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and Mr. Mickle we advantage of a friendly conversation 
s to me, for the lesson I 
our owe exertions e 
— but always to avoid even a hint at othe 
eople’s — ote John Ed. Lane, The Mariette, Great 
end. 
erkham 
ee, primed Pear Trees. —In “addition to what 
been so often stated in — 5 as — ards the 
merits of root - pruned their early 
patty I send you an sections of this = s —.— — 
2 dwarf root-pruned trees, which were pla 
Lord Lyndhurst’ <$ 3 park, in November, 180 
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to suit e are I think they would 
m has 
ed: in — ae —— Curia and 
nd trees, are often 
undeviating regularity. The 
o be to 
0 l eave eine hae ax 
8 st le in in a garden of great pretension 
ich upposed to . = 
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they were plante — mounds, as recommended by X t 
Rivers, and a t10 feet — a hig garden wall, natural physiognomy o is more 
with a — aspect, and hav n pruned and surprising, without any regard, so far as we could dis- 
cultivated by the gardener earful — — to Mr. cover, to their botanical affinities as species. A few 
iyers’ ‘precepts. It may be ned that neither formal elumps Rhododendrons lend their aid to 
e exposure nor soil is favo bie pt it t In | complete the general insipidity must mitted, at 
addition to = year’s — nearly all the trees bore | the same time, that ne see * that lawns are dotted 
fruit in 1650 1651. ‘Subjoined are the s of with such hard hey are 3 filled 
the vari v iia quantity t Pears on each tr with half-hardy 1 ae the miseries of aceli- 
eye is men wi with t 
Garena 
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4 Beurré d’Amanlis .. 3 
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n summer, and 
the stake and the mat or ee covering in winter. The 
esults of th 
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re 
On th gardens “thi is 
has — — tasteless system si been carried out to the 
knowledge of the th bee indigenous in 
tempe erate regions of the 
have to trace, by the aid of 
a botanical system scattere 
before he can obtain 
regions for the tre ibe, and plants ‘tenant 
our gardens. Certain it; “Soot 7 ‘would 
find more attraction and instruction in these ti e 
We th 
e strietly scientific arran ra erefore 
recommend them to the attention of our readers. 
ing at the same 42 that they would require ; 
increase of ro dofe pe Be a ates 
‘are several — — 2 in Great Britain of extent 
and resour sufficient, to admit of the e experiment 
being tried with success.’ 
ut how is the 
do not 
elan of the United States t resented beter 
than itis? Som e Pines, and other hardy trees, Rhodo- 
posi re Azaleas, and Magnol ch 
far s the ey go, but wodi are not “the only — 
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ebietw, 
Parks and Pleasure Pien mds; or, ‘Practical Notes on 
Country Residences, Villas, Public Parts, ae Gardens, 
y C. H. J. Smith. 8vo, Reeve. Pp. 2 
1 ‘ser is an pra? cma Ag ha garen ge oaa 
d rg as 
ra en i principally i in Se 
I8tin oni 
n, and 
emarks ae n eae tai easily understood | 
by Soin of all ranks, serve to on — turn of mind. 
Let us take a few v examples—for 
“ Grass rraces are often | faced with Grass | 
ting effect 
8 : eee very suitable for places where | 
a plain of and particular} 
a distance from the — rane 
and — A 
e 
ansion- house, as on the sides | bo 
r shru ver overcome. Thereis the ere geet 
of light AE tere jipa tree and on —the 
5 of tyre — vn a 1 the der — 
turn. On n the native forest we do 
not find the wild — of peas ‘put down at equal 
distance ere the hand of man has not interfered, 
a s are seen in masses and irregu 
sters with single plants 5 round th 
The single pr are 
r fai 
a is every hie productive of interest 
otting, of ek w peagi and languor,” 
assages s such as a 
aes of the beautifu 
not carry his ideas of the Sheep to yi where it 
is attended with inconvenience, is t 
e. We especially refer 3 ‘his observations upon 
g. gx 
o pis of the n must be 
dar that a terrace with a ray farmed Grass | ar 
ank appearance, 
This arises partly from 1 1 being so plain as to 
rtly fro om the absence 
a 
‘slope, close] 
ly shaven 
neatly y kept, is- always “popul ee however ineffective i 
rraces Tights ot of . excel - 
When conneeted 
be in e 
‘airs on 
terraces by dividing : 
ould be in eonn 
* 
and i often eompletel 
sensible aaa sch ould a aiffienly, 
irs e. 
— 
produces rtable feelin. 
fights of stairs had “ta yae 
or lost by mistake, 5 through pe — erh, 
ams ea ave himself concerning the do 
ttin 
8 8 
consists in in plaeing a number of objeets in nearl 
riditat Di at eee without reference to their i me 
relative importance 
Examples of this 
„When Plantations 
planned. botanic garden is a pla 
are gathered — for the purpose o 
are the very reverse of what a la 
8 pea approve of, In like manner we suspect 
torial” arrangem 
ents of plants will 
At 5 Mr. Smith sa. : OS 
— Flora, and various 
susra eee one 2 the most curious things in 
ower-gardens is to see natives of the A] 2 and 
the . — of tienes and of the Cape of Good 
in consequence iseuous planting, the 
botanical at — lost sight of of, 
— I 
— etit mint might be within the 
ci 
like jason tal ‘nti — 
D — mt and not pony 
we h goes generally under that 9 mised 
might t least be distinct et gardens for the natural Ch 
e | vegetation = the ee . e. 
— n North A 
amely the Cape 
alia, 8 Zealand — the mo —— | 1 nd — na di 
Indi 0 roposed that every plant which is on the south : 
oun . 
e within — limits of any country should be sha 8 sep 
e 
5 e nd and as he — on landsca 
tes K 
urely those principles | 
pa 
says: 
deer od Geo we might have a British Flora, a 
ra, a Mediterranean, a Russian |i 
rican 
growing oe and lovingly together ; | we 
f this . 
and —— | 
be shape of beds, 
| closely-clipped Portugal Laurel 
isa 
to conceive how s uch plants a is Sabbatias, Ge 
and Sarracenias of the lowlands, or r the 
tio 
ch} proporti 
must be his meaning, we presu! 
express our fear that his plans are unattainable, 
Books, Ke., Weceiber. 
3 s 3 Stina Dictation Book. I 2mo; pp. 
Lon 8 useful elementary book, well ec ic 
an wall — ; 
ve 
Dirge 3 or Wellington. —A Poem. By Martin z e 
rd. an 
p 4 
p. 10. Hatcha: 
he — * oc aig 
A reprint of 
admi rable artic 
been relations of 0 d acquaintances: 
and Miloradoviteh, — Gala, and Latour 
Garden Memoranda. 
Mr. H. BELCENDEN Ker’s, CHESHUNT: p 
so much interest in their 
were 
e not surprised 
a men 
surrounded by a terrace-walk © 
present — Bs ; 
south ` i 
Jy presses 
tiful example of 
which ~ stated to have e been 
win 
although the tops are kille 
again the following pring, 
all neces 
the ae e 
y, flanked on either 
Pelargo 
