Nov. 22nd, 1884. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
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all the parings of the hoof to boot. He amassed 
above two loads of this dung, and after it had become 
rotten, he mixed it up with the mould for his flowers 
in every way; he made use of it for Pinks and Carna¬ 
tions, both in pots and in beds. His expectations for 
a fine bloom that summer were raised to the highest 
pitch, and yet ended in disappointment; his plants 
towards midsummer began to look yellowish and 
sickly, and turn cankery about the roots ; his bloom 
too was very indifferent; and what could be the 
cause ? His loam he was sure was sweet and good ; 
and his dung was nothing but dung. He layered the 
plants, the layers also turned sickly, and several of 
them perished. Kit’s lamentations about his flowers 
were loud and incessant; they were heard in all the 
villages around him—he repeated them to his cus¬ 
tomers at home and abroad—and the cause, he could 
not devine the cause. 
“ It was well for him that all this happened before 
Mr. Pitt, Prime Minister of State, had laid a summary 
tax on heads that wore hair powder; had these two 
evils occurred at the same time, they must have 
broken poor Nunn’s heart. But to cut the tale short, 
in the same way that the said tax cut off' the pig-tails 
of many of his customers afterwards, Kit was not 
aware, till he had been informed by some chemist, 
naturalist, or botanist, that the hobnails, the filings, 
the flakes, and the bits of iron, that had been swept 
up and mixed with the dung, had been the cause of 
all the mischief, and which had produced that ‘ salsa 
rubigo,’ rust and canker, which had corrupted and 
poisoned the juices of the plants and nearly destroyed 
the whole. He never after could endure the sight of 
a rusty nail in his compost. 
“ So much for poor Christopher Nunn !” 
PLANTING FRUIT TREES. 
While the subject of planting is receiving the 
attention it deserves in the columns of The Gap.den- 
ixg Wokld, let me urge the importance of early 
planting, for it can scarcely be overrated, especially 
in the case of large trees, as getting them moved 
now instead of later on makes all the difference 
between success or failure in securing a crop. 
When transplanted before, or immediately following, 
the fall of the leaf, the ground is warm, and root 
action sets in at once, which being so, the plants 
operated on quickly become re-established, and are 
able to go on feeding and plumping up their flower- 
buds, and as these receive so little check, they are 
able to open strong in the spring, and set a fine crop 
of fruit. In preparing to lift good sized trees, a wide 
trench should be opened out around at a fair distance 
off, when, by the aid of a fork, the earth can be 
worked away and the plant raised without injuring 
the roots. 
Before planting again, the points of the roots should 
be carefully trimmed with a sharp knife to remove 
the broken ends, and the plant then placed at once 
in the position intended for it. Although the border 
soil may appear good, it is always advisable to have a 
few barrow loads of fresh, and nothing answers so 
well as green fibry loam, which should be chopped 
up rough and thrown into the hole that the tree 
may be stood on it and have its roots properly spread 
out, after which they ought at once to be covered 
with the same kind of soil and have a heavy watering 
before the final filling in to settle it about them, and 
then left for a few hours for the earth to subside, 
when some of that dug out may be returned to the 
top. 
The next thing is to mulch with half-rotten dung 
and leave the same on for the winter, as it acts 
beneficially in keeping out frost and maintaining an 
equable temperature about the roots, which encouf ages 
the emission of a supply of young feeders. Young 
trees from the nurseries require precisely the same 
treatment, and it is a good plan to have a few of 
these of different kinds every autumn, that there 
may always be some on hand ready trained and of 
a useful size for filling up any gaps on walls or 
vacancies that may occur anywhere in the garden. 
By managing thus years are saved, but after procuring 
these young trees, or starting with any, there is one 
thing I would impress on those who buy and plant 
them, and that is not to cut them in as is often 
done, but lay the branches in full length, as they 
are far better in every way, and furnish their allotted 
species in half the time they would if they were 
beheaded, which is a pernicious system, serving no 
useful purpose whatever, as any healthy tree planted 
in suitable soil will break back without having its 
branches lopped off, and the more top it has in 
starting the quicker will root action be, and the more 
speedy will the plant get established .—A Gardener. 
CANFORD MANOR. 
Leaving Wimborne Station and journeying on foot 
for about half-a-mile, we arrive at the lodge entrance 
of the park belonging to the above-named palace. In 
many instances the entrance—and its immediate 
surroundings—-of a private domain, afford a very 
truthful representation of the general keeping and 
character of the place, at least such has always been 
our own idea, and the entrance to Canford Manor 
supplies us with one more example of the general 
accuracy and correctness of our opinion. Here we 
have a lodge with its necessary adjunct, a small 
garden, which presents what we cannot refrain from 
terming a highly refined appearance, and it is at once 
seen that neatness and order of a high character 
prevail, betokening as it were on the part of the owner 
thereof, a desire to see all things as they should be, 
and which brings forcibly to one’s mind that good old 
adage—“ A time and a place for all things,” Arc. 
Banks of Laurels neatly trimmed, with a few trees 
of the Fir tribe dotted about here and there ; a lodge 
for its inhabitants resembling some beautiful sub¬ 
urban villa, and its walls bedecked with suitable 
climbers; an avenue of stately trees, mostly Limes, 
which stretch away to the vanishing point in the 
distance, and more banks of Laurels on each side of 
a well-kept carnage drive, is the picture presented to 
us as we pause for a few moments admiration, ere we 
pass through the portals of this beautiful and pictur¬ 
esque Dorsetshire seat of Lord Wimborne. The park 
itself is both large and well-timbered, and contains 
some of the finest Lime-trees we have ever seen, 
and also good specimens of Oak, Beech and Elm. 
Having traversed upwards of a mile and greatly 
enjoyed this charming woodland scenery, we come to 
the gardens, the primary object of our visit, and in 
company with Mr. Williams the able gardener, make 
a tour of the department under his charge ; being 
forthwith conducted to the kitchen-garden in which 
are all the plant, fruit and forcing structures of the 
establishment. We must here ask to be excused 
from giving a categorical description of the houses 
and their contents, as we are waiting solely from 
memory and not from notes taken on the spot, suffice 
it to say there are a very large number, each and all 
of which are devoted to their special adaptation. In 
the plant-houses we are at once struck by the enor¬ 
mous number and great variety of subjects grown for 
decorative purposes, and it is obvious that the demand 
for these must be very great, -at the same time it 
would appear that there are adequate means and 
skill to furnish a plentiful supply. Of ornamental 
foliaged plants such as Crotons, Draeanas, Aralias, 
Diffenbachias, Marantas, Pandanus, Palms and Ferns 
grown in 4-in. and 6-in. pots, we should not care to 
venture on estimating the number, but will content 
ourselves merely with saying they are clean, well- 
grown, healthy stuff, being alike creditable to the 
chief and his subordinates. We may indeed remark, 
that of certain subjects—Maiden-hair Ferns for in¬ 
stance—we have not previously seen in a private 
garden such large quantities in the same robust 
health. Winter-flowering and hard-wooded plants are 
in equal proportion to the foregoing. 
In the fruit department there appears to be every 
convenience for the production of high-class fruit, 
houses being set apart for the culture of Grapes, 
Figs, Peaches, Melons and Strawberries, thus obviating 
the necessity—yes, and sometimes the vexation—of 
having to grow two or more kinds of fruit in the same 
structure. At the time of our visit, the end of October, 
the vineries presented a pleasing appearance and 
contained excellent and well-finished examples of 
Alicante, Lady Downes, Trebbiano, Gros Colmar and 
Muscat of Alexandria. The kitchen gardens are 
about four acres in extent, the soil which is of a rich 
alluvial character, some 2 to 3 ft. deep, resting on a 
gravelly bottom, is fully capable of producing—and 
indeed does—crops of vegetables which are highly 
meritorious; two and three crops in the same year 
without impoverishing the land cannot certainly be 
done everywhere, yet such is the case here. 
We next find ourselves in the Rosary on the borders 
of the pleasure-grounds. Respecting the latter, we 
shall probably convey some idea of their extent by 
remarking that there are something like twenty acres 
of lawn-mowing, with many fine clumps and borders 
of evergreen and deciduous shrubs and trees inter¬ 
spersed here and there, forming vistas and secluded 
nooks and corners sufficient to gratify the most ardent 
admirers of nature and solitude. The flower-garden, 
which is close to the mansion, is quite in harmony 
with its surroundings, and is on a large scale and of 
geometrical design. The chief feature here at the 
time of our visit, and one concerning which we shall 
long retain—if life is spared to us—a vivid recollec¬ 
tion of, is the number of large and handsome Standard 
Portugal Laurels. At this time of the year, when 
most other trees are leafless, these standard speci¬ 
mens, with their beautiful umbel-shaped heads, look 
exceedingly pretty, and add, as it were, some sem¬ 
blance of life to the dull autumn days. The flower¬ 
beds are bereft of their summer-flowering occupants, 
and are filled with winter and spring-flowering plants, 
which we can readily believe must be worth going a 
long way to see when at their best. 
There is also here the finest wall of Magnolia grandi- 
flora (Exmouth variety) we have ever met with, and 
shall probably never meet with its equal elsewhere. 
It is 20 ft. high and 120 ft. long, and when it is borne 
in mind that it is clothed from top to bottom with 
strong healthy wood, no very great stretch of the 
imagination is needed to picture to oneself what a 
charming sight it must be when in flower. That we 
did not pay Mr. Williams a visit earlier in the year, 
when it was in bloom, was the only regret or 
disappointment experienced in connection with a 
very interesting and enjoyable trip to Canford.—- 
■J. Horsejield. 
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POPULAR NAMES OF PLANTS. 
“ It is singular,” remarks your correspondent, 
p. 153, “how many plants there are that bear the 
popular name of Lily,” indeed, it is remarkable, 
inasmuch as the interesting series there cited, by no 
means exhaust the list, to which the following may 
be added, Lilium auratum, “ The Golden-rayed Lily 
of JapanAnthericum liliago, or the St. Bernard's 
Lily ; Lilium Harrisi, the Easter Bermuda Lily ; the 
Black Lily, Sarana Kamschatica, Syn Lilium nigrum ; 
the Belladonna Lily, Amaryllis Belladonna; the Corfu 
Lily, Funkia subcordata, which genus has also re¬ 
ceived the modern definition of Plantain Lily. 
Then we have the Lily Hyacinth, Scilla lilio- 
hyacinthus; the Water-Lilies must not be passed by, 
and which are Nymphea and Nuphar, white and yellow. 
Then we have in Zephyranthus atamasco, the 
Atamasco Lily, while some others of this genus are 
recognized as the Swamp Lily; while in Lilium 
longiflorum we get a good representative of the 
Trumpet Lily. The Flax Lily is Phornum tenax, 
and is suited for the margins of lakes in sheltered 
positions ; the common Turk’s Cap Lily is Lilium 
martagon, and an old inhabitant of our gardens; the 
Persian Lily is Fritillaria persiea, and belongs to an 
interesting group of spring bulbs; Lilium giganteum 
is the well-known giant Lily, a noble member of its 
genus ; Zephyranthus Candida is called by Parkinson 
the “ Lily Daffodil of Virginia,” and makes a good 
mass for autumn blooming in the open ground ; it is 
also well-suited for pot culture. 
There may be others yet, though not so well known. 
One instance occurs to my mind of a plant much used 
of late, and an excellent plant for grouping in shrub¬ 
beries, for naturalizing and so forth. I refer to 
Hyacinthus (Galtonia) candicans, and for which I beg 
to suggest the name of (The Giant Snowdrop Lily), as 
not inappropriate; popular names for plants not only 
render them easy of recollection, but must eventually 
assist their wider distribution among certain classes, 
who regard their scientific names as unpronounceable ; 
and not only so, since familiar names for good old- 
fashioned flowers will soon make gardening and 
garden gossip among amateurs a pleasure, and an 
interesting and edifying pastime.— E. Jenkins. 
