Novemerr 19, 1864.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND -AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 1107 
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ruled over with parallel strips of wal ny man who is not an artist, as it requires a | fruits, ‘and eight parts are promised in one year, the 
fits and fower borders of Phlox, Tuas s vis WIE nice discrimination to steer chi? of his errors, s price of each part being 5 francs to subseribers, 
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middle of the Grasp right and JN t The i di known to the generality of | period four exhibitions have pem held per on it 
perl s ith v by shrubs, a d our reas the ne = the Crystal Palace ; d. not too much to sa mets few if any provincial 
basins, ey, slope e o. wr the and in rer to jédiqe i r this is successful or | societies have done more to e anne the mm pam 
stone r m keg "Sn nato tondr nugatory as faras possible| otherwise we will aham a few principles of|the one just mentioned. years since i 
b ee re met There are also prem | pobre id compositi. he first and greatest of | thought a advisable to do away with! the July $ed ‘nd 
i i H | substitute for it an exhibiti e fe Fruit and Chrysan- 
è period as tho Cato amd P ngham, at the same 
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me ble purpose of ornament justified by their unison as component parts T e „Are held. 
and seelusion, and VET returns on either side of| simple symmetry. Take ua ae work i |to th grt dan sat weet tr cor inten 
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past a slope, sunk alley, and retaining wall (the| with arms and legs symmetrically anced, | 15 miles of Bi boss and amihet. dem hedteiit 
he = the posts egs garden) “nh it T M d|and. pendants to one S2 These are| Loma on As soa in tl ne Channel “sands ty in 
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brge either pr it is checked ev. —-— Palace there are minor features, as vases, | place AM The noble Town Hall, the use 
LAC still enger octagonal basin, a and water mm in superabundance which is ually gran -— to the — by the Mayor, 
favourite spot with ebildren. Between the kerb | mabordinats and pendant to one another; but the | is ^ fittir ailing f for such a show, whi ist 
of fala toa designed b La óTRE, and those | conne bond, the main feature, or the head, is De the Mad metropolis daring the exhibition week, 
of n Mae ains in the € we ot tt Whence it appears (as KNIGHT np) gald not fe * EU chow. commences on 
Champs ysées there is a striking contrast. The | neither quite regular nor irregular; but with Abts bat entries 
latter arë some 9 inches above the turf, but the | that SE, of a M defective uniformity | must be made on or before eae 24th. 
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former is ANT 3, and w ile just sufficient to ch we see. in i animal ES wid 
KOP SET and Vm a falling € pa e a limb. What would KxioHT ets a GRAFTING THE VINE. 
ows the eye at once to rest on the prineipal|to an animal without either body or head? f the Gard , ; 
Foi the LUR aud the picture ut aA the| The fountains also are diépsced, and thus (eor " 1085), m deed of the Gardeners Chronicle 
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1 In our own Trafalgar Square we find the|not only inadequately represent the enormous | by me in favour of the TEMA, as a stock for the 
na are raised | e most of the new fountains | expenditure of water force, but are faulty in| Muscat of Alexandria Vine, which further expérience 
erected. in Paris. Now some one says—not! general arrangement. Water should be used rather | Pes he it fasted. 
Mr. Ruskin, although he enlarges on the cting on subjects of this kind a few years 
sky-blue ‘reflections that may be seen even at once attracts the eye, and if aia distracts it er it quee tre me that by grafting the Muscat of 
in a a ren Water naturally seeks the by gounterenting the focus of centralisation. In Alexandria on the rebbiano, one of pns metn 
level, and the lower it is placed unob- | Natu may often ond a river winding from | | ing and pan fijne A Vines we have, i t would re 
poser + VN pe TE perit the. int of direct lon to extreme distance, tying ener é e 
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sieht? LI bula hide rere I point of together a whole landscape, as is charmingly dots 0h B Gant rice T Aia to, e thé rastit 
g ns have alio wags and |i] llustrated. in TuRNER’s picture of the ae 
M wo E uid fi th up to ^ certain stage wns all that could be desired. 
ing theme, from the thunder star the Br ook ;' " and in gar ardening _ somethin Th 1 1 he cl 
the Times down to the good- -natured squeaks of tt D LP Re da THE HN 
Pues still h ld h the berries remarkable for their size. This is 
H they would appear rather to have Doen geometrical. o canal s Versailles; but a series of the first season the Vine so grafted has borne fruit. 
| pools seatt a plain, or worse still, upon During the erates I showed it to numerous gardeners 
as Bir CHARLES Barry - z only in Er e sides of a p xd so many spots—the | and others visiting here, "t all agreed with me in 
s day, but m ne destructive of the beauty of the other. The | considering the stock a good one for the Muscat of 
fairly have disputed precedence with cre fi “tho tides, again, are mismanaged, for this reason, | peni v Pd. merry as a marriage bell up to 
th i f ar ; 
Beyond the octagonal herin a bigh wall, faced | especially from the main points of sight, instead of 
with a Hornbeam ing rampart | assisting eir great elevation. cionn, de am hus t bi ag ot, mre 
, defines this -e et ^ — and | The distant scenery ee reple er vm p adn | 
encloses large trees, mixed not perfection, and insensibly pleads hard for the | after cot berries Pact i to can At 
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Grass dar i- al | many e continued to do 
outline. Cross steps lead down from it on either | one one that a huge sapere sheet of|tobe removed, the remainder soon less or 
side end. towards of the fountain; and € placed at the € he —€— and | more discoloured, and the bunches being totally 
curved gravel ramps 60 feet wide ascending bae ked | y a portion of existing for pr at table. A fine crop of 
towards two long terraces on the same level as the might almost gt equaled “the thought ot Le | growing alongside, not a berry of which suffered in 
emi-oetagonal ramparts, parallel with the Palace NOTRE, in the spirit of Madame de Sraiir’s | this way, thus ete | that the extra 
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nd|in the midst of her gran ndest scenes, in ord » " 
sou a ee spaee below. Minor | serve as mirrors, and multiply their charms.” Z. memi at this SE ramen Berge Rar 2 
avenues stretch through the wood E. em in this ease I had don ing 
Napoleon Column in the Place Vendôme f E observe that Messrs. Lawson ml weg are to w questions ate a present occupying more atten- 
the point d'appui a central cross ien scit o out D autumn the CASTLE KENN IG, «| on among Grape growers than the selection of suit- 
Between and the Palace are two old bowling | variety which was first observed growin asl rained | able stocks whereon to graft, at least some of their 
greens, said to have been d ed by ROBESPIERRE and unpruned against an old wall at Castle oe | favourite Vines. There are various reasons for grafting 
and ed into ns. The marble seats at one | near d Z — south-west of Scotland Vines. Amongst'others I may notice that weak- 
end of them are worthy of a more useful fate. We |n pce state it was found in fine sensons br ben Lor on such as ben Zu QU Mie want P 
must not omit mention of the avenued terrace | #bundan crops. arly in n August. The large size and | bond stocks so as to increase their strength, an 
that bounds the ime, of the Allée des| rs quii bs the beg made to cn tirate i n ber 6 Glen e improve | the quality and l quantity of. their fruit, ‘od 
| course pro’ ivate i glass, | mee anni nda k 
Orangers, a perfeot sea of min m e Te vs nach erg last. mae Hee seaso} "à T : which these high- Tienen vx " iab 
A ordinary fruit, some of whic "weighe nearly seven | | The same reason ma 
oan the Are de a wr pum test ounces. M Castle Kennedy it i has Exc fo g euni the s scat Hanibrgh. ie Golden 
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between the north south terraces. The trees|a First-class Cortificato from the Stdinburgh "Hort | y era nine or ten months hard forcing 
cme d ok Horse uie] are crowded and | cultural Societ Mr. THOMSON, pA wear Me heats | aen =~ ripen its fruit, on a mo od erate growing 
auy of n a very precarious 
0 x dening is about.| says h eds him the e “Figs, by „that he | Hami lniburgh, XHreh da aia dud wit $0 dessin tho MM 
as bad asit well can be. —. Ph Taruia being ibis TES a eer soe artis an pails 
As combining shady terraces for the views, ti of Man objet of e rommeldée jo shortin thie 4 
shelter from Panton ut seasons riae the qo Mr re Mer or point of view. 
f wood a Eein wad Tupeiviag t Varieties Tt is Muy p probable that 
thou rden non iore En essay, bnt m Mim Boskoo "aT deje, aard, &c., the rds andria et any on the E: 
ough en a ius, was lost f th late oer a 
iba S, art of which, with Dutch descriptions of the plat grower, t would pen i in frait a vim bue 
landais, with a od ra dep heb roots. . 
early forcing wou very ad 
Such a a bserved in Si rA get an early variety with Muscat. Savon, 
—and i" po canal at e pe minglin its the prospectus, representing faithfully the races of | fU plan as this, if found to answer the purpose, 
ters with. the ES J ; i i i i wea be worth adoi de 
his pee — are has impressed them, and accompanied by clear |  Altho igh, for tie re E iaon Hate above, Tar in favour 
uecesses 
i in /itesll: d concise diagnoses, seems to be absolutely necessary | ing some sorts of Vines, still fi am iun. s those 
be almost ruinous in itself; and successes wa a means of clearing wp the confusion which pew who | believe that most varieties can be 0 great 
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w den a ually Nature b y M, S, epist. ‘and th the plates prepared in mons! h litan a 
‘pegging awa atorery y sparo plot St ground with ECERS by, M. G. SEVERE THB, of Brassels end fruit shows, where nearly l the Grapes shown 
€ water "s an in 20 «raa het grown. ‘Yo do so Ee | some varieties 
he becomes Fon fa pres than is 
etii le root conditions tha 
a dangerous model for | four plates, f f to 16 varieties of | req vourabl 
