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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, September 14, 1858. 
sion. His Lordship asked me if I thought the time was 
seasonable to remove large Hollies and Yews P My answer 
to his Lordship was, that I considered May and June were 
preferable to the winter. However, the work having been 
commenced,—and during the time we had some heavy snow 
and keen frosts,—we required sixty plants to fill the ground, 
some of which were brought from a distance. The largest of 
the Hollies removed Avas 30 feet high and 18 feet wide, the 
smallest being 14 feet high and 8 feet wide, through the 
branches, some of which weighed upwards of three tons. 
I also, at the same time, removed four Yews, one of which 
> was 54 feet high, and required six powerful horses to remove 
it, weighing not less than six tons. The other was 36 feet high 
and 4 feet through the branches. All are doing well. Some 
of the Hollies have lost a few of then* leaves, and all the 
others look as if they had never been removed. 
I transplanted six Austrian Pines, which were about 13 feet 
j high, and they are now looking remarkably well, appearing as 
if they had never been disturbed, and are open for any person 
to see, should any gentleman, or brother gardener, at any 
time take a stroll through this delightful part of Yorkshire. 
All these heavy plants have been removed with what we 
commonly call three legs and blocks, and a sledge to carry 
j them on to the place, at a cost of about 5 s. per tree. Some 
of them were brought a distance of three miles, and none less 
than one mile; but, of course, the cost of removing depends 
entirely on the distance they are to be brought. 
I simply write to say, that Hollies, Yews, and Austrian 
Pines, can be removed in December, providing the weather is 
open, as well as in May or June, if the work is properly exe¬ 
cuted, viz., if the plants are carefully lifted, the holes made a 
proper size to receive them, the roots carefully looked over, 
all the damaged parts cut off with a sharp knife, and the trees 
well fastened and staked.— Richard Eastwood, Clitheroe . 
NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
Gustayia insignis (Showy Gnstavia). 
Bloomed at Kew in June, 1858. A branchy shrub, about 
three feet high, probably from Colombia. Flowers cream 
colour, with the stamens forming a pink and yellow coronet 
in the centre. Yery showy.— (Botanical Magazine, t. 5069.) 
Gesnera Donklarii (Donhlar's Gesnera). 
Flowered in June, 1858. Probably from Colombia. In¬ 
troduced by Messrs. Yeitch and Sons. The flowers rather 
dull red, but large ; “ and the fine velvety foliage, dark green 
on the upper surface, and purple beneath, amply compensate” 
| for the want of brightness in the corolla.— (Ibid. t. 5070.) 
Philodendron erubescens (Red-purple Philodendron). 
Introduced by Dr. Schott. Probably a native of the 
Caraccas. Yery showy. Spathe dark purple outside and 
scarlet inside. A stove at Kew is nearly occupied by these 
brilliant Aroideous plants.— (Ibid. t. 5071.) 
Caslogyne Schilleriana (Schiller's Ccelogyne). 
This Orchid comes from Moulmein. Sent by Mr. Lobbs 
collector for Messrs. Yeitch and Son. It flowered in June, 
1858. Flowers yellow, blotched with crimson.— (Ibid. t. 5072.) 
Isotoma senecioides var. SUBPINNATIFIDA (Groundsel- 
leaved Isotoma; subpinnatifid variety). 
A pretty greenhouse plant, from Bathurst, hi New South 
Wales. Yery like a Lobelia. Flowers bluish purple.— 
(Ibid. t. 5073.) 
Orchis eoliosa (Leafy Orchis). 
Native of Maderia, at an elevation of 3000 feet. Bloomed 
in June, 1858, in a cool greenhouse. Flowers purple. It 
closely resembles our Orchis latifolia .— (Ibid. t. 5074). 
SALT AS A MANURE FOR THE PEACH TREE. 
I see by articles in your paper, that an opinion prevailed 
that common salt seemed to suit the Peach tree. I had one 
tree which set about three dozen of fruit, and then dropped 
them, except about fourteen. I resolved to try salt as a 
preventive, and to see how it would agree with the tree. The 
border is inside the house, and the roots of the tree also. I 
sprinkled the soil with a good coat of salt-sweepings, which 
I buy at Gd. per hundred-weight. I then washed it in with 
clean water, and, in a few days after, gave the tree some 
strong soap-suds. I repeated the dose of salt three times, and 
suds I put on every week once. The result is, I have some 
splendid fruit, and well-flavoured. I tried the same upon 
two of the outside trees, and they beat the other trees hollow, 
which were not so treated. 
I have been a reader of The Cottage Gardener from the 
first number, and never fear trying any plan recorded in its 
pages. I should like to send you accounts of Exhibitions, &c., 
in this neighbourhood, if they would be suitable to your 
pages. I do not want anything for doing the work, for it 
would be a pleasure to do something for the many lessons 
I have received from your valuable paper. I was once a 
piecer in a cotton-factory, and my employer, seeing my taste 
for plants, got me into a nursery for a time, and then into a 
gentleman’s place. I am now with the Mayor of Ashton, as 
gardener, who kindly pays for your paper to give it to me. 
—John Hague. 
[We shall be glad to hear from you at all times, as we are 
to receive communications from all with a similarly clear 
head and kind intentions. Report to us your experiments 
and observations as they occur; but reluctantly we arc obliged 
to decline reports of local Horticultural Shows. If we in¬ 
serted one, we must insert all, and have our columns filled 
with the mere enumeration of prize-takers, to whom, and to 
their friends alone, would it be of the slightest interest, and 
of no use even to them. Any notes upon extraordinary pro¬ 
ductions at such Shows we shall be very ready to publish. 
—EDS.] 
CLASSIFICATION OF SEA FLOWERS. 
Since people began to study sea flowers, the nomenclature 
of the department of zoology to which they belong has under¬ 
gone a “sea change,” and those who took their first lessons 
from Johnston, cry out lustily against Mr. Gosse, for having 
introduced so many new generic terms, as to have compelled 
them to begin again. A zoologist of the last school will not 
hear of Bunodes and Sagartici , and such other new terms as 
have been adopted: he reckons all Anemones as Actiniae- 
flowers of the sun. But, to complete the perplexity, many 
modern writers,—myself among the number,—have held to 
the older terms in a sort of quiet repudiation of innovations. 
In all matters of classification, the frequent changing of 
nomenclature is a bother, to say the least of it. But when new 
terms arise out of definite distinctions they are really more help 
than hindrance, because the principle adopted by scientific 
men is that of applying, as far as possible, terms which have 
a descriptive value. So, instead of frowning at a new generic 
or specific name, and feeling annoyed at having to adopt a 
nomenclature we have not been accustomed to, it is always 
better to ask at once, “ Wliat does it mean ? ” and if it has 
that enigmatical form which gives real value to technology, it 
may be better to adopt it willingly, than have to yield at last, 
in spite of one’s own prejudice. These remarks apply to 
botany as much as to zoology ; the great families of plants 
get more and more broken up into divisions ; but when those 
divisions are founded on tangible distinctions, they help, 
rather than retard, the student; because the term by which 
the new genera are designated suggests, at once, some struc¬ 
tural difference with which it is his business to be acquainted. 
It was hardly to be expected that the impulse lately given 
to the study of Zoophytes should have no effect in a re¬ 
arrangement of their several divisions, and I have long since 
gone with the stream, and adopted the new nomenclature. 
First, because it is of no use to be old-fashioned; and, secondly, 
because the great diversity of structure, observable in the 
several kinds of sea Anemones admitted into tanks, calls for 
a system of classification founded on physiology instead of 
mere fancy. 
If the reader will make a cross mark, he will at once have a 
key to the structure of the whole tribe of Zoophytes. If he 
then surrounds the cross with a circle, he will have an ideal 
analysis of the anatomy of a sea flower. Cuvier made the 
division Radiata , in order to assemble together an immense 
