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SEPTEMBER 10, 1864.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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this Colli insia effective when well bloomed in 
magses ; E 
Walliebii, and the Bambusas, of which there ar are d many Is | Part LES a f ure of Cannas should immediatel 
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and those who use a nnuals to a = eer flowers, will | pr ut. A few yo ang Gat TN the vast MEC tion P o 
find it, a! at least, ' worth a . trial, _ the more so as its n near | appear, St a nnia australis fine, a Ficu he Prsata "Privet shrub much used b 
ally, C. b bicolor, l Ein. ih VR TRIES lea’ ve 18 aa lg. is a foot | Gibson he con "var it eta to no other plant for 
proves es 80 well e to the purpose. bros d; but the Ferns made thin t of m3 withstanding the moke. Bu shes of Bru ugm: nsia 
rings ‘and s single specimens s of he rth “Ryle Kuightii in flower ivit to “ ast th » 
h, and er, fr iti trast h 
s they generally see so much of; and 
be a liiir: ikinen ari by n 
e one. now 
dig the IE here—one would expeet to 
such an immense tion | d 
of stove pla dnts a k da ed out—I may ane the 
Ginger, the Lem and the Han d plan 
vivum hirtum.. "This reminds 
4 mixed border 
pen a 23 when mo E iik. ^ e nd 
a us C , very dolefal- | 
asd thing, | 
n gig oe ing ES 
n i ea in pots, 
thi 
are, and lookin E T Bo 
althy, supplied w with Bed 
va 
Russe bo "E yP 
n" Ha ‘elastica, 
mber: 
finely gno wn by the 
e hardy Crassulacee. Ve dm incana fled little 
alt pdt in this ote very eatly. 
Passing a shady recess with B 
Ma attia, a peach what may ^ “welt 
ge oils, Cannas, and 
of stunted and ver ery u 
None of these, I should say, 
The bold Aralia papyrifera filled the centre a 
Mr. Gibson vineae it to be planted 
inches high; it ought be abundant 
and m p A ers vpn d 
In SUCEDE: 
e being o a seasick black. 
e e v 
€ bend term region 
ant hea lth, co 
es pel 
nnera. | best things, will e in much be s eek o 
t | two hence if the weather is je bie. Of Ricinus, thá 
ta bili 
folfus, “Sele 
Wh 
and sangui nea, appea red 
rpus 
en the iios f Gunnera get up like 
t| Kew, they will take * the shine ? out of man ber thin 
look better resent. Talkin 
Ph 
man 
of oo 
p the gar and has in 
dan uni of 
bracts 
1 fool since planting out, the ct 
hardy things, I 
well "worth "eive to the Sub- b-tropical. p ma . me 
t. 
es, but is dy u less compared t of 
prev viously "mentioned A group of puts 
and brac 
[5 their colour, 
flow ag 
EG y RRT with Mr. Gibson, which is sa; 
deal for it. Sonchus jM A which wi 
such work as it is used for at B 
wr men 
“pic icthur o BAT 
sele epias "eurassavica, nicel y in 
nea E cg doing very mel itisa 
owers muss 5 
we 
deliciosa loo! ked le at home under a Willow, and, 
equal- iniia plants growing rapidly; the b th | though d re unfolding young leaves health- 
Centaurea, Amaranth — plants ; otitis cer- | fully. peni Did. I noticed in quantit ng 
tainly one the most astonishing beds ever seen. 
However, I “thought it and e of the great Canna 
| beds, a lit tle too flat- to pped. 
other and the 
ida 2 with Alpinia peur and nu 
plan ts. "Thus Mr. Gibson eats his vis sitore to some 
zs ts. 
2043 Doi nie gardens, Oue round bed n 
va was very charmingly filled by*a single p ot 
i as rian aa in the centre, surrounded by two 
na terminalis, an 3 fia 2 bya 
—had better expect very little uibs à in this 
do | department, = r go where we will, choice plants, many 
of them ies in the stoves and greenhouses of goo ‘ood 
p'aces [o we 
nieus, wliich ir ped ie is the sweetest iD most 
peni up p seda ntly. 
Draczena arborea; young plant is of Fort di r 
ught 
b ri ng: 
of ring ‘of Salvia patula, the grou "uie as 
whi ich to do beautifully in tbe well-sheltere d [of L hi 
which was also seating up 
tan 
quem. of s 
who n 
A gro 
in ngae and them. Lithos 
Fifty t, the 1i itle blue beauty growing yw 
not flo satisfactorily. Here T may rem 
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et 
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^ 
sloped 
one is attracted by a very imposing 
i 
ice it rigs qs bed I allude to at Battersea. 
» ot Angina je next d up, plunged 
near gaper pum 
likely of the fine aes Dracena. Looking up 
Mr. "aitoi on trial; Charlwoodia congesta; n from. und neighbou urhood of this bed, for some 
good plants of Yea «quee variegata; and plenty to the r sing boundary, 
others which I h d mention by seen in nicely Mte 
de iras any of those which died 
beds may be 
filled with a mixture of our TA d stove 
f| ereenhouse plants, each e: m i 
t from it 
sie. a treat p a “plant: dover ue like 
t o be had 
inai 
In them, young a 
ful Palms, ms as Sea s Spats did th 
work, but they were gt mae by and inter mindig 
best. Iam as 
med 
all the plant dn E fit for their work. 
ee oil pui in the poire a fine line of Uhde ea 
bi ifida und Funki 
te af the Castor. 
w of the p 
io me a very dure hed, ET 
there is a a “a "piii 
t pro ada a is bor for every taste, with the best Dracze Alsophila ere Philo! den 
picture, and on that” | drons, rberis Pi Fre Caladium violace eum, 
the | Crotons, 
plants. 
Land one may s E 
without a 
The walk ehe 
on 
e 
australis was plu 
some places 
ted pind v wit a single specie 
this 1 must e 
to Mr. Gipson 
is sd 
mix eure of grace a 
In were ni: 
t, and gesimo s (oed lines of | di 
mpt a splendid bed of. 
individually or 
that of respectful 
ear trial, but there le no da 
abies Lonicer. 
i | rare 
and dignity, posu forth his A 
h :—Senecio 
«SITE 
mentioned, e wi V AES - | ments of the sort, 
| busa gracilis, s AA ded by the grandly in 
one of the v ese of T vaogtad Erie 
vis od s where eu zn it, 
v4 n this 
[I Ha it is Judicious to em 
| M pom d of Boot ies that tis judigion m 
r the decoration of our flo ower gardens Faa 2 
and oh 
at APP ore many of the most effective and free 
at 
Mah 
ame” may be d of Ma e other 
mple-stemmed and LE e 
a 
e. Neither will auyone with the slightest ge 
inal ch pee Chamsepeut ce diacan was on $ cape 
ubt of 
neral 
knowledge of the capabilities of the ety jm cosas 
and Alpines, and of the Grasses, 
tienlata formed a most ac E 
J 
help of a 
the | plants and thei 
the **stu n—a s 
— could be ber are wold as ^ surpass the old 
mixed garden n and the * modern flower garden," in 
igh 
Pennisetum longistylum, but 
and Some hardy pmi Gra asses which would add 
ines defend. egy Nato 
g 
T RR with leav 
en coi 
leaves somewh: 
as the mark of Cheops 
they will soon be t Battersea. Are there 
degens pants than Pues vade Milium multi 
| flor mmon Mill t, P. 
So y rrived a 
mi iliace eum, not = dh ses but so long as the more imp portant p - of 
rde the most 
at | 
Bread-fruit trop and the pem aa aria |to ae landscapes are planted with t 
UN The Coral "Muy E — m Maddeni. | beautify wer gard he more peri species pela plants in existence, and the > pla acard "and 
apyrifera, whi ae ^e es, and is | of Grasses must be extensively used. I thought the | wall-paper printers’ 
à capital p al Aralia — ag e fne; but t Solanums had been done x». nut here I moh an anot er in de brains E^ our gar deners, causing t to present 
on) not to be Freie froaly l like tha deam e one, S. robus Mes. velvety orang with scen mee e sn tren eare of by 
mong t| ae dme — and a * Archibald Nagle, e, ge m in lieu of the 
s plunged about so iod pas dis- sinas of Caladium, enitn esculentum | exq' wh 
ighly spoken ED en tod m. ding url walt nd fetes will 2 
à ken r. Gibson, and seemed f al ever assume its 
to deere it; but I did not think so much of Magnolia | real dignity with us in the open air. » 
which is about in various places, looking healthy | gymnocarpa made an ing round à or of 
enous and probably cale With some other sweet- Coleus; it ought to be much more used in flower 
ve scented th ah ta add ere long another tropical charm han itis, being a far mo py ig in 
esides that of as ieb-tmpisih nia C. ragusina, as » will say who see it depend 
Pindaiba ae me of the choice oe Begonia round the edge. of the raised bed I gne to. The f - 
fuchsioides was rat freely aud ran flowering grand bed of Wigandia was the last of those o n the perum comes ri th o — ish 
nicely, but it did assume free and gracefu' de Gardening in the N à t n of 
habit which it does i in a higher temperature. Dracæna | by 15 inches vide. Kymdvim. Faxon grand our emergence from a a peri riod of of de sua rer et his 
ferrea was plentiful as s well as useful, and “bears any | Going rou nd again to entrance, name must figure as a leading pioneer. Wm. Robinson. 
gredi iua e? inning on the right, iy ote — ri ——— 
x eav: nts were is in lines and i ition, wi 
singly, > ae np ator Terr rae Ea: nee. acbrina—the SHOW GOOSEBERRIES. 
enlyptratux which is thought. highly of i. looking very ore at Vane ied. letus bert long been -— a in 
open air use 5 in Due m and < others ; Strelitzia than ‘one co could expect; a nag ai myny Nw parts o f the King dom bet mor ally in 
e € who! Lancashire, Cheshire, and York raga aað at these 
