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heighten the colours, and they remain much longer in bloom. The 

 plants are placed on stages, which are constructed so that the surface 

 of the plants are not more than five feet from the glass, and a free 

 admission of air being admitted at the sides of the double-roofed 

 houses, as well as at the roof, the plants are stiff and robust. Atten- 

 tion is paid to placing the plants at a greater distance from each other, 

 as they advance in growth, and thinning away the shoots so as to leave 

 them regularly placed and properly tied to sticks so as to splay around 

 and form compact heads. 



In June the plants are removed from the greenhouses to an appro- 

 priate situation in the open air, where they receive the full influence 

 of the sun till eleven o'clock, and by attention to watering, many of 

 them continue to bloom through the summer. Early in September, 

 the plants are cut down to within a few inches of the pots ; and they 

 flower well the second year. 



ARTICLE V. 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE PLEASURE GARDEN. 



BY A COUNTRY CURATE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. 



I have read with much interest several communications which have 

 been inserted in recent numbers of the Cabinet, on forming the out- 

 lines of plantations, clumps, walks, &c, in the pleasure garden, and 

 having lately met with the following remarks on a similar subject, I 

 was so pleased with them that I transcribed the entire, in order to 

 have them recorded in your magazine : — 



" The pleasure garden seems to own its creation to the idea that 

 our sublime poet formed of Eden. It originated in England, and is 

 as peculiar to the British nation as landscape planting. Whilst other 

 arts have been derived from ancient, or borrowed from modern inven- 

 tions, this has indisputably sprung from the genius of our soil, and is 

 perhaps one of the most delightful as well as most beneficial of all 

 that claim the name of elegant. 



" Ornamental plantations are now so universally spread over the 

 face of this country, that our island may be compared to a vase 

 emerging from the ocean, into which the Sylvans of every region have 

 set their favourite plants, and the Flora of every climate poured her 

 choicest gifts, for the embellishment of the spot round which Neptune 



