Dzorwnzg 24, 1864.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL |SANEETE 1227 
of the Garden-Farm, but they do not include | some of the bug ds being in pots plunged in|few n TES f the ch 
them most. remarkable, that having been. furnished by | € E x rre advance picta arranged uanga of the city, and I E n d rench n 
i ordin -- manner; and these, with > novel mg ofit. There is a very ace concert 
till as act e as éver, if Mr. Ninian Niven | im moving houses, v which | also Tun for some di istance and refreshme nt rooms, an sitos aan offi 
en gone to rest w ut this vw 
have been with a hay feeling of duty kaa for, | pretty pleasure- PA effectually conceal «X more | while forming the east, and T su uppose me entrinoe 
years before the great worker for vo ing and | commercial portion of the place. Cerastium arvense— | front, will be completely x! from the grounds b: 
gardens had been laid in Kensal Green, Mr. Niven had, | a dwarf and compact form of it—acts as Mr. Niven's| the winter garden, d hough not covered over 
after effecting very great and improving changes Spergula. I wn it near the terrace on which| when I saw it, was yet suficienti advanced to show 
there, resigned the curatorship of Glasnevin, to his house stands in fair condition considering the | it ity for rivall 
which he had been called from the pohly at least as useful as = of the e pen plant aspects of the Sydenham building. 
the Chief Secretary's len—for many gw back, as | Spergula fo such as as gree The garden, abont 15 acres in gy od was, with the 
now, one of the very first of Trish ban E Bom d ‘the beds containing m med groupe exception of E E us the building, eed 
Since leaving Gimeno abe Niven i3 erigi &ed | of choice Thujas and other Pines in m rd (ready to be | completed an 
the Garde n-Farm: d and | sold off and replaced) were edged with the best hardy To the eas tof the garden, bricks and slates were very 
ei awe while very actively etas g with | Sempervivums an Sed unds, and ,were indeed very | con eonspienons and th these Mr. Niven, thedesigner, hastaken 
d managemen! i i derable pains to hide b is f gan der 
resting. 
x in all pes of Ireland, acres of Strawberries and other small fruits | golat mounds on that side. The rus 
Men RE including gardeners, are m tisfied | are grown for the Dublin market, with abundance of and syed in the "Tipe of gerdening a e cre 
b ursery ing, ae oo ah, 
and up apa being 80 arranged that iu appe m Noe dd m 47 
tever | series of returns the the | — 
ut 
their source; bu so Mr. Niven. i aqui year. In December, January, and the Wittet Garden Ss to run & tertabe 
if more akin "y o. youth, ET life would be | nursery ee S e by the sale of fruit trees, Pines, | whichis to be “set off" 
found in the gardens of our youngest workers de» d pes ici n March, April, and Ma m the sale of | vases, &e. D voe "a this terrace by the 
manifest at the Garden-Farm, Drumcondra. A prettier, | v st quantiti 2 of ee rubarb, forced I T and | central — 2 chaste eee though not 
more healthful, or p^ suitable spot, for the beau | other spring garden crops; in n June , July, ai and August over elabora e geomet eu varden was in course of 
ideal of a successful a first-class gardener to retire po^ odtdeor B wedge i focal, &c., this occu ying 
into, and peacefully, though atively enjoy the autumn | various kinds, and vegetables; and in the three | nearly the centre Tof the grounds, Beyond i this P 
of life, is not fanned by mountain breeze— except, ^ bees ei months from house Peaches and Grapes,|and shrubs began to Lem and the grounds to 
the by, Mr. Wilkie’s lodge in the |Phanix Park, to Pears, Apples, and Plums, with of course general crops | assume a mixed and easy character, till they merge on 
which I must give the palm of all gardener's gardens | of queue. "n d into the rustic style; in front into = 
that I MR) má pen But Mr, Niven’s is a commercial e of the que is chiefly done by lads and | sweeping banks before alluded to; and on the right 
garden, and of course that ide all the difference. en from to 20 years of age, who <i into a deeply sunken oblong arche coded i ground about 
On each side of f the la before Mr, Niven’s house | pep «eria for ns years, and located within | 350 y ad feet, which can be fi in winter, and 
ihe finer evergreona end. Conifers are elossly pléaimd, | the gardens under Mr. Niven’s discipline at all times. at the : pir pty ty a skatin 
| en 
iid. boi 25 feet wide of the. pd ious rock- 
woke which will be hollied, and mo: E saxi- 
ible about the wai 
e Zo * Lg hy m^ t the “ grov Im E chimneys 
atm od s vated b 
A Turkish ick v 
0 
CM nth. The south side of e garden compres 
ckerie 
m me Be aa of the Pal — The free use of 
roots hom r, I presum pi ts ink a mil intake they 
of tho rising okel j^ 
M of water will be 
At “of the various buil ó 
ir, which is ra 
water at the head of the archery ground, and thence 
distri by si the 
&c., returning dire Y t 
Considering that the site 
t least possible adván : 
SECTION OF MR. NIVEN'8 VINERY. though ii pkg be mm in pro ow 
in Yee GORA mevit * Level E. Inside Border and raised Beds 
B. Wooden Trellis | D. rein Pipe | F. Outside Border, : dude t AUS ph se I e: not but A 
a 
From amongst them two foremen, m. for the indoor | devoted to early Strawberry work and similar uses, satiation s all sorts of tastes (that for 
Es the other for the oor de are usually | for " which it seems well adapted. A house of Peaches dioi, of w the garden is e d bs Bong za 
selected. hould say this. isa apa course for a | more than 100 long, built in this way (the plants | thom), and, i s pi 13 make 
you a er to bein with, as market garden work | trained on the rod principle, fan-shaped, but with the | for thi 
LESER mystery to eners; and so is often the | carefully spurred rods of each plant allowed to cross|to be Seen ai the timo of my visit; AD — 
knack of packing, and the generally usefül * nous"|those of its n ege thus making a sort of open alas is to accommodate them now, but till 
acquired ina nursery, except to those who have | networ k for admission of I y" Ane — pu zt a x cw and the gardens prar. it is 
gone the round of and other great esta- | &c.) displayed at t the time d perd ir pronounce an opinion on the 
blishments, The | jarities of vegetable culture at | of fruit in all r — but th vu y bit uo poesia Wo» Robinson. 
eondra would be well worth recounting for the | astonishing as a Vinery of ‘aiden p een. Ta it the 
benefit of gardeners, 3 and m dem Left voL Vines were trained. horizo ntally, aud the roof was STRATIFICATION awl 
great = bi um rus bune ose to be seen at d Been neat the placing of seeds in lij i in ie soil, or 
d vhich Park Nee ng fc at good marketable fi he object 
ive agent agent hich Mr, Nive’ 
A much hes Mr. Niven done aa oe to „prevent the en velope of thè weed from 
i hey he in consequence of which germi- 
ithout nation is liable to be injured ae Ber ded. All mw do 
not, however, require th 8 
icy. tocesaty ix em 
the 
orehard-house = hel. effectively me of having 
pipes wi mt ented joi ints ; | artificial Beak m openly 
ponte, 
intended for — 
seeds are then arranged as follows: 
qub mam ; 
ayer of seed, then one of sand, or soil, ar and so on 
e red with glass, 
that prave may not get in; and it 
e a cellar, or bett 
a to he out of the reach of frost. 
pori of February the seeds are examined 
Ad of vegetation are apparent, a 
pt is given, and the vase is return 
ree Groun ani days after the seeds are again 
be * , aon Crystal Palace Com They ht tl to! 1l and several 
Le àd ing | in ‘the fashionable or PAs asht to be bursting their patel 
