February 2G, 1874. ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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eluded ; bo capital a structure may extend its influence beyond 

 its walls ; but this power should be exercised only over its im- 

 mediate appendages. The platform upon which the house 

 stands is generally continued to a certain breadth on every 

 Bide, and, whether it bo pavement or gravel, may undoubtedly 

 coincide with the shape of the building. The road which 

 leads up to the door may go off from it in an equal angle, so 

 that the two sides shall exactly correspond ; and certain orna- 

 ments, though detached, are yet rather within the province of 

 architecture than of gardening. Works of sculpture are not, 



like buildings, objects familiar in sceres of cultivated nature; 

 but vases, statues, and termini, are usual appendages to a con- 

 siderable edifice ; as such they may attend the mansion and 

 trefpass a little upon the garden, provided they are not carried 

 so far into it as to lose their connection with the structure. 

 Some pieces of sculpture also, such as vafes and teimini, may 

 perhaps now and then be used to extend the appearance of a 

 garden beyond its limits, and to raife the mead in which they 

 are placed above the ordinary improvements of cultivated 

 Nature. At other times they may be applied as ornaments to 



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the most polished lawns. The traditional ideas we have con- 

 ceived of Arcadian scenes correspond with such decorations ; 

 and sometimes a solitary urn, inscribed to the memoi-y of a 

 person now no more, but who once frequented the shades 

 where it stands, is an object equally elegant and interesting." 



One test of a gardener's good taste is the planting he selects 

 for near a terrace and vased wall. We never saw such struc- 

 tures look anything but heavy if round-headed shrubs were 

 associated with them. Irish Yews and other pyramidal-formed 

 plants are especially congruous with such architectures. Of 

 flowers, the white LUy grouped near them, as shown in the 

 accompanying woodcut, for which we are indebted to CasseU's 

 edition of Figuier's " Vegetable World," is especially effective. 



Peolonging Life in Cot Flowers. — M. Fremont, a chemist, 

 in a letter to the French Society of Horticulture, mentions a 



way of preserving cut flowers in a state of freshness, .'.t is to 

 dissolve sal-ammoniac, or ohlorhydrate of ammonia (obtainable 

 of any druggist) with the water in which the stems are put, m 

 the proportion of five grains to a pint and a half of water. In 

 this way, it is said, they will often keep fresh for a fortnight.— 

 (Irish Farmers' Gazette.) 



NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 



We observe that M. Alcgatiere, of Lyons, will send oat 

 in May three new double Zonal Geraniums, raised by;M. 

 Jean Sisley. They appear to b3 very remarkable, Georges 

 Sand having double flowers larger than any single one known. 

 It is white when grown under glass, and rose-tiuted in the 

 open. Fram-ois Pcrtiisati has large double flowers, aurora, 

 edged with white. Car! Vor/t has medium-sized" flower^ of a 

 salmon orange of a new shade. 



