DECEMBER 1 deei 
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from the caves of Briel og 
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THE GARDENER’ 
CHRONIC 
| which stands nearly in the centre a unds, being , t 
PERRETE Nh by the terraces on the north om Pinetum | 
n the and south, the Rhododendron grou und and 
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r some singular fiow 
wai pane eg while the wall 
thus formed afford 
ae aaily Aiet with port 
tful hardihood, 
sed for such plants ; as are of oub 
e price zr; an heen hibited s 
mens jociitty captured of the rare beetles Polystichus | 
fasci olatus, Prechen nanus, and emarginata, and | 
oxeroft exhibited some 
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of ha 
ese | and characteristic ‘root. -garden, 
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bulbous Linge sk er, s helter. 
ar eget als ve e coping of this 
a bank behind, are fine 
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o conve y a full Caseriptiate 
sr ue region, ant a few of the prin 
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Iti is a latter of these | | 
ibited 
ybister limbatus, a water beetle which s 
e head of the larva, and Mr. Westwood stai pte 
milar instance hea occurred in oa tent ao 
halis Populi described by M. Wes ael. 
» Marshall m: abel i sh of = specimens 
f Pieris Da lidi near Glasgow, Mr. S. 
Mr, Gregson | 
its larva, | st 
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The 
root-garden, or, as it is called, for want 
oes assemblage of s or rugged ste and |i 
here ofa | Took 
better term, “ the Stumpery,” oumas of a iy ae | 
old roo 
P will be n mig iced. The Cryptimetians 
are in admiralo health and verdure on a nort k. 
and there 
m plicatum is quite h There 
isa perennial E Heracieum, with the Mabito i H. ‘giganteum, 
aoa r. 
ae of trees—chiefly th 
0 r 10 fee t on either side st a winding and fmol | 
plidice 
ead a eer perg from Mr. W: me, dated from 
ar Bort Insects were rare in this 
t ing yes months he bed only captured | o 
species of beetles. A note was read from Mr. Thwaites 
on the curious manœuvres of a Ceylonese spider in 
oa in prey, The secretary a notice that a 
op a o a E Beane 
aor 5 H 
| to jut forw: ward in 
ey are 
very bold and effee 
a new dwarf Pra which has aran 
inia littoralis 
hardy. 
g little 
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the parte 
E prominence, an and 
nat in some parts ; while in | 
en a rust 
ae enough to allow room aah shoi 
be pany 
arge patch, which is 
rosy i p panine in ie. Ailte pontica is used in quantity, 
both for its showy orange flowers, and the rich tints of 
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we for little gatherings of choice herbace 
bulbs, or miniai Rehr og 
r. Bate man has 
among the members. 
eu ured by the 
is pro e Purple Beech, Nut and Elm; and, 
in front of these, by way o 
Potices of of Books, 
Visits to Remarkable Places : 0 Old Halls, Battle-Fields, 
and Scenes illustri “a of Striking Passages i in English 
os and Poe By Willia m Howi Wit 
pwards of 80 highly finished “Wood pan dang 
pipi and che mpm, —— ion, 2 vols. 8vo. pp. 1158. 
price 25s, Longma 
= beautiful iis 
mes opportunel, roduced, and 
mirably su PP y P 
suite ad to box- giving Christmas, The author 
d talent many o 
they are joined (sn and disposed with consummate 
art. The picia r paing allof Oak, too, they are likely to 
be very dur portions of tl 
singularly fortunate in pro- of con arinj cl = strikingly 
yof on most gnarled, contorted, and | white fol oliage of Amygdalus inea 
ied various pecies of Pashia fed 
occupies 
minen rt the mounds, and both 
leaves and flow wee — a conspicuous object. There i is 
ver sg ble 
whole, Taking of I a Ki ki ree 
irgin per, Cotoneaster, 
and other trailing plants: Sera 
Yucca. Tree va with a few golden-leaved kinds 
manner, ll 
now and then occurring at the base, are ‘ll used for the 
The principle of grouping, for ‘the sake of obtaining 
distinet masses of colow en sere is rent out still 
i n the rest o 
group 
ample, near the entrance to this region, 
br 
r eX! 
He scare a which are among the patas pea! hea 
this es nt than 
it includes, geri ‘be aii already 
inter-flowering panta are centered § in 
the groun 
enumerate quantities of Aucuba, cheep yar Pyrus 
ponica, Thu uja aurea, | Wei eigela and coræe: 
Then follow the Anemon mediums. “cr vi as, D 
nsis, 
tooth Vi olets, Lilies of oe Ar lle; ey, &e., each kind 
Lilies, Chinese Junipers, 
the more remarkable places in bs in me eoan P 
enriching pig ananrative by entertaining an es and 
traditional h 
is desirable for it, and. all being daeraad with 
| Ga ultherias, Pernettyas, Cotoneasters, Savins, and such | 
Where re any fets ret character 
in regard to form alone is aah such things as the 
upright or fastigiate Thorn, American Weeping 
the W h, 
and so mci ee 
of the scenes “efor re = 
Penshurs 
with as Senet a “aed 
general loos mee 
Ltn 
, the of the Sidn á 
Field of Culloden; s’ Lindisfarne, FI Flodden Field, P alton p 
otte 
singular 
ates; Tintagi 
"elä of Edge-Hill; 
fordshire,; Beaur 
Castle ; Lambt 
Torinetia 
ton Castle; Jarr 
urepaire, Fin chali Of 
of green slothing at 
rarer hardy 
assigned to them, and seem quite at 
the Hellebores, H. lividus is remarkable for | 
its Mo thick evergreen fo linge, which resembles that | 
f and very deci 
ar = Castle, with the sing ular mya. of Sto oney Bowes s 
wv 
ITE, 
ran 
zheh A eA aba patches of roots. Spiræa 
Wark aig tines age and Peat Hermitage 
en the some seek 
Orchises, mpieg: ëa P man oe y irh an 
racter. | xa is called T: Tha iii vi 
has an unusual di 
dard Cotoneasters, 
ants of similar or 
the species re- 
nites ble for their individual pecu liarities, are a large- 
peste chp w gi latifolia, but with much thicker 
den: abit. It is growin 
Bras ea ornam this Actæa | ing iets) eepecially as as it does not extend mung d 
Castle-and its traditions ; | Keeldar Castle ian Dilston spicata akp forms amoble fi of duaek the ol ;|a re sonable limit, Polygo onum vaceinifoli 
and standard Cotoneasters, with fine drooping heads, d 
Typ pe a nad a a The work is — anii d loaded ts spines of pret cra wers all 
n a of Walter Scott’s Spam Border antiquities and have a a happy pifact at 74 fani ofthe salient points. ; an n AEA w eE i Fojpiidés aoa is somewhat aes 
the do no injustice to that great name when we aon S ells, but vith a stronger habit and finer of 
hese volumes of Mr. Howitt on the same leve el as his by the use of rocks Mana of stumps for sustaining the | fiowers. The stately Lilium piieis ri nat 3 Ve: 10 
oer is gradual an easy. But before the level of the | feet in height, has the tropical appears > of a Canna 
A om a ia 300 to 1000 a ea ag dai em tod e Chinese pool is attained, a gant lor a Musa, and was Appazdni y seeing with cme 
rom u Dy als L is 18 a somew > 
12m Rout | upon us, and embraces all the more noticeable obje with an exceedingly powerful odour. rya macro- 
If we are to fori the ahak housekeepers to whom _ The chief Seana of this sinpas piece of Jan 5 | phy whieh i is Š sag then. he was growing without 
we > have ‘shown this book it should icra what th collecting together the uume- | are ge on of a wall. dh arene he ete 
Pin: vie orous compact habit, bad 
thing with which the inexperi e to deal. And perb ens srede appears to have | been the peene valuable f for it its deep £ green fodlagge; which hangs on very 
in fact in 730 closely ms a a ble askia umns of small | tion of one of thos que |1 n kirit bens, a d Spread 
thor has collected information n all jį efforts of gardening art in which t Chi id | ing kind of Yew, resem! me the common species in 
manner of subjects—as a few of the titles of his | to indulge. of ee h P bat height and form, is a plant too little 
chapters. indicate, i > we have ho b ilding, been fam iliar | to every one from childh ap old | known, and has pe wena for clothing tet,’ or for 
with th ices ”, plas aste: era aA ers’, | Will Into a assat, ko o mars Fae a The Assam ssam Tea, the Chinese Orange, 
carpenters’ work ; pl all sorts wd his miniature and numerous other inhabitants of China and the 
area, the Chinaman delights ” crow 
id 
of fuitre, f from’ | gas ‘gs and 
2 stent: 
pans. 
duties of employers and servants, and the | 
oo such matters. Next i in order is is the _way AF 
bridges. and other ha 3 
th llishments, and to furnish the ae with them. And so j) rieh is this garden € 
1 ippled t lants, that it 
llotted to the cations to notice their various charac- 
strainings ae rts cbs bs 
beck, fish, ee grocery, hops, wine and spirits, &e, 
nd half dead trees, or other ast frac 
After this w are told how to keep progr in health 
how to pee our and not to be birge 
fancy that better pinan English, 
iced to 
: French cookery is 
Towards the ot of the volume we are int 
the nursery, the lying in room, the sic 
F 
and a: vegetable om _ With his puny fort} With the mention of oh chiar pao seed Bose 
t ti edie nea to a close. 
qu aint covered bridge cosy house to e 
decorate the pool on which a P ema junk rid mon paoman n that the contri- 
securely at anchor, he probably dreams that he has 
vances for concealing porai exit pe to any piece of 
3 or preventing leaves and other 
ho: 
a prodigy of art, and 
ther 
a ds, an equally harmonious . details, to g refuse from entering, e drain, Fe are of the 
drugs. What more can we say? e Hh oY the author Pupae the sce: p vare h and most ine! t deseription, A 
has been “assisted in vario paese anit by a com-| Most of Pst ‘curious features have been n aptly man’s pi | large masses of Tock, and nysa ar me ? 
mittee of ladies ” and that the volume “ia inated by imitated and embodied by Mr. y th out into the oe TON * a ban 
More ‘ood en et ngs.” If w offer | garden; and the good deal of artistic grouping, of rocks, and one of these stones is hollowed be 
tao miach, ithe arap aape a aane arks = mgoeree rs 
too much i e, that its prices are likely to | walis, t temple, bridge, &c. But the most n arien? water. ges of this sto upon o! 
mislead, for nothing is ao, eae than price, and E cts are produced b sng | a ies nae masses of the water, and these lift it just ee the 
that at least the chapter on drugs ought to have been | spiry plants, such as Irish Yew with a dis- | overflow to le —s a free eseape, 
Omitted or greatly simplified. Imagine | th as Golden Hollies. re. little dell | without any leaves or ru aro 
Faas dvising tl d i poem prepared and surrounded with banks Hitherto the plan bas perfectly. 
y herself with Bucku faren. Cascarilla, covered with tufa, " arious trailing and other plants __ The abse atoms distinct kitchen vee and ot 
co prt I like. If thi pg T o r the e Terpios oi = pho rar, 
the mean of the word. However and new varieties of Moutan Peony, w 
i emo have just the amount of siau protetin and Sraa Hali, the ora Bateman ster ye sa su aero 
conditions Proger for them, and meae when in bloom, | of the kind in abundance, and from whence the 
| will no scat surpassingly handso: family at E Biddulph p Tarena arh am 
Garden Memoranda. In another part, on the north ee of the pool, there | It remains only to observe ‘that the difficulty of 
MAN, be ige a from p70) ahe i last jes most | a characteristic arch at either end, these arches being tas or “illustrations of any kind, has been _ strongly 
hich iti Ashe tas ae il ao 3 
Tecently formed division of this place, of 
necessary to give any description, is the Chinses garden, | 
T MEE d 
on undue 
by a wall of a regular curve at the back ; 
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