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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, Apeil 6, 1858 
oi Leutzia gracilis, from three to five feet high in the stem. 
Everything is eagerly made into standards now, and get 
a ready sale; this winter house is half full of standards of 
all kinds, and there is a most valuable sort of fountain 
Cactus, of the Mallisoni section. I recommend this Cactus 
to the whole world, and I never saw or heard of it before. It 
is the work of some amateur, the kind is called Scolica. The old 
plant is trained up round a pillar to a height of seven feet, just 
like a Pillar Rose, then the shoots fall down fountain fashion to 
t he ground ; but they might be made into a tent, or arbour, or 
to any shape, as they are pliable as cord. One Camellia, called 
Colletti , has a whole petal, white here and there, in a red 
flower ; many of the best American, and continental newest 
kinds, were in, or coming into bloom, and several of those just 
received from China will bloom this spring. Large old plants 
of Cobceas, Passion Flowers, and other climbers for London 
conservatories, are kept in pots in the winter garden, and 
Lapageria rosea, and alba, for first-rate climbers anywhere ; 
also, Rardenbergia Makoyana, violet-blue ; Pass/flora lin¬ 
ger atrice Josephine, white outside, and rosy centre, and sweet 
scented; Rhodochiton volubile, which was nearly lost; Tecoma 
fulva, and spectabilis, all first-rate greenhouse climbers not 
much known ; Stypandra frutescens, a most delicate-looking 
Lily wort, with the looks and habits of a shrubby plant, and 
tassels of pale blue flowers, much like a Sollya. I think it 
would make a fine pillar, or against a pillar plant in a con¬ 
servatory ; Valotta miniata, flowering all the year round, and 
seeding most freely, and one seed only in a pod; it is a new 
genus, in a new section of Amaryllis. Veronica decussataLevo- 
niana, a new hybrid, with large heads of white flowers, which 
ought to be quite hardy as decussata, lives out the winter at 
Inverness. I never knew it killed by the hardest frost. 
Veronica meldeneso, rosy-white; and V. verschaffelti, the 
next best and newest; Salvia Roemeriana, dark scarlet, and 
distinct; and Soucheti, a dwarf variety of splendens. Phlox 
Pi ummondi, Lord J'jhn Russell, Lady John Russell, and old 
General Radetzky , the three best; and Phlox depressa 
criterion, another fine striped kind; Myrtus, or Eugenia ver- 
ticillata , a fine looking thing ; Leucopogon angustifolium, 
white, Epacris like, blooms fine ; Lantana (new) lutea, 
kermesina, Marquis de Seporta, Angele, Boul de Neige, Loris, 
Feloni, Crocea superba, L’Abbe Touvene, and Wilhelm Schhle, 
are all said to be downright good, and will do out against a 
greenhouse front during summer. 
The best of the new Heliotropiums are Miss Nightingale 
Jean Mesmer, and General Val Robert; the best Acacias’ 
Lrumnondi, and Acacia I), microphylla, longifolia magnified 
(both best), grandis, oleifolia elegans, oxycedrus, pubescens, 
dealbata (a slight remove from ajflnis), platyptera, and coc- 
cmea, with a “ rosy purple ” flower. 
Chcetogastra Lindeniana, deep crimson Pleroma-lookino- 
flowers. This was first spoiled with stove heat, just likS 
Pleroma elegans. Blandfordia jiammula, a splendid old 
plant; Calyptraria hcemantha, “ the noblest of the order ” 
is as hardy as Pleroma, and requires the same treatment, 
iins, also, has been murdered in the stove here, and on the 
Continent. Calyptraria means a nightcap, a loose hood 
over the flower-bud; hcemantha is blood colour, but call it 
the dark purple nightcap plant, and give it the treatment of an 
Epacris, and it will beat Medinilla magnifica to pieces, but 
with an upright and more glorious spike. Correa cardinale 
has also been murdered by bad cultivation—it is a beautiful 
grower when well done from the beginning—here it is splen¬ 
did ; brilliant is next best; then ventricosa and picta superba 
Daphne mdica rubra, a whole bank of them from cuttings. 
Iledai oma tulipifera, and macrostygia; Leptodactylon Cali- 
fornicum, a rniffy plant to keep on old stems over the whiter 
but autumn cuttings kept in stove pots over the winter, with 
a little loose sand on the top, keep well, as stated also in the 
lghgate Nursery; and Mr. Foggo says they bed it out at 
Shrubland 1 ark near the Swiss Cottage, where it looks most 
charming, but there is no end to the beautiful and best things 
for a greenhouse. Let us try the herbaceous borders and 
here is Pyrethrum Duchess de Brabant, which is nearly 
scariet ; Pentstemon Ludovick , Lemoniana, insignis, Azureum 
and Arthur all of them of the best. The yeflow Violet ^ 
Vwla pyrolcefoha is a pretty thing after all; the best of the 
Delphiniums nreformosum, Rendersonii, Queen of Enaland 
La Belle Alliance, and delicatum. The new scarlit cardinale 
goes to sleep a few weeks after planting out, and ninety-nine out 
of one hundred of them never wake again. It has been crossed, 
however, with some of the blues, by one of my friends, and the 
seedlings promise well. Cerastium tomeniosum, the white 
hardy edging plant at the Crystal Palace; Lianthus albo 
nigricans, is said to be very good indeed ; Dodecatheon elegans 
and integrifolia, two of our best spring flowers from Canada. 
The best shrubby Calceolarias for bedding, Orange Per¬ 
fection, Aurea Jloribunda, Admiration, Orange Boven, Ethel 
Neivcome, Golden Chain, Wellington Rero, Rosy Morn, and 
Monticolli, which is a bold crimson, with a yellow hood, and 
was raised by Mr. Sanders, of Tedworth. And what is most 
gratifying to know, “ the best selection of uniform merit yet 
offered” by this firm, is a collection of Verbenas from an in¬ 
timate friend of mine, in Suffolk, Mr. Freeze, Denton Lodge, 
near Ilarleston. I have not seen any of these flowers myself, j 
but I know the lady who judged them, and I also know Mr. I 
Breeze; both are first-rate judges, and very jealous of their 
skill. There are fifteen kinds in this collection, and anyone 
can get the best of such colour as he likes, by mentioning 
that colour, and Mr. Breeze’s collection.—D. Beaton. 
TREES EOR SHELTER ON THE NORTH 
COAST. 
I hate an unsheltered garden on the north-west coast of 
France, and have had some experience in sea-side planting. 
My garden is situated on the top of a sand bank, whose base 
is washed by the high tides, and is exposed to all the furies 
of the north and north-west winds. 
My first attempt at a screen was with the Scotch Fir, but 
the wind soon cut my young trees to pieces; the Pinus mari- 
tima, which flourishes on the coast near Bordeaux, was equally 
unsuccessful. I tried a number of other trees (although not 
the Sycamore), but they invariably died, after a short ex¬ 
posure. I have now, however, a hedge of great beauty, and 
which gives me a screen that enables me to grow anything not 
higher than itself; it is the Tamarix Gallica. Planted from 
stout cuttings either in the autumn or spring, it throws out 
long shoots the first year, and, at the end of two or three 
years, forms a very good hedge. During the whole of the 
summer it is a beautiful object, owing to its light feathery 
foliage, and it flowers twice during the year. The stronger the 
wmd, and the more exposed its position, the better it seems 
to grow; in fact, the sea breeze is essential to its well-being. 
I have tried it inland, with but very poor success. It grow T s 
very rapidly ; I have now a hedge of eight or nine feet high, 
grown from cuttings planted in 1853. I find the Acacia and 
Elder tree grow well, if not immediately exposed to the blast. 
—111. Filter, St. Germain de Livet, Lisieux. 
[The Tamarix succeeds, also, on the coast of the Isle of 
\\ ight, but it is very doubtful if this tree would bear the 
severity of our north coasts.— Ed. C. G.] 
There is no tree, or shrub, that stands the sea breeze 
better, or makes a closer fence, than the Tamarisk ( Tamarix 
Gallica). It always keeps its beautiful green foliage, and 
torms an admirable shelter for tender plants. By thro win o- 
up a turf bank between it and the sea, and planting the Tama- 
nsk pretty closely inside it, a most effectual shelter is obtained 
against these blasts from Neptune, which would soon kill 
luoras offspring.— Gladiolus. 
In the first place, we would apply to some nurseryman for 
^fkeams, six feet to seven feet in height; plant them 
_ t ie first break; fasten them well, of course; then take all 
their leading branches off, and cut the side ones into eight or 
ten inches on each side. By clipping the sides, you thicken 
the fence. Allow it to grow one foot higher every year. 
Then plant a good row of large Sycamores, three feet from 
the fence ; before the trees get too large, you will be able to 
have a good fence up ; then three feet from the trees we would 
plant a fence of Thorns and Beeches of equal strength. We 
would plant as large Thorns as we could buy, and put seven 
Thorns m one yard, and three Beeches ; or, in the whole fence 
together, put four Thorns and one Beech, and so on, until 
