FEBRUARY 7, 1863.] THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 125 
E SS nmcd Rises сало Пане I to эло desebe dhe mulibuim. ofifedhe punte hebes tane NE 
jead me and my readers—if I have any—to һе | меге I to attempt to describe the multitudes е for the purposes of his business, but after he has got 
nurseries of Messrs. Low, Rollisson, Williams, and | Cypripediums (the list of these was likely I heard t " lease he discovers that, owing to the bad construc- 
Veitch, as well as to the private establishments of|be soon swelled by novelties already on their Ser to ion of the houses ges the defective drainage o of the 
Messrs. Day, MeMorland, and Rucker; all of which I| Europe), Limatodes rosea, Calanthe vestita, &c., but lá nd, it is impossible р g or even 
was enabled to visit during the few days І spent іп | I must not omit to notice that one large house was | to keep them alive. He complains to his landlord, who 
town last November. This month, as every one knows, ume a quite gay by crowds of the last-named | declines to do anything, but who nevertheless insists on 
i i ondon о ing paid hi о this ims objects, and, 
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admire the variety with a crimson`or that with a yellow- | not being prepared to lay out his own mone y in im- 
ing to look out PH денден of m; pei tel in з eyed Пр. Both were most beautiful when seen in| proving his landlord's property, quit i 
Str eet, 1 found it оь to see across the street. | such profusion, and are пагу invaluable as bed disgust and refuses to pay. A lawsuit ensues, and the 
sport in Orchid-hunting ; | flowering plants. They ж aie r, upon havi к} question arises whether the tenant is bound to pay the 
How wever, I started in a pio of sullen despair ог | а good quantum of heat, nt,or whether he is not entitled to repudiate the 
Clapton Nursery, and was rewarded by finding myself|their ever elbowing йын Бери "Skinner, which seems|lease. Тһе landlord. urges that he entered into no 
in bright sunshine long before I reached my des Man. disposed to гыз itself quite a& home in our drawing-| agreement with the tenant, except that he should 
although in Berners Street t (as I afterwards learn: e rooms ! Ser peaceably enjoy the property for so many years аб a 
the fog had continued without any mitigation through ады А A a certain rent. Тһе nurseryman answers, * tie knew 
out th Et very well that i only wanted the place for the purpose 
Arrived a t Clapton I soon found that I had enough ы rd FLOWER  GARDENING. mais e: 1 lof carrying on my business; ше e is not fit, dot iiy 
work before me, for her e were four large houses all such | purpo e, and. Io anm о be bound to keep 
filled with fine Orchids ; most of them | 00 thc subject of that ien Fiere. a winter "nd hired a ho 
imported during the last- few months from Brazil, flower garden, 
Moulmein, or the East Indian Archipelago. The pro- i I have read ы much interest the leading лнн body did eripe pea учет а ч "вд, 
fusion їй which some of the more popular kinds | Їп Nos. 48 and 49 of last уеаг, and rejoice to see уоп and found them so гин A bu 
had been safely brought across the be quite | taking rd iue too long d branch of gardening: unendurable. am the same eei 
took ше by surprise In опе house end- P ro ember dn winter gar He wanted the aciem to in in, and they were 
less row of fine plants of (окуйа: ша dre "tho ыру ы. that y not fit for his purpose; I wanted the land to grow 
rata, ranged horizontally along the walls, had all | jd er display і Is at qos for four months, there i g no | plants in, and it’s not fit for my purpose. He gave up 
the effect of a frieze. Another house was main the two. | his rooms and was not obliged to pay any rent; I give 
devoted to Leia purpurata, the demand for whi x4 І have беди rd a | good deal of consideration to y 
ч told me the former, and for 14 years our “modern flower | landlord replies, “І know nothing about the bugs at 
houseful already in the course of the year! Pha Apes has nof been “bare at this season of the y ear," de It may be ma " a person takes furnis ће ed 
nopsis amabilis, and two or three other species, hun d shift apartments hei is en ntitled 
ж» fon the rafters, as did also Soplronitis pon ol Ур cs bem merely stuck in the ground, "s t 
gran and Ionopsis violacea. The last is a deli- | That p the bs e, I take it that if you ge is lo n un 
cate but "beautiful plant, something like an nelli npo. farnished. house, and then take a lease of it, e аба 
d appears wer fr arden aL the year peur Tu pu truth of "ibat bar m 
tonias. Тһе Sophronitis ы better known, though it is abhorrence of a vacuum which we inherit from Nature you cannot live in i 
only of iee that it has received the homage it so well herself. You suggest want 2 do. Will you hear what | герб, That is my case; you saw = place before you 
deserves. TI Kayo ДЫ: pe isthe identical Оша we have done, so that r of the same means, and took it; if it does not suit you, that is your 
that а South American traveller once assured me he with imitar situatio a and ‘soil, may be spared dis- affair, 1 never promised tlat it should. 2 a judge 
appointment, and be е nouraged to follow your advice | declares that the landlord's law is better than the 
wrapping, as it were, the sheet e DM A [and sugges AD | tenants, and says that by the law of ЖЫШАЙ, ifa man 
And although I must оа, that Iw as disposed Maay m been the trials and failures with u contracts эм the use of land for а specified time, at a 
e time to abate somewhat from the More descrip- but i lic e now on a regular system whic h suits «т | specified rent, he is bound by that bargain, even though 
tion, - E score of traveller's jioata, still, a situatio; and our soil, | he took it T a fag purpose, and that purpose is 
ving masses of the plant in flower in Mr. | Which is poor and light; and year after year i haye | not attained “Suppose, for instance,” adds the judge, 
eg collection, i at saei acit Seevhero тпай cheerful gay ji | 
begin to think that my ant's unt was no | “ће winter of 1860-1. : f it s object fail altogether, 
exaggeration, It clips erg of y ranks of large| , The beds are on Grass, 35 in number, the largest 23 it to > t he not liable for any rent? 
trees in а peculiar fashion, havin the appear. feeb by 73, and a circle of 13 feet diameter, and Paco тад хя id it for "building purposes, veut 
ance of an ancient testudo, and m бшу jen the ser circles о 51 feet diameter, finds that the subsoil is such that no foundations can 
off in large sheets, which may again asi There is in each bed a centre of evergreens, a yd be к» ET аб a ruinous siin? пе to b 
replaced on logs of wood (cork-wood is the Тев) of or ring of colour, а an "арі ng of variegation, and close ischar| hi ра) t?" The judge 
t s same curvature. Then add a few bits of ер. M Grass early bulbs. Now the article of colour is my |i; a m тааз eer by the of the lodgings, 
suspend near the glass, and success is certain. | Strong point, to which I wish to draw qe vos to especially as he decided it himself, bnt he agrees with 
Thero are jest et this d ronitis, differing polari; Looking over your secon 
uch in the e of their flow of the dug list of costly aid beautiful pete ished:h 
бъз 7а ‘plants. colour, ,18 
io pure scarlet than anything yet observed among | Wanting sut the Croeuses bloom, and for the dead 
Orchids, in which—as a tribe—the colour in question | months i must be 80, unless you employ the various f Jand, does not ii 
is the с of all. varieties. P г the Brassica tribe. y the use of these habitation, cultivation, or any other purpose. he 
Among Mr. Low's Brazilian importations I was | you obtain M hé shade, from the darkest purple of ће | decision is Foam against the tenant, and he has to 
pl ба io вееа goodiy ps of Burlingtonias, duds Siberian vivid Magenta, mauve, and гове | pay, Таоа" 
fo some reason or other have always been in this |of the Borecoles, and also pure and yellow white. | ‘Orchidology.— тй * Mr. Crabro Scandicus" give short 
untry. is may in part be due to the рела ейун АП other green looks dead when compared with | technical characters for the so-called genera Lælia, 
* of their not succeeding unde r pot culture; but only re Med growing green of the German Kale, and in | Brasavola, Schomburgkia, and Cattleya, in Gardener. 
ood, and give them n plenty | е unhearted Dutch Cabbage, the various o! of | Ohronicle. nes there should be found any, ГЇЇ gladly 
t | purp Б. тя si red, сае with rich bloom, have а very | accept епега again ; it not, 
no eee could pu more сеа е, чут | telling effect іп large centre beds. without к amen racters. Во much for science. As to his 
can be more beautiful. de was also glad to notice a fow | , The names of Kale and Borecole at pai sound rather | | orant E ibel, I do not t feel i inclined to give him any 
plants of my old fa e Rodrigu venen ud startling as ornaments ed the ay i gp йн wer. Verses should depend on ашшы not 
pes o opina st of "Ordhias, but of late m in conjunction with Yuccas, Thu Skim on calum H. G. Jleichenba ch, fil, Leipsic 
n, beca , i а Б у eem and A MÀ “tempting pe Ponntifal shru shrubs jam. 9 
re е. named at р. 1148 of your . I really 
кз д Ju ЖЫР i " yp Prof Reichenbach, * how they would combine; but then that ета M a| „е ob into PETT ^m Me pedum. - 
and here I рн. ы disposed to agree with him. | winter garden оп a grand scale, which is beyond the | going out of the old road of Grape growing. He is not 
Mr. Low had а n ; ed, in flower, and ^ means of hundreds who, like myself, have constant | fhe only man who has been abused in the same way. 
beautiful thing it s ; but I thought it inclined more | e»joyment and wor re their smaller gardens, and it is | When Stephenson — — йек Pers he was 
to Cattleya, so I counted the pollen-masses and found | for this class I wri put t doy as a danger and so are all who 
that they were four, as in the latter instead оѓ, Our first T АЕ раа scale, Va ins attempt to strike out ге К стай of their own. Ido 
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Whatever the ee may abes to the lodgi ngs, йе; ju rel 
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themselves, and there t variegatum, besides those Evergreens which now I only A А : 1 
the йр on that S. pecie uia n. Guam к Also fings € T Cineraria maritima, Santolina Бош oe Le vun benson оча ot 
genera. The plant above referred to proved to be one | Squarrosa, Carnations, Pinks, Onopordon Acanthium, | rowing the Vine during the first season. We order 
of the many fine and distinct varieties p that Protean Hellebors Thymos, "Hepsticas Saxifrages, Alyssums, | our plants from some nursery, and give from 3s. 6d. to 
species, Cattleya (Lzelia) elegans. ocks and Wallflowers; besides bulbs both carly and |5, each for them, i.e. for Hamburghs and М 
But if Mr. Low was rich in Orchids from the ON late flowering. Abou the mi iddle of omae we plant the Vines 
World, ur from the Old were still m The effect v was all that could be d t th di 
and important; indeed, besides pren want of colour in hi pA but it was Y "ilo, because great care, both with ber to root and branch, 
supplies p old-established. favourites, there was a the first six classes rgreens will not bear lifting mni them grow as much as иы d without 
in the cold winds ый Tt suns of pod уш, care | ing or stopping; by autumn they w m mu sad E 
ine no pla with at one and the same time аё one and | 3d trouble, which at that busy t be | rods, се December wi ЫА чылай reme 3 nt baak tte d 
T ++ f thi rafter, с dem. 
Ed many as half a dozen air-plants which, | 20 reserve. garden or orchard en or es ean be itin t the nt uos domiti fe { 
Ж. ther б I cannot doubt were ne edi quite as | number of hands, The outlay was very considerable, | tho Vine. Тһе other system consists in sending to 
many Cclogynes and Dendrobiums. Of the latter D. | but it was to be once nod all, and the plants were to | some nursery, in which you know good Vines are grown. 
кча nodatum, and D. Lowii, have last for years, Мапу were dead, few presentable, and You вау you want somè strong ones in 12-inch pots; 
already been noticed in the columns of the Gardeners’ | hone good specimens by the lie It was the | they come to hand all cep $ rods as thick as your 
Chronicle, Бш there were others of equal promise, e. g., - and nct us ium ^E а аго ае. үү Бе ; price 10s. ог 15з. үе opem 
1 d i shillings, nof yearly, now su P E ie Мова ^Y 00 to the lei ink you 
Меи Беа ваме inburg ken is е" February а hot- 
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of which dried specimens were shown to ше, and | Lodge, Edi 2 will 
І am аса wil prove the = еннет i . [bed 
Ee to abou 
; r pots, previously 
И ou loosen what 
reducing the ball a little, my as 
as r.p ; place each "Vine om 
ut inches apart, filling Wy 
it Den- Ноте Correspondence. 
D um iniu E 7 ы А-ай шын ; прагне 
. pal зЗ ut was i dine t ma man takes on lease at a high rent a piece of land, 
provisionally called D. Tr having houses, ‹ apon it "Ho takes the leue 
