Jury 19, 1856.] THE GARDENERS’ 
a nae H Ment 2 
historical, interest. But the garden! the garden! un- | for that a with such a garden, me funds, and aA —_ fail to find adm For fine , few 
seen and unseeing, it was a world of its own. That art class. — me that ral Castellane. edn des Combai a good 
unwalled flat space, of onl ly , contained | ‘ The Horti euitural Society? whie up i dar, velvety, a Fa Comte Bobrinski is a Rose ef 
absolutely everything t Taan n could “supply for 1809, ¢ opened i kindred and eee Experimental | | d Auguste Guinoiseau, is a beau 
‘man’s delightful use ;’ Pes and Oaks, gravel walks, Garden,’ ueted, as it was at first, b — men a af ee an prot tear Fg good in shape, and altogether a 
da wilderness ‘ grotesque ry ild, and a| Ellis and Neil ‘it could PRE ma aud h ys | desirabl The above are a few first-rate kinds ; 
Maie preh ade and sun, eevee and lawn, veget- | done as well as low fur But ri and | but among them Géant de gery Jules Margottin, 
ables en holly hed pe a, ng delightful | poverty make cre roa sone and General Jacqueminot the varieti 
ther to ung or the old was not more he second relates ee of E hones and to a we by L net particabaely direct atten: 
vari And "Rden is well worthy of its reputation, if it | the vegetable m is in particular The first, which is not on y the eae bat 
was th e of greate pine: After a long and the latest Rose e of 
SS. “ The opening in 1826 Of an olein called the 
domestie security and pleasure, New Town ees at Stockbridge recalled 
Ve owe 
death = ml ie 1815, to extinguish, and circum- curious, thou gh no ns of a 
stances hai 
nae — 
T, or before 
ve: 
ly of colour which is seldom 
and toa delightful pereme, the third a a 
met with, and w 
I was i mber ; and I have since seldom fish m in Clo: 
revisited the generally silent walls. But the days of | narrow, het areas sh were poi 
Niddrie are among the last I can forget. | thr rown out on the street at the head of the close, 
it nis and a very axe cai as 
named Victor Truillard, from Messrs. Standish 
Noble, were the two Roses that „app peared to be most 
Ci A 
s“ My father was a friend of the = William 
Prestonfield, I was a boy; a gre 
ramen handsome, good natured, aad “uh goes a 
great ree = 
noye 
. à for t 
s; irog he er in the eae as old, po erie om 
the wo corte oe exposed to all > ae rain, dust, and filth ; 
nation the recollection of whieh 1 greatly im- 
mea wl a first-rate skater. 
only 
h 
ih 
© 
e ak 1 + fR 
Sei 
_A OSES, TEN rane: 
f pos n a com 
of stiff ze rotten ‘ay ni Me a, pt leaf ange. 
Where bop Se have grown strong after three or four years’ 
rab ay in his wa 
Ps 
to use his nice boat. w the fo Gonur. | ld 
g 
} losely pruned, as well as 
their karatan very 
ituati 
over, by means of | lieuiion see dm North Bridge, there 
handles, close to th he | as if he — nastiness, like other r abuses, had. been 
0 ubt if there 
They were entirely in 
BE oan everal long | | of old enema men who 
called bowling alleys, | | and tables round 
fo of, the 
ne ials, statues, and trimmed evergreen hedges. | had establis shed superi 
w we oat to make the satus spout! There was a booths— marked ‘their nae roe i nog ride: in 
enna rri all our old. oon 
smooth lanes of turf, anciontly 
u untains, 
tresses, w. 
© 
"4 
d 
apres aaka of od 
h ahi ea 
they will then produce as 
transplanted 
uring winter. spring and er 
should be plentifull ly "supplied with liquid manure. 
For penne, with the exception of ‘Teas | and yer 
December an 
leaden Bacchus i in particular, tattered carpet ; and every t 
T ni 
it Av ethan ous place.” 
What a striking sketch of an old "Seotch garden |no water 
The Lords of Session have f gutter, w > ho 
gardening in their illustrious ranks, a a sa more | | had a ‘plac on the pe e, 
ptasie a Eps l aoe tha Lge Coe d. I doub 
guage naea oriin + ee d na in Edinburgh i in 1815.” 
tural Edinburgh is a c sane cotton ya - Bsa 
“The Rae s an Podity raji ag the work of 
are Neill, a r ; a useful citizen, a eds intel- Garden Memorand 
florist, a whan a an excellent he er ltural Tour| Mr, Francis’s Nursery, Hertrorp.—Those who 
in Mander of the uate ae oo Ene oes are desirous eei i i 
pa > 
t if there was a fruit shop 
we had, to borrow some of our author’s 
a on aer Cockburn. 
Britannica, and A 
re 
Hegh Selen at Cinol, put | 
any a grander hime ea a to the blush. He w: ted a hianat of t 
B 
ut kitehen vegetables | ay 
j | after they have viene lowering ; ; they w 
y, the 
pe ei months for 
suc! s Hy brid Chinas, Hybrid Bourbons, 
ee > 
e | and e of ta strongest growing Noisettes and 
wae ons, require very little pruning ; ho every 
pruned-in e, so as to 
event the 
The 
ybrid Chinas, m: 
| Stand ard Climbers, i is “4 prune them 
new shoots the 
next season. 
r, and Prat abbey 
Edea ad nd Mar d are pega 
pruning Teas, Chinas, and 
‘iso an pig 9 which made him one of the 
de fe nders of 
pa i r protecting ayy ai ah nted out on thei 
h as Teas, hin 
t extraordinary |b l 
and delightful Gitet ajnas whieh has since poured varieties cer here wee sorts “are wanted for 
such botan ificence over our great places, and LIN nti wed ek autumn Thai 
s, such ou 
Fern, or small Spruce Fir Ppeti may 
e plants, which will ve we, Reems P 
p frosts also the of the roots should be 
magnific: 
and attainable beat Sige zr cottag ges, and thri M 
a 
early i in December, which 
ca 
It is ur public estal our there is here ample penal both in-doors and out. Buds 
pri ivate inian, that its chief t triumph i is ve be looked take well on it, but it should be remarked “thet the 
for ; but in the mode = apy: ce, the villa, and dias rowed stocks are properly prepared to receive them, and that 
an’s gar ae prevalen tle they are i inserted so near the groun nd that it is expecte ed 
es; apan 
ure 
| should be tte | in the following spring. 
| 
a T Jadan th ve the 
Immense 
We saw 
cellan 
| Influence of ge on + Distr nO of Plant:.—In 
wa memoir propepied w Ra perial Academy of 
in 
great civi liser. Ini innocence, pur i ara fruit trees, Aia ‘and evergreens, comprised t a 
ist ut the Like of his principal stock of the Nursery. To grow Roses well on the 
own little borders, is the only rival of the angler. I wish | gravely i i i le of t 
enna, Mar 0 1036 H: Pint, pre 
| the as ‘Of the so Ae ‘fs Abe si 
| gave e the results of the observati 
ms 
2 
G 
[o 
Q 
Ss 
a 
+ 
=r 
Fe 
ry 
a 
we had a good Flo te Ds a ne? 
At that time he had settled at Bonaly, in the parish | | often, Fionn airn 
of etuion, close by she» orthern base of the Reatinipde, | as ground ke 
Spagn” ~ says, “by an annual lease of a few — 
or 
solid cit is pt of calear: 
si nature, The “disi PE A or 
d of fragments from the “ rocky,” agglutinated 
by a min neral ppbetangpa: aa toria ry origin ; it contains 
re e 
d a scarcely habitable farm- se s freely mi are with road scrapings; the “ hous 
burn th 
square yards a) soa 
realising the profietaiion of Aul Aa haye destroyed is also poured over it evi rak morning. In this 
haps, gi wets erected a tower, pete ae ans git tte a pater 
cky s a pee h in the higher eleva- 
ofa ses d laird, Ev verything mia a = burns, therefore the ground i is alwaye kept i in taani ear! 
the few uire, as in 
ind 
a | tion a the 
The 
Alpit ine Sh A ; the poe soil af p the 
sio The firet co cor- 
| trees wn work, condition which F gs req bottoms of the valleys an optam 
and so a asa extent the work of m oF o fade. ones lies the whole t” Of successful | Rose responds to the continents Surroun the tertiary sea, 
Human nature is incapable of enjoying more happi- cultu Standards er as elsewhere it gi ae dicates 
ness than has been my lot here ; where the glories of th vies n fe ar, but this season Mr. Fra this sea itself, as formed by drift de- 
the prospects, and the of the wild retirement, trying how far e Manetti i may x — not be suitable | aten on its bottam m. _ The. nature of the roots is (an 
have been all enhanced by the p y improve- od half standart The Celine 
my thi dren, and of myself, e been too as a stock ; , as has just been rer dwarfs are all, | of these soils. ja cies sg apap fleshy, or with com- 
d often tremble in the anticipation that the or er ‘ress so, the Manetti, on which most pom fasciculated roots, h underground stems, 
cloud must com urtoa says that there varieties seem to thrive bse + the exception of La |can on adiye on detrital pes gr a oody 
was not a bush in e en 0 had not hang Reine, with which it d oie to agree. i i rous ramifications are best fitted for the 
speculation. There is not a recess in the valleys of Francis, ie ia sa; not despair of yet seth vail A comparison flora of the higher 
the Pentlands, nor an el ace on their summits, that Reape Aa even this grow on it. calea: gion with the mi fiora proves 
is not familiar to my solitude. A plant tailles stated to contain the bat of either of them, in size, 
Bat 
is at present all in full flower here, and 
althou; meh 
differ so pA terially from each other 
We need not say that the igi; of this book is its 2000 ‘plan i} shape, that it 
amiable aa gentle, but most entertaining and valuable presents, as may be imagined, a striking appearance. | must be admitted at ta geological Pien ition of the 
sAn out all manner of men and things iate long Jules Margottin, another cha; arming Rose, large and raf soil Nai an my ne e tion co pe its s 
na ga PPAS wit rti- | iş however quite as useful as the > Géant, t, though not so | face. Alpi ants by the streams into 
coliaeal b unworthy of sanding by the ade brilliant. The se two varieties being profuse bl oomere the plain increase in size and grow luxuriantly in 
of the legal, historienl, Figg 24 Fo itical scraps in their new sta Forest trees shri ore and more 
which the abounds fet i is Peres wean the | nt should, we think, b ploy p as they reach greater elevations. 
al Bot ee mI Garden :— ose. Of good o = sorts, such as Robin Hood, rt Both aes fact We witness Hy the infi of 
“Tt was in 1823, I think, that the last fragment of | revit: Du uch of Su herland, and flowers of that |climatal conditions on the development of vegetable 
our Royal Bo TENT Garden was removed from its class, Pa General Jac 4 r life. Cereals powers exclusively on the detrital soils of 
situation on 1 the west side of Leith Walk, and that the and Souvenir de Foam aoa too much ea the lower region. They ee the Alpine tertiary 
of th |be said. Both are large R posse! i of “of glowing gravel in i its variations o gt altitude; but are only able to 
ith was E anie 0 garden could be made to | ach very fragrant, and in all high] pra grow on a detrital 
walk.a mile alth. Scarcely eo, No good collection can be e T goil composed of lime, prone ses and silica mixed in 
re from | complete without them. Mrs. Rivers and Madam | nearly Sam. popon: ions. This same soil is like- 
ked fresher and prouder | Vidot are two beautiful pale blush varieties, which | wise congenial to the non-cultivated 
was a respect- | require only to seen to become universal fe plants T the er region. If ear p pig? mixed 
teacher, and in his first leuce- | vourites. Gloire di Dijon is also a fine Rose w th | with eat cree substan ce 3 (as on the sea- 
r: tical a » Noise kahit, ones and uble. Mad 
n Britain. Colonel Rogen i in eb paced or above saliferons rel new aeee 
dow taste the way cig te ost, isa large showy. variety. nd species 
