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their growth. In raising them very much depends on the season ; 

 in a good season he could raise tliem very easily, while in an un- 

 favorable season it is very difficult to grow them. 



The Chairman thought the essayist had made the subject very 

 simjjle. The secret of success appears to be in constant, careful 

 culture. 



Robert Manning remarked on the difficulty of keeping cauli- 

 flowers into the winter ; and said that when immature heads were 

 hung up in the cellar, as recommended in the essaj'^, any growth of 

 the heads must be from the organized matter in the stems and 

 leaves, unless some small quantity was absorbed from the air. He 

 had planted them in the ground in the cellar and they had grown 

 rapidly ; plants taken up before the frost closed the ground in 

 November with small heads, forming fine large heads before Christ- 

 mas. In this case the plants had an opportunity to derive 

 moisture and nourishment from the o-round. 



MEETING FOR DISCUSSION. 



Saturday, November 27, 1875. 



This meeting was called for the reading of the following paper, 

 which had received a favorable award from the Committee : 



An Essay on Landscape Gardening. 

 f by james cruickshanks. 



The principles upon which Landscape Gardening is founded are 

 intended to produce unity of design with harmony in execution, 

 and also picturesque beauty, and where these are not combined 

 the grand object in view is not attained. 



It is necessary to consider the location of the house, with all its 

 surroundings, the size of. the place, also the views to be obtained 

 from it, whether they are distant or circumscribed, of wood or 

 water, tame or romantic, of mountain or meadow, of sea or land. 

 An estate commanding such views requires very different treat- 

 ment in the arrangement, from one where the house is embedded 

 in a forest with only space enough to get a small lawn, and conse- 

 quentl}- without distant views. In forming the component parts 



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