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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



)N HORTK 



SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1849. 





fc general remams mam 

 To m minds the evidei 

 dtaralskiU, afforded by 1 



be true that nothing has 

 -kable, as an example of 



rcrhaps in some things skill can g 

 that individual cases < 

 1 night be point, d - 



dening F might De pc 



ire important is the tact tn 

 no season has so little appeared of inferior quality. 

 It has become as rare to find il: 



I grown. Things 

 gardener would have been proi 

 ago, bis apprentice would be ; 



Things of whicr. 



IT b? r °ashamTd 



admitted to be 



lthough progress ma} 



v and white ; the foliage is of the purest gre< 

 ossoms are of greatly varied shape ; and 



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 of the clipped hedges of our 



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lis that the Orchids fascinate everybody. Wh 



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sort, and there they linger. You never i 

 .e tent of Orchids deserted. Men say that 

 because of their singular forms, and tl 



but w, l*Iiev t that ih. 



Heaths. 



New plants are becoming 



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line of Cape 

 3 rous. They 



Wh,.! 



iety. But, on the other hand, 

 og every now and 



be eddies, and rapids, ,.i.d h,.t-. an-i *- .,] ,„. ; • .| 

 gales may for a moment force back the advancing 



"mighty stream glides on with a force that accumu- 

 lates as the volume augments. Against the return 



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 that the taste of the public has kept pace with the 

 improvement of the profession. The employers ol 

 come fastidious ; what they would 



' * M.otit A striking pio 1 ol thi> wis itiou ed 

 on Saturday, by the remarks of the visitors who 

 chanced to spy some unhappy Grapes which an 

 innocent country gardener had produced as a sample 

 Grapes were not so bad: we have 

 «en far worse gain prizes ; but the lookers on 

 refused to endure them because they have become 



<* the globe, but from every hundred in England, 

 perhaps from every village ; they see what gardeners 

 «»do; they hear that the best results are often 

 obtained by men with no better means than their 

 jf^^y return to their homes determined 

 Tl re m also rea % S° od gardening shall be intro- 

 duced. That is the security against the art of 

 I back to its ancient level. 

 The quality of the plants exhibited is not the 

 h the public taste is changing ; 



teasedt T ° alled large collections of P lants have 



^Jm' how nne ! how lovely ! what a capital 



m ?■ r~ must have! " and that is ali - The 



^er4ew t l ted f ° r a more attl ' ;i,tiv " ,lis l ,!l » 

 ue crowds around the " small 

 tbev w' altho «gh made up of similar plants ; 

 ♦l.;*_ n8Ve . n »t lost their inW«t 



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fell upon the English mind, people could not grow 

 the plants that merchants brought them. They 



botanical periodicals, starved to death, and forgotten. 

 But among the casualties of those days were many 

 beautiful creations, the names of which stand in our 

 catalogues as so many records of horticultural unskil- 

 fulness. Because they nourished anno Domini 179o 



old" things, are no longer cared for. From the way 



they possessed the attributes of humanity. We can, 

 however, give an assurance that plants, at h -;. ;.,v 

 none the worse for being old, and that the public 

 sustains no small damage from entertaining a con- 

 trary opinion. This was shown by Mrs. Lawrence's 



near London in the yeai 1 77 1. w > t! e youi :« >t and 

 ;t plant in that lady's collection , n W, dues- 



>eautiful, the Gardens a 



iferior quality, a great deal 



garden of the Rieht Honourable th 

 dmitted by the best judges thai 

 Queens and Eleanors had ever 



We are able to state that the 

 lext year will be settled in the coi 

 aonth; and Dr. Linpt ,ey invites 



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Ejects in the greenhoi 



ift 5 then * Aow< 

 ly^detacWvS: 



ticultural skill 



^d branch 



for msofH Pat t to be , caused b y the monotony o 

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ine lowers indeed display all tints of red and 



JfeTtheu^cfS to i 

 ■ers ; very little wa 



might be satisfactory even 

 nian gold-digger. 

 d cannot be detected, except I y 



lopt it, and expeneno 



ill. -Men will rather be cheated 



an pay five guineas to escape the cb 



s folly is, that, if 



nuine, they have then thrown awa 





mes, for the samples are all as 



lie ships are all loaded from the 

 rmed in the same manner, by the 



dieve that there is the difference o 



was doubtless of very high quality : in fact it w 

 worth in the market 16?. a ton, when the best broi 

 Peruvian was worth rmry 10 

 ceased, and it is useless to makt inq in it - al t 



stood, because some white Guano is of little vali 



and that can be done with no certainty whatev 



tried the following phi., wh-c-i 1 iino pr.ici - 1 i 

 these last six years, and which I have found to ausw 

 perfectly. 



The old method consisted in fastening the trees to t 

 walls bv means o& nails and shre i- 



but they must be rem >vt i ever) -.viuter whe it _> :r 



are pruned and fresh trained. In the operation of u 



fastening, a portion of the mortar is loosened a 



b the nails; and as the old ho] 





The repetition of this process 

 naterially injures them, and affords a per- 



,„, .„ ul -tkr sufficient and sound enough to hold 

 nails. In flued walls it not uufrequemly happens 



or, and allow the smoke to escape amongst the 

 ■es and fruit. In order to render the walls more 

 ttly, in some places they receive a coat of colouring 

 isioually : but this practice otters considerable an- 

 • who may often rap his fingers 

 nty times before he finds a place solid enough to in- 



" most unsighti, 

 mected with drawing cast-ir 



calling their attention to the rogues who [^c^ron nails i 



them. No jooner^^one linej *roughti«m ones ar, 



work™ e plundT e recommav- « been' lecommende! 



1- 





een more conspicuous 





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•h of loam 

















ingenious persons who 



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y plucking pigeons ; 



t SSt e beconfeS 



attempt has been too 



o S buy S tS 



nvaluable 





fresh devic 







at there 











collected, o 











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to detect the different 







y in making them. F 



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atonfor 



employed with advantage. 



he plan which I have adopted, and winch 1 beg to 

 >mmend as superior toother of the above me ^°^ 



