SEPTEMBER 3, 1864.] 
GRAMMA | YsoPH L of remarkable beau 
t of théin size al 
^s 
uty. 
‘and d the vigorous character of thei | get bu! 
oe ae re mt 
biting frost, weh sno 
dullest ooking flow 
w-clad houses. 
are treasu edn 
e fi Why, in the 
short, ei fog- -stricken days, or those of intense, 
t but th or four flowers on one of its 
perm stalks; but then, at such 
| who is disposed to astidious? 
of the 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
| but yet very early i in blooming. It is true that you can | 
ree 
833 
———— ees eee 
and the symmetry of plant are better seen when they 
a season. of the yea 
vida: 
and Mbit hind 
up W ith t 
Near these Solanums, on the west drive, may be 
seen the bed of pase Timbati which has stood out d 
-— win ien the —_ — protected ; and al 
the same ird ourhood a perfec t and brilliant 
pi iece of colouring AEA ed A 
2P feat lon 
shown by Mr. Fuss: - a ont rof thie Rowek fshoWk. held. 
at Kensington in Exhibition ann this 
Specimen, which v was in on most perfect ny formed 
a spreadin ng m ss some 5 feet thro mech Oe and was 
vhihited 
exhibited. 
It wr Piden one of the là árger seedling. fortns of 
care 
e Welcome there as a 
th +} 
- — ; and the specimens now before ts. 
oes completely 
for. "ens exhibited, suggest the applica 
oie pem. a the distinctive appellati 
om. The fronds are at — 3 feet 
hepin- 
bs 
"n Aal 
| consta 
thaintainéd; till the larger niembers of its 
with. Hyaciuths and Crocus, come in al 
round you a family | ^d le 
Thol ‘Tulips. 
t | together 
dantly, hed you can draw arou 
of little floral pets, wliose pleasant i in 
M 
nfinenee 
a buneh of spring Violets. 
widening, and gradilly 
rising to ‘ally present the colours to the eye, as the 
~The "little e isenty Scillá sibirica - comes i in 
so do the old 
Byt the calum of a Wie armies a 
Tulip ca 
e Duc v 
emo 
long à central yi ular one. There ib 
iio a very effective display of bedding near the 
“ Rosary ” Lodge, in which Raty the Moss Rose dues 
be fully well, coverin g the gr round ‘closely pegged 
covered 
ce can fill th 
bloo A circular bed here, about 14 feet 10 
[anctor filed with Coleus Verschatfeltii, crossed a 
ided bj 
kfulnes use the outwar 1 
become a ministrant oy the cheerfulness the what about the dumpiness whi h 
terisé8 it, dnd almost à e m 
mes Pp Tt wa E ou 
fess to Hüvé been often c 
us rotundity as Mr à s olyphyia 
br ev folium, but. whet Squat succeeds squat, 
diy other 
Another form, scarce ipsa - tho 
elegant, suggests the vam Hip s 
ATA, On account of its el 
is 
aw éven 
[RY; paso to 
within. Quo. 
THE x e PARKS.—No. I. 
PARK. 
ed 
het ie “dion * 
or Seduti 
to bein 
squats, ev a large — 
uper 
Pic est yellow ceteri 
examples of what are called Gold Fer 
T3 
and åre fine No brave = 
wo 
go 
the our flower garde 
— Am the New Peas of the Wrinkled Marrow 1 é 
class which ane e fallen into the bands rry m arr: 
for didteibution, one which is called Pern 
| stands ong in wee A" of excellence as a "d ner — 
r of being very pro oduidtive, and of | in its E s asp pect, are ador ned v wit! 
fil pod 
Hi 
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SMS 
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THP . 29% 
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eat “bed edding" 'értablishiment), there is i 
id Rd which should bes oe 
up 
— and for 
datory 
etam s ta! 
"— in mace M. Birzinó Fits there is &h ubt 
SprmxAs. These beautiful shrubs are | contem mptible, and during the dog ds b e time 
b; he tela us, into ‘tivo distinet classes, | according one has feaste upon n flowers, Ee K orth a blaze of jresul i i 
ó wr pruning they require. ll | “colour? t t growing though successful and n aria end 
Qum without distinction are pruned—or rather by the cotton dni, (ud which. "render our se ran distinguished 
1e winter; but this practice involves the: loss of the | Turner to look into for repos ect. udidly of the 
owers of certain iapecies which blóssom in spring, : For All real lovers of plate hà bit Y em wi o a Bech surfeited | püblie garden that I m 
his very ifüciont with the satieness of Tn m d hr A bäi : 
vo l for | c 
i [ 
T. 
we a= 
dizi 
TERT 
which rein upon "the mem of he t 
whe other sert after 
hich form their loe 
bla t 
Ri) x mos us most Mlfbérlens a r 
A nable d to s rur difference quie üt bome plünged in the Grass un & large 
nd, nd such Willow, rátt i af tois beside it, atid eund 
for them whic h will not be 
the sun, a young ipii and Carludovica, a somes 
which Mr. Gibson hopes. yet to EUR recu RR 
but now 
streets of Ex re 
ee ae en 
Li 
eceding year. 
eir varieties, sheuld, according to 
of s 
n 
pon — z the pr 
species, with 
view 
S. salicifolia, Bile canadensis, 
Port unii = which M. 
'The f g ing of the 
this | a scene e oF iu ás pa Gib: 
in the 
Y urinms— 
+ +} 
spring, namely :— | Mor: 
1i, callosa or | P 
s thé varieties 
“sub- UL qe garden, at Beitas 
; in at at 
be bet ith a 
ce 
of ret meer 
Sar te E Ei" 
odor 
beddin the only is treated | 
from the genera ect and co i enw ae 
i sorts | standing astonished, eig at lett wal tna m—À Hà 
pruned immediately after reden, rci the e i ‘one plant, ati ae ined mot to Bare may o mid or — esr risl 
fictsiotden e toin: pikon — "- eoudertii, | without the rame = - — og meen Along | near tlie etitratice$ vus ve did paver rerio to me to 
aquilegizefolia, sinensis pendul ni indley: miration, is the propeller ate mov ve ra of li eaf or habit more a on 
ana, oC aiat. issiga; be E the eins are do rt formers may have ase d duty | be obtained niany hardy trees 
dou ible- flowered. v variety; lanceolata o a soap box, and n with humanity o of all |a little way beyond the Sapun a a partal e rd 
— of E 
bella ie]. pronifolia, witli its 
or Reevesii, kd "a 
pu bescens. 
| lata, cana, adiantifolia, demens eve. Ramoun, dis ped by a mixed pner oh is that has ever been enjo 
| rupestris mcm oblongifolia It must not be ii pro from what I have said, that | of egi — and full os divo ie oceapies tle 
|. procumbens, i raster bodding-ou t proper is not to be seen at Battersea; on | gréater portion of th Caps Sadoe, and this is planted 
and Hookeri. cree min is ther pure and simple, to an enor- Lara Cep eaved plants — Woo rq d with 
pe extent. ay rem whose al Mibarmed by | eliiti and. with 
long lines of pion our this, succeeded by long lines 
shrubs aud f 
of | bedding plants, too, here nad ake ooking much the 
colour that, and who goal o over the absence of verdure ‘associa 
go 
RLY FLOWERING BULB better for being ted with so much leaf beauty mid 
a ee an usual | 
p hold, in vast | tropieal fri rique "The view of this bank from numerous 
Tue return of August bri or leaf beaut ty, may and be twice blessed, for verdure, "Bat it ehe animara that Ulo o "icf display o 
| Uem iiec of the i Haporalions f bulbs, tod that | Mr. Gibson has catered r? is t y y 
i catalogues of them are on the eve or s publication; and | Should the pr apatan stroller h | leaf pical beauty d on its 
many a well-compiled little tract invites ion and | associations as could be pore rh rie ^d of qhiet recesses; hollows, little t d banks that Mi 
| Is the pocket. I the “ Petina j^ tock ” | great undertaker's =) € 
sms 
e an's K g 
is E alras iiotice Some of these nod and | an airing, he, ee tg 
s Į 1 r ugh bnt | lines, Perilla is there ! It has in itself m 
nO one &pot fails to prese 
Lore +i f; +) Sae 
points is astonishingly beautiful. 
: to las n some places Me tob the advanced colour-culturist may elements of rarity, and in 
: Or ate all ya om em of bulbs that can be | see displays which will “se s did pleasure, ps | the visitor witl thing g 
Wes as into Sa rd T1. - winter pe em two of € 9 But I did not go to Battersea to inquire | little bedding compositions, up through the fime-l 
oom about and daubings of the | Ferd 
hai 
retüiarkab| arly, viż., |a descant upon the effects linandas, Wigandias, and their numerous help- 
"cct y i ths, poe ps more s Per known | “ be dde er out," which, Heaven knows, has been suffi-{ mates, to the Ferns, shrubs, and trees in the back- 
“a8 the white ime of Paris, and the Paper- eed | p done over and over again. So having explained ground, which shut out evéry brick, and confine the 
es n ps more pop ularly known as the single|this to Mr.. Gibson, M apologised for youth and|séene to plants their admirers, and the canopy of 
| Ttalian ‘© are pushed on into bloom i ignora Mets had a Vox S à JS Bibursi of the | heaven 
Ere the exigencies of the market | park 1 des of the sub- 
e: flowers; and also to render gi i 
service in the. Cin mixed with ppt rrel tong ingl : 
For window or ecotation düritig winter, | absence others 
vetta Narcissi pnr nme They it easily | a add an nes dt th sul 
early obtainable, ahd they are easily cultivated; evening when àid ev every o re | thé A - 
flower freely, and retain in bloom for a consider- lé during suc vet as we have say w Bae 
able tiine, I find t oi ións of this flower | h ò üpon Tritom z re fine — and inge f et "both th the Se indoor nn oütdoor depurtmén 
20 made into warkéet: The ege evenly » ‘stopped short at a beautiful bed of Solanum 22 ep a - the ER display. I must how 
Autity, und srhichi is aleo the earliest flowering, comes | marginatu t Gbéerve, that ft was only last spri 
^ Paris ; the other, and in the ease of whic! This is, perhaps - - of the Solanums | employed mont, vat ry "beo fairly an the experiment, 
bülbs Hower some two ‘mont ‘a comes froth | at Battersea, a and ón eitest wonders is how he has got 
Holland or the Channel Islands, How th èis such & | which have areis of owny silvériness, whilé the toifether b sh ih immefise number of resale plants in 
differénes in the time of flowering I do not know, but young unfolding leaves - the centre are covered with | stich a short t ime. | I mu st add that hardy herbaceot 18 
the fact ed DES. employing both the ntn and | close down of a pinkish tint. It is an invaluable plant máy ll by 
e Ape á Succession of Hower ca _— 1 for filling á sutümer vacancy in the mixed aen "d Mr; Gibson for - eing effects quite equi al. nd in 
from the weenie ot November till the ei 1, | ifidéed for any flower garden work. Mr, Gi y cases daperide to that of many of the 
The ‘first are = pang the market, 80 forcing ‘can be | this and A Solan egi ipie nce apart, xin - “tropicals” Wé employs at present. L me eed only 
at nce, Then asa cO siete the is the platits to e rong spi nes come into | itstance Some very near relations of Cynara Se )ymus, 
Double Roman oman Narciss, not nearly so beautiful! play an te the | any n We stateliness | grand plants, as may be seen at Kew, not omitting the 
