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NEW * 1. possible, by art, to prot 
WOOD iso SON hav vty soe 8 . „ A sere d a ract their existence ; ; but it | to the stems, while the foliage conceals the object 
W and very much enlarged edition of their annual CATA- In th A e pos o preserve their vital — which you dislike. But let that ob SR 
UE —— — oee AND STOVE PLANTS, with | In the latter case they readily become the prey of | — ton near th object be placed 
106 of all the newest and most esteemed varieties | decomposition, are attacked by 33 fungals b ar that yo vould pierce 
of — s, Fuchsias, e e ‘Die sete ing nad 7 ty up —— 9 wher ihe ake gals | between the stems, and seeit—shrubs must take the 
nerarias, a 
domana, es 1 Grouping, F pie — — Sia ea ASi p 4 i a ; and if the said object be so elevated 
Copies of the above veS a igr et to Ali those parties should Me very 05 “obliged to any who as have 4 1a — aa ae ce attached to the 
who haye e apolieat experienced the same visitation, for their observ: | a Stee WIE BOS EohGR 
Ae — Mares geld, near Uckfield, Sussex. tions and mode of treatment. The history ¢ of ed | lated 3 N ti ar Rare, Fe Bi A 
of trees 10 
EORGE Q EORGE SMITH 1 051 t refer the readers of ithe in plants has been d, and is necessarily Dee may be a r ares * the 8 hie 
Gard Chro Advertisement of Feb. 12th 80 Obscure, that too much information cannot be a t o the object, 
asd 19th, for a 8 of w universal SE LING collected respecting it. If it is ever to be t th ir 1 present * ap guile tq 
FUCHSIAS and VERBENAS. G. S.'s Catalogue contains of cessfully. it 5 met suc- the eye. Sir Uvepare Price on this s 
ghe above every novelty cha season, which can be had on the Stuy» t can oniy be by means of a very large | usual, entertaining, instructi l j 
of one postage sta FER | accumulation of well-observed facts. = — of | of Firs is hi 2 <n 4 A screen 
— Nur ursery, Horasey-road, Islington, map ge e world is at present in pos nsti- | glee Mas — * ation. He quotes with evident 
the mere apex of the pruni t fog requires 
The Garbeners’ Ehroniae, to be built up. a aie —— ae 
TURDAY, MARC 1 And blots the fair hor 
creating a Lan scape—no matter amid what | “ Just as if,” 
S FOR THE TWO r WEEKS. : ust as if,” he adds 
ane March 11—Royal Parae ee. To Pat. kind 8 e there be art in displaying beau- upon g horizon of 0 . — — of ink mera thrown 
ee eee i . ere is no less art required in concealing | hedge, with a fi 
toa = a Livmean 5 25 : g ng a few trees in it, chat h as bee 
— — af 03 — — Sila e eae unsightly 3 ad i A no 3 whether to a wild, is a much more yaried aisa 
jects be natural or architectural—a sc s : 7 
Å SINGULAR DISEASE sE has attacked some collec- | of some sort is necessary. And that which not er Hollies an: E pé 11 hedges, where Yews an 
tions of CALCEOLARIAS near London. e young | accomplishes this end, but itself may be made to thick from the grou a ae pac A 
plants at first appear to be perfectly healthy ; after- add much to the beauty of the whole we is wi- | their light and — sal: = eo diversified in 
dards the stem becomes brown at the- surfac ras questionably a screen composed of Trer them with pleasure 10 x r sonig which dwells on 
the ground, the brownness spreads — ow while this is almost a self pivident truth, | neither see through t ai — — 
i ivel and die b he lowermost first — gh them, nor discover, hardly even 
leaves shrivel a — ther ore points than one which demand suspect, their want of depth” Certainly th 
eventual the plants “ shan ; —— consideration. If it be necessary to screen an ob- rds describe admirably the r * * [e 
say. en taken out of the ground the cutting is | ject, the sort of Trees required for the screen must | scree t e we grant the ae e ** of e 
Ete up, to the base, =n eae diseased principally 7 3 the 0 of that object | a hedge over a screen composed of F fi * 
more or less to their very poin spot which it would otherwise be think that no person would ever form peer 2 
The microscope shows that. the bark of ae seen. eo ose that you are rambling along a path | Firs alone PA though the object t * Aa x 
-specimens is the . aa the anger ich winds within a few yar the boundary | should stand at a ve ry great ately j FN 
of the tissue there are brown, and their TAa ar aling; it would is 
— das covered by a g Park paling; it would be Ebene absurd to an essential ee in garden bea auty, and there 
few traces of spawn an can be no variety where 
myriads of oval 7 ge are 8 irs. 
* i at the Larch Fir, 
particle ex- > 
tteme minuteness, simi- however, may e well 
lar -in the used as a screen is m 
spores of Ure (or nifest. ollowi 
smut blight), but infi- statement and annex 
smaller. hey woodcut with which we 
compared to the have been furnished by 
. 5 Es * 
smaller particles of Cla- ILLIAMS, Esq., 
i itmaston, are very in- 
gured by Mr. Braxzrxv e — 
of ou e 
but ate single y ee pa I 2 va- 
n 1 
of some of ë i 
woody tubes are in my gardens of no 
a studded b great extent, the whole 
4 y ing not more than 
of i 
0 
t y 
donot appear to be the 
same as er brown 
£ 
n grow 
tall, I thought Scull? 
shade a large orna- 
oo sare mental piece of artificial 
fe by EA m - rockwork made to hide, 
Avana Doubt- ; . : Kitchen Garden from 
T eisure and ; the dining and drawing- 
agreed 8 would — other circum- plant Firs there for the purpose of a screen—or any | room windows. I cut off the leading shoct of the 
which have e e. The other trees whose stems are naked for some feet birch at the height of about 12 or 13 feet from the 
however, leads to a suspicion that from the ground. Not only would there be no real ground. The head of the Larch soon began to 
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a ) nd the obj teral branches ; 
great abundance at an early stage | from you, but the very stems of the trees would | one of the annual shoots endeavoured to resume its 
“pede ga sg to warrant the opinion | multiply the uglinesses exceedingly. What does natural conical shape, which at the end of each 
Aag ood Taste dictate there as the course to be pur- autumn was regularly cut off. At last Nature gave 
2 7 1 
l with the soil and absorbed by distalien l ur. The 
8 ae 5 the cuttings them-| For those who ride along that approach the —_ Larch caught his eye. He said: You have got 
new variety of L 
Nsease is inherent in the cuttings, the the complete isolation of the estate. But jest in have above stated. Well, he said, ‘it makes a 
$ ——.— —— being mere indi- front of the Trees should be planted a shrubbery, most picturesque Tree,’ Since that n be — 
8 rig 8 8 hopeless, the outline of Jon should yield a serpentine or visits my garden without noticing this ei 
entire ure is all that can be waving pre o the footpath, The result is as 
; Upon the supposition that a parasite | agreeable 3 1 15 simple. be e e ethene is — —.— e 
. tissue of the cuttings delighted by by the relief which the hues of the shrubs 
ive to more 
ar may, perhaps, be found in puttin n)gi sombre foliage of in 0 ti 
; as they perish, with their 5 af. he Trees in the upper back. ground: while the plant or to induce a perfectly artificial one. By the 
burn i i i i ormer 7 of fine bloom- 
cs are aes sac atic, the li all E — this ii ma characteristics of the plants 
biba. i ptomatic, question | paling at all. EALINe Park, in respect, i — al i plants; 
er the disease is not rather connected | trates our meaning well —both as it is and as t tifully symmetrical set with its natural character + 
I —_ lit im i : ee ed, and with what would ee- been 
raas been effected; and this is perha It follows from this N depends on masses ot small. 
e that th Supposition. It Why ue mene proximity, or distance. the elevatidn of ie spikelets „ rne ann — 
as Calen Propagation of such short-lived | object to be erene whether you shall use h od tas a — 8 W : 
aait marias, by cuttings, may entail the | shrubs, or tre r both. From your drawing- noble bearing, graceful and pictur esque outline, at the 
amen eformality. Gard ho pr 
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