598 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
see of art. create varied and aan, | palin’ and the soil light, the — ee of a bien ayey 
out of ‘ag simple elemen ts of which s pean where liquid manure ppli ed to some 
lemand any great men of the trees, hey profited greatly ty it The feve Elms | 
qualities, as certainly an for the exercise of goo e that the plantation in the natu yed ‘se 
Dr. nson in life of She apoeni measure on an hanes about 1 foot 7 inches in cir 
e very | fer 
S 
ind, I ; 
But it must at least be pa rai ‘that te ar the | | Maple i feet ftom the ground is 3 feet 5 inches, see md 0 ang meet led to my treating it as sot F 
ent, j 
form cm nature is an innocent a and some | contains about 12 cubic feet of timber, an 
praise must be allowed by the mo iaia ous nad measures 4 feet in circumference, and aie ‘about 
eg him pra does best what a anias are contending to | = eye feet of timber; in the ean age the Maple | 
well.” 
|m s 3 feet 6 inches in circumfere and contains 
"Ba cdg sah ad . "eng rule, the creation of bene | alianta Ry oe feet > timber, and in both Tost kas trees 
scape scenery whatever to do hyo gar | are healthy, and stand about 18 
, instances so just ir | It may i a et time before such manure c: ate spared 
rm thi 
views, which will of course be as much as possible applied, such as Pine and Fir trees; but if even the 
appropriated. But even then the control of the artist | _slops thrown away as waste water from gentlemen? s and 
can rarely be exercised beyond the immediate fore- ee farmers 
gr cr is efforts of arboriculture, there would be bot th pleasure and pro 
in spite of himself to the recognition of art, shade aad derived from the application. Many trees may hy seen 
shelter claim attention over mere prospect, and compel gr owing in soils naturally poor and unfitted to carry 
him to mould his designs to the comfort and convenience heavy timber without assistance, and trees considered | 
| by many to be in the last age. of mg panay be 
I prefaced this article with a es from the made to renew = growth; for, give a 
admirable discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and I _ grow and food to live upon, we vegetable physiologists 
cannot do better than conclude it by cose ioa conveying will not be able fa tell how long it should live and how 
asit does so forcibly, and in much better manner than Í large it should grow. P. Mackenzie 
could myself, the sentiments which I wish to express :— Tree Guards.—In reply to thei inquiry of “A. SELC.” 
Gardening, as far i rnament 
h, and ch 
and commodious for the recreation of m: is, | bottom ; en saw penter waaga y 2 inc 
however, when so dressed no longer a pee e for lengths, and drill each in the senate aac the growth; 
the pencil of a landscape painter, as all landseape thread the stakes om the short aa alternately, as 
painters know who love to have recourse to Taine. ps may be necessary to surround the stem of the 
herself, and to dress her according to the praana of tree, on a copper wire at each end, and close it round 
their own art, which are far different from those of | | the stem and fasten the wire. is forms a secure 
his 
gardening, even when conducted according to the eo cradle, very much resembling that put over a horse’s others 
inci and to bite 
approved principles, such as a landscape painter neck to prevent his reaching to Aye tates) 
eg. t 
himself would adopt in the disposition of his own Space must be left to admit.of the cet of eaa 
i In this | i aga: or four years, The eradle lies loose round the fi 
series of articles then we shall have little to $ with ground 
; that will form ome animals 
discussion. That the subject of gardening a may. | have a most inconvenient eb SA Three feet stakes | 
simply as such, the word “ornamental” has are sufficient for pion and 5 feet for cattle. C. L. 
be treated si 
been a for the more generally adopted one| Crystal Palace Scarlet Dahlia.—An advertisement 
“landscape” at the head of this per. | in las 
pa in your Paper last spring announced that as we ges 
George ‘Lovell, Landscape Gardener, Bagshot. plant this variety te grt pre-eminent and w 
i Fl 
iii en in the BEET S a ‘ar good; but 
— me to state that I ve proved to be identical 
Manuring Forest Trees.—In your Paper of the 8th ins a seedling raised by my father apts Wells), at 
there is an article on this subjects perhaps te lowing Teil, some 25 years ago. There it always was a 
remarks may be of some onden urite massing plant. ewer. pry? a cheap old 
I have made a few expe net gtr observations | ‘piant eee not have been sen a high price with 
how trees might recover their health eik beco new e and my father ‘deprived i in his declini 
ful and ornamental to those who possess t The eles of, the honour of having raiseda good and useful w 
want of proper nutriment either to vegetables | flower. Under such nd sg I hope that the name 
mals soon shows itself in one way or another, a food of Crystal Palace Searlet ical be withdrawn, and md 
dil i ’s. Ranuneuli 
applied even in a rough 
pp tat ily | the ol and appropriate na 
received when animated b eings are in “want of it. The | | may be henceforth substituted for it. CE. Wells, | 
fi 
be found unequalled for the decoration of the ome 
, I am sure you did) that attractive § 
| dial? er t is an especial favouri ite, Pil mines ae 
€ Lollypo 
eolens 
war : ata ryen as a aioa or “Corio 
I have not notice any account of its ha 
—e 
i 
vit 
powers of the will not inquire. | ment. one of the places the circumference of the | have been the means of bringing it under 
t 5 
rg Nn 
the 
winter, 
tender as i it had bie 
I determin 
ad 
ts which in due time thre 
ing and 
you. reall 
severes, till 
I weg oe succeeded ?— I mean 
How any on 
pleasing in themselves nor siggy 
me tie gag ere aha oa Er ka 
oved k 
from the honde, and I relustantigy made up m 
h t such bra 
Ss noi through the sashes at the ae of the i 
open air ogra to flourish till 
ae 
cut it in to the bare reer 8 Pp about 3. 
sized 
favourable I h o hare i y flowing coat 
m e enough to es 
study, and you find a person | 
flas 
And, by the Pye ey oo 
ey are naan 
bila SU: 
eae 
I had a large pire. on the back 
where it grew most lnxurianth 
the 
I began to think that the Rage, y 
e, and 
ed to paa it a trial on 
Bayot pir 
ilt watch e 
2 
ir pa pru on py side and flattened 
— tend to make a few remarks upon had fallen | Gar. ‘ourt. | strongly suspect. 
a languid state through want of food, or in other, Alonsoa Warcaewitzi—In the spring of 1856 I Salk paid ig i 
one soil. appears to eke apie ag ng sowed a packet of this Alonsoa in an 8-inch pot; it conduct of one fellow, who in 
of kihe crop that grew upon it. In llow “ee of a ppa the whole of the summer, | do 
, and yielded a se: 
where some ea other trees were planted | tity of seed. In autumn I cut off the ‘iene siem a and | 
years ago symptoms of decay m s — them- | kept the pot in a dry co 
some cold fram ear it has nor 
selves in a very prominent form, such as he leaves | been in bloom from May until the last fortnight ; itis 
turning yellow early in the season and falling off, when | now covered with seed. E. Persac, Exeter. 
others in a more healthy state remained longer to per-| Names of Florists’ Flowers. —I am aware that I have 
form the office assigned them. Leaves in such a state small claim to be considered a botanist, and if ible 
app Th o ately, and say alceol 
emaa Sl that came from g garden. we pr other penance Dazzle.” To this I shall only reply by 
eae thenehe m first that the rubbish would | referring him to the “ National Garden Fini ” for 
Erpe es by burying the roots too-deep, but poe 1855, page 42. Then “J. E? does not, or will foi 
_ was put there was of vegetable origin, which soo onary apga sense in which I e mploy ed the 
mposed, and being ofa porous nature did not pravih | inappropr Nigger as a name Fate À conveys s tho the 
the air from reaching the aros and instead of injuring | idea of a omplexio would coal-seuttle 
joc and so 
the t 
mene. D eng i soon began to show signs of improve- i Sg i butarethey notwithstanding a appropriate | 
alh recovered rapidly, their leaves ex- mes for fi 
panded in length g breadth, their a did the | in a names apg on batten oe 
same, and their r leaves instead of bein g the first to droop | flowers, and moreover they are not pleasing i 
in the autumn, pai to ho i as long as most | in themselves—qualities which names for florists’ flowers | m 
d tsd i uld have. A e iso 
forest: ss tn satan where st aye and | Tomkins jal omie s pon 
ee errs plied with | ceolaria in the border opposite, to which I cnr Of 
«Shrubby Dazzle» o ami pe 
to 
me whether Iv 
