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every department, Now this is just what is wanted, |a desse. Lx. collection, are, we believe, by | groun nd, long accustomed to be occupied by beds» a 
and if the resp! g en Socie iety w will but facilitate | n. 1 omplete; yet eve the materials | flowers, was iven up for the purpose, Bat th, 
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nearer home. And with less tha we are| such things as these the great conservatory 
i igi that neither the ieri them- | serve admirably. And as the Society has anno 
"yin n r the country patrons of ee g, will | a Strawberry fête during the present year, 
be conten "i ing a i ,asi 
pe e mizht be some | the purpose, butit is Le aree besidi binti 
of getting at the proper flavour of the close and con nfined. It happens, however, that 
which must not be separated from the future | fruit, as well as of feasting the eye upon it 
E Chisw ick. Whate ver, therefore, is attempted | external charms, the former a thing eel A at 
lly attractive | the end of a second day's show in London? The ver 
to the parlaria body " Fellows, -— be —— a real orchard house—with or without heat, as Di greater advantage than in ae other spot in 
with this idea. We see no difficult e way of|the disputants on this knotty boron may settle | the garden. A flat surfa o of Grass flanks both 
ining the two, nor any chjeotioh ^ the com-|to be the proper thing—might be made full of d of a broad gravel path, and here on the mf 
bination. For bot oses we want and we must | interest by means of Apples, Pears, Plums, |t ae e located, in a 
all erwi e 
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scientific hortieulturist require to see and thus to| samples might be and ought to be made in some gardens, and who | therefore desire to see ethe ardos - 
ecome acquainted with the best kinds h iore tha ies onfined in itsinte 
different cultivated plants, whether fruits, vege- ruit room. his ns exhausts ME theso things, s as matters as pa | 
ables, or flow as well as to learn the utility whit might he pos — bs ith. fruits in the} ¢ ght to be mplilie d in our s tional 
of practice, and of novel | way of teaching—the learners being not o vr horticultural garden ; ‘and th ere is no rou on why 
appliances. All this must be shown at Chiswick, young gardeners, but also their elders. 
fore 0: o a certai t inci 
must le ers for the nt, 
g | might be, as bedi . ntilised by wise sent to Partes | merely remarking that Chiswick ought to have 
rtant department, | MES however, pass on to flowers next summer at least its mee Promenade, 
|. we shall find that Grapes are well represented, with fr alts, 29 so with flow wering plants, t Hore its Floral Promenade, and its wii Promenade, 
E y per! er has been done previousl; | should be in a school of inigi aro and ofl not are source ei ar venue, but for the informa- 
in any one plac uceess: Jl | tion e Fellow 
rpe growing; but Chiswick still wants, before it n M € met with i net Ver uu. senso RR D AERE 
ean be regarded as reasonably complete even in | Shou be, that is, a selection of eeetiesltarally 
respect toGrapes, M regm bone in xia h [uefa ate stove plants, a nd of greenhouse plants; SEL o sn oan, d is ba 
pot s cou 80 extensive | there t usefu rehids | 
series of sorts cou uld * fruit ed together, and after baia m dw A when a subject like th vn of peus Mee eles r owe und 
being fruited, the ok ows could fairly get to see|the cool treatment sak Orchids is oe fad public arranged, and produce 53 oae ch more decorative 
; and t ein rale i ctical operation | i h 
complete utilisation of the whole, which has never | at the head-quarters of Britis girdeti there e 0 € NE SS Aia the Besik otk 
Lm attempted, if s p aid kem dreamed of. rita es best v of a potas ete bitors for flat Leer immi Hs á <a with shabby greet 
way we W orticulturally utilise the | plants, as Pelargoniums, Fuchsias, Calceo arias, &¢.5 | pai : d at 
rie seta, [és ptt AAEE seen MER en esc ud in long monotonous lines an 
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could be seen as well as produced—to grow the | student might learn how to keep upa supply of i ithe ich display the 
whole — of sorts in pots and fruit them simul- these necessities of & dirst-cais pre And all 1L spento paris advantage, U there be dni 
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ossible that the Fellow. s should is the tin pcs publio and the pupils in the respective matters i "ig ‘ 
Put at least “they could all be legibly named, and | 9n. W ich they nod quota c and at the ter sat of pres E peri fieri all — 
the merits and adaptabilities of the better and time of aiding in the ornamentation of the town | put the result could be easil obtained if th 
more useful sorts, decided on t the os ity of the | garden at Meum Kensington exhibitors — eei ee prepared t 
Fruit Committee, could be indicated. A Grape} Out-door flowers— and perennials | make their ents, At the last 
Promenade would be very pri bine if a fine day should be largely grown £ "it ‘Chiswick, as 3 samples Hyacinth showat atthe Royal "Hortiou ultural Gard 
were to be selected ; we have, however, more ye o n flat tables and sit 
ns this subject of summer promenades t | all all seasons. wiles iy a bem pace as cir- | on stages, and 1 the diferene" of effect M 
. umstanoes A. aintained and | able. i on the con 
_ But these matters by no means exhaust the | planted ou the ot d in order | wig a it io; i bts x Mosses as badk; 
n they want | grounds and fore-grounds for their collec 
' thus see, Chiswick is even yet|to introduce any n ond Meets ‘into ‘their lower was pleasant t 
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deficient i in respect to its strongest Lamar Reyes aid iT may see by glancing at a full series, | that n Res. Arg decorated — 
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fruits, the puer Ph in which is still more perso ns, We | know, entertain the notion that tl h further than it isat — with 
palpable ? Look a butthis|In their very admirable display Messrs. Curso 
one, as far as our sjt i ve discovered, is to be only : shows how the want of gas knowledge | had "^ each p ot to be ticketed with the nat 
found within us tha Now all the g for leaving | of the flower in a much neater fashion be 
of Pine-apples at least—and there are some aside the question of climate Murs ation, which usually done, but as the label was W ul 
new amongst them — should be -grown |in itself is enou gh to negative such a proposal, | affixed close to the stem of the flower, it dre 
e, : order that od eco regu mi thet there remains the “aanperbl “objeations that | the eye in the first instance mo the 
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liberated for rario ed as to AV ue el for it. At Chiswick it has | Show > io take the exhibiting space S0 ast 
though ti rri i There is no doubt 
einn S the best Peaches | but this brings us to a point w e have end ments could be carried much fu and 
a d = house there is| hinted at, namely, that perd aider, eeded to | of a wet day deterring people 
Shea e e it existed, ca trial of garden flowers vita pecu it|shows, it might be made to re 
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When the trials of summer flowers were com- | the publie as a beautiful oa c 
| menced some few years ago, a space of sided arcu r independent of 
