OcrosER 18, 1856.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
The author is thoroug ghly alive ro the all-important fact side is con 
osed of a series of bold pillars at intervais 
feet, the dh spaces being openings 
eraa i Eir inner space being 
o par 
that systematical Wo orks are not dissertations, and that in of 6 o: Mosai of broad Box edging with red sand 
the former we expect to find the differences alone between which pon a ver arkable Fern garden. The | between, pare band of wh te sand round the whole. 
oon clearly s stated, PAEA N being confined to, basis of this Fern ga aston i n is a little rocky dell, entirely | The design of the > plot i is simple and conven with 
| art ficial, but pao ing a most natural apy ; monograms or intricate lines ; 
P The part ing to rocks being piled up as hig 10 or 12 feet in | and the box edgings being unusually broad, and tbe 
of which 10 ¢ nan of intr actor m atter, ea at some parts, and most beautifully clothed with M it is obviously 
=e ids or ea fills 40 more. Extracts fro: Ferns, their outline and effect being pagers: by ble fi be occupied w with flowers, there 
cal matter being unsuited to our columns we prems of Hollies, pa ye. and o! her api is “an niter absence We pettiness or impropriety, 
limit Ives to a pai passage or two from the part shrubs ; while a little cle hrougł orks of this pt paz The Box is 
that introduces the Ara chnids, from which the reader holle up int de ne about a foot 
will be able to see the skilful man in w the | sladdening the ear by its music, nen it clue por in > ter, thus ‘forming a neat mer gtr the tre. 
whole subject is handled. |b eneath the corri ido or. An ad near the four corners of the Grass Sot 
“We have already said that the scorpions are| C lightful | g Yews, cut into sharper cones, about 2 feet in 
vivip With the egg-laying spiders, the egg, |Saad , which, with its green luxuriance of vegeta- | height. A gravel walk environs the Grass plot, ang and 
under the changes of — ane irad loses its and its delicious anait e and repose, offers the el r dary Bad gre by th the Yew Rear 3 already 
previous form, of a spider, isan welcome after the fatigues or Pascua of a g 
indicating all tk l p iied animal, | jou: rney—espec ially in warm dusty weather—the tn’ mie tap another flight 
Atl gtl hell Ł the th , and the spider, d for baie subsequent agree- | circular enclosure, which i is intended to contain a 
first with the head, and ptt witht he thorax, comes able i impressions ; ; and not even the perfume and gaiety | gurgling fountain, and the fen a which is a low 
to! view ; then “foll lows the abdomen, to which how | of the richest exotic ne however tastefully oo wall backed by a dwarf Yew 
the egg- ‘membrane, like a Fe continues Attd tib ibule, or corridor, appe: The Yew he dge at the sides of the mirria is trimmed 
time ; then the feelers 2. feet. The you as p 
spider, ai * ites e conan the granules of the pre bit ‘of wild nature, with its cool freshness j f he hedge, and rising it 5 or 6 ineh 
yolk may be clearly disti ieee is not yet ina state greenness. esembling 
to weave a web and catch its prey ; for the spinning A ‘ould be more healthy, or appear more at | a seat or ik about | foot pr ars fe > from the 
organs are oa concealed beneath = common integu- home, than the beautiful plants which li The, object of this lower projection, besides 
ment, After a lapee of a week, o ome species, little glen. Large masses of the ely littl to the hedge, is partly to 
e time, turing Mi the opider ikes no food, it — and the almost equally noble inae Pizana | conceal the defects yeno iiaa occur tow: ards the 
skin for the first time, and is, as it were, ka i ve se and are eae a haa no less | bottom of hedges, ar to assist in getting up the 
e low varie a ai z not tat ~ lower 
web in which the 
0 
weave their n way, according to 
the instinct of Tete ind, pto, oac for small insects 
corresponding to their age and powers.’ — 
The young spiders now quit, on elegant ta speci: 
the Many other interesting a that delight in — 
the 
a the Holly and Nar 
_ Ne 
hedge qenia 5 for £ 
part | of the hedge ans of trees, 
e or Aile F ki pe 
Siepe introduced, e pal 
e e is finely takie ie natinat 
the rocks, and the still deeper tints 
raised to abou t the height of 
tion is TE ona 
ical- 
vt 
pe dy? of sag ing hedge. 
of Yew 
K 
arly the whole of the British Ferns, 
icture, 
“The pow of rte ion in arachni 
ass, consi 
can 
eet RS 
was 
polanly might have orien — a later period. 
non it is e A hoa in spiders, lost fee 
ated. In anim see wth is limited, 
capable of propaga- 
er 
last t metamorphosis Pen above, P- 976), b ut oy no means 
to those of sight and feeling, 
wD 
e t yet been discovered, 
ids he ha 
dered o te their r fitting position in this c 
w again, the former, = o_o 17 el are found within 
whic one a circuit € of th: Grange :— 
ns of sense in arachnids are limited, as far p 
kno 
kumzaa little as e 
nees from Biddulph 
Phi teri 
Se merei fi ane 
 oMicinarum 
ti emaii 
Aspittum alist pasta Sneopteris 
Botrychium Lunaria. 
ie fle 
15 miles of the place 
erore a 
or g 
in others, ‘where, gr in rv ger glows 
ith a har 
The ong feet a 
are cece adapted 
y 
a is place 
which is received by a vitreous hum 
ior su Behind this humour es ti the Foii na, 
pigm E the ro sboneidon, 
and ve 
ote in iris, 
mber of by at 
arrangemen 
ny 8 Fone te and “Telyphonus, te oe 
For 
and the nu 
refer to the ayatematic 
Often, as 
o 
r, they are | which 
kin and are shaped like pies, | house, and 
ey. lso of Fern: 
the summer 
wes the 
is Fadi iciously Bonde 
to the coolness 
rns and the water 
d all the yar rds, &e., the rear of the 
| necessa: 
eau in its pale ms fea! co el oliag i 
sombre tint of oS Sue tands on either side of the 
art the te 
Poa Se to ge site of the rpm fo ota Te 
beyon: oga tito a sinll shost of water man feet lower 
down, and to the 
bou 
below 
vel 
in the usual style than any of the parts 5 
te | BPs from the drawin ing. -room window, it gives the 
we ry eie of repose, and cultivation, and richness to 
the place 
The rvatory communicates with the corridor o 
pe house an and the terrace, but not with se of th 
- 
PTRR GEAM O 
PR kerb stone, and the centre Arye ayer 
with a kerb Mong - och the ae is raised stil 
qe ch by m of a similar k piapa It 
used chiefly for sage po sat Goalies, i 
oe Mg Pati for the customary l kin ds of flower 
i gar 
r venti 
oe bym four large weights edep to eac 
of the 
at this point bmg: es bare to corr 
those of we distant hill, and both un 
most nai 
summit of a neighbouring rocky hill, the iais 
espond better with 
uniting napori in 
‘allows a peep 
— ea in which there isa siaga 
ical mical cap to 
To 
ly be needful to point 
<a 
visi 
1 
be- ich has 
and the erection of > ek was not — 
, the 
s of 
other by ag. and taking the form 
plants, ac =E 
of ornamental 
peording to a plan originated 
a southern asp 
cas the eeasmnene: 
aarp 
S e Ti wi ith that of insects, then the “made 
J 
ach other, as to render it pni 
in 
be see 
arrange the rocks and plants so as to n 
ds. 
hias the “ery ay window is osk this walk, wł 
irregular masses of shrubs, Ivy. ry, &e 9 c., on either sì 
union 
groups to their two compound eyes 
hal, 
i=) 
and of such the 
volume consists. 
p 1g 
, this has “ya n most ae accomplished ; 
tg views being quite d 
equally “favourable of its ome 
rridor has e little stream 
F) 
n front t of it, with the 
et each 
an 
the rest of th und in them carpeted with 
mitsopiyila. “he li ibrary view is thus kept distinet from 
Garden Memoranda. 
BIDDULPH GRANGE, NEAR CONGLETON, THE RESIDENCE 
on r James Ba ATEMA 
that of the drawi ner notwithstanding t that E abeat T 
pek 
built i: 
would be shelly pawak ee in ree the view 
aie pence i from 3 p. 679.—The | from the dining-room window, inasm ad 5 woul 
Iph x es rr mons the disagreeable ean z the stream | or 8 yards ; ee me 
n the pri a seen the yet Entering the ho the tine of pared 2 pct 
bank which _ slopes “rapidly from } d g throughs a bvensibale, renee insagonsnted Befo s leaving the house, of iee ef the 
which side the whole of the s lie; a 
which a eE ; hr oon of C Cher original 
dining- -room may be just noticed, asit seems to i involve 
a convenience and a merit, At 
garde: rey w 
presents a ig. -= picturesque fact the ae | dyawives, PREA for Mr. Bateman’s wend work on 
being at end, and par rtly screened by orna- | Orchids, i is crossed eoin reaching te dra wing roo recess for the side-board is p the 
m cor lama ng south, | lon, behind a sereen wall, as = age a 
to th and the west ; the fall being considerable | the centre point Ta an ERRE h garden scene, e, communicating by plige wit pers apen: 
e di ns, especially the latter. | including a small architectural terrace, inclosed with a corridor, by which ne age = va eh on 
The entrance to the h is on the northern si | haracteristic tone belpaigde, aqi having 6 ae t , and through which dinner is 5 e 
Tt is at present incomplete, and the stables ar rly d to increase the picturesqueness of its house extends, moreover, fA m3 1 me towards 
it; but ove d,s and the | outline e, and give a new stand-point for Tokie at|the east, with the groun pen: t eae 
Space in front of the meine will probably be formed | another part of the grounds. This terrace also com- Mr. A H i jo t0 pace ich fo 
into a cou court, an n ornamental wall. | municates with a Fae conservatory between the | 00 on the upper mad “ane 5 pr ra 
On stepping i into the porch, we notice a passage to fa the Ji y, the latter being a hand- | to be erected and fill with plants, whic se 
right, which the ens, and is some apartment recently added to the m end of | lead an upper terrace, ar at length a= 
tended for the use of such visitors to the soeinenan as | | | the house. The terrace opens towards ti tinto a | high terrace at the eastern end of the gardens. 
would not Turning to the left, | | will thus have faciliti getting eee 
however, the eye rest on some fine patie cot Five or six feet bel level of "the terrace—itself | g0 ds from the noes nd i out the 
s and in the walis, h k f th 
visitor then natai finds himself in along or | small rectangular ind with rig of common n | or any of the lower part of the house. F. X. 
Rhy E north and south, with the house dear ra mre ol Yew around ai and a flight of step: a (Zo be continued.) 
end of it. sai ern side of this corridor | the terrace. is inelare Lames nee Ea ag pe ARE 
Consists of a wall, with onan lighted from behind, parterre, margin, net | ane’ colony ine" fm ee sa pig ject, page mai 
a rare Fern in each of them. The eastern 
with a ie Gras! 
tour principal 
beds filled with hybrid China ieee ron 
