THE 
GARDENERS’ 
— Bouin 
[Marcu 9, 
is — 
half the pretensions of an English country residence. 
What, for example, have you in London that can be 
with the Jardin d'Hiver at Paris 
„ however, we must also add that taste 
interior of plant houses is far more studied than it 
was, an many places a considerable approach 
has been made to ah 8 on of the 3 an 
beautiful, of Mr. 
— É Poles, 0 + Mr. Gr a ag 
some ase in the = of the Horticultural 
Bicis 
Homel 
9, 
4. 
e con 
ect 1 Arar n high e 
ich it is desirable that every plant u 
that, 
each plant may re 
suitable to its pons habits. Where plants are 
masses, in earth, or attached to stems, in 
arranged in ed t 
— groups, this is not so easy to accomplish. | \ houses be 3 picturesque, 
a Continental garden without | Another — for our English method ee —— 
economy of space; 
0 
illustration, of his meaning, chiefly consists of a lawn, 
ng W. 
have — added solid value o show y decoration. 
But ther 
the treatment hirme is most 1 cultivation is, we 
mple how 
of the first importa 
orbitant price attache a 
al of the excise 
u 
sar sage 
and winding walks, decorated here 
f Lycopodium, a 
and there with plants in pots, gro own in the style 
x lam At in the garden of the Royal Botanic So- 
iety. ly speaking, this place i r | 
— we 8 have generally preferred 
ait 45 uty, our Continental arih aai 
e surely is a mi which may be 
dvantage. White w we qey them what 
adly learn pon their 
hi gh. nay be 
the prin 
art 
e interior of plant- 
— sash Rc ae ng, a 
To effect this it is necessary to a acquire a distinct 
e | idea of gene tropical picturesqueness consists in, 
and to study the nature of those marvellongs 
groupings “of foliage to which we have no parallel in 
ciate the value of the Ferns, and Palms, and A 
to which a tropical foreground owes 80 
much of its peculiar beauty. Those . s 
study the 8 sa producing great effec ts by 
such means, should study the admirable work of 
Carriitz,* or any other 3 representations of 
0 what 
n Vox Martı 
Nor is this at all impossible of accomplishment 
2 ay near approach has been already ma 
minute and s 
system has sac rificed s so m ay 
shall p% thankful for any — or suggestions which 
the experience of our readers may be able to furnish, 
good, w m 
e sur — of. which "he “ladies « of # family ca 
without ET i a ce from dirt or damp, take their daily 
exerc To ge what it — it should be ee ema 
immediately a a heavy 8 d 
is 3 hia è 
y off the surface wate frequ 
an underground draia, not or owing it to saturat 
—— of . the walk is yopi 
on which it 
eee 
afte making and walk 
1 are fre — s ill 1 by those who 
I 
he — course of 2 to form a road or 
t is usual to make a dee 
weg ow- 
ever firm and good the surface a be, the worms 
would cast through rnd foe figure a 
Nothing can be a worse pr —— —_ the 2 
ment of — — of * pebbles at the botto 
of a road or walk. After ll, it is the native soil which 
eavation, = 2 en m 
arse grave es 
rials which — the er will last; 4 inches 
in de they get to the e, making it rough 210 
en. In no ee should any great amount of 
—— be giv 
o the surface of a walk; it 
should not be 3 coal crown 
a wo 
of the — ikido ex- 
material sape forms the face of 
n oi the 
water, eti Apg by fr reezing, and w — 
and friable, presenting a fit nidus 
ge 
of good gravel, where it can 
2 Ih b 
in the rive of sera a a . ave te 
red. 
of comers with the grave 
e, which answers well; = watered sid 
8 2 consistency re pu sds i it is 
afterwards allow ry, and sets as ha 1 rock 
show 
of hard m rda 
Ain ze a eee pebbles , they should the first er of rain restoring it to oy Haiei 
? 
er * — ded pebbles, 1 Wal aking, if well done, is very expensive; of 
——. poe Ps i ae ate ord for the | course varying with the facility of obtainin m 
a a ia pees 1 "a s; when rials; so much depends on their proximity to the scene 
2 — ference, they operations, or having to rom a dista 
g falling of finer | tha at perhaps no two places would come under the same 
y the 
materials around them ; and as this is always going on, 
e 
estimate. Both walks and ‘amis should be made upon 
the same prineiple—that of preserving a moderately 
ie stratum of a terials from _ sorbing the 
t 
— of tons of stone are yearly t 1 55 
trenches, to form, as it is supposed, the foundations for 
roads ae walks, while at the same time they, instead of 
kin A iei nstable and rotten ; let a dry surface be 
0 — —if not gies artific ially—and cover it with 
a thin « 5 of such materia 
ther it be in an appro roach 
ro = — e residence a Pelt eee. or "upon his farm, 
is garden, nothing well- 
kip. free and walks. In the wilder scenes 0 
r 
eman of wealth and taste, W 
for perfection, as far it is 3 by human mens 
Henry Baily, Nuneham 
DISEASES OF PLANTS. 
(Con —— d from 2.) 
Gen one — 88 that is, a sofi 
moist, — — — —To this disease sie may 
sai 
be applied what I have said of ulcers, that it may be 
considered as the last stage of some other disorder. It 
rarely attacks the stems plants, but appears 1 
quently in fruits, flowers, leaves, and roots. Plains © 
anes fertility, and er! offer the most 2 
instan 
e pee à sipan ly in rainy, col 7 i 
= — Feats ance von — und 
egen 
dngel- 
„Si , without date 
— EEEE e 
pranane 
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