708 THE GARDENER®Y’ 
CHRONICLE. 
his ect such entirely ‘opposite opinions are 
al los: er that we find it easy to <r. our corre- 
spondent’s views to two heads, aye 
g thei tito segan doi h 
oe aaa gr vata o on ‘the side “of the a chic In the first 
e stag to take point to the 
gardening? Do they set an example for ne a 
4 follow? ma they be taken as a proof that 
the 
» say, and havi 
words what our NS on either side wish L’Eure, 
p ei 
es 
general accuracy of the result above a 
ents 
[Octozzr 17, 1857 
412 “an r Oise, 834 iy 
ri acres. A little wine has been m 
his line, as at Oik; “Oial an 
; and of La 
3; In th 
und th ~~ lingers to admire of La Creuse and of Cantal, where the clone 
them. They are looked at, passed by, and for- land makes the climate too orth vation 
gotten. wa the oo are crowded ne sath ee Doe p an re cultivation of the Vine on a grand 
and Fern and fine foliaged scale ce Tgenteau on the Meuse (lat, s 
piante, cad ea josy fruit $ siete a eee s seen Saig, the Rhine beautiful Vin 50" 45. 
ar the ‘great collections,” which men wo g hills ext nd below iiki 
= hear dignified Oy so inappropriate ana | conditions disappear the Vine be : 
comes stopping 
‘altogether at D usseldorf. In north- 
; Potsdam 
horticultural talents are sa aire i ! 
tion e pea size of their plants? In short, are the contrary, they ar e among the best trean Wotsentld In ir Pring Auten Ti 2 at Met? ao" 
we to reg t a flower show as productions | in the countr that is ficontestait hat | of Dre 
divide admiration with the fat pigs and bullocks nobedy now cares ‘for what they show arises from the |  'Fhis ie toa extending from the mouths FA to 
ow? absence of novelty and variety among their plants. | 
af 
such plants may be yet io ed to men with only 
one idea which Sey De produce on all occasions, in 
n 
Year after year, and show after show, there is, as 
re grapes of such frat-tate gardening as any are 
erup of Tea 
tent to the south of that t to 
of the 
Potsdam m (lat. 494° to 523°), is throughout its whole ex. 
Meyards once 
which the Vi 
one of our correspondents says, the s A \ attaine only are ina 
m , Polygala, Pimelea, and Stephanotis, the there to the northward of it, but there are proofs that 
same Heaths, the same everythi othing can formerly, towards the close of the middle ages and for 
give — to such repetitions; for it must be two or three pr pret aes ds 
membered that the visitors to the metropolitan | naa oe a oe li Ppa a 
exhibitions irs: much the same persons, great an | Vines seit sg Pe a e i thé “a Wy de that numerons 
oe — pits De IR ly the ptm | English, who, i lding Guienne, camay. 2 
= ong them, whose opinio form those of others. fivour the Vine growth of that country, Fro 
0 we think that the interests of Horticul- 12th to the 13th centuries a number of maps allude t 
yt es in Normandy, Brittany, a 
us 
be directed eriei s to | mentioned in many wo rks pa the Emperor 
coun i 
er after e expressing h is gratification that may a aas tei 
the question has been raised, goes on to describe magnitudo, 
the result of his examination of the exhibitions | A 
during the past season. Of the Crystal Palace tura talent should not 
m o memoranda, hiswick | that end. Tha 
d the Regent’s Park he has carefully prepared | provai by the unmistakable symptoms observable 
notes, and h es the follo t f among visitors. ' Se 
is examination. ‘In all ngs then in| n 
1857 the whole of the exhibitors could produce only | 
appearance 
pervivum oaie. the latter a poor 
thing fo for collections highly rewarded. Of the 
bo 
o 
| admire. And w why is this? except that they too | 
think they pA = in their own gardens similar | according 
Roses, and F and Azaleas, and Geraniums. 
its Vineyards; 
de ‘Malmesbury, the 
England. 
rapes th 
74 about half -were Eriostemons, Does this Peti in the neighbourhood of the e Aceording to s “Chronicle,” wine was made in 
Pe sivgalas Pimeleas, Adenand Allamandas, | “large cay ?” Never. |W par Park a as swell as in all other parts of ma 
nias, Chorozemas, rodendrons, Aphelexids That so has been invested in certain | I” an ancient semererbate s that date riir berlin 
oras, Leschenaultias, Statices, T cas, alaini ‘of ahie habitually admitted into ex * Caste sec be seen the annu 
: he account on hey time + Richard the Secon) 
Kalosanths, and Madagascar Periwinkles, some ibitions is no doubt true: and we are not pre -| f th Vi tai a quantities in 
which the most inexperienced exhibitor can grow deny that their owners are entitled to th ins w pragnie well Ba Ag wona A 
as easily as a Sigi pram, and most of which have | consideration. ere, as In everything else, | of this wine was consumed in tha Paaie SERENI 
become as common as Lilacs Again, the total | private interests must give way to public advan- | sold for the King’s profit, whilst the duties were pail 
‘dibes of pe Dadi in all these exhibitions | tage and some notice of an intenticn t | to the Abbot of Waltham. th of Old and 
amounted to 395, among which the Sevens and | tinue admitting them would, as " seems to us, |New Windsor. St e of an ancient 
Sempervi mentioned, Mussænda frondosa, | fully satisfy the justice of the case axon wine press. Miller “ Gardeners’ Die- 
Hovea Celsi, Ixora auran ani uarrosa, ie ary,” says, in 1768, ‘chat tei —— Vines are 
Statice imbricata, an Acacia, A ra speciosa, WE have lately received from now T in England, they were i prin 
Boronia te a, Burchellia capensis, Chorozema | specimens of the true oLD GOLDEN Partie eather’ com is is proved by the fact that n ae 
ilicifolium, Clerodendron splendens, and Franciscea from a tree 80 years old planted by his grand- ‘places. m many parts of England derive bow ‘Acts to 
yeina, each appeared but once; on the other father. They have the s ee delicious smack that | fom this circumstance, and that there Vines to 
hand, were shown 33 t , Pimelea | gave the tare We understand | °¢rtify the extent of ground i 
14, Allamandas 17, Aphelexids 30, Azaleas 26, 
i ri ica 26, te 
mons 13, while the trashy Vinca rosea va roduced 
no fewer than a dozen times. Thus we see that 12 
sorts of plants formed 229 out of the 3 395 pe 
| more healthy t than 
y' 
l so gre putation 
that the young trees grafted from the old stock are | 
the 
ear; nor, indeed, have they g some years pA 
iso subject to canker 
n) years a 
We cannot but wonder that those who place 
h 
with the supplemental noses 
hr + ingore want of novelty, or even x 2 San lof the Dais Talinoutius, should not have remarked 
Park are un i 
Wise | that the so-called wea 
ring out of races is unknown 
wick an 
cought be hold ae higher prizes than for ere _in the warm climates of continental Europe. 
be bette Pe ee 
ied.” Such are the remarks of the Ayes, 
Noes say this. It is very unfair to complain 
the ‘ miscell collections” are thread- 
y, and Negraer ts § They have borite 
bare, costl 
been thought the gardener’s pride; l anl hey | j 
ought t 
ught to be if we consider how much trouble they |“ 
give, how few things suit them, and what a loss is 
sustained if one of the big plants dies, which is 
much difficult 
them, there is nothing that a gardener gets 
ag by as the prizes = these large TE nai ; : 
ON THE me ee LIMITS OF VINE 
CULTI Pichon 
A. De Candolle 
ie Botanique.) Ls 
Ix Tiigi the ange of hi ine cnltivation on an exten- 
ve scale, and be 
it costs no end of money to em and sto ough some ae 
vas awa: ay, and carry pre backwards and for- | ae ds 
agra -aiok would >- pay at all ci hs not |Y 
shown three or four times eac t 
would be very naga a gardener if hans rri D a 5 zed he i Blom 
were to encour: to grow these plants an 
then to say, ut warning, that they would no Loire Inferieure 
mger have hai shown. To do that would be ende aa 
lit - scope arg m eege If iad are as" Ngee. 
>’ oe shut out wers ought | lat, 47° ae from e Tiia 
; Tino pi |S pees tea Vine 
Po! ortugal is famous for its Vines; but i 
cultivation i is not universal, being pna oh as lly Fe 
a Pa the moist north-western provin Gali kd 
bik the Asturias; they are not even habia caliivanae igh 
i the apna: 
se ou 
o | Ventilation, pra nar pas more light, sae 
instance 0; 
’s Gé 
Actording to the Government statistical tables of 
oo “ria nt of the Vin neyards 
Acres. 
s. 8120 
T 
the line is direc 
yenne, Ba Broly in jana svar 
eyards, to the department of 
exact limits are—sonthern Bi Brittany, | d) ' 
eastward | 
n Spain m prii ing,” 
cor of t 
the duty on foreign wi 
which yields an enormous r 
(To be nita 2 
-| di i ails. I have no esitation in saying tat 
east during the last few centuries; but before dwelling dis e prevails. ve jet 
upon the abandon ed limits we shall trace the exist 
vain. My most vexatious 
this summ: er under egpaar 
joes where they have always shee 
cok within 4 feet of fey gs oe 5 -a 
t always 
ms gio e is or mie detestable is thong zh te ped 
he Exchequer has n a 
ORCHID DISEASE. a wise 
Your Paper of Oct. 10 contains the first p “Ihave 
which I have seen of disease am 
in answi 
-watering, and w "the 
are pra r insufficient to AAE: 
I wal calisreies ce oe as 20 yaa 
rable s But d 
nes pote 
