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604 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. (Jorn 25, 1864 
putting a plant into a pyramidal form, is to have it | lakes, and of widening streams, spread very ' much | Me essrs. Lu combe, Pince, & C 
about the same heisht, or sli gh more, as it measures | amongst the landowners of the country, and the pro- hrs of it under my cic TO be to flow 
bonu e the bottom, and the form is what I might | prietors of very many of the fine estates in oe kin me 
ell half of an ellipse Tn dimensions, present- | dom, who were without the coveted possession of a 2 eir show. house during the nths of Februa par 
ing the same appearance from ede side it is inis sought the services of ‘Capability Brown," March. may mention that "Mr. ' Dominy ; MB 
viewed; this is the style of plant which my em nploye d thousands of acres of rich alluvial land were| Veitch's foreman at Exeter, sei Wes w and flow, 
exhibited at the R d Park and Kensington Gore. netlibirtie: and lost to the productive resources this plant first-rate. Mr. "Sherr ardener to $ 
They were flowered equally well all round, ‘havin ng no S the country. The Jove of an English gentleman for m» Sp MS eri "rao — [ors is "likewise 
real face or bac 4et me ask your critic if this is|his home, his pride in his estates —— nis fondness for | a succes time of my visit about 
the form which he terms “ u ugly?” Time will wes these duin E explain, and in a degree justify, the g little specimen of it 
plants more broken and loose in surface, but does your | adoption of a fashion which was deemed to add so literally covered with vices I never saw one so 
critic understand the difficulty Le emi viug loose alii na: | much to the picturesque beauty of his park, and whicl g Age te Mr. Sherratt me 
tural (ina iud to an exhibi tio on, out the z ‘forest of 
ich 
stakes. 
afforded the opportut 
Nelsons, ri 
4 
+ 4 ed 
por Áo gain, hi 
neys, and 
bloom upon * huge specimens, »—then mer has 
not recorded [^ enjoyment and admiration of many ee 
those plants which mig ght be obse rved ,showi ing lots of 
“ green leaves," and whic 
owes, their early lessons in naval tactics. 
changed in half a century, a great revolution ais 
taken place in our social habits, a country gentleman i 
no longer confined to his estate by. the difficulties and 
ing to 
tions al UM specimens ?” In toi, matter Im 
ai 
size o our of 
the test vfi merit would he be good enough to o inform 
ho! t these qualities, along with 
ust be|an 
me how to 
leaves, upon AN varieties as Chelsonii, A n arr 
purpurea, Triumphans, eren 8, J es na, Perryana, 
press Eugénie, Carnea super &c. Sue 
Criterion; Barelayan, ex- 
quisita, Gem iegat a, lateritia, dilecta, &c., grow 
naturally before “blooming, NS ds ertainly the effect of 
the bri ght por ose colours is very 
expenses of transit. The sea, ow 
offer ed by railway 8, is now within 
of cm dweller in th 
bec home lake, w 
few hou 
hile Windermere, Katrine, 
ac d, the 
ark, 
nity of manly recreation, and | that he 
d 
be NS 
ney | Sa 
om d 
kept i ool Vinery duri the a 
and winter, after whieh he introd iie p [^o M re 
Et which made it flower profusely. G, Toll, Gardener 
0 J. A. Turner, Esq., -, Pendlebury, Manchester. 
"Perón. M Flower. hows.—I am not 
a 
whether — to invite su dn 
or not, _but L cannot a observing that I cordially 
inter rest of the 
e time has 
the 
| queathed by “ Capability Brown," invade 
as they all are by Anacharis, as well as by other weedy | 
aquatic man which makes the keeping of a lake as 
expensive a 
blank "ekgroun The o 
cult 
appears to 
me by no 
means atta inment, ond I like the ‘dea we a 
nd- roof 
s a parterre, and still leaves it in a 
factory condition as regards purity, while it remains break th 
h the 
he 
me ask, are 
of bloom s E 
mper- | 
u | fectly surveyed embankment, per iden to the healt th | in 
of 
rad — wit idge-and-furrow 
the score of economy; but in order 
e monotony of what I would call a 
s. 
repared t g fine quality o of i ‘ric in consequence chainwork w o train some of our hardy 
sake of green leaves, in such varieties as do no u- | tions which Ge Rec such waters, perilous in the | strong: growing climbers, s méti as Wistaria sinensis, and 
b ing ? ow he reverts | same e degree, rage its w — ed other strong- 
in|of the 
= same pec to the people 
us i 
ate and agrienlt ure of t 
Rin . 
humidity of the air in ogland i is one of the objections w. 
eper, and even 
e thing we wan consider | hich do not occur to me a a i 
the half oy es form of the Belgian our climate. Fogs and mists are more | could be planted in beds formed around the base of 
Az zalea, e natur al one than that of our z own, and prevalent i in low wet districts, ind river valleys, than | the pil supporting the roof; the aul should be 
h ompared in well- Cae dry, or Big laces; every acre of | planted with hardy evergreens f various sorts, bearing 
ththefl ff water gives so mu uch evaporating surface, and age in mind to vary the foliage as much as possible. Some 
Again, he affects to say that Azaleas cease to attract, eu Šta proportion of pes ity to the air; and not | of the beds also at intervals might be covered with 
because he does not observe such stagnan nt crowds of lo eie rainfall of a roc increased by the sprend large blocks of stone to form work for the purpose 
, | of water, but the temperature of the district i otun puns of hardy strong-growing Ferns. 
Roses, Alpines, &c., are placed. This is not d difficult to gg than d be raised about 3 feet above the 
explain i Itivated ial wat face level, we - ie have a level verge of 
distan d h ou de contiguous to Y The | turf, nti lace the plants 
visitors. Vr see ms tet “different ie. are M mel — influence of drainage and cultivation on | for tion. The would 
t of th he put | local climate is well a es in Lincolnshire and the re. ing background for the show plante, and 
i their eye glasses before see their beauty. adjoining counties the meres and y wastes, | wi saria conduce to supply the deficiency which 
What would 2 — show is Yiithout these offensive | IG formerly $pFied far and wide over the level lands ea - — complain, But in order to relieve the 
Azalea onclusion, I think that a little | of these counties, Ern : of thes e beds | it would be posible to intro- 
fri endly rE as to shapes of Azaleas would be wW hittlesea, over w sage boats sai ailed, i gh g character, with 
very acceptable, or at least to the * great grower.” ouf a ott um not cascades 
g 
Should plants assume a spheroidal, oval, PU fau, or 
t th 
highly farmed i inuiehiuz od ^ i ichs 
, bit 
rich fa arm mete ads; ruffs, reev snipes 
m dal shape, certain it is that the ** public” will 
t purchase any shape but the latter from tbe es 
blishm ent whence these remarks are forwarded. z 
Stev 
ens. 
Speci rchids and other Tanp —In the collec- 
tion of Henry x. rney, Esq., of The Heri Nuifield, 
aen taki Harari 
of for 
race of me n, a 
ealthiest, 
d Lincolnshire i is now one of a us Mer 
ee pinlo 
ormer yes are succeeded by a sae iy healthy tr 
scene, and spac 
a congenial- atmosphere for the show of Orchids. 
centrifugal pump is kept a 
are recs ul in the country of its 
ork; 
action, d rid t 
stagnant water. I have dwelt on the 
Gu 
beide Me plants rivalling the marv 
553. At 
m gravel walks intersecting the beds, not onl 
because the level surface would e- - uch eere 
upon, but also because 
d in page 
10 from this collection ipn a p positi 
the Show than even M Msc 
have been reared in a ho 
possible for e i eutivation and wh m 
with a great variety of other stove di fine-foli jag ied 
plants, such M Caladiums, Begonias, tropical Pay A 
Dracæ ua eservin. 
s 
ess imm, with 
them — a pepe ecola- 
3, with ; Dendrobi 
rvati ion of wa Ba 
Now these plants | 
Ts 
its its conveyance from 
is | 
e ooo 
every tod ^s attention, 
d foremost 
8 nseque 
v | elections, oodd 
| CAE A 
ughout the country; and | bloss i vibe 
much notice, I should like id Be i Rude water at the 
of its preservation for mere purposes of pleas ure. 
Recognising the immense im deae of securin z an | 
abundant water supply to the coun 
that the whole 
bodies 
at pie British Rainfall s 
tht € the 
home and 
mpedi 
odii hake w pordoi; 
ie ghe towns seh of it, Hr ta P LA. IL Belvoir. 
hid is engagin 
oria 
ure it well deserves. Many 
rer wering Orchid, and one on 
ently we au t prie 
to geb the bulbs w 
ned 
dodi. 
eral 
ry an atm 
eii Mt of water in 
to these eres 
Jakes, and ponds, 
: EAn dams and embankme: 
icy of retaining large a 
th 
making tits of all who saw it, 
sist 
not only i d dioe to the s lability onn inmates of the house, will 
, but to the danger rx nr Logo it 
mosphere 
int with due tons dort 
my ribi ae 
During m 
lk upo d'cil wel 
attempted by undulations of pty we re shoul ti still 
€ to the e obje ection of presenting so grea 
at large, ink 
subject deserves po investigation | | 
r han 
— ing 
fall of rain E "Cumberland red tat of t the wh 
Midlan ois ot ies. he ts to | tion aw all who ar 
and 
of t 
house, with Little im for bers flowers ^w shown 
seer 
before istum sets in, after|for the jez and $ 
Anp- y ed con- 
be kept, | to — 
fon for the Phe health of the | times as 
best, | T 
wW 
my engagement with in g 
xo tiok com lsined of, e I Parser: the remedy Bir 
¢ tural condition 
your jus 
ie in a way WO! 
e in v interested in in the adva the 
aot ve already done 89 
fession, for whic 
ibn and are till more. John 
rticle 
a 
i Es 
hisen are aeae t prepared to 
roken up, reel to this A he come, 
terest of the exhibitors, the sooner it com 
will off to 
ERAT 
iu 5 
H 
turday morn: 
A 
8 
s publie would 
the be exhibition, and purchasers would 
now are. In the mean 
the numbers in the first 
be 1 
i 
pred to rom 
of great flowering pinati pom 
zaleas—to six, 
ius 
“group, 
