January 2, 1886. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
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fine forms ; the curious Restrepia antenifera is also 
nicely in flower; Odontoglossum Roezlii, also suspended 
in a basket, is in flower and doing well ; Vanda Cath- 
carti and Angnecum sesquipedale are showing fine 
spikes. 
Those mentioned are only a few of the many here to 
be se.en; there are hundreds of Cattleyas showing 
sheaths, likewise huge specimens of Cymbidium Lowi- 
anum, Ccelogyne cristata, Dendrobiums in variety, 
including many very fine plants of the leading sorts. 
For instance, D. Ainsworthii, nearly 3ft. through, will 
give some idea of what is to be seen. A grand show 
is in store for the ensuing season, and I trust the Baron 
will be well rewarded by getting amongst the importa¬ 
tions some novelties of sterling merit, for one so much 
interested ought to be -well rewarded. 
Another striking floral feature at The Dell, just now, 
is a house of well-grown Poinsettias, a grand sight ; 
and in one of the stoves is a magnificent specimen of 
the noble Antliurium Veitchianum, its grand bold 
foliage standing out majestically. A house devoted to 
Nepenthes is also interesting, and many rare and 
valuable forms arenoticeable. Nerine Fothergillii, and 
all the fine forms belonging to this family, are grown 
very extensively at The Dell; the grand collection 
must make a fine display when in flower, for there are 
hundreds of them, and some of the finest specimens I 
have evef met with are here to be seen in splendid 
condition. Imantophyllums are well cared for, a span- 
roof house being full of all the leading varieties in fine 
specimens ; many hundreds of seedlings are also raised, 
and something good I hope may be the result. All-round 
gardening is well carried out, and a visit to The Dell is 
worth a long journey. Baron Schroder is to be con¬ 
gratulated on the possession of so valuable a collection ; 
and to his able gardener, Mr. Ballantine, great credit 
is due for the admirable condition in which all 
departments of the garden are maintained.— Alfred 
Outram, Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, Upper 
Holloway. 
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LADY CORISANDE’S GARDEN. 
Ixanswerto “Llongbortli, ” I send you an extract from 
Disraeli’s Lotliair, whichjgives the description required. 
“As they were at breakfast in that bright room with 
its little round tables, which Lotliair always admired, 
looking, as it did, upon a garden of many colours, 
‘How I hate modern gardens,’ said St. Aldergonde. 
‘ What a horrid thing this is, one might as well have 
a mosaic pavement there. Give me Cabbage Roses, 
Sweet Peas, and 'Wallflowers, this is my idea of a 
garden. Corisande’s garden is the only sensible thing 
of the sort. ” “One likes a mosaic pavement to look* 
like a garden,” said Euphosyne, “ but not a garden to 
look like a mosaic pavement, ” “ The worst of these 
mosaic beds,” said Madame Phcebus, is, “you can 
never get a nosegay, and if it was not for the kitchen 
garden we should be destitute of the gayest and sweetest 
of creation.” “ Corisande’s garden is,” said the 
Duchess to Lothair, “no flowers are admitted that 
have not perfume. It is very old fashioned, you must 
get her to show it you. ” It was agreed after breakfast 
they should go and see Corisande’s garden, and a party 
did go—all the Phcebus’family, Lord and Lady St. Alder¬ 
gonde, Lady Corisande, and Bertham and Lothair. 
In the pleasure ground of Brentham were the re¬ 
mains of an ancient garden, of the ancient house, that 
had long ago been pulled down when the modern 
pleasure grounds were planned and created. Notwith¬ 
standing the protest ef the artist in landscape, the 
father of the present Duke would not allow this ancient 
garden to be entirely destroyed, and one came upon its 
quaint appearance in the dissimilar world in which it 
was placed as you might, in some festival of romantic 
costume, upon a person habited in the courtly dress of 
the last century. 
“It was formed upon a gentle southern slope, with 
turfen terraces, walled in on three sides, the fourth 
consisting of arches of golden Yew, The Duke had 
given this garden to Lady Corisande, in order that she 
might practice her theoiy that flower gardens should be 
sweet and luxuriant, and not hard and scentless works 
of art. Here in the season flourished abundantly all 
those productions of Nature which are now banished 
from our once delightful senses ; huge bushes of Honey¬ 
suckle, and bowers of Sweet Peas, SwSetbriar, and 
Jasmine clustering over the walls, and Gilliflowers 
scenting with their sweet breath the ancient bricks 
form which they seemed to spring; there were banks of 
Violets, which the southern breeze always stirred, and 
Mignonette filled every vacant nook. As they entered 
now it seemed a blaze of Roses and Carnations, though 
one recognised in a moment the presence of the Lily, 
the Heliotrope, and the Stock ; some white peacocks 
were basking on the southern wall, and one of them 
as the visitors entered moved and displayed his plum¬ 
age with scornful pride. The bees were busy in the 
air, but their homes were near, and you might watch 
them in their glassy hives. ‘Now is not Corisande quite 
right,’ said Lord St. Aldergonde, as he presented 
Madame Phcebus with a garland of Woodbine. All 
agreed with him, and they sauntered and rambled in 
the sunny air amid a blaze of butterflies, and the cease¬ 
less hum of bees. ” 
I do not know whether Corisande’s garden had any 
existence in fact, or whether it existed only in the 
imagination of the great politician ; but at Hughenden 
Manor, where he resided, there are bowers and Yews, 
aye, and Primroses, too, and the peacocks used to be 
there.—A Reader. 
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FRUITS, FLO WERS & V EGETABLES. 
Eucharis Amazonica at Newstead 
Abbey. —The Eucharis-house at Newstead Abbey, 
Nottingham, is a sight which once seen can never be for¬ 
gotten. A few days ago the total quantity of flowers in 
this little house was about 2,500, and Mr. Beiliss infor¬ 
med me that was the third crop in one year. A path cuts 
the centre of the span-roofed house, and on each side is a 
bed 24 ft. long by 3 ft. 6 ins. wide, and in these beds 
the Eucharis is at home planted out—a perfect jungle 
of health and beauty. From the trellis above the 
Eucharis, Mr. Beiliss told me that he had cut an excel¬ 
lent crop of Melons in August; they were planted in 
drain pipes in front, to get them above the foliage of 
the Eucharis, and to afford shading at the same time. 
At the present time, another or second shading hangs 
over them in the form of Poinsettias, the stems of 
which are as thick as one’s wrist, with a good crop of 
fair-sized bracts hanging all over the roof of the house. 
These also are planted out in front of the beds next the 
pipes, and afford another capital shading. The Eucharis 
were planted out three years ago, and every year turn 
out the same, indeed, an old-fashioned grin comes over 
Mr. Beiliss’ countenance when you name Eucharis 
disease.— J. I). 
Apple, Dr. Jules Gaudy.— The November 
number of the Belgian Bulletin dc Arboriculture, &c., 
contains a good coloured plate of this handsome Apple, 
which was raised by Mr. Hermans of Herenthales, and 
has been much admired by continental Pomologists. 
It is a variety of good size, shape, and quality ; the 
ripe fruits being of a lovely blood-red, orange and yel¬ 
low colour. It is named in honour of the learned 
President of the “ Societe centrale d’arboriculture ” of 
Brussels. The December issue contains an equally 
good plate of the Beurre Baltet Pere Pear, a very fine 
hardy and free-bearing kind. 
Yellow Self Pansy, George Rudd.—I think 
if I was asked the name of the best Yellow Self Pansy 
in cultivation, it would be this variety. I am not 
quite certain who raised it, but I think the late Henry 
Hooper, of Bath. It is a large stout flower of thick 
substance and fine form, with a large dense and well 
defined blotch. It is so smooth and flat as to make an 
excellent exhibition variety, and there is another good 
point about it, it is an excellent hot weather variety, 
for it stood better during the hot dry summer months 
than any other variety I know, and it kept on bloom¬ 
ing. It is a fine, free, vigorous growing variety, and as 
such can be well recommended. If I grew a select six 
show Pansies, George Rudd would be one of them.— 
R. D. 
Gros Guillaume Grape.— Mr. McKenna is to 
be congratulated on his success in growing this Grape 
to such noble proportions. The bunch figured in 
The Gardening World for December 12tli is truly a 
splendid one, and is something to be proud of. The 
total weight on the cane which bore this fine bunch 
seems, from the notes published with the engraving, to 
have been 45 lbs. This, from a two year old cane, 
is really first-rate. Gros Guillaume generally fruits 
more freely on young rods, and cultivators should 
always endeavour to keep a succession of them, so that 
the disappointment sometimes experienced in connec¬ 
tion with the growing of Gros Guillaume may be 
avoided, and a regular crop of bunches obtained year 
by year. The writer has seen fine vigorous growths on 
canes of Gros Guillaume which had attained a few 
years’ age, but alas ! the bunches were few and far 
between. Long spur pruning sometimes assists in 
maintaining a regular crop from old rods of Gros Guil¬ 
laume, but even this mode of treatment is not always 
rewarded with entire success. Undoubtedly Gros 
Guillaume is a good keeper, a handsome Grape, and a 
very good eater when partaken of in January and later 
on. Long may Mr. McKenna continue to grow this 
Grape to the perfection he has attained this year, and 
may he often have the honour and satisfaction of 
having some of his bunches not only placed before a 
Prince, but also before his Sovereign.— J. T. 
Christmas Roses.—I am overflowing with 
respect for my old friend Richard Gilbert, and I can 
assure him he need be in no fear of “treading on 
dangerous ground ” when he criticises any remarks of 
mine ; and as he is, in the fullest sense of the word, an 
experimental gardener, I am always willing to sit at 
the feet of such a horticultural Gamaliel and learn of 
him. My method with Christmas Roses is governed 
by the circumstance that I have a cold house, which 
it is my aim to keep as gay as possible during the 
autumn and winter months. I find Christmas Roses 
one of the best things 1 can use for the purpose, and so 
I have a series of nice large clumps, one half of which 
I lift in October and put into pots, and place them in 
my house, and they yield me a large quantity of lovely 
flowers at the Christmas season. You will perceive 
that the roots are lifted once in two years only, and 
after they have done blooming I lose no time, but avail 
myself of the earliest opportunity of planting them out 
in the open ground again. This will, I hope, reply to 
your correspondent “Somerset” also. I am again 
keeping the plants in pots ; they suffer too much during 
the hot dry weather of summer. My idea of growing 
Christmas Roses for their flowers would be a bed of rich 
deep loam in the open air, planted with strong specimens, 
and covered with a cold frame during the winter time. 
The plants would have a good mulching with short 
manure every season in early summer. — R. D. 
The Edinburgh Apple Congress.— I am 
glad to learn from “One who was there” (as if to 
suggest that I was not), that the Congress has resulted 
in the gathering together of a mass of useful and 
interesting matter which is in process of “digestion.” 
I hope when the “digestion” is complete, that the 
nutritious food which remains will be speedily given to 
the public, so that the benefit may be general. But 
in spite of “ One who was there's ” assertion, that much 
“ practical good will result from the meeting, ” I ven¬ 
ture to repeat that the Congress was more a mere 
spectacle than a means of much real practical good. 
As a spectacle it was very fine, and as I really was 
there I enjoyed the sight amazingly, but the question 
is, “was the game worth the candle,” ? The “candle” 
has been an expensive one for the society, and they 
will have cause to remember the Apple Congress for 
some time to come. Regarding my remark about 
jurors in a “maze,” I may say that when speaking to 
one of them during the proceedings, he expressed him¬ 
self as completely “at sea,” and wished he were well 
out of the job. I have no desire to throw cold water 
on any attempts to promote horticulture by “con¬ 
gresses,” but too much stress should not be put on the 
value of the getting together of some 50,000 Apples 
and Pears, and then having them looked over in a 
necessarily perfunctory manner by men, who, however 
anxious and able, are not infallible, and are sure to be 
reduced to something akin to a “maze” by the bewil¬ 
dering numbers of the subjects before them.— X. Y. Z. 
Chinese Primulas. —In addition to what “J” 
has said about Primulas in your issue for December 
19th, it would be well to add that when potting, the 
soil should be sloped from the centre to the edge of the 
pot, and while watering, as “J” advised, care ought 
to be taken to see that the ball is wet or saturated right 
through.— A Young Gardener. 
Abutilons as Winter-blooming- Plants. 
—I was ushered into a small conservatory adjoining 
the rectorv-liouse of a neighbouring clergyman two 
days before Christmas. It was gay with late-blooming 
Chrysanthemums and several other flowering plants; 
but I was most interested in two plants of Abutilon 
growing upon an allotted space on the back wall, which 
