SEPTEMBER 17, 1864.] 
THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 893 
with regard to 
the colours were left to blend themselves as 
Had b herself.—C 
gardener Sind no fear but that if the si 
The Elizabethan 
flowers were iiis and plentiful 
their respective heights and sizes, and 
ped ) Crab and the erm Crab, when 
th ék 
lice, : and am Erem able to. surprise visitors by ; showing 
à em tlie gular w "d in which a toad catches 
| the Boing vi victi Ett ietly among my plants 
heard a little 1 fec d note two or 
tes the same 
| BAA E Re ERL P) * ot 
E 
thas ne 
would blend — party as much beauty as in any 
artificial arrangement which he could devise. He ) had 
mportance that every rer ture o y at th 
€ should | he Aer n and a develope. "bu viet 
is the fact A 
n. Ig 
edem eye em “the Ore! 
mid open rotis or the upland | i 
Mi tad he wel qd satisfied to let er dispose his 
whence the e ehe oceeded. 
before I 
en | g! sitting 
and bac k "" "the seasons | i Re 
to universal brown 
+ *hat oen 
h 
had are natural to a 
and not tropical exotics drag 
ft and harmonious ; 
uce 
gardener can hav 
the varied pl s play o of ight which | passes bei the glass | co 
window, seen from a distance; 
i "e pam. cm $e ecipl eciphered. but "^ 
E ur perceived. Probably 
approac! Roe which European art has vse 
towards = taste in the use of bright colours is in 
f 
garden, plan ated and 
with a sort of pes at each n 
ink was towards me; so that I regret that T nd 
ay see his throat. Yesterday I heard h t his 
usical practice again. € utterance oiii of 
deti ‘es distinct oasi in the same tone, some- 
what like med feeble chirps of a young ee ron 
e contem- u flute-like. voices o! 
ative imd eem pee tà subject on which Ta asi bax 
inb ed we h to learn. 
ditior parta = his estate, 
| dewy meads am h hi bar falling leaves, the intervals 
t may be enchan afore by th 
plation of a varied, vi and well-composed land 
scape. Whatever, ering is soft owe at least the 
e yet A year or two 
the o ass which adorns some o: nd tl 2 out. tlin: nes o of woods and plantations should ago, as I was pasing - night erip iea overshadowed 
parish $ ore he'reason for this success is that |b uu à that | by m meeting Elm r this town, it being pitch 
subject was made subordinate to colour; and the can be vim: from the rich repertory of g 
painter rather sought to podnos a rich aibi d ot kingdom, the aa a re^ Ei ery "1 the most startling 
a picture bette r suited to EL this season, as at others, there — a due character, 
opaque surface. He felt that he had to d 
je and -— at intervals, that un- 
er : 
richest — which human art could produc, an tnd 
it was his to do justice to the means 
E 1 
- — 
In dea — ing w flowers, however, we rcm this 
superior facility | y while artificial colours require 
artificial treatment, and’ de man nd a ttention t o certain 
n 
e that is desirable, The a , the d far I continued to hear it 
of the former, is rende oe 1 more | imer Le ur Lw was got m “beyond chs place ; - no clue to its 
associated with the more solid-looking and durable mysterious origin could I then obtain, nor have I 
forms of the lat the decid s obta ined si nee. pretty sure it on not the voice 
strip y 
autumnal whirlwind, it is —€— Md cotiteedpsate the 
an 
some one of our wild mamm: 
harmonise, if placed near Mod Vogitben, and we| 
need "x be c to give them almost any arrange- | 
ment we please, or in fact—which is bear laos 
repose of the evergreens, fitly repre 
Paul, 
-| utter n cry of this eni orquay.—— 
jeepa = “the Pine and Yew. William Waltham 
Cross, 
Perm vit. me fto direct your Correspondent's attention to 
a pond near “ Bruxelles les Ixelles," in which frogs are 
to fall into. Itis a ‘rule, for instance, n to oppose 
- € not to ally blu sequor jn 
reared and orem eard) fi for table use. I 
frequently walked s pond ; 
every variety of aim a = the aking of the 
of frogs diverting in it, ca 
-— om ir yet 
Sharp Frosts in Durham.— From the beginning. of 
* pto the 27th, thi 
millions 
only = realised by hearing 
but in 
may constantly see these up er 
together = „perfect harmony, and with th 
mes. in spite of all our artificial e “Wink re 
ce, can be more exquisite, in the spring, than 
bed ol of A Anemones of every possible dcin! ( E, y the 
autumn, than a mixed mass of German p v 
their varied hues? What a A a 
Tulips, or Pan: 
their pree ana at what Shakspeare calls ‘a rich 
scarf e proud earth,’ Lanes blending of 
colours ‘that the painting of x atur ransci 
all that can do ; an 
modern haelite has 
Nature m preda not pick out 
qr impp "ue p bit of scar 
a bit 
pebble; "but she blends th them all in one "rich whole, so 
Li “exquisitely mov 
A. M., Dublin. 
mr ai F. H. H. i means I" her Sig's “oqaenking™ in in 
ner 
sha arp frosts at sunrise, the thermometer frequently 
indieating from ms — 
a | frequently been with rime, an turday 
morning, the 2 tht me: the frost was still more severe, 
- (—— indicating e. 
as fro: 
t It was some years ago that it occurred. It 
is extremely rarely that a frog d toa d croaks in the 
nd | hand; 1 toad 
be|and a natterjack, | both of which pode whenever 
and various other han dled. The toad's croak is just like a mouse's 
e killed; Sycamores, Chestnuts, ‘and bead "ec. Both are now in the Zoological Gardens, and 
forest trees dropped their foliage. as soon as the LA H.” wou uld de eposit the frog there with them 
came upon the appre 
hend, bee 
: so early in this country. 
dex e ie VIL mé Het ey never 
Several ers " me that they never 
knew it to do so. G. W. {Occasionally.. 
merican a re 
croak of all han of our native anourous oriens 
successively. JF. R. RE CUm 
Hill, Camberwell, 
Fruit.— little time vá wrote 
TU eni subject of the ve im of grown in 
of getting rid 
of their mixture 
Spenser, ce af Jonson, Drayton, Bro 
pots in orchard-houses. At the fruit dev the el 
day A de Crystal Palace, oe 
cnet a pot v kept till all fear 
ticed in your pages 
1 of this - 1 M found, 
th on old p young Apple trees, that a brus rubbed f frou 
in a won the Ist prizo Met " “single 
e s on a box of Gishurst e Vetusl died 
and all the poets of the time seem to have deli hited in 
this commingling of flowers of vario: 
perhaps it is not too h do eve Ini 
careless blending ka colours in Nature z as PIE 
guide for combinations of the canibus 
most learned theor ies which sc 
(To be continued.) 
ORNAMENTAL — a Ill. 
of tree sce 
aried colours of the leaves. As 
t the mature leaf in 
reaso 
scenery in autumn is 
ut of water, sitting up, wa: 
the pe ‘of his ied feet ; fa et. ated the piercing | 
dishes v Pears rou dr 12 fruit," there being ^ 
exhibitors in this class, G. Wilson, Gere Cottag 
eybridge. 
he blight i isa a cure, and it is certainly a 
nexpensive G. Wilson, Gishurst 
Voices of Frogs and Toads.—Professor Bell, in his 
“ British — Pe does not allude in his account of 
| 2 frog, other voice than 
e various 
n men Queen pa Aaro 
warded. The former is pur| ish -rose in colour ; the 
. cit. latter, a bright carmine-rose eis with violet, a ‘most 
effective variety ; with beautiful 
| From Mr. Bull came various "S plants, and to a pale 
y loqni flowered Gesnera among them, named Chro- 
te was while 
ery wi 
a [says that he has 
uliar * 
Lilium Ruratum, Among | 
F Re + 1 
r, and dive, 
Pec the ace 
I crept E to the ea i one of the pool: 
which I saw two or three frogs. They 
and kep rage ent 
it is — A admitti 3 to E one 
varieties tha ^ as been for Le 
Roberts, rose | ilae (Turner) s was es a pro 
a Second-class ing Dias shown 
of Romford, Spitfire lec 
It is of medium size, and in colour a ur ight MERE. 
Little dwarf zonal Pelargonium in = 
ere, and resting on i 
qun 
3 
ali 
riek, which had a 
These pin 
pi 
kind of crac terres dn essen ng soun 
nev opinio: 
€ seldom safficie Edd) used in the roii = tte | 
Sumach (Rhus typhina).is valuable, 
nd, | im mee à ery 
ener t like 7 of a penny trumpet, but vastly | m Messrs. Salt- 
wem and When about to cry, the fires | Pons & Ba, of Chalentoed. A erre sie bright car 
uttered the skin T the throat a few | mine and white-striped Verbena, named Annie, from 
t, till it was like & blow: Mr. Geo. Cooling, of Bath, herr mn ilar distinction, 
ths betur tints of its d 
lying leaves but a» pu the | 
feat Wathery tufts of flowers which it pores and which | co 
der 
perfectly round, as big as h is head, and this condition | This is the best striped Verbena ye we ned, and 
certa. a 
LJ 
ch bear fruits or berries are also wort: 
of | T 
at season. The red and the yellow-berried 
c Te An beautiful. Then fr sion rrie | 
a eft e Thorn Series producing ye al 
nti vg all the time y the € "wu four both for pot | — out-door — 
e seconds, I sa ve reptil o the secti e 
aan Siakepere, ow e 
| tim m dote my po ery mr aight. ae was, 
The ag ons f the srg obi ona in sme rae 
qosempzi that it look ed like a thin porocima 
| brane. I heard a pretty E note "s day or tuo ik "s 
shi oon JI dom 
or y ot ter, 
mening fally recte i us in former 
eet tase e of 
from the e common ie eie esticate m. Pa ul ; various Dahlias from Mr. 
