or want of suita 
d of other buildings to ace 
Ims and other fine gisats “of oe the 
een the ape f deferring the 
ao GARDENERS’ 
CHRONIC 
oe. without shelter, are crammed into a dar 
dismal prison where they have —< standing 
h ration t 
is no exagger: 
LE. 
i N N 
k | to have been offered Sir BENJAMIN en has done 
great public service since his accessi n to office, 
o | and we trust he will excuse us for urging hin Lto 
or head room. s 
say that while still living i oa ag gs into 
offin too small in every dim coffin |s 
the house in which mg stand “will certainly prove 
ia else 
rauca 
the most ‘beaut iful form of arborescent vegetation 
BHeS du o dtto 
© 
-|that K 
| pa 
sacrifice the glory and Tonor of so grea 
We well remembe 
modern representatives 0 
the sreakisnis ages that produced our coal beds, 
and in every respect the ot bee: resting plants 
ntless treasures. 
f Commons 
ro) 
oes no 
rsimonious feelin 
ution. 
u 
other yea ich the hon. gentleman 
expressed Timsol tate: In 1856, therefore, 
a further representation, 
ade by Sir 
to keep them ‘ead the w of ind 
eer 
seo n spite of the 
e 
destroy, nothing a his fag pray more than 
crifice a trees 
do = es Sir Writrax Modru 
Bilge not 
n question remain 
Sithenlties they have to s 
unt, in bet ud Res ae being ‘cramped like 
ow: ae nar: 
e | kind, 
of the Botanical Garden , Kew, o 
stands unriv 
elegant, cheap, and effective live GARDE 
ae for walks has dees g been a desideratum, 
e better Suited to the 
ual 
at when lar 
p of the substitutes Kary pe 
have pas employed all ¢ 
ration 
Some time since there appears the Horton 
tural Society’s J a ount of some yery 
of turf, but 
do produe 
sown and transplanted so as rs 8 per, 
Arenes oe an as ant | om 
D 
g purposes. 
the case. 
„The Grass selected for trial was the comma 
Ae 
in "that SE in any so 
require very little attention, and be fouit, ata i 
ordinary edgi And this proves 
[January 16, 1858, 1 
f 
H 
t 
' 
f 
the f 
Pe pubis: establishments of Great Britain oti $ 
alled. 
y 
f 
É 
f 
$ 
eens inat en 
whic > they now chiefly oc inese w t, Sheep’s Fescue Grass eri sane Alea A patch of 
g been re saints UE 0! But these barbarous | this was sown, young plants—easil 
a pcb which should meet ine wants of coe | processes can Fa no longer, especially since the | separa m of a y ther 
noble ipei ns, and I now des esire to urge | operation of making room for a suitable residence | appe e lanted with the dibble at 20r 
the subject AA your attentio; s W. actually commenced ing down a |3 inches ap ey soon formed very ce 
p the e heavy pecuniary grants that we considerable building i ome some of them | lines of pas green blades, more grace in 
di oe 1856-1, and. I fe took we Be, as arn from the official 7 rance than li nes of Box, 
t e plants in question, and the building | report of sy ecem 56. y objection that we have discovered i is tha 
uant polar now aai Bra Nit iat tne t may b at that some limit must be put to | the pret colour of this kind of Grass is r 
lat so witho ut being co e- | the oasiak a ant houses at Kew; an |dark and heavy; but nevertheless it is the bes 
t opinion in which we ially concur, The kind of live edging next to Box which we have 
h also to mention, as a =o seen, and at, and from 
consequence has ee ogee for the seen atib on | 
of these pe of pl 
to render 
adati for 
rate climates a 
What is 
to to their usefalnoss and and ge’ oo gah ik nf be a 
be coi 
ga ai into P which wud not 
necessary i e re hard 
peera The piás of glass ty alo ib pat aal 
reduced since 1844, when the Palm House was 
pee 
appeal met with the same fate 
te er ite ent the Howe, ns saat 
ht, e 
ies of Teia fe whieh | it sasa Sa but | should 
a- oe 
r 
as staly lod 
0 
he British 
inm ew may be regarded 
pport a plan for the 
nhouses support phe hold the 
Es 
hap plants 
ged without a nee other expense 5 thas 
that rst uisition. Once 
necured in their dhet they sprite at all 
times as available for inspection or study as 
i Kew is alread: i 
si 
ery | all the attention that would 
anted 
3 of The common sort, Fine te gt 
rass forms a continuous 
e e Gr 
- prei mass a! bristlo-like sa the central 
high, the side one 
5 row up their culms or 
verage a foot hi 
as be 
ter 
ms, which 
ect; these 
o 
they are fi 
rfest ant Short 5 
e, is t e best for and 
Pa be worth while to 
editerranean, can 
occasional low temperatures | 
n. 
sustai 
ouses, the still 
ias sc of chases and materials would be avi oided, 
d| fo: i p“ uld be arie 
hat a few experimental plants would furnish 4 
ample supply in most cases. 
In those of the F edgings s which are 1 
two oh old, there are no indications of irr 
or fic! e growth, nor do they as. #8 tent 
peo cuit, In uch a consery aag 
as EN now impsrativly peia is nothi 
| than a garden and cl 
ares nal co 
compact-growing oe Sar lant, ‘either the on? 
nor the — was of ~ be Aes Two clippi 
one in s a ve the culms and ano 
a au aes eae “the eaten leaves, will b 
und cant to keep me: ni mt es os and healthy- 
The , of course vr x garden soil 
aao beeome ae rie taken p 
ed, and ‘planted w Ww 
oe 
Tet the. face of impediments which ought never | 
savers ae successi 
they may be destroyed, ' 
