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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, June 5, 1860. 
useful garden in a space not larger Ilian a butcher’s tray, and I 
therefore resign the subject to professional skill,” 
A PLAN OF TIIE SITU OT A HOUSE, OR MANSIONETTE, 
KEAR , WIMBLEDON PARK, SURREY; 
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1. IIou o. 
2. Stables. 
S. Conservatory, 
4. Vinery. 
5, 5. Lawns. 
fi. Kitchen Garden, 
7. Flower Garden. 
8. Terrace. 
9. Lamp. 
10. Stable Yard. 
11. Kitchen Court, 
12. Jet d’Euu. 
All this is unexceptionable ; but Mr. Morris is not contented 
with being an architect, but claims to be a landscape gardener. 
Nor does he stop there ; for he asserts that none but an architect 
“ can rightly conceive the scenic effects of and from a house.” 
From this opinion we totally dissent. An architect may have 
taste sufficiently correct to determine that a group of trees should 
be placed here; that a mass of evergreens should bo placed 
there, and so on : but that is not all that is required in a land¬ 
scape gardener. lie must know the form of each tree and shrub, 
the tints of its foliage in various seasons of its growth, so that 
the grouping and the colouring may harmonise and contrast 
appropriately ; he must know the soil each thrives in ; he must 
know the colours of flowers, the periods of their blooming, and 
their habit. 
Now, who knows an architect so gifted? VYo have known 
many architects who could draw a geometric garden ; but we 
never knew more than two who could plant it. Any one, 
architect, painter, or dyer, can say with precision red should bo 
here, and yellow should be there; but how many of them could 
tell which flowers could be best employed for the purpose ? 
We might reverse Mr. Morris’s proposition, and maintain that 
every landscape gardener ought to give the plan of the house 
about which he had to arrange the grounds, and we might quote 
Brown, Repton, Loudon, and some others who did so ; but wo 
have seen enough of the shortcomings, both of architect-gardeners 
and gardener-architects, to make us conclude that the professions 
had better be distinct, and that a professor of each better be con¬ 
sulted before the situation of the house be fixed ; and when fixed 
it is the office of the architect so to arrange the house that the 
windows of the most important rooms look upon the most 
pleasing portions of the ground ; and it is the office of the land¬ 
scape-gardener to decorate those portions, and all other parts of 
the surrounding grounds. 
The Cook’s Own Book.* —This is one of a series of small 
“ Household Manuals,” and is prepared in the catechetical style, 
the advantage of which we never could see. In edncational 
books the question assists the memory of the pupil, and is, con¬ 
sequently, admissible; but we can hardly imagine the head of a 
house putting his wife or his cook through series of examinations 
in domestic management, as he would his children in the Church 
Catechism. 
CULTURE OE CAMPANULA PYRAMIDALIS. 
Will you tell me how to treat Campanula pyramidalis ? Am 
I wrong in cutting it down? How many stems may be left on 
a strong plant ? Does it require heat ? The plant I cut down 
is covered with young Bhoots, but has scarcely any blossom.— 
A. B., Subscribeb. 
[It is rather early to expect blossoms yet. This plant generally 
looks best when grown with a single stem. On a very strong 
plant from three to five stems might be grown ; hut it is rare 
that these will rival the one magnificent shoot, covered with 
bloom from near the base to the summit, and some six feet in 
height. The plant requires no heat, but when in pots in winter 
should be kept from frost and excess of damp, i ou did right 
in cutting down your plant when done flowering. When it 
broke, the shoots should have been thinned out. Aoung plants 
flower best. Thus the thinnings of the shoots placed in sandy 
soil under a hand-light, when an inch or two in height, will soon 
strike. These may either be potted, and grown on in a shady 
place, or, what is better, be turned out into a bed of rich, mellow 
compost, and encouraged to grow during the summer by due 
waterings. These lifted carefully with balls, and transferred to 
eight-inch pots, in September, and kept in a dry, cold pit over 
the winter, will bloom finely early next summer. A part may be 
left in the ground, protected from slugs by rough coal ashes, and 
from severe weather by a few Laurel boughs stuck round them, 
and be potted in spring. As soon as these begin to throw up 
the main stem, any competitor-stems should be removed; and 
these and other little bits make cuttings for a crop the following 
year, and will permit throwing away the old plants when done 
flowering.] 
POLYANTHUS FOR BEDDING-. 
Mr. W. Wooler’s liosc-in-hose yellow Polyanthus, of which 
he writes at page 133, is certainly a great novelty, and, as far as 
we can judge from a pair of pips, is unexceptionably good. The 
pollen of any one kind of garden Polyanthus, however, has no 
more influence in producing cross-bred seedlings than the influence 
of the moon and other planets ; and the same is true with all the 
cultivated Dahlias, with Scabious, and all the garden Marigolds. 
Even in the endless turnings among the gay and brilliant Cine¬ 
rarias, the pollen of one kind has about the same force on another 
as plate-powder: at least Mr. Beaton says so, and he ought to 
know, for he has been experimenting on pollen hard upon forty 
ycai's. 
* The Conk's Own Book : A Manual of Cookery for the Kitchen and the 
Cottage. By Georgiana Hill. London : ltoutledgcs. 
