9—1848.] THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
133 
SERENNIAL GRASS SEEDS,— 
P r free to — er Bristol. 
eis Festuca ovin a pratense 
Festuca Rate ER | ma 
Avena recone Holcus avenaceus Phiten pratense 
Arena ee odo-| Holcus lanatus inus 
Antho Holcus mollis Poa pratensis 
stolonifera | Lolium italicum Poa trivialis 
millefolia |Lolium perenne oa nemoralis 
rs cristatus Lilium perenne deg Trifolium repens 
Ursi glomerata ceyanum rifolium miuus 
Dactylis g tensis otus corniculatus | Trifolium medium 
— duriuseuta Medicago lupulina je 1 
I N ) ural and artificial GRASSES. ‘eae be 
4 ab re nat west market prices, or in mixtures, 3 
ck t 308. per acre. 
e finer kinds of 
n pou per acre will be 
aly to improve t the s pasture, 15 sown e arly. 
LAWN GRASSES.—The gre 
ury 
che dees Throne. on 
TURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1848. 
Keweusis.” Our worthy correspondent is ae 
pathetic ; his “ dead!” “dead!” “dead!” only 
be compared to the famous “Song of the Shirt. ca ‘We 
hen 
trust that his sorrow will be mitigated w he 
learns that many of the plants named in the mae 
e has been studying never were at Kew at all; 
that others are o only annual duration, never 
seeding; that some were 5 by pro- 
cess known at the time w n they were introduced ; 
and that thirty-five years {ting apsed since the |i 
last volume of s 8 is Part its 
appearane M correspondent does not se 
0 
t plants have ae which no rahe 
t with as ee reason 
of C 
ing survived the neglect with which they had 
been treated fur so ey years prior to the resto- 
ra cop of the Ga 
With regard to “his 
MEETINGS FOR THE TWO FOLLOWING TENES 
8 r. u. 
WEDNESDAY, * — 94 of Arts 
FRA ê 9 3 ä H —2—* *** 8 * 
on — Entomological ...........00005 P 
ET Farinn RES pes 3 r. 
Tuxsp Livnean 8 F. 51 
Satunbar — ut f) 4 T. 1 
We have lately peered with much regret 
a 
growing disposition on the part of private cor- 
respondents coe ~~ to disparage = 3 public 
Borax Ic Garp 
aint 
* 
a 8 
D 
o a gre renter s service to the 
nation at large than 4 5 your to the 
tal of these gardens. While i 
they are. 
may be t termed a national 
them 
nd sured] 
arent: 1 
the <S as 
r, &e. 
her siida St oats that the men are 
Eee that the fine collection of Cacti is rotti 
Wel e 
ave quoted is right in 
an to = 1 
e 
nable er, extensive altera- 
going on in all directions 
ren about the Cacti eae upon the broad 
on that a large specimen, which was rotting | t 
ived Meri xico, has died. We should 
great conservat tory, the 8 are not 
lthy condition asin the modern hou 
ir cums ta 955 In a sags ancl 
oving them abe ne Section 
tched hous 
pee this in po — 
arden, but of the 
aracters 
writ 
T 
not only of 
e young men 
ought not to be thus 
e plants 
at on 
ž 3 of the 
how 
that the ge a whose letter 
e 
an 
to treat seriously the | thi 
e di 
wens included © in isappearance of 
the 
the book called the“ Hortus 
chene well, are advanced to 
Garden to build one 
at their own expense ; that 5 belongs to 
Government; WII. H oo n only recom- 
mend. We have reason to believe that the neces- 
ros W have been made to Whitehall: 
at present justified in saying that 
ey w rill 5 neglected. The whole conduct of the 
ood 
= 
them ding-room, an 
adjuncts, will undoubtedly follow. 
able to ask in such a work 
the remodelling of Kew everything should b 
e first object was the ¢ gratification and 
ublic: internal arrangements, 
wever important, must, for obvious reasons, be 
subordina 
Opticians are able to make spectacles which dis- 
th 
tort every object that is seen t Wet 
of ou 
is may then discover that it 
contains matter deserving the admiration of even 
ac 
We would invite him to inspect the interior of 
the magnificent If 
n 
vated cannot be constructed by the rules of archi 
sk. he may deny that the seo 75 is — 
has to be considered; 
ich b 
suggest that had he himself denuke ihel hotis se 1 
ould h ow to ov 
e ve express our belief 
at external architectural . is unattainable in 
E s fit for the use of gardeners. But let 
ok at the interior, let him pass round sis 
gallery some 80 feet above the floor, and mre his 
eye along the wings, and then say how he would | s 
have a the design. 
uld next venture to recommend to his 
+ 
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A 
S. 2 
nm = 
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= 3 
oo 
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? 
eee sit the piece of water brought up to the | a 
terrace walls that bound the phone to the 
beautiful chimney t o the vistas which 
t H 
ey 
dione th: in progress for e ee, and throwing open 
the noble pleasure grounds. 
When all these things shall have been examined, 
we would beg our visitor, always provided his o 
spectacles are left behind, to visit the building once 
3 a fruit . — and now in process of con- 
version a will there find the 
b A of a cdllection of pad procuchi p 
-P 
* 
Specimens of woods, gums, li 
| 
| 
years at ir and conduct | Museum— 
e 
of reformation as 
done 
s 
3 — know sides and we deduce from his stat 
ents 
8 which he 
table products are nea tly arranged in glass cascs, 
well displayed, carefully labelled, and accessible k 
19 777 He will dis et, the germ of 
eo ich 
mittee now 1 into the state of the British 
Museum will be t t 
are for the present out of the question, em 
Arend revert to this subject: in the meanw 
we commend it to the vigilance of the critical cor- 
aj d 
s much of and for Kew, we have 
two words of e to offer. T — — is bos cat 
MP 
conduct — diligently — 
they — uld ere, evil speaking and 
tee that the ; 
ORITIES A 
Kew, that —— 5 —— al disturbers 
e and destroyers of the credi 
that if this is not done no sane man woul kof 
1 4 a ee out of the Royal Botanic Ween 
t Kew 
We are rine not blind to Downine’s errors 
or faults. From the first we have rte oken candidly 
0 ee i ; and o j 
Gardening” ong 
plainly, and hats: remarked on te desde which 
isfigure the earlier part o 
But the last portion of roe notices is very much 
more interesting to the English reader. We mean 
8 w the sete es an account of American Landscape 
Her liveness speaks from his own 
e- 
the aoue of judging ng of the position in 
laced, and of the 1 merit 
or Sensit of his principles ied his 
In the first place, he states honedsly that there is 
liitle hope of ever Ty: y 2 plendid examples 
of Landscape Garden 
enormous parks, : 
is hereditary, there is 1 Toast the almost entire ab- 
ene of a very 338 while 
e have, on the other hand, a large class of inde- 
pendent 3 who are able to Sa mble 
und them apo the l and convenient, 
bot the — ountry life.“ Landscape Gar. 
dening, then, on a vie large scale—and, therefore, 
con 
or the p 
S England Hane ex cepted 
Now it is obvious that while Downie aie 
