THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



*, nii> and frosts spoil many of them before they can 

 ■ .1 to put a tem- 



^'frorn the Ime^Lt Uiff^e^r^T^f tree's 

 ^ south rl-v t.f a house ; it is about 25 years old ; and 

 «u removed into its present i^ico when it was about 



« Pears spread all o 

 [ ripen well, but a 



T'.ircr 



neeting took place— J. Mannington, Esq., of Uck- 

 . again s=<-nt specimens of his seedling Apple, called 



ningtoif; P armain. It h 



■ 

 lid to bear and keep well.— From 



f Raspberry. This has been re- 

 !>d to be nothing else but the old Double-bearing 

 :brrry. Mr. Rivera states, however, t';at it pro- 



al shoots, which it puts forth at 

 v joint ; ■ nd in this r sj . . p.- well as in the size 

 B»vour of the berry, it differs from the Eort we 



" -Samples of Cobbett's and of Forty. 



cheap, and likely tc 

 locierya Gardeu came the 



?., .is wee- - , 

 Bmisia cuspidata ; Loddiges' Acropera ; the rare 





1 CornwV.I and Revo; 



Garden Memoranda. 



Dalkeith Palace, the Seat of the Duke of Buc- 

 UrcH.—While England's greatest kitchen and forcing 

 prden is at Frogmore, Scotland has her's at Dalkeith ; 



tone as economically, as any garden within our own 

 penonal knowledge. The whole has been planned and 

 routed under the exclusive superintendence of Mr. 



gsriener. Since we last visited this place, in 1834, the 

 old gardens have been entirely removed, and the site 

 W which they stood thrown into the park, a change 

 inking and important, as regards pictorial effect. The 

 . \ • • ^ • \ Iiich appeared hemmed in by long lines of 

 *ek walls and other buildings, is now relieved of these 



the park have been opened and extended. 

 . The grounds in the vicinity of the palace are exceed- 

 ;- -" •" ' , ue, but w e shoul I s&\ ; ei u oo h 1 ik ver- 

 n are occasionally afforded of the 

 r _ r ;iu' •■ nth F.-k) which passes through the ground?. 

 «• surface is broken in every direction by deep dells 



« ornamental gardenii 



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xu-! Tuomhe 

 These walks and drives, as well as everything a most subs 

 ed with the garde:., M !• 



i takei into ■ 



mmense kitchen garden is Bun 



sides-a practice we" stron- 



Dalkeith are protected during the ti 



I by h..t wat. v pipes. The crop rarel) 



suffered severely here, and in some instances 

 in the middle aud southern | 



made their usual efforts to 9 



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The American blight 



irm a tube ; the Celery si 

 irge Celery is required a i 





arden. The soil brought 



ttempta to subdue them, until the assistance of the 

 mle was called in. Numbers of moles were let loose 



ardeners is kept under. The mole feeds voraciously 

 pon the wireworm, and the injury it does to the crops 



1 '^ * iferred,' *"" 



tropical Orchids, we e 

 health, and a great m 



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eXtenS u£in?a e higl eV "' 



has yet 1 



*■*» as a whoh 



Jj*% of the palace itself.' Mr. M'lntosh is q 



Jghle f carrviog out this gre 



**. forward to see modern ornamental garder 



2u ,w ?,* ad wal l we observed many plants thriving 



of l„ , y ' which wil1 not atand tho cold in the viciQitv 



London ; several species of Escallonia form bushes 

 fiiata , finel ? in the °P en lawn - Eucalyptus per- 

 ^^ and Passiflora caerulea were rambling over the 



i a large scale, ns may ' 

 .t 800 Pineapples ai 

 roduced here every ye 

 healthy ; the system 



; f.fiho 



notice. This raDge !3 500 feei ioi;g exactly ; w:c i.mt-ca 

 being two stories are consequently equal to a thousand 



feet "in length. The lower story is excavated 5 feet 



face, and just above it, 18 inches deep ; the height of the 

 ground story is a tank reaching the whole length of the 



s. . ; -. nr.lv an unlimited supply of soft water is always at 

 command. In each of the sheds appropriated to boilers, 

 a pump is fixed, and a large cistern placed over the 

 boilers-these are kept constantly full. Communicating 



In the pleasure ground stands a eii 

 ... . dm I, of U " aBd otl»er large plants. This 



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• ■: : ; ,!! -.: ■ ' '." ' ' . ; >, 



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mand. The warmth i 



story is found prefei 



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. ■',..']-, 



ill the young g.r,. 



■ 

 a been eniir- Ij 



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pot. We believe that the arrangement and 





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y Mr. 



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Scotk^l llt a P° w ehance in t!lD cold climate of I ma fu reqi 

 ^""j but facts nmvfl nnitA tbfi nnntrarv. Laurels. ! tool-house 



re and for which he is answerable, 'lfie i _~" 



a subdivided into compartments, boarded off. j liar make. The b 



