THE GARDENERS' . AND AGRICULIURAL GAZETTE. [Jury 30, 198. 
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daylight was , Laurels, and even Rhododendrons, t ich cover the pots oft 
entirely excluded, = su edi a ore tha t| fine and vri as ae 73 eing fr soret | wi e hc aa effect. 2 of the upper P 
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€ would fall upon tle heir he th consisted in g E ut de Gone garden oe d 8 ne MI 
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tinge ^ the plan: 
TE though they had been ashe 
—.— — 5 - S oF Bid House could be bert z any other E eet Street, Westmin S : e q, 
t This year - tried experiments on the — John's ial gro a, d though nae — 
same subject. I os v vegetables in a pla ie b. is w 8 S e e aa in Fe ute sunk some 3 "ue baler 
4 f which I su er ins j „ is so full of f 
——— ae 8 0 ih a reflector to alt titnately wievetitum Green leaves, gay flow ys Vu plants as to be extremely rum and 
parma the light upon the plans They have grown and gracef ul forms of vegetation are evidently of alla — mound is thrown against the 
up a beauti titel dak E k green. I also ligh hted a green- | increasi 5 in a arkable degree among even from w ich it extends in th Points ore 
ium with lamps every night, and find it not only |the worst parts of London, as well as n dis- | greater portion of the area.“ Its summit anteil 
inereases ve, ation but gives a beautiful deep tricts more favourably situated. Nothing is more | are then shelved for = accommodation of sides 
g , | common to see baskets and pots gaily deco- in pots, and what is occupied by the 1 Duis 
rated with b illiant flowers suspended in th ris 
the covered with large white flints 
d that the writer did not r s E g ats and shells 
t b ing his real name kitchen ‘‘areas” of streets which ten years ago the of the window hangs 3 
d ate, hiss “he aes wh it relates is 15 N not boast a single break to the dismal mono- Campana garganica, and below RU n 
one of — e inte — y of a dusty sooty surface h zed in 
— on the action -of sat i improved horticultural skill has brought Geraninms, 
any experi 
to be found this about pu annot be doubted ; the metropolitan A. usk, and numero ud P unes 
artificia 1 light on vegeta 505 e ritis the Temple E the well kept trailing 275 Lobelias. In s embed dis 
mes half it 
of h n 
scattered ee 3 the “tings : me actic ai | park on the wg st of London, the superb Botanic er Moneywort winding about sto 
ication. NDOLLE ex bes 
x application, pA six ir exposed, Š to about hein not onl RE iner M the love for flowers, | little plants of Aucubas and Box, In the 
5-Gths daylight, and he found that but taught people how to preserve and enjoy cm ment muc ste is displayed, and the plants 
after a time, having been kept in the dark during at home. The hundre ds bot thousands of weary, appeared to be all in the highest health, Other 
the dav and been only thus illuminated at night, | street-sick holiday makers who swarm im hess examples of a similar kind may be found in the 
they changed their hours of “sleep” as it is places gradually contract a fondness for plants, | same street, but by no means so striking as this, 
termed, expanding their oar night, and | which | they are eager to foster ; and when the ey find In the aristocratic neighbourhood of 
that D ord | are a few brilliant examples of baleony gardening. 
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heir 8 nee the influ- as much dec oration as the most precious, there One of zi ae is at No. 22, Grosvenor Place, 
ofa 3 remains no reason Why their ee inl not P where a — — of the 
The same able physi siologist was led by his expe- | gratified. Some Searlet Runner RM Vorige as 2 l as the top of a eie A co, isat 
riments to infe r that“ artificia majors, or REM Bind w del f the hedge- | present a blaze of foral bea 
like natural light," and hence he eee bx ah rows, Pelargon Pinks, Mon eywort, a cheap | decorative plants employed hos we dad white 
during the long ek wii of northe | evergreen or fo; "a little water, and a Me care and purple Petunias, Geraniums, yellow Cals 
con ight be so at, 1. a the idle min HIS of necessary dm e place|larias, and plants of that description; and seranh- 
as no longer to suffer from want . (See „ will, withou t further T ling over the railings are Nasturtiums and Con- 
his Phys. Veg., p. 1087.) Nevertheless 3 in another convert the dirtiest nA d n Bloomsbury into a|volvuluses, the whole producing a fine 
place DE CANDOLLE maintains the doctrine that Lee summer garden Over the front of No. 15 was a series 
di ly resolved is no exaggeration. The taste of the|arches covered with Virginian Creeper, and from 
e v public is unmistakeably 8 the centre of each arch hung baskets of flowers, 
reepers, Vines, a 
two statements are Sel each other. e mon in the *' shay of the h chen. So fas E amni 6 occur o b n house fronts in this neighbour- 
have a always regarded artificial de as|indeed, is this change operating, that in inca [f ee ae latter at e t hadly mildewed. 
mis, sd or no effect upon the functions ears we may expect to find some parts of 8, Sloane Street, 5 a tolerably guy 
e the summer time one universal garden. ante of bur oun windows 11 
RM appear, hawer, from the statemen: y of illu sm t this 5 the | Convolvuluses € Virginia 20 and in 
the Manchester Ex 3 — —.— are Areia 7 examples decas A soto ing ^ Fuchsias, pink a white Petunias, white 2^ 
wrong. Should ags where it was dus. xp leaf and other Gofenlosft and Moneywort, the 
the eye of the writer we run that st he will $ avon our They rx e aiii Lund Sn s skill have i f 
t No. 177, Great Colleg ge Street, Euston 
subject, and also mention in what work of In an “area” between Nos. 27 a 28, Blooms- béaut of Mig te - Geranium: 
MEET. the ie experiments referred. to by im are | bury Street, isa Aai Vine loaded d fruit, at — — d 5 — s follows "o 
0 b f Pea. The bunches promise to | Hay b G e 
ia te Friburgensis, a very scarce book whioh we be of fair average sas, ‘and x: f judiciously thinned si - Tin = and one in the > 
ever saw. » 
why t e berries should ket p i 
on light,* but ume nd ripen per rfec y- Dust t seem 
of the M 8 yo di ed sale E in- Les us ket. enemy with which the Plant has 85 
formation from some more accessible source. ontend, and a 
ould he a us with the particulars of his 5 — time to 9 vod “clear it 15 that. Of 0 
own experiments we would ask him to accompany soil it appears to have little, the roots being siste 
= with a few of the leaves that ines acquired | boxed up against the — n very small co 
eir „beautiful green colour” under the sole nevertheless the plant is perfectly healthy, and 
influence of lamplight. x AEE m w a east, as high | well afterwards. In this way ry fine b 1 
: ig Ones eNO e floor. The win 5-of No. „ bee Geraniums givi "x 
Iris a fixed idea with some persons that our- nearly opposite, contain wena full of flow wering | paca the | Migi nette yields scent. 
DOOR GARDENING is impossible in Lonpon, and plants intermix cubas and even Arbor-| At ub eee in the corner 
te wi 
vite, and below the “area” is full of Ge eraniums E toad, the landlord 
8 ill-kept squares are poin: inted at proofs and other gay though inexpensive flowers. Flemish ene his premises 
rather dis fact, 2 we are "enel In ord Square and Gower Strest gardening | not only in the balcony, but also i 
to dirty Geraniums and boxes o f starved Migno- is chieff fi i i imi i 
hiefly confined to the kitchen windows, which | ba lar to th sed in the Cryst: 
Shien easily enough by those who care sac — pe -— as at Nos. x — 36, ornamented Tho baskets e piara- full of De 3 
onvolvuluses, Gerani and ‘commo: N ti the latter fes 
"ra the carent we have VE protested, Korvat; vulgarlx called « Cree ping Jenny,” | th the eben jue talay is also so full 
ai — ardene e 8 down I due annt mes the top of Geraniums and Nastur prp as to be » 
e enjoy- | or e tidie e of the handsomest are Irish Yews, which make not only a 8° 
3 J capa Et € its little fleshy | ground, but from their sombre appearano ves. 
2 | u fact, | the greatest neatness Jie arranged om its branches with | vary the colour. Early in the den ou opaque 
fis apri en: one of c ess, If the good | often ding e i rem cu the latter|is filled with Stocks, which eie ma 1 
olks W. the streets of London were never appearance is at all times srg aa 2 ; 57 ad ont tent om cà Toot 
B 
wash themselves they v — find 0 the 
thy, 
fence as de aded er a deeorated as it is everywhere at present grouped on the ground along the sides 
when 
ion pretty yellow flowers, it — one of the most within the railings. 
| je e Ta 
oth : ew Flants. 
through it. That gli me „ Front it 
the health of most nb i bo 15 rc ape Torey sees — lan t 
pront 40 years ago by — of an . lois ieri n = fanciers, the 1 “The root of this remarkab è RTT f shy f 
f a building contain fs odious with song gen rally apering, thick, e 
wv gg d 23 ind rice 8 At No. emit feom 3 ihe to fre CE a 
Gu tre of 
the wi 3 —.— t dive sat 
y look very pretty. adense 
taper laced at he d Set one s poe mr : EE sci d incen 
becom — raili né en pain miniature 
by 8 air, they a [also BA — a a foot oot or so below the window ing base, obtuse, * ee a at scales v 
