^TaND HARDY CONIFER^. — The i 



liil^GAR^ENEREr. CHRONICLE. 



assafcetida 



>'.-. Badham ■ 





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o maKe a blunder in t ' 



Griper ' 

 a sheep for a wolf! Roques says that he o 

 stopped a couple of (doubtless mycophagous) 

 diers who were loaded with as much of a fun 

 called the "Slaver" as w, „' I hive I 

 regiments; the men -had mistaken it for "Yhe 

 our familiar 



Hedgehog.'] Nor does it > 



phagi and Lotophagi, and 

 euerphad, which our memory fails at preserving 

 » collection of. But they ar- -" --« 

 Utcophagi or Mycjetophagi, 



be only pro- 



mpreciate the merits of Toa 

 ous Nature 



feted, and yet destined to add another pleasure 

 to those which the world is wearied of. " Look," 

 mti Dr. Roques, " at the organisation and multi- 

 stools; what a field for inquiry! 

 flunkof their shapes, and how bi- they are ' Just 

 ooserre their colours; smell and Taste them.' Are 

 ■ot their markings those of the tiger or the rattle- 

 tuto.' Do not the sapphire and the amethyst 

 fed rivals there ? Can gold or silver excel them in 



Z-Z d ™. a , don his Prejudices they would 

 iome alone from 120,000 = lbs. to iftn.nSn lti !S- 



a to know how , 

 JP« be saved in 

 ^« to Providence there is 

 Wd dSth 8 "i }* WaS ' iudeed > seriously pro- 

 KiJJto exr 8 'J? **"%• that the poor should 

 W e «„": xcenat , llei r cookery to Toadstool: 



WrChL^ We aUtid P ate an ^ ■ 

 Wtienit i country r"—'- 



may boil her fun-use* with a • 

 nice it may come out clean and 1 



except long experience, 



The price that is paid by the mycophasdst for hi 

 curiosity is not to be thought lightly" of, evei 

 though he may not die. The penalty" f«. r t^tin 

 ' experimentally " is described to be contraction o 

 the jaws, sickness, heat, and pain in the stomach 



■-■■'.-,■.■ 



-■ debility, loss of sight, and 



•ecome Myco- 

 badly off as 



Isjan^Engli 



th;nk e tha? ptHcWon\Ve[yt 

 >at the study of cookable funguses be 

 •lor even among the Mycophagi of 

 nee, who may be supposed to " " 

 a=> practice and the instinct ^ 



J" a,r Wdadmi S si a jJ. onse their being 



vcrs ins >*«°r<>r 



agreeable time would be 



i entirely 

 * themselves "are a^iZ? 



Ar Wdlr" 



friends to eat f 

 * h,c h hav. 1 JW» d.rections. Don't eat 



„ thirst, 

 violent gripes; the fatal sh 



family who having supped 'on^ the" meat St w 



becoming aware of their condition." So that a 

 man must wait in suspense for four-and-tvventy hours 

 before he can know whether he is poisoned or not. 

 ■ms desirable to draw attention to this snb- 

 the present season, when Toadstools are 

 g up, because it is to be feared that the 

 e descriptions of fungi that have been made 

 lately may lead to serious accidents, r->— 



I throw away many 

 e thus deprive our palate 

 id perhaps that those in 

 _ ' to such as are rejected, 

 side ; the Mushroom, Chan- 

 terelle, Champigny, Morel, and Truffle, are enough 



Great Britain will never be brought to the condition 

 of Italian Lazzaroni. The great botanist Louis 

 Claude Richaed would never eat any Mushrooms 

 that were not raised artificially, and we may i " 

 upon it that though experiments in Mv ioj hu_\- t. 

 be safe for a Berkeley, a Roques, or a Badh 

 they are not so in the hands of the inexperienci 

 and that the requisite knowledge can only be gained 

 by more study and perseverance than the w ' ' 



i by a refined ii 



utleman— who laid 



What is the precis, 

 phrase, " Practical Man, 



-w. .•-'- 



*Tr? ? . If ^ mean the man v,. 



ssfully in that branch of art, how many are 



who deserve the name during the last century 



J Gardener tha 

 The builder 



the Builder 



onour of the design. Accurate workmanship is 

 le highest aim and praise of* the one— the far more 

 levated giory due to beautiful Taste is the reward 

 F the other. 



And yet these so-called " practical men " will 

 ■ eternally thrusting themselves into the more dig- 

 ged station, to the injury of their employers and 

 leir own eventual disgrace. Has Landscape Gar- 

 3iiing ever been a recognised profession — like 

 Music, or Painting, or Sculpture, or Architecture r 



":•. ■.'...'. : • . ., . ... 



sors. But what is the secret of every good 



Landscape Gardener's History? We do not care 



hat period of life he may have turned his atten- 



to the subject : it was forced upon him by the 



dener. But his inbred Taste~could not be repressed, 

 lie became one of our most eminent Land.-capc- 

 Gardeners— his plans being carried oat 



1 men." His nephew Holland fol- 

 lowed his example to some extent— but hit educa- 

 an architect. Then came Kn.oN- 

 Uitimus Romanorura— surely he was brought up to 

 m. Not a jot. He commenced life as 

 a general merchant. But that occupation soon 

 became distasteful to him. He could not keen 

 down the asp: Landscape 



Gardening. His resolution was taken and kept. 

 rxnciplea were soon mastered. The sub- 

 . 



i of which "we need hardly say that 

 il men " took the precis position, v\ h 



:ed by the same spirit of Taste— but'* 





What do v, 



from all this ? That without 



e practice of La 

 pure Taste be bom in him, it 

 aquahfi 



: and that if he have t 



Landscape-Gardenc- . 



-hake off the convc 

 the so-called " practical men " would shackle 

 d would keep his custom to 1 1 

 lulge in the gratification of his own Taste 



J ordered a specimen of the Grapes, 



