December 31, 1887. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
277 
because it opens up what I may fairly describe as a new 
method of growing Chrysanthemums, and, by inference, 
haying brilliant blooms to the end of the year in the 
open air. There must be numbers of places (not in¬ 
cluding gardens for the moment), such as colleges and 
public schools, asylums, reformatories and industrial 
schools, workhouses, and private places, with vast wall 
spaces quite unclothed, where the Chrysanthemum 
would, with care and attention, luxuriate, arid, later 
on, he ornamental, treated as Mr. Dumper described 
at p. 200, at a minimum of trouble and expense. 
I should like to enlist your sympathy in this matter, 
as it would not at all interfere with the present method 
of growing or showing, while giving a vast quantity 
for cutting purposes. I know of no other who grows 
them extensively this way in Ireland, and only two 
in England — Rev. M. Engleheart, Andover, and 
the brilliant practical writer and champion grower, 
Mr. Edwin Molyneux ; but, of course, there may be 
many. 
There are two considerations in favour of my system. 
First, it would tend to preserve the beautiful and 
perfectly- formed, 
medium-sized deco¬ 
rative varieties. It 
was only the other 
day that one of our 
local show growers 
told me he did not see 
any use in further 
growing any of the 
Rundle family, and I 
had to agree with him, 
although, admittedly, 
Mr. George Rundle is 
one of the most beau¬ 
tiful white Chrysan¬ 
themums in existence. 
Secondly, by no pos¬ 
sibility could you 
have under glass as 
fresh and as brilliant 
coloured blooms on 
Christmas Eve as 
those now before me ; 
and, in connection 
with this, it may be 
here stated there is 
no damping off, and 
rarely mildew on those 
im the open air. I 
have to make an 
apology to you and 
your readers for this 
prefatory digression ; 
but the fact is, that 
where I go, writing 
or speaking of the 
Chrysanthemums, I 
rarely know where to 
begin or end. Taking 
first 
Japanese. — Lady 
Matheson, indoor 
or out, is likely in 
future to be largely 
grown. The colour 
is a bright peach- 
rose, while the 
form of the flower is much more perfect than 
most Japanese. To be understood, I must here 
make two remarks : first, outdoor colour is no in¬ 
dication of that indoors, shaded or in heat ; and, 
secondly, none of those before me, except Pelican and 
Ethel, are crown buds. Many are from terminals, the 
majority from side buds, and comparatively small; 
though, owing to the unusual mildness of the season so 
far, they have come full and perfectly-shaped. Frank 
Wilcox and Brazen Shield I name together, as both are 
of American origin, late, and rather alike in colour, 
varying from bright amber in the former to rich bronze 
in the latter. Phoebus I have indoors, with few flowers, 
though very large. M. Veitch Fils, except in being 
introduced from Japan, I might have bracketed with 
Brazen Shield, the colour being much similar. Martha 
Harding is a fortnight earlier than any of the foregoing, 
and except seeing a small side bloom before me, would 
not be now included. Mons. Freeman, brilliant rose- 
violet, tipped white; Mdme. Sevin, a deeper purple ; 
and Etoile du Midi, a very deep red. These are three 
of the fullest and most perfectly-shaped flowers I have, 
and all have the peculiarity that the smallest side 
blooms come late, with a full centre. I may add 
Margot, rosy bronze-yellow ; and Rubra striata, rose 
striped violet. This half-dozen has the valued pecu¬ 
liarity of being reflexed Japanese, and, like all such, do 
not retain moisture ; while if cut—and this applies 
generally to all late open-air Chrysanthemums—when 
half expanded, and placed in a warm room, every petal 
expands in the most perfect manner with the stems in 
water. Mdme. C. Audiguier I have had for several 
successive years outdoors, as a gardening friend puts it, 
“as big as a child’s head”; but the risk that this 
and Comte de Germiny, The Dragon, Baron Prailly, 
Soleil Levant, Meg Merrilies, M. Lacroix, M. B. 
Rendatler, Crimson Duchess, and Fanny Boucharlat 
always run with me outdoors is that the wind often 
sweeps off my finest buds all the sooner after being 
syringed, as they are then rigid and stiff, while they 
are all the more certain to come to ruin after being 
fully expanded, as they then catch every breeze. 
However, the secondary blooms are always splendid, 
and of colours never seen indoors. I will merely add, 
without remark, Madame Lemoine, medium ; Triomphe 
Azalea indica Deutsche Perle. 
du Nord, Val de Andorre, W. K. Harris, Moonlight, 
Ete Fleur and Henri Jacotot, both early, but un¬ 
accountably late with me this year ; Dormillion, 
distinct, the nearest approach to blue ; and Francois 
Delaux. 
Incurved .—The Japanese are so numerous, varied, 
and late that I have only space to name the repre¬ 
sentatives of the other sections. Mrs. Sharp, very 
perfect, free, bright rose ; Angelina, same character, 
bronzy amber ; Eve did badly this season, as did Mr. 
Bunn compared with last. I may here say at once 
that neither the Queen nor Empress, and, I might add, 
Princess Teck, and their sports do well outside, and I 
shall probably relinquish them for medium-sized 
hardier flowers that are more floriferous, such as 
Cherub, Bendigo, bronze and yellow Jardin des Plantes, 
Inner Temple, the Salters, the Rundle family, always 
capital; Lady Slade, Novelty, Refulgens, Rev. J. Dix, 
and Beverley. 
Rejlexed .—The best of outdoor flowers for walls are 
the Christines, still in perfection ; as also are Boule de 
Neige, Cullingfordii, secondary blooms ; Distinction, 
Julie Lagravere, Phydias, and King of Crimsons ; but 
for wall-growers every one should be included. I 
cultivate every reflexed variety. 
Anemones and Pampons .—The latest are Fleur de 
Marie, Mrs. Pethers, Gluck, and George Sands, free- 
flowering ; Fabian Mediana, expanding now ; while 
Mdme. Clos comes single. The hybrid Pompons are 
by far the best for cutting ; very few are late-flowering. 
— W. J. Murphy , Clonmel. 
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SALISBURY GREEN, EDINBURGH 
Little of the mansion itself at Salisbury Green, the 
residence of Mrs. Nelson, is seen from the public road 
in the immediate vicinity owing to the close environ¬ 
ment of trees. Most of the space in the immediate 
neighbourhood is closely built upon and densely popu¬ 
lated, so that the visitor to this place is little prepared 
for the beautiful and rather extensive views to be 
obtained from several points of the compass, when once 
inside the enclosure, or in the garden itself. Trees 
abound in the pleasure grounds, and the flower garden 
is sheltered and screened with tall shrubs on those sides 
where necessary. To 
the south and east 
the prospect is open, 
and the view unob¬ 
structed till the eye 
rests on the grand 
old ruins of Craig- 
millar Castle on the 
one hand, or Dud- 
diston Loch and 
Arthur’s Seat to the 
eastward. The latter 
hill or ridge rises 
very abruptly on its 
western side; and 
owing to its con¬ 
tiguity to the gardens 
of this place, it con¬ 
stitutes a bold and 
telling object in the 
scenery. The summit 
of the crag resembles 
a lion in a couchant 
position, and appears 
to much better ad¬ 
vantage from some 
points of view than 
from others. 
We had the 
pleasure of being 
conducted over the 
place last autumn 
by Mr. Laing, the 
gardener, who not 
only takes an interest 
in all gardening 
matters, but is com¬ 
municative on the 
subject to others. It 
was rather a quiet 
time amongst the 
Orchids at that season, 
nevertheless, there 
were some interesting 
things in flower. 
Cattleya Dowiana 
aurea was in full 
bloom, making it the third time in as many successive 
years. Orange was the most prevailing of the two 
colours—orange and crimson—associated together on the 
lip, whereas in the type the two colours run in parallel 
lines nearly of equal width, but the more intense and 
decided hue of the crimson tones the other down 
greatly. The valuable autumn-flowering C. Gaskel- 
liana and Lselia Dayana, also belonging to the same 
group, contributed to the general effect. 
A number of Odontoglossum grande exhibited great 
variety of colouring, and a particularly dark and richly- 
blotched form bore flowers that measured 6£ ins. across 
the petals. The size of the flowers in other cases, 
however, testified to their cultural treatment. On- 
cidium flexuosum is well known as a summer-flowering 
kind and useful for cut-flower work, but it cannot 
compare with 0. tigrinum for effect when well grown 
and flowered. Not only is its presence valuable in a 
house for the bold characters of its flowers, but the 
delicious perfume of the latter is particularly agreeable. 
The rich purple-brown sepals and petals, together with 
the mauve-purple of the lip of Odontoglossum Uro- 
Skiuneri, formed a fine contrast to the barred and 
