ЕТЕ TTA T О AUZILIPIPES 
January 28, 1865.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE., 15 
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article on Winter Flower Gardening, in Nos. 6 and 7 of | would give to those who cannot have a sight of the | 70 feet long, will soon p z altogether, and if it 
ur volume for 1863, will see that the origiual tage: country all winter, to have living growing plants to sbows a disposi ition to do e, "аре Smith can p^ 
years ago, Was what we considered “very c — in their own E Th This Vin 
siderable,” viz, from 187. to 20L, but that was T -called “ dead nters j% house at eni, is Laer Тоова, 
las ned on the ied spur system, filli 
riment, Our ur present system requires * 
Thi 
se 
"Ne the mcs of al] jet a true love of a garden be en- 
g e particularly among the young in our 
n 
0 Ё fill our vi ч 
"s f your E for 1862. So much for 
ter gard 
f-saved 
agna 
md е is S 
and But 
man's a Tied 
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and against t the beddin ng-out в 
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house Жуй imt to bac The roots "food + A in 
r borders, and | hare, like the rods, been 
inner and o 
ru eques 
wn x cannot have Dais sies 
ула апа 2n 
and g in its gardens, and 
L^ - "A Nature's e a w look upon there even 
es alone all the present be А and talking for 
d room decoration forms a ehief item in the 
Viceregal gardener's duties, and in the great range 
were many indications of this. Among them were 
many score fine plants of Dracæna terminalis—not the 
known s 
Hall an 
that name, but 
much more graceful a Ar ng plant, which 
mg 
abbages fr be шы p^ an 
Dekor than they ever have been, 
and are pronounced a success by al who have seen 
&c. 
bleue p in what w 
be r Palms, 
It is well there are e varieties T taste ; d us к 
ow. I care not whether 
Ва ibs ог for est irog flowers or 
nly, I вау let 
nd free- 
im 3 in an large vineries, edi is a most valuable 
plant fo: m decoration on а ep For the 
same пан o Russellia juncea is re and surely 
nothing could make а more «шө бан te 1 
беснее, to improve them still fi 
3 “Enclosed ed is y Mr. McNab, of the Royal 
Botani ада. eh E farther details of the 
variis er Es il employed. says: 
«T ps not ge — bcd that amember of | 
ned to good account for 
them. I —- 
mily can be t 
if 
эв 
“ trim gardens 
-— ed plants to work amongst ; айу let us in 
not briekeries) take our pleasure,” and 
реза rie Truth in them, and not merely in “опг 
EJ. H, Wardie Lodge, Edinburgh. 
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NOTES ON GARDENS. кену XXVII. 
Tur Ровын PHGNIX ин к IT8 GARDENS. 
(Cont 
plant. 
А curvilinear газде for Peach culture, 220 feet long ; 
half a dozen plant houses, finely rest plentiful 
melee к the smaller branc orcing, 
Melon culture, &c., make up the садно of g 
artmer 
To the contents of one or two of these 
de. 
Pelargoniums are shown in London about three feet 
of German Gr now 
hite, through every shade to dark purple, — 'ontinued from аг in diameter ; юн. 4ч аге мде à зара ini : by 
approaching blac a: wed throug every tint o НЕ garden of the Vieeregal establishment is, of | Mr. Smith between five full of 
ink and green, many of th ВЕЕ being аша course, the oen re of the Green Isle; and sc. bloom, and of t ө, most per rfe n mm =ч ца 797 а 
ей, апі d de eply red The one would expect from жя жедир that t forcing and | staki How he produces these pe" — must be 
cups hood | with groen, r Te all its coneomitants must n itin a hi igh egree | well remembered b have seen the Dublin 
Ж nd pink; while the pink var are edged with|of perfection. The largas. didum would not, be shows, Mr. Smith has been kin 
hite, and , da rk pin "Others, trn disappointed, for 16 > а real y great fruit-growing | — We start iu March vi ith a eutting, s sire i in bottom 
garden, and ess inferior for its plant-growing, heat, pick out the poin 
heir outer leaves green, inner s not granted for the purchase the surface, gr row on, freely shifting аз required, and 
hron; gh erag shade from "5 € ubi: pinke, to a of e rare o or pA, CM and That t the Superi н „дад тч keep topping at every two or three joints. As the 
gh Ышш b to pur rchase novelties and young plants plants get large the shoots are drawn down to a string 
Pe Hope, of Wardie L to his exhibition groups. This, | passed roun im of the pot. When they get 
in Scotlan d to prr. “огей Greens i i M course, precludes ^ud cultivation of Orchids, or | larger still, two sticks are laid across the pot a 
ә xen t, but their absence is wel rn. эе... strotehing some distance from the 
is winter garden decoration carried to such an extent. te thes iug je P uu: to a string under 
t may be vem that the coloured Greens. are sown wooded i plants generally greenhouse and stove plo ants, the rim, 4 Nor of galvanised wire is »opey* i 
and t$ nary winter rs that can be obtained at a reasonable the sticks at a distance of; Зог 4 inches from the 
ike ordina 
when sufficiently strong are planted ow 
rx —— they keep dwarf. nri the vimos 
th tivate a 
H 
m 
in | rate ma y — A ong look 
m afford interest and instru 
Messrs. 
dener 
afforded by the flow 
round here could n 
struction well worth resi. 
’ for a thorough overhaul of 
ing, but m ng “ ропе in 
omains I ha 
n Moore's d 
to his Excelle and this, 
Gardens 
ent, м: bya curvilinear range abou ut 50 00 fi t lo ong, 
others 
pna the outer rows dark, ‚ and d ‘lightening w 
W. 
MA in 
m Mis: Hopes garden at W. ni j^ quent 
worthy of a visit, and clt aei vii go without 
ured Green ery hardy, with е’ ре 
profiti ng by it. The со 
and 
still, in a straight ves А very wi 
nts 
the winter „түт е aud ean be rre du in time to 
Үетђепав, &c. Various plants have been tried to ca 
the flower garden an attractive look during winter, but 
d tbe interest not lasting. These borders have 
nothing up бо this time, for Jem ii "im cheapness, | been for some years the wonder of most Irish 
5 з the Posy Gree 16 may be stated that | bedding-out people. A Connaught gardener would 
when the time arri 1 e-coloured | pronounce them сока" а Hielandman who had 
s, the t varieties should be selected for seed- | not seen on his way some eg bedding places, 
bearing plants. Su uld be put at the base | would mo id d ja * Ah, man, it's fine!" 
ei and | H 
be taken i irs scing sch dig 4 аа s," &c.; and most of us on | V 
undreds of арта шеп would -— learnedly on 
n d little more than | co 
an hour to pend with Mr. G. Smith, the very able gar- 
TS of course, was spen nt| | 
s 
ceregal is mot | ho 
r garden or M лр аы t- | T 
gets too large to be tied to the hoop, w hen another 
added further out still, and nis the nod К 
It looks 
e flower pon as а i 
when grown in light, airy, and suitable 
will ДОР erect their own heads of bloom, 
" t5 ў 6 haut through, the stopping 
hird summer, and the 
The old 
T ed thus 
moe ЧЕ, сиб in ас once ; vithodt bein 
the usual drying an ng pr They of course 
rabie a large amount of healthy folinge, T. shaken 
out and very carefully repotted, kept gen m 
moist heat and sha ded for about three wed, a 
and air. e 
in 10-in 
pots a size Ере from 5 to 
th 1 
of a wall, where they will perfect their flowers 
ripen their seed owever, should 
ver th t seed is maturing, 
together while in flower, 
seed can be usefully employed v feeding 
Y ЕВ 
поб | o. 
icio © pta 44 cd send. е) on it 
thin Е ет а Жусан Ф. а ther mà ене p ot 
ga ecorati: А 
Pi for we pw - pere 
arden 
та 
g 
t 2r 
Я ра 
take aud 
pex ur БАГ аш 
dis] playing. countless | numbers of very fow 
X popular I hope to 
pol and gardens no lon 
present in winter. 
the walks ar 
live to see our ens 
ger the places they 
That Ran is — to 
mp," ai the e reasons s giv ven 
ra of one ра 
оп а similar plan, a picture pi ery with 
all wy a country with sera у Maa ч < IS 
The culinary pir. in p^r all Tháo houses aré 
situated, is divided by high walls into three compart 
ments; and both vili 
pouce usual 
interest from sh many Bananas full of "he finest 
fruit, but more stilli оа еза half filled with a plau t 
Mr. Smith v e 
ttern 
or having brought ire bedding 
amd sprend a mong us, 
ic gar. 
every true lover 
that in winter 
and n ive 
vate and purify t s 
i deprecate, The argu- | arrangement 
ment i mies Prata of that к, that e. always been used | well 
me and considered unanswerable, i 
- f the ouses 
triumph of skill and knowl 
: om itm ше чтүү" 
there "m be no dcn but that, if 
were adopted by 
"The fine 
have nearly all undergon 
consume i 
| of ee which —-— the great Vine at Hamp 
ection m з the pes Duk. and 
another mode of 
him, it 
devel: 
houses fron сое 
maese ra vement, i. 
back wall o ncn Tack 6 feet, the old e 
nt could ever 
con- 
| example in a me "of ^^ influen: 
course flower garden 
of garde: 
(which M # үтте 
їз 4 
greatest profusi 
lof bracts, but the в ight s аз seen m the roof by a 
glazier must have im among por dat are mgri 
left to the imagination. Ibis ecording that 
among the other well appoin offices & 
uite a em depu for the accommodation of 
the young m 
иер (not "at all so flowery 
however as S ey 
93 ех 
dion unded i Карс 
into great sanes b x straig 6 аа, win oblong 
ed with beddi of the г and 
ai Ф so wal in the 
{Рет 
not required for ho mens 1 pora ere 500 bunches of Grapes, 
50 the Brassica tribe im its — T ty | fr Conr TE ai рт үрт] 
rma end colour, and what wholesomim pleamare i 10 years oid, which now fills two-thirds of the house— ' 
of Бач. " and б nearly due points "i 
colour, In this garden were two Wellingtonias—one 
