134 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. Pag. 20 i 
n me] 1 fi te M eee — a bubble, tells a — that i — 
atrons, 580 ive him no title to preferment. My F igh 
with such ag ae of the progress of Landsca l > 3 y 8 Alen has Be mf bed en tho| Pere vi E aca mu ty as 
rica, its exercise is avowedly * oper ; He is very er ped v enii 2 in some measure the — —— vt Heer 
= of Avon 
n — rate extent,“ PEATA, 
: 5 te limitati must ur lite exempt from publi 
that more on the one hand this limitation i if 1 kindly oblige us b Finds tongues m trees, —books in the r c haunt 
fession, f you can kindly 18 Pi eee tenes, and geodin poh 82 ing g rook 
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on, | ferring a great favour both on him and myself. MANAGEMENT OF Woops, 
1 i very limitati sr ké, 
8 2 bee discovered 8 what the My circumstances will allow me to give only a ty pos Paper of January 8 I observe an saa: 
ld accomplish . frigiar scale, and small premium; but my son, who wishes to be in- signed Pinus, Logiealmond, Perth,“ in whit 10 
same gen nius could a h pia bei nk that dustrious and to make himself useful, is now in his | writer takes notice, in no very n Pal = 
with a wider ure “fa rally. 17th year, and he has a taste and delight in gar-| paper written by me on Planting and Manageme 
DONIEN AR Pane e t of his re pa 5 be fairly | dening, and therefore wishes to be in a situation | Woods, and published at p. 787, 1846. He says, h 
But another statem 57 s A he where he may labour and make himself useful, as | reference to this article, that it is “in his Opinion a. 
judged for his own “W tot e of gardening culated to mislead proprietors who ar ER: 
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‘Literature and Prati’ of Land wei Gardening well as gain a necessary knowledg 
as an Art in North America, almost every pM J Š lantations.” In reference to 
he says, “ And living in his Ph trian I have 
n furn u h idea of his experience, which is not great 2 
— t uch great | necessary vegetables, but, for the first time, has forester.” Now, I would 5 — considered it We. 
at n 8 capabilities wee them | ra Melon uc e by}, : 
—that only one work on the subject had appeared 
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looking out for a situation for him, where he may ay at 
Tom e regularly employe ed, and where he may observe eee were through ee to m islead 
A x , Jar” it the Sabbath-da ay.” ors on the subject of planting—a subject wha 
oa er eee erea eee DES We cannot imagine that any one under these cir- aa: and to the public, is of the greatest i 3 
cumstances would think of taking a premium with | It is therefore forced upon me to say, that, for the lagt 
the young man. What we venture to ask of some | 32 years, I ha * 
may be, he had no work adapted to American at labourer’s wages. * aan -a 
scenery from which he could copy. agi: is * r rs old ; afterwards the writer of this appeal will | this moment, I have under my superintendence and 
His merits or his faults ee entirely his 3 take — of his further prospects as a gar- | direction, lying in 13 counties of Scotland, a greater 
A er addressed to Dr. LINDLEY, 21,| extent of woods and plantations than eS 
if this were the puo “ America iterate rhaps any 
10 — atróai; wil meet with immediate attention. forester in Scotland ever had under his cha lee 
on the — it appear: o bee ne $ heat am 
curious fact 
ee practising “Landa ape x THE PLUVIOSCOPE assertions, which Í ean easily substantiate, but T fal 
dener of any excellence arose in that country until Few who have passed much time in thec ntry can that tin self, defence 1 am obliged to do it. 
1824. His name was M, AnprÉ PARMENTIER. | have failed to notice the remarkable — whieh | Pin says that my —— of planting and 
He was the brother of an eminent Horticulturist, oceasionally characterises some of those individuals who | ma aging plantations is at variance with all praetiel 
the Chevalier Panwentien, Marae of Enghien, in doomed to earn their bread by the sweat of their | experience, and every forester of any standing with 
d. He established himself as a horticulturist | brow. I have often been amused at witnessing the | whom he has conversed bes condemned it in un 
klyn, Long Islan founded nurseries | vari i It ma esumed tha 
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Now it is very singular | spective wants, but o not eee, r to have met of some standing as a 8 and that those 
that until so recent a date not an Englishman or 3 — —_ snore bomen and 3 which shews their profession with whom he conver tin 
an American native should have turned his atten- natura s of observat * more striking light equality with him, and hence his fears that my “1 
than ri following idea, viiel was recently communi- of aoe will meet with encouragement from 
ted to me, for indicating changes in the weather, and | who take mere writers as their guides, and the oper 
whieh the accompanying sketch will help to explain. | of ar will be pan upon e suspicion by 
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consider M. 8 s labours an 
having. 22 directly far more for Landse: 
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signs and style Downin ave for a model — z si 
or a warning. And the 7 which N It consists in ‘noticing, where there is a fall of pte ci It is by no means my w 
laid out could not well have been very n — as from a fountain, the innumerable little Ser of “Pinus” or those ewes of any 
$0.8 to impress * beholder wi with the dea 780 ay a sere which rise and float on the surrounding site with whom he converses, but it is o 
sty it onl Aite kas here g very remarkable in this, it may be him and them that it has for a long time i 
— then a ig him, atid only one American gm 3 for en have seen these little drops spark kling in the deav vour, and I will not relax i in my exertions, bee 
fessor o rt, Downine — not only to b t — — creme A eds mes eae, ; 
— as a Landscape ber Pde Se = n let — E — — eee eee. aime — 
i eee 3 3 u to look again, ome — th them more 2 saving of a few hundred plants per 
— studied pein with whom ee in thesi sketeh'a 3 25 and 3, on Ap iene ite 5 
s n, in his pre- | l, 3, and et from the air is heavy and | secures to the h 
faces, he tenders his deep sense of obligation—and dry, as in fine weather, the bubbles will vanish oer timber, whieh, is pii 
t was Lovpoy. How far he really benefited by mer een y they are formed, or only reach so far as successful in co ; tors, and 
— dea and correspondence of this author—how | © evi revious to rain, or when the weather is showe ery a 5 of them the most extensive in Scotland, that it i 
his own ö 1 inal, and his principles e ae 5 se will remain a 3 longer and probably | to look with ee your system ; 
are correet - 2 be e to judge they will whilst before stormy weather, | of them the task has not been difficult, forte 
more fairly, looki 2 7 i ape statement | continue to float fai considerable time, and if | consequences of it — = ms 
— Bi ves a widely ai 
reach 
ere < ra was the only practitioner whose d 
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which we have 
We AEREN. eee nd climate he can find 1 
dle the sympathy 3 of our be ar a ai yn partes ag 1 is a fact might have been — died aks had acquired 
introduce a preface. In fact, iT tells ite er lese founded’ on . 7 en, wiare) more knowledge of at least thernd 
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e Curate i in dne Church of England Paine, or an for example—a sudden rise in the tem 
- | discovered that 
more than 35 years, am turned th rature, or an equally rapid change in the wind W inl tance plant 
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years- e ta a large “fami n ' eine re aan ae ä they are followed by past Mr. Y 2 megh experience wi 
ly find a difficulty in getting | norih or east is —— — n eee wn's Forester, I 
Curate cold ‘Precarsor of 
rish Chaplain to the: Union, sz —— — when the morning sky is red, it | feet, if Firs, and if hard- wood, 
tly k base three full services to perform oon ; but if the evening is ved, and oe Thenson lb. | plants them at 28 fee 
, _ to ride in all weathers about — tiie ra eee as Thomson says— | fills in Larch, Spruce, or Seoteh Firs, acco 
now that this is work _ Looks out, effolgent, — the te flush sun and situation, for nurses, till all s 
b broken clouds, ga: > The quotation is 
ut, as my old school- gay shifting to his beam, I will defend the principle, for the 
habet leges.“ Alas ! e may generally expect the next day to be fine. If article ait on 1 ae 
livings in the Church brassy, or copper eoloured, rain is almost sure to foll iduce. rei i 
—.— through family or These prognosties are generally considered to tr ae e 
ö r may be a man's cha- . aa of the atmosphere, a for hard wood . 5 
Sof the barometer. So also is the 33 feet plant from plant; an 
eave -plavioweope, 
ar ous * pecs a in the eyes of some Church | pluviosopey iT nang nee above noticed, which | ing thus thickly see 135 
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