fence: if, 
greate:t extent 
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grounds, p placing t 
It a ong garden is the principal object, the hous 
ced as not 
like the ‘ower garden, 
from it, as neither the 
is partieulariy pleasing ; a spa 
Jaid ou a different manner, 
d. placing of the offices is 
consideration in planning a villa; they 
but not eee no hofa ough- 
es pees look 
ominen 
utting tr 
eple or some 
rthy of bei — s 
pons hould b e planted so as pn lead the eye to it at 
the 4 80 favourable points, not leaving a vague general 
stated me re, 88 lawn i is to be considered a 
1 the Sante! | 
viewed. It 
me ks 
rari „ but 
and almost . wheat? draw 
bas which Nature is always 
graceful tendrils s over throw a Siad se over 
the distance: if there is a bank, in one place run the 
table ae but let thes 
Speer over the rock : a 90 5 es fes toned 
old tree Ina 
These las 
a, W may be 
juite in place, for where artifice is evident attempts 8 
ook natural mus t fail, while taste y be show 
855 also bë“ pe- 
may be proper 
be Unless a 
, if need be, pitch a tent 
taking away the side Reta 
© contrary, it . 
i — 
the gar 
rk. Carrants, which n 
e 
unless the external | royal e. These pits seem well 
adapted to on end in view, and 8 perhaps, ony 5 
Wher are indif- Ci 
f 
fo ound | a forced cro 
y seek | himself miserably ka aken. 
e — Ee 
r gre mm 
; ee adopted them; iad 
— of this rule will alter beneficial 
itu ation of many fen The placin 
e or mor r the purpose ; 
uard against making it a principal Siok ie 
the transition from the more 
ressed gro a pie 
n is an agreeable change, i if — 
by the charms p Stra wberry-beds, Goo ries, and 
seber: 
ster. 
e can resist, Fores 
(To be continued.) 
veal ye FORCI ING. 
t year’s Chronicle ste a de- 
e Aspar: 2 its in far 
one fault—too expensive. 
cost of production, “there en 
uch to co sisted. 
0 6 a great 5 — with the 
es I must u urge that the old way of 
us by means of the targa bed of fer- 
n be o 
As, 
ere material is Are the b 
d 
Now production of bottom: heat by 
means of 4 conceive one of our very best 
modern . je it does by no means s follow that 
3 on ah terials must be for ever banished 
fro bar gah ru h a co kas Wola be v 
desirable as ayin asan orderly and systematic oe = 
t is this all? e into 
ough gr 
nk 
th oint of 8 g 
an ‘episodieal plot of rou to the ied ne of embody- 
ing all vegetable or other crops require 12 70 er- 
menting materials, or what is eds —— “litter.” 
My object offering these observations is to 
vidiate "the poor . dung Ta 1 the numerous 
aspersions which have been u ore 
especially as egarde, Asparagus "fori 
ewhat in e to the quality = deen 
Aae in dung be 8. ee Bayh “long, b 
| Bavourless stems is the resu 
om 
i” a puto and Aa voar 
8 
hausted beds, which could — r (undisturbed) aar 
stalk fit for the tahle, W of their in 
roots disturbed, fae grass. 
ien eultivation of piris vey perfect in 
priety of making use 
— air 
i family erg à so various, and pee ed in per? anew 
v 
» to the e of his 
nee o 
Strawberries, and the various bush 
too long on the ee. 
well for the Brassica t 
Asparagus on th 
adopt a plan w 
years. I plant every year as 
and always m rite a poin bed or be 
through the mer previous to their being foreed ; 
not a head is “idlowed to" be! ent. I ink T Seed ey 2 
| venture to say, that I yearly eut as much fi 
e, 
eultivatio 
A 
four great mis rows in a bed. w is it possible that such 
should be large and e It may be tolerable 
for a year or two at first, but soon dwindles into a ae 0 
of seed-bed appearance. er r to be large an 
wing season; a Sre 
no 
of the secretions which produce 
e better they are filled with th — secre- 
ions, tpe larger and finer flavoured will the uce be. 
If the cae pipes were serie of Seel dsp 
erei rdeners would before now have 
however, is not, I 
For my own part I make a point of 
en s chiefly in alleys, and this I have 
pro be of immense service. erefo = 
—— mat wee n „piping would B 767 a serious obstac 
earryin, 
this A sews point o 
case. 
retensi rerna 
t pe 
istake is made n some places in planing | datein 
| @ great deal of moisture at certain periods, yet stagna- 
ay of any kind is most inimical —— — Porosit 
— of ~ se ji aa 2 of —.— d man 
W pretty well 
H 
t 
| eligible month in which t to apply it— Robert Errington, 
ulton Park, Jan 
er POTATO DISEASE. 
E hav 3 —— in 1 dhe 1 
highly interesting letters o 
think in 
ton © the — 
—a cannot say that 
re — not eee eee the correspondence of 
more than usual importa 
, 80th Dec., 1847. 
„Mr Dear SI. — You will er, ‘that at tie meet- 
h Associ ord | 
vidence w 
y 
s d the capricious manner of its dis- 
tribution ove * 7 in rigs regions, accords 
with ho carat ber’ in very many, if not in a he 
eaves A was atmospheric electricity. 
rt kpe giv 28 * ng e ation 
of this o e first, a lette: Cia yr Mr. 
Wa lter Wilkinson ie Porchestr, ‘which I N affords 
evidence from whie re is no he second is an 
extract from a dispatch of Sir Gaspard le Marchant to 
en a 115 
Line 
blight of the Potatoes in på 1 followed on ap 
9th of October, after a wind, bearin 
8 eloud charged en with electricity. Haves 
ermission to 8 these 3 I skall be 
obliged if you will insert them in the Gardeners’ 
Cana, Tr with this letter, 5 object being to 
cal attention to the paper sent to Oxford in June 
laat y Mr. ms. 
. Milne’s paper, J Sant the “Seer Blight i 
66081 that the wind w 
otato leaves in “that ra i r; 
in Seotland,’ 
he vehicle of poison to the 
drifting cold. The plants that gre 
side of any rere she he a a less q quantity of * 
be a less 
su 
he plant m the curren 
thereby shelter "it from any Ae with 
mospheric 
ing 8 eee hey i that 
Su 
of the 
ape so tender an exotic p 
e | Supply of the “oT of life. 
ve me, my dear Sin, pours every SAN 
Dr. Lindley.” 
te Poi 3 Dec., 1847. 
— Your favour of the 18th inst, did not reach me 
ets this morning, the 21st. I attend to your 7 
with the greatest pleasure, the more readily as 
slightest ie that * is called 
tab! 
This conviction is fo on the followin 2 
“On 4th of August, sien: after a 1 
8 day, an unusual an gas smell perv 
hanes oa grounds hich I asda: y, whieh smell I a 
t to that whi 
hot m 
kno 5 describe, unless I liken 
dens possessing some pre 
that the hot-water foreing of Mr. I 
eee M 
beds fo: 
— a W 
r want of a sufficient a 
pry | the natural soil. Although 
