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looked over to see no wire worm is in it, when I apprehend there 

 are small ones which escape notice, I have some fresh lime stones 

 thrown into a tub of water, have it well stirred up, and after con- 

 fusion has subsided, and the water becomes clear as at first, I pour 

 it in its clear state over the compost, this effects the destruction 

 of any remaining. , 



DlANTHUS. 



ARTICLE V. 



ON CHINESE GARDENS. 



(Continued from page 232.) 



Neither do they employ together the catalpha and the acacia, 

 the yew and the willow, the plane and the sumach, nor any of such 

 heterogenous sorts ; but on the contrary, they assemble in their 

 large woods, the oak, the elm, the beech, the tulip, the sycamore, 

 maple and plane, the Indian chesnut, the tong-shu, and the west- 

 ern walnut, the arbeal, the lime, and all whose luxuriant foliages 

 hide the direction of their branches ; and growing in globular 

 masses, assemble well together ; forming, by the harmonious 

 combination of their tints, one grand group of rich verdure. 



In their smaller plantations, they employ trees of a smaller 

 growth, but of the same concordant sorts ; bordering them with 

 Persian lilacs, gelder-roses, seryngas, coronillas or sennas of 

 various sorts, flowering raspberries, yellow jessamine, hypericum 

 or St. John's wort, the spiraea frutex, althcas, roses, and other 

 flowering shrubs peculiar to China ; such as the moli-wha, the 

 quey-wha, the lan-wha, and the wen-quang-shu ; intermixed with 

 flowers, and with the tallow-tree and padus of various species, the 

 tse tang or rose tree, elder, mountain ash, acacia, double blossom- 

 ed thorn, and many other sorts of flowering trees : and wherever 

 the ground is bare, they cover it with white, blue, purple and 

 variegated periwinkle, the convolvulus minor, dwarf stocks, vio- 

 lets, primroses, and different kinds of creeping flowers ; and with 

 strawberries, tutsen and ivy, which climbs up and covers the 

 stems of the trees. 



In their large plantations, the flowers generally grow in the 

 natural ground ; but in flower-gardens, andall other parts that are 

 highly kept, they are in pots, buried in the ground ; which, as 

 fast as the bloom goes off, arc removed, aud others are brought to 



