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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, July 10, 1860. 
the first time the Baron mounted the Mount at Sydenham. 
He can be seen on that side of tho Mount opposite the 
water temples ; pray look for him if you happen not to 
know him. A bed of Fuchsia, of the globosa major breed. 
One of Flower of the Day and Pcrilla Nankinensis in 
concentric rings. The centre half of one bed with Lautanas 
of the crocea breed ; the outer half of Lantana Selloivii, 
or its breed, trained down. A bed of Brilliant, edged 
with Lady Plymouth. In the Experimental these two 
are planted plant for plant in one bed, and look nice. A 
bed of Unique, edged with two rows of Dandy. The rest 
round the Mount are more ordinary beds. Tho slope 
above the Rose Bank is also in six compartments, and 
planted in opposite duplicates—remarkably effective, 
each being in three distinct colours ; as one-third of the 
first compartment, the lower third, is with Tropceolum 
elegans in three rows; the middle third part of Purple 
King Verbena, also in three rows ; and the top third 
part with the Crystal Palace Scarlet Geranium in four 
rows. Then the opposite quarter, or rather sixth part, is 
planted in the same way with the same kinds of plants. 
Tho second division is thus planted— Purple King 
Verbena at bottom, Calceolarias in the centre, and Cerise 
Unique at top; and the third is— Flower of the Day at 
bottom, Crystal Palace Scarlet in the centre, and Cal¬ 
ceolarias at top, which, doubled, finishes this slope, and 
we are up on the summit of the Mount, and have six panel- 
beds sunk below the surface. They, too, are in duplicates 
—thus, two opposite with Tgnescens superba in the centre 
in five rows, three rows of Tropceolum elegans round it, 
and two rows of Mangles’ Variegated on the outside all 
round,—very rich indeed. The next pair -axe—Cottage 
Maid Gerauium in the centre, yellow Calceolaria all 
round, and an edging of variegated Alyssum. The last 
pair — Cerise Unique in the centre, Purple King Verbena., 
and the two rows of Cerastium outside. Then there are 
four circular beds under the flag-staff, in the very centre 
of the top, one for the end of each of the four guy ropes 
which sustain the flag-staff,—the four are alike. Fotlier- 
gillii for centres, two rows of Flower of the Day, one row 
of Crystal Palace Scarlet, and an edging of blue Lobelia 
speciosa. 
This Mount is the best school for country cousins who 
come up to learn howto put the beds. The rest are more 
for uncles and aunt3 who have made their fortunes, and 
wish to show them off in their munificent patronage of 
gardening. The ten large Hollyhock-beds in front of the 
railway entrance have each three rows of Dahlias round 
the Hollyhocks; then a row of plain-leaved Scarlet 
Geraniums, as Punch, Cottage Maid, Fothergillii, and 
Cerise Unique; and outside—what would you think? each 
bed with a ring of blue Nemophila, just peeping or 
sprouting through the surface of the ground on the last 
day of June; and early readers of The Cottage Gae- 
denee know that “how” such Nemophilas will bloom 
till they are up to the necks in snow. What a pity 
that “ we ” did not think of that at the right time. The 
edging of tho grey or hoary Teuerium-looking Salvia 
round the tree Pmonies is, or was then, the very finest 
and best-placed thing in the whole garden. Mr. Cae was 
the great introducer of this plant to flower gardens. 
Twenty years back he had it in abundance at Bedford 
Lodge, near Kensington. 
On leaving the water temples on the way to the grand 
terrace, or, iooking down from the grand terrace, the line 
of long beds on both sides and round the grand centre 
basin are planted on one uniform plan, and the circles 
between them on a different plan. The former have the 
centres in three rows of Ageratums, with two rows of 
yellow Calceolarias on each side, and one row of Crystal 
Palace Scarlet Geranium on each side of the Calceolarias, 
and an edging of JVierembergia gracilis runs all round 
each bed. At a long distance these lines of beds look 
much on the ribbon plan. The circle in the centre of each 
row is all in Cerastium, and the circles above and below 
the centre are in one distinct kind of colour, as scarlet, 
purple, blue, and white : and below these and round the 
great basin, the dwarf Dahlias occupy tho centres of so 
many of the long beds. The line of long beds at the 
bottom of the grand terrace is also in three uniform colours 
throughout— Scarlet Crystal Palace in the centre, a row 
of Purple King on each side, and an edging of Flower 
of the Day all round. Then the elegans and Triomphc de 
LLyris Tropceolums occupy all tho circles “ turnabout.” 
The sweep of the Araucarias in the centre is also dif¬ 
ferent. The Araucarias have blue Verbenas round, as 
last year, with thin edgings of Cerastium outside and 
inside of the Lobelias. The pedestal-beds beween the 
Araucarias are of pink and scarlet alternately, and edged 
with Flower of the Day, Trentham Rose, and Christine, for 
pinks ; and Cottage Maid for the scarlet ones. Opposite 
the Araucarias are the following beds :— Christine, edged 
with Lobelia speciosa, Purple King Verbena and 
Alyssum, Baron ILugel, and Lady Plymouth. They say 
when two are in a bed neither of them can be in the 
middle; but here Baron ILugel occupies the middle of the 
bed absolutely, and Lady Plymouth only the outsides of 
the bed. Bad luck to the planters ! but they put a blue 
Verbena round her. The variety of Lilli Schmidt 
| Tropseolum is hero with an edging of Mangles. Mrs. 
Ljennox variegated G eranium and Boule de Niege occupy 
, another bed, plant for plant, with a blue edging; and a 
I very good scarlet Geranium, called Attraction, occupies 
! another bed, with a band of Mangles’ Variegated round it. 
The two chain patterns are yellow in the centre with 
Calceolarias, with two rows of Crystal Palace Scarlet 
! round; and the edging and links between the beds of the 
chain are in Mangles’ Variegated, giving a white edging 
to every ono of the principal beds on that grand terrace, 
and more white all over the gardens than they ever had 
before. 
The independent circles between the Rhododendron- 
beds on this terrace are each on its own merits ; and any 
mortal thing would do in any one of them on that score. 
Here are the Farfugium and Punch; another with the 
centre of Bijou, variegated with a ring of “Improved 
Nosegay ” round it, and an edging of the Golden Chain ; 
in another of them is Sidonia in the centre, with Querci- 
folium floribundum round, and an edging of Black Prince 
aforesaid. But classicals will gnash their teeth at such 
barbarisms as Rhododendron arboreum album by Dr. 
Bindley in “Bot. Reg.,” and Pelargonium quercifolium 
floribundum by Mr. Gordon, and all the rest of us on 
our own terraces; but if this style of bedding goes on 
much longer, who knows but we may get out of all these 
neuter genders together? The fartliest-off bed of all 
this independent lot is of Fothergillii and Kingsbury Pci. 
Another near it is King Rufus in the centre and St. Clare 
variegated Geranium, with carnea or salmon-coloured 
flowers. Another with Christine and Minimum Nosegay. 
Another with Alma var. Geraniums, and the scarlet- 
striped Verbena pulchella —a gem of a bed as aforesaid. 
The “ drop-beds ” on the banks which flank the two 
wings of the Palace, eight in number, on each end of the 
garden, are of Flower of the Day, edged with Purple 
King Verbena; and in the hollow of the arches, or re¬ 
versed festoons, between tho drop-beds, one row of 
Crystal Palace Scarlet Geranium suffices to fill up tho 
space for flowers as closely as I have filled my space to 
specify to all my readers the specifications on which the 
planting of 1860 was done at the Crystal Palace; and yet 
I must have a P.S. to say that all the vases in some of 
the runs and some in the roundabouts have variegated 
Geraniums round the Scarlet ones. D. Beaton. 
MANAGEMENT OF CYCLAMENS AT REST. 
I have some Cyclamens in five-inch pots; the bulbs are 
almost as large as the pots; they are dried off and at rest. 
Would you say if they should be kept quite dry, and when they 
