January 9, 1858.] 
3 
THE GARDENERS CEANN INA 
21 
g owen of scientific evidence to Seea 
ra 
was appointed as aekin 
es extr remes of dy ness and moi: s 
Permit me, en fem just to recommend to the 
otice of Orchid s Vivian’s hygrometer; this 
sure, 
on the “Bengal es ai TRT in March, 1820, did 
medical duty with H.M.’s 17th and 87th Reg 
ents, Nativ Baro Artillery, as we 
as Native Cavalry and Infantry at Calcutta, Cawn- 
OYLE S 
Hna cine; An Essay on Me 
tion ; ual of Materia Medica a era- 
pen and A Review of the measures which 
er been Bira in India nies the improve 
Aditi 
Š Farnham Castle 
lilliams’ 
any book on the subject I have yet consult 
Bs carrer GARDENING.—No. V 
“THE great object of composition,” s Mr. 
Ruskin, in his ‘elements of Drawing, e Boe. a aM = 
secure unity, that is, to make ou t of ma ny things or 
- | verted taste hav 
Tı 
I fait 
l s Orchid Gio er’s Manual | s 
contains the most ‘plain and trustworthy directions of | charme 
ed. J. W. L., B kp 
that quality, in = of 
a with which false or per- 
allure it 
all the abot ions in form 
B 
a 
y what it professes to admire to- 
ane ‘fait hful to its earliest love ever 
|zeturns as it wit vith renewed affection. 
me repeat, however, that symmetry is not neces- 
sar’ ily formality. Bot s, but 
they have each their special province and must not be 
| confounded together. Gains Lovell, Bagshot. 
h are 
e Correspondence e. 
wh ole, the first deM in which "his can be effecte di 
bose t t th hall with iti 
o; e NOW, although as a genera’ 
us in the A 
ds 
Sagon to hios 
be appli EAA ment of a pure Sien sce 
Rose Sh ead adve 
al in esos Paper announcing 
e which rete i o 
= ep which ~~ e 
are to ha grand 
National Rone Exhibition will fe hailed throughout th pct 
on by all lovers Tt will 
m 
ved ye et the principle. em mbodied i in the above quotation, and interest by many. on advocates for old 
work on i Roses will have an opportunity of showing what proper- 
is equally applicable to each. It is obvious that ma ny ties they have better than the new ones, and vice ver: 
will arise in T situati ion to influence It will also allow amat lect a few of the best 
determin what the caret! ut of the any thousands that I doubt not will be put 
must be ela be; the i of its recognition „being | up for exhibition. Mr. Rivers this season has I think 
succosade a rie t to practice. Where the situation îs open, and the justly divided the Hybrid Perpetuals i classes, 
local ages pb e pipia and industr e | gar sra Eir 8 intelligible and easy to select 
8°, Y, iews, the local character of the site must of course | from, and others I hope will follow his example. Never, 
inl, determine its chi ef features; but where the} however, can there be a better opportunity for maki 
eaders will pro bly have seen in the within the garden itself, Ra a selection than the forthco’ exhibition, which 
dally pai that the Bati of the Niger expedition | designer may give full play to his Ree, ee should be largely attended, mly suppor 
under Dr. BAIKIE a been lot ah the D awe guided by taste. The principal fe: acre as well as i H ateurs. justice to all 
screw EIRE SES ee eee aetna minatest detail, may be entirely of hi eatio however, it is open to 
2 t P ira an. gardens are wholly deficient. in may 4 ‘distinctive the “country “at Jarg re, classes E ld be made to 
h esi 
bat say trae 
r nurserymen, 
fo: 
and acco: 
leaving her ste f the water. ought | any d canno rding to the number o ; for 
that a aes steamer would have got through. | gardens often possess many pleasing features; but from i iene dare to show 
We salle next ‘gr to publish neve account of | the incongruity inseparable ee such an arrangement, | agains such men as Messrs. * Paul, R Wood, and 
t air, from materials ki laced their “heat z for the mos othe: e who gior Roses by the million, and who have 
in ou Sir Wu. HOOKER. Ta’ a ean- | lost. Iti pepe too much w say that nothing tru uly acres to selec ms from, while for = would 
while it is satisfactory to state that no lives were | beautiful, as a whole, ever resulted from chance, an like to have a dace in the pie, but sho ges mph 
I hi q tively few Roses, what chance will 
nazar 
ha there be ? i ie 
all invited “gh ie a the field of battle, let us ome 
| OF course it i is not insisted that a design having been 
r- 
E EAT E bape 
s possible, and not oblige one with a few 
privates toe 
cons which haye already done them so much |' 
. ORCHID DISEASE. | 
| cipal features there should be 
| the working o of it ‘out which will allow of 
d an ay of thousands—officers and generals of 
in the detail 
no change. Presuming 
that | these will be the result of careful consideration, | m 
but with 5 prin- | 
will stand to a man. Give us a pipas of of glory, and we 
ps all fahi: with the greater ardour. a well 
ched let us not leave the contest and sa we were 
mi ave alan imee rom the sence of those 
in the cated A free exch 
by ahi 
no ser change could possibly be made without 
Para in ne effect of the whole, reducing what wo uld 
order congrui y, 
perior in at 
priser des eiai Mal 
The Stoke me gs pra air AE Societies —I 
to be pe ed to offer a few remarks on Mr. 
ot aif Daunt based upon backed 
tower, pete go far t to mitigate the evil, which 
E parae The beauty of a design « arises in a great measure 
serious when we consider how extensive 
on chia i ae mo Fate an: and the great value of a 
mts in questi 
e 
gao the great ‘source of pleasure to be preg from 
garden must undo: ubtedly co consist in the „variety of its | 
Broome’s letter, p 
roome’s version of the ie in the 
| Stoke 1 Newington Phin nthemum her 
incorr societies n mai Mr. Broome 
oy 
correspondent “ Gleanings” argu 
ment is that too soul ventilation is the cause of this 
tombe another correspondent 
Hee fen iA 
ri the latter 1 
top of the tree, and ther 
f 
ined must be design in 
ey are to produce sat 
capable Variety and 
d design, are among 
are mee nisti fullest, 2 the term. 
si. Neither of the sonietiea’ in question is a i oe 
Amateur Society,” a fact easily established by refi - 
to the aea ents in your Paper of 26th at in in. 
nde “Not thin ing,” says Alison, in „his Ere on 
| case there i isan equal number of f mursorymen, a 
yg 
the apparent 
— ventila 
j danger i in } using the syringe in the mornings, provided | 
at tit perceived only confusion = iidr regularit 
that it is not incompatible Mae Tigh oak dually emerging, and to discov mid 
I quite agree with» th Meat ie caw, i principle “whi the 
spondents as to general piticipiss but in practice Ifni whole. To reduce a number of apparent dissimil 
they are not eS to a off disease; the latter | particulars under one general law of resemblance, 
may, however, be checked its first appearance by|as it is of the strongest evidences of ome 
judiciously wi ithh olding aotar and keeping up the | exertio isdom and design, so it is also 
t npera: and I venture to assert t tha t too much ductive. of one of the strongest emotions of of beauty 
moisture combined with too low a temperature has been | which hd can excite.” Pa = not ey to be | 
the cause e: most of the mischief. It follows as a| understood that a “garden is t any ti ppear 
caper of course that with a higher t temperature the | chaotic ot which is the result of. hanco” but 
tion must be increased. I find that there is no | it certainly should have sufficient intricacy to stimulate 
‘fie 
curiosity, and variety enough to satisfy that curiosity 
when the tem erature to fall, 
not to do below go r on all, which it ought 
e recognition of one principal feature in the 
of a den must not be allowed to 
ity, 
ar | your readers should be put in 
unvarnished ti 
e | Soi 
f gen ntlemen’s ASEEN. n 
in no ra a ean ofthe 
floricultural communi a I ine it gf ay bee that 
| ee of the plain — 
ruth. EF. Sand the. 
held at the Rochest Cast 
[We have a letter to the same effec + from : 
of Hackney. It is much to be regretted that "such dis- ; 
putes agin Clube if your «| 3 i Bia 
Coal Clubs your correspon m 
io Mr. Robert Baker, national school-_ 
master, Leamin i 
gto 
coal club which has succeeded 
o bere 
nery o 
monotony i in the subordinate ones, or _to influence their 
Nor 
"Clearing ground of Tree-roots.—My _ employer 
cheapest way to eradicate the roots of 2 quantity 
beauty of symmetry, 
dlited the disoaso shoul on is ioe tec ent it, | number. indeed need it do so. orl we 
as is asserted by “Vertex.” Two instances that have | some one ee — —— the windows of the Prine spade. He assures me that you 
come under my o servation fully bear out the NS me Er te sca e ain me substance = F will et 
; rome remarks made on this subject in the Chronicle ho garden asa whole should form eee amo 
Decem ber 19. The cipal house here is span- Mire iti is to this that es operat a rage) shld be be Aig ‘aa ona AS pardon I tal him that I E the 
; Sree ventilation is amply provided for at th t should | Chronicle for years, hat I had never seen any men- 
$ «Sap wel elle and oe e first case of disease | be, above the surface of th Deano ins arte tion of anything of the Lind and that that 
pee to was in a fine mee of —— the various parts of which the garden is eat een would sso told bis greie of porn the tools — 
go the growth of which coul et sur- | lawns, shrubberies, single specimens and groups of} mentioned. i I should — 
E ine the effet this house steam: oes uy shrubs or trees, flowers, and garden ornaments should receive an answer simi Pata to re which got: 
Dendatan a hygrometer ae gre next morning th combine as to form one pleasing’ and vr respecting a t poh sia must 
both of an. two large spo tors interior of hali I do not mean that this symmetry must do my duty, and will feel ob yon irese 
rup! cuticle - deca; ecay gr os the | necessarily be fo rmality alt hough it J.-E. , [We e know of ee 
hte thea Ss cgi spread rapidly, but the | is more than probable that pt th E at iing then 
sockad; bein ted, it w ae padialiy | will be made up of -5 phut ko the several parts Sè oane ma 
| damped at the. u ion the house was | balance each other to the pepe we doubt. ] = 
Same time, but not the plants, as 3 it trical and pleasing com on ie very scene or object gem the Black Cw 
ican, ey w 2 me—the result was another | to be embraced rea: the oe at one view peels 1 beg te ifr yone spondent (see p. 870) 
(Peng Sera ni, conclusively proves that in| possess symmetry, and to be maior it uire quite a different 
oo east the cause was w! cv era must be so. Nature is ever i ad oe from the ; the great 
: importance and the eye, | aim to as 
terma,” 
