Se —.—— 
2, 1859.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND — Sh GAZETTE. 561 
T A Foreman has s charge of the Orchids in Nos. 4, 5, and 16; J interco nication s d proce x- | whi trifling sum will suffice for the removal of the re- 
the ornamental and v: eaved Stove — Watei — it — 2 ar r? e — é — especially to m: nig Mac d ud for 8 ting the conduit to tbe Thames. 
Lilies, Nepenthes, &c., * I the Tropical Fruit Trees | communicate with those of the mother count An active w e Queen's Garden.—This 8 ul piece of ground, re- 
and ices, as Man een, Geta Nutmeg, &c., which | corresponde and in ge of this nature are the measure hag for the use of her Majesty, and situated on the S. W. 
demand great care and skill: also of the Plants in No. 9. of the useful and su f these establishments ; and it is pet of Agi Pleasure due consisting of 12 acres, has 
c. The Conservatories devoted to th es and Shrubs of | only needful to refer to the eminent services rendered by the — been enlarged by 1s more acres taken 2 om the adja 
our Colonies, and of other co ies possessing temperate | Botanic Gardens of Ceylon, Calcutta, Victoria, Jamaica, and al Deer Park ; new walks have been cut t — ugh it, much 
cli uiring protection, m contained in Nos. 12 and / the Mauritius, as cases point. Another class of demands is aJ ipie wood and copse cleared away, the paths ns freshly 
18, under another Foreman, Dey! it also is to keop 2 sped flowers and leaves, for flower nting, decoration, and | gravelled, and other improvements ag 
the lai double house, No. 10, Be “lled always with o; m ms 1 cedens — Th eons Erin bed — IV. Tux F EcoNowic Bora: 
mental Azal Fuchsias, Roses, Ex Stine argely , and they consequently multiplied far 
4. Tha Palin outed and new Victoria House, from the great generally The formation of — 17 — „ 
tself to my 
mind in 1847, when a very humble building (within the pre- 
reused, e the e power of supply ; ; 80 v — ey a 
n pre 
rred by kitchen a! 
mand a Foreman's entire operations here perform: tide or have other — 1 oe piar aa they usus — "aep d what PEN 8 et m - — 
are very laborious, eee, dete -— watering daily br poo from ee — had no such clain —.— 3 | table, no longer required for that purpose. It promi M e 
hoses ; while the of a what icated apparatus | often for the commo: rubs, trees, and w of the road- afford. for peri Od tie 1 dis day er 
— beating, syringing, and ven ntilati ting is attached :to.-this — — ortis rarest stove = Had p “applications poen vm Bip dy n demand byt 1 5 bue aree eaqui especially such 
— Foreman is c with the Hardy Leanne Pisite uses would have been mate MÀ m ; EI ño mo re fim are 3 we — ern mie we 2 
me 6000 species), w are scientifically arran e | men than are absolu! . o have d 
DT all seeds of out-door me and — a — stock 2 r ts T n packing, p ym a parcels fo DEC nucleus ofa Mu cree mt 8 — 
of —— his department being the oftenest applied to by | of lea em een seriously deranged their daily A: re 3 voretabis-ordaniestisn. and Atak aA 
n Colo —— Gardens. * rations. — . —— — dy exhibited in the living state. 
; m —— e, with the Flower Beds of various | The hours of admission Royal Gardens are from I r. x. guch P fi NOt; tall ko ahbwar thet bud C" 
Tho majority rit. 
"winter, and great in TERI 
roots 
—À are — to secure 
out plants in our changeful climate, 
v. yri 
no fewer than 400; and to — till dusk on week days, Ay rtm, 2». u. on Sundays. On 
demands on Christmas only losed. 
eave (o vhi ehe Garden 
amg: en refused, piene 8 who have a 
a collection could 
Day they are wholly cl often propounded, by showin 
rr mete — 
re 1 r. M.; but the 
actua 5 ou e e 
M 
"-— pes — t 
of erable of Art th 
Dir 47^ been Tu during the previons 40 years, in 
— ra with his own private Herbarium; and, thanks to 
her claims to be admitted. 
hat, as previously — 
cuts P - labours of many months, Besides this 8 E — — th whole of the work in the Houses and Museums the — * dis tonei; id mx - "nt. Jeena the 10 apart- 
kee; number of well-grown Fuchsias, b Gera- | must be concluded before noon (the dinner hour for the men). A wu ti z e e ch MA 
niurns, - to besunk during the summer in the lawns for 3 is obvious that A exclusion of the general public till wore full An ta “ee —T d ir fenem re et com gh as 
— ial ornament. lr. u. must be rigidly enforced ; otherwise the foremen ca commodation, was then requirec br MAE ithe ones * 
niere. on of the 
energies of a Foreman as well as a great m 
in 
ason an 
for A bres 
tion. Each m 
tor inguirios ae as to 
ting, ari 
—— — — — rise from uM — z 515. 
t 185; some of our best foremen me Mie 
— . ers while others have been to 
Labourers.—Their n with 
and the work. 
three liveried constables, and two constant gate 
female attendants in the ladies’ cloak rooms ; 
M M —— — and engine men. 
must je 
less restricted to half a 2 
II. Tux BOTANIC 
On the transference in 1841 of Nabe — grounds by the 
mores Situa Soa ublic, the Rotanio Gardens consisted only | 
iyo: additions tilly 
1547, they’ — 
b ^ »- d " — ich I b 
ention. As regards tha er of Of visitors, beginning with 
1841, the increase has been wd py po — 
e trees, lawns, walks, clamps, Rhododendrons, and the | not be answerable for The atya of their respective collections, | 1855, into be a early in 5 o 
lawns and walls, — the whole | or the steady worl wear v 
„ 
Angers. 
young mem namely, that the children be diente f 
l darela be pore Aver ^. they | 12, each with a sui 
their ‘goed z — 3 e and — other visitors, and that th 
necessarily varies the Agricu 
The 1 9 — also pnr: ine policeman, volumes 
eepers; two pin Week 
label write 
summer of 1856, and but little 
orking of their 
and are in many ways —— 
schools are admit. 
who are often ad- 
— me — — = te Gatton, b y , was put under 
M — 
nto — ps 
meg so that they — d ion: 
Houses, Museum 
ot be inco — à crowded 
kets of 
suitable 
the addition of the seco! 
Bardens or ierat oec eda of visits 
J 
tationery for the f readers 
th eners, — the direction of the 
o extensive series of magnified 
and “pots nical scenery which hangs 
dur plicate specimens from the Museums are 
and n — energetically urged; and they mostly 
rom publio Mei icem f and especially provincial 
s. But I need hardly remark that the preparation, 
articles wi 
In most instances t y 
ben d 
in con- mus 
conservation, and naming of museum 
— ——. labour, ver pcs 
eserved ir 
r museum objects ne: — ces Img and orba edi de 
A More ing to that of 
pelootisig, correctly 
* 
each of 3000 copies, of the 
€ been ae old, between the years 1846 | 
impressions of the more rece "4 Es spe cimens is trifl 
4.85 eking: 8 
| by a wire fence from the Botanic iade is 1257 
ch time it o it has been | ou prima seen i 
vation of every tree and a which who should be 
Sar of f those tothe H will stand the Vend the open ar in this climate. An active and WX proper selection of x 
genera DM mass of people, ite THE Foreman superintend it, who has one 1 
rie e ouses an useums, the eagerne:s Dtm 
with — they ore curious and interesting middle 8 feine are TX open to the public from the ihe 
the 
plants and their ucts, aud s read the notices and eject 
tions given in the Guide ‘Books and . to — * objects 
in the pee, all evince that such privileges minister food 
to the . lth to the 
ane The gr mber of perso 
coe hes "ir have free access to all 
ix Tu The best attended months, 
June, LN k ugust, 
w^ to the 
peri. A as been 
8 are 
mbered 
— the Ferns, 
a 
tiole, 
of 
c M ree et described by the 
the rare Cinchona, or best Peru’ 
noble collection of Sikkim a Rhod: 
— of objects of lesser 
atti 
me 
laim for duplicates, and in certain cases it 
mate the Loca he with than. But it is plainly more rid 
vantage than to that 
y rmi the Cycads and | sapply the 3 
5 
same writen, the m from 6 to 14 feet ; while our own 
of the Royal Gardens, that such | race of t 
eos s fe 
„ where sim 
are 
museums being form 
he Kew Museums were 
— ation of this | established to in: m re how such institutions may be found: 
a hill in these | and conducted, t as the source. whence they are to 
W. 
been prese! 
report, an — beben ie is proposed to 
Arboret wm.—The peculiarities of the climate of England V. HERBARIU! D Vera 
e it singularly pei for the growth of a — col- rthe Kew Fer nical establisk- 
lection x “the trees and shrubs of temperate regions, from | me Herbariom and Library (eithont » which m plants. 
= l parts of the globe; and —.— arose a eminent | could not be c ae ec amed) w a des: True, 
Jar. au kn Naor 224 p baei ken pv —— to me 
eh 3 — - — ted in a suitable — * the A nc d of the 
pursuance of this object, the best suited localities in these | 255 mn ha wire — n, with th the needful attend 
evo a eger yo age of — ants, to all men of scie And in 1855, as fully 
c Wil- 
well-disp osed 
vast number of carefully-named trees adap j 
and to judge of their effect in the lawn, 
— 
engaged i in subjects connec 
In proof 905 aged assertion, I 
mor e 
u pri 
¢s.—There are two in the one spec ET 
; 
with o ornamen — 
Both are 
to be à very useful 
. In 1856 it furnished 10101 trees (c ar raea and Elms); 
part 185 7, 4100 trees ; and in ig 2175; 
ing | th 
voee ¢ oed numbers) fro: 
1 ipeo pem 
and shrubs o: 
grounds at Kew with no | Hons nd some ee 
losed. eere 
ke.—A sheet of water in such extensive and noble | meet with prom; 
been a desideratum. It is | statements, ae oes 
—— — —.— their mis and Libary, 
ks and — 
Howe u e the ier ) and it will be in vie 
e n onservatory. Hith 
most im nant service to Indian 
botany, rescui 
Hectis f pla 
ernment by o 
3 — Siad accumulating for 30 years in the cellars of the Tullia Hu mre, 
m consequence of the urgent remonstrances that eu ianated 
S atre x LE sx to fe fe hin esa 
ae ode 10,000 yards w: requi 
5 the new Conservatory at but a — 
