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THE VILLA GAUDENEFv. 



gets his chief supply of culinary vegetables from a market-gardener or a 

 greengrocer. It will look well with very little care and keeping; more espe- 

 cially if a due attention be paid to give sufficient room to the arbutus, the 

 laurustinus, the autumn-flowering mezereon, and ether winter-flowering 

 shrubs ; and the Cydonia japonica, the common mezereon, and the R)bes 

 sanguineum, double-blossomed furze, and other spring-flowering shrubs. The 

 dying off" of the foliage of so many kinds of trees and shrubs in autumn, and 

 their expanding foliage in spring, will produce a great variety of tints; exhi- 

 biting every morning something new, refreshing, and delightful to the lover 

 of picturesque beauty, even if he should be no botanist. In this garden, as 

 actually existing, all the trees and shrubs are named with zinc labels, sus- 

 pended from their branches with metallic wire. The zinc is in pieces about 

 1 in. broad and 3 in. long ; not painted, but written with a prepared ink ; and, 

 in addition to the scientific and English names, the native country of the 

 plant is added. Such labels, the wire included, cost little more than one 

 farthing each ; and they may be easily procured from any of the London 

 seedsmen ; they add greatly to the interest of the garden, and have a tendency 

 to give young persons a taste for plants. 



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