£ditor's table. 



ablo, nay, a serious loss. Tliey will bo superseded by tlio system of enlargeil exliibitiona iu 

 London, as of old. Tlio cbeerful music, the gay and well-dressed thront,' of visitors, the 

 beauty of the gardens, tlie fruit, and the tlowers, united to tlie pleasures of thr jMoiiniiade in 

 the fresh air (when it did not rain!), were beyond description. 



Pi-rTER CoLLixsoN and Brown, the landscape gardener, were frequently brought together ; 

 the first had the newest American trees from our Bartrara, which, of course, were in demand 

 by Brown. The latter used to relate a characteristic request to Lord Bute from Peter : — 



" If a hare should chance to stray, 

 Ticket his feet and si-nd tliis way." 



To which his lordship replied : — 



"A hare I have found, and ticlcRtcd his feet 

 To Peter Collinsnn, of Graccchurch Street." 



CovEKiXG IIalf-IIakdy Plants. — For covering half-hardy plants, or screening from dry 

 winds, various means are employed. In France, a basket is constructed, of two eemi- 

 cylinders, constructed in the mode of straw hives. To these are fixed 

 solid feet of wood to drive into the ground. If it is necessary to shel- 

 ter one plant from east or northeast winds, one cylinder is sufficient ; 

 but if it is a plant which you are forced to protect, is delicate, and re- 

 quires a more complete protection, you inclose it between the two semi- 

 cylinders, fixed one to the other by means of hooks represented in the 

 drawing. A lid of the same construction, furnished at its edge with a 

 circle of woodwork, is fitted, when necessary, on the cylinder, and thus, 

 perhaps, offers a more effectual shelter against the severity of cold winds 

 and excessive heat than any other. These sorts of shades are light to 

 move, very solid, and very warm ; for, letting but little of the exterior air 

 penetrate, they preserve at night the heat which accumulates in the in- 

 terior. They would also guard plants well from the sun, and thus offer 

 a means of checking the natural perspiration of green parts. Probably 

 nothing could be invented more suitable for the protection of young plants, 

 like the magnolia grandiflora, in this latitude, where the. frozen sap is 

 attacked by the sun, and the leaves in young specimens annually killed. 

 For protecting the stems of grafted roses from the summer sun, they 



might be made of basket willows. 



SwEETBKiER. — The swectbrior makes a highly ornamental hedge, 

 common here. 



It ought to be more 



Root Grafting the Rose. — An English gardener writes on this subject that, "just as the 

 buds were swelling, he pulled up an old rose bush, cut off some of the strongest roots and 

 grafted them with La Reine and other good sorts, potted them in small pots, leaving a couple 

 of buds above the soil, and placed the pots in a close cold pit. All, or mostly all, are now 

 nice flowering plants, and the pots full of roots. I am not aware that this successful mode 

 of propagating is at all generally practised. Every cutting of new roses might thus be 

 grafted, and with a better chance of success, apparently, than making cuttings." 



A Cherry, Pear, and Nectarine. — At the last meeting of the British Pomological Society, 

 Mr. Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth, produced fruit of Lemercier Cherry, which were large 

 vtery beautiful. This is a distinct variety of Reine Hortense, from wliich it is distingui 



