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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[DECEMBER 10, 1864, 
eut in the -— "pes oe from its wooded banks 
no doubt suggested this grafting, which is likely to 
ears 80 pars ng and gorgeous a drapery «d : 
k wa It is ed tha " th ese 
certain facts which 1 have observed for some years years 
ion ear M have considered the burns and 
s bei g pro roduc ed by lenses or faults onn are 
bac 
| pom ‘Epiehy lame, which 
and LA = na Pereskia, but scarcely live on their | 
roots, a no! om: 
D J 
4 1 ee "m passi: 1 h “th 
requ 
stoves or frames. Others have assigned them 
ay grown, for g 
Masi 
finny date P - glittering mala” 
was very 
abundant— only n o handso = B erae as the 
tro t e water of moun 
of a clear 
t h 
ing ihe eh erry Saxifrages 
fringing the tae passing he kitchen EL eed th 
ood. These there was 
from 1 the. stream and M le 
so T stream— di runs 
crei wood like an sirdged — for a IA 
above and be elow the flow * gar rden d tur ing 
e most beautiful 
stove or intermediate hone tes ut have at this 
season. Behind the range erected by Mr. Turner 
is a suite of garden offices also erected by him, qui uite 
worthy of association with the curvilinear range; and 
inst the end wall of the garden—hidden Z 
foul scenery by the iron house: 
lant houses, well filled with wd 
The most telling effect, however, 
d s 
for example: wa ater $ed Vendi 
charged ffequentiy with oxide of i where 
frames are made of iron; stagnant ii lets incon. 
stancy e^ m ee copper instruments ks plo ya 
for ing, The first of thes 
syri 
having obtain satel credit, I shall dwell e 
The 
Roe it, to show a impossibility. 
mple experiment will & dd p e this. It is true 
that glass of the riim, quality includes many faults 
or lenses, but the defective „parts are in ge eas 
old but grand subject, 
was soon reached. The 
most orem 3 for many feet below, 
the bea 
sein j A of 
mental circular conservatory wi 
nceps, well v was ui plenbed out ander, and formed the 
their inclination varies Ed much, without the “ae 
houses on each side, 
th 
e whole 
arse - elegance. _ Round this garden ran a 
border o 
seen ening » worthy to be called a crop on this plant 
acc: 
which I was s glad to find had not bee 
mania for streaks of red, yellow, a chie! 
prH 
scene from ris cel was | most showy and graceful wreaths pt this 
were mapped out | of a nd toe stove. This, as I learn a Me. Rorke, | explanation of the phenomenon in ign We all 
of this unique garden, most co nspicuous | was nearly always in flower; os valuable for | know that to mal ake a morsel of amadou take fire by 
Mr. Turner’s best effo rts—a very orna- | room decoration of all sorts, The Granadilla P help of a magnifying pie 8, “it is s indispensable that the 
r object be — T tem lens. Though the focus varies 
b d | plant yielded fi f fruit i hickness of ibe a s employed, it 
 range— which stretches across the further | had b t d d a most $ the distance of 2 or 3 inches. But 
ltl the at agh time of my 3. i t h Mu never or frame are at rier a foot ora 
vegetables 
foot and a halt oe ie glass, and MET) a at 
a 
before. "pecu fertility eit the fruit to be|a distance of many Neve 
ticle of dess t at Ki lla kee. Mr.|attacked decide qd e De pen. mo an 
ke fertili tl 1l he | then the true explanati pn. sh hortieul- 
i blue. The 
entrance is at the side of ita upper level, lines E e 
wants it to fruit d thi babl vipisi why we so 
E J 
1 
tru e En agli 
turists have propose that iius, pe communicate 
bó Portugal Laurels in tubs producing a 
k, 
along the upper wa 
the visitor begins to descend the central wa sik loa 
or 
and varied floral c 
shake Tastefully interspersed. 
In the centre of each half of the top level was 
a statue, surrounded by a chain of 10 beds, well filled 
and well varied with plent 
y that stat wa ter deposite ted o on the leav: es, an nd that 
ipm pt land In the 
ding | may be sai id te to “ waste its see on the desert air,” jardeners’ Chronicle of 1858 a clever orticulbara 
on each level there are choice | far as regards ee the : insects, and p 
charms, with statuary and Conifers unless the cultivator remo ^ s the vivifying pollen, ined wi lo for Orchids) 
[d ndian "he eeze or exotic | Another ctiti the aes duri 
fly, we are only favoured “with the flower. In the the same year, says that by vies ER: air 
Melon house two A of the Silverton Park Scarlet- | light, they s mily avoided. Such are the een 
y o Melon bore a eis erop of very good-looking | tions most worthy of ngea Without rejecting them 
Iron vases were . | entir ly, "n ay obse that they appear to be 
cones of pillar Roses. placed a each 
corner of the steps leading from | level to Tevel; and at 
fruit. 
Outside the lower end of the terrace g tl 
on the een 
sale fall but 
I remarked during 1861, in many Dracenas in the 
some china vases with the newer Telergoniune remaining outside the garden wall and again nst the | stoves of the Museum, burns which vers roduced in 
middle level was for qe most par whi e consequence of ill-timed syringing; 
bedding plants, 30 neat beds of these surrounding a | is entered m e houses and hidden from | that is to say when the sun was pibe, directly on the 
statue placed in th ntre of either half, with hand- | external view ints. Itisa very singular and | plants. I looked for the explanation of this in the 
some Araucarias and very symmetrical Irish Yews— interesting Feed eo feet long by about 2 p wide, n g the glass, bak tho! faults 
Deed in all such arrangem ents, Here again | and 15 fee hic arches, as in Mr. B ley's | c able of fo orming lenses, reason showe imme. 
well vin , and of . cou ernery, ^ e d 2 6. e contrasted, are raised over | diat A th t € whicl 
pone the more interesting. pace forbids me to | the central walk, with a line of | smaller arches parallel existed between the ijuod tps and the glass parti- 
en: ese affordin etty | ti on (a abo ut 9 fe e this was not admissible. I 
beds, vourites and thi 
used for ose me I wil mention Sedum 
which made iest of little beds; 
Menlo 
Manul 
ka ME both white and red ; ‘atid tank for other aquatics, a jet an 
e in UT sta! tu ue at the e en nd of the central walk, which must afford 
M: Yd grievously injured by 
perspective d though not yet ptas 
provisions for s of all sorts, there oval 
basins getting dpt for Nympbzas, a and warm 
d'eau 
pia 
these hei ere being able to account for the 
causes which produc ced them. This y 
s of Cordy- 
line australis in the same place, that is | to - in front 
it in tif px " plent y ol 
rden—100 feet lower than the view jira Boni " 
feet above the sea level, and | 
ooler, mercato and later than 
Dublin 
andsome, fountain and basin 
on each half, with a none ‘chain f 10 beds encircling | 
em; ribbon borders 
of water, though ‘this | a novel addition to the charms of its garden 
right and left ph the con n- be ut 
verdure. Thus future visitors to Killakee may expect 
of the gates of entrance pë to pavilion. The fine 
weather alioi ng me to leave them open, not! hin ng at 
p 
some pide plants which were in 
d | phe 
n 
T suppression of free a air fro m But how 
-| the air Loire the injurious affect “oan eing pr 
duced ? 
the same d I kept them ve »^ and the first vo 
after a syringing made at too n hour, there too - 
the Cordylines were. spotted. This time, then, I 
persevered longer in seeking the explanation of the 
nomenon. 
vM the doors remained open I noticed nothing 
-— The first pel A that they were mem closed there 
urns, The ca 
was the point which I wished to dete 
thie; drops of water on leaves whic 
as 
IESR.ESSE 
can n Gray object w the torn From the seat on 20 years, during which time most of d 
the hill, - is so well ie with the | garden improvements = been made. These however | drop e strongly heated. As the therm 
embowering woods , and park and mansion | are | still conti inu ued by . White, and superintended rose its volume increased, „and finally, following, ti 
beyond than , the aie ay, by looking to the right, 
see one of D ublin Bay, ofa holl f the while | leaf through e Mr of its course. 
it, the Hill ot Howth—the te ‘of Dublin, and this | at + he new iy i is in n did visitors| After this experiment I opened the doors and 
beautiful geometrical garden, from one rustic chair! are admitted by cards on certain days, d t Mrs, White’s | moistened the lea leaves pers The rather strong breeze 
: tastefully decorated with | kindness to gardeners is even more comprehensive, fi me presume that the same pheno- 
both planted out and potted specimens, High up abo die are readily admitted EM all mes and are thus | menon wou ihe ted in consequence of the 
the were Vines in ital fruiting ondion, favoured w ith'no ordinary boon, for, apart from the instability of the lea That I might be perfectly 
and as be supposed, noi less ornamental Pes in parts of | satisfied on this point, I fastened some of ves by 
other cli - Of the houses, however, space forbids — n eee i gested see very clearly that 
me to than mention a few p i taste ria e oe when 1 they wer though d to 
Her D» iem if well keeping pobres both gionis and na! rris the air, and that it was vel Ve he motion o: i 
done, ATA en preca jects to are bet xi ÁN than at * White's, of Killakee.” VIE hair guard them from injury. 
manage, as n gardens a iied fort their oltre we | Wm. R mai ined, then, , to ascertain, in editing with 
know they "fe eduanely fail for a y 2 orme 
Killakee, to my knowledge, they 1 reg des 
d abundantly grown by. Mr. aia 2 very osa 
and pers about the 
ing exe or he sown 
first o MO in a athar cool, mont and som viet 
si ed intermediate pee in which they mt till 
about the month of Fe bruary. From the germination 
t ge and strong r* first 
ina greenhouse d then in a cold pit, the slightest 
check never occurs. penpe 
the autumn and winter, 
require 
potting almost every week. ang i ; that agen — the 
Mn ud de tion in w these 
eig: is 
LEAVES, ESPECIALLY IN STOVES. 
(TRANSLATED FRO) 
a great number of years, French id other 
turists have endeavoured 2 explain = causes 
** ADANSONIA,” 1862, p. 3 
a 
ON THE CAUSES OF BURNS AND SPOTS ON |l ma 
lens, how it could burn while resting on the object. 
ade 
convexities, and I aequir 
spierien the lenses were, the more it was necessary 
bring them near - = object, to obtain the result 
which I was trying to explain. 
I do not pretend to  attribütë to the same cause all 
the e) ia Ap. ch we frequently -n - : P in 
am sure that all those 
cili] of f the leaves, 
ieu: ai this without 
sion. All however have established the fact ris at ts] 
sun and water are the principal agen erm rn ra 
was planted 
been 
of Epiphyllum and ot! 
ificent display — | 
every & 
i, the 
tions have been very different, mái in my: peces 
contradi 
Tt wo to reproduce here all that has 
riar the plants are in a badly vesc stove, and 
aay — they are watered too late or in too 
mld be useless 
been said on this subject, 
* the history of these observations, I wish only to record | 
‘The materi in resting too long on the leaves is like- 
use of the. disorganisation — v o observe 
frequently in : roaid Pelargonia, ti, dit 
e attention we shall fi he effets 
are not ive dh in this case. The ein i ar tae — 
