The Flower- Gardens. 



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over with these brooms, and 

 the place made neat and tidy 

 very quickly. To see the great 

 bundles of rubbish tied to a 

 stick, in many places, to be 

 used as brooms, is surpris- 

 ing ; and, when soaked with 

 wet and dirt, a man carries it 

 without being able to do any 

 work at all. I call mine the 

 hen and chickens broom. I 

 will enclose you a small rough 

 model of one. [Fz^. 5. is taken 

 from the model ; the separate 

 broomlets are tied with brass 

 wire. ] You will perceive that 

 the short fine birch, heath, or 

 whatever you choose to make 

 brooms of, is first of all col- 

 lected and divided into the dif- 

 ferent lengths, and the longest 

 of it is used for the middle. 

 I have some made with two 

 chickens on each side of the 

 hen, others with three on 

 each side. I make brooms of 

 three different lengths to suit 

 the weather, and heavy or 

 light work, which you will 

 readily understand. If it is a 

 long broom, each chicken has 

 two bands bound round it, 

 the hen three; then they are 

 all bound together to be ready 



for handlino". Fig- 5- Fan Besom in use in Btcton Gardens. 



The following are a few of the specimens in the flower- 

 o'ardens here : — 



Araucaria imbricata, 

 handsome, branch- 

 ed quite down to 

 the ground - 



Yucca grandiflora - 



^^bies Douglas?, 

 branches to the 

 ground 



Pinus Laricio 

 Sabiniawa 



Height. 



Circumf. 



Ft. In. 



Ft. In. 



11 10 



36 



12 3 





25 



82 



13 





20 



34 



Name. 



Pinus palustris [aus- 

 trahs Arh. Brit.] 

 Cedrus Deoddrn 

 liibes speci6.sum, 

 very large 

 niveum do. 

 glutinosum 

 jHalvaceuni 

 aureum - 

 lanceolatum 



Height. Circumf. 

 Ft. In. 



38 



Ft. 



In. 



10 







12 







8 







7 



6 



6 







7 



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e2 



