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London Horticultural Society and Garden. 



Hon. W. F. Strangways, F.H.S., a collection of cut flowers, and models 

 of baskets used in the garden at Abbotsbury in Dorsetshire, for protecting 

 plants in winter. These models were intended to show how easily plants 

 and shrubs may be protected in the open air, and how the mode of protection 

 may be varied according to circumstances. 



Fig. 12. a. Semicircular hurdle, to protect plants trained against a wall, 

 especially if newly planted and exposed to a sunny or windy quarter. 



Fig. 12. b is a double semicircular hurdle, or split cylinder, with loops on 

 each side, forming hinges or clasps. This is useful to put round the stems 

 of young trees, whose branches are too spreading to allow of a circular hurdle 

 being passed over them from above. It is used as a protection against hares 

 and rabbits in a shrubbery. 



Fig. 12. c. Large cylindrical basket, to cover tall shrubs, with a vizor, or 

 window, to be turned towards the sun, or away from the wind, but to admit 

 air. These are chiefly adapted for permanent defences in the winter. 



Fig. 12. d is the simplest form of 

 basket or circular hurdle, intended to 

 protect low bushes or growing herba- 

 ceous plants. It is well adapted for 

 plants coming into flower. 



Fig. 12. e. Bell-shaped, with a handle. 

 Very convenient for covering plants that 

 shoot early in the year, at nighty 



These contrivances are particularly 

 adapted for gardens near the sea, or in 

 any windy situation; or for pleasure- 

 grounds not secured against game. 

 They are of common hurdle-work, of 

 hazel and withy, the main stakes being 

 made strong and pointed, so as to be 

 firmly fixed in the earth. Those that 

 are used for winter protection, or for 

 the tenderer plants, may be filled with 

 straw or covered with a mat. They are 

 particularly useful in the spring, as 

 they are easily put on and off", according 

 to the weather, and are more healthy 

 for many plants than a close covering, 

 being permeable to the air. The forms 

 only are represented in the margin ; 

 the* size and proportions being varied 

 according to the use for which they are intended. Small semiglobular close 

 chip baskets, not above a foot high, are also used, as shades for delicate 

 alpine plants in sunny or windy weather. From Mr. Glendinning, gardener 

 to the Lord Rolle, F.H.S., six fine Queen Pine-apples. From Messrs. 

 Chandler and Son, a beautiful collection of varieties of Rhododendron cataw- 

 biense. From the Rev. W. Mansfield, Rectory, Milton Bryant, Bedfordshire, 

 two seedling Calceolarias. From Mr. John Lumsden, gardener to Henry 

 Bevan, Esq., F.H.S., a very fine collection often shrubby Calceolarias; and a 

 plant of the beautiful Brazilian Manettia cordifolia, trained in various di- 

 rections over a treillage fixed to the pot, and covering it so completely as to 

 form a bed of deep rich green, along which the long crimson trumpet-shaped 

 flowers hung in great profusion. From Mr. Myatt of Deptford, stalks of a 

 new kind of Rhubarb, called the Victoria. It appeared to be a variety of 

 Rheum hybridum, of enormous size; the leafstalks were each 2 ft. 8 in. long, 

 and 6 in. in circumference, and twelve of the stalks weighed 46 lb. From 

 Mr. Mountjoy of Ealing, a fine collection of Heartsease, Verbena incisa, and 

 Stylidium graminifolium, with its curious irritable flowers. From Mr. W. P. 

 ^yres, gardener at Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire, two varieties of Lettuce, 



