September 4, 1886. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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brilliant scarlet blooms. Vincas, and many other 
plants which are liable to grow straggling if not in the 
hands of a skilful and always watchful and diligent 
grower, are grown equally well, their heads being formed 
as compactly as possible, and covered with flowers. 
The Flower Garden. 
The arrangement of the flower garden is made in 
several sections, or, rather, several moderate-sized gar¬ 
dens are arranged in the different parts of the grounds, 
which is much better than having a large display in 
one place. That nearest the house and in front of the 
terrace (which has some very fine mosiacs and groups 
of figures along it) is a very bright display, in which 
the different scarlet Pelargoniums, blue Lobelias, yellow 
Calceolarias, and white Marguerites as usual give the 
salient features. Beyond, at the end of a fine expanse 
of smooth lawn, is another arrangement, in which 
Roses intermingled with other summer-flowering plants, 
among which the tall scarlet Gladioli, are very effective ; 
the whole being bounded by a belt of Yews, Hollies, 
and other shrubs, and relieved by an occasional giant 
Elm or Beech, one of the latter being a very handsome 
prospect. As might be expected, the herbaceous 
perennials are not neglected in Canon Bridge’s garden, 
but have portions set aside for them, and the many 
things, such as Zinnia, Portulaca, Aster, Tagetes, 
Helichrysum, and other summer-flowers raised from 
seed are made to supply fine displays ; an excellent 
combination of both annual and perennial flowers, 
Roses, Sunflowers, &c., being made in the garden in 
front of Mr. Penfold’s house. 
The Glass Department. 
This is extensive, and in it the best possible culture 
of the numerous classes of plants is exhibited. All are 
clean, well grown, and of good flowering capacity or of 
beautiful leaf development, according as they come 
under the heading of flowering or foliage plants, and 
whenever they make their appearance at a flower show 
they fail not to take high honours. The tuberous 
Begonias, which were procured from Messrs. John Laing 
& Co., of Forest Hill, as seedlings, are excellent both in 
quality and culture, one fine scarlet, much like Stanstead 
Surprise, and an equally fine pure white, being two of 
the best examples of tuberous Begonias we ever saw in 
white Stephanotis, and the scarlet-spathed Anthurium 
Selierzerianum. Among the foliage plants, many of 
them being 6 ft. in height and as much across, are 
many excellent examples of Dieffenbachia, Anthurium 
regale, A. crystallinum, Phyllanthus nivosus, Carlu- 
dovica Druidii, Kentia Balmoreana, Alocasia metallica, 
A. Veitchii, A. Sanderiana, Thrinax elegans, Spathi- 
phyllum pictum, Cycas undulata, and many other 
Palms and coloured foliage plants of equal note ; nor 
should it be omitted that among all these huge speci¬ 
mens the usual run of plants required for decoration is 
not forgotten, for they are grown in numbers, the 
plants being unusually fine considering the small pots 
allowed them. 
Among the good collection of Ferns, the notable 
specimens are Adiantum Farleyense, A. Peruviana, and 
other Maidenhairs; Bird’s-nest Fern (Neottopteris 
Australasica), the Woodwardias, Davallia Mooreana, D. 
Fijiensis, D. F. plumosa, D. polyantha, D. Tyermani 
(whosepan has been supplemented by a turf-covered wire- 
work for its rhizomes to run over—a capital plan), 
Lastrea prolifica, with scarlet sori, and a number of other 
and large tree. Some of the Elms, too, must be of 
great age, and great care is very properly taken to 
preserve them. 
Along the Cedar walk, which has on either hand a row 
of fine Cedars of Lebanon, another bedding display is ar¬ 
ranged on the mixed carpet and bedding, plan, which is 
now in vogue, and which is preferable to either carpet 
bedding or bedding in the old style, as it gives variety 
to the latter, without undue prominence to the former. 
There is no doubt that carpet-bedding has had its day, 
but an occasional bed among others, or a carpet edging 
for a flower bed, is effective. In many of the large beds 
a very fine round-headed variegated Holly occupies the 
centre, and the surface of many of the flat beds is 
broken by feathery plants of Acacia lophantha, 
and other pretty foliage plants, and in some of the 
carpet-beds tufts of the Agrostis nebulosa appear at in¬ 
tervals, their light plumes looking like fine sprays of 
water. At the outside of this neat flower garden, at 
the back of the Cedar trees, is the shrubbery, which 
runs round the whole place, and in which many fine 
specimens of conifers have now attained a good height, 
and still preserving their symmetry, while in the 
meadow are some aged Cedars ; and fine clump of 
golden Hollies and Wellingtonias planted in situations 
where they much improve the appearance of the whole 
an amateur’s collection. These and the many others 
grown with them—yellows, pinks, crimsons, scarlets 
&c.—are from 2 ft. to 3 ft. across, and covered with 
flowers of the largest size and finest substance, the 
handsome foliage being in every case clean and healthy. 
With Begonias, as with most other plants, culture 
makes all the difference. So grown they are grand 
objects in a garden, but badly managed they are poor 
things. In the same house the Fuchsias and the blue 
Plumbago capensis and scarlet Asclepias arc very 
beautifully bloomed, and the Kalosanthes, which are 
growing on the shelf, are perfect specimens. In the 
stove houses are a superb lot of plants of the class 
denominated stove plants, the Crotons and Dractenas 
being of exquisite growth and colouring. Among the 
former, two raised on the place are very elegant—viz., 
C. superbum, a charming variety intermediate between 
Angustifolius and Wiesmanni, and C. gracillimum, 
the prettiest yellow-foliaged narrow variety we have 
seen. 
Among the other great show plants we noted large 
specimens of the white and pink Vincas, Bougainvillea 
glabra, a mass of mauve bloom ; Allamanda nobilis, 
with a great show of yellow flowers; Cyrtoceras re- 
flexum, an old favourite, with bunches of Hoya-like 
flowers; the orange-scarlet Rondeletia speciosa; the 
Ferns not usually seen so fine. Those which are bene- 
fitted by being kept cool in summer, are placed in a 
shady frame outside, and among these Adiantum ex- 
cisum, and A. capillus-veneris, and the filmy Ferns, 
Todea superba, Tricliomanes radicans, and Ilymano- 
phyllums, are in great beauty. The fine collection 
of Azaleas and Ericas are in the open air, and in good 
order. Among the plants covering the walls and roofs 
in different houses was noticed in great beauty the white 
Solanum jasminoides, the rose Habrotliamnus elegans, 
the scarlet and double yellow Hibiscus, Tacsonia exoni- 
ensis, Lapageria, white and red, and the pure white 
Passion Flower, Constance Elliot, which is a valuable 
plant forsuch a purpose. The Orchids are not grown for 
the sake of a collection, but there are a goodly number 
of them, and among them some difficult subjects in un¬ 
usual vigour, such as Dendrobium superbicns, with 
growths 2 ft. to 3 ft. in height; Oncidium Krameri, 
very sturdy ; and Dendrobium formosum giganteum, 
which here grows very vigorously in pots, although 
most people fail with it unless on blocks or baskets. 
The cool Orchids are in frames outside, and look very 
healthy ; some Masdevallias, Miltonias, and Odonto- 
glossums, being in flower among them. The stock of 
Ccelogyne cristata, and Cypripedium insigne, too, seem 
to like similar treatment in cold shady frames, and with 
