OcrozER 17, 1857.] TH 
E GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. Ui 
oe and bri so d, ber thsi of macracanth 
r = while ntha was 
~~ r tifully smooth lished 
and Waltham Abbey Seedling, a 
pple and an abundant bearer. 
better kinds, of table 
me 
es 
good sort with a flav 
and St. Michel Archan ange. Among stewing yp 
were Gilogil, Catillac, and Verulam. The last is an 
Prolific, M Masters, Devonshire, 52 
The last, even oon the fine summer we hav 
ore eprint was a rethan 
ttle Gourds, Potiron gris, | 
turban hatif, true Vegetable Marrow nd aie 
poy cig Marrow, which has been lately figured 
oe in our colu Finally, of Red Bee 
eae y Mr, Dancer, and four from as peos 
by Messrs. Lawso ese the best were “ Impro 
Red Beet ” jp cae — ‘oer ve ae PAAA aA 
colour, and “Red Bee re Gamea 
an ur Turnip 
on being cut 
deficient in co! 
pi was announced that the next agen would be the | 
show at se s Room 
. 
y sent examples 
ning of S 
-Everything ought to be delivered on the 
ee “ own Botanic 
land | which polae an either ve ef Par 
England, and a few in Ireland. At 
Commissioner 
`| Lectures on Boman Hasbontiy, 
M.D, 
q [Sz 
yf Tp Pinen portion of this petak work is in 
e less 
very 
senda Ti fruit called Knight's No. 1, of exellent eee 
then 
ripe. Of ee In 
| goer ye the robbers 
ts That 
Pliny, 
n the 24th inst., 
e Camellias 2° 
at | ent time of Charles t 
aturday before 9 o'clock at the | 
n 
indicate), many Of its most activ. Preset ta Julius 
to by cutting adama r regular shapes. 
Diseases in Larch and £ A 
an of Hardy 
Thin 
Fen 5, 
Hom 
Spruce ; ; 
Conifi ere ; 
inning au por a 
gpa 3, 
| D: age and 
gardening (ar s s topiari (@), representing scenes of NUNN, 
fleets, and various other objects, which it clot thes, as it 
Ge sen ent; 6, — past a thin and short leaf, that is al P 
an 4 eries. Thes zes are open to a 
to all practical sci fin se ta whether members of 
the Society or not 
Notices. of Books. 
By C. Daubeny, 
e Roman gar 
little variety, and none of thi 
plants which is usual at the present day. 
Plutarch paat sof “ma ernas Wan being hen side 
by side with Leeks and Oni 
The thor does ot ‘omit to discuss the ques- 
9 Romen of forcing con- 
Prof. o = des 
ECOND Nor 
aie 
t ressions the remarkable 
(ib, viii. ep. ry ‘alls how the | Vine remains in ott, 
ry swe gemma, where no rigours of 
nse can touch 
of t 
ts berr d ar oy emale 
iy | mation = pts 9 p | Seure i nog = muslin drapery, or the pebble cee 
That some kind of t 
gar 
. | Georgics say li ttle; 
Pliny that information i is 
riod of Ro rit 
as little anim 
m this air is that the 
its subsiste 
the term hortus i s synonymou 
m or inheritance; and the word villa is irat Ba 
use of, ae oe of ra] honour paid to 
gardens by the Maid Rom » Pliny re na Aer t men 
a the highest rank were s willing to r names 
rom its contents, as in the Valer n famil A prb the 
Tapa nghe = — themselves rian fly by taking fie growing is hardly intelligible upon any other 
names e Lett These however were 
pied kitchen pie Beg sittin such plants and trees 
a4 alone as igs subservient to the daily uses of with í 
in Cato’s work, the only fem we al 
| of A deseripton, tae op ie Fier tru 
ing to Pliny, h mmend t p 
be used for "Ghapheta should ts likewise cultivated in in og 
Pp 
ma History” 
family had its one, and, 
consumed, it was fro 
as may 
some 0 E heen ens on thee Conti- 
cane "The oe s acconnt given by Columella of Roman 
“He who wishes, he says, to have the fruit of the 
aie d inas aap 8 ip its tb sh ou ld, prs the winter is 
man s and 
"that seo 
te for orname 
in e itself, as we are 
_it was the fashion “of the day, amo 
to Mre little prees in the front o 
| debarred from that indulgence + Se necessity O | 
hich so abounded in the city. ” pa 
w gardens is shown by the 
ntal 
epigram if Mart 
Hd arts sA rus mp urbe nobis : 
Sed rus est mihi majus in fenestra.” 
their villas were amply supplied with eg K ved 
decorated gardens is ze b “i ination of oft th 
the younger Ploy canton of 
| these descriptions “ that the ime of pa A a 8 
had not advanced ag soon that stift and formal perhaps 
SS ee Of the plants known to 
t Cucumbers almost all the year 
bo Daubeny concludes from an 
evidence le that ht 
ye ond the production of early 
ie and a ‘supply of winter 
Romanswe have a long 
as the case in England, 
and even met ere SRC. from such authorities | 
as Sir W. Tem 
*¢ «The a ah eye, inverted nature sees, 
Trees i to pete statues thick as trees ; 
was odie nev er to be e play’d, 
eci 
Phan rt of c 
rity than this, mya newt comm 
referred the 
wrong plants, an sad grog 
ceed) y c 
onfusion thus p 
iea 1 Bhae been rendered still more inextricable d 
ors themselves. In this part of 
a copy preserved at Oxfo: nn 
Dioscorides referred to 
fa Abeta aye ; y of a curious 
rite sai ugh m wers, y 7 tad MS. of 
There g = abies fight, or die in flowers : fifth cen- 
= tear ees the crore om Loe promt mourn, 
(Pope’s Epist. iv. 119, &e. vol. 3.) 
the two Yews | 
-walk were 
Thus 
cli to the admiration of 
gan people of r Bat or M we may infer from 
the copies el verses written at the time, to 
celebrate their remarkable appearance. 
“Itis stated that C. Matius Calvena, the friend of | 
of s, first taugh 
hig ys spn the flowers of the 
Cesar, and favourite 
polo Du Molin 
e 
This, howev 
[isane an e aeri pages of 
N aia eika aoe the Oxford 
es with a eatalogue of the modern 
German Tris. 
terraces 
of vila with Ivy; and Pliny says the same with| ‘The work 
pe = i il | -to bel perae oe eas 
k botanical names 
all MENEE, AASE R. scribed by Dioscorides, es, among 
e| we have already seen that thickets and Pa ition that t the re of Éo © Greek 
This elicited from e. a as an expression = a 
topics 
ET a in a vote of 
able address, which 
under review, 
thanks to Mr. Brown for 
possessed by 
to 
other | forms according to the caprice of 
growing > 
Mem! bers and others wae , admiration 
ject appears to have been | eS SEE 
as 
of “fantastic. ‘shapes—walls, 
meadows w 
in in Pliny’s garden with formal avenues ;| author was rae farinosu 
and we have an inkling of better in the praise | questi re is however Tittle doubt that this oo 
bestowed by Martial upon the rural retreat ‘of his friend founded u upon “ai r g in 
Faustinus, and in the ridic upon tenable, as the writer of ae notice long since jee 
he me out in Flora Græca itse 
than for his ar aoe ea 
introduce into se o pe ara Palace 
“Still, however, the chief 
(i 
Ta 
letters, and 20 forth belig $ aia “imitated. 
«The Box was especially tort s was clipped td tal The ar. 
sides lg wide 
various are clothed sie" a rosin intermixture of cond 
aara in. tho actof, gud-wood.. ‘The The hill on 
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