17G THE FLORIST. 



amateur, as well as by my fellow-professionals, I shall be amply repaid 

 for any trouble they may have cost me. 



I beg to append a short list for the amateur to select from. 



PEACHES. 



Royal George . . This is the most generally useful Peach, though apt to 



mildew in some situations. 

 Acton Scot . . . A good useful Peach. 



Malta . . . Hardy, and succeeds well in cold situations. 

 Barrington . . . Fine hardy handsome Peach. 

 Bellegarde . . Rather tenderer than the above, but a fine Peach. 



Noblesse . . . Wants a warm situation. 



Chinctll^r''^^'^'^ ' ' } ^'^^^ recommended where late Peaches are required. 



NECTARINES. 

 Videue Hative ' [j These are both good Nectarines. 

 Pitmaston Orange . Hardier than the above and a good Nectarine. 



A Gardener in the Country. 



HINTS ON IMPROVING ENGLISH SCENERY. 



In our previous pages we have pointed out the importance of placing a 

 proper value on such hardy trees and shrubs as are remarkable either 

 for the colour or beauty of their leaves. If we examine the different 

 varieties of Maples, Oaks, Sumachs, &c., at this season, whose leaves 

 die off in the autumn to brown crimson and intermediate shades of colour, 

 we shall find that the leaves, when first expanded, are tinted more or 

 less with the prevailing colour they assume in the autumn. Acer coc- 

 cineum, purpureum, rubrum, and circinatum ; Liquidamber ; Rhus 

 typhina, toxicodendron, kc. ; Quercus coccinea, rubra, tinctoria, &c. ; 

 the American Hickories, and many others, have their newly-formed 

 leaves of various shades of brown or purple-brown colour,, and are 

 therefore valuable, as affording a pleasing contrast with the beautiful 

 bright green of the Beech, Birch, Thorn, Limes, Horse Chestnuts, &c., 

 at their period of coming into leaf, as they do in October, when their 

 warm glowing colours so admirably enrich the landscape. 



To those of our young readers who are making the composition of land- 

 scape scenery their study (and all young gardeners should do so), we 

 recommend a careful examination of this peculiarity in certain trees 

 to their notice, as worthy of being noted down, in addition to more par- 

 ticularly noticing the effect produced by their various shades of colour 

 in the autumn. 



If there is one thing more generally to be lamented in rural or park 

 scenery than another, it is this deficiency in our plantations of trees, 

 which, during the autumn, would, by the rich colour of their dying 

 foliage, give an expression of warmth and tone to our scenery, and as 

 such should make them worth sjecially introducing for the purpose. 

 What an additional feature would be given to our ordinary plantations 

 in the spring and autumn, if groups of the scarlet- leaved Maples, Oaks, 



