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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, Decembee 14, 1858. 
orange, firm, and adhering to the stone, which is small, 
smooth, thick, and impervious. Kernel sweet. Middle 
of August. 
Royal Peach. See Peach. 
St. Ambeoise. —This is a large, early apricot, almost 
the size of the Moorpark. It is compressed, of a deep 
yellow colour, reddish next the sun. Flesh juicy, rich, 
and sugary. Ripe the middle of August. The tree is 
said to be very vigorous, healthy, and a good bearer. 
De St. Jean. See Large Parly. 
Shipley’s (Blenheim). —Large, oval. Skin deep yellow. 
Flesh yellow, tolerably rich and juicy. Stone roundish, 
and impervious. Kernel bitter. Very productive and 
early, but not so rich as the Moorpark. End of July 
and beginning of August. 
Sudlow’s Moorpark See Moorpark. 
Taedive d’Obleans.— This is a late variety, ripening 
a fortnight after the Moorpark. 
• Temple’s See Moorpark. 
Turkey. —Medium size, nearly round, not compressed. 
Skin deep yellow; brownish orango next the sun, and 
spotted. Flesh pale yellow, firm, juicy, sweet, and plea¬ 
santly sub-acid, separating from the stone. Stone large, 
rugged, and impervious. Kernel sweet. Middle of August. 
Viard. — This, according to Mr. Rivers, is an early 
variety of the Peach apricot, with rich, juicy flesh. The 
tree is hardy. 
Violet. See Angoumois. 
White Masculine (Blanche). — Small, round, and 
somewhat compressed at both ends. Skin covered with 
a fine wliite down; pale yellow, tinged with brownish 
red, next the sun, and dull white in the shade. Flesh 
pale yellow, adhering in some degree to the stone ; fine 
and delicate, juicy, sugary, and excellent. Kernel bitter. 
Ripe the end of July. 
De Wirtemberg. See Peach. 
LTo be continued.) 
EDGINGS TO WALKS. 
As a continuation of the subject of “ Garden Walks,” 
at page 150, walk edgings are a necessary adjunct; for 
withoutthese the walk, however good it may be, is not com¬ 
plete, and never looks well. An edging of some descrip¬ 
tion is as necessary to a walk as a frame is to a picture; 
fortunately, also, there is a greater variety of materials 
suitable for edgings than for walks,—the latter depend¬ 
ing so much on the local productions of the place; 
whereas edgings are often formed of living plants, which 
vary considerably in appearance and effect. A few of the 
most common in use may be mentioned here, as well as 
some other things in use in like manner. Beginning, how¬ 
ever, with the live edgings, we have, in the first place,— 
Box-edging, which is, unquestionably, the most useful 
of all, and generally adapted to most soils. Yet there 
are some places where it will not thrive, the plants either 
dying off in summer, or always bearing a sickly hue. 
Here (Linton Park), it is far from healthy, and patches 
of it frequently die off without being clipped. In stiff, 
clayey soils, however, it is quite at home. There are 
several varieties of it : the very dwarfest scarcely re¬ 
quires any cutting at all. I have had some planted four 
years, and never cut, and yet not unbecomingly high. 
In places, therefore, where Box will grow well, it is, 
without exception, the most useful edging plant we have. 
Gentianella, next to Box, is generally much esteemed, 
particularly for its bright blue flowers. This, also, likes a 
stiff, rather moist soil. It ought to stand three or four 
years, or more, without planting, as it flowers better 
when not too much meddled with. This pretty herbaceous 
plant is not so much grown as it ought to be. But every 
place does not suit it. 
Thrift, likewise, makes an excellent edging, and, un¬ 
like the two last, prefers a dry, stony soil. It being a 
native of the seacoast, it may be planted in situations 
where nothing else will grow. But it is w'orthy of a place 
almost anywhere, and generally grows very fast, requiring 
to be replanted every year, or nearly so, in which case its 
roots ought to be laid into the border, so as not to have 
occasion to disturb the walks each time. Light soil suits 
it best; but it will not endure the shade of trees. 
The Wild Heath, Erica vulgaris, or its immediate 
neighbour, Calluna vulgaris, are both occasionally used 
as edging plants, by being cut into shape, and kept to 
that size. But they will only grow on certain soils. 
London Pride is a fast-spreading plant for an edging, 
but has the merit of growing better underneath trees, 
than most other plants, and may be planted where any 
rough edging is allowable. But narrow walks are 
speedily overrun with it. Its appearance, however, is 
good by the sides of a broad walk, where Box and other 
plants will not live. 
Strawberries are often planted in kitchen gardens for 
edgings ; but they are untidy and straggling, except for 
their utility, and that is often of a questionable kind. 
They are not worth growing as an edging alone. But if 
it be determined to grow them, select the dwarfest kinds, 
—such as Old Scarlet, Black Prince, &c. 
Double Daisies make a neat edging for a short time, 
but, like Thrift, they speedily get out of bounds. 
Lemon and common Thyme arc also occasionally used 
for edgings, but they are only fit for wide walks, and in 
places where nicety of outline is not considered. 
Turf is, perhaps, tbe most useful of all edgings. But 
I do not like to see it in breadths of less than eighteen 
inches wide. Narrow strips of four or five inches, which 
I have seen in some places, would not live everywhere, 
and when broken and gapped it looks badly. But a wide 
margin of Turf is, perhaps, the prettiest and most useful 
of all edgings, and, it is needless to say, the most durable. 
Several other herbaceous plants are used as edgings at 
times,—as Pinks, Primulas, Primroses, Polyanthus, and 
others,—as well as a whole host of annuals. But these 
have only a temporary existence. Some small-growing 
vegetables, or herbs, are also planted for a like purpose,— 
as Chamomile, Pennyroyal, &c. The best of this class, 
perhaps, is a small bulb, now very little grown, the Cive, 
which at one period of its growth is not excelled by any¬ 
thing whatever. 
Double and single Yiolets make tolerably good edgings, 
but certainly not neat ones. The same may be said of 
some Sedums, Arabis, Cherianthus, and others. But 
where a want exists for a particidar plant, and that plant 
available for edging purposes, it is perfectly right to use 
it so; and, as soils differs as well as taste, it is better to 
have a choice of objects. 
And now, having given a number of plants, all at times 
used as edgings to walks, a few words on other things 
occasionally used that way may be serviceable. 
Stone edgings, dressed stone beading, showing about 
three inches above ground, and less than that in breadth, 
look remarkably well, when correctly placed, to do which, 
it ought to be on a slight foundation of stone or brick¬ 
work. An imitation stone is much oftener used, as being 
cheaper; but it will not always stand the weather. 
Fancy tiles, of various patterns or designs, have at 
various times been introduced ; but, except for particular 
places, they seldom look well. The great fault most of 
them have, is their fanciful shape and lack of substance. 
A slender tile, perhaps only one inch thick, however well 
it may be curved to shape, is too insignificant for a walk 
ten feet wide. 
Flints, of something like a uniform size, and partly 
imbedded in the ground, make a tolerably good-looking 
edge for a time. But they are liable to get loose, and 
soon become discoloured. Broken pieces of spar, or other 
shining stone, also look well for a time, but are liable to 
