yanen 27, 1858.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 241 
= xr garden a lar arge one, and last | their efforts with the well- appointed and expensive | superiority) I have “witnessed as fine a and as successful 
pathing, eee. ined to grow 30 ¢ or 40 wage paged | garde ns . their employers, and smile and give as in any of the 
«ss rate i ca praise” to what is looked apon n with delight by the | vast establishments abounding in England; and besides, 
Foie 28 first every advantage, a die os ao | owner. Deetinien not up t o the sta ngar d of Stan ley I fancy I could detect nearer approaches p scientific 
pipe orj that most of atan "required, large | Place, or Russell Park, is totes le e unwortl 
gol. a characteristic beauties. that a thought. They are Fs I thi nk to be con-|at home. Many friends have been ally struck with 
w look w in very mes clamps c or og Ean dikes for this; cof is Bate ault of their education, | the greater degree of sitll at information 
w no grand appea' n mixed | and how few of us a to break ring its | amongst all the classes of men employed in both puns 
trammels. Mr. A. is maan ted under eat and private gardens abro ad, so muc ch so tha tw 
an yn s and 
mu ach passer d and sanc- 
and oe their vile smell 
+ 
gardener, we will say at Stanley Place 
is Jo. Baik u one ae of expense?” He serves i is 
her great gardens, and then net service 
e” 
the higher rates of wag manded and pgs in this 
5 | oath th feel far from m being alio satisfied 
sui 
f ga arden ners | of the ‘pre ae: day, 
at gitar Park (these are merely os aoe plum 
with r equi ally rich, and a , ani illi 
carry out his ideas. The fruit-tre ag al are built by 
rfect. Mr. A. i 
and all j is perfec 
bjects when propery grown, and so | led to think that no gardening is to be thought of or 
as t 7 iare Liv looked at unless it approaches in Kiara to the 
ined t 
own part, 
by the very fa fair ir of outl 
hold to the opinion wed Pe yom Pacer 
n bred in n, and i 
the production of fruita, 
flowers and vegetab 
ei eeraa he has bee 
maka rather better apne than on T} gentl th his half d f Peach t p tablish aaah lest i 
l to ripen their fruit in J to hi t | than we do; and | even if labour ary ail other expenses 
siping. T TI hold 1 ( he case), our friends on the 
ter has antage he eas compare them with his ee fait ea, on continent, from more pate observation, care, and atten- 
cor ley spor of of looking ell and producing |t rellisses bearing hundreds of fruit, making his neigh minutiæ, aptation of 
ys it. T Drum- bour feel that his E was “child’s play. s There are | means to ends, would beat us out of the field in a most 
eee can be se ted for ny Mr. A.’s e gardening world, and many Pana partes I perfectly agree with you that 
for a dwarf ef habit, and oe the her and es splendid exceptions we hav -rate gardeners in Engla edd so 
of its flowers. Last yea po ay it euro «ee r. Barron, and Mr. Morris are all we sind have, dg some of the scrote in regard 
Se November, latie cea y fine flow if children of a larger growth” i = the matter of potted | to other emolumen ite equal 
fruit tre I can testify as the large crops of | many ‘of our pot Elev benefices. I hav pelt at some 
airs — attracting ate a nie a 
Pone and eNosiarnien given k the trees under the 
pains to „ascertain at What rate several ‘of wy fr Er 
where 
and t the Lin Spie _ rubru 
God with a good deal of It is certainly 
anal flower, res Ey very yane pein it expands 
; but care is need 
market gardener they g 
profit, but for a fo 1 can ay peli any- 
e 
e flow econdary 
- [on though a Pa aF ight W "iwi ays be 
a, and perhaps you will scarcely 
is pils under a 
matia gr 
al cer mand sticks 
Peaches for, 10 or 1 1% ea autumn, and then not one 
eredit 1 me when I state that after making every possible 
3 
, and thus 
Last year we raised it in 
v 
Tae pianis until May, when they were apie 
ly because, in joes a house, 
only a few trees, a a , great variety can mot be grown. If 
er got vyer 
aoa, Fsequired support. This is year we ae 
down this flower, a tet ee ves _ den 
p shoots low down will favo sey nade 
E koks dap in the print published. by Messrs. 
belias, which should 
masses, The varieties of Helic chrysum, 
lasting lowers, 
too | far in October, o 
of the ev vils 
pots, he might have placed some in his forcing house, 
and had'the fruit ESA a June ; others, pee as the 
Royal George and Noblesse Peaches, and r Park 
Apricots out-of-doors in ee so as to retard is till 
r with skill and care to the end. One 
ms ee a and N 
Ee. 
m ought to hav 
only even thought so Be: 
dulce and utile 
round enit e an ia wheresoe 
th e two, dovetail Sa by. a ‘mea 
roved yi a 
e great 
walls is the glut of ri t, and the satiation, almost 
to loathing, with Gar breish on by it. Such men as 
Mr. Morr: is look ne ither to t the right t nor to the left, b 
OET 
‘wth, andare hardly fit 
ll gardens; yet they 
rable 4 from the permanence of their foort 
t C 
ated las 
Peaches a | Nectarines ripe at one tim me. 
„Mr. Bar n has, Ia quite ‘sure, never thought 
church nicely deco 
a 
attraction 
l a of Helichrysums of many co and 
of which, it from the prison of g 
colours 
fas! 
a 
few yea ppt Agree m seas 
Tuitfal tres, va well repay the small sina of build- 
hi 
with “the simplest sient and at the 
smallest outlay, bid age hi s crops and do his s work 
marrow of my letter "wice T have been long on the 
hat we are now rather stating | ing a chea house i ging for them. When 
inga aiut of annuals, aa oat i in ime hina ad of a house it is almost im 
ible to restrain their vigour, as they do not bear 
ae he ate s size, 
runing or am ay ee so well as Plums, 
whic at we pan n the borders or grown in pots 
a cache of an orchard house from 
r Aos a of 
vi selection should be made as 
number an ti 
act 
. litt tery 
excite no attention, 
the time Shier Pa Pa to bloom till the first week in 
the. 
wh June, when they may be re to t air 
mali g Aaii T be unsightly and | ripen their fruit. Mr. B., with his walls well furnished 
a < sS the eans of the| with G es, entirely forgets how welcome his| Worshipful Sir | Raa 
must also be taken into Meane for if he has n of bushes in pots, that have blossomed SE bin in ag a good many p lanes of thn nobility and 
ation for the work, he = set their fruit under some cheap structure, are to | gentry and can a carretter from all ofum 
p such a succession of plants as to be a the poor gane i and let me ad ice well-grown | stan my purfeshun in Soa es its banches and shall be a oy to Mita 
as the n is over, aa Greengage bus with five or six dozen of fruit cottage ese Bann abi bles and milke and Fespext a m 
tl . Riv is book tells auen Iam 
who require the best | how easily Plum: T may be ivated, and I can, a soz” 
pee oa we therefore Ha I feel happy to say, add my mite. Take two or three by cs entin the aroniele you Winika 
be in the selection - randi: now ofer m Faurei youas i am bought bo 
summer garden, and tuk yecfersnce their upper pe with a page against any wall or ad ar ing mpl DE iama am a singel mi haged 26 i ave been 
ento those exotics or greenhouse | with a warm aspect, and their lower ends with thre e | în all the var varus e: ia Boog and hg =. ‘ate Po rel satis- 
bedded out, produce so Eae and or four hes gees so that the ends bat the pr eee pirssi gpa ati cle kisi piy 
To them we shall return urn soon. lights next the wall are 4 feet from the ground, wage expe 
cia th to; | No eehehe to take the one “ who understans his pur- 
no time is to be lost, most kinds aeli its sides may be of m r boards and the ak Sod feshun in all its banches” or the other who “ave bin in 
re not ded by a little artificial | open. pN this very ¢ pit orchard ee lm Ki all the varus apartments ap | ”T ca deter- 
ri in mine. I therefore crave of tell me 
out by the end Tr May ; and, 4: thé during A of yagir and May a and og ne removed to can ings A which of these work pert best calculated to 
t, last year our Stocks, Asters, | the open air in June, to ripen their rry out my views, which í of t these two i is most likely to 
"the ore those of our .nelg Hbo te were | This roy hy tae “ child’s pe “ ve‘ "To: 
the later ground. It is true they lasted less by our geest (gard ut it will a Melon gr owing. —The a application, of water, under 
sown, but then we Tag a succession, heat: fr pleasant pt y to those who Jove their gar. the surface is perhaps not so practised as it 
= of blooming was grea tly prolonged, | dens, however smal A. P. W.” has, I know, | ong should be. As far as my experience e there is no 
been a devotee of Flora; me propiti by ‘eg results. bg wr 
T aeea ja Dao yae TES e other floral fancies | by this method are AEE appropriate to ot 
T-TREE or follies— iar wer gardens. Po is a a mein oud growth sae what they require. 
yes AND FRUIT TREES asks ed mi h 2 ri judges men by their rst occurred to me to tr; y this Aars a pea en 
Rati aa: th its. Before } l p ne ie 
rt Aad wad tho Ty oan dlgten Sie pay y her proper attention. Sead spinosa, da bed on Aides side resting a hot cham 5 ia 
disc P RSR A SO SN E ing the 
; Jaee = against that affected hent aa the lthon of hanh Beck 1 B d 
; sted Doi L employ ed to desig- e Correspondence ked that even excessive waterings on the surface 
of crinolines and| Ga —I have lately bn reading | would not penetrate it. To obviate this it was deter- 
mservatories. | some ‘ks of you on the education of gardeners, | mined pply the water at The j 
‘prejudice object to the wor: word of whi es conviction with it; but | there and 6 inches u were t ment 
Saige d house, let. them iit ei when England will ma arh ly wat t; 3 inches of broken bricks 
icle, or we shall next | be fa th a class of men in uch as ed evenly all over, then an inverted turf to 
Cal prome- | you done? From my own pe r I fear aher pete the broken brick, and the compost was Pa over 
h gardening | of us = be to live to sce that golden era realised. | all. Before the soil however was sa into the beds, 
is one of the best | This is the more a matter of su that ery | earthen piget ves ere placed upright abo ut a yard apart 
a get Pass ta to | indu to attain to a bett te of adie is | all round the sides, 
i seen ney to with dis- | held ont in the shape of high wages and other emolu- | below, for “the double pw rpose of supplyin 
ing for the people; in | ments, ind y far beyond what are usually given| beds with water and allowing the excess of 
uch m men on ogee the 
ver usually gi 
the great continental gardens I have visited, 
in most of 
in many of which I must say (despite our vaunted 
woe in the _bed to escape into the pepe rc 
