r ee ee ee | en 
48—1850.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
best ; and in order that the somewhat slimy foliage 
. In this garden there are some youn 
g plants of a very 
the 
Tone be soiled by sand, o 
r the pot ma Living Moss ( Hypnum). 
ed 
rsions The clean water allowed * run through, an 
of ‘at the bot 
. 
nou 
8 largely o on the pore sees sides 
arming me attained, this summer, a — of 6 
inten, and flowered abundanti y. 
riar r the larger s die off, whilst 
ller ones are formed, cloeely folded over each other, 
into a bud of 1 inch, or 13 in diameter. 
The p ased by be int as it usually 1 — 
m naturally, after flowering, into several. The 
time fants is i n March, befo; — the larger s N 
fav 
NOTES OF A TRAVELLER.—No. XIII 
G. 
its nurseries are places of great interest, out two 
miles from the south-west corner of the city there is one 
which is now well kno residents 
South Garden. i 
ed e, I took an early 3 
whom i a visit to and my old friends 
you have come back ;” Are you well?” “ How 
aid the plants get home!“ “ Were they m admired 
in E uestions which were rapidly 
m is sons 20 at the 
and 
rri 
building is set apart for their use. ere thi 
ther: i 
"query vee they grow 
and 955 
the way into the garde 
tiful plants i cet aie by the Horticultural Society of 
1846. 
h 
ects 
knowa than those I er enumerated, pA mias * 
ent. There 
assort e beds o 
a Spiræa (S. ‘Reevesiana), N "beautiful ek : 
until my next letter, * 11 ha v 
J fear, too long. R. F. 
e delicate 
THE CULTURE OF THE VINE A See ptt 
I 
No. 
need — be re 
f Palm (Cham nee which is cul. 
of hills in the 
ces of oo 
Kiangnan, for the sake of its | i 
tain seasons 
The soft-villed, or insectivoro 
blackea caps, arbour- 
the above list, i it will be seen that N e 
ma: are exclud he three 
n the valley of the ae about 
latter oi to | 
osely into ha ne pirenologionl development. of thei 
There could be 
I 
e — Ber sh 
segi to hi if it were . from a laudable — 
way. But their in variable modus 
kull of their 
ong the flow 
8 
ig se 7; Sree 
t reserve my account of these 
e already made ‘this one. 
TO THE CULTURE OF THE MIN 
OR, TWO BIRDS KILLED WITH ONE StR. 
FOR COTTAGERS. 
—The — form of training —- se 
ae 3 
as the Mis 
jen a — to, if — we — shoots — most all ab. Ham 
ned surdi con- = 
seribed a verti 
only a a few feet i in height, the Vine micht 
ained in th 
—.— the sie still as 
ha 
high a — — sity Vee fori ome 
yo uld 
cover 2 lever: 10 "feet (for ee rods 
ipen 
ough T have only hitherto de- The 
with horizontal f 
et this form — not be strictly 
tally, Or, with a wall of 
form of a fan; but far 
orizontal as oth 
in, if you have a wall 20 feet 
a much 
8 
s per- 
r Some ae as it may 
be per- 
duty 
ea 
silk 
sow's ear. 
12 from 1843 to 
plants of the now well known 
ticed, tthe 2 Indigofera rag 
pant ges fine white variety o 
Diclytra spectabilis. Both these 
some, 2 the 2 3 its large purse- like 
blooms of a clear red co re on with 8 nd 
hangin e m a curved spike, and its 
misian. like leaves wee render it a i 
and one a will become a great 
. — kinds of Roses were * n pots 
new yellow, or 8 
Socie — is R 
over it. Tt grows ure g ; the flowers are 
a i A and roduced in great profusion. 
Nice plants of Viburn and V. macro- | 
licatum, 
cia nn, both in pots and also in 
— the wood —— which the — 
y 
re ge Visible P 
eginning ; 
m 
I 
to s 
were 
spring. C. A. 
BRITISH re PE 
No. VII. —Building a 
is tedio: ork. Day 
operations age on Wat with little or a 
Still, everything must hav 
d no house can be ere erected with. 
a foundation. have in 
have, a a been dry, prolix, and precise 
3 
my matter-of-fact directions, it has been with the 
ron . of paving the ita for the better enjoyment, 
of the work of our hands. The benefit 
a now, pari passu, to the discussion 
re an a fs 
his is a Ne- ag — nolo 
little e Judgment ; for if birds, by arrelso! 
admi 
me, 
indiseriminatel y to congregate uae one 
would be anarchy, confusion,—blood- | 
shed. 
The names of the principal intended “ settlers,” 2 
5 gm as follows: — Abe 
ches, canaries, 
vines, bullfinches, 
goldfinches, — redpoles, 2 — 
The foregoing are hard- billed, grani- 
vorous, or seed birds. 
g tained; and as regards fragrance 
o | few plants are more desirable, for they grow almost in 
d. 
purse at of a 
codd 
m I wish no 8 nor better pr = 
rts 5 the south of England—say in Devonshire or operandi is — split the skull subject” 
Cornw: | a oodpecker * tapping) then to —— its con- 
In ee centre of the garden I am 8 ere ts; * finally, to d it greedily. remark- 
"is the e family to ia arge mound of eart ered able ope ration, frequen ently by poa my aa I hardly 
with many pretty flowers. He ld 2 “fath late the aviary 
for many + paenan be him lie buried, and The robin, or redbreast, must bere regarded er reer 
he as alien —such is the ferocity of his natural dispo- 
siti d credit 
tended ; j 
| pouring forth the “most eloquent music ?” he 
not look a perfect paragon of harmlessness, virtue, and 
cen 
ch is he Not, In him ma; 
aera. of Nature ; for eve 
n this “ rule” there 
— m noticed by * ralists. I A 
sfo, e; ; — as a faithful historian, 
not ive heen “ a false character. 
aviary. 
. 7 keep the ean mies 
scarcely e 
by their sii and 
te eae jollity. William Kidd, Ni 
sta 
VILLA AND SUBURBAN GARDENING. 
t, which, 
j r at the right season, when they 
3 few — will, in due time, prove 
tions. 
mn 
3 
z, 
The varieties of common Prim are easily ob- 
1 251 simple beauty, 
any situation in sere pian may be placed. Then the 
Christmas Rose, inter Aconite, together with the 
Snowdrops, t thrust “their heads through the 
— Ie hearts, even — the ground may be 
n 
+ 
in autumn, i 
pete without r — and 
aig which the florists varieties require. ae 
there is t 
which a packet of seed, at —— 8 would — 
duce ; an owers would be Mgnt 
— 
gorgeo 
surpassed; and the Gentians and sprightly 
humble, but beautiful. Narei 
th ae he 
te years, th o have 
entirely ; and so have the hfe on Seillas, which 
form beautiful beds. These few old and common plants 
mad r 
with little or no attention, might be e 
iful throug 
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dens 
to 
an half the plea- 
5 afforded us; 
ee taste from am 
* ly one phrenological organ in the head of an 
ox- eye. it 
nated to falit his deadly m 
“ science” hantly 
the organ of murder.” — 1 is he 2 
mission, and thus is the truth of the 
triump 
