•rill': ( O.M.MOX SHRUBBKKY. ()5 



})laces tlii'ir lilouiii will not l)e so ciuliiring as in tlu' wood. 

 .V curious instance of ilic advantage of planting in a wood is 

 at Bodorgan in Anglesey, where a niucli later Mooni was 

 gathered off a colony of the popular Hoteia japonica, owing 

 to ])laniing it in a cool wood. A little woodland i)lanting 

 may indeed be A\(irlh doing for the sake of a prolonged or 

 later bloom, e\en fn)m plants that thrive in sunny places. 



Tup: Okchaed Wild Gakden. 



Although three years have elapsed since the illustrations 

 of this book were connueneed, I regret to issue it without a 

 satisfactory one showing the beauty which iiiay l)e obtained 

 in the orchard from flowers in the grass or fences around. 

 In our orchard counties — pity it is that all our counties are 

 not worthy of the name within the possibilities of their 

 position and climate — one may now and then see a cloud of 

 Daffodils or a tuft of Summer SiiowHake, enough to suggest 

 what happy }ilaces they would l»e for many Inilbous flowers 

 in the urass. 



A AVlLD (JRCHAUD. 



A correspondent of the " Garden " writes : — 



After reading in tlie " Garden "' of November 1 6, about the Bullace 

 there named, and tlie Cranberries, tlie idea struck me of adding unto 

 our Orchard in Sussex '•' a wild Orchard," witli fruit trees sucli as follows, 

 viz. — Quince, Medlar, Mulberry, Bullace, Crab, Pyrus Maulei, Bar- 

 berries, Blackberries (the large kinds for preserving), Filberts, and in a 

 suitable place. Cranberries. All these, besides the interest of cultivating 

 them, would yield fruit for preserving, etc. For instance, we have old- 

 fashioned receipts for making an excellent Bullace cheese, Crab jelly. 

 Quince jelly, etc. 1 venture to trouble you with a \iew to asking if 



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