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Aveusr 13, 1864] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 711 
teres of t roduce. va they sell to cover part of encouragemen ts will produce rain-makers more 
t be is oy, E misolls mort aha mike gar tee t xpens s; and this is done to a/eftective than those in heathen countries. As the 
ensi sn t whe cond t ther Tad, n of the year is|very large extent and is some of the highest private sun’s heat an rain, for vegetation generally, should be 
E dr PE t d ree, un roductive. | garden establishments in the country. The result is, | in bna same ratio, I am led to speak of rain, 
[om tne mo rq) p ood pe : ruit, with all the facilities of cheap glass and ain , like the e is a Ires di gift, distributed 
bi h JUR ll over the country (ebmbared™ with 40 ace to" ‘the e jus unjust,” an ey are mentioned 
= M UI Plate of A ng EU exi gl ‘to. a years ago) 3 is absolutely dearer than it was 40 years | jin connection in Seripture, Hot equal it. eso to where 
h oduce of real market gardens i u T 
lng gy meron that it was one of the Exhibition | since ; while the pr abr QUT TUO Der To bear, | Tue quality = mim water 4 petter or ge : 
B, 
ie, the forced fruits in which the private establishments| plants than pump water, which loses its c emica 
Eire ge ian A red v de Mer be h pete hey ha jo e made very little progress in goodness. | properties by filtration. Moreover, when we water, 
m m Noa geason, some t me a after If y you went to Covent Garden Market between 30 | the sun exhausts the water nearly as fast as we pour. 
this T call led a al round the ars ago and. roges = the fruit, ma would | Rain touches all the points of the roots; and t 2 
their pott of racin ng, all Howerles, T dedi to | find the fine Grapes w A y Ag aM Eu the | "om c ie pecus ele dee arene 
rainin t market adonat” ar auxha illiam | by i le 
= ES e v To gis was ps ected b "i yu Wilmot, of Tilew orth, or some other good market | exhausting power, nor Den the atin osphere. We 
he day ; ‘whereas n 
ing some plants back and forcing i rege n that they | gardener of t kW bile utei sedis: | cleanses ^ Via cn o plan 
L- 47, Sonia ada pu Tod pcd ped inb D. E! ison aih df fruit is Wasted for a | The sun and rain, dus: are the fertilizers of the 
2. Every one, of course, says r^ a a right to do| big party, none vá ie «€ Piet hind Manet world ; and it is of vr ptm om in of the de ficie ency 
likes with his own t | to supply you uni ey have wri 
6n if a gen nilen d LM ind "uic peer sd vate e stablishments to know what they | spent in adopting su Sach imousures of supply a both 
months in the year without flow: et Y 1i to RES | ME eet: — syn Tntéléet “oes - — n p us sügges 
this great display, I je no fault P a aes ^: 8. The first -— kop naturally strikes you is 
all I contend for is, that should not be T m How i is the RE Y q P i off for dcs pH eee 
t; i tn o ever E r 
E peus ery og Dions of Howton ami s oy AN capell private Aie will very | employers vite their employers supply t m with 
day ha have produced a good, result by giving prizes for often sell in the early season J lb. of Grapes or a|such age as will meet vd rs in Uie E 
foliage plan Peaches, regardless of cost, at à price which It JA ti a view of pro mo 
these plants (which look beeutiful a the year round) | it would ruin a market-gardener to attempt. This | there for our cultivators, that I have v vetu ‘thie 
is thus stim olata, and they area great improvement | price will content a private gentleman who does article. L2 F. Radelyffe, Rus: 
in the gar not know the cost of ome them, Noa hig cer: 
3. But i in p respects these reat show cultivators at these prices wou any market gardener, F 
grow eig d few plan bte w hie x who is ne ian deterred from growing them at ru erum ON GARDENS.—No. XVI. 
and therefore leave the flowers which might | and therefore the regulation of the supply of t TANIO —— N, ga coy 
be be cultivated br grea eat effect for other seasons of the | market is fes aR the hands of these limited bu oi 
year without much attention, establishments. 1f the market-gardeners were not To find the more important or aei again pass 
4. The e object of yu a should be, in my | met there, nay would try to e eo each be in |i zd i. enter the stove 
w stru 
f y deficiency, oe the excessive power 
greates re um 
number of fru: wers, pad vopetabten T in Koh Freates t| number of s establishments who send the best|and thereby Mem for man an additional charm, 
quantity, " the besl a de -— at the mgri prices, | of their things, and pocket their losses, and the public | Surely, when it is impossible to have both, it is better 
5. In o this, p. should bef have in consequence a very limited supply. I dares reay to have all this than n onesingle giant, and the occasional 
D bition. that a gar- | it answers the purposo et the fruiterers very well, 
ae vin beg no interest in forcing his pla anta | it i is very detrimental to the public. n the Royal Water Ll ily. No flowers with which we 
unnaturally into flower; but if he a beautiful] 9. And now, Sir, ete I close my letter allow me | are acquainted are finer to look upon than “thimes of the 
specimen at any time he wou uld kno TR ‘could exhi bit t|to say a word or two about what is e in "T sale | tropida al Water Lilies rising boldly out of the changeful 
way by the Royal AE acest Soci It is quite wan ai and here Phere 
ody da When the itimate and right o propa gate and “distribute rd ere red, blue, ii: white Nympheas, ta ge s Nym 
palmy days, one of ‘te ert sources Få benefit and new pae i (hic it has s, pigmy Nylphiond, and Cpe P Nymphak, 
object in toto t w pia unta | m ‘shut up and asleep during the of the fay. but 
in Regent, Street. It was then the practice fo Lg her Sal A the, Ne ene a ting for SR this is (allow | —as everybody should— 11 um y morning peep 
jelem Jin the country, Hi de s a new Pun fe me to i9)» the business e fu 
itt ms gees at ele of the pea as whe can do it much better sd n was in flower, fee, 
Fa: in M year, and the nurse rought every | cheaper than the Society can. er Sir, vet haere: J sidered among the best and rarest 
ae plant there from thei ; PEDE gsx truly, AXTON, 
s Lindley pue. the nature and properties of 
~ a 
verrbing T " appea: each exhibition with his bod Bese some strange hich I had not seen 
sable. maane, in which on ge € A E SUN AND RAIN. erra firma before, fat eventy much ree nd the 
ne ese meetings were intensely | THE e “ Fire ime a he ed asia of die in which the great pots eT ng them were 
o bas mo ri ma ‘often deny crowded. the Fansite p*^ Where it are not, or | plunged, A hosoma Violates; a great dark-leaved 
6. When the Horti tural Gardens at Mom liad where its beams ^ withheld “at A y length of time, | dark-stemmed Arum, was 8 feet high, with leaves 3 feet 
were the 1 leading pe e in the country for new | winter sets EX eoa h it be su Aot and |long by e been pes had an array of pointed runners of 
m pplied ce, and " quise A. T is js not on the|very m the colour and rolenditg- of mahogany 
were never without great interest. They | daily roclamation of "e existence and et da ien rulers, making away "from the pot on all sides. This 
d not trust al er to country gentlemen rers but it is the proclama uc id the pl i 
and nurserymen for plants for exhibition, and when | Him who ‘ "eketh his sun pon the evil a and &e., will be T Hi og us palustris, with flowers 
the entries were deficient the shows were made up e good." Without it the cultivator could “not | like those a good single Hollyhock, rose from the 
of beautiful plants from the Horticultural Gardens. | succeed. By artificial -—À and light, no doubt, things water ina Sd luxurious i nearly to the roof. The 
Though, then, a Certificate of Merit from „the | usually depende ent on sun may be procured; but | Ouvirandra was here of course, as usual in most 
Society meant something, and was prized at a veils and flowers is -— ae | = the e =m Jabber d it with a mi cd 
rate; it insured the sale of any plant "a received jon solar light ‘and hent; moreover, the s Colocasi 
it, and often practically represented l} purpurea -— re associated with the Xan thosom i dn pp 
hundreds of pounds Le ng tiny wen | Fruits may be procured by artificial e under sas | water, a , with Thalia dealbat: 
sits haber oe bition closed foi large in sunless summers, but flavour and colour pr duced. t very Striking effect. Scarcely a less telling 
amounts, the plant wa 
nightly exhibitions soul. be awor at on The n has no chemical effect upon the earth, | the sitter 8 feet high, with an abundantly flowering 
€ attraction given to them. And consi sidering the and sa ite ‘light i is ved yd e iuo bos reflected, | mass of A M gp at its Ou hy th the commoner 
panata creat] ira nsactions relating it has no heating p Tti is a ody, devoid | | inhabitants aquariu rished Saccharum 
orticulture, the facility of carrying a u violaceum an ‘tater, which i is « degit highly. of by 
and the great influx of visitors, ae London ft is not i however of the moon, but of - b sun and rain, | Mr er, a 
n for a temporary sojourn, for the spring ar I now propose to speak. p then those of any other ornamental Grass he has 
and summer months, it would be well to try a eekly he sun is a huge globe or liquid mass of fire, the g 
ition without the descriptions, whi p cauldron of the sky. It is 1,300, ged dives the Nardoo, Carolina and other yarieties of Rice, 
et, would almost amount to a continual show. And Pii ihan the earth, and is : m us 943] H dropeltis pr us and Pisis y aoi ulifera, — 
they should be weld in a place suitable for plants, | millions of miles. Were ss on near to we ha € The ymphsas were peri Seale luxurt 
many murserymen would not mind allowing which is distant from us 237,000 miles, the earth and grown, ASit tuch wero the a few o 
W aja all the time they were in full flower. | its inhabitants would be incinerated. For several | ing species 
great shows might be still held in t v we have had but arr heat; but this bat in the comparatively d 
bw ens, where the fashionables could attend to | summer "'hothing bas been hid from the heat thereof.” | state which Mr. Baxter. 
m. themselves and look at each other: which they culturists like this heat. They are phu che on the eg a qe flow of 
h as at the flow 
ole, after the 
7. It would be too much in a letter of this sort to denalitons Horticulturists ery out badly for as | both d in ar tilation ie work en aud. 
o into details as to how man any branches of horticul- cially those who have not free access to water. | day d 
1 i tagnant for many years past; Fro e aquarium t he Fern ernery is entered, but after 
. though it wo us Ped poet ou it would our we Ut A a place with free ter. | Yo kt nd kville it ^ almost hopeless "to record 
more sp&oe and ti an I can W afford to ve to Deficiency of pumps is one of eed card ses of fülure 1 in | anything interesting about Ferns. Callipteris prolifera 
But there i It is one of the m enta, Lonchitis pubescens, and Rhipidopteris 
a h crise st its dam: g effects of most English gardens, even ef i A larger gardens, | pelteta | n curious, weré noticealde; and the contents 
pou the e f supply o the “tim where there is no other — The sun can scarcely | of this house with the larger specimens in various 
fruits in the publie ma cannot help revert-| be too hot, provided rain or pump water is in the | others, leave the garden very well off for a general 
v =A d. in this letter, rhe M is—the growth of same iced f there is no | eni and yet free access to | collection. Here we begin to meet the medicinal 
i M Rt ve the English lab , &c, Musa textilis, the grid Hemp plant 
|I market gardeners, n t water enough in & week |being one ‘of the first, with some young Cocoa Nut 
— Bardens, partly for Many gentlemen keep SV he will carry ou g e v : 
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or their own use, partly for,the to drown Deucalion, the mythological Noah. These'plants; and in the Conservatory w mU un nex 
