148 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, [FsBRUARY 13, 1864, 
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= nuch effect, ti an a large quantity y ies which | influence or their ; for e have shown on | Low 5 "e seems to have tailed m " 
e planted in it were in such a dreadful con- | fure c iti is ith ‘deep ‘cattings m of the sub- | ai rie forms, the * London Main Trunk,” a 
dition that it j^ ecame imperative hd Sate some | soil ben neat th us, y companies contemplate x ony an Railways, thronten tho slant 
all the little moisture that ury C it reu and its Boss: = Th which j it has re 
qe and roofed-in London, ion alarmed in 
Bon A Uu ee i ty As seing any em eim find i its way into the earth to nourish the tants, hara sed as iT ey yen ar by feat by ie 
: vegetation which itis so pleasant to see growing u no ices o projecte rai fers sc emes invading t 
e ings be poetes healthy, and to have sent 8 dun hadas P ETE E irme 
out a gorous roots, but in every case the brought to bear upon ibi; destr we or trees, and | the ey will be neac by = those who are not rail 
b ;and discoloured, | robs our London parks, and — wi gardens, of | way-mad, or e trees flourishing in th 
r a large portion has decayed, In many instances, their r greatest and most natural o: wag x “Noobs ‘The Aer of their commit 
expecially where the roots were in contact with the what care Railway companies "a Railwa:; ALFRED SMEE, has addressed a letter to th 
Le , the out er trifles as thes “A park on the es spem the reckless qp d to spoliate L 
e some minute larvz in the ad which, from the line of route,” as : tho Times has ol truly remarked, | Circus, quark that, “while in Paris every squan 
specimen vi, appear to be ws ne some oat aped? ‘is supers considered rather a good thing than howev — is Magie wet Tey E du wit 
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me n that they will be allowed to tunnel | Lon don 4 are réels V rint Sá 3 e; 
least ray That tee X ero ot the | em gh such places for nothing” "The best of the | space” Wo, can very well commiserate with thy 
Ve do hear " dt o hav iud ld ilr TA prc too seem to e been selec ted ~ bas ing | Finsbury residents if they are threatened with er los 
preten ve analyse : through or near, for or for cuping | of only half 50 years b 
1 - wa x | a8 stations The engineer of the Meicopalilut: Bon rd of|A certain Mr. MANSELL, indeed, coolly rema dn " 
T p of any use, is an expensive matter.* | work, has reported s. : Hy de Park, the Green Park, | the Low Level roper one of the delinquents, thi 
eems, howe O reaso e ha St. James's Park, der, * s not erii Fing 
any deleterious matter has been wilfully or acci- | Park, aa ene ee Grange Park, Trinity Cire is: addi ing insult to injury, for wha 
dentally mixed with it, and there is enough we | Square, Finsbury Circus, Camden a uare, Oakley beauty or "interest would thote be in the spot bi 
believe to account for the evil without any surmise | Square, Ampthill Square, Euston Squa and S by the destruction of its 
of the kind. The dung had been used for a Mush- | Square are ‘ll MN e osed to be cut "Mirougb, and | flourishing trees? 
d was consequently highly impreg- | some of them in two or three places, and that the ep south of the Thames, Battersea Parkis — 
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gton, Cla x Tooting (invaded by se ven vir vrii t s | rbi 
ungenial nature, ‘such as could be recommended ins), prea Back, Ato, Wimbledon, Fulham, and | narrow escape; but as we have already mentioned, 
only for Sen coarse purposes. But in addition, am Gre it s perfectly monstrous that the | Clapham Common „is not so fortunate, for - 
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of Beech mast, all of vhi ch a Let an " he ome enr d extension of the “ London, Brighton, and South Coss 
likely t fj pro potum uce spawn. It is very possible, ne «improv z LX LATA lan shape of beoe Railway;" Tooting Common is to be pierced fi 
that b ere was something bm Lo TE itself, proposed to be carried out in times ; while attacks are also to be NT 1 on vario 
ad, or as cultiv it, sour|if the Legislature will ‘but sanction their execution, other "dn bord more wl the westward. : 
condition, which might affect the "delicate spongy The "engineer of one notable min eig for i Now canibe no doubt that the execution of 
ots. It is well known that delete- ley the “Paddington and Charing Cross FA pi these ar either the tunnelling 
ab irre is not absorbed by "or in any quan- | but which seems » ut: failed in completing the neces- | OF the deep cutting of the earth, must have an injurious 
3 he | sary ually y had the hardihood to pro- influence upon gardens Be ‘gardening in the localities 
n i through which the lines.are intended to be carried; 
passing p the [eril Road to Hyde Park Corner. while the trees, especially those of more mature 
a n quantity. In many cases, the injurious ER hi eir 
constituents are deposited on the surface, and thus Is run Sap ages ec info ders. odi the ee sese MO ia TODA MEE s iu 
nutritive matters. The sais of ancien aallot: tlg: ^ “Metropoli f, ins d beppened already where “deep sewers have been cit 
evil has bud been deir rom the compost, Union Hailwav dak leave to daibeth rough Kensington | There also be no doubt—for the quentidi isa 
for there is no indication of disease except in the| Gardens in a tunnel, and after doing immeasurable | Settled ue in? these'days of applied science,—thit 
lower parts of 9 the roots | and irreparable injury to the plantations there, to pass | Parks, and squares, and gardens, and trees, and flowers 
lanati fail to satisfy our Cor-|on by way of Exhibition Road and Sloane Square to | 21e amongst the most beneficial provisions of a 
a ia an actual Vn may be made; but | the Thames Embankment. We trust in the interests | Kind which can;be made for the public health —: 
deuer might LES result, we are quite sure | of London trees, that this leave will not be granted. ees pot fa d And is being ee Wen 1 pe 
t we hen. Pe. euitivato in neral too o | Besides, in reference to the Thames So enka, af) Sppoa rh he b oe = ud gees b 
hich is|railways are to have full play thereon or thereunder, ces of the members of the Legislature to pre 
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sither aleea nna om with fungous avi or | 38 the Board'of Works seems to think almost inevitable perpetration of so es i iam at the mer bidding 
likely to generate it. M, J. B. PP ite mie Th A : 
— Ag EXHIBITION, to take mrar in Paris from 
of trees, must be Ses and for ever lost. hen, 5 
—— Tue army of Railway Companies, with a distin- | before it is lost, we ask E it may be well considered | Maren 12 to 17, e rola io tie hod a er 
guished staff of engineers at its head, is again pouring | by the powers that be, how healthful to the inhabi- | Grenel se Gen A s ire v arying in value up 
its winter quarters e a swarm m of locu sts | tants, how grateful to the pedestrians, and how great an 12h st w Nro varying I 
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as full-blown snorting plagu There is to be, | Corner the before-named Paddington line sought apply iy immediately vM Rourizann, 28, me 
as the leading jo puts ib k agront raid of adie pro- | to pass down d bns e: the Green Park, just beneath de 
jectors and ancient cames din -— with old | where there is wing a line of thriving young ere wilialso be aGRAND EXHIBITION ATBRUSI 
animosities, and dir w aspirations; of | Plane trees ew doni m th Mall in front of Bucking. | from April 24 to May 6. As the list of prizes oc 
young engineers just trenkiog. the shell, and old | ham Palace, destroying trees again, and cutting the | 97 8vo pages, we canonly state that Catalogues pi 
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dignity of Parliamentary agents, and of the veterans | escape with this amount of damage, if the eers | di i ids i ght to come 
of a hundred mot ate an id of cp gs ms of env eia or ial There has been e arme — € EL "e A xded from the | 
bills of costs ;" and all are in t preparing | Union way" projected to run under Hyde Park in | neck of an Essex friend of ou: 
for the conflict. The metropolis ‘tel E Apis e | a line almost parallel with the road from Kensington 
with some 50 or more invasions, man eed | to Hyde Park Corner—just where it would damage| —— It may be worth hed on behalf of er » 
lar sieges, vei perde pus dies Comma in | hundreds of trees ; and then ie traverse the Green Park, | may not see Mr. W. THOMPSO; Seed Ca talogue, to 
age fio ae ermine e our houses, our A onion m and $t. "cwn Park nearly in the same line | scribe what he says e e mox o ni 
our public squares, and our parks. Against this com- pee chosen b the Paddington and Charing Cross, RHODANTHE SEEDS says it is importan 
Lond cree truly à pni — is Litres, and also | Company, fma rse doin zie mischief, bind (writing of the ted of us ia iri E 
Poire watchfulness so be taken at a dis-| The Regents Park c escapes the wem of the railway te fr ] 
comes in for fu: de re 7 s 
The | = of the Railway ji far in i litio beyond "vh d Se slide rther x desirable d that ie Joeda requir és jd : 
quent g a Charing Cross of | The p hich th ay even ae 
the province of this Journal: jthaf-belongs ew to | the To ttenham and , Hampstead d Jünoton Tne, Fot “which under pile for a few te. a vantage; ? 
_ the public authorities ; but we have a w to Charing | the soil being thus saturated will often require 
say respecting Low: DON SQUARES and Pos pure PARES, Cross; as if, to “quote the Times again, every ang | farthe virens until the seeds are ab ove groun 4 
the railway attacks upon man, and child who o once gets into England were | | he ad the seeds e 
inthe way of these same authorities to a appreciate to | seize * to 70°, they will speedily p give prot 
pilaa xtent. The Com mpanies the mselves, moreover, | Charing Cross. But tise not theonky attack tobe nnd o ‘ee vitality, but if “insufficiently Meer’ T t 
ape to pus pss e dee es wee ie poko The * me g Cross th a's rn Rail-| will remain ger for pes 
c | way,” in i or same enviable s -i 
E LK ic enjoyment "aid e e public pata through Red Lion Square; and Bedford dit "Tere ipu "ux ipiius the E or 
Fest pdt. be held Only let our | tock Square, Russell Square, and Brunswick uare, 
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i ame oll EXHIBITION PLANTS. . 
m have planned out, and then farewell southward | extensions of the northern p^ midl THE wine Azatra,—No. IIl. 
to thali eee beauty, farewell to their umb lines, are to be in open cuttings, which will ge Continued from p. 101.) rough the 
- ter, farewell to their pop S enst to si destructive to tree life as though they had been| Tug principal pe to the Azalea A 
j eas! | tunni 
| atmosphere growing season is the black thrips. ¿Th 
those x arboreal embellishments ents that e within per amete ug Dun itan Extension " | allowed to stack t oo gad “plant e E ut interference Ty 
"Too ury Square in an dly do Ih guo 
€ l of ems for a hapa zu the Metropolitan District line pro bdo lehinti ar ro ape meri with Migne tiono. L 
or a guinea. The charge soll would analysis Pree oed pae i Trinity Square in a sella w wa: en One ird sage oo used in the jn ers | 
NUS Seg ; of competing lines, including the * London of 2 oz. toa gallon of wate Tite was made UP » 
