EPR Be mere en A et «en nt EE Ee mr oe 
Sept. 25.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 627 
HORTICULTU ON. ngham Palace, in the state hi 
f this | hither’ maintained. of at top, has ha a yd eal "kad a Tel ri bark in 
will be h ant Ser an agen eed October, 
December, i on Oct. 5th, Nov 
See "hth and Jan, 1St 
and, Dee nt Street, Ang. 13th, 1841. 
eS eee 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
N Sours is berth diver, hat only one Meeting o! 
he af aay are laniaton nd 
den at Buckingham Palace 
The only thing iri i «ig a ed 
British Crown is the 
geo n belonging to private 
apartments of Wineor “Casts which, however well 
kep t and gay with flowers, i S$ as gui iltless of shade, or 
the so-called gar 
te ‘* square.” 
ioees - the 
the middle; and this 
t gradu- 
parts no! past recovery; and because he finds 
] sth OSE STS 4 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1841. 
MEETINGS = THE rHE ENSUING WEEK. 
Jocan Suows—Sept. 27, Cheltenham. Sept. 28, Salt-Hill. 
Tux opposition offered, bo both in and out of P: nas 
= to the plan entertained by Governm of 
king some extensive changes in the Royal pve lt 
ected with which is the leasin nit a portion of 
be ‘ld aggre attached to oe nies Palace, 
as last week briefly adverted to (p. 6 The sub- 
ject was on Monday again mention Pa i it thh ou: 
f Commons, when Mr. Wakley expressed a wish that 
the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Govern- 
ment should himself visit the spot PrOk d to 
“puilt upon ; in which c he plan, he was certain, 
would not oceeded wi Sir R. Peel he had 
been on the spot, and the result of his visit e- 
ti “The public were a 
= gee indeed, had a Botanie Garden, but 
ran abortive ‘ater on the part of s some 
the more vivacious “parts of shrub, he mistakes 
this i for evidence of an Seeraaiies | shes of wy dak In 
my s short notice of the week before las a)? 
with Lor 
ak it u is separate ed fro 
"to the public; and as Hampton 
eside 
o 
ae to bre: om the Crown, and 
now transferr 
ieee 
= a and Fig, and I might ‘iy the Myrtle and 
TS 5 and the same partial ad gradational power 
same of Thu 
ou 
d assure to the neig hbour' hood a more healthful 
with manure lying upon the ground for half the year.” 
Mr. Wakley, finding himself beaten upon this point, 
is 
Court is no longer a Royal residence, the fine old of r recovery uja 
negle poe earien ns there n ~s not be mention n uniperus ; and Mr. Collier says th that Portugal Laurel 
Nevertheless, there are Royal Gardens. hci ig | Tevives in like manner. As far own observation 
one at Bri ighton, of microscropical minuteness ; there yd epomenlicgs eign ced ee the Portal —— 
e Juniperus never are actually frost-bitten. In hard 
is, or rather was, another old and worn < out ha  Rensiny- | frosts the circulation of their juices is stopped, and their 
n Court, for fruit and vegetables ; "aneter better, | che “os ~ mess = oak = ; ng sa ges 
at Mew, for Mec aperirnlh re fruit ; and 5 Windsor | org d Ts the Bey, as in all the others, 
here are parietis , Frogmore, land | it appears to me that if the medulla is destroyed there can 
Lodge, an i Cranbourne,two of which are no better than | be no revival, or none but a ransient show of 
ag dg ‘a all for the same great purpose of furnish- | it, in either twigs or leaves. I co you s 
ing her Majesty’s 8 and confectioner with materials | of the se condition parts on which I have 
on which to exercise their skill. Seven ancient estab- | observed the same appea as Mr. Radford has done; 
but with the — _— I believe them to be 
purse, either unproductive or distant from the p pr! ge 3 # of injury; he of restsct- 
" lly, it is > ell Pe ol that where, for 
where they are required ; for it is —s — a sat nm or teehee, it is an to preserve as much of a 
for its growing da again through its But 
you wish to substitute a more niehly object, and 
which will be the case in a 
perl 
admitted that villas might be advantageous instead o 
af 
} p 
prejudicial to the public ; he, howev itt era wae 
they were taking a 
new gardens. Whereupon, 
mae gentleman that ig hak inmates ny i 
n P, ived ni ipo ce whatever from 
der 
Kenstoghed Kitch eaialene ; ; the poste ce being sup+ 
F 
all be reduce at near at aay ? Such we doi 
f a brown and 
is a to cut it do a oo may be done, 
where soil and sit are favow' 
of a revteal, iike any other of its tri 
pn A.) be ae now in : ea sup- 
press Kensingt nd Hampton Court 
wally or Scns. together i those scattered over the 
vici of Windsor; to render the fruit and kitchen 
gard a Kew effective for the su ply 0 of Buckingham 
Palac ma e at Windsoi 
plied exclusively to “i = — hg and ‘aad 
astle; so that ther d for his appre- 
hensions 
o gro 
i "The bill to enable arenes to pe out 
‘oun 
in ~~ then read a second time, 
and has since been 
ould, we think, | be a an improvement in the m 
Itw 
het of “iscussing public questions if those who ‘enter 
the facts ng ak et which they debate. The bit of 
ground the leasing was to be so detri- 
do 
people 
hocking boa of erp E 
of Kensington, and sucha 
s of Woods a 
on bare part | of the Commissioner 
with high walls, come at the back of the stables 
. ot Kebaington Palace, reaching to the nee 2 
—— ke Ae 
_For the ewer, a om 
derable e sum pir money is required; and we think that 
Government worthy of support, instead of ey 
be defrays the expense by an advantageous appl 
eation of sabe land, without coming to the oat | 
tha 
ibe ; 
vigorous as the peters of your Chronicle, or of the. Psion 
“ Bay-tree”’ of the Psalmist, ‘‘ planted by the rivers.”’"— 
PEP: : 
The press of other matter compels us to defer our 
concluding observations upon a fruit-room. 
VINE.— 
© — 
2.B Making.—A most i mport n the 
| Wired altvation of the Vine, j is wahing 2 e border. 
pr less this is properly d 
al mana however good 
age 
doubtless, a ecble oie “ht we trust that overt | 
boas: and however wellit may be 
is not rig ht at the root, all the expense, Jabour, an 
ti inery 
noble _ pleasure-garde' 
mightiest of the princes of the eart ~< nest gar- | 
dens in residences 
the world are attached to the 
should, if _ possible, be neither too high, nor too low, 
po Oe aateve? the situation is, the border must be well 
effec owe agent Hi od situation of the Vinery is 
in 5 a Ser monte all ought to be as high as the 
— ape of ioe should eerie lux- | 
= her 
4 Soak 9.9 to find that ma- 
tattal amprovements are in progress at Windsor, a 
Between this aes 
po speaking, Kensiny 
me. ich the horses €: yal inmates of Kensington 
anes are turned o t to graze. Although ag pea to 
near. coal Palace, and formerly in ended fo’ ser. 
wi il be el the report among our Garden Memo- 
r 
Sloss short time a we nd a prominent place 
Pa kent of o ee eas em the 
oe pdanenten & ete th pro; 
the hel en of ‘life pod oe to a dppusireside 
% hie has elicited soi remarks, of which a 
| border ale ase ‘T take of only the surfac 
spit of the ie ; ; that 7 about nine inches ; but should th 
situation be el I take out as much more—my ob 
ject being to raise the border above the natural level of th 
surrounding vt, but this is not so requisite in a high si 
The width of the border neec 
not be more than 20 feet, and should not be I ess than 1 
~ 
e border t! 
It is a good gene eral 1 rule to have th 
- 24m. £ the hard. het 
* 
Shei ae 
may be 
bottom with a gentle descent from the houses, m: aki ng ii it 
pretty firm. This I call the floor of the ——- “ce — _ 
ead. 
a as pled been pers and to which we now 
add the following letter ; PR sais, however, 
pew tn on 
clusiy y on the supply of the Soverei oa = 
residents in Kensington P ane 
nature < the original observ. . It was 
— nar brown, and peomrasl Poe sip 
te $ and were found to = 
low the level of the floor, and six in same eee 
cot Cu sides afe built in the pigeon- 
ly passage for the superffuous 
with strong rh or ben 
broken 
evnes.teces ane 
maintaining toe Ki Kitchen- 
¢ 8, was desirous of suppr essing them, and of con- 
began their site into a source of i — to be ch mat 
she sy, i of the horticultural establishmen 
with small twigs, 
po = beginning at the base, along | the midrib, and 
then s ing gradu ally to t circumference. 
About - there could be no mistake, beca' umer- 
were mos carefully marked, aa entire 
£, 
dt Y gradually i nto green. 
tance. 
he plan, we betiove, is to open a wide road 
rom the aa of the Pala Sa to 
dee ater, epee it to ae west so avoid the 
ied b ace-stables, and letting out the praine 
y ne  Richen-gardensi qo Eee i "villa resi- 
ter the manner of t 
w occu bee to life 
tt is doubtless probable t that 0 
bit in these ars waltome® it seemed to be ; for 
cannot s supere a leaf actually goad] has been 
Regrets ts 
y side downward. This is 
amongst the stones below. 
> Sp is, w) it indicates | 
death if the debtrnation of “the green colour of a leaf | 
does not? and the pra ca pein ffs 
a de eee 
hi Pg 
a series of handsome 
1 
ternal 
rate so far 98 Having wach thus ents 
we leave our Facer pay to saya r himself. 
cour 
3 st the houses, 
thin =a Lor hove its sonar re o 
a earls * 
tumn. to allow 
In “this shack 1 tak e the “oppo rt tunity 
“2 ag. R 
the p anting tim 
of bo aged my — om cropping fruit-tree borders, and 
i e Vin 
for K 
Gying fi gata and redolent of manure. _ It is to 
ae that gentlemen have bestirred them- 
opposition 
the real state 
Few ic aan f the 
ao een Gardens, oe baer is wha of the 
d they are to be found. Who, indeed, in this coun- 
sever heard of a Royal Garden, properly so called ? 
grounds amed Slopes, 
Queen Adelaide’ 
mS Rot gardens, am any more than the open | 
j — 
rg ep em aie its 
evergreens in to 
in the manner of 
‘o. invalidate ns pat ye that’ ¢ 
a ihe aes clusions. 
the. fallacy of conclusions 
fe falas speaks of the pro- 
“of inclines me to = that he 
y th e border. I strongly —— 
te @ custom. It is ya that pe a: nr may 
| grown, but the injury they do i 
net only drawing the tourshmen wt = the soil, bat causing 
a good deal of treading, m necessary where BO 
re 
ere ogee a to be a 
to modify his 
on na the border 5 leur pang it is needful to ap or 
=i ane im the places soto the person 
The source 0 
easiness mis- 
Nad Las aden 
| must tread, noteine 
| years, with a fel oat a covering of 
seeaner will inst many 
f dae every sataant, 
