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awkward things too when there is much snow ; thus they } before my visit. I therefore nek a long walk through | observed to insure a successful cultivation—to be care- 
DE appari d these splendid cone ong dt ake of the Petit fa that they are not planted close to trees or shrubs 
mrad not notice anything worthy of mention as an | Trianon, from thence to t sana Sellen, and back | that produce a large quantity of fibrous roots near the 
vement on any of their garden implements. | to Versailles and Paris surface of the soil, nor to choose a situation subject to 
rom their cumbrous and antiquated tools,| The Makes —I think that in a former paper I men- | the drip of large trees ; in the one case the roots will rob 
they can have made Tittle advance since the days of | tioned having oe to a market gardener’s place just in | the border of all the moisture and thereby starve the 
e. the nick of time to see them planting out their Lettuces | Ferns, and in the other the umbrageous foliage will 
Visit to the Nursery s M. Jamin at Bourg la Reine.— | for the ensuing ia I did not Seada then detail | prevent dews and gentle showers from reaching the 
This establishment is situated a short ty from | their practice in Form respect, but thinking pe con of | border, although it will cause heavy rains to descend in 
Paris, and is reached quickly by railway. I was fo sial your readers may feel an interest in having this | larger drops, and thereby batter the soil and plants 
pate in finding M. Jamin fils at home, and havi g a | explained, if you will accord me Fi little sins space in | beneath. Within the last 10 or 12 years I have 
very * em walk with him over his father’s s | your valuable columns I will do planted many borders of Ferns with good success, 
The ground which I saw was * that of a gardener in | and have been consulted upon the planting of others, and 
iti rents a wall upon the top of y on gn the Rue de Reuilly, Faubourg St. Antoine. It was laid | I 
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fine quarters of Almonds, which are raised in atikah in | tween each bed, and was made to slope sharply to the | enriched with a border of aion 
houses and planted out the end of A April, making fine | south, and no soil could by possibility be richer or! I wish it to be understood that what I have Le 
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=. are budded the following year with Peaches. | lighter. It was composed of old Melon beds, the soil | stated is only applicable o such hardy Ferns as gro 
wo buds are inserted into each stock, the one of an | and rotten dung (not leaves) of which were most inti- naturally upon the banks of shady lanes, in woods, a 
pe pom the chi of a la yi y this | mately blended. The slopes having been ed, a row | nea; wamps; and that the smaller and more deli- 
means if one bud fails the other generally succeeds, and | o glasses is put in close together, and under each | cate kinds, which grow upon rocks, ruins, or old 
he has s - | cloche 32 plants from the seed-bed were planted ; these | will not succeed in any such situation, having never 
tensive, comp among other things a splendid m gori some time woul re-thinned to eigh n successfully cultivated excep pots ; 
collection of Roses ich Aero a beautiful show of | in a gla again to one only, which would make one | there they require a great deal of gti pioneer: 
wh and a 
ctober, many of them y vieing with “ the | of Aag splendid Lettuces which they send to Covent | and are to be considered more as 
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Rose in June” for size, perfumes, and ae epar Garden market in the early spring. My employer n as S plants. John Loyd, th Glioma Street, 
I saw here many young fruit trees educating for training | my request bought some of these cloches, which I am | Vauwzhal 
on the Palmate simple and Palmate doubles plans. trying, but I fear that in our humid climate they m i E EE O EN 
M. Jamin fils speaks English very well, and most | answer less well than they do in the drier climate of VEGETABLE PATHOLOGY.—No. CLVII. 
indly showed and explained all that was going on to | Paris. 651.” PARASITÆ (Thrips).—There is a numerous 
me. To him I owe much obligation, as indeed I do to| I must add that the French pay great attention to up of insec nsects, consisting of several genie: and species, 
every French gardener to whom I was introduced; all giving air when necessa sary, and that s are careful in | allied to Aphides, which is known by gardeners under 
vied with each other in courtesy to me. To M. Jamin EE their glasses with straw mats. Henry Bailey, | the guerra name of Thrips, the plague not only of the 
{ am indebted for several letters of introduction to | Nuneham frame and hothouse, but destructive also z a bent 
t establishments. — in the open Some of 
Returning I called at the celebrated seed ccna RUSTIC FURNITURE FOR COTTAGE GARDENS (oer page 117); %20. Species. are o indigenous ; 3 
of hig d a few others, which are capable of 
enduring considerable heat, 
are of exotic origin, 
i During the time they were packing I had the be ian 
_ of turning over a portfolio of has tiful drawings of the 
| best and newest esculent vi vegetables, oe a large 
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Be urnips, & 
Inthe evening I sauntered out to Aires at the shops, 
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mere tinsel, but the display of contrast and colour was rest, but fringed with silky 
very pleasing and artistic, and the tout ensemble w , by their in lete 
i metamorphosis, and by their 
VersaILtes.—It was a beautiful morning whe outh being composed of 
started by to Ve es, passing the station to number of free 
the picturesque village of Bellevue. We soon reached pieces. From the flattened 
the quiet town of Versailles, when turning down a back 
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the garden, I found him a very agreeable and 
md og and I shall not soon forget his kindness 
\ r4 me iign ificent kitchen garden, comprising 
D ies, and on the north side there is a raised terrace 
walk i area. There 
commanding the whole of th e are N when full grown, and capable 
Many p; idal Pear trees trained wit pr eee of motion in earlier stages 
than those of M. Cappe ; the whole is roughly (Concluded from p. 191). of development, and fre- 
and gives one the idea of a large market garden, quently of an 
Á an imperial one. It will not bear comparison | %7 CULTIVATION OF FERNS IN OPEN pe tint, though sometimes varying considerably in colour, 
with our regal ae RTS at Frogmore, which is, | 3 BORDE d like the Aphides they exhaust the plants which 
F i saag porate oth for practical results and Tar attention of persons of taste has in recent yea cay ay y extracting the nutritive matter, insomuch 
Minute nicety of detail. been particularly directed towards the cultivation of that their leaves wear a partially bleached or 
The Pines were very good fruit, and sche from | Ferns, both hardy and exotic ; but whilst the system | appearance, : austion 
marvellously small plants, which are plan e open | of culture in the case of the latter has been, and still | is to the under side of the leaves tha 
bed early growth, and Enaria bei up | continues to be, gradually improving, that of the former | where t d a 
and potted ; being also plu nged in a tan bed over a |has not made any advance for the last 10 years, but | and where i cases they are not easi novet 
chamber fil with fermenting dung, which seems much | has, perhaps, rather re retrograded. Many collections of | the syringe. It is difficult to say what plants su 
pew the swelling 4 the jaan hardy Ferns are grown in pots, but that plan is attended | most from their ra e S, are 
are forced i 
the same cons Ps Mg gees with so much trouble and expense, that it is not likely | those which are ted 
which I avs ptovinuity 2 ever to become a method generally adopted. Many | seen whole collections of Ferns withered and 
Of Figs, Peaches, Nectarines, an a Ghecries he ka have also been planted in open borders, and in ae in- | under their lence. Th i 
number in pots for forcing ; and there w Ar stances is have fully answered the expectation of the | running and skipping about amo 
oo extensive ranges of frames with een linings and | cultivator; but in the >N ney = have failed to do | anthers, and on Plum: 
Copper pipes for growing French Beans, so, owing to the circum under which they grow | sometimes so abundant as 
arrota, an and Strawberries. There seemed w be no| in their sid mea = rene been sufficiently attended | besides which it is believed that they paoe sterili: 
E to the supply of Bonsai to under cultiv by attacking the young fruit stalks. An extremely minute 
oe Endive) and Cardoons were} Now the sterol under which most of our hardy | species, Thrips min iaiki is iiemetionen so abundant 
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here also in u » an fine ; and I} Ferns grow a pe and under which they flourish | on Potatoes as to injure the crop materially, and it was 
Pan ea Some Strawberry plants which were grown | with the greatest luxuriance, are four : a porous soil, a | surmised even by good entomologists that it might have 
excep and were fine single plants. The case is so damp atmosphere, a subdued light, and a protection | some effect in producing the diseased tubers charac- 
Pags to vra I saw generally that I cannot | from sharp cutting winds ; and if an sore pence teristic of rp Potato ‘race a though this notion was 
F to notice it. does not seem to be so much | towards these natural con nditions be observed under i ultimately to be no better founded than that of 
an grown here as in England. Here, too, were cultivation, I can say from long etiectenee’ that success | the evil ifa of the Potato Aphis. 
` irapa with Lettuces. I was certainly asto- | is in. First, as to soil ; the majority of our har 5 . A secondary evil produced by Thrips, though in » 
= see the Asparagus beds, full 6 inches high | Ferns are not so particular as to what kind of soil | a less degree than in the case of Aphides and Cocci, is 
“ath an impenetrable orga while om they grow in as they are generally supposed to be, | the exusion of a blackish fluid from the insect which’ 
ee eee they wil "n “a t i the leaves alti 
eatly a and l not refuse a hrough which the | defaces d ultimately 
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dews, they can very | hot damp todestroy. «© o + 
yan the grand Oran which contains a great | easi nly be sal slavere nor prong dena ey ean vay 658. As these pests are very common and sè the: 
inthe rudest he, fine and some remarkably ol old trees, all | watering pot. As to iyi we must plant them in a| same time very injurious, me 9 of plans have 
Under the health. It (the re ad is placed partly situation where they are protected from the direct rays | been suggested for their destruction 
Structure, terrace, and is therefore a dark | of the sun between the ones of nine in the morning | leaves with wren stilpea's fatos IAE hot damp 
there were -= trees wine in the house, mie and three in the afternoon in the month of June. In penr deen me, lumps of apart 
pen of th the same | the matter of shelter from cutting winds, the cultivator | hartshorn has ipped placed in pans of water; 
Ppassinoh : indeed they were allj must be entirely guided by circumstances, but if the | bruised Laurel leaves a and E a mixture of 
place chosen is exposed to the east or to the west, a turpentine, soft soap, and All these our have: 
Orangery I passed to some of the nume- | strong eve or two will be generally found quite | their o 
and fountains for which | sufficient to break the force of any such wind as we | great point in all is y the temperature to 
ais pss anos, Many of | may expect in the months of May and June, and itis at re aang ogee the same time 
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when the Fountains play | thi season of the Set Page the fronds are in a the insects. geben pensive plan is the use of, n 
