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as planted one of them with Peach trees, and the other by feeling the soil with the finger, or giving the pot & 
Garden Memoranda. with Vines, both of which have done remarkably well. КА оп the ут with the knuckles. voi ile it i is — 
CasTLEMARTYR, THE SEAT OF THE EARL or SHANNON.— m e other house is а plant stove ; the middle range of no water is needed; when it feels tts then water— 
Having, with a friend, spent a Кы of two days in glass is divided ed «€ compartments, one of them is which — will not be of — than three times —— 
examining some of the most interesting objects at this full of Pine plan П planted out; the other three in autumn and winter, aud y day i in spring an 
fine place, and Mr. Mitchell, his lordship’s gardener, | | divisions are filled ‘with bedding plants for next season. mer—giving it copiously every time, and i безин it to 
haying taken much pains to show us everything worth The front or third range of glass is aleo divided into run away entirely from the plant, so that the pots ma; 
seeing, we baro ventured to furnish you with some four compartments; one of these is filled with Pine never stand in it, The water used mmt be either rain 
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Chorozemas, &c., and Ericas ; among ад — we ge bottom with evergreens. eo at the outside up, or by removing the plants outside, 
served a very fine pm of E. several good trees of Paulovnia bn &c. ; all the uds this is done under а bright sun, the pots will 
tre h d filled 5 with | | roads here are made of limestone broken small, and are have to be shaded, as the sun upon the sides of the pots 
Seaver ee mei 1 2 e iar — 3 ome — nd ae s firm as a rock. As the noble proprietor of this mag- would prove injurious to the young roots, aud would 
пао alg эр st kinds of Fuchs greatly inju an 
— bloo In the open grounds rere seve | publie, we may mention here that we know of no place to the sun, the flowers would soon fade and dr 
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nse bush. Picea Webbia as made the extra- | walled in. In it is à valley, on each side of which the room during М ie o 4th. Examine them 
=н growth of T feet 11 ico this seas Season, that of is a very considerable height—that on ше siona Hy, to se f the pot are full of roots. if this is 
the previous year having 30 inches ; this will give right more particularly so, and which is covered w | the tr) and 2 plan nts ire — 5 A get tome good 
some idea of the rate of — of other trees and a young plantation. On the very summit, amon dei | soil, and shift them into pots а s or if not 
shru s in these grounds, The mansion is a large plain tolerably large trees, there is a very beautiful cottage, | | shi ed, be more careful in месна water, v diy will 
building, apart from the old castle, which is covered with from which a fine view of the surrounding country for | require more when in this state, In summer, water 
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noble expanse of water, with the park on one side, and cottage we were not a little surprised to find great also need it at the root as well. These may be ado 
on the other a plantation, half a mile, ог more, in length. e of Dears planted among Larch and Scotch as very general rules, though more а 
The trees by t e wa rside consist principally of ever- Firs, and growing equally well. Araucaria imbricata | for some plants than others, but very good for 
green Oaks, which are very numerous and large. The | has likewise been planted here in great quantities. We | There is a good deal to be considered їп buyi ing ттт! 
sana. д i MN * surprising. They kad never seen the Cotoneaster so fine, ien planted | in making the proper choice; for. ifying 
were flow at the time .of so а s here. In forming the roads which | may . hie 
our vit October 13m), and Mr. Mitchell informed wind round this hill, considerable cuttings had .to be 
us that they would continue in blossom until April next. made ; i the top f hese x Cotoneaster has. y iccession 
Among Conifers we observed two specimens of Abies | planted, and has a ready in many places reaehed the ! Mi ind ose foliage is interesting when the bloom 
morinda 20 feet in height. We never saw before such groun round. In the DT v of the valley there NE natural is gone. "This rule may be devia ted h in behalf of 
ofusion er- Thesoil here j Tulips, Crocuses, Hy sointia, and cler bulbs, which are 
n trees and shrubs as we met with here. We ar b when little élse is in flower, "These will also ' 
now at a wooden bridge which spans iow lake, iwi leis Е а ЕЎ that led. e E 1) eh "e mons ound, | —.— the darkest streets of ou ur r dies Th hey ought 
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of Hydrangeas. These: were growing in the open ground, | with all the best Conifers, which, with very few | pots when they are P. art g to grow ; for if delayed 
and were covered with flowers of most beautiful ceptions, have шд, Be or ‘the time they E ve “teen | till they are in bloom, nine-tenths of their value is lost, 
blue со while on either side of the bridge, = to | planted, very rapid an aec siii peru a because they are нт трей in ev e 
i imbricata and Deodars.are here b reds, an og alli ж gro "d from the first formation of the leaves to the 
3 highest possible vigour, After асте візы from tree | | perfeet n of the flower. Every day of development has 
; ellias to tree, we stumbled upon one of the finest we had ever its chen $ and therefore i Ph, ought to be possessed. 
ia in the open air, as large as sized Laurel | seen, and that is a plant of po nobilis, 14 feet in from the first. If in pots, all these 
and loaded with Auer buds; me only protection height ; the growth of the tree for the last two seasons is supply of water —— in a vij er en 
ever receive is an te covering overhead to 5 feet. Nothing can exceed its health, beauty, and co et wom showing 
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Christm here are severa воб, ees. of Comsat A.B. As the bloom dies off 2 may 
principally eld kinds, cen many years ago, such as P, Webbiana, 8 and 10 feet high, also of P. —— „ down the stems, which — have broken from 
Colvilli and Waratah, Gees at the end uns pointed out to | Cophalorica, and Pichia, 6, 0, 10у and 12 feet high ; of zm umi Pennala, Toon Bomani Ao cub ач 
us the anion) plant: of Double White, which the late | Abies. morinda there are several trees 12 feet hi frst, let it be on a strom healthy stock, perfectly straight; 
Earl of NUM obtained many years ago from Messrs. | There are also great numbers of the Douglas Fir 30 feet d ** — should have been placed on a strong в 
Lee and Kennedy, of Hammersmith—it.was full of flower high, all very young trees, We noticed several that had ana пев — aa отк A tock — sa st 
buds and in good health. In this garden we observed a grown 12 feet in four years, which is at the rate of 3 feet 5 е те) handsome.: Ав 
х й 8 years, $ s regards pruning; 
large bed of the white Indian Azalea, which stands out in а season, An Abies:religiosa, 22 feet high, has stood object should be to o get the head as large across as the e beg 
well without any protection. T were also here large here uninjured. In England, most of our Pinetums are from the ground to its under part; and in thickne 
ps of all the tender and finer kinds of ‘scarlet on well kept lawns; we know one RR the trees are all — — à uin ty, бы two-thirds — diameter, ча 
ododendrons, fine young Deodars 30.feet in height, planted in rows like a rood of Cabbage plants, but here in order that the lower branches may incline downwards; md 
and plants of Dammara australis planted out. There there is a forest in miniature of all the best Coniſers, these end ad being left two or three eyes long ev 
Wasa fine young tree of Araucaria imbricata 15 feet growing in the most natural position, being — —2 — cin arg he dei izo 
high, and a plant of Cedrus argentea, 17 feet high ; but | elevated piece of ground, about 12 aeres, pg long eyes may be left. As trees advance to a large size, they 
perhaps the finest plant of all was a Cryptomeria Grass ара Fern. To enumerate one-tenth part of all the require less assistance from us. They assume an imposing 
tree of kable beauty; the branches and In two years hence, this will be one of the e liie prunin 
foliage being very close and psta se, and ere. im 13 in the United Kingdom. M. S. " * 
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К е do not attempt to particularise all — — Truſftes.— The cultivation of e “Truffle, во long 
bjects of this charming spot, still we cannot depart . FLORICULTURE. | deemed an impossibilit цуз pan at length been. accom- 
ithout mentioning the handsome Yew that stands — mel The discovery was made at Macon, where 
centre of the groun t rn 
о Laurels 
japonica 18 feet high, and only six years yate This beautiful Conifers here would, indeed, be а tedious task. appearance, and the in inerease of the head is very — в — 
is a remarkabl ; чн 
‚а WIx Dow Garpeninc.—There аге many who have (Madan Nagel, pro саба vata a chateau 
ot gone far before we not the convenience of a greenhouse, who are, neverthe- bourhood, has, this autum 
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\ À on in attending to them. It is not to be denied, too, | be prosecuted are küown, 
the south front of the mansion, where there is one of the к after all their endeavours, their plants frequently | than to im rove 1 ae 
most beautiful and well kept lawns we had ever seen. | Jook sickly, and finally dia The blame is often laid at Macon © ы: 
are ev ‘equally well kept; | the door of the florist who supplied them. for not giving 
lerer The heat, 
— al of ат Hydrangeas in. flower. — the and light have ай been arranged and regulated.as the easy and profit as that 
garden ere first shown through a range of | utmost skill aud experience could suggest. The tran- vegetables. Bath. Nov, 17. 
excellent orig owas, consisting of four Vineries two | sition from all m regularity to the tender mereies of | . Berthold Seemann. n.—We learn with pleasure that 
Peach-houses, and in the centre .a pent t-house. The the purchaser is soon felt. Drowning or starving, or ihe Алек peas ya conferred the degree of 
were off the Peach trees, the wood of which | neglecting ан ыл wd uncommon fate. The pots Doctor of Philo r considera- 
appeared in excellent m for pati next spring. or. i : 255 his emi the cause of science as 
In one of the Vineries there was an excellent crop | wi mann pad. aes 
t Grapes, and in another a very good crop of they are set in some conspicuous and left to Unfermented B. — Patent granted April 27, ——— 
well 1 Black Hamburghs. In front of this range their fate. In the first case, the leaves turn yellow. uim (No. lose ii e Turner, of Bradley — . 
is a etrical р акаи вылу Л and drop, Ше flowers fall, and in а very short time гасе, Wandsworth —Ü 7 and Robert Hol 
it from can 0 
a Yew hedge, which separates the culinary | all that be seen of them is their naked stems, of St. James's Street, Ha "New erst Old IA 
epartment. This flower garden looked as fresh and | with little tufts of green on the tops or points of the Road. Improvements їп the man — Ce 
Bayon the 13th October as flower gardens elsewhere | shoots, which a few days before were in perf ; in mented bread, which improvements p — ee 
usually do in August; the beds were filled with the | the latter case, the plants die with all the leaves and tc карайы боре . This inven- 
best. kinds of Verbenas, Calceolarias, Scarlet Geraniums, | bloom upon them. early all the evils attending plants tion. i reby 
Ce. Ke, In this garden stands a noble tree of ee grown in windows are to be traced to these 
a * 35 feet high and 40 feet in diameter. a at w. oes rules nc 
iges end of this garden are three ra of lass houses; which, i rly atten arane nearly | 4 
| the back ra nge is divided int pated 4 4 iocari ait this — st. Never water 3 0 parts; 
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y Pine stoves, but latterly Mr. Mitchell r want it. Thais eaei y known | | Bast India —— 
