now coming into flower, 
being a perfect picture of health; and so it might, for 
i “ the day before yesterday” it had two fulls of a water¬ 
ing-pot which holds four gallons. Two hundred No. 
I 32-pots of this Lapageria are plunged in another house 
! to keep the roots uniformly damp; but the pots are 
drained as for Orchids, and filled up like the border, 
but I need hardly say are watered, even now, with the 
same liberal hand. Thus, then, has the wisdom of 
; practical knowledge snapped another link from the chain 
of that erring philosophy which insists on a superior 
degree of warmth or bottom-heat to the roots of all 
plants indiscriminately. 
Jasminum nndiflorum, though quite hardy, is never 
seen with us in perfection out of doors. It will appear 
in this collection of nearly hardy popular climbers, and 
the only one of them all which will grow downwards 
from the horizontal trellis as freely, and, seemingly, as 
naturally, as it is for other climbers to grow upwards. 
Tecoma jasmvnoides is the next, and the supposed 
difficulty about flowering it will soon vanish. The 
border is not so rich for this climber as the rest of the 
borders; but for the first two years the plant will be en¬ 
couraged so as to cover up rapidly ; but the way Mr. 
Veitch intends to flower it is original, and deserves 
particular attention. In pruning it, not one of that 
season’s shoots will be spurred, or even stopped. What 
shoots will be cut “will be cut clean out,” so as that 
no growth comes from that part again, and those not 
cut will be left their whole length, exactly as the old rule 
for cutting Gooseberries, or between that and pruning an 
Apricot. The training goes, or will go, on a peculiar 
system also. The principal flowering shoots will be 
trained downwards, which will cause as many more eyes 
to “break” next season. The more that break the 
surer the flowers, as they come on short side-shoots; and, 
when once these, little shoots are made, they continue 
to bloom two or three years or more, according to the 
state of the roots, and when they cease giving flowers the 
main shoot which cai’ried them will be cut “clean out,” 
and a young main shoot will be laid in its place, and 
so on. 
Magnolia fuscata is planted at the back, to be trained 
up like a Peach-tree, and to be pruned that way, for 
young wood to bloom all over it, so as to scent the whole 
of the King’s Road from end to end, from the middle of 
May to the middle or end of July, with a delicious 
perfume, like Pine Apple mixed with some Arabian 
spices. 
Solanum jasminoides is put in provisionally; first, to 
cover the trellis faster than they can train, and so clothe 
a great part of the front while less active climbers are 
coming up; and secondly, to be kept “ for good ” if it 
can be made to produce flowers all through the winter, 
for making diadematums for the young ladies’ hair, alias 
flower-wreaths. 
After these come several new, or rather newish, 
Clematises, which, like Cocrulea, are sufficiently hardy to 
stand our climate, but are seen to much better advantage 
in an Orchard-house temperature, and protected by 
a glass verandah, or some very cool greenhouse. Of 
these Clematis lanuginosa is, as far as we yet know, the 
best. It was in flower, and this is the only tribe I made 
a sad blunder about, in not askiug very minutely all 
about them; and if I once begin to bother nurserymen 
with letters to make good my own faults, good-by to 
getting at these secrets, and without seeking them 
thoroughly it would be as useless to review a nursery as 
to report one. 
My own opinion is that Clematis Sieboldi, C. patens 
(which is the proper name of Carulea), and the grandi- 
Jiora variety of it, together with C. lanuginosa, C. lanu¬ 
ginosa pallida, Sophia, a continental seedling from pa¬ 
tens, alias Ccerulea grandiflora, C. coriacea, a showy kind 
from New Holland, and C. barbellata from the "Hima¬ 
layas, and some others of recent introduction, should all 
be grown on their own roots for pot-culture; but when 
used for trellis-climbers out of pots, I am certain they 
would answer better if they were grafted on six-inch 
pieces of the roots of Clematis montana. Also, I think 
that, no matter how they “ went off” in rapid growth, 
they ought to be cut back to near the grafted parts the 
first two seasons, if not the third, so as to get a tho¬ 
roughly strong bottom, that would hold on for years and 
years, and still increase in beauty and strength. 
Another fine-looking Clematis, indivisa lobata, was 
new to me ; but in such a. house as this is—the entrance 
lobby, as it were—all these hardy house-climbers' will 
assume their native character. 
Passiflora cceridea, or common Passion-flower, and 
Stauntonia latifolia finish the list of climbers for the 
vestibule or lobby ; but there are a few more to plant 
yet which are under “ consideration.” 
Now, I want to put particular stress on this list of 
climbers. No doubt they are selected with great care 
for styles of growth, fine leaves, or flowers, or both, 
easy to manage, and sure to stand all sorts of racketing, 
being near the front door and bustle of such a nursery. 
With a double mat and a little fern or hay, the tenderest of 
these could be grown against a south wall or front of a 
house. If they are good enough to “ catch the eye ” of 
all the lords and ladies who call at this Nursery, and 
are intended to give a good impression of the place, 
surely they must be worth a place anywhere. But 
recollect the modes of management for Lapageria, the 
Tecoma, and the Nudiflora Jasmine, are peculiar, and 
out of the common. 1) Beaton. 
HOUSE PLANTS THAT MAY BE IN BLOOM 
IN SEPTEMBER. 
I regret that attending to other matters has given 
occasion to some correspondents to remind me of finish 
ing these lists, because, being a month or two behind, 
they will not be so able to see some of the plants spe¬ 
cified in commercial and other establishments, and 
thence be able to judge of their fitness for their pur¬ 
poses. 
GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 
Abelia triflora, Adesmia viscosa, Angophora cordi- 
