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f th i measured 13 inches in] induced me to suggest to your readers a plan which I | trees co 7 portant erg re 
| ur 1 — two inches be than any | have often wished to put in execution had circum- | 3 * a rah pr paaa» 8 
— had previously expanded, 2 ever before stances allowed me. It is this. That a moveable house | were so placed toconceal the > supports ofi the roof; and had 
having exceeded 103 inches. I have iio about 20 should be constructed, which might rest on light iron pictorial effect been the have 
young healthy plants, which his Grace the uke of | pillars, inserted on blocks of wood level with the surface | obtained by giving some p the in resting forms in the 
Devonshire has kindly permitted to be distributed. I | of the ground like a Tulip house, the oa and shape de- a distance greater con’ nection with the foreground. 
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ul growth; but no tank of less dimensions than | sandy soil, a beautiful imitation of oe vegetation of the is notwithstanding very preferable to the 
as feat i 1 3 r will answer for the purpose. Our Cape and Australia on be made by planting the portion of the print from the Hortionltural al Sociats 
new tank at Cha 3 already in Lpr of building, | various kinds of Epacris and Ericas, with perhaps a few | Transactions, given in your Journal of the 16th ult. 
. measure feo t across (ins re), and, if Chorozemas, — Boroni nias, Pultenzeas, Genistas, aa to the grouping of the objects (below the eye 
add conside hers ‘i the si ze. Of the Eutaxias, Ke. The ground should be on a slope, an nd a near part of the for oreground, which may be taker 
mera * it — be well to state, chat the — the paths should wind round real or artificial masses o an illustration of what is termed breadth, as opposed 
ing specimen has formed large, fi eshy roo root-stocks, and rock. In the lower part of the house a small artifical 5 “ littleness ” and “ 8 „of which latter defects 
that its perennial character may nom be conside: a tats — . might be placed to hold the rain-water th two three 
almost certain. Joseph Paxton, April 10. fro in winter. Some patches of Ixias, ing the . of the Society’s print is a palpable 
— “a cee is 5 1 3 to wi — a 3 Sparaxis, and such small Cape bulbs might | instance. I must — how se bs that the sketch 
general feeding once in the e e path. | was probab a 
month (April), on a mild cde ; 1 —— ‘the worker Perhaps, at the back or centre, one or two Rhododen- | for the massing . 84 of + parts by their 
to animation and activity, and thereby aids the bees in | dron arboreums, or some new Indian sii might be growth. Although the watettall and its adjuncts are 
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abel. of my kitchen senile I have — recently eome placed; 2 probably they would grow too large for a portion of one, the branches of which might be so 
—.— . — where I find to all appearance a beautiful moderate sized house, me t May or — = whole | arranged as to lead the eye from contemplating the 
ed on all sides to a height of 14 feet. The of the glass might b moved, and t es and at the same time afford 
soil i = a rich — ight loam, situated on a gentle slope lights used in the “Melon ground, &e. No — most appropriate habitats in its forks and branches for 
to The extent is nearly an work would be ted, and no beating apparatus the most beautiful an ee objects in the whole 
acre and a half, yet I am told that I can grow neither n eeded, unless perhaps a small portable Arnott’s | vegetable kingdom ; an and what an invaluable adjunct 
ots, Parsnips, Potatoes, nor Celery. The Potatoes | stove in the vere part o P the winter. In an old Oak tree mig = be made to such a waterfall as 
to leaves alone, the others to tough stringy fibre. | gardens whee gots are already good-sized plants ye = Mr. Llewe 
I cannot help believing that the chief cause of the | of the kinds — named, the work would be very soon rds: Tomtits. — was ; very glad to find that a 
failure lies in the gardener’s ignorance of the right mode ze easily effected. Iron and glass are now very cheap, We who stands so deservedly high as Mr. Double- 
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vacant ground that first comes to hand, for whatever | flower at all seasons, and the place need never be with- |a few years ago a somewhat furious contest in your 
purpose he requires it. I cannot dismiss him, for various | out some blossoms. I have stated that a slope would | Paper with one “ Furibus hostis, n which occa- 
reasons ; and as he is a hard working honest man, I men the most natural and picturesque, but of course it | sion I took exactly the same grounds as Mr. Doubleday 
think by a little instruction, I may be able to remedy d require some artistic taste to arrange the thing has now done with convincing 8 Equally glad was 
the evil. Under all the walls is a border about 3 — 4 properly. The accompanying sketch will ever some I to see 5 oe Mr. Graham would not be con- 
in width, the central part is intersected by two | idea o meaning. The back might be ded and | vinced against his will, he yet paar coea the 
hedges. Flowers, fruits, and vegetables have all — with the ort reer 2 Wi ts is a good point that rore do more good than harm ; and 
been grown together in the central quarters, and the | defence against frost. ar iron house would | example might 2 followed Bian aet advantage to 
borders under the walls have been cropped with early | be the most 3 “The 2 ted line conga the themselves, wi wit t to aoa bay ; or 
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Peas. The latter plan I have stopped at once; but in | natural slope of the ground. An erection of this kind | with undo 10 benefit to thelr pockets, by those 
order to restore the fruit trees to health, I wish to | must not be on too pares scale. C. D. S., Chichester. pate still to poison by the bushe thot birds sich 
know whether it is necessary to do more than leave the — The superiority of the French in horticultural an all-wise Providence has created for In 
borders uncultivated and top-dress them ; whether the | embellishment arises not so much from a practical | this utilitarian age there is a strong e to e 
roots of the trees must be artificially raised; or whether | acquaintance with art being more common with them | all that is beautiful in mind and body, as well as in the 
they will naturally throw their roots to the surface, if than with us, as from a more correct estimate of what | fresh green, joyous Nature by \ which we are surrounded, 
there is good soil to attract — Would it continue | n e a man an artist. The phrase of the crafts- to the desire of making money. Cui bono—let me 
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winter greens, Is this the truth? Can no use be as those now collected for our instruction in the rooms | it must be a law of universal application. Carry out 
made of it throughout the spring and summer? The of the Society of Arts, is a real mystery to oa great | then, I say, your views—poison every bird, cut down 
sun shines upon it from somewhere about 2 o’clock in proportion of those who call — lves artists in these | every tree, and level every fence in the United Kingdom, 
the afternoon at this period of the year (April). Will | degenerate days. In former times the iriran of men of | and again let me ask, cui bono? Suppose you gain a 
some one give me a scheme for the proper rotation of | genius, famous painters, sculptors, and architects, was|few more bushels of corn per acre, would that repay 
crops in such a garden. I ought to say that the gar- | far more extensive and benefi ss to arts and manufac- you, or would — Wee K. — 4 vou for turning it 
er declares that the soil is worn out (it has — at least in England, where | into a dull, monotonous, f fact, manufacturi 
made about 10 years) ; = — — — affords great every man, fact — gardener, i is his own artist. | sort of thing ! But, suppose the contrary is the case, 
facilities for a change as it is connected | The Fre wiser rs—they know and as I have no doubt you will soon find to your cost 
with a large farm, — e m os — Hitherto that if — wide a och of nr 680 dekana r kind, | your bushels) per acre increase, in imagination, will 
it has been manured only from the stable; would not they must go to an artist for it, and they — part dwindle woefully down ; who then, I say, will thank you 
weed be an a change? L. B. S. selection from amongst those who have shown their for turning fertility i rrenness, beauti 
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of all determine the meaning of the terms we i = 
employ. A “pond” is not a sufficiently — ex- | could meet with an adviser in such a colourist as i conduct would entail upon the community. A gentle- 
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9 pean es, composition | increased sely. Of : 
none of these ponds, however, can “ D.’s” description of and practical experience concerning scenic effect as system will tell with wonderful and amazing force. The 
mud (see p. 201), ap amy, ced he ae N Stanfield or Roberts were to undertake the arrange- | wireworm remains as a larva three or four years in the 
— pes . Aee Sechi ive a school ef soil, and as it generally feeds underground, it cannot be 
1 the kind noble e atory at Kew, we should have a school of got at by the birds; but when it changes into the 
any appreciatie e the effex of the wate | art the influence of which would soon be felt all over perfect insect, a beetle, the Elater lineatus, it then 
too active. P.'s“ — — . the kingdom, and in which the artists of the Jardin becomes the prey of the birds you poison. For every 
nant water, say a pool or ditch, which is liable to re- D’Hiver might take lessons of taste. As the woodcuts elater eaten by birds, probably a thousand wireworms 
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lime and salt would be an unnecessary addition to such again to refer to them, and I am the more desirous of sparrows, tomtits, robins, finches, and most of our 
4 compound, so redolent of fœtid animal and vegetable | doing so because they suggest a few hints which may | summer visitors are on the look out for — beetles, 
matter. As to his mode of removing the mud, I do not p . they get is a dose of poisoned Wheat, 
object to it on the whole, although I consider that a te plan t-} th an int d that resulti ont for them by the amag A A 
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suitable iron ring, fixed at | from the beauty or peculiarities of the dividual plants suing to say stupidity of 
Miiat Ta polo, ia is efficient an tho thowponis, and | W „ from Von Martius, I would | pillar of —— grote getum, an a ecies, 
far more easy to handle by the workmen. In point of | observe that however pect of its truth of | ba some e will destroy the Wheat and Turnip 
fact, this ing part depends rather on local cir. poner dd i f artist-like | crops of an entire district. Poison the birds, and of 
and the manager than on any prescribed | picturesque — a on the ec fin it — —e— segetum and its congeners will live to 
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Í The remarks which you have lately made about culti- against the admission of equal quantities of similar | ——I must once more reply to Mr. Graham. really 
i a maaa, have forms, Ik it were a view of the interior of a conserva- | — Goat tow about the blue titmouse. I am 
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