420 THE bint: Galostolabiana TESSINS [June 21, 1856. 
flowing | on Sy and a prodigious hypogynous scales ; the pistil was exactly that 
possessing v: us degrees a gem? ay nie it ine rahe grt o yaw ; many of 7 thoes mi of f Brodi, wes ee cena We find nothing like it in mie, 
th igi two immense basins, | have ent in their subscriptions have done so ) from | or in our h and therefore propose it 
or rather Ike, h atirin. the lowest level of the |an enu os Neatly a allied te to pas but t distinguished by by the 
grounds. The number of jets thus distributed. is | which if successful might ag pr of permanent | rt indicat 
nearly 12,000, Sacharging about 120,000 gallons of atility an is that 750 members | | perfectly hardy. 
water — minute. It was impossible that such 5h 
t The maintenance 2 the ieee at Chiswick. | PLANT DISEA 
poset y effect; when | directed by taste and distributed The re ason is obvious. They are convinced that | THE rapid i increase within me ia ha years of what 
rii many acres, such an blish to the yes Ah wa rane d Lapja dis — arkable, and it is 
se than perfectly magical. unless maintained in a state of com- | muc! regrette: 1 ist oa poe extent inex Agere 
| Q; Pat, 
ble unately it was one of those brilliant after- pete ciency ; yo they are also peas aded that to peated ihania "3 
among 
ee a Mer =< y Byte A EDE oprah ts ap E TS poSo pecaemry | tivated inne it wos ot bo enay to expla, The Vine 
ound was dry e enough to invite thousands of gaily] We thesia Bes ose that the Fellows will b ; eben 
and vi sitors to pone themselves ove Ay? this time hav eae ered that the course re sir. the wine pone ee ees Ph th 
slopes that overlooked the scene. A/| mended by the Cosma six months since is the only present moment, the em s many s haa most intelligent 
ittle too much wind drew down the bg one ki ch is practicable. This recommendation and enterpris' sing gar rdeners in the country, and not only in 
and scattered some of the jets into mist, as we fi relin nqnish the Garden at Chiswick, and after — Britain batalo upon thecontinent, anà Tavo ereason 
nota few of the fair spectators discovered ve their reali the property there, to form a smal = Cisa o believe also i „The among Pelar- 
cost ; but although the effect was somew im- | rime ar le in some more convenient lp rg wes e- 
aired, especially about the water temples, oe the | means —— at the same time taken to rourpanies | prived the writer of € 6000 plants in a fi th 
general result was superb. First the little jets on | the y, and lled oly Mr. vagy sh the e palsy” 
the terraces displayed their water plumes, and | to “ae f direction, rn am ong Caleeolarias, a disease which has been rife for 
might be thought to dance with joyous anticipation exhibitions beng abandoned, at ope for the p sent. eae yanes. pont = Me the high-be Bie: gs 
of what was to come. Presently afterwards a cloud e this done the So ociety w ould be in a safer and from which. Messrs: Henderson suberes ya 
of spray appeared round the water temples, and ká uniary po osition than ev ndi it is rea tone a k 
was shortly succeeded by a circular sheet of water | to suppose Hae he public sia pey Pas eae 
streamin g down their sides in its propies over the | support to e outs tion which, —— show ias, 
elow. hen came a pause. ier practical atility, could exist an a more mode- | bedding plants, as he found it quite impossible to keep 
The Royal carriages passed slowly over the winding | ra on ahi ed by a less costly Hiara of them healthy. One of the great London nurserymen ` 
sad round the Tak e, the gay crowd running aed sane has lost an 18-light pit full of plants this spring, all 
from a directions to catch one other glimpse of the | a Seen is a part of the public which has bedding kinds; and know another garden: 
features they love well to look upon. The any years contributed to the funds of the cor-| who out of a stock of 5000 plants in rude 
sta ion ‘oft the pond Y party is pee taken up, and| portion merely for the sake of the eee health in February could not muster 500 to plant 
in an instant the surface of the tran ges bursts | displays at Chiswick, and which with no real lov out at bedding time ; and what is worse, many 
into wondrous life; ; „jet succeeds jet uñtains fap the Mone! bedded out go off, Mr. Fleming and 
all k h into fantastic | foditis, ay soci eve ar itse calf with an institution chartered - eena last 
on either hand a vast torrent struggles perpendicu-| promotion of horticulture i in all its branches. 
larly towards the Sky, sighing, and sur; siog and portio no of the Fe low s ma y be exp sire to fall away | stron 
panting wa "Chis ick is with- withered m e same way. 
vouring to ra ce Phe, Tat from a s subter- drawn. But there is piak re dial a pratet publie, Petun Verb enas, Lobelias, and many other plants. 
ranean prison ; bat surro Paap en by a | poorer indeed but more in earnest, which z attac hes as | used for the amar garden imilarly affected, and 
crowd of atte tiar SABIE TO his e, it appears even the Pine pne Ser a 
giving solidity to the s space he sic sone The a Camellia, and which would willin gly ic an insti- chlorosis. 
author of Undine should have been present to de-| tution that fe ps its funds exclusively to tool Nor are these pe eae Phe eee tender plants 
scribe the scene. The Times relates what hap- Po ele f the art of gardening. It is out es, Pinks, ‘Hes risease, and 
pened in more sober language than we can | that other rae that the Horticultural Society ee sim'lar of herbaceous Ta also suffer, and even sj 
command :— Saba itself, if it is to exist. Should that | cultivator wf renowned and carefu j gg ene 
The effect was little less than magical, and for | be found impossible, the inité vil e that the | Slough los ws oF P three geane: ioue nae 
an hour afterwards charmed alike the eye and the | Society has done its work and is no longer wanted. quasi Ae t young stoc to be attributed? As 
beet The e A fountains in i: lower basins, and | If that is really the case the sooner the truth is| ;, abis S ek a os anri i ad lful and the most care- 
circular ‘one situated o) e plateau, depend lared th we so that the corporation ma ee a 
p » dep declare e rp y S cultivators suffer alike, and plants which a Bm. 
side upon ae ofl nor their effect, and not at all | retire from we field with aor fey able to do so. | years back would grow an ywhere and under 
upon architecture a sculpture, Tike he smalle er _, This at | east es certain, tha action of the ordinary ield any anes eae 
fountains on the terraces, with wh ld be left perfectly ae and unimpeded cultivator. In the kitchen garden scan has long 
to An ge a in Br fei ons water after Tuesday next. We have never “objected to the | becom minal sg E Caulifiow ie —_ 
which they contain is e obedien are spotted, and Onions are constitutionally 
of the artist and shoots og krit , for: in- | for half a year. But it is time to put an end to them. | what ra used not to be. To Sa r to the question at 
numerable devices of great beauty. gre ound i the The legally governing body is the Council, aes ig| the head of this paragraph, is it the wearing ye 
circular basin, and in some es of the larger ones, | respo onsible for its acts, and which is not only as | Species, the kara or er abuse of highly azotised an 
i becomes a liquid hedge, or plays in a network of | much interested in the welfare of the Society as aay stimulating m ae ran peni a 
ets, almost the whole | one possibly can be, but is alone able to judge cor- a bat soil where they i a sf cate to Diges 
surface a each pend basins it throws up sparkling rectly of the manner in which its affairs can be re pen eg why Tai ay bellover in the wearing. 
showers in apes, to various heig hts, some | most Rabe sp eter conducted. If there is to be a ieee, bat I RF at man; 
ee S into > misty spray at an t inual rupti ion on to it its proceedings on the dee if kept too long on the same soil deteriora te 
Wha hat that elevation may have been we will not ey d the solid ioEtkë Soti vere wee g 
venture to compute. To us it ‘appeared that th herefore trust t that ge le- | ting influence l d Sa 
usual height of the principal jets was equal to that | men pep be satisfied ith the on ag ments that lave from seed ; in fac la parents a odio di a rule, ai 
of the galleries in the Palace itself nA i we also | been made, although they have not terminated as dense okepete z bot to such a state of gambling has 
thought that when, as if with some vast effort and | may have been neat 5 hen more than three-|the seed trade descended, that it matters little rs 
renovated strength, a sudden heave pröpéllod ‘the fourths of the bpi re signify their dissatis- | Seeds are saved, so long as they can be ahi a 
water to the highest, it must have gained the level | faction ji axims proposed by the promoters | 1° ntity. Some years back brine writing eae ne ‘his 
of rece: Kachina; “it will surely be felt that such do oases . enian we that t by bes i 
“Noe as yeo re oH APT Fo operani ; shee ought to "pe abandoned. Let the pene |S pane nrich 
ing away alter the display o nutes’ meetin the T on Tuesday resolve unanimously that rement has 
brilliancy. On the contrary, we should ay fl ; be authori iea to e such pee chor sn in corps and ‘gl manare age ie bane With 
the end of half an hour the scene had hardly lost erm opinion the fo s of the Society demand, | re weeny Fone of soil and climate every farmer 
any of its grandeur; and certainly none of its rin ong they s howl involve the relinguish- sie that if he does not follow $ systematic 
beauty. the Garden at Chi ick an the realisation | rotation of crops, and if he does not change is 
cone cannot now stop to describe in homely of | the iei contained wit ‘thin seed, obtaining it from a different soil ied a distant 
ms the manner in which this great result has been part of the country, his crops soon deteriorate, &n 
broaght about. To that we as return hereafter, Se eee a ultimately become worthless; but in flower gariek 
dan e authentic account New Plants. the same bed is occupied by the same plants year i 
of the arrangements. 77. RHYTIDEA BICOLOR year, and yet we wonder “that they do not peri the 
GEN. NOV. LILIACETM y Brodie ææ proxi imum, “perianthio inflato o| anil used to do.” Strange would it be if they & Boil, a 
corrugato basi gibbo 0 sil is er and tired of them h they of the ai 
ursday the Fellows of the Horticultural | diversum.—R. bicolor. radi ange is ne ary, d I tbiok an ann nd 
Soc ety o emble to — henarks course | Among the novelties exhibited by Messrs. Veitch at parse a cuttings, Ti taki ing ' my diend’ in Bedford- 
to iake with their Garden, and, a bulb, | shire and he mine from Hants, would do mu 
e final deci: 
o 
F 
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season 
pargor ar 
any other 
Ar Bedi many paris after they h 
uch | were fully in bloom, Again Salvia ree = tonite 
tro h 
n upon Aie vale It is} with paroi leaves much shorter ‘than | to at oui | to improve the constitution of our pinty “with th 
a that the aean e upon which some | Which was terminat 1 pueg ac tbe | 
gentlemen confidently reckoned, has not reached pt the limb, which ty ; ESAle (bedding Le à ill aai H 
more than 30007., although 50007. is the consisted of six short sea green arly equal indi aD arot Poy Aalto one | 
t is required even to make an bo eg The tube of these flo owers wae obovate. , | dete ri seal et selves y- | 
attempt at n Be nasing the Gardon: Under such cir- | S2hHy three oe much wrinkled, with three pairs haters as they have done in I find 
x of Wi i i be disease pi Eite 
ana Pi he Kareo ti gibbosities at th base. I Im media ately within the | W th Cue mbers and Me! ares bes three oy thes, | 
or barren stamens ; and between : stood as many broad | away rots become me heelthy, but “bat HI nin th his healt)y 
pot them i 
No one who hasbeen meetings of 
* sie at the 1 
the Society held daring can entertain a their w before the become + 
doubt tl | Was ential I] we ei bae edges. The filaments of these meets eke ee ba tagious 25 
