Ocroser 22, 1859.] 
--, 
troduced are already planted out here in the open air, 
- J. 
T NM — meadows, intersected by canals d 
water 
a south directi tion, at right 
body of the building. This gree 
— ponds — running st reams, walks 
of d 
angles with t] 
the first, a cold ho 
enues, | tains a large collection of seedling 
THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND eR GAZETTE. 
ep rincipal 
reenhouse is sided int 
3 feet 10 inches, "This t tree required nine strong horses 
se, con- 
Calceols ag * 
each com 
gardens, hunting- boxes, statues, more or less 
ruins s 
: an 
must say the 
corn fields, sheep “of English breed, 
cows inferior in ee to E best e 
— here and d give to the whole 
appearance, which, a although —— a little | 
has a grand and 
ms 
countr. 
he yp 
is N a Le 
amongst them there are fi 
antarcti um, 
‘alam 
— yet on the whole 
a rance, xs 
and —— Zalacca Blumeana, 
The yt 
Solin. ‘of „Ferns; 
The largest Holl trans 
with — — 6 feet 
This tree was 
planted was 40 feet in — 
Ia inches in circumfer 
8 5 
oaa 
above 8 tons. 
: Immense Yews w we re transpla: nted 
us micranthus, niger, viminalis, 
br 
off, the — of | the ball a — tree bein 
mbe f la ge 
58 
4, feet 
and fu Em 
10 inches 1 
Quanti ties of Cole of Yau 
were dva — 
on 
; plant ations some di stance off, 22 being 30 fee t 
Maximiliana regin 
f the stem 3 feet 3 inches, 
Some dn E Cedars were 3 this s; M is. 
to be s 
The old — formi t of the ancient 
of Enghie en is parti — bet ; it has been 
l and its rich sculptures and — 
— may be looked | upon as marvels of art. Noo 
13 A h& that H this apt ome 
when looking on the massive walls of this old feudal 
tower, now, Love covered with a close growth 
Hon 
Tt was not until we had for hours through 
the avenues and winding s of this vast possession 
Palm), Chamadorea elegans and 
parviflora, Bactris 
very rare Plec 
decorated w 
Vis-à-vis to this co conservatory, or 
Menara 
his X3 
road: 
that we reached the hoth — — in 
the rest of this N 
residence. 
" 
je by 
to 12 right wing nf the 
built, for the — 
pygmea, 
— and er bids nh | 
e back 
2 
ccessful with large trees requin 
The ? trees were prepared the year before p 
cutting the large roots to induce them to mare fibres, 
the The 
ith Orchidea pl Javed — 
ng it, and 
3 
ecently had a 
th e frame wo 
fin wc and 
ripe 
ball of carth 5 hold to; 
hen A in [s and 
t 7 in 
largest tree shi 
| the circumference of the Mon, 6 fes 
bout 23 la rbor-vitæ were cp i but 
mh trees to shift, ig 80 fibrous- 
TOO! shifted 
cir * 3» stem 
4 2 
'The — 
ome, surmounted by a graceful cu 
facing the south, i 
+} 4 + 1 22. 
acted of hewn in the centre of this 
mmense glazed — rises a pavilion near! E 
5 yards high, where Palms and other tropical 
plants which require space kept. W 
= c 
the Toen effect p amg ther ore 
d hich 
f the celebrated Victoria Reg ia 
„with the immense roun: 
floa 
— a pr dem with a hemispherical | a 
la. Under it there 
— 
oating | on its wate! 
* 
erso 
walking there are not 
| high no erature that necessarily 
are placed ro 
allow visito: 
r, perhaps there are not in all 
Europe finer «€ — specimens D of Palms. Here we 
find Sabal umbraculifera, Diplothemium campestre, 
Nee Bert id mire it 
| by the oppressive atmosphere. 
| 
borbonica, the stems of whi — ^s ur measure less than 
8 feet in circumference, e fronds — 2 
ed 
the be tatr 
considerable co 
—— to break — "ae I 
bserved also superb specimens of Cocos 
plumosa, fernambucensi sis, ole 
chil 
ilensis: 
exuosa, 
p^ ronata, — | Al 
iplothemium australe (Cocos — and argentea ; 
Adansoni — glaucescens; Elaeis melan 
D DE olia, Latania rub 
Livistona 
ceful Cham 
imperceptibly r 
a | objection will be removed ; the par 
rs 
without bat anno 
ictori as well as most Nymph assed 
flourish 1 ide | the influence of moving water which is b ade 
enewed. Let us hope that 
rk of 
so that | 
inconvenienced by the 
attends such a place. | 
5 the basin upright | 
around the 
seas, will o only 
nom mall 
Enghie en m 
ay For 
he 
eet aches, and of the i nches 49 feet; 
arge W ecping Ash, 30 feet high, the circumference 
of — stem 3 feet 6 i — a Cedrus Deod rafted 
[m the Cedar of * 30 feet high, . 
— =, = feet 6 — mq Maius “a e am — 
ruce were shifted here in 1857, - 
p à any of | - — evergreens, o o thei eir sce 
[tei in an * = tion. I ‘tha they » will not 
ar any windy Eg un in shel 
situations. As a lawn ime or 
| of the most graceful 2 
sheltered by 2 
William Tillery, We 
ws . 
Thistles i — The mos S country 
where hints — the "destruction — Thistles might be 
5 nited Stai 
picked up would be the U 8, where, as in the 
e 
0 
e — was literally 
scarcely open the 
"the sides of the railroads were 
72.8 ag PIE: 
nia 
ve to this co er th 5 of a tropical 
A — of 2 rare a pe a australis must 
be noticed, for it reely i Europ 
yo | 
trived building of the kin 
| the Journal d* Hi 
d — the Continent. From; 
quete bower LARGE EVERGREEN AND 
DE 
Havine had consi 
deciduous trees, perha 
ur columns. 
not be 
—— as the set has — lately mo mooted in 
Some trees operated 
» igit tons in weight, and 
IDUOUS TREES. 
2 
here 
one 
se, ith en 
— nine strong — 
the machines with the heaviest trees. 
achines of differen m 
ing w eA surprising ae The Yankees, like the good 
people of Van Diemen’s Land, look upon mr 
perfect plague. I — not heard what r 
e ado uam to check or vw sd E 
rch o; LE nelle ican journals dey 
medy the — 
Es a careful 
tod r^ agri e 
vum 
years had 
acres of old park and 
indeed with luxuriant batches 
well-establish -I was told these — never 
oe unted however I set 
be 
set to work in 
al ove 
ith old men — 
lads; with h paddles, I had them cut off just under the 
the Thistles 
poe ae — ‘nation ter what variety, and w 
dle cu 
— kept pretty close together, a little boy ith a 
A 
purpose 
hal the prki experience also has 
— rportion othe we ae —.— — 
i ns; most are 
ndr but. will still Jas last. Tor T years. 
in many pla ng the right ere * this pavilion 
Contains a quantity of —€— 
common Collections, and for 
resti mell Dra 
dr 
met with in| 
Sadh y Teroa all the 
— that such trees eer —— no ape 
—— has been that, 
e transplantation. My e 
wever tte = and well p 
— nch to each cut Thistle. 
— rains set in some tha 
appearance 
and also some of those t 
warm weather and — 
not been salted in 
ge | luxuriantly — Jue 
to — 
possible will 
utila 
mutilated roots DE — first ay —— trans 
at work 
ee 
and if properly fun 
were mu 
em slt they will 
cynaroi is lanceolata ta (fror 
Pinus canariensis and gi eme Banksia 
Ery Ke. [We ca 
nd | la 
m 18 to | i 
t say purpose. 
— 
E 
ergreens 
n your columns from 
ews, Cedars . 
sible —— on the ‘transplanting of 
in the summer months have lately ap 
veral correspondents. * Although |! 
anted with the 9 vg any 
in a weak —— — 
r | more run over, and th 
ly | there 
„ I 
seeing a beautiful N 
Arable land is —€— sos clear of all such pets by 
ies n Hemlock 
of these.] 
"rm m ms — hothouse and 
dy rims 
— d transplanted th len no sie = 
for Bit beauty 
is (Curatella 
imperialis ( ) 
mexicana, 
ng injured 1 in of s 
— — 
— Dik, arte "Pilates  Juglandi- 
fais 
such a as es I — 
— sar ee 
ymus speciosus, Aralia elegan - 
Y cages. and Sieboldi ; - Galactode > Papy | 
utile 
servatory is — in per- 
d lan ts — e fi h alth f 
More th re than 50 plants 6 » n an in fine hea and orm. 
857, 
1858, 155 
st of the largest z ‘he —— viris may 
The first 
—— inten 
was a Mulberry, wid a stem 5 feet 4 i 
ree was removed from the — — 
garden to a new one which was — here 
ference; this tree 
In e past sume bore tothe 
on form a — a coup d'ail, wit 
bunches of red coral flowers, We ha piera: 
pecies so well cultiv ated and 
p sect 
mt 50 paces from this last 
allery there is a low 
roofed greenhouse situated a j i 
a hi 
gard 
1 it being origi 
— — 
"4 second — mov. 
days 2 e 
surface exposed to E 
shift, I T no doubt that Plenty | t 
—.— 
was a Pinus 
ittle in front, and in] 45 feet in height, with the circumference of f the stem 
qme that 
— for the | ca 
to 
ty illin 
ood dst co — 
— ee 3 
M 
succeeding crop at a g 
at the pro per season 
"is ] 
othe 
just read your ua. on the “Plague of Thistles,” 
whieh i int erests m uch. You ask, * But what | 
assume? 
mua eee is — answered. Pass . Act 
Thistles a nuisance, and 
— a N 
exerting himself to the nuisance 
to o the wf utmost to te penalties — 
I shall 
inches in circu — 
mui 
the 
stoc 
A moderately — 
