e b 
20 feet EC Ti. M edis 
re fo} 
that Pas do not come on the station 
* D not advance this system of rotation as Se gen 
ead of pri rimrose- er eral pote with a recurved rim 
a pente. form, and of which the fine drawing i in the 
idea 
> — 
Pesnvanr 5, 1859. THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 97 
— Pond for the ridges; these from centre | for present facts, and, fortunately, in so doing we have the Surrey hills, and xi. Sydenham Palace ; Kent 
trenches, now eet apart, and hence afford first-rate | no lack af om mi aterials to Mrs our attention, Middlesex, and Essex. The situation is, n fact, 0 one of 
to centre the dwarfer kinds of Peas, as Harrison's Asa rdy flow ering Shri ib, n which by the bye the be met with, an arkably 
stations for a ch side the rows of Peas there is now | Rhodod 2 le, it . nts us "considering its p se 5 to London, and E 
Glory, &c- edis bnt it will be well so to time the | with a e of Mos qualities mot possessed | e ease with whic ch it may be a ached fro é 
* the Lettuce may be off before the Peas are| by any "ox Its i owe ery litan districts north of the Thames. "me. extent of 
ET. ion Thus the ground is fully occu apr the | Every from white to erimaon pur} pe ill be about 
2 d in the twelve Pda may id to with innumerable forme Pe ioni, piece 200 a ; the soil is a sandy loam, v: varyi ing to that in 
first season, an An dt arly per riod i in the life ‘of the pana at 2 w hich My predominates, and very suitable ſor n 
earry four — ivalion which the ground gets growth of trees, as is evidenced by those growing o 
The — it capitally for root cr s. and i it Formerly many y years e elap g a the spot, and the luxuriance of the shrubs and estie 
pos Lh ith Onions, Carrots, oa Beet, &c. | pan of Rhodode — rae ory’ he cco of * trees in the neighbouring g een E noi in similar 
1 bird vear it is occupied with Cabbage, Cauli- ab Now the same results can often be obtained in soil. In addition to the grand architectural terrace 
In the 1 cher Brassicas, and in the fourth year one-fifth part of the tine; and this gener’ da is entirely | gardens, whisk will enclose the y onem on all sides, the 
E — which are cleared off in time for a e to the results of j ju udicious cross -bre edin g. Noris rest the grounds are to be laid out in the natu 1 
with Potes dung, and a good crop of autumn 1 f the às * dpi w ill . gh or acres laid out as 
Ode worts o s—and these give place n owers s produced — plants 6 inches us bering as many e h deer and other animals, and 
in turn for Celery trenches and early Potatoes, as heads of epis and larger p ! s dicet for every species of recrea- 
again encemen nt of the st be Ther en n the Si kk im and Bootan n ki we have, | tion. pom carriage drive is t carried entirely 
at the comm t} the whol mentioned, yellow in various | round the grounds, which zu , eat boon 4 
vast au mentation in the size of leaf — and equestrians. A lake of 30 acres wil 
of of the P ground 8 igna with Peas i M DEM 105 0 with a à in many instances, a marvellous perfec- | oc the we prowl facing the terrace DE ies the 
Palace, and will prove a d iens feature, as seen e 
r grounds. The 
and 5 shrubs i is intended to 
There i is neatness and method in it, and a 
rable he hi 
3 4} 
odesoni and 
ve a napis detail in the Ga rden work before alluded to gives no ade equate p will 
Chronicle 19217 ye years ag and | others follow the garde ens, a pels die per d as the fea- 
plan. Expe it 8 inches long by h alf a doz ai. vs by e by mo ture: sot the gro pu 3 se for carrying een the 
icht d on lly adapted for all | means exceptions. Then Ta is the amous scen natural sty andscape gardening. The 
— 1 1 as Site ind. 5 i e md ien ed of Royalty, with its lar 1 Me principal features connected with English gard Hed 
h th he lyros rs of this gi sare contemplate 
can be no ques- 
there, 
might be expected. A. P. 
aking B. British gardening popular 
— ra ede. The influence vn 
- | garden n hybrids and vice | versd has say . 
fm 
as wall as instructive is a step in the r ight directi on; 
14} 
~ RHODODENDRONS.—No. I. 
Rhododendron has justly been n *. ed the queen 
of flowering shrubs. It is every day increasing in popu- 
rican ga A i 
can doubt. 
~ Athos gh the treatment of the Sikkim and poni 
of the landscape gardener r'sart, and the most successful 
examples of cultiv: ation, may not be made vubsec Tio 
| for rim partin ng a knowledge of plants under every form of 
i competing with the Hoses in brillianey wad 5 of 
: fige. 
The ercial growers of this plant have, with 
1 E erations. at once administered a and, MEE 
lar taste by producing a 
more Pontifi ys “striking à the 
AE ug „ W 
combined as apparen tly, to the uninitiated at 
; wo pom: nothi ing. to howe fo a. o6 dee ire. But as 
pn be shown m in rse of t pers, t th lt 
larity an and importance. “Ame rdens," x which think, consulting the benefit of our fedus d b 
it is the chief occupant a and or rnament, have me to be treating them as far as possible separately. This we 
ds of 1 do step by step, beginning with the hardy hy br wade |g 
country resid ce, large small, s successfully as being most generally cultivated. * 
To b in 
* PALACE FOR eR ue f 
Ax influential company i of n 
with the object of pe n a send Crystal Palac ce 
under the above title at Muswell Hill—a delightful 
situation H^" enn Hornsey aud Highgate, w where an 
te admirably adapted as a site for the 
proposed building saod €: has, we hear, been pur- 
that purpose. The proposed building, 
which, like its gre eat pre ecursors in Hyde Park IE 
t = iro oe 
be considered a -a as 1 cede to E 
uc 23 ie 
t im t horticultural position of th 
. shrub, ith the wishes of several d rs 
for ih, ele ion on i it, ne indu: 
| us to undertake a series of articles which shall, as far 
as possible, meet their be mir n 
In it is pro- 
n the cultivation of 
this popular plant, combining its 8 both as a 
pot plea col in the open gronni nd aen ard the year, 
novem ing soil a 
fully comprehended b 
most heartily wish i Rene ^ a company who, it appears, 
are endeavouring to carry out such ideas, and who seem 
bus of. id 
natural history, a as well 
vare 
E ir is from the designs o of M n Jon 
1 Wer uem very sosidendie alteris quá 
tion and interior and which, | 
in = po 3 te great in Improvement an and will | 
make the building much E in many res] 
alace. The centre of the 2 
200 feet span, high, complete 
from the rest of the bing and — inter 
garden or tropical ry, beneath whose edidere | 
and lofty root ‘Pals and. other t ypes of the magnificent | 
Tur ed Cuttings fro 
| Under the Gtle ef“ 8 
Florist of February. 
"wg un 
ning o 
ing ou m strikmg pots, without 
Eating the roots, which are commonly liable to be 
broken off or greatly da maged, especially when 1 
structions propaga- 
tion—a treatis to t 
in fact 
+ 
Up to 
the he hands of =~ hybridiser (to whom, in fact, 2 
ar dro position . "d the Rhododendro: 
: y Pp mere limited Md 
i though by skill E iminite ually pro 
to feel the want of some new 
ug 
EU ee d 
i now ; some are much ; 
| 0 ps neri to the 4 ate 
As in all 
5 
the 
Pea recent date the 3 in 
and combination Of ihe Sui oral turi 
fine 
t 
| ton p the bu buildin 
tai 
m arranged that : uM not interfere with the other inte. | 
thro 
eure to the "Skill of se cae mi 
fully raised. 
published representations ei 
r utmost develo opm The great advantage of 
out 
discussing the ure Sed the plan proposed for that prs 
conservato 
com partment: devoted a ry 
hich h I think he w vill find to 
» 
S Lee 
49", 
will be vedi. t the I 
which wi 1 pirita manage- 
atmosphere eee “for the 
bec 
€ sr 
ee 
ment kh deen rer peret Leti the rooted cutting 
arefully turned out into 
pe and then turned. over again d its 
ness prevails, One nave is to be devoted to works 
emen bero setae MS and theother to the 
ira objec Besides, there are pro- 
isions, e^ pete > museums, M 
* KR 5 or 
vided, w — cular pro; Fée. 
on de poles front; ; this bes vedi 
n sitting room - 
rior 3 : 
und the 
hitcl 
whole, bel g 
— with these ants Their Ree as indi- 
direction 
ires; their och being to m 
well as ent and 
recreation. Useful or economic Frons as well as hs rti- 
14 
arbori iculture, e, and agriculture, „ will be 
a cl 
(which is of course warmed where it may be 
uired by the kind ot E or for the eR s. or the 
operator) and by gentle . and pressure on all 
sides with the ted fi 
- | disposing the: 
gradually cin Myr apart 
proper to 
when roots are lifted o 
- nes d them, “whieh it P d» where 
not been used the Lenker x 
ur and , always shi the 
lift them ego of it i in ay es direc- 
| 1 of their growth. It need not be added that the 
we stated 8 the whole estate comprises 
cres, beautifully undulated, and well furni 
450 a ished | sa: 
with timber, The site of the proposed Palace 
will be 
at an elevation of 200 feet above the general level, an nd | fi 
rocess N Sis in all — i removing 
plants from pots, s, when the roots are be separate 
AA 
} 
the view poen the building and 
|I à mdi are large and uem 
ng an 
circle, — over the metropolis 
burg, Bavaria, bel honour 
J 
T 
em 
| *ToM 
the 
But we must 
M : ET Ae quit, 8 
realities—hoped-for results 
ven Otto Förster, longs the 
0 of having first grown this t. A plate of lag is th 
robes -ie thie fine of Messrs. Rec um ee 
| a | Bouquet.” 52 wers Aou h; DS x ana 
capsules de Mecah 
esr en eati whose 3 ese have i —.— originally 
1 
should 
movin, 
these 
never be repotte: 
gt from them, js Apt 
m that 
ing or transplanting i in the vast 
| get of s is still performed in the very worst 
+o | possible manner? N. 
