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676 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [Ocr. 26, 
orward b ld sovereign, you may have to pay a guinea for the, the sme aviary; but as „ f rtain 
3 ee eT he va * e. e eee last. The aeter . of cheap tools is — presently to be given, can only 1 7 uring the — 
mon from 
rse of all . in —.— 
ing, is among the soul "feat tures that can be in 
duced. Concavity should be rigidly be 2: in 
moun 
— to the als on which they ar 
Such mounds as can be at all fitly —— into 
small gardens, will, from their limited extent, admit 
of only very trifling undulations, or they will thereby 
- become all the more 8 instead of natural, and 
be simply absurd. varied an irregular 
ground ‘outline, however, — — 
little variation and play in the surface line; 
unnat 
“In — with the 3 of the groun 
line or face of a bank, its retiring or ag oho parts 
should be the lowest, while the fullest parts are al 
the highest. „as is most pr nd b 
is n 
ful, a straight line drawn throug 
bank, anai with the back, or taki 
se some } i 
È 
bank that i is slightly undulated will look tis 15 
too evident to require much Le ation. Som 
soon wear out; and then you can buy more; r 
d, and that makes a job for the blacksmith ; 
most of them lose their handles after a few weeks’ 
wear, and the wheelwright may get 3 by 
d many br 5% 
manager will —— to want a — outfit of of 
tools — 3 
Russ 
5 
from a friend a hundred of these mats for 44., 
n. 
mats 1 always be looked after where 
th 
ae there's 8 
welling oe ata 
— infallibly pe ular 
attention, for many a val bird has been lost ing 
single night by a sudden change i in the temperature, 
A due regard must be 
being sensitive 
little muscu ngth in the winter, 
eir customers what is id | they are unable to fight against disease ; and an attack 
anager has nothing w. do with such folks ; 5, in | of sudden sickness is beyond their power of mastery, 
Russia mats, especially, he y capi a bird is “struck” in this way, nothing but 
bargain, if he looks sharp. Iti e 3 ve rer Wee * miracle can save him. — oye = 2 survive, 
$ sagac who bui s barges obtaine e e were v. only fi 
5 1 5 when his song, not another i not would he be heard to me — ki 
ing its general | the market price ere put into use | Soft-billed birds, the ie are difficult 
direction, would leave no two of the different swells in October, and in December they were wheeled to 8 the — “requires — 22 — * 
* bays at ly the same it; so a the rubbish heap. Dy: rr te ands treat them successfully ; and I much —— whether, after 
similar horizontal line should show the like irregu- rth of mats was rotted down, the gardener had a all, they are, everything considered, wo: * 
larity. Even 2 or 3 inches of in all the | cheap lot of manure very nearly as valuable as and trouble bestowed on them by amateurs 
various hollows or elevations of ill have a saw-dust. . birds will have nothing to do 
powerful effect in carrying off every kind of dulness, Having provided yourself with cheap implements, them in the winter. They are wise. Thus much how- 
and imparting a graceful freedom. Should a bank | then look out for cheap labour. Cut your men | ever may be said—if you su in g anly two or 
be tolerably broad, —.—— may be partial undulations down to the lowest mer th l work for; | three really fine birds, the recompense is great. 
across as well as along its surface in the wider parts. | perhaps you may in ay make up for any loss} When I first stored my aviary, I placed in it an 
Then, the front sw: F ld be made roundish, — — the e, too — 't rey e ex A eales merce —— — nearly 
r eve - as 80 $ 
fall away to ho sa connected with the de fa man is accustome em attock, nd ag i 2 k t the outset of the peculiar constitution of 
894 ‘What I have thus described, in which 
might lead to the supposition that considerable 
to such as 
es 
—.— the least as well as the greatest things. 
a seeming pretension about the whi 
tation of such rules as this, in reference to the 
ao. us * that the the ee er sea little cer 
of an e reform 
or — —— 
e 
doubt the fact, Wes it by a —1 teh a tailor 
et class, leave 
er will do his wet as he has 
accustomed to doi it, and as is most Sen re 
imself; the others are ten — — as clever, — will 
r hit upon ne wn; in fact, they 
most as ¥en could 
urse the 3 of apain 
ual T, lt all the practi 
orl 
tter th 
will but — with m 
selves those who are strangers to it, you will, in a few | § 
ti ens iration of everyt ‘or | days, or even hours, our one erations as . 
nothing can be more true than the author's assertion, factory as the most zealous bad manager could 
ee ules of esire. Suppose, ce, you have = 
á und to trench, an old experienced labourer 
Those ot wish for bars and more detailed will divide it 0 and W his 
instructions upon such as in | first trench from the first half upon the corre- 
abundance in N end of the seco 
Plans and designs for gardens of all sorts and sizes. 
As mT for the Sranwick Nectar 
numerous, it is desirable to state — 
HOW TO MISMANAGE A GARDEN. 
Cuarter XII.—Groundwork will 
ow tax your 
2 People may think that the mere act of 
moving ground is 
one which is beyond the skill of 
Be 5 
ies 3 
wood, ot sated, are even lighte 
ian thes o f Ash, and Oak, and Elm. 
9 ive may buy 3 3 for | If 
will be 
and endow it with some — the sweets 
task not 
are 
g large room; natural habits being reserved, and 
| — their delight. These I shall a pr of at a more 
fitting seasen. ity of birds prefe: 
3 
with which to fill his last trench, when he reaches it 
t the end of the job. Can anything be more like 
mse? But your 
you 
other end of 5 across the piece 
g it, as the old labourer does. 
instead o 
Should the land be be. sot and you have cheap barrows, 
in ample time. None will be sold by private contract. gp the w 1 
eather is find this method 
most surprising a „If to this you ~ 
add the scamping — the nature of which, 
1 any s =P country mar! can explain re 
the ground, bette any writer on paper, you 
may ether conse . in this part of the art 
bad management. 
, you 
e 
BRITISH SONG BIRDS. 
No. II. PRESUMING, as w. e have sai 
— —— 
build them a a fitting 1 Palace, 
eets of treedom—a 
as might, by some, be imagined. 
hom cages, when properly 
the range of a 
not so 
There are certain 
owever, the gen 
ough, by the bye, not 
Tha wing it” a disintion, 
objection, under 
so | cireumstanees, for „5 us (hard- 
billed and soft-billed) birds being associated together in 
some conceited 5 e 
n w 
are accusto . garden labour, and leave om them- | 
| 
e and 
‘Will ken 
‘of spon 
he saves wheeling, and expects to have earth enough | revisi 
“of wi 
2 management, or common, se: ? 
ss 2 ement; and 5 —— 
sense, why ö of talen 
therefore yo d wheel your at manch to the 
oting how long they would exist in 
health, without the aid of artificial warmth. It is only 
by these practical experiments one can arrive ata 
owledge of facts. ex 
tly one, but it afforded me an excellent insight into 
what I much desir kno I obse 
were“ 
were f lost all the tim. 
state, and seemed, to 
—— expressively, ashamed of themselves, When the 
ing came round, I felt it no more than due to 
—— invalids (on whom, by the way, I had lavished my 
oni 
fondest i n 
visited my garde 
before * originally took their D% during the 
following g spring, 
Havi accurately ascertained what might 
1 . be — 4 — — what “tender birds, 
and for in my own mind 
Ag ssa * — these At 
aa S Metin. md inisi- bo á vaa 
change of inmates ; the second or inner aviary must 
be got ready for the speci ion of the 
“ war The warmed by a stove, can 
; and, with 
be 
` | their vocal efforts — ale ‘on the contrary, 
= On the various phenomena attending th ‘agitation © 
5 . in confineme and which takes place t 
a yara most remarhablefieak of Naturo s i shall treat in i 
