DEoEMBER 10, 1864.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 1179 
formed of six sepals, which have a sapan. pam self, who is powerless to prevent what, in common |from, but immediately in front of the great central 
Judging from: de spparance of the blown n Sasha oe Paice ey tas a ee See 
young and not very robust plant, the flowers will reg of| The abuses which I allude are — first, the dis-|level, is a ‘fine circular fountain, with a ronde 
the full size of the ordinary forms of Md We | reputable Sondition in which plants are sometimes | Neptune in his car of shells drawn by seahorses, a pai 
learn that another white-flowered hybrid has been | offered for sale a n nd, secondly, the false names that|of very symmetrical specimens of Araucaria m red 
received from the same source, under the name of|are ofte X wish I could b elieve unwittingly —given to | about 24 feet high, standing one - each side on the 
C. LANUGINOSA NIVEA, but the poer of this we have | them e cata sala ogues. In support of these sate | lawn to the Te and left of the fountain, 
not seen. The plant ere - furn ed Uer cp T sit DPSNON detail my own experiences durin J, was glad to see but the slightest p ot Eus d 
for this memorandum t by Burn of | the ? proper, in thia garden ; 
Chelsea. My | fis a Sard rchases consisted of several new East el spoilt the oo But there were beds o 
— The admirers aiid collectors ‘of the Vanrerns Indian species, of which, Danak in Y ae d health, | permanent and c T ow: Kragen Kimia 
r Barüsu FERNS will no doubt be glad to make not one surviv ved, a mstance t & need occasion | Vaceiniums, ure ndro: Heaths, aud 
d ; no surprise, as the fr ——Ó kindred shrubs, which highly relish the m es air, 
all of which have lately come to our knowledge. in em Prev a EA the time it was sent to be | and agreeably —M with hes dope placcà — 
The first is a variety of the common Polypody, which | 59 ext to bd Od by iw ee. "Grenada 2 »e side descents from the = 
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we dieti g fea Orchid "papon mad oo 2 im E Ris vh nstead o one, goin "4 ^ e central s" M Ts 
bbreviati i gegm i a, on which I wil aviug six beautiful specimens of Irish Yew, and 
—— ap D eM — pew | remark, that whatever they may be, the oy differ dd fligh t ¢ po € vases, one at each corner, the Yews 
n lin ases, which 
direct from M. Linden’s establishment at Brussels, | mixed Sante, antl, from being in each case immediately 
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| Grenada Orchids, of which there was a sale about a | afforded a most pleasing contras 
| month ago, comprising a s pontis * Houlletia" and an| On the north side of the house a Pr planted 
dv. “Odontoglossum ? species.” s I could not attend rw Me was m iaa di as grace- 
thi lf, I full ned and slightly — amate by Ivy, 
i te titles, an old = worthless Med ia, and an equally Cle bata, os ne dite climbers, trai over a large, d and, 
| worthless Trigonidium! Au d to crown the vexations | as far as I kno ow, Wr dA Sah, the plan of the 
of the year, g being exaetly paralleled a m ded 
| 1861, a specimen of the common yellow Dendrobi opposite or south side of the house—the bed 
densifloru rum, which I had bought originally ing pl 
high rate, as ois de e white v variety of the pona in | covered by climbing varieties, On the lower level ai "ed 
for one of the large deeply-cut forms of y Fern Sore be Redr ap as matters now stand, there can of E of the Pampas Grass stood boldly £s t, ia as 
. | course be none, for even i blin, few 
= — -— hei ow 2 Ce te — 1 f sale as to “all faults and errors of oons dd subjects existence could produce more graceful or 
that +} 3 Mar no k vro shield the vendors, I have no ne Foc E tab i rive ta effec t. «n bushes, of of M pa 
d of knowing who the delinquents are, the; ing | Fuchsias were also very noticeable, being wit 
p rione wi mith TUE Spes TET te discreet kopt i their names con em sp flower, and so much more beautiful es „Fuchsias are 
posterior ld ined by com- 
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divided that at ree — it might be readily mistaken | 
Lady Fe 
d pots. These ne are o! 
rte are Aa speaker str bet the basal n ith in 1B of lom E appolatments hif ux “which grow 
Bhonós a re ni al - 10 or 12 Site of adnate | —€— than my own; but Es I have now stated ^ni our or: aiz feet Te r* ding Ñ don a rich and deep 
mercy obtuse lobes, which are more or flioe to call attention to a great an erin soil, and plen 
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acordi à i arly in ^ was a po chromatic” D» work | in this garden. 
s+ Pea ae m ears 8 a dhe ie asad view the ular Odontoglossa already beginning to | Such would have Polit it and preve — an una'loyed 
e segments, are of small size. In he equel-sided | appear at the Covent Garden sales—the species of iore of the wa for however desirable it 
pinnz and minute parts of the frond, combined with a which ow resemble one another so entirely as to | might have been in La Quintinie’s Time, hes: the 
a normal-looking manner = growl, t this is so | ender it impossible for the intending purchaser, t ücourage 
y froth typieal di itat, tha t hind W barned io unless he - Nar nd upon his Pace to dis.| the draughtsman in ground and gravel, oa aston'sh 
Boece metr BÉ. [er "dr five been eui tinguish betw the precious =" the . James vet s M with elegant twirlings on mother Earth, 
sidered à Dmm Bateman, Biddulph Grange, Dec uch a hash- "up from the scenes depicted in vol 
Of a ^ have received two or three well- coupe ie Fa 
marked s Mr. W. WrrrrsoN, of Whitby. One NOTES ON GARDENS. —No. XXIV. 
them, A. FONTANUM RAMOSUM, is decidedly ramose ILLAKEE. [bas already yielded— an abundant erop x well- 
from about the middle of the frond, and, as welearn,| Pug visitor to Dablin, PAD DE gardening, and. fond PEL ridicule. No situation could better 
sn we af ics. IE Teese SUE oa ganden int Sn sh lac, an Cia 
, i cal en n this a lla ‘or t alust: 
into a pee combination of both i ang place. w ith which L am | eal go È margine 
1 ag boy e D A AT v ruin-crested. ; 
the MEA! reo or four p omousl, z Sistine seen peg most parts of the Bay of D ookir ae when our - 
p i ag hane i Lx boe As in EJ x a suit poate: Fre top of the hill on|“n ancestors B. ‘Blackberry 
frond before consists of god Phy rrounded by a fine and pud bras OX s 
We are informed that all aed parce Petre prote |! te. garden, Pes literally dst den on Dabl pi and the lo tors of our nobility 
constant under cultivation and i or miles around. The day of D ashed after the wild p f when ‘a n look out fora 
AW ong p forms of Har hei in we find two | visit was fortan a pretty clear one, with a breeze | garment—contrast most pleasingly with the gardening 
or I especially E r notice. these the | to sweep awa vapours that n &ccuma- | around the is 
variety REIDLE is y the cristate series, in which | Jate over the 7 To the north could e ogoi sor tres length from wp tiat 4 
the ‘fro nds are nor emal a the "base, but developed at | mountains of Mourne mingling with the grey clouds, | lodge, passes down t rough the woods between the 
t and nearer still the fertile pt je igs X ar i ign house and d the abruptly-rising hill, which, oy many 
3 inches through. This plait i is growing in the Fernery | lands of Louth and Meath, to | persons, w present as great an attraction as the 
of Mrs. Rerp, and has been We a Eel our notice | the better wooded country south of of Dubli x "sil Gl. | nk ar n by kir - house is flanked. It isa 5 
by Mr. Parsons, Another ve yd form is | nevin, the valley of the AE 8 » at k of sd ock : al 
CERATOPHYLLUM, received as e: Bed gen Soolopét- qeu dL A AD To lle ies istance Bes Pa es and mixed wood, but 
rium from Mr. ISON, is about 3 inches | gf, the fair eity of joda ick To the i hs anted Ke for 500 feet fs i the west front of 
iigh, the lower part irregularly toothed or incised, hrs the view "was s interrupted b y the high hills of Killakee the as Mag a host of Rh 
i nd more or less d that 
ch » Where iti is almost impossible e to ge et awa ay fro! 
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oothing becoming dee ards, and more o Spirmas, Cotonensters, Heaths, Azaleas, 
Bes diverges into | Dublin; but there the hills of bg Par: pm deciduous and evi v 
ascending divergent antler-like branches, which Killiney and Dalkey, with as mp weds e view of | above and behind these by large Bays, ec a 
ly slight! as of Dublin; and then the coun y | Weeping, Ashes, conducting gradually 
ok ae and furnished with distinct and pther enclosed by these hills. lying between EUM and ai Pin apara hn In front of the ban within the 
distant f. d liner "toon lite divisions. This occupied by seats and ko drives ei the mansion, little s dr trickle 
seedling, as al called SEPTENTRIONALE, fein | gardens that its appearance was most Neqne: or | down n, and DE erns peep out id away 
its being: Mus suggestive of Asplenium septen naturally —— them—quite at l iG vin 
trionale in its s size and narrowed parts. | ee e apparently dense wood, but the spires of antes | Osmundas eie ritish Heaths and wild, flowers too 
e m s before us, one ch | glimpses of uu &e. This pleasant land is as|have fall scope, and the of 
tl the Een scenes possible dei or t MA 
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e wet o the flats about London as it 
he sagaci tm old sea dogs the | — 8c ees moreover, which may be oats to have caused 
ed Datla: for ajno expense since the first Le et scene of sur- 
tains ng beauty when thb American plants are in fiower, 
ange Berg? and bos ital a * all times, 
removed from a normal 
= batch of novel D Wake 
ust be reserved for some 
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specimens, is encountered, 
associated with huge deg pem banka of 
0 D SALI on the many 
I smart, I think, be doing good service to the Rose garden isitey be; denas Wood A moun- 
i if I briefly call your aie the svete Ay zu | tains again appearing i in the begun with brawling 
window of qr 
time aes abe pe "e PT of a circular t, standing at the 
ag ae nig ren i cate E ict long and èr X 20 wide deii dm | m po of an oe aec flow ower ga arden, 
are 18 circles of choice Roses: and at some a distance asec "This garden, or the greater part of it, has de 
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‘scarcely necessary for me me to disclaim the intention 
- casting the slightest imputation upon Mr. Stevens him- 
