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Saal erred to its new pot, the ball ul 4 must from the place, how the village institutions were going į respects Hyde Par 
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loosened, facilitate extension of y br on, “ that there is nothing like the cottagers’ all 2 Pa in 
44 m hich ans we wall in effecting | gardens for doing good to the N originally oal pa u T a as can be desired. One thing 
c m the b f the roots had certain rul to occupation of the 1 d he h q on, namely, the Serpen River, 
af pa roel 0 nd, which, from the irregularities of its bottom, causes the 
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this is i slight distance beneath the surface. ny of| and for the prizes ; but these have gra 2 4 been lost deaths of many bathers every year. ong as is 
9 les will be disengaged dana and more sight of, and a plain understanding established, that if the great bathing place of thousands, it : ht to be 
4 arse be broken, present ing inn merable su rfa 4 the rents sr pony 81 e with z exception | put in such a condition as to 5 i 
bhg tissue, at which thousands of minute rootlet —ther i 
rotruded. Be sure 1 nvicte n 
previous to repotting, and t plant is of any criminal offence before a magistrate (which | state, and the tin, dumb waiter of a fountain isa 
soaked rom the full e e m the possessi t- | tive disgrace. me “hope wit in fact, as ork of art, i 
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r or their well-bein akeni by neglecting expected ni apr any dispute, 75 take my orders to any and no careless hand ought to be allowed to mar i 
13 72 water is given a newly potted plant, if such A his fellows and see them attended to ; and lock — beauty. Some sad 3 have, however, been lately 
has been the case, the stratum of new soil being more the gardens “trot Saturday night t till Monday morning, made in its arrangement. What can be so ridiculous 
absorbent than than the old ball, pra the greater = prevent all work in them the Sabbath day. or instance, as the ve d i i 
pss pen. leaving ‘the roots n ot yet extended | these services he holds his taba for the s ar rent free, | the -little doorway at Bayswater to me en at 
ught. ant so ene is a vege- r — the right of judging whether there are gardens | Kensington. If it be intended to make 
Tantalus me 5 i n the “sight t of plenty. titled to prizes every year, and last year in one fie 10 at the Kensington end of the walk, pull down the re 
all Heath growers have gaben ted the prac- was found the style of cultivation lowered, I with- racks, and remove the present foot entrance near the 
Ps er potting,” 5 in plain * K ms, the placing held the prizes. If what I have written of our ex- turnpike. It was well enough to bring the broad walk 
the ball of the plan every successive shift a ee perience will compensate for the trouble of referring to| thus far; but as no such intention has ever been 
in the en at the preceding iio] till even- the“ Journal” of the Labourers’ Improvement Society, | broached, and as nobody ever walks on this end of the 
tually that — of the soil immediately s e your readers will find in the August number of that walk, it is quite useless, covered with green moss, very 
dee collar of the plant is elevated considerably above publication an account of last e 's distribution of the | ugly, and ought to be planted as a termination. As to 
the rim of the pot. This practice not only retards the | prizes s here.—Suburban, Teddington the great, straight broad walk which has been lately 
natural development of the plant, but is unsightly and Novel Mode of Wintering Plants for Bedding Out. made across the middle of the Gardens, the sooner it is 
natural essary, The theory of high Steal ap as applied to —I beg t an you a small Verbena, in a nut- a laid dowa with Grass the better. It completely 
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minute to expect a carriage an 
needed in that direction, it ought to hav 
pentine one, strai ightening aa the Bayowater ‘ad 
so as to allow the beautifu ls 
If a Heath i 
amined in its natural 5 it will be round that that the accompany- 
olla ted a ing i j 
portion of, the stem around the collar is elev a ing is a repre- 
onsiderable distance a face. of the soi ing 
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what way is this elevation by plant in its natural | which nter in to the view. The long foot-path, e -east 
7 ure, ever mindful of the wants and | the inia- side of the Gardens, bordered with flowers, ought al 
ts of her subjects, has end the Heath with the | ture condition. I to have been serpentine, and it is a pity it is not fk ng 
elevating itself by the upward extension of | have struck Roses, as its gritty surface renders it very disagre 
the surface. Nor is th er | Fuchsias, Pelar- aiar Of S m Park, it is difficult to t ‘seal k 
thout its legitimate purpose. Nature is the | goniums, and, in- a natural plot of ground, It ou on- 
being a niggard in her| deed, almost all dik. Gee ated as artistically possible, and 
s most susceptible of the in- | florists’ flowers, in we hop 1 it may be decorated with marbl 
stagnant mois at the llar ;” yet de- this way, and ha statues in the interior s the beautiful m 
in plenty x moisture at th ts; and in th pt them in per i be removed, wh e effect would 
season t other times pat ae habitat of fect health over be produced by continuing Pall Mall as far as th 
Bait abject to an excess isture. No winter ; so Park, and makin arch the entrance to that park. 
what way could these apparently iai ircum- | will be perceived As to the only fitting entrance to St. James’s Park, the 
de subservient to the Heath better than | that te opportunity was lost when Carlton-house was pulled 
the beautiful provision of nature in endo ith | exp g money down, the scart de clivity from the County Fire Office 
means above described? W olume t in erecting pits or spoiled by filling in the space = ams ns and the 
written on the evidences of design exemplified in the | gr Park to form a base so as to raise the Duke of York’s 
economy of vegetable life! But t ude. winter such things Colu igh p ssible—the ffect of which has 
do not adopt the high potting sys ght en to throw Pall ase as seen from Piccadilly, into 
ever a tendency to elevation presents itself, frame, rightly Pol- hole. Just in the same way t ural declivity from 
assist it by slightly removing the soil in a slight degree | maised, viz., the National Gallery to 7 itehall has been destroyed 
the upper of the roots immedi at naged according in Trafalgar-square, and nothing can be richer than to 
of ny species, especially those meving to the laws of Na- stand at the entrance to Craig’s Court aut look towards 
the Gallery. there is now some chance of the Gal- 
the character 9 and ferruginea, possess the | ture, is all that is 
property in a remarkable degree, pad all evince this ik required; and that 
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Pears on Quince Sto chs; — The ee ques- 
tion is one of the greatest interins to planters, and trom 
an attentive perusal of what has been written on the 
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4 Home » Correspondence. poses of 3 or 6. 
Allotments.— o you ronin relative to | inch 5 Surely, 
Fa allotment Se I beg t my this is a step in 
HS ags been established for man r and | the right dires: 
q 2 orked extremely beneficially. 1 have 32 tion.— W. z ripa 
— 2 in 155 fields in different par ts of the par rish. 3 Taste i in the Parks—As many of your pages stocks were more precocious 8 ſair to the oa but 
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tle known, and at first ‘the i at of the taste 5 — out grounds and gardens, it has s fore surprised last week to see you — Mr. — 
Faden 15 them dou btfully. A oe months sufficed | me that a few T of application to those great ies letter with a general word of approv I am sure 
5 value, and ever since, as often as an really noble gro ich d the lungs | your readers would feel teful for a 8 . 
ie anh Tengan are received | of the m jokai pat not be sapen; especially at from yourself, Whether the Pears from Quince stoc 
=" every inhabitant of the working class not a time when new parks are on the poin of being esta- 5 sony aoe 3 d fres from grit, as those 
bene Provided with an allotment, Still, for om seasons pne e in the neighbourhood both of icin and other on Pear stocks?” This oma to me to be the real 
y managed, an- | large towns. We ought, in the first place, as it seems qu daoa for, a as to the sale of fruit in 3 
mee! my intention to give ae ly prizes fon the best E me, to determine the question whether these grounds it is deci ided rather bythe eye than by the mouth. 
1 55 gardens and for the best specimens of produce. | are to be considered and treated in an artificial or a na- Another point would be a 3 to learn, viz., 
es in each field aids er each of those tural rape. of course to give them as natural an ap- what is the practice of the best gardeners in France, 
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rom the time the prizes were issued, the | pe ossible as art can effect, ought to be the | Flanders, an and Jersey.— ae. 1 aa ginal on Quince 
ement in the gardens els, and of many in 3 plus valet the landscape gardener. Looking at stocks, provided mey are sorts fit for that stock, are in 
= » has been striking. I believe it would hardly | Hyde Park for instance, no one will say that it ought to | no way inferior to Pears on Pear stocks. ] 2 
amas produce better tilled spots of land, or be treated as an artificial piece of ground ; its irregular Te emperature.—1 ane not seen any notice — in 
8 of vegetables, than are exhibited at "the | surface and the sas N n of aay give it a the public prints of an extraordinary pe o ga 
i 58 Our mode of proceeding | really natural effec But its proximity to so many | perature which occurred in this county ( Pac 
er and another res respectab le gardener | great productions of art, and the apes for gé paths Saturday, the 29th ult. On the morning o ay 
the the 20h of J A a is fixed for the| through it being cut in ‘straight lines, require a certain | th d, > A 
3 . 10th | amount of art; and when or where that is the case, it zero, and a P.M., of the same day, — ; ga 
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„Without knowing the names of the occu- instance, the fine 2 of Achilles is an 1 m 80 short a cat. —R. B. D., Fi ane [Is there no 
ce are brought to my | from being placed on an eminence 
e tenants, who 8 to 9 5 for this the 5 to the park, is worthy of "bern iga -| _ Hollies and other Evergreens. —I as sily planting, 
an ere selected acccordingly. | proached with artistic feeling. A clump of iets 5 a interest the several communications on Ho ` p ag, 
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oc can surpass the specimens of ab! th was lately formed and planted with young trees, packed it with moss in a hamper. y 
* and rarely have cm we 288 leading f. from the side of the statue to the reservoir near | could find leisure to plant it in our new walks, yedun 
the village flower and vegetable show | Grosvenor-gate. I am not sure whether it would have ae had to be formed, some weeks elapsed. 
1 * the end ce the 2 the- Box was cone 2 e 
is also one of my labourers, carried off th tatue itself, because in walking from Grosvenor- | nice hazel loam, a season being aripping, 
cotta: r Bn tal ole i f ~ statue ; but ter part throve, and finally became very strong. 
gers’ gardens by an exhibition of gate we should ee eg eee need wh E fhin Bex was conveye by waggon from n I 
hey who saw formity of the reservoir should not be artistically | to Maidenhead Thicket ; and, as the work of replanting 
e think, erence of upwards of 15 years leads | beautified. What a situation is there here for a fine was done by my sons, under m 
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mechan inhabitant of this village aquatic statue of ivan 3 Phins babe. Tn other 5 sed e — 
an absence of some time water, now discharged 
