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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ Fobruary 8, 1872. 



stack exposed at least twenty-four hours to the frost ; if other- 

 wise, we cover it at once. For covorinpf wc use ilry wheat straw, 

 than wliich I consider nothing is hotter ; covering not to the 

 depth of 18 or 24 inches, however, but to 48 at least, and 

 all put on at once. We leave no au'-pipe through it, and we 

 have no trouble in consequence of its heating or fermenting. 

 We leave the whole in a conical shape, neatly strapped down to 

 carry off the rain. This may be thought a waste of straw by 

 some, but I have found no less thiclmess of thatcliiug will 

 enable us to attain our object. The straw, however, will not 

 be altogether lost, as a farmer will know well what to do with 



it, after it has done duty on the stack, when he has his cattle 

 in the fold. 



I have no faith in having only twenty or thirty cartloads in 

 a heap, however well protected and stored, or even in a house. 

 My experience is that it is work in vain. Nor would I advise 

 collecting a less quautity than a hundred loads for a stack, if 

 ice is required all the year. 



Up to this date (.January 29th) the weather has been so open 

 that we have been unable to secure our ice for the season. — 

 J. Faieweatheb, The Gardens, Balnagown Castle, Itos^-sldre, 

 N.B. 



"LES PROMENADES DE PARIS." 



One of the most important of the works carried out by I of Plaiu of Bercy into the Lake of Charenton. In the centre 



M. Alphand in the Bois de Viuoennes, was til' traiisf. in nation I nf this plain, in a valley artificially excavated, an immense 



Fig. 1.— l;.jtiunla Hud 



sheet of water covering 120,000 metres has been formed, and 

 its two islands, Bercy and ReuUly, are covered with plantations 

 of large valuable trees, which are of the deciduous aud re- 

 sinous character, and which have been transplanted by means 

 of the tree-lifter. There are also numerous clumps of ehi-ubs 

 and flowers, jetties of easy access to the pleasiu-e boats, two 



liutlu— I,,Ic .A Kouillj-. 



suspension bridges, a rotunda, and grotto {fig. 1), a cascade, 

 extensive gi-een swards, pleasing views obtained liy piercing 

 vast avenues, and numerous gravelled paths — the whole form- 

 ing a combination of Hght and shade, aud an example of 

 modern landscape gardening which cannot bd surpassed. Fig. 2 

 is a view of the lake taken from the rotunda. 



THE FUCHSIA. 

 It IS remarked^ by the elder class of gardeners that the I younger days often contained a greater number of species of 

 smau and sometusieB ill-constructed greenhouses of their | plants than we meet with in the much larger aud more 



