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a garden, in whieh the various flowers with which the tered safely : — ^ doors, housed in with mats and remarks were not intended to eontravert-Ne; M^Donaid's 
| chumps a — e — be inspected with comfort even in Fern, with a door on the — side ran giving them air. statement that: Annie Salter is — 1 о keep in a 
. The beauty of this mount is also | These have lived these 10 years, so that those who sound state сам the winter; for 1 knew that, like 
— niger eer by Mr. Frost introducing here and do not mind the unsightliness of their winter houses, | Fearless and some others, it is — to peru prema 
yar noble standard Fuchsias, with clean stems, 5 and | which look not unlike huge Jees'-eaps, may have these | tumely; — less, Ir ‘that the true cause of 
Р feet high, and heads. thie okly-s studded with blossoms tender sorts on the open lawn in summer, when, of | the seareity of this sort is its h been 80 
and 5 feet through. These have just been planted ; of course, they are exceedingly handsome. The large —.— up by e — In the paragraph respecting 
* main out all summer, and will be“ potted Araucaria imbricata, the largest in Europe, we believe, | new: varieties, ld appear the recommendation 
up” in autumn, pruned in like. standard Rose trees, and is now a most magnificent tree, being regularly fur- of Mr. M* Donald. зем take side shoots. from the main 
wintered in a cool greenhouse: — cort, are prepared | nished- with branches from the very ground to the top. | stem, after the plant has been turned out and. has 
Geraniums are managed. i 
effect, when judiciously placed in the kind of sylvan | sempervirens, a tree 18 feet high, has stood quite unin- practice was what I wi to discourage. I trust, 
scenery we have just been describing, is certainly grand | jured. A Douglas Fir, the seed of which. was sown by | therefore, ай”, W vill be satisfied with thia: 
in extreme. white Nareissi, Mr. eee in March, 1828, is now a splendid tree in the | explanatio 
a ſew early Tulips, = crimson —— у аге shape of a regular cone, 65 feet high, and its branches 
in n the flower-gard This is in at the base are nearly as much in diameter. This н m ow an: гос m na. Босат 2 May. — Some о, gee 
the height of its beauty ab about the: middle: of June, when | was stated r ти or it would hay © | were awarde ed. to Auricula Lor J, Russe vertente о — 
the titudes of standard Roses which it contains are bag Py Bain ies the £^ a papa d 
— Then it is indeed a sight worth going miles Lady Grenville kin DEN ows the grounds to be shown came е, об. Sox 
to see. After the Roses are done, the tall ia qna: of | to to respectable vis at all times, except Sundays, Tae Welling VELIM n 
Phloxes in ov — place ; these when the place is «oam г all parties. base of the upper wahr ie howei — — an 
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spring 2 Seillas, early Tulips, Nareissi, and — Ме, Н ome иһ M p four to 
ou — Me. Prost is v lace to bedding Mn. Groom's Turis. These are just now in per- colour is deep гозу pin lower 
lr. Frost is — h the clumps. | fection, and we can promise our readers that a sight of peta P а Ping vol reine i thon 2 M d - madre Kind "Tip 
1 1 d and them will amply repay а visit- The best bed, 120 feet №. 1а — біна — ¢ Salisbury a medin 
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as soon as their is past — be lifted, to erhaps finer this. year than. ever we have seen ps wr dy rt white.. kind, diem due. tipped. vaa pure 
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. M hors mee and Narcissus ticus, which, some of the varieties in this, as well as in some —— heavi * — with р, — ; ^ M бм — 
when at i scents the whole garden with its sweet- | beds in the neighbourhood of London. e" Land adtragtive v + Label mendation. 
— of that sort, the foliage is tied up and | Tue — correspondent: who | уйме. Тыге W „ . — se 
ing plants are introduced between them. As has been pleased to criticise: an article of mine in The — , .— . G. Henderson, of 
we have just stated, this kind of work is now proceeding | Scottish Florist" has not quoted the sentences which Wellington Road, Me, Parsons sent а-Сіпогагіа called One in 
rapidly here, even although the weather is ve — he has attempted to correct fully, and — T tho Ringa pleasing Kind, but too small. 
vourable for the purpose. The ill effects of the latte | venture: to give them in their original. state, in order SEEDLING FLOWERS. 
are, however, somewhat counteracted by sticking bith that pportunity of — Carcronarrass (7 — Au detached from thelr numbers, and 80 
of the common Laurel all over: the, bed рст. the — — — — . |н rs E AT Pew is wouid how nfairto offer any opinion on 
plants. These break,the force _of both sun and wind; |have:advaneed; «То great objection: (I suid) te the hee. Mi, Croats озони, аро with dark рш Y 
tfe leaves md shrivel u up, and of the Dahlia, is the fficulty | — В La a — — — are concerned, 
8 by 1 мотоа and — — — ty it — — — mall у — alt. — — 
oughs removed, the plants, even if the ut season the loss to more gen ens ſaulty in pointof 
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uthey “the er with impunity. | small ecale, but to be:severely felt by some o argest|  unfortunatel dim 
Mr. Frost's iem however, which number many growers: both: in — сй зь ай; во much so, Сіневлшяв: 24. nA, — — — ik enpteltir 
thousands, are wintered in. cool frames, to which that it is said there exist only а few roots of the finest nat, о. fine, эл. when re аме In. Puts cal du ma 
air dme given: on all favourable oecasions, and Dahlia sent out last season, — Salter — I — Ња. ма } 
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M odendron hedgo, and co with а | have been bestowed: on: е to fin t after root Calendar or Operations. 
во that, treated on this cool s they are well prove to be useless.“ Bu “д. 7^ ^ think ieis | z 
they are өйгө ager mri fr being tt i known in tl — E» | (For the. — week), 
Some large beds of Séarlet an ler. A m generally cultivated. last season ; that, in fact, it — | 
been planted: they аге edged with Ma ; [omiy grown by a few, and): proving t to bo very fine, the PLANT DEPARTMENT. 
whose silvery leaves and pink bl —2 * i: roots were r = by the trade, in pos cen Larcr Orange trees grown. for placing in the flower 
with the more RAM oceupants of the bed. Scart enable a. sufficient: supply to be propagated to meet the garden or grounds during the summer months may now 
Garanin ums which hav ) над Азна аа бын , the variety this season, This is, I | be removed — gata — m 
н out o . reparatory to their being apprehend, more the cause of the sort disappearing they are to oceupy for the season. II been 
placed in vases in the dover parton | pr енча — the roots. My authority — | . dT Ht ir леба тыну a their 
The glass houses are дах. With flowering: arn ww Annie as having been all lost, except а few roots, diserti tita ' t should not 
aes in: good condition; . Theo 'orangery w was one of the best ‘best Dahlia growers: of the: present they are out of doers, as the newly-formed leav 
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y i colour. The — —— Grapes is just of of; therefore; remains unaltered; As- ipm new havera free sunny exposure if possible, but protected 
! иді same Vines һауе; been forced varieties, I said that “private growers gene- from high winds, Keep, a damp: growing heat. to 
there for these. 31 years, they аге etl. producing exeel- | rally. e best | Camellias: and. Azaleas making, woad s:the lation. ate 
i уен үвог{8, and they are — grown. in too rich | very liable to become: infested. with. thrips, which can 
second house has just been thinned ; — too, contains | — ` pr — sound keeping stock roots; there- | only be реци down by fumigating with tobacco, followed 
y diffused good егор, Pines Melons, and cuttings. can be got from them, up each alternate night for a week, and. s yringing them 
Cucumbers are also very — The “different. — eliould'be be: planted sing singly in 2-inch: ру and rooted at the same time jwith diluted tobaeco-water until all 
examples of Wistaria sinensis, trained along verandahs | ‚ав soon as às possible. Those cuttings got from the main appearance of the pe. is gone. The utmost vigilamee 
and are floweri . this year, not ste h sooner — — from | will now. be required in keeping the more choice plants 
only at Dropmore, — . places. A singular the seme 5 Now; —— could be con- in a healthy growing state, and at the same time pre- 
one plant here is that а strued as follows 1 am at a loss to guess, but C. J. Ey” serving that proper uniformity of growth to insure 
lange branch « бачат ad. got troten off from the | writes—“T would caution’ private growers, whose:pur- | perfect and well-bloomed specimens. .. The pr 
rally confined to gra eachiof the hen the active growth’ of the plant should cease, and 
Aen rom the main stem as its energies be direeted ‘to: maturing the current 
be got, as. Mr. "Donald directs j. and wood, сап. scarcely’ be laid down as a rule; the 
the | Rm by a writer in Tamaiti! Жар foe Мау, ly the clan, and: ihe partioular perii at which 
In what is called the =e here, This writer says, ‘Lam, desirous| as- a guide for determining the» point; it will, how- 
f ol the mansion, a of warning the uninitiated against an error I once com- ае outs че. t the wood -— 
beauty, quite filling the. whole roof with long festoons Thus it happened: I was over covetous, and. wanted: to though. they may mot get: into such’ lange plants, they 
of flowers. We may mention that Mr. RA obtain two plants at the price of one; no sooner,| will be better able 40 resist the attacks of mildew jn the 
this Rose as soon as ever it goes out of bloom, re- therefore, had I obtained my supply. from pe ing v ; and the 1 
moving all the wood that has just flowered, but retaining | nursery, than I set to work, 3 cut off the is always: greater in plants ripening their wood . 
and tying in any well placed healthy young, shoots; head of each individual, and proceeded to strike On tlie contrary, young.-plante growing into specimens— 
that it may have produced. Pink and searlet nosegay the severed tops in heat. By this process I certainly and where for a year or two bloom is no object-—may, 
Geraniums, &., covered the walls, and on the floor doubled the number of my * bats but at the same after their first growth is over, and being allowed в 
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were groups of. Azaleas,.mostly, Mr. Frost’s own seed- time J so weakened: them prt that they; cocer dti which keen {Чеш mater Йе: be 
lings, by the raising of which he. has been. fortunate became incapable of 5 Nes eot нө" gre н, givi a: larger 
enough to fine ki oom&/ This, then (says J. E.), is well ponit iini is necessary, and paying 2 резе attention 
te: Ая ——— — on: Pinuses, tor паида to operate as a caution..to pem second growtli, by stopping, i me. &c., ав 
which we need not say is famous; w. too. free with the main stem of. their wir diei pant ingen Orchids w making 
are — Р. patula; P: Pineay. or Stone: е but i it is, nevertheless, a g А STLAR чечине 
Pine, and Cupressus thurifera, are all that have the growi of the Dahlia, that after it the he id in ! 
injured. The greater portions of the two latter ki inds has become —À established in me prend, some of — —— ee The e path s, walls, &c., : | be 
are. dead, and. P. Neunte. has; been. a; good. deal latent buds on езіп stem n è ground often | frequently damped оп bright days, and thie plants gently 
browned. is but righ ti start i that "iin. prete 3 inches long over once ог twiee daily. Air may now.be given 
none of the new sorts are here, such as Saze. these make the best of summer cuttings, rooting in half | more liberally, : 
Gothza conspicua: or Fitz-Roya patagoniea, &c. the — those taken from the branches require. to prevent strong currents of 
Mr. Frost. has, we believe, Pinus — but it = That is all the mutilation I recommended, John the plants. Shade regularly 
not been rien Young trees of. Araucaria M‘ I Dinald, Drummond Cast pa i reference to the such plants as nne e E 
about 6 fest high, have win- above . J. E." has sent us tlie following] :— My| rays in the Ji 
