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THE GAKDENING WORLD. 
August 4, 1888. 
(Mr. Deal) announced that Mr. Sherwood (of Messrs. 
Hurst & Son), had expressed his desire to put a child 
on the fund, and with that object in view would 
contribute the sum of £100, when the committee had 
selected a child about four years old, whom they 
thought worthy of the charity. Mr. Barron brought 
forward a most distressing case, which will be im¬ 
mediately inquired into, and we hope soon to be able 
to state that Mr. Sherwood has accepted the com¬ 
mittee’s nomination. It was also decided to invest 
another sum of £500 at once. 
Kaempfer's Irises from Seed.—Mr. William Falconer, 
writing in the American Florist, says :—“Two years 
ago 1 was very particular in saving seed from an un¬ 
commonly fine marbled variety, and as soon as they 
were ripe I gathered and sowed them. The seedlings 
are now in bloom, and while marbled varieties prevail 
among them, there is not one exactly like the parent, 
and several have blue, purple, and violet self-coloured 
blooms, and one has white flowers. Of the consign¬ 
ment of these we received direct from Japan last winter 
some of the plants are now in bloom, and they are not 
a whit better than the old sorts we had before ; indeed, 
some of them are not as good.” 
Ivy Seeds Germinating in the Fruit.—Whether it 
is habitual to the variety, or whether the rainy season 
is accountable for it, we have not determined; but at 
present a specimen of Hedera helix arborescens haccifera 
lutea may be seen in the nursery of Messrs. Cutbush & 
Son, Highgate, London, with a large proportion of its 
berries having the embryos germinating. The radicle 
is pushed out at the apex of the fruit at lengths varying 
from J in. to 1 in. in length. The fruit being erect, 
the radicle is immediately affected by geotropism, and 
curves towards the earth. Seedlings are germinating 
around the plant from fruits that have dropped ; but 
those germinating while still on the plant are the most 
interesting, reminding one of some tropical fruits, 
such as Carica and Rhizophora Mangle. 
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A GARDEN OF ROSES. 
Speaking broadly, such is the character of the garden 
attached to the home of Mr. Stott, Nooklands, 
Fulwood, near Preston. Such is Mr. Stott’s love of 
Roses that they have absorbed the whole of his garden, 
so that he has neither space nor time to devote to 
other garden plants. About 600 Rose trees, com¬ 
prising 150 sorts, are grown in beds on the south side 
of the dwelling, also on a rounded topped bank on the 
west side of the lawn. “How did the latter face the 
drought of last year ? ” I asked Mr. Stott. “Very well 
indeed,’’was the reply ; “they were, of course, mulched 
and watered with manure water.” 
The beds, resting on a clay sub-soil, have been well 
prepared to a depth of 2 ft., and the whole of the 
ground has been efficiently drained, which was 
evident by the firmness of the sward between the 
beds. Hearing that Mr. Stott intended exhibiting 
at the late show at Manchester, I was desirous of 
seeing the pictures on the easel, and resolved to inspect 
them on the eve of the show. But alas ! the cruel cold 
sunless weather which prevailed for several days 
previously, had been against them in such a late 
locality, and exhibiting had to be abandoned. There 
was only a sprinkling of good blooms, and it was 
evident that quite another week would be required to 
bring out some of the best flowers. Rose-growing is 
not heartily undertaken in this neighbourhood, and 
nowhere have I heard of a grower aspiring as an ex¬ 
hibitor at any show out of his own district. I may, 
therefore be excused for making another journey a few 
days ago to see Mr. Stott’s Roses. Rain has been the 
order of the day for the last month, and some days 
we have had a perfect downpour, so that on my second 
visit they were not all at their best. The following 
were, however, worthy of note—namely, Her Majesty, 
Marie Baumann, Duchesse de Yallombrosa, Louis Yan 
Houtte, Charles Lefebvre, Duke of Edinburgh, Alfred 
Colomb, Madame G. Luizet, Prince Camille de Rohan, 
Duke of Teck, Baron de Bonstetten, Baroness 
Rothschild, Madame Hippolyte Jamain, Captain 
Christy, La France and Marquise de Castellane. 
Nearly all the plants are dwarfs worked on the briar, 
the shoots being trained to stakes, suggesting the 
appearance of an inverted umbrella. Bud thinning is 
also practised, and the flowers are protected with a 
number of Zulu hats from sun and rain, as if for exhi¬ 
bition. The flowers are cut when perfect, and taken into 
the drawing room or given to friends. Feeding is con¬ 
ducted quite differently this year to what it was last 
season, when everything in the way of stimulants was 
given in a liquid form. "Watering being unnecessary 
this year, the surfaee'of the soil has been sprinkled 
weekly with Standen’s and other artificial manures, 
which are left to be washed down by the rain. Insects 
and caterpillars are hand-picked, and green-fly is 
destroyed with soapy water in which paraffin is mixed 
at the rate of a wine-glassful to every two gallons of 
water. Mildew is kept down with sulphide of 
potassium. 
The Rose House. 
Last spring Mr. Stott had erected an unheated 
span-roofed house, 28 ft. long and 12 ft. wide. A 6 ft. 
bed fills up the centre, and there is a border 1 ft. wide 
round the sides, a pathway taking up the remainder of 
the space. The compost consists of three parts loam, 
one part coarse river-sand, and one part cow-dung, with 
a sprinkling of charcoal and coarsely-ground bones. 
The plants have scarcely had time to establish them¬ 
selves, it being late in the season before they could be 
planted ; but out of those that have flowered Mr. 
Stott prefers the following varieties—namely, Hon. 
Edith Gifford, Madame de H. Lambert, Souvenir d’un 
Ami, Madame Cusin, Grace Darling, Souvenir d’Elise 
Vardon, Madame Falcot, Safrano, Jean Ducher, Marie 
van Houtte, and Alba rosea. As evidence of our 
limited experience with Roses, I may mention that on 
my first visit to Nooklands I saw for the first time 
Wm. Allan Richardson growing and flowering against 
the south front of the dwelling. The buds were just 
the thing for a button-hole. It appears to be a tolerably 
free variety, for on my second visit I noticed a shoot 
the length of my umbrella, with branched tops, each 
carrying buds, and it had for its neighbour Belle 
Lyonnaise, while round the corner, on the east front, 
was Gloire de Dijon. Even this old favourite is seldom 
seen in the open air in this district ; but judging from 
the freedom with which it grew here, there is no reason 
why it should not he more generally used to cover bare 
walls—at any rate, those with a south aspect.— 
TV. P. F. _ 
THE GRANGE, HIGHBURY NEW 
PARK. 
Well within the four-mile radius from Charing Cross, 
the cheerful and compact garden of J. W. Jones, Esq., 
gives a good example of what the gardener’s art can 
produce in the way of giving bright flowers, pleasant 
walks, and quiet retreats, even within a stones throw 
of a busy thoroughfare. The grounds, hard on four 
acres in extent are laid out in fair proportions, all that 
is necessary being devoted to the flower garden and 
pleasure grounds, while the kitchen and fruit gardens 
and orchard are, by the clever arrangement of the 
walks and banks of shrubs—among which are a large 
number of fine old specimens of Hollies—so situate that 
they rather add to than mar the effect of the whole. 
The dwelling house, in front of which rises up an 
impenetrable mass of fine shrubs, is thus entirely shut 
in. At one side appears the conservatory, which is 
made rather an adjunct to the drawing-room than a 
plant house. Some fine Kentias, Cyatliea excelsa and 
other plants not easily affected by drought, occupy the 
centre, and overhead hang baskets of graceful Ferns. 
Outside in a pretty nook is the carpet-bedding garden, 
very tastefully arranged, and notwithstanding the bad 
weather, very effective and pretty. From the garden 
front of the house slopes the terrace, which has some 
beds of Pelargoniums and other summer bedders, with 
a standard Fuchsia in the centre of each. Between 
them are vases of bright flowers and some fine 
specimen Palms and Dracsenas, and beyond the terrace, 
in an even unbroken expanse, stretches the smooth 
lawn terminated by a raised bank, rendered ornamental 
in various ways, and having a dove-cote in the centre. 
On either hand the lawn has well-kept shrubberies, 
whose gracefully undulating borders are edged with 
flowering plants. Here noteworthy are the magnificent 
Hollies, which must be many years old, and which, 
while giving a character to the whole garden, serve 
well to render pleasant the neatly gravelled walks 
which run round the whole garden, and which except 
in certain parts cannot be seen from the garden itself. 
In the long stretch of pleasure ground which runs from 
the flower garden, this arrangement is carried out to 
perfection, the place being made to seem much longer 
than it is by the cool shady walks, from which one can 
neither see nor be seen from the evenly turfed lawn on 
the other side of the shrubs. At the same time it gives 
a pleasant retreat, cool even in the hottest day in 
summer. At the end of the pleasure ground a very 
delightful summer-house is provided under shady trees, 
and to which but a subdued glimmer of light reaches 
at any time. 
The Glass Houses 
consist of some very large and lofty vineries, one of 
which has a very heavy crop of Black Hamburghs, 
while others are in the best condition. Some good 
Grapes in pots, too, tell that a crop may be got in that 
way even in London if properly managed. One of the 
houses, with rockery in front, contains some grand 
specimen Camellias in large square tubs, the plants 
being bushy, and some of them 15 ft. or so in height— 
they will be a fine sight when in bloom. With them 
and of the same stamp are some magnificent Rhodo¬ 
dendron arboreum, than which there are few more 
showy greenhouse plants for large specimens. Ferns 
for decoration and for cutting purposes are numerously 
represented, and also some nice young specimens of 
Gleichenias, Cheilanthes, &c., which it is to be hoped 
will escape the knife. 
A few Orchids, too, find a place here, and in the 
stove is one of the neatest collections of plants suitable 
for- table and indoor decoration we have seen, com¬ 
prising Cocos Weddelliana, Geonoma gracilis, Crotons 
of all sorts, Dracaenas, Aralias, Kentias, and other 
Palms and foliage plants, in the same house being some 
vigorous specimens of Eucharis amazonica in bloom. 
Growing table plants is a special qualification in a 
gardener. Many who might grow large specimens 
utterly fail at it from want of thought or the ability to 
propagate and keep up a stock of small plants. Here 
it is done well, and even the pretty Aralia Yeitchii, 
which is not an easy subject to propagate, is grafted 
and made into pretty plants very cleverly. Peach and 
Cucumber houses are in good order, the kitchen garden 
is remarkably well cropped, and the specimen Chry¬ 
santhemums, in preparation both for exhibition purposes 
and for cutting, are in the most perfect health. Alto¬ 
gether the garden is an extraordinary one for London, 
and Mr. Edward Easey, the gardener, who has made 
some of the greatest improvements in it, cannot be too 
highly praised for the manner in which he manages 
the place. 
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HARDY TREES AND SHRUBS IN 
FLOWER. 
The Umbrella Tree. 
A large specimen of this striking tree has been 
flowering for some time in the grounds of Chiswick 
House, Chiswick. It is known under the names of 
Magnolia umbrella and M. tripetala, the latter being 
the oldest and, therefore, accepted name. The leaves 
are by far the most ornamental part of the plant, and 
measure from 1 ft. to 2 ft. in length on vigorous- 
growing young trees. Although they attain such 
dimensions, they are deficient in number, and are 
mostly confined to the apex of the branches, giving rise 
to the umbelled or umbrella-like appearance of the 
branches. From the apex of the latter the flowers are 
developed at different times, extending over a period of 
several weeks. They are fleshy, white, and aromatic, 
although not relished by some ; neither are the blooms 
half so conspicuous as those of M. grandiflora, which 
has evergreen foliage of great beauty, but is less hardy 
than its congener under notice. 
The Double-flowered Dyer’s Green Weed. 
Although decidedly a shrub, Genista tinctoria flore 
pleno cannot be recommended as a subject for the 
ordinary shrubbery, except in the very front line. 
There seems to be two forms of it in cultivation— 
namely, a procumbent and an erect or semi-erect form. 
In a wild state it is mostly upright, and about 1 ft. in 
height; but when planted on banks or rockeries, all 
but the flowering stems are mostly prostrate. Many 
specimens of the double form may be seen in the beds 
at Chiswick House, Chiswick. 
The Willow-leaved Yeeoxica. 
One of the hardiest and not the least beautiful of the 
New Zealand shrubby Veronicas is Y. salicifolia, better 
known in gardens perhaps as Y. Lindleyana. It not 
only lives out of doors in all but the severest winters, 
but flowers with great freedom annually and sows its 
seeds, which germinate freely if the ground is left 
undisturbed in its neighbourhood. The plant grows 
more rapidly than some species, and is therefore better 
adapted for open-air culture than the slower-growing 
ones, which are most suitable for greenhouse treatment. 
Many of the Veronicas grow with great freedom on the 
south coast, forming hedges quite novel in appearance 
compared with the ordinary run of hedge plants in this 
country. At present, and annually for some years 
past, V. salicifolia has been flowering freely at Pendell 
Court, Bletcliiugley. The pale bluish or almost white 
flowers are produced on axillary racemes several inches 
in depth. 
