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in the strength of the soil may readily be compensated for by the 

 admixture of a liberal supply of rotten dung, thoroughly blended with 

 the surface mould. 



Beyond keeping the plants free from weeds, and occasionally watering 

 them in very dry weather, no further attention will be necessary until 

 the end of August, when the plants should be taken up with a ball, 

 carefully repotted into pots varying from five to seven inches in 

 diameter, using the same compost as that previously recommended, with 

 the addition of a small portion of sharp sand ; pot firm and drain well. 

 The cool pit or frame should again be resorted to, and the plants should 

 be placed on inverted pots. The lights in fine settled weather should 

 be taken off altogether, and only put on again to protect the plants in 

 wet or severe frosty weather, and be again removed on every fine 

 opportunity. The small quantity of mould in the pots unpenetrated by 

 the roots will render the frequent application of water necessary ; care 

 must, however, be taken not to wet the foliage or scatter the water 

 about. The finest portions of the foliage will inevitably fall a sacrifice 

 to an indiscretion of this nature, if many times repeated ; the flowers 

 are also frequently destroyed by damp. 



Treated as above, Shackell's single Russian will be in full bloom by 

 the middle of September, while the double Violets will be in a similar 

 condition by the end of November, and continue to produce an unre- 

 mitting display of well expanded flowers until the following spring. 

 These will he succeeded, about the third week in April, by the Viola 

 lutea or yellow Violet. Strike the cuttings as before, in time for bedding 

 out with the last year's plants, not later than the middle of May. In 

 this way the plants will not only produce increased quantities of the 

 finest flowers, but will be much less liable to the attacks of red spider, 

 which fi'equently destroys them when grown perpetually in pots. 



R. M. 



LANDSCAPE GARDENING.— No. III. 



In the course of our professional journeyings immediately round about 

 the metropohs, it has been a matter of surprise to us that the gardens of 

 villas, large and small, exhibit in their arrangement less good taste 

 than those of similar dimensions in provincial districts. Not that this 

 has been the result of accident ; for they almost invariably boast of a 

 large amount of lat/in^ out, and not uncommonly is it their misfortune 

 to have too much of it, in that an attempt is made to accommodate 

 within a small space a certain quantity of all the different ingredients 

 which go to the making up of a large garden ; and these are obtruded 

 upon each other in such admired discord that a visitor is inclined to 

 compare the tout ensemble to a marine store shop of odds and ends of 

 gardens. We have frequently seen, within the space of half an acre 

 or so, geometrical arrangements, sweeps of shrubbery, herbaceous 

 borders, serpentine walks, arbours of different kinds and patterns, with 

 stone vases and statues scattered about upon the ground or mounted 



