THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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CULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. — 
Hate is cha given, that the EXHIBITIONS a 
Looe tak 3 9 — s Ne 10 15 was between 6 and 7 feet. These trees stood about 
ses ar April 18, is the last day on whieh t the usual 8 feet from each other; and, of course, a free 
gad that Tickets are 1 issued to Fellows of the Soci passage for t 0 ras 
3 ax ger = affo ded. s 7 of stakes and bandages of hay, | t 
: not so tightly bound a e e progress of 
LLIAM . kar 1 of we Enge — any fluid within the trees, E ieaity An the 
at Agricultural, Kitchen-garden „and Flower Seeds in the | roots and lower parts of the stems of several trees 
Bande, Chron of last week. of all motion, to the height of 3 feet from the 
np SON, Great Ee pavi been round, leaving the upper paris of ae stems and 
H. eee SEED DS of the asét ee ahr EE branches in their natural state. In the succeeding 
e favo? the last two sea mmer, much new wood accumulated in the parts 
doa Angs Nen w Hy brid Per rsian ET sae pE * per re which were kept in motion by the wind; but tie 
Ispaban, Gene" e Fruit, wei ao i ower tbe f the stems and roots increased very 
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—— noirs Red Matchless Gelery SAna 2 6 p little i Removing the bandages from one of 
— — | these stil, in the following winter, I fixed a stake 
T wie Gardeners' Chronicle. in the ground, about 10 feet distant from the tree, 
me on the east side of it; and I attached the e to 
TURDAY, MARCH 18, 1848. he stake, at the height of 6 feet, by means of a 
3 THE TW n WEEKS. slender pole about 12 feet long ; thus leaving the 
Tvespat March 2L Linnea — Ku penton neces pe — tree at liberty to move towards the north and south, 
— = — 2 — or more properly, in the segment of of 
3 the pole formed a radius; but in no other 
eir limbs in fr 
“vas . that fashion is a sovereign not to 
be easily resisted; rather than 1 her will, 
and convenience pass into voluntary 
tehes, and . 
pie th this folly 
business of ours to expose, e it but confined to 
the drawing-room t, unfortunately, it is co 
tagious ; it has already spread to the garden, and 
for ng we can tell, it ay be imitated by 
test ; it will never do 
er his plants or himself ss Sark; ; ; bit if one 
ie other be inevitable we must beg that it may an 
From thi 
Old School, otithstanding what some of our 
econ lease rote oe We hate 5 
axim is 
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sb 
ting upon this pri ee we ene, 99 
sta: 
i against putting plants into 
t 
ne who remember the meal floral exhibitions fn 
held last year ee London, r some instructive 
í ‘came of this p It was among the Pel 
ice 
goniums more especially that 2 art of the stay- 
r was co : by the 
assi 3 of 3 
We have seen even fore red by it, an 
1 Sg high 1760 10 980 5 very 7 of their 
s 1 this is fc great evil, and denkende 5 
_ rection, ry sometim 
: and fe then bu e an example 
it is also connected wit 
ignoranco of what conduces to vegetable 
m ne of the first causes of robust health in 
ra their being kept in r 
e 
s ari 
neatness inte every corner ofa garden 
of 
bre them in a state of nature. In for 
: it is its prevented, tpa tly epodan, byt 
e buildings; and, 
— tienes deprive plants of Ne 
oy mest can take there by putting them 
— “What with the heat at night, the suffo- 
e sti su y remind 
ws of nothing so much as the places where Strasbur rgh 
—_— Ahe tortured into disease for the sake of their 
T: te effects of 3 on the circulation of the 
22 Mr. Kue Land conseque uent 
i of wood, I e Phe: to — by = 
expedient, Early in the spring of 180 
expos 
0 motion by win 
parts of the 
ta 
it will be seen that we are men of the 
in ms it able 
m an anxiety to | w 
care and neatness diia: ; 
ith bad gardeni 
as to apm and it is as amply provided |; 
orci on ti office 
I selected a b ang of young seedling Apple trees, 
whose stems were about an inch in ‘diameter, and 
whose height, between the akva and first branches, 
Thus cireumstanced, the diameter of the 
h to 
8 pot exercis 
site direction in the following 
Li; 
n yore’ and 
e we shal 
ept in 
ion it * 
will be deposited peers! in the roots and low 
and the diame “a ‘of the latter 
will sg h 
the: 
already existing. ‘The 
will A similar 25 thet of the rk 
which its samo constantly expose 
e ree is wholly deprived of motion, by 
being trained to a wall, or when a large tree has 
been . of its branches, to fred, it 
often 
see pp n owing t 
descending sap, under the rigid —— of the life- | 
less seen bark.” 
here can be no doubt that these statements are 
true ; and it is equally 3 that they are 
e | bosom of . 7 45 
who allow 
garden staymaking were discouraged garden 
. e would na promoted. It would in fact become 
indispensable Hyacinths and Pelargoniums in a 
Pelar: 
forcing house, e wet heated and constructed 
as such places usually are, become so Sica as to 
of heating ete own 
em serv 
8 that gardeners are not necessarily blame- 
e for the bad 5 ion of their greenhouse 
m often does 
born children in the icy waters o 
order to hard e example might be fol- 
ning, where, as we 
ere in nee 
Stays are used e plants are weakly: r 
der plants robust, which is the great object of a 
re 
the na dec 
e 
man, labouring under many disadvantages, gives us 
fr reely and candidly the results of his own reflection 
and e ice 
cting i n this s spi tita spirit sina our corres- 
pondent — If will confess to be ju ust—we wi 
re-quote the passage involvit ing a general principle, 
the language of which he hie aig himself unable 
to comprehend, and would therefore cover with 
wo spe 
ridicule: “These (the two ‘ies of beaut 
Landscape Gardening) are general and picturesque 
eak more definitely, the beauty 
e and flowing orie 460 that 
irre . spirite 
at on earth is there of the Kr ee or the 
Voor ete: in ches words ?. Certainly, at an 
sight, the phrases general and? picturesque do n 
seem to answer the 
clearly. Buta itt 
that there is no Tn in the matter. 
Dowxixo means to a in the natu 
beauty e the earth's: surface and . aes 
re (as in almost rul 
the it ee — 
characterised by simple 
, ee by striking 
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he ys 
lar r spirited fo forms.” Is not this te Aa iy — 
find in one e ditt et the smooth, flowing — 
wats altogether a ean another the r 
the striking, ve and. take 
surface into the ror ce n, and it is not to be 
derte that ths simple flowing forms of beauty 
2 T 1 then of 
pec The 
cases on th 
displaying sublime, grand, and surprising objects. 
Why is it wrong 1 5 to style nes species of beauty 
the picturesque ? is just the sort of beauty which 
would attract and 3 the artist, and whi 
he would be delighted to 8 ina fit 
But it is only fair to Downiné to let h speak 
for himself. It will be seen ting in writing out 
more fully = these gr een he does 
ciate nonsen “In Natur 1 75 
s| gently undulating plain agaras 
partially or entire yf fonai: 
outlines of forest e 
me e 
e flowing 1 in out e 
oopin be in i masses od the very turf beneath e 
c old the 
Koin and i its s silvery dont, — the r 8 
of the lux t branches reflected in the placi 
lake 
swelling out and receding in gently curved lines 
the banks sometimes covered with soft turf sprinkle 
h flowers e mes clothed with luxuria 
shrubs. Here 
in 
tr enki suppor 
rn 
In 
wit 
masses of verdan are all the elemen 
e, easy, a 
n our critical correspondent give us u deseript 
as unple yet as beautiful as this r be 1 
is, not only in eae but as ale 2 prin 
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Larch or Pine with their strongly marked form 
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the first species ret 1 todo on 
A, ‘far the 
second. 
tor of the 
While, therefore, ‘he fair 9 — from 
gardener, and stays become needless. This r requires 
no further argum 
bri a We we have alread) said concerning 
readers will infer in what spirit he 
er fairly vie judged. re to allow for = 
érican notions and langua e—for the elty 
| of this the earliest attempt at a tos hoe publication 
0 the subject in a country w ost | 
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auty, we te not 1 — to a resque 
stood in the light of pr models p imitation in 
scape ö 
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8 new—and for the fact orl an e 
