Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . ity of a vast assemblageof rocky ridges spread overthe northern portions of Staf-ford and Derby; it runs fromnorth to south, and terminatesIn full view of the town of Con-gleton in a fine dome-shapedmountain, more than 1100 feetabove the level of the sea. A little to the right we cometo an old-fashioned conserva-tory kept gay with some flow-ering plants. Some standardFuchsias, 8 feet high and nearlyas much through, looked .well;also the fine old Oiange trees,9 or 10 feet high, which haveoccupied the same place forforty-five year
Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . ity of a vast assemblageof rocky ridges spread overthe northern portions of Staf-ford and Derby; it runs fromnorth to south, and terminatesIn full view of the town of Con-gleton in a fine dome-shapedmountain, more than 1100 feetabove the level of the sea. A little to the right we cometo an old-fashioned conserva-tory kept gay with some flow-ering plants. Some standardFuchsias, 8 feet high and nearlyas much through, looked .well;also the fine old Oiange trees,9 or 10 feet high, which haveoccupied the same place forforty-five years. In front ofthis conservatory is a smallflower garden, extremely cheer-ful and gay, and in which theplants were anything but themiserable objects some writerswould make us believe bed-ding plants generally are thisseason. I only took down theway in which one of these bedswas planted, and that was thecentrebed, about lOfeet outer edge was Cloth ofGold Geranium, next to thiswere several rows of KoseQueen Geranium, with thecentre Stella Nosegay; and I. Scale 24 feet to the inch. FLOWES GAEDKH AT eOUEKfOSD PARK. iBt Bed. Centre row Perilla nankl- Calceolaria Aurea flori- TropsBolum Lobelia Cerastium tomentoBum;an edging all Bed. Geranium Bijou, edf^ed?with Purple King Bed. Cloth of Gold Bed. Centre Perilla and Centau-rea argentea, edged withTropeeolum Bed. Geranium Golden Bed. Lobelia Bed. Geranium Stella Bed. Verbena Firefly, edged with Bed, Calceolaria Aurea flori-bnnda, edged with Pe-rilla. 10th Bed. Geranium Rose Queen,edged with Lobelia Pax-toniana. 11th Bed. Geranium Trentham Rose,edged with Miss Night-ingale. 12th Bed. Verbena Bonny Dundee,edged with Lobelia Pax-toniana. 13th Bed. Geranium Carmine Nose-gay, edged with Helio-trope Miss Nightingale. 14th Bed. Geranium Stella Nosegay,edged with Lady Ply-mouth. 15th Bed.
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