40G THE GARDENER. [Sept. 



ing curl in the leaf immediately behind them, while those trees fully 

 exposed have been in miserable plight : we cannot help thinking that 

 arrangement ought to be more generally adopted. Zigzag walls have 

 been recommended for the same purpose — that of sheltering the trees 

 in the angles. Common Laurel or Holly hedges, in short or long 

 stretches, should, however, be extensively used to break the force of the 

 wind near glass structures, athwart exposed corners, and even, in some 

 localities, to partition the kitchen-garden. They are much used where 

 we WTite, and have a most sheltery effect. Shelter in winter, when 

 deciduous trees and shrubs are supposed to be at rest, is too much over- 

 looked : the last winter's experience has convinced us that the old 

 herring-nets ought to have been in use over the wall Peach-trees, for 

 although the wood was mahogany-coloured and hard, we believe the 

 sunshine by day, and the excessive radiation at night, had evidently 

 paralysed them. This we know by being able to compare some which 

 had considerable protection with many which had none. We have been 

 told that, in Russia, Vines and fruit-bushes are protected in winter by 

 being laid down and covered with soil in the autumn, unearthing them 

 again in spring. This is a hint which might be adopted in a modified 

 form, the arctic wdnter compelling the Russian to take a lesson from 

 his bear, and make his Vines hybernate for a time. Although such 

 extreme precautions are not necessary with the Vine in our climate, yet 

 much can be done with less hardy plants by using similar means. 

 Supposing a wall or trellis-work covered with some of the Passifloras, 

 Tacsonias, Ticomas, Lapageria, and other nearly hardy plants which 

 will suggest themselves, where they would be at home in summer and 

 flower grandly, which we know by unloosing them in autumn in time, 

 and laying them along on the ground and sheltering them with Fern 

 or straw, uncovering them during open weather. We know from the 

 trial we have already made, that some of those plants behave themselves 

 much better than being entirely under glass, and can be made an inter- 

 esting addition to the subtropical garden. The Squire's Gardener. 



NOTES OW AUTUMN AND WINTER 

 FLOWERING PLANTS. 



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EUCHARIS AMAZONICA. 



The Eucharis amazonica is one of those plants which amply repay all 

 the attention bestowed upon them. When in bloom, who does not ad- 

 mire their snow-white flowers, contrasting so well with the fine glaucous 

 foliage when in good health ? One of its greatest recommendations is, 



