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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
831 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ms LONDON. 
E ~ pea AT oe pa 
Tar Second Exh bit e place on ‘ae, the _— 
Subjects for E Exhibition must > at this Office on F 
ne. 
dad ‘the 10th of June, or at the Garden before half-past Fight 
o'clock, A-.M., on he da ay of Exhibition. The Gates will be 
cpened at One, P.M, perches, are issued to Fellows at this Office, 
price 5s. each ; re at the Gar the days of 
Exhibition at ids. each; but 1 be issued without an order 
from a Fellow of ‘the sceseey, at: Regent. street. 
T the APRERSHON, . and request of many 
entlemen, AXTON’S COTTAGERS’ 
Country 
aie eienare tie 
SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1842. 
MEETINGS IN aoe ENSUING belay 3 
orticultural . 3 P.M, 
- Linen ‘Anniversa: 1 P.M, 
ae) A Seale Zoological . , ny + 8orm 
Postoutteaas - 2 Pe 
Medico- ae ip - & PM, 
famed , Liticrscapial . 8 am 
a See eed Pec otanic 47M. 
‘Country Snowe ee 24, pig erkshire. 25, "Norwich. 26, Ipswich 
Cucumber. 
We refer our readers to a full — eae 
me brs —— 
on Saturday ortly after 12. o’clock, the apenas 
and Prince Albert honoured the gar y a visit 
he D Devonshire, President, an 
; Ww 
pleased to express her great admiration of the beau- 
tiful flowers, and her satisfaction at the ral ar- 
rangements on the occasion. out seventeen 
years since the Queen was in the garde re. 
With regard to the exhibition itself, we doubt 
whether on any former occasion there b 
many inst of high cultivation, o 
 gatheri 
_ it shows that the legitimate purpose of the Society— 
that of promoting good gardening—is really attained 
byt nd i encouragement held out to the public 
on these 
3 Ww 
_ Yeaders with the subje 
greenhouses, wi ens are | tion incomparably more health and attractive than 
* profusely disfigured, will one day be unknown a ever ies oe the = nhouse ; 
of ae is regarded, and that some better m If glazed sashes are too expensive, canvas or other 
ath ay the plants of temperate countries to en- } screens can be jendiy: substtated 5 ” but in vias dao case 
all, in Wi evised. nservative | the plants =a fo nee from bein ng kept in darkness 
. safeguar re ee ESempeciatonas fax re — asure | during: oe 
; y sperien, and atthesame| Where ht’ preferable. other set of a 
1 une adda a Gelightful feature to the flower-garden, wn the outside hap fi ‘for the shes, ca ln i 
Ball tig sete eM: curishing in the open ai carey fore Mod bt, eri ‘rigorous v e 
‘ mmer long. We are sorry, howevery dist Where this i is done, the ; pecealy Be e-he: 
_ absence of some of the Orchidaceou 
ou 
ia as 
; found 
n 
A critic tical? eye might, indeed, have discovered the 
s flowers produced 
ald 
Set stthaea AS iat aaa 
ave so often occupied the attention of our 
ect of Aspa aragus, that it would 
be said 
s will —_ up into sm aaaae of 
ulated by th 
para 
to Filive Fictoat 
shoots, all eatab, le, and as compact as a Cauliflow 
Aare number of “ Paxton’s ‘Magazine of Botany” 
eg wall tha to say, 
on which i nhouse plants, and those which 
artificns are not pcx y ae to bear the open air without 
and: maintainin 
* pith entertained the opinion ‘that d che may te 
sheds called whic 
we have not room for all Mr. Paxton’s observations 
seat bo Pp i but the following will convey an 
idea 8 vi ews. 
2) In n fort ming a conservative wall, it a Dmcagel that 
it should have a south or sou uth-weste 
also desirable 
pears 
th recesses 
imi di _— ay of the 
 aulivona shelter 
r, the whole be 
eaitih me eI of whic 
“Thea 
against the wall, instead of F fastening the plants to i 
in the usual way, need scarcely be pointed re 
ently of ite s superior appearance, whic spot 
pendently o 
too frequently neglected in such matters, the grea 
ease with which the branches can be attached to it, 
and ee or altered at any time, is quite sufficient 
to give it the ‘haya while the gale p and 
defacement of the w: 
ts, give a value to any system by which they can 
d The extra expense of the trellis is too 
i| trifline to be regarded.” 
— — found, in attempting to grow eae 
agains walls, that whatever tends to rve 
the border in which they are planted compartively 
the winter, does more towards shelterin 
nly i a. proportion to the 
fluids mx contain, protection to the medium in which 
, perhaps, even more necessary t 
stems and branches. It will therefore be seen ‘that the 
portion of the er where the must be 
covered, ad that if m4 etn or other 
tually given to the wall does n 
der, a coating of dr ier should read over it as 
soon as severe weather cemmences, re be retained on 
it until the spring. 
The ollowing wood-cut, which we have borrowed 
from the “ Magazine of Botan ny,” with Mr. Paxton’s 
permission, will explain his views more fully. 
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ja aa 
“ Fig. 1 is an elevation of a highly ornamental con- 
servative wall, which m may be extended either way to 
h to a foot. By ears to fig. 2, 
will beseen 
The receding Petes 
at reset with a glazed light or ep er, _ 
ot wanted, c, 6 made to rails behind 
projecting portions. The 
screen 
division, oy 
pa no protection . 
in a moment, whenever 
safe to remove there by sliding them ‘behind the side 
divisions, In these recesses the tenderest greenhouse | ¢ 
plants may be cultivated, and trained against a trellis, 
ie could not be shown in the aan, Thus 
a handsome architectural elevation, wil 
co’ 
the means of basing some of the finest exotic plants 
exposed in summer, without danger, and in a condi- 
species m ay | be 
arily, taking care that they do not in- 
rs, and removing them when they 
ed.” 
serted tempo 
In conclusion, Mr. Paxton recommends that 
‘“‘ The plants be cn trained inté the fo 
are wished to assume, from the time a oe 
transplantation and after ‘bey y have filled 
more shrubby kinds, such as Siekenies, Cone 
F as, &c., have cove a amount : sur- 
ateral branches may be allo — —_ 
out from the il that they may make som 
mation to their true character of ee whit ile 'diey 
perform their origi purpose of covering the w. 
They will pe panes ok sandal and have a 
more nat 
tions bad we trust, ‘convince, our 
i introdiace 3 great Afri’ 
principles, woe rch 
a radicas improvementinto the appearance 
garden. 
r 
vais a 
readers that a 
i 
plant na med 
‘because it resembles 
ocking- 
genera. a7 one with the m 
