THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
SELECT PLANTS. hybridisation. The last point will naturally suggest | these preliminary chapters, Humsotpr at =< 
ENIAMIN W.. KNIGHT, „ Tivoli, the possibility of produeing by such means new | treats on the laying out of parks gardens. It is 
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1 Te en. — for 4s. ; may inquire whether it be possible to produce character plants and their assemblage in 
13 extra first-rate, ve Sew varieties, for 9. 12 fine Cotton in other countries capable of contending | contrasted gr is not only an incitement to the 
— — — e the first Pat time, for 312 with the Cottons * 1 now bear the highest cha- study of Nature, and itself one of the objects of 
See oot PETUNIAS for de. $e: 6d. and distinct racter and bring the highest price in the English | that fers 9 but —— to the ph of 
.. good distinct CINERARIAS S for Ge nd fine | market plants is also o t importance in Lan 
tinct wee rm —— s 6d. L ; 13 zani In the first point of our inquiry we have to lament | G — i Sg — of composing a lan 2 
fine distinet ing mexicana. Cameroni, and in this, as in several other cases, the little attention | If this simplo principle had been always kept in 
9 Si An e oa (the best for bedding out), tor 3s, | that has been paid to the identification of the ies | view, what a safeguard should we have had inst 
eties of AOHIMEN ES for 6s, 12 A t CHRY SAN. of cultivated plants. Some bot por enumerate as | the — arrangements and the ugly devices 
7122 and be, for Ss. 6d, Aparna — varieties for | many as 20 species, others reduce them to two. which have so often been dignified by the title of 
és. 12 fine bedding out Plants, such as Lobelias, Senecios, | One cultivator states that he Saisie’ more — 100 | Landscape Gardenin 
—1 — ote — deen es kinds, another describes 18. It is impossible, with} The author's sketch, as we have said, is 
— — any risk of of perishing, the damey available materials, to define the exact rapid; but full of information. The e deep feeling 
Choice varieties of erior fore eT frm agn. tye * — — number of species. ere is no doube. that Cotton | for Nature,” is shown to have glowed in the Semitic, 
= ie fe — kn to cients as a produce of India, Indian, and Iraunian nations, while arliest 
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ve may — * on prepaid applica- and the first discoverers of America ascertained its ornamental parks mentioned in history —.— 
tion, enclc oe — — A —— is | existence in that quarter of the world. This has | middle and southern Asia” The gardens of Semt 
respectfully req been a by Cotton, both in a raw and — noes of — — Kings, —— their 
r ae manufactured state, having b aped Cypresses—the Asiatie terrestrial 
Arie, Septet lake, One setts — a Peruvian tombs. The probability, therefore, would — — Plane trees of Xenxes—all 
Dahlias in cultivati on foka —— be that there are at least hy species of Cotton pass before us in clear and concise review: And 
Whore only three varieties were p 8 — ee plant; but there are, faet, four distinct then we are — that “in the most distant part of . 
the most beautiful flower J. — — aad species which ma y be * defined and distin- the old continent the Chinese gardens appear to 
ge — — — os wang ai east guished. Thee oF these yield the great mass, if have approached most nearly to what we now call 
flower, for form and colour, is the best yet offered. Three not the whole of the Cotton of commerce. What- |English parks.” This statement would a 
aioe ot 4. Karem . — species there may be it is unnecessary not seem to harmonise with Sir W. Cuaunnns⸗ 
NELL GW aS (the tee — — for our purpose to notice. version of Chinese gardening, to which we 
1 one over yet offered. 10 6 3 In dian Cottou is yielded by 9 alluded. In the quotation which we are about to 
dat ae Baone, oe R herbaceum, which it would be better, with Lamarck, | make, not only is there no trace of the absurdities 
Dited, arranted by J. Keynes 10 6 to call G. indicum, as under it may be included ali which charmed that worthy knight, but it would be 
WAR EAGLE, —— — og eo pera the Cottons cultivated in India. Dr. Rox UH difficult to lay down — truths more accu- 
rr Metropolitan considered the Cotton of Dacca, of Berar, and of rately than is here accomplished, “What is it,“ 
Show, the only place wheredt was was exhibited, . hina, to be all varieties of this species, which says an ancient Chinese writer, Lrev-rscuev, “ 
“Oars ag a io 6 extends from Persia in 8 inor, and the we seek in the pleasures of a garden ? has al 
"alte ora 7 6| Me ean. It is possible that it may at one been agree: hese tations should 
BELTED ENIGI Nigan d e = Oranga cig a time have been introduced into America, as stated men amends for living at a 
GE CUNNING tities catia cent 7 6/in some works, but the 3 species, at present would be thei more congenial and agreeable dwell- 
“TOISSON DOR, (B mas — pare orange = — cultivated, are quite istin ; mg place—in the free and uncon- 
CARDINAL FERRETTI, (Van «Ret vos) id 10 6 ossypium arbor reum. is ecies found in strained. The art of laying out gardens: consists 
GLORI DE PECK, (Pants’s).—Blush white 10 % | many parts of India, in gardens and clumps of trees, therefore in combining cheerfulness of prospeet, 
9 aay mezi n trusting that the = intens serie out | but never cultivated im fields. It is frequently men- | luxuriance of growth, shade, retirement, and repose 
in a safe guarantee for his selection, | tioned by the name ä the Cotton — produee an illusion. 
—so that the rural as od 
' J. Kevwzs will have "3 good stock of XELLOW STANDARD, published by order of the House of — in Variety, which is — chief merit in the natural 
CAPTIVATION, LADY | —— a and ANDROMEDA, | 1847, as something new. It is distinguished by its Landscape, must be sought by the choice of ground 
All the new flowers of the painon vill do supplied on receipt sbboreces habit, red flowers, and fine silky Cotton. with alternation of hill and dale, flowi wing streams, 
3 i a But though a poor bearer it must be noticed again and lakes cove par g e plants — tang 
with the experiments on hybrid Cottone, is wearisome; and a garden where every 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle. c Barbadense, or Barbadoes Cot-|etrays constraint and art becomes tedious a 
ossypium 4 ' 
' SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1848. ton, was early introduced into the c= and distasteful.” Now all praise be given to this 
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e ann mA Pea May 24: — Friday, the Sea Island and the New Orleans Cotton. Pro- iavented by a single writer, and even then 
| May 26: Devon and Exeter Horticu:tural at: 1 
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Is pursuing onr inquiry into the principles whieh | Georgian Cotton. The proofs that all these are| sentence shows such a notion to be wt 
A description which Sir Groner Stauwron has 
should guide us in the CULTIVATION or COTTON, varieties, and not species, will be gag OF 5 i ial 
not in one, bat i in al the countries where this valu- 8 en ae of - 25 — pace = 4 —— ann 
substance is now produced, some facts require or. Brazil Cotton >, distinguished! ° ai a gat 
in inthe 3 9 by the black oe adhering firmly together into a Precepts of Lru-rsenzv—precepts to which our 
the plant, its soil, ci pe Teel poe yea alg pecting kidney-shaped body, seems to be the same ies ingenious contemporary, who formed the beautiful 
will oa ioe — — that which De. Koxsuxcn called G G. acuminatum, par rk at Moscow, would not refuse his e sanama 
a n ie oo E and and + of Indie, 2 o be a native of the in- ra Even i en this would. se em sufficient "Si Sie W. 
; r speci 7 +, | terior — — — = oo and grave — 3 
if the prier 3 1 ak the acclimutised in the course of the numerous experi- C#amseRs’s views as to Chinese Gardening. The 
determination — janata kaf ié m — — o been e —U e, a 
culture of Cotton in Indi e, m, to 
jes, gi 1 Places eee 3 e shall next 3 a soil and climate of doubted Knight, who seems really to have out- 
r * — * ee ies, eee ae Cotton distri Quixoted Don QUIXOTE himself. If any thing 
are successfully cultivated. If Possible, it is in find i it in t T 
many cases desira 4 ascertain whether a vege-| Ir would not be very manifest to the cursory| We have all heard and read of the Chinese Poet- 
table product is yielded in the largest quantity and | reader w why Humsorpr should dwell so much on Emperor 5 He gives his imperial sane- 
finest in a wild state, or ed Narionat Taste in different climates and ages, in tion to the sa e good principles; and Humsorpr 
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sufficien io marei of Cotton, we 2 it . respect to the contemplation and enjoyment of well r 3 ers the spirit of his poem. “ The 
the cultivated plant a tural sarily e poem composed in of 
tala Ce A this it will be requisite to ascer-| brief in our notice of this portion of his work. last ated by the Emperor Kiznenone to celebrate 
ene Gl tities of soil, of climate, and of Indeed, we have rather confined ourselves to the the former Mantchou imperial resi ! 
to yield suit the ent species, and enable | more salient points, and to those nations in which and the graves of his ancestors, is also expressive 
N. z Nen only a large quantity of Cotton- we feel the greatest interest. But the whole of the of the most thorough love of Nature, sparingly 
— 1 pach as is suitable in length, strength, | two first chapters of his second volume are well embellished by art. The royal knows how to 
of fibre, or „as it is commonly | wo — e tem = studied, and will amply repay the blend the cheerful images of fresh and rich meadows, 
tering the nature of the product, ned ample, their diff 4 = ovana | 
: i e, t comparative in i . to arkable umeration of the wild 
whether Á A pS Oduce is neces- | beauties of Nature, ns matter of what order they — of the — ten enliven the district, 
accompanied with any deterioration of its | might be, fully accounts for their style of gardening | is tedious, as didactic poetry always is: but the 
also be —a ngi which, from the iptions handed down | weaving together the impression received from the 
, | visible landscape (w ic as e am backe 
2 must ee been always poor and mean, and y very ground of the picture) with elevated ob- 
or from taal often ludicrous, Having cleared 223 way, then, by | jects taken from the world of ie ideas—with the fulfil- — 
