Jawvany 23, 1864] 
THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
79 
atement of my i intromissions will De | 
| Of the many plans tried and suggested as remedies for | 
termed doubl e-dug. These 
are planted as close 
sent to mne. In order that you may be early | this defect, such as MN the hodi into different] to the fresh-turned-up soil as circumstances will 
vised of the despatch of the seeds, and be ready to | devices or separate gardens, or covering the surface | permit. The Tulips are first planted irregularly 
make the necess arrangements with the secretary of | w |w ith materials of different dolus or eg the beds | all over the bed, avoiding rows muc possible ; 
the Hud ompany, I will send t nd in winter with Evergreens kept in pots for the pur ey are put in 6 or 7 inches deep, with a tool on 
next letter overland by the pony rider, vid the Salt| pose, the latter is the most cor t pted To ose. The other plants are then planted all 
e city, to Dr. Joseph, in Missouri, d then vid | this, however, Mr. Fleming objects as giving a nursery- the surface as close possible, both the 
New York to Livenet It wil save nearly three | like appearance to the den, on account of the dif- | Myosotis and Silene. * en time comes 
weeks, and I hope will escape the emissaries of P ty of imparting at once by this plan a full and fur- f to remove ese for the er plants the 
sident Davis. nished appearance and a level surface the bed nnuals are cleared away and the Tulips taken 
am in goo alth, and strong, rough, ragged, | We may remark, t when have seen r- | out, " pad footsalk ped always jshow where 
beaten, Sic raid little dirty, and certainly a|greens used for this purpos e they have mostly been} the ro bote then well hoed and 
at raked cing at one side 
n. too far apart ; they have be en put in as though 
gu 
communication will be on a 
carious Indian blanket, woven from inus wies as they have to remain but a short period, and 
Strobus (is it the same as the P — of the East!) | when put in ou t once to furnish the bed com- f| the 
and to keep the hoar frost off my here is a | pletely. Mr. Fleming regards Ivy as the best of these | 
mat a the beri of Thuja gigantea. Both nd es evergreen materials on account of its econping habit, | sa 
at em 2 ornament the Mus the | and the many beautiful variegated varieties now to be 
had, but he suggests that it is most appropriately 
used asa perpetual edging for beds on or for 
e un net oos nt beds for | 
moritties. 
TION.— 
was held o 
, Co vent Garden, 
| bot 
baskets, oe in the form 
h win 
s 
with a Parkes id nin ar 
down as the fork will eec ue s ng tha surface at 
a time, but the beds g because of 
fillin 2 nie "We find leming agreein 
| recommendi ng that the garden should “consist “of 
taran summ 
old that as 4 A pabatitite for the two states | to summer 
can be done, 
We are 
of ates and ineo mple teness at whi ch we have 
winter decorati on respective. a Ths 
he says, without in the least detecting 
glan ced, t the 
the summer display, or ae any more con- 
I- Mr. st Lee pre aiii: "ghe r re f th s way during the past few seaso dead material would do. 
and pu pra sheet as i.m by pe auditors were Our author r does. not consider it of much importance , Mr. Fleming's opinion is not much in favour of poly- 
| pin opted. During past year fiv ine S che ih Mp uda Puig ds ao ont 
have oh y adim four lave “been ated, te total and other necessary requisites, | which a dicated ginally he win 
amount disbursed in pensions during the y has been | being : the beds gre on p aper, 3 neat Arg paint mi je are very € 
. 769l. 16s. Sd., and the funded stock} the dea d part of the winter mo: an aufficient Perhaps the most elaborate and ex rere example of 
| to stated that ie Grace de precocity MA viel an attractive isplay i in early spring. | this sort of designing is to be found in the large. piece 
. Duke of Buccleuch had consented to become the Patron | Annuals are found very useful, o ‘months good | of garden forming the south parterre at Versailles Its 
of the Society in the room o e late Prince Consort. | bloom can be go from the i 
s cers for the current year were then ted. The nesetin; and variegated ik we shrubby and | the details, but when once this is ac ccomplished, 
| meeting afterwards proceeded to the election of three | herbaceous, now so largely coming into favour, are also | there is nothing more to look for—the oftener 
| when Jane Atlee Rope owdell, aud | found effective. One passage which we must quin. it is the dreary d uninteresting 
| having the grea number of votes | gives a general idea of the kind of materials used at|itis. It appeats strange we should be going back to 
were declared to be > duly aoe "A vote of thanks fo Cliveden, their exact application forming the subject | this egre, while the French are everywhere eagerly 
irman taries dopting ours, both of the present and of former 
meeting separa! “Tf a good ei of scarlet is anten we have the times, when large ovals and circles were everywhere 
single scarlet Anemone, which continues in t found.” He however, indicates a fitting use for 
most of the s The PES. ipa H are more | the polychrome beds, “ lose to large to 
Rois of Books. rich still, and for the time surpass any Scarle peau sort of designing may be correct, where nothiag will 
Spring an ening : containing the | nium, but they are not of so long durati n, and grow. I could fancy one of th dirty square 
System me fof Decoration as practised at Clive-| tender than the sin, In the same class there 2 patches so often seen in front in some 
den, $e. By John Flemi London, 162, Fleet bes sides the. scarlet mentioned, a great variety of| streets, with very scanty signs of vegetation, greatly 
meth £c t beautiful blue, but | improved introducing a neat design of this sort, 
ime - c cod pt to notice the con- 
o e flower gardens, now that ipie 
have become the d dominant form i in which they a appea 
border S, 
consequent € Da of very many charming flowers 
v al the we are a ^ pgsaprinie in the 
vari rious divisions of a paner 
wW, „equal in every 
ansies, C 
and instead of box, wood or artificial stone edging 
et 
a Calceolaria, with yellow P 
way t 
Marsal and a great many others equally good, 
of the various seasons, which will not bend to the leavieg no lack of choice for salio cn and sie. 
exigencies of tbedding Gay jaunty as t Se Daisies, th red and white, make good compac 
flower beds may be made by this monopoly of some | rows of ae Ao ribbons, For r = 
dozen lants boasting illiant colours, | or edgings th ually effective; but t 
there was a growing feeling that ere oor be planted close “and ull at first, and by xard pes 
much of beauty and variety in Thr ril there 
e gardening, not only in any | is cp leaf to be seen from Ai GA b ddht "f 
anor 3f but worst of ali in the Nas iet of bloom which will continue up to the end of May. 
à y was rm to which the | System has too com nmonly For blue we have the anti bus Myosotis arven- 
^ papel even lvatiea] which being an annual is easily got in 
| : maintained in principe, there wasa Teecuon to be Noua with little “Tt can'also be plante 
| te di pe beds and margins ich owed | a ay time up to its blooming, but it is better to plant 
t foliage and not to flowers, ind i in which " early for mer bight of covering the soi a Cliveden Bl 
ti mmonly a Leip. gh cai of some neutral | Pansy makes ws in ribbons and small beds, 
cepe bes only to be se i d winters but 
and more gsi pegs x were ony though sorely, April and May, if planted i in the beds early in eg: 
ejectin e giarin; which w 
jard of ES appro cy de pe we may point £A white Myosotis arvensis, and the 
"wt e Pra tng = e sid last season, Mur with white Pansies and Daisies, give iod rer d 
LE X ey bordered by as superior|and rows of several heights; but all are ASA useful, 
to any combination of "t bas 5 which | and not Ps rpassed by any of th 
the e of a flow lants. 
Men uia i M diee Horis me Ar si Pitted à iv an extensive variety o. "mL 
a p which it dnne the garden for a much | colours, both in ped and oce ls Tuis by d 
is desirable in winter and spring.|the most dg much 1 onger in bloo 
e a great when | than m © double Ben ins in glow of eal | 
are largely made use of to over bln Sl bruary to the middle of. P They are 
there cu no prin ee e has | beca pum bn 
sss the M dis 
odi. e might perhaps, 
Jap. habits 1 aie rit been cat rom there ie 
_of | m 
painted green. A good-sized vas re, and 
one at each corner might always be kept full, from the 
facility with WR A aic are p d in such 
places all the sw Surrounding these 
a neat design for x polychromatios w t least be 
leasant for 
t| kept € el «i aad a uch im p 
ersons i t than the bare black soil, 
in 
remain 
audes a tg planting and management of the 
bulb garden at Dropmore, contributed by Mr. Frost ; 
an y t e uses, varieties, and treat- 
an extensive selection of the most useful 
spring flowers to be recommended for this style of 
ening. We o e that Galanthus plicatus is 
erroneously stated t smaller than the common 
Bag drop ; and a few misprints occur amongst the 
of ts, such as Alyssu tile variegata, 
im ae A 6, cL. also omission of 
albition here is 
VOULU wbereDaseh and beused; pus bhea orrom 
are not numer ous, and do not affe ect the practica 
e, say 
call for th arden require 
W will Whoa be obviated whet their "pta | 
n 
or high 
n 
in 
rog n Sis praetical and useful addition 
te chapters 
n 
! i 
tiful, M: 
Pss too soon over, sad ia 
Ns a much vee one, in HE] 
We 
alluded to, have Ta the | sm 
become deu known." 
s to be Voip that all these glowing 
desrigtions apply to the fine slerated situation ai 
his | pure air table Md Sao | 
eret part of Qe county of Bask, andi not to rie 
ery ie Mi w, damp and 
1 
The second chapter is devoted to spring flower 
lens at idee of which plans, md Hu nayan 
of the plants in seasons of | 8 
E is deve 
e's Garden, the Ribbon dea l 
Baskets, the Great Garden, an overs’ 
Knot, and various remarks are offered on the treat- 
ment of the lants. n largi the large beds, Mr. | 
that “ summer flowers | 
M manner of 
cras 
to all who take an interest in their flower gardens, 
ming informs us, 
We may add that Mr. Flemin that in 
such autumns as we have had for the three last. years, 
his practice might as truly be called autumn p 
gardening as spring fl 
carce | borders having been q anuary w. 
| Anem lyssum, Ant, Daisies "TS Pansies, 
and the 
sia 
rse of t He 
ahs ep upper folds s sidos fes 
ape of an overhanging cliff, or 
sed 
leaf-mould, or the siftings of the 
hich is dug in; and every three seasons the 
up, or what is generally 
got—dung, 
bench— 
bottom spit is brought 
it can in 
potting | spoken 
ing 2000 feet. 
sheltered Re 
hearing the 
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