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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, May 22, 1860. 
seed iu my pocket, with some seed of the Hollyhock, and sold 
a good deal more than paid all my expenses, besides introducing 
me to a large circle of new customers and acquaintances. There 
was some of the most splendid fruit exhibited, and throughout 
all the other departments many things novel and interesting. But 
the city of itself was a good deal of wonder to me. It lias come 
into existence within the last twenty-fire years ; in whatever 
aspect you look upon it, whether in its large and extending streets, 
its elegant stores and palace-like hotels, its shipping and im¬ 
mense warehouses stretching all along the river, which forms a 
circuitous course for several miles throughout the city — these 
and many other things all taken together, raise our wonder how 
so much could have been got up and put together in such a short 
space of time.” 
PEARS OTST QUINCE STOCKS. 
In an answer to an inquiry by “ Amateur,” a first authority 
says that ho may bud the side-branches of his pyramids in 
August, or cut them down to within a foot of the junction with 
the stock, and rind-graft them in tho stem next April, placing 
two or three scions in it, and cutting off all but ono after one 
year’s growth, if a one-stemmed pyramid is to bo formed. 
“Amateur” should have mentioned his soil and climate, as 
either one or the other must bo peculiar for Pears to set their 
fruit, and then drop them otf without ripening. 
The following kinds may be budded or grafted on “Amateur’s” 
trees with a good chance of success if the climate is at all favour¬ 
able :— 
Bergamotte d’Espercn Doyenne do Comice 
Joscphin de Malines Marie Louise 
Beurre Hardy Louise Bonne of Jersey 
Beurre Superfiu Beurre de Ranee 
Fondante d’Automne —B. 
ERUITS ADAPTED TO THE VARIOUS 
LOCALITIES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
{Continued from 'page 105.) 
RASPBERRIES. 
Red Antwerp {Burley; a GrosFruits Rouges; How- 
land's Red Antwerp ; Fnevett's Antwerp ; fate Bearing 
Antwerp). —Fruit large, roundish, inclining to conical, of 
a deep crimson colour, very fleshy, and with a flue brisk 
flavour and fine bouquet. There are several forms of this 
variety differing more or less from each oilier both in the 
fruit and the canes. The true old Red Antwerp produces 
vigorous canes, which are almost smooth. 
Rivers’ Monthly. See Large Monthly. 
Rogers’ Victoria {Victoria).- —This is an autumnal- ! 
bearing variety, producing rather large, dark-red fruit of : 
excellent flavour, and earlier than the October Red. The 
plant is of a dwarf and rather delicate habit, and the 
canes are dark coloured. 
Round Antwerp {d’Anvers a Fruits Ronds). —Fruit 
large and round, of a deep red colour, and much superior 
in flavour to the Old Red Antwerp. 
Seacor’s Mammoth. See JYew Rochelle. 
Sweet Yellow Antwerp. —The fruit of this variety 
is larger and more orange than the Yellow Antwerp, and 
is the richest and sweetest of all the varieties. The canes 
arc remarkably slender, and with few spines. 
Vice-President French {French). — Fruit large, 
roundish, inclining to conical, of a deep red colour, fleshy 
and juicy, and with an excellent flavour. It is a summer 
bearer, producing very strong canes of a bright brown 
colour. 
Victoria. See Rogers' Victoria. 
Walker's Dulcis. —A summer-bearing variety, pro¬ 
ducing red fruit inferior in size to the Antwerp, and not 
sweet, as the name implies. 
White Antwerp. See Yellow Antwerp. 
Yellow Antwerp {Be Chili; Rouble-bearing Yellow; 
White Antwerp). —Fruit large, conical, of a pale yellow 
colour, and with a line, mild, sweet flavour. It produces 
pale-coloured spiny canes. 
LIST OF SELECT RASPBERRIES. 
Autumn Black 
Carter’s Prolific 
Fastolf 
October Red 
October Yellow 
Rogers’ Victoria 
Round Antwerp 
Sweet Yellow Antwerp 
{To be continued.) 
ARRANGING FLOWER GARDENS. 
May I, as an old subscriber, ask your advico about planting 
my flower garden, of which I annex the plan ? Should this bo 
too much to ask, will you kindly place it in the hands of that 
member of your staff who does such things, and I shall be happy 
to pay him his fee ?—G. 
[You mistake us entirely ; what we can do we do for the good 
of all. None of our departmental writers accept fees. Tell us 
the way you planted last year, or intend planting this season. 
Put the house, or drawing-room windows, at the bottom of the 
page. One quarter of a terrace garden is sufficient for us, us by 
doubling tho quarter we have the half of the terrace; and, of 
course, the other half is like it. The one-half of a terrace flower 
garden should bo the duplicate of two quarters, and a whole 
terrace a duplicate of two halves: therefore, n quarter will tell 
how it looks just as well as the four quarters. Ten acres of flower¬ 
beds can be shown on one page of post paper quite sufficient for 
our use; but the names of the plants written on the beds give 
us only one-half the trouble of referring to a list. We criticise 
planting, but we never plant for any one. You give no key to 
read off our remarks on your planting, and it must be by guessing 
your windows to be at the bottom of the plan, that we can judge 
the principle on which you plant. 
The,border in front of the house (?) which is divided into 
triangles, and numbered from one to eight, is quite right, and the 
plants arc well chosen. Tom Thumb with the Golden Chain 
round it, in a bed iu the form of the eye, is quite wrong in prin¬ 
ciple, as we have explained six times every season for the last ten 
years. Flower of the Bay or Golden Chain, and an edging of 
blue Verbena, or Perilla Nankinensis, with a broad band of some 
variegated Geranium, are the proper plants for that centre bed. 
The long bed, or border to the right, planted with Lobelias at 
one end, Stocks at the other end, and Verbenas in the middle, is 
wrong altogether ^ and, of course, its match on the other side is 
wrong also. If a bed is ten feet long, it is the same in principle 
as one ten furlongs in length, and should be planted accordingly. 
A ten-feet bed, and four or five feet wide, with three feet of blue 
Lobelias at one end, and three feet of Stocks at the other end, 
and four feet of Verbenas in the centre, is simply ridiculous; but 
plant the Verbenas all along the back, tho Stocks in front of 
them the whole way, and edge tho front with blue Lobelia, and 
the bed is not only most beautiful, but is in the height of the 
fashion or present taste, and the same plants planted differently 
make all the difference. If that bed were a mile long the planting 
must be the same; not so many yards of blue, so many of yellow, 
and so forth, as if one were experimenting to find out the relative 
value of colours, or of new plants. A beautiful scroll-border iu 
the shape of a horseshoe and of great length, was once patched 
in that way, but the effect was so frightful, looking over a fine 
terrace garden, that no one could endure it. Now it is planted in 
continuous rows the whole way up one side of the horseshoe and 
down the other, and it adds a great charm to a pretty garden.J 
NOTES ON FERNS. 
Cibotiuh Sciiiedei. Schleehtendal. Stem short, thick, and 
roundish, densely covered with long, soft, silky hairs of a pale 
brown or amber colour. Fronds produced from the apex of this 
stem, six to eight feet long, somewhat triangular, bi-tri-pinnate, 
drooping, downy, light green, glaucous beneath. Pinnules lan¬ 
ceolate, erennted. Veins once forked. Sori usually produced 
only on the lower pinnae, enclosed within a two-valved indusium ; 
the valves unequal in size, gaping, and finally reflexed. Stipes 
stout, and clothed with silky hair. 
This truly elegant Fern was discovered in Mexico by two 
German travellers, Schiede and Deppe, some years ego, but still 
