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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, March, 29, 1859. 
considered the same. The pink and rose variety went to Edin¬ 
burgh : one was there named Neillii, and the other the name of 
the grower. The purple variety was in part spirited away from 
the grower; and the balance was sent to the. Hendersons, of 
Pine Apple Place, London, and was sent out as V. Hendersonii, 
and had what was called a great run.— {American Gardener's 
Monthly.) 
THE NEW FLOWER GARDEN AT WORSLEY HALL, 
The Seat oe the Earl or Ellesmere. 
I have, at last, the pleasure of presenting to the readers of justice to Mr. Davidson, the gardener, declare that a finer blaze 
The Cottage Gardener a plan of half of this far-famed of floral beauty I never saw before. Every bed was well furnished, 
flower garden. and every plant healthy and well-bloomed. In my former com- 
It may be remembered, that about this time last year, I gave a muniea'tion I stated that I hoped to get a plan of this new 
report of a visit I made to Worslev Hall; and I mentioned t hat I j garden ; but from various causes, which I need not mention, I did 
intended calling again in the summer, when this garden was in j not succeed till recently, and with it a list of the plants in each 
full bloom. I°had that pleasure last August; and I must, in I bed, which Mr. Davidson had kindly drawn up for me. 
vania Horticultural Society, and crowds of visitors went the nest 
day to a florist’s in South Twelfth Street, to see the plant. 
There was, the same year, raised in the Glasnevin Botanic 
Garden, near Dublin, Ireland, a. white Verbena, which they 
called V. teucroides. The stock was sold to a Scotch house for 
.£40, and the Philadelphia variety was sent to an English house. 
"When the two sorts were brought into comparison, they were 
In the centre of each half of the garden there is a fountain 
and basin of water, surrounded with walks, and four large scroll 
beds. At each end of these there are five small beds, which, with 
the turf, form a resemblance to a lady’s fan. The whole of these 
are enclosed by a series of chain beds intermixed with triangular 
"beds of dwarf Box, and four large vases filled with scarlet Gera¬ 
niums, marked on the plan a a a a. The chain beds were tilled 
with die dwarf blue Lobelia. Eour Irish Yews stand in the 
place% marked b b b b. Then at the angles there are four large 
circular beds, thrown up six or seven feet high, marked severally 
2"), 17, 37, 29, planted with scarlet and variegated Geraniums, as 
in the accompanying list. Then next to these, and the chain beds 
and vases, there is a broad margin of turf, with beds of a paral¬ 
lelogram form, and four circular flat beds, all filled with flowers 
as indicated in the list. Between the two divisions of the garden 
there is a broad gi-avel walk, twenty-seven feet wide; and, sur¬ 
rounding the whole, is another broad gravel walk twelve feet wide. 
Beyond this the remainder of the level terrace is covered with 
green turf, forming, as it were, a green frame to the picture. 
From the upper terraces near the mansion this lower terrace 
flower garden has a fine effect. The vases, Irish Yew's, and the 
four large raised circular beds, effectually take off any tameness or 
flatness which would appear if they had been excluded. To 
give greater effect, the narrow walks amongst the beds are made 
of red gravel, excepting the very narrow ones forming the chain 
beds—these are of white gravel. The dotted lines show a border¬ 
ing of turf round each bed next to the gravel. 
The extent of this new garden, including the lawn and broad 
walks, is a little under three acres. It is situated before the front 
of the mansion, and is reached by a flight of turf steps. Between 
the upper terrace and the slope to the lower one there is a stone 
balustrade, which prevents the eye from seeing the new garden 
from the living rooms. This balustrade, I understand, is to be 
removed to the bottom of the first slope, and will then be out of 
sight from the window's; and that removal will throw open a 
view of the new garden. 
A considerable addition is now being made to the lake beyond 
the low'er terrace, which will add greatly to the interest of the place. 
List oe the Plants in the Beds last Summer. 
No. 
No. 
1. Scarlet Geranium. 
2. Yellow Calceolaria. 
3. Scarlet Geranium. 
4. Yellow Calceolaria. 
5. Light Verbena. 
6. Scarlet ditto. 
7. GEnothera prostrata. 
8. Scarlet Yerbena. 
9. Light ditto. 
10. White ditto. 
11. Scarlet ditto. 
12. GSnothera prostrata. 
13. Scarlet Yerbena. 
14. White ditto. 
15. Delphinium grandiflorum 
edged with Verbena. 
16. Ditto ditto. 
17. Scarlet Geranium. 
18. Yellow Calceolaria. 
19. White Petunia. 
20. Scarlet Geranium. 
21. White Petunia. 
22. Yellow Calceolaria. 
23. Scarlet Geranium. 
24. Yellow Calceolaria. 
25. Geranium Brilliant. 
26. Centre Blue Larkspur, one 
side Scarlet Geranium, the 
other Yellow Calceolaria. 
27. Ditto ditto ditto. 
28. Dark orange Calceolaria. 
29. Flower of the Day Gera¬ 
nium. 
30. Scarlet Geranium. 
31. White Petunia. 
32. Yellow Calceolaria. 
33. White Petunia. 
34. Scarlet Geranium. 
35. Yellow Calceolaria. 
36. White Verbena. 
37. Scarlet Geranium. 
38. Countess of Ellesmere Pe¬ 
tunia. 
39. Shrubland Rose ditto. 
40. Light Verbena. 
If the reader carefully study the arrangement of colours, he 
will find great attention lias been given to produce contrasts or 
competing beds ; every colour having a counterpart. The other 
half is, of course, an exact, copy of the one given.—T. Arri.EEY. 
