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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 
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high col: t sufficient] attainable to replace trees m. rk the common Cypress, the e Red “Cedar, | fruita, 
OLOT R pm J ish eo 
" i 
ME ^s y will prove to be Magd hw In the Wee, A P —The Weeping Birch and bbs Willow cons sider ed a 
meantime G. brenchle eyensis may be set down as aj are both familiar — and form ye 
ttractive d tive so of this group ney e n 
C p tact “oh gy quantity id Tram have | than many other kinds, but they are > distinct he 
been growing this senson with remarkable vigour in the | attractive, - not lik P to be a unnoticed. 
deep calcareous loam of sates Doa t Saw- of owers.—Trees d shrub 
sprin E are p par valuable, «nd, I 
s| which flow 
fortunately Son re is no dea 
, flowers, or vegetables 
ruling principles ot "aperi Cultivation would nnt | bé 
s fully 
room to 
rth of such, A group ci 
osed of Scar ab Perg Loburanm, and Lilacs will 
ple of what ma; y be effected by the 
3. The Colours of the Leav 
ma be artiy "attributable 
whi ch „they 
— early, other ate; but 
ever time they appe tantly moistened | 
he eye 
die ET eeiduous trees | 
tat what- / Thi 
to touch each other when fully g 
ure occasion an BE more att 
w 
before b 
s eould only happen indeed in 
ground had been well and pepe rly communis Me when 
the plan of jigging a aho adopte the solid ground and 
ar, 
with the showers of stings with 
freshness which we for Wi 
e soil y araki stirred. 
just been g ubbed and th 
ubject as the Gladiolus | 
It is v be hoped that so fine a s 
m accidents 
larity which se emed to be setting in so decidedly 
s favo 
We learn from Dr. leg ee > that the true 
of the e seasons, lose the popu- | spri 
loo 
later date. bursting — 
form a most le e landscape 
that many yéars mac a 
would meet. Indeed, in 
natural 
ing—the blood red of the Purple Beech, tl the ye 
n themselves piensing, | 
e summer advan 
colour 
dh the Caragana, offer contrasts 
t which lessen in germ — 
With evergreens the differ betwee the 
new grow wth = ie m especial in the Pine tribe, i$ 
otice, and produces a 
Norway, as recorded 
gentleman has him- 
ecimens with 
w if those who pt ti 
very pleasi d. va loty ^ The 
shades of Pob are often thus brought in im 
contact. 
Within view of the spot where these lines were 
written, is a stream, whose margin, at the time 
e 
cape 
dub and the lightest | c 
mmediate 
Nor th American 
* m The 
Woodsia a 
| — te of good cu 
O t 
would vem - | probably die off, and require 
be replaced hose more liberally treated 
i 
to be well pre 
e trees would s 
pen Anecd the general thinning, pruning, a and ‘cutting, 
ag is Aaah ntirely destructive to them, and indeed 
ases the 
course in page life of the 
that the practice is not 
instances i in h a 
nd pru 
- has been n 
th a 
m 
groups of blossoming g Hawtho 
occurrence of the plant in such wid 
Lac en burgi Tenders it not impius "t it] 
ard po arches diligo 
distant by ror were trees | innumerable ; bu 80 
t is a 
botanical prize Oh finding: 
the othe: 
p Although n not in a severely critical mood, I have | 
inning an 
she bra have becom ickly interlaced 
shut wah “ee light of the sun, and it has been 
ss fficult to get à ladder through to rea 
e tops of the t 
» 
8 to 
as even 
son, of Archerfield, mee ind 
arie! y. 
plante. that has ^ intro 
ured up ex 
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amples | 
the comparativ ely o 
Arer p 
improved lies iere me in increased loveliness. 
which does n 
borders to a degree v 
The Severe 
) seen. . 
in bedava 
t occur | I 
ue inp 
have gazed and am satisfied, bex youth and fresh- 
ness of — a sti n r^ ere, t the monoton ny has 
whole Tandseape i is inspirited. 
any o Aer Caleeolari 
dd too has but little ted it. 
a ground-work of blue Lobelia, with belting or border. 
ibaa 
perii will b 
size s -— po of ecd P piunt, 
| sur branches 
influence of the sun, as would a less number of 
In endeavour ing g 
r PT 
gely bs 
EUH.) 
ing ET of peel tain amem ium, he observes 
1 be in rimaries | ae ¢ | ke two 
4 
Asa pot or vase plant i it is also first-rate, 
ORNAMENTAL PLANTING —No, I. 
SPRI 
the remark that the 
poet rev 
in those of a n 
selecti ing Trees should perhaps be conversant with and 
t all seasons, Sprieg 
is is the Mese of promise i in sideris and I purpose in 
the present instance to confine my r poo to that 
season, The r^ minant features of Tree-scenéry in 
spring are :— 
1. The outline of the trees. 
2. The of the flowers. 
colours 
+ The colours of the leaves. 
Some —From among the Various 
e, I ma; may pe p be 
nee the following as clearly defi Ages points 
of depurtare—soreding a nd- hended, pyramidal, and 
varoa: Not t ntended to say that all trees 
are qo am h 
req 
ermitted | supply to fall 
tree d m green, varying in shades, tat still p 
will 
nedes ks a rai tine 1 from on m nion 
s one Bese th 
This is as it should be, for no other colour i in nature 
80 a et ye. Let us then take this colo 
d MANAGEMENT.—No. VII. 
Observed in the last 
© en) that the time occupied in ork of pre 
paring the trees wou ld afford ample oportuit for 
th ly of compost in readin 
of the landscape by troduction of other 
colours. Every domain should be in itself a picture, or | come into bearing, they v 
rather a nens of —— united pictures. William | other as to agen 
Pan — of those which are 
n | 
t to et and 
ame poi 
ble: 
that of a very tortuou 
Nei ther do I consider i 
ther | poodle tek supa 
very ii tant matter, because it is only by a proper 
encouragement of these lower branches that a 
we is ue" formed and well balanced be produced. ee 
gh, as I said before, the s pay 
ystemm may 
bare ce prove to be very bad economy Arie 
for Tar well convi vinéed, on tear from mU ree 
for planting them peram now ring in my 0 d eh 
int more prominently before the mind of the |greatest amount of roo spread o. nd enlarge, 
lan use a very considerable qua à ies te other conditioris — rx EN gia € — 
mired at planting — and unless | the rge returns for ou rorum n the 
every m should be taken ndvantaze of when 
work is slac terials are plentiful, to get — 
e This should be laid up in good 
3 ott Foe 
as dich ue pga le. 
m 
The physiology t this mattek will e posibi 
when we reflect that every tree, wh 
es of one or a other o 
ii] s for it i x ips amer that in many there is 
an absenee of marked character, and that a 
f | sized heaps, 
or contiguous thereto, As these heaps will consist rg the 
dry c 
nsidered favourably placed, should have nothing to 
terfere with it, above or below, within the cir- 
porci T a cifcle which it is probable by good 
tree may be oo Bertectiy spreading, round-head. 
Lio ta r weeping , bu t in the i voit which r forts 
age» of the road sides, together with tree leaves, 
bese divisions. 
e ry the c cy out of ditehes 
T» 
ara Y yt 
s | probably of the scrapings of roads, as well as the | Ther 
gener 
them easily eme to one or other 
s the form 
tn 
ov prevalent in 
ph ine of ornamental 
Ash, the Beeeh, the Oak, I its 
Loo oad | 
T and the pretabil is 
it be a few | shou! 
t down into a qe and s 
ori necessary to have 
| process. this 
and well mi oe as together to hasten the deca: 
— at 
beenuse it w desirable that the worl 
ld be cominenced 
rong eo m pos 
them onenn Ay ‘ened mo m 
ecayin 
View, unless 
slike tops everyw decomposed, well mixed wp, and 
Round headed, z for use by the time the trees 
perhaps the e Robinia inermis is i 
Ape e most strongly m ym ok This beautiful a We must now return 
secs "eri in Bund half so much as as dMertes recommended that - E of 
dem idm ce - every st shodla: be trenohed t planted with Potete the 
Mat ail to resh bright, benatifal ig summer previous oia to planting the prepared Bythe|room may be 
Most of e. al vaa ‘the attention ed tra | pee of October, the ground should be thoroughly branches toa maximum 
nd-headed trees are, how € mode: | © enred and levelled, and the stations for the 
varions n in this e 
i t t inion | in tli growth that 
Ss nt d p Ape reni of xd rds aries committed some p the | Apples lar in the market, the Yorkshire Greening 
numerous Sht Lipa ee l trees of ager size are moře | most sérious mistakes that it is possible to conceive, | and the Northert Greening; the former is of a very 
Poplar, Turke OS Ld -headed on The Lombardy ery that is, the distanee at which the trees should spreading habit of gro pee the latter much nore 
are con Sopas AK, an d White B Beam tree (Pyrus Arii) | stand from each other. experience as practica eal inclined ards, and yet it makes a 
idal his oa - NE Theré ivators teaches us that for ps i ble t à good treat and 
Elm, E peg e ae Aene , the | there must be ample room; and this is true not of one 2 it i isa very free bearer, the weight of the fruit makes 
trade as Alnus’ asplen heantital oon seed known m| d partment only, but of every department | in the art of |t 
" nus seplenifolia. Then evergreen ' gardening. Take any one subject, either amongst in «bin Yet it would obviously be very bad poliey to 
