THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, Apeil 6, 1858. 
will take years to correct. Mr. Y r ates, twenty years 
ago, made that mistake ; lie planted many sorts of 
fruit, which failed: as, for instance, JBeurre Ranee and 
Raster JBeurre Pears, Ribston Pippin Apples, some 
Plums, and Cherries. These are nearly all discarded; 
whilst Knight's Monarch Pear is as fine just now as 
any Pear possibly could be, and also the Apple Court 
Pendu Plat. I tasted the fruit of both, and found it 
highly flavoured, and very sound. 
The subject is, however, too important to be hurried 
over at the end of an article; and I will, at an early 
opportunity, return to it more fully. 
The Strawberry is, as might be expected, cultivated 
largely. To procure early crops, the land is thrown 
up in long ridges, running east and west: hence there 
is a south bank and a north bank. The former pro¬ 
duces early, and the latter late crops—a useful ar¬ 
rangement. 
I have now only to notice what I call the ornamental 
grounds. There is a kind of raised American garden 
with walks to the summit, and round the sides. There 
is a frame over this ground, which is covered with 
canvass when the plants are in flower. This is a cheap 
mode of protection, and must make a very agreeable 
promenade at that season. 
In another part of the grounds I noticed that rarity 
now in gardens—a broad, straight, grass walk, bor¬ 
dered on each side with handsomely-formed Pear trees. 
This is another cool, refreshing walk in summer. 
In the front of the house there is a lawn of some ex¬ 
tent, on which I noted the fine Deodar, alluded to before. 
It measures twenty-one feet high, and is well furnished 
with branches to the ground. There is also a Crypto- 
meria Japonica, eighteen feet high. Hearer the house 
is a young Araucaria imbricata that had the misfor¬ 
tune, two years ago, to lose, by accident, its head, or 
leading shoot. The next side branch, however, was 
tied upwards, and is now forming a true leading shoot 
and throwing out horizontal branches. Whoever hap¬ 
pens to have a like misfortune with his Araucaria, may 
repair it, of course, by the same means. 
I have now exhausted my notes made at this interest¬ 
ing place ; and if the reader can pick up any informa¬ 
tion, or receive any pleasure by reading my imperfect 
descriptions, or be induced to visit the place, and 
judge for himself, I shall not think my time and 
trouble badly bestowed. T. Appleby. 
WELLINGTON ROAD NURSERY". 
MESSRS. E. G. HENDERSON AND SON. 
{Continued from page 394, Vol. XIX.) 
Resuming my notes on this nursery, I will next observe that 
that splendid Orchid w r e see at the Shows among variegated 
plants, and called Aspidistra lucida variegata , is a flower- 
garden plant as hardy as a Sweet William. Plant one of 
them out for two or three years with Broccoli, or Brussels 
Sprouts, till it is as big as a Giant Rhubarb. Then take it 
up, pot it in miserably poor soil, and scanty root room, to 
cause it to turn variegated, and bring it up for a prize like 
Farfugium grande , and nobody need know how you came by 
such an extraordinary specimen in so short a time. 
There is also a variegated Robinson's Defiance Verbena being 
propagated, as fast as it will go; but it would take me a month 
to tell of all the pi’opagating I had seen that day. Tritoma 
uvaria, the finest autumnal flower-border plant we have, 
seeded here last autumn, and hundreds of seedlings of it are 
on their legs already. Tritoma Rouperii seems very different 
from it in looks at present. 
Calceolarias and Cinerarias, from seeds, on a moist bottom, 
in shallow frames, look remarkably well. They are just now 
in the very best state to pack and travel, and no bother to 
have them as gay as the Londoners for the Shows, or show- 
house, and for mixing in the best flower-beds near the house. 
I would ten times sooner buy a batch of these seedlings in 
spring, and risk them for finer, than have seedlings of my 
own from bought seeds, after losing onedialf of them by 
fogging off, and buy the other half “through the nose” lii 
consequence. But I must mention one named Cineraria, of 
which they grow enormous quantities, on account of its elose 
bushy habit, and for its very striking blooms, which have a j 
deep pink edge, a white bottom, and purple eye. 
A new Aucuba, from Japan, as hardy as Aucuba Japonica , | 
wit h as large, if not larger, leaves, and all the leaves as dark 
green as those of the Portugal Laurel. This will make a 
splendid addition to our hardy evergreens. It was got over 
by Dr. Sicholst, who has an experimental garden at Bonn, 
on the Rhine. 
A new Rondeletia , from China—perhaps the free-floWering 
kind; but is very different from Rondeletia Championi * having 
leaves more like a Portugal Laurel on long footstalks, and 
with the underside as glaucous as the leaves of Magnolia 
glauca. 
A new Conoclinium , with leaves more like those of Gesnera 
zebrina. Gardenia citriodora , having the growth like Bur- 
chellia Capensis , and flowering in clusters at the joints of la# . 
year’s wood, pure white, and as wide as a shilling. A most 
valuable acquisition to our sweet-smelling plants. Blue Alla- 
manda is here also ; but I must keep from the stove till I get 
through the flower garden and fancy work. 
They do the bedding and all the Geraniums remarkably 
well; but they do not grow them into specimens. They say 
that one, called Culford Beauty , is the best bloomer, and the 
best or highest coloured blossoms of all the variegated tribe j 
and there is a coloured figure of it in the first number of their 
“ Illustrated Bouquet,” by Mr. Andrews, which fully backs 
up this high commendation. Another, called Royal Standard , 
has a very good orange-scarlet flower, and a golden-chain leaf, 
but larger. Fontainbleau is a new colour, and a new leaf in 
the variegated class, a golden-chain edge, with a purplish- 
scarlet ring between the yellow outside and green centre of the 
leaf; a cerise bloomer, and a fourth belongs to the fancy* 
leaved kinds. It is the highest yet from the Queen of May 
leaf, and a good truss. Lady of Loretto , Hotel de Cluny, and 
Lady Dorothy Neville , are all in the new style of marking, or 
fancy leaves ; and the crowning pillar of the season is to be 
called Hendersonii , which looks at present like Floioer of the 
Day. It was proved in a private flower garden last year; 
but the name Hendersonii , among so many competitors, is the 
best proof of its merits. Cardinal de Richelieu , in the way 
of Diademaium carminatum , or shaded crimson, they say, is 
the best bedder of all the greenhouse class. Can any one in- j 
form our readers what the Crimson King did last year in the 
way of bedding ? It was a bad name: there was no crimson 
about it; but it made a fine pot plant with me. To make a 
flower crimson, you must suppose the finest military scarlet 
coat, or cloak, to be mixed in the dyeing, with full one-third 
of Bishop’s purple. There is crimson and deep and light 
crimsons before we come to scarlet. Tom Thumb has one- 
fifth crimson in the scarlet. 
Acacia Drummondi microphylla is another new form of 
Acacia, which they consider the best after the species. Acacia 
longifolia magnifica was profusely in bloom in several of the 
houses ; it is still imported from abroad, where it is increased 
from layers. The back wall of the winter garden is planted 
with the best kinds of Acacia and Camellias alternately. Here 
are the best specimen plants on the establishment ; the largest 
of them is a splendid Rhododendron, ten to twelve feet high, 
and ten feet in diameter, it is full of bloom-buds, it is one ot 
Russel’s early crosses, a dark crimson, and named Chandlerii , 
after Mr. Chandler, of Vauxhall. The next largest, is a sweet 
Bay standard, that would match the Rhododendron. Here, 
the new Bhotan Rhododendron Jenkinsi is seven feet high, 
and coming into fine bloom for the second time in Europe ; 
the plant has eleven large flower-buds, and, as it is said to be 
the best of that breed, many will go on purpose to see it. line 
specimens of Araucarias. Chamaecyparis thuriferce , selling ofl 
like “ wild fire.” This was the Conifer which was ballotted 
for at the Horticultural Society. Cupressus Laivsoni, Me 
Nabiana, and Bregeoni , Thuja gigantea (Low), and ditto 
(Veitch), the two appear to be quite distinct. Thuiopsis borealis, 
Podocarpus nubigena, Pinus Bungeana, and many others ; 
Picea bracteata , and lots of “fly flappers,” or real standards 
