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SA TURD A Y, MARCH 10, 1849. 



the case, general effect is also desired, then bushes 

 are indispensable. 



As regards delicate species, the main thing to ob- 



m to a stone or 



l.n.k, in such a way as to be shaded by it from at 



least the noonday sun ; it is true that the branches 



and leaves may soon grow beyond the shadow, but 



Wherever plants arc so excitable as to push very 

 early in the Bfu the whole mass 



are as hardy as Primroses and Violets. When a 

 should be pro- 



r place may be 

 f the general mass 

 filling it with bog-earth, and shading it by super- 



osera, Pinguicula, and Samolus may be grown 

 thin a few yards of the fragrant herbage from 



As to the plants to be thus employed, it is useless 



Rockwork plants will thrive in all the 

 ance in Worcestershire. Hereford. , 



The only way of proceeding is t 



?ing the plants after they are selected, 



:rong are terribly inclined to bear down 



No prettier spring things can be found 



. lietia, Arabis alpina, and 



mples on a sma 



lis 



The, a 



ew Gardens. 



sare to be found in the Museum 



3 added to rockwork. this point 

 tention, for they soon encumber 

 the plane with their roots ai. ■ 



. 



: in, and. w. II managed, they produce 



they should be placed near the upper level .t the 

 • ■ as to increase its apparent h, i Jit ; 



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-1 tonaie ; 



. . . . . . ,. 



ah»d" -irable that they 



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.■asters and Berberries, Savins. I\ra- 



l.Jun.i.iv. Cmimis. doulh- Fin/,; if 



(i m.an) 1 tin nsks t i , 1 i'n- tie, Pxomes, 



Yuccas, Cypresse-, Ihodais am! Araurarias to be 



1868, Ma- 



wimai is eiili»'i naturally small or c.apahl" oi heing 

 kept small by the pruning knife. The -i 



One other rule will complete the rapid sketch 

 m been thrown off. The smaller rock- 

 work is. the worse n looks, and the more difficult to 

 and r/r, v, rsa. The steeper it is, 



upon these principles, with 



broken in every direction by masses of stones and 

 bricks. The objection to it would be its expense. 



Magazine of Natural H 

 ol. vi., p. 22, will find r 

 louth, from which proje 



,ry. Ha. 



ling tusks. When a gamekeeper, who 

 " ' i specimens there represented, 

 sr, he declared h 

 i rabbit and an elephant ! He 

 some doubts of the accuracy of 

 i elephant been a somewhat 

 rabbit only somewhat larger, 

 i would have fancied that his theory was not so 

 fry absurd. That an elephant belongs to one 

 itural family, and a rabbit to another, would not 

 ive been considered by him a very violent objeo- 

 m. And why should it ? some persons may be 



st as little related to each other as the Pachyderms, 

 id the Rodents ? If the more general principles 



physiology be applicable to both of the organised 

 ngdoms of Nature, why should we be so over 

 . ; i:.. .- . . . ■ • -a- '■■■id 



>ing produced between a Pachyderm and a Rodent ? 

 it is it true that two species of plants, that belong 



very distinct families, are capable of hybridising? 



i hybrid 



Turnip' and a Lettuce. Here, then, we have two 



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not between a Dandelion and an Oak ? B^ause,^ 



