218 THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



" When it reaches its destination it is gently inclined to one side and the bottom 

 boards removed. The hoops are next unfastened, the boards removed, and the roots 

 carefully arranged in their natural position, some good earth being spread over 

 them. The amount of success capable of being attained by this method may be 

 seen throughout the squares of Paris, hardly a single tree having been killed during 

 the plantation of the myriads now growing so luxuriantly in that city. Some at 

 Vincennes have died, it is true, but after having been transplanted in the rough and 

 ready way usually resorted to." 



Wood Nuts from a Fairy Hazel Bush cracked for Little People. By Jean 

 d'Ensinge. (Groombridge and Sons.) — Here is a charming book for good boys 

 and girls ; the bad ones should be forbidden to look at it : that would be terrible 

 punishment. Jean d'Ensinge has been taught by the fairies the language of 

 animals ; when he hears a sparrow chirp, he knows it is calling a friend to a feast 

 of caterpillars ; when an owlet whimpers, it is wanting to bury its woolly head 

 beneath its mamma's feathery wing ; if a curlew pipes on the stony iuoor, it is to 

 inform all other birds but curlews that there is nothing for them in such a dreary 

 spot —his actual words are, "Food for me, but none for you !" With such know- 

 ledge should he not reveal to us wondrous things ? Ay, and he does so, telling us 

 delightful stories of rabbits, squirrels, wood-pigeons, starlings, eagles, wagtails, 

 jackdaws, kingfishers, and other wild people who, till now, have kept the secrets of 

 their lives to themselves. With such stories and a series of lovely pictures printed 

 in the most sumptuous manner, the young people should be happy ? It only rests 

 with kind parents, uncles, aunts, and big brothers and sisters, to secure to them a 

 new and large measure of joy by ordering the volume at once, running no risk of 

 forgetting it. 



New and Rare Beautiful-leaved Plants. By Shirley Hibberd. (Bell and 

 Daldy.) This work is nearly completed, though there is no lack of fine subjects 

 for illustration. Since our last notice, figures of the following beautiful-leaved 

 plants have appeared in it, viz., Aucuba Japonica aureo maculata, a fine variegated 

 leaved aucuba with scarlet berries ; Acalypha tricolor, Cypripedium concolor, Croton 

 interruptum, Panicum plicatum, and Begonia falcifolia. 



Received. — The Gardener 's Magazine, The Student, The Treasury of Literature 

 and Ladies 1 Treasury, Our Own Fireside, The Botanical Magazine (Verschaffelt's), 

 Illustration Horticole, The Go spel Magazine, Old Jonathan, The American Hor- 

 ticulturist, The Garderner's Record, The Fern Garden : Hoiv to make, keep, and 

 enjoy it, or Fern Growing made easy. 



The Fuchsia in Valentia — Friends who have lately visited me here (Yalentia, 

 south of Ireland) encouraged my conceit about the size of my fuchsias. I have 

 just measured one plant of Riccartoni which was planted in the year 1854, on a 

 sloping grass bank in my flower garden. It measures just 90 feet in circum- 

 ference, taken round the extremities of the branches, it would certainly have 

 measured 8 or 10 feet more if it had not been cut away, to prevent it from 

 encroaching on a gravel walk. The garden slopes to the sea with an easterly 

 aspect. The plant in question stands perhaps 10 or 12 yards from the edge of the 

 sea bank. 



Trees. — Everyone feels that trees are among the grandest and most ornamen- 

 tal objects of natural scenery. What would landscapes be without them ? Where 

 would be the charm of hills, plains, valleys, rocks, rivers, cascades, lakes, or 

 islands, without the hanging wood, the widely extended forest, the open grove, the 

 scattered groups, the varied clothing, the shade and intricacy, the contrast, and the 

 variety of form and colour conferred by trees and shrubs ? A tree is a grand object 

 in itself; its bold perpendicular elevation and its commanding attitude render it 

 sublime, and this expression is greatly heightened by our knowledge of its age, 

 stability, and duration. The characteristic beauties of the general forms of trees 

 are as various as their species, and equally so are the beauty and variety of the 

 ramifications of their branches, spray, buds, leaves, flowers, and fruit. The changes 

 in the colour of the foliage of the trees at different seasons of the year alone form a 

 source of ever-varying beauty and of perpetual enjoyment to the lovers of nature. 

 — Loudon. 



