Ocroszn 1, 1864.] THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND MEMO, GARDET 941 
wearying by the blaze of the same colours day after | of Mr. . Rivers's new Nectarines, ‘the Victoria 
day ; and when the eve’ nings are getting damp and by accident i in the cold en nd of the house; icd wes | is ong but not go so pletifal as "the others. ph 
chill 1 ie tha Dh all. 
Vds Nat s least attractive; when the lanes are | a more delicions g aeiae e tasted. It appe ars to | The Royal Canal I have not fully explored, iari 
muddy, à the forest trees ar » hare ae or else | be a cro ur - Stanwick; is it so? Pears are | only at — mention one plant spread ex beanively 
when the eveni are long, the wa ifi and cleanness c vour iu are | over it, viz.; the Buck Bean, Menyanthes trifoliata. 
balmy and charged with perfume; when the blackbird equal to Md poate in Jers This crop has | Dee and wide ditches occur everywhere, and often 
is trilling his last good night, and the linnet is making never. failed. Undo — the orchard house is the | serve ‘the two-fold purpose of affording water to the 
its nest ; and the Picea and the nightingale, p tree ; b aperi commend any | cattle and draining the and, as well as being fences. 
n some melodious plot — about to stock a nt Sage rok ipia gi his | The`plants most commonly found in these ditches are 
| Of beechen green and shadows ——Á es c" tion of. ps I have seat 20 sorts, but only a |t | Water Pl Alisma Plant d A. ranun 
Sing abere mer in full-throated ease. w of them are first-rate. economy tó waste | culoides; ; the broad-leaved Water apr Sium lati- 
* Bedding-out' plants, too, are necessarily sir ‘and Sa space F inferior Fo ruit. 
graceless, monotonous and uniform, They must n texture, raat sweet and rich in Spent Veronica Beccabu nga, Anagallis ; and 
ill,’ 1 ‘se are the Van Mons Leon le| the floating Ranunculus, which, " ro way, Í ought to 
the require ae mts of the pattern elaborately d rem P gin the Beurré nh p the | have rm apr is growing under at least two forms 
on paper the gardener. They are also generally Ay tumn Bergamot. Do not fail to h or|in the Litfey. There is a pretty fair sprinkling of 
Se x 4 one ofthe chiéf attractions of flowers— |three of each of these, instead on larger P in dre woods and on the banks of the ditches. 
perfume. Moreover, they have no associations, no ek a of which one-half es almost worthles 88. the ood at Leixlip, before mentioned, the great 
poetry, no sentiment; their names excite no pleasing | Plums : good crop, Am ned well, but o see C. pendula, grows freely, and has a 
fancies, no poetical associa M "^ historical connec- | sorts wi ph irm ier ed Jelleso d Coe's Golden | picturesque appearance, This would be worth planting 
tions. hat possible idea — Verbena rra e^ e best. ts again a en crop, 3 not | o: n the margins of lakes and in mois! Some of 
conjure up, except that Tr a flat tch of bright |! in si - t of] itv, studded others commonly to be met eee are C. remota, 
colour? but who can look even upon ; A Daisy without re fr Te averaging — four or five dozen upon | i vulpina, C. sylvatica, C. flava, C. recurva, C. stricta, 
calling to mind that it was uera er's were a. beautiful erbe The orchard and C. vesicaria. While enumerating the Ferns I 
to do homage to which, at ts first opening, he dder’s-tongue, Ophio- 
ly in tl fruit. “Figs have ripened w well, glossum ven, 1 is found in ve ine growing in 
For to be: at the resurrection Some choice Apples have dun a large size and|some of the pastures about Straffan, near the Liffey. 
Of this flower ï " handsome colours—but inasmuch as y can be pro: | J. PM glas, Straffan, Co. Kildare 
or thao sun, is plainly parate — duced out of doors, it is questionable whether they and Nectarines on Standar ds.—Mr. Masters's 
Alas! that I ne had English rhyme or prose should occupy ground within that might yield fruit 
s Ph Tisa ntt sun Roure to “praise & aright; unattainable in the open garden. Some bushes of the 
u Eugenia Ugni are loaded with their luscious berries, as | tion poss me to diu you t that I have now 
ppt er or the numerous verses dn - which plentiful as the leaves. I have utilised the upright | present time a bush Peach tree 8 feet bod her 
dit? Whata fund of poetry, posts oe support the sides by planting Currant 10 feet high, with 500 e fruit upon it, after 700 have 
bush ainst them. The fruit pet poem from | been taken off in thinning on the 9th of Ja aly. I have 
Mextcshoo or Venus's car, Love in a Mist, our Lady's E is ail hanging in great pan , and will be|also a second tree with 400 ripe fruit upon it, from 
Slipper, our Lady’s Smock, Maiden- rai Venus's | accepta table nth h -— I pur e trying some | which I took 600 in thinning. A third tree has got 350 
Looking-glass, Pansies, or Love in Idlen m "like ner Lb d me add that no | very fine fruit on it, nearly ripe, and 450 were taken 
Garden-gate, and the host of other Biel names for beati is sopa at any "time. It is necessary to med from it at thinning time. For four successive years 
the Heartsease; Sweet William, Love lies Bleeding, | g these trees have produced abundant crops of richly 
and mors of other pretty fancies almost forgotten, exclude the bird The operation of pinching isj flavoured fruit; they were all planted in my nursery, 
beca: Ex Me eman — won't 1 per atre thro gon - summer. I agree| which is in a very exposed situation, in February, 1859. 
whet am asty com hings—that i is, plants | w ith Mr. Rives that the secret of the success of the | I have nine sorts of Peaches now fruiting besides those 
which will e dd dowriah pamit his skilful and oie house is the perfect A vende at the bottom | just mentioned ; they are very fine trees and yield good 
— manipulatio: of it, by e the under parts of the leaves are|crops. I have also some very fine bush Nectarines 
equina vot e ——MÓ which over- thoroughly a rated, and insects driven from a ag which have even surpassed the Peaches. None of the 
jia all attempts t more o keep them. Might not the above have had ps protection whatever. My own 
taste in gardening. The owner r knows little about it, process ot ventilation be found equity beneficial i in | experience leads ve that , Peaches and 
and he is dependent on his garden g vatories, &c.? E. W. Cox, High-| Pi reden may be 
Bibexdent on his his trade for a iivelihood ; and his idea i is | wood, rear wr Sept. for market. Josiah eoe, “Wellington Nursery, 
that his trade consists in producing, with as much Fur ther Notes on the Flora of Erek —If on Strood. 
labour and care as he can get paid for, several ee y it is poor in Fer 8. It, how Orchard-house Pears.—Yu answer to ** An Old Sub- 
thousands of a dozen varieties of plants for * bedding- r, can boast of the Royal Fern, f scriber’s” ques m 1 "beg to say that my Pear ie 
out.’ Having i) in the id ruins, of mish there are| were moved out of doors about the end of June, that. 
great expense, he is of — us n y the pots we | to )nomise wi I 
off to the best — n is rooted | Hart's-tongue, accompanied by the common Polypody. | there was very rootin TERT 
out of th — Mr name of ‘common rub- | Equall ly common on walls is the c D dA pots. If fm rinm Pu. ton s neig 5 
bish ; form bolh are in whatever form happens | | A. _ Trichomanes .and A. Adian rum are also | hood, er "n like to examine our is most 
Pipes rene Bye aan in their habitat dag Xn mention in | welcome to do 'They are within ed gu ferien 
f pi lanted in a separate bed, in t g that another denizen of old buildings is "e | of the ihr station. George Wilson, Gishurst Cottage, 
some oth: ier Plant i in a other bed, that it may 1 f eybridge. 
conspicuous and glaring as possible. Your gentleman | bygone —I mean Cotyledon enmi Pennywort Wistaria in Fruit.—Has the Wistaria sinensis ever 
gardener, who pretends to ‘have a taste, and who I found it it side T side on a AA with | fruited in this country? I have just discovered a seed 
s his master merely as ‘the slave who pays’— | Sedum acre. But to return to (as Ports. E MeN eid pod on a plant growing in my nursery. Charles Noble, 
| which indeed for the most part he is,—does not con- | at Leixlip, Soter plants Es à dilatata | Sunningdale Nursery, shot. [We have not met 
| descend to know a common English flower. Ajand Polystichum angulare are. ttered profuse ely with this plant in fruit]. 
Primrose or a Daisy is to him a mere weed, common unde: 
and unclean; and if his master were to dare to ask latter Fern, indeed, is s growing eret throughout = cieties 
him to introduce plants of this description into the Hart's-tongue. But I 0 . 
garden in preference to his ‘ bedding-out plante, he should like to ask a question as to Verger ROYAL HORTICULTURAL: Sept. 27 (Floral Com- 
would attribute his wish to meanness, and plainly tell Is it common for ative fronds and cut | mittee). — Several highly interesting subjects were 
him *he was no gentleman, and quit his service. He fronts to be growing — the same pani I found this exhibited on this occasion. Mr. Parsons, ot Welwyn, 
does not know that God loves the commonest of His the case in one or two instances, Hasit been | received a Seco on) class Certificate for an Achimenes 
creatures as much as the rarest, and perhaps we might ted elsewhere ? [Sometimes ] - only thar vane called iem a beautiful variety, with very rich deep pur- 
say more so; for that He has made them common that I have yet found are the Fern, Lastrea Filix- | | plish m ta flow wers. Mr.Smith,of f Horn sey, receiv 
seems — show tl echo Spicant p! td a Lagat amed Fame, with weli- 
to teach us fromthem. At all events, it i is not for m: common Brake. Libr is not a mountainous county, bur: white blo: broadly striped with rosy 
to M DUE that God has made ‘ Kaaa dt or dk the ak f purple. erage s involucrat, „wit th -large purplish 
; unclean; and n pie "eae man will despise or | There are no natural lakes, but nevertheless plenty of | per wet Anemone-like fiow 
reject any of His water, The county is pierced by one m ain natural | from Mr. Thodgioh, of reich, was Commended. 
Ei be continued.) channel, the Liffey, and by two artificial ones, the | From Mr. Barker, of eee: — various charmi 
Grand Canal and Royal Canal, and each of these ima to | Tropzolum blooms, and so rare and interesting 
i Home C some extent a vegetation of i its own. The wate of Ferns from eed ann mn ^ eroi to one of which, 
$ orresponden t Aspleni ender, shining, deep green- 
Orchard ml —I baye: thrice reported e results | This is no doubt | partly. owing to the high, aad Pi y | lenved kind, a a Firsts row ds wasawarded. Mr. 
of my experience of an orchard house Veitch furnished a basket full of "merce e -bloomed 
amateurs may pesce: inte "enel to re ceive n a ults | in ‘the mountains of Wicklow, causing the he dà plants eaten ) gra the flo of which 
of my fourth year. I must repeat that the "house in | to to overflow fn boas fact and wide. The stonesin the Pica visse ANA and. highly soloed: L- For 
qu p f, 12 igh and 20 feet bed of the river are often geek v md peers i given, 
| with flaps round the sides, which are left open all the | Moss called Fontinalis antipyretica, and here and there | deserved. _ The same also coi 1 
! year except during severe spring frosts, There is no |are patches of the floati pom Pondweed, Potamogeton | fine hybrid Cattleya, na exoniensis, the result of 
roof ventilation. T There is acentre bed and two borders fluitans. Masses also occur of the spiked Water ae a cross bape nen Mr. Dominy between C. Mossis and 
borders they are placed in n pots, The the | nothing of py vnm cen in the water. The over.|and a bold showy lip, deep purplish crimson at the 
bed are taken up, ME and replanted $ every | hangin are in some places completely covered | top, and stained in the throat with bright orange. 
autumn. There isa good supply of water by pressure with Marchantia polymorpha; and such plants as the | This received a First-class te. As 
delivered from a hose pipe pe. The results oft this fourth | Hemp-agrimony, Water ort, e ife, ontoglossum Uro-Skinneri also came from the same 
f fair size, but P'wnon on the immediate banks. Forget-me-not | establishment. A Brunsvigia, Hzemanthus, and other 
ter sho 
td nia 
ends of the house, in the shade ke well as in the sun. | sometimes impedes the eun ‘of the bargeman. with leaves by no s handsome as 
he Fiet bas again i oplittiug well, with high flavour, | The Vuegretcagesir mg. P. perfoliatum, and P. pusil- those of e Lowi Among Y pabas, ae which consider: 
e also abundant. The beautiful Arrow-head,|able numbers were exhibited, was one from Mr. 
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