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some 170 psy or varie are arranged according 
odendrons in 
pen air. The p 
size are placed 1 e at re Fee the 
one from the other; each plant is surrounde 
pretty sort of crown, varying in diameter from 1} yar rd 
to and 
scale correspond- 
e tall, straight, slender, branchless stem 
23 yards high, are placed first, then —— . — — 
those 2 ards, &c. beautiful e roduced 
by 
gradation, combined with the — forms and 
the 2 
THE GARDENERS’ 
ties, are 
and worth. Although we were not sprin 
Rhod 
giving way to 2 ou 
re 
e do 
We may now look for an early return to onn joys o of 
CHRONICLE. 
165 
i ayn art in . — aaa ee &e. 
oe 
atmosphe till th 
ever cold the 
singe Ot 
oe at intervals, and pecker us by the way. The birds 
e not slow to vee. this, and we sometimes find them 
urst of their full 5 Would 
ere able o 221 for ever A preve 
field rr and garden warblers f 
cage! We do 
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kept in 
confinement. 
a | lab 
ured in vain ! William Kidd. 
WHAT THE eles co ONCE WAS. 
is many years since — — became acquainted 
oy Epaeris acris grandiflora—a good and useful 
Only let us 2 we have not altogether 
b 
pla: ant, but | w 
ne that has suffered much ill-treatment from early 
to fumigate 
coats ny be 132 ft. long 4 “if I ‘had known of Mr. Ayres's 
an then, more the to would have 
ed, and all the i inconvenience attending the old 
As re . A’s recipe “to catch 
cannot say a word, as 12 ghee 
ntered the house during the opera- 
ted ourselves with a peep through the 
nd an ee one in at the door, the wire 
Ayres. George Brown, Chirk Castle Garden 
les. Phe ie se tobacco paper, instead of 
It cost mon ney, 1 no doubt; but is the 
money so — — expended — 
Silk, and Silkworms,—It has 
the Mulberry is in full leaf, and the weather is settled 
eu Itivators, for its powers of endurance are grea ny into summer dryness, the silk might be raised, to 
There was rge specimen of Rhododendron pardo- plant approaching what we would now call a specimen, least the same advantage, as it — in the south of France 
loton, but 2 ponticum 0 ble, was sure to be rusty in — foliage — — at the points in the —— weather of the month of May. There, 
n of plants is equally well composed ; it was of the shoots. What a contrast noble bushes of | owin „it is often necessary to have fires lit in 
amongst its 60 species that we surp find a | it which of late years have ee i exhibited, clothed pro- | the rooms —.—. by the ee nd from the 
imen yselectrum, still very fusely with both foliage an tables published in Sir J mrin Influence 
e next best establishment for Camellias we miniata, being —— e late introduc- | Climate,” that the average * ure for Jun 
garden of his Royal Highness Prince John, tion, has — much of the ment to which Chiswick and London ranges between 60° 0° and 61° bei 
Duke of Saxony, situate ina corner of the town, and grandiflora was It is — held in high | exactly equivalent to that of Montpelier and Pau, in the 
under the superintendence of M dschuch. The pam i- by plant growers, and is to be seen frequently | south of France, in May. But is it possible to h 
garden co collection of Amaryllis, and t perfection in many collections at our great the silkworms when we — I recollect very well 
some 0 plants. In the — as ae in my boyhood,some 40 yea o, having accelera 
the last-m ed plants, is the Nepenthe Epacris pungens, and pulchella, — — years have the birth of these little crea — 4 es by carrying the 
distillatoria which exists; it is planted in ‘the open soil, fallen — Arte — owing to their not flo season- | in my pocket; that they never lived to taste the M 
on the side fab in a small tub, kept constantly under ably for aoa ws ; nevertheless the 8 still — 4 berry leaf, but were fed o „and, I think, Elm 
water. Its branches were, when we saw it, 34 yards of a plan ce in the greenhou se. I 7 —— vid recollec- leaves, or some such so: are. e opposite task 
long, and la n. This garden contains a tion of the beau tiful specimens of th ese pi ts, which | would not be quite so easy, but I think very practicable ; 
large quantity of Camellias, 8 and ee: Tae — one core exhibited = prias Green at 21, Regent- | and ri e e in view 
prak t and | middle- — 
aged specimens form ene 275 or e 25 ards in 
height. They were 5 40. 12s, ti ‘Tos. 
The botanic garden “adjoins on one of. ihe 
5 n5 
plete, and the general ‘appearance of the plants is a 
This establish ent possesses 
common plants, another of expeviuhental plants, an 
uare place 
another ce where, every year, han 
are planted out for the summe: 
menade eg | rosea — 
me trees | “$ 
We noticed there a | 
same 
They were tall, man med, wi fully 
— branchlets, clothed Wich wreaths of flowers. 
Epacri 
w 
: is, 1 that w is proper 8 owe 
2 yards, and the leaves of which raf ae in length are always produced on the young wood, it is necessary 
and ouses, Gong and ill-con- | that shortly after blooming, the sho cut nd 
ital we oath} of notices, A eoi- P ned ted. And the plants should 
be ving them a moderate shift. They should 
strue e plan 
lection of Echinocactus Cactus, oe oe ae’ rales — 
is equally well cultivated. mer 
with an: "sad Moe — roe the ‘direct rays 
0 
vais Ye vegetable and fruit markets nanaii 1 a 
ist 
100. which surrbiilids'tt the 
ound is divided int into hundreds of small 
lots, each . its own pretty little house built 45 be 
Er according to his means an 
Port 
BRITISH SONG BIRDS. 
No. LXVIII 27 has been the triumph of the 
r blackbirds 
few da 4 
have been altogether and all preparations fo: 
the Seat kare of of nests have been ded. At the 
writing, howe’ operations are again 
colli need. 
Itis curious w observe tm e a when thus 
meia ted by the changes in this climate of 
ey seem ag def 1 — * it for — pre “ant 
— only make their ap in o 
intervals. If the feathered tebe’ ever do rink,” it 
tate d the 
Now th ve ceased, and the sun is 
beginning to shine brightly, we may exp to see the 
birds speedi all their These 
? | be kept in the house until they begin z grow, when the 
may be et eten t of doors in a sheltere nr ER or i into 
cold frames, if — are to spare. — firs t, they * 
— — — protected soe ee soma. and from frost 
As th warmer. 
at to be : 
remain n tll pni middle 0 of June, and — to take ti 2. 
TS | out ool 
orms’ eggs to ce-hou 
little wrapper o of pliner — them, and a 
being eres for them, where they will not —— — 
There 1 propose to allow 
anxi st for s ee 
one 
] d grow 
EA j ple repay the little. —— they require, an 
n d its vari 
ied r 
regards Mr, Paine’s report and t 
will 
excluded. Their wth and vigorous health wi 
by their display at our pen exhibitions, 
pone t they will be not the less appreciated by all admirers 
of — flowers. Tassel. 
Mr, Epiror—The 
consider it necessary to give you a true version of the case. Mr. 
Day, the appellant’s 1 without poean j into the case, 
requested the 7 — es to give their assent to an arrange- 
ment which had bee ct i to by the parse. Tis that — 
whole — for ‘lights ” sens be struck ou tthe rate, 
and that * sense t should — allowed his * To this 
— 
conseqiuently the whole state 
he decision of the magistrates 
ß bri 
RATEABILITY OF AIXNURSERYTMAN'S STOCK |? 
— ore raat , 
Lane v. Parish of Berkhamstead, is so likely to mislead, that I 
a 
th he hottest of 
admitting a little air by tilting the back part of the 
ce und on the oe na — a Meg is a pure fabrication. ‘rhe parish | lights. No watering or syringing was Me during 
em soon to make up for lost tim 1 n fresh valuation of | this aef Lote which = about the middle of 
our last, we much upon the admirable con r, Lanes premises P sious to another rai rate being made. September, the tem as kept at from 80° to 90°. 
struction of the thrush’s nest, and y spoke of ithe —— in 8 was sent us by the plaintiffs A day, — 7 0° — night, slightly syringing every 8 : 
Progressive architecture of the builder. We should | i ; the original lies at our office, where it can be 44 From the abore 
remark t the ro inspected] period „the perature was reduced to about 65° or 68% „ 
Work is produced by the bird measuring it, at every step by day, and 55 55° by night durin; 5 
with i y; parti y me Correspondence. | and watering being seldom nee In 
‘mein — the thigh to the chin. It is this wniform| Fumigating Plant Houses—I have been induced to| February the plants were repotted i 
—— action in that us to make th recommended by Mr. Ayres in a small | using the same compost as 
Ir discrimination between “instinct” and “ „ | house here, happy to state that I am renewed, by adding a fresh supp! 
we found an exception to a rule, facts would be with the result; it is not only effectual, but economical, ing care in the turning of it to 
against us; but it is pl as the tobacco 2 mn t bottom and old ones at the 
es five y are | way of fumigating is saved. For my experiment I used | bottom of the pots when plunged mighi 
The ite, cast, spotted a wich black E 11, sere hy about of a aterial. „ 
nest is built in a Fir, or Holly ; sometimes on the of nitre ; instead of Cayenne I chillies, as the season ad and watering and syr 
imb of a tree uently near the ground. | having had some by me of y gro ve were more freely resorted to till June, when br 
Itis easily dis cc aii therefore’ often’ becomes | fami ted the same whieh is 24 ft. long, by 16 ft. | received their final shift. The st specin 
y of the The h wide) iz., wi n 19. ; 1 
same 
