known, from Candia, 12 fi feet high ; and a Cupressus | been exposed. We look e arm the lake at Elvaston, shoot train 
thurifera, 15 feet in height, planted on avs hills. | with its majestic rocky and woody embellishments, as shortened ad upright for a stem ogress be 
Leaving this, we take an Wlan e, planted with the result of id — — upon most enl trained horizontally right and left. eee these, four 
Deodars, ock Sp „ Pic a, Pinus | views, and with the most enligh d and comprehen- | upri oots so that the distances 
mbra, P. Laricio, P. Banksiana in the background; sive anticipations of what the result would be; and it is ae them may be 9 in j D er Ghene 
and nearer the walk are numbers uniperus excelsa, | only individ of inflexible purpose who would have m. run up without being sufficiently furnished 
‘irginiana, Lavender, Southernwood, white-flow wering undertaken such a gigantic task as the work here de- with fruit spurs, they should e to 6 inches, 
Lavender, Giant Rhubarb, Abies Menziesii, Juniperus | scribed must have been ; for it is entirely an artificial | and every year, at the winter pruning, the upright 
is, J. thurifera, J. pheenicea, a, Yews, &c. her | creation . A. sparen possible disadvantages, and | te: al po ots bs er. . freee ng "be shortened 
walk branches off inland, from the back of os great | without t natural inducement accordin; rength, shorter if veal, and if 
rock, | en W — en , Pinus Lambertiana, P. capability for sane 7 e jaer” — ngs. G. strong they should’ fer be left — — consistent 
poe 7 . 10 mo — — N * -) with their breaking into not more 6 inches 
ne o mos cu 7 ints to manage a- ING — THE CIRR AN apart. The 
mental water is the concealment of its t a hab ewe 5 —THE CURRANT ipsa k y in June, and cut 8 sr the * 
This is very S ere at the eastern R every mode of hig ae the red Currant, and every winter i ious modes of 
end of this lake, where the n per- | also the white, tae o be regularly] ee every training may be adopted, b e same principles of 
ceptibly led into a 8800 odit £8, by a year. In rearing t pruni ng are generally 3 namely, the short - 
ortugal Laurel hedge and W with Irish Yews, | young plants, the fi ening of the leading shoots and spurring in the laterals 
where an opening gives an extended view of the lake, | thing to be aimed at is as above directed. The red and white Currants may 
with i ds, and the —.— le and —— tower |a clear stem, a 5 be grafted on each o with good effect, as as regards 
emerging from the plan This arrargement inches in length, free | contrast of colours, R 
pletely screens the — of the — sluices are from suckers. In pre- 5555 
placed here, by which about 2 ornamental | Paring the cutting, care VILLA AND SUBURBAN GARDENING. 
shrubbery, surrounding the lake, can readily be flooded = som be taken to re- pe ent system to be pursued with respect to 
in dry weather ; near thi engine-house which all the buds on the pruning of the Vin cee by — . — practice, 
a ore the — — with — ** lat — e ——— the pe portion eee en made pretty clear. ° We will begin with pruning - 
neealed, an herwise ental nsert 
— ” Matters = this kind, 10 ant ——— ground,otherwise pr ap ters — nee 3 proved that Vines intended ſor an 
8 pon betray bad arrangement or that baffle the of them would for early crop must not be cut in so closely as those which 
skill of the artist, are here made to serve ornamental | Suckers, injurious to are destin come in later, and with heat 
see the plants, and trouble- beyond what the sun and affo e shall pre- 
In passing along the ae side of oes lake, new fea- some to displace effec- sume the Vi be operated upon have now 
tures are continually prese y the nature of | tually. In some cases arrived at a full 8 — If they have to pro- 
the scene on the — 5 — and wA entirely new | cuttings can ob- duce an early c rop, we should recom mend spurs 
description of plants so frequently introduce ined long enough to to be ent back only to = se not 
leaving the head of th we pass through plant t once the as ad found that 2 subjected to a 
tio ides Juniperus sinensis, | proper length of stem ; igh syed ak an early peri e eyes a little 
12 feet high, with a front line of Thuj arreana, | but when such cannot the main stem — ost kindlier than 
10 feet h agai denly upon a grand | be had, when the cut- axle pr pr esga 
8 of Juniperus sinensis, 12 feet high, exclu- | ting is altogether too however, dat this system "of pruning, except great 
sively on raised banks jutting forward in defile, the short, or proves so after ob 
roma e boing covered — Lavender Cotton. Behind the necessary ov young shoots from the base of the old spur is apt to 
mmense roc — with Quercus Ilex, of a * induce large gnarly — a unsightly as they are un- 
ae — the Ageia" Pine zo s torulosa, and formed wood at top, productive. To guard against these, early attention 
ups of various kinds o f Broo Retirin this | then shies Logis above must be paid to securing e bottom of the 
come, as if by an acciden „ up ge pile the surface th spur. se will be called into existence 
of rock, with an apparently natural circular opening, pe will a 5 early attention being paid to stopping the spurs whic 
givin extensive view of t — Aber the a are to produce the fruit. T cking the sap im 
us co rocks di i 
nee. Enorm umnar 
height surround this s, amon — t which we noticed 
abundance of Abies 5 — 
isometrical view 
margin, with an inconceivable amount of artificia 
naturally —— planted with thousands “a the 
most valuable plants that could be obtained. 
ee for a moment, that this is entirely a 
the tens of thousands of tons of reeks 
al bre rought from a ort distance, employe in its 
formation, we are left to td that it has not only 
no rival as a work of ut = is nothing at all 
approaching it, in any map —— is co e ar 
now —— e the position from which we started, and, 
left, we come upon some Maltese crosses, 
tructed of enormous roc X 
ky 
surrounded with rocky hills, planted with large Abies 
brasiliana, Savin, and Lavender Cotton ; near by |i 
are some Sire Cedars of Lebanon, the ground 
amongst trewed with Jun 
niperus P ta. 
rved a fine plant of the silver Juniperus 
Bermudiana, 3 filiformia, 6 feet high, and a dwarf 
f Abies canad 
cast r 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONI 
ro- | t 
CLE. 
paaa — produco t three 
shoots, of which 
ee the bot 
only ot be ane to ome and it must be stopped 
recommended for the fruit-bearing spurs.. 
ne 
In ci ing for urs should be ent 
oo back to the main te leaving o E the buds at 
he very base. e Vines are in rous growth, as 
they sho shonld gaius buds will push with great strength, 
Ww should 
. ee in their earlier stages of development, 
selecting the most vigorous and retaining only one, 
niess = oa to — — your —— 
future bearing. 22 and gardeners 
who o ought to know better, Pada into this error, — 
breaks the horse’s 
p 8 s z 28 it buds, 
ruit bu 
e i ear — or cco, Cluste ed fruit spurs; 
they — — of fruit "Buds, 
the most eligible for a tat 1 them there are g 
stem, should be short. rally som ey which. pro- 
ened, so that the third duce small sh sh 
ud below the cut inches e the ground. 
Three rate will generally be produced the follow- 
ng sum In autumn oA 5 will require 
. ‘oat where t and at the 
they are 
oots should be e 
ave now a stem 5 yr es high, an 
time the t back to about 
4 22 taking care to cut above bu ds E out- re 
= We he d th meaty mani 
growth never or rarely recover In my 
next I shall conclude my remarks on the Vine ; they 
shall chiefly relate to temperature. Pharo. 
— DISEASES OF PLANTS. 
(Continued 
Pi 3 one yan 
Rent 
—— — ape es oy the force of excessive heat, 
hich tears the vessels as it ee by the 
ws caloric — 
hen these rents and fissures 
the six branches should be 9 to between 4 and 
W the | 
ranches — from it, each of them shortened to resistance is 
: — 4 inches. 1 shoots e e encouraged from happen in winter, it is generally at the time of the 
omm of these t o that in hich 38 7 panied 
x s — with “ibe ultimate: numbe: of loud e W. is heard over country. Under 
— — correspo All me — — ee vellers have often heard such 
to within an inch of eer? bases. The six «shoots pra | noises like the reports is of fire-arms. 
15 5 should be cut back so as to leave them from The same in summer also, but 
inches long; and, like those of Te former | the thing is less frequent and does — with it the 
—.— they should be cut to buds pointing outwards. | same pre rejudicial consequences it does in winter, 
At every future winter pruning the terminal shoots of | when the rents are > followed by necrosis, and =. Sr 
cConsi t 6 inches long, according to their Abet u 
_ where the is level, — must ttempted b 
beyond a Are e an appropriate situation for | may be hortened to two or three buds. — regard 
Alpine t we look upon this Soe a of the subject | to the lateral shoots, they be cut to within an 
in the | same igt as the fe ve here an ex- | inch of the old wood at every winter pruning. 
- ample w su all ing. Again, me recommend ing. In moderation 
0 Water, it has been stated that its it may be advantageously performed. When the plants 
introduction is only justifiable the mansion is are shoots are likely to overcrowd the 
placed on an i so as to command a | centre, the tops of such shoots may be cut off in June. 
_ View of it in ted to the eye. | But it t if wi 
Nov it is true that the lowest position is the most natural ee excepting those necessary to be retained : at ee 
done for water; but where are alike, and no win 
Choice ed, as in this case, is water, the grandest kraami ae in the following season ; for the — 
feature in ornamental gardening, t to be the more roots, the eee eee of th the latter 
discarded, merely because certain objections exist as to the more abundant will be the supply of nourishment, 
its site? We think 1 such as these are — en 3 — 
; -minds in the art do overcome. | with a single u in this way 
is ishing suc | Ea E the cause of the n 
likewise, ohh dace rr 
4 eee theoretical injunctions 
pens — 
