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grow them 
— us all jJ d Tiat this country t 
e rare eote bg out of doors — 
reatly at seeing our ‘walls one | 
roduction. of | 
spring; a 
as in this ery and all o 
fford pe m during the 
few trying weeks of March and Apri, and to produce 
71 
ot requi re any spec 
1 does n ial g 
tions. A lady might, with de tag relieve T4 
this de lightful occupation. In the | 
ways been a | monotony of making holes upon cambric and sewing | likes, possess his attie — qun with E — 
again — 
** 
| the 
sd 
By an arrangement of t 
after it P lt aua de ay autumni Sowers, e as 
uch glass 
| win bio ge 
-! 
spri 
against frosts by closing the ‘shutters; v very littl ter | 
pos. P = inter, as the trees require to | 
hibe te, and w acts as a stimulant. 
more l 
temperature like 
East, the nataral home of our finest. wall. Te without 
the dry yet 
anc 
rough e season p the final autumn pruning, 
n the rehard i is once more pat to sle cep. All these | 
stov s, boilers, 
luxuries, which the ror Mw d UO the desi- 
ae and that Mr. Rivers — SOM with, 
of healthy tastes. The trees are all b rought microscopi- 
cally, as it were, py u$; we oa the buds perfected 
all direction, [9^ for the use of y * É 
E anner Mu — 3 Fade well as 
i may noi iced in such situ and 
| — there is * 
ations ; 
v^ pe the construetion of 
very * — “ Ore inted from 
Once 
s in Cheapside.” Repri: 
e terms, his “orchard-hou the b n, rchard-house in ome Correspondence. 
8 vig full " v one of * e most beautiful sights in horti- he Pampas Grass.—About a year ago I had the 
e meet with in great garden: s, but ouses, con- | cultu watch with — greater in the mcm of — you from Scotland in refer- 
— so simply that any — of 5 9 — weeny rat ripe fruit. e has id, | ence to this very Showy and interesting autumn plant, 
may — them for himself; they are nothing | “that the eig f ouse is vk ladies’ billiard-table ;” — was then gardener to the ope of Wemyss and 
more, in fact, than low wooden-sided i po and certainly a m rong 5 occu — ioi * — them EN h. I spoke v it as uy uita — — shrub- 
glass — As is indow- i ing,|could not well be Peac! ines, or rries, and that even plots be 
, mortising, or the cost is very incon- | A — — a — whai seen of the plant 
siderable, A span-roofed orchard-house, 30 feet long by harming] tal, | here I am Ihave n 
14 feet wide, with a height tothe in the | especially the Apricot, the golden fruit of which con- | in its favour, "There isa — specimen of it t in 
8 feet, sloping down to 4 feet on arma side, ean be con- | trasts — op with the green leaves, and what — fall bloom here at present for a — 
and has 
| past, anà it — aedem by far the finest I ha 
—— ted by any carpenter for 27“. 10s.; smaller lean-to be more quaint or delicious than to pluck your ow 
ses for very con nsidera rably ! ess; estimates for w hich fruit from te living tree ornamenting the mn | seen or heard which : believe willbe 
our who ma tabl pm within the limits of this | acceptable io mal of your readers. The c umference 
experiment in home fruit grow z= find carefully article to attempt a ny di rections with A rd to the | the plant i 
n forth in Mr. Rivers's origir inal ] ittle work ‘ m it, and there were a few cut off; height: k- stems 9 to to 
Orchard House," e by Tongues, One of hese these - domestic pi al we would rather | refer the | n feet, 5 — of flower 2 to 3 feet or nearly. It is 
p to Mr. Rivers's little volume for these par- of bloom and has a very pic turesque è effect. n 
the Pı —— of locality dt is it ; it is pl 
7 The ay tro fords abondanceat ight Er T essential to inform our reader, however, that in Grass and in one of the shrub! is 
soma — vies its protection gives a dry fai surrounded by Cedrus Deodara and other interesting 
e h the fruit is sure * a me * ^ rather than the rule. We all know hi 1 very kindly here. My employer 
maturity; ; Whilst the vigour of the tree i is insured by f th f Shannon informs me it was planted 4 years 
hutt h infi 2 hee and all ago, — "lis lordship, who takes a t interest in 
which admit a constant and abundant current of air othe inde of blight, including th still more t rare Conifers and 
f hothouses, K the Evergreens advised me to give the plant a 
The atmosphere 
produced, beds are made, composed of 
loam and manure, on either side ri the 
88 not for our orchard to 
And here begins the si fiis a 
eulture. Any one who h 
as grown fruit trees must be 
n but » Nan 
AT of this 5 preg of e 
ds 
two ice n 
t ve 
application 0 of | the ‘new patent —— — good dose 
dily dissolves 
ications of this ‘compound inte 
d also abou 
of -it, and the It has been very — 
eaves of these 
One or 
most shri | pae 
once 2 injuring "the points of the tender growing | 
aware that their roots are 2 travellers : they pene- shoots s, as th e fumes of sulph ur or the decoction of | 
frate under the garden wall, crop I But it may be 
and penetrate into tl ld drai ; they seek their food, | asked, what is the — guia esulting from this 
in fact, as the cow wo k^ y nei". w, — from 2 3 of trea We reply, in poiut, 
place to place, and, lik they, to a certain | ize, quantity and pais jug the fruit is greatly superior | 
extent, exhaust 8 in rs > oka. Un * such to 22 given by the old method of wall training, 
circumstances artificial aid is of little avail, you cannot An orchard moore — feet long T 14 feet "ds will | 
hold cularly trained Peach trees, or two 
The plant ‘is n & ‘ond of moisture, and is not 
easily affronted with a large share of what is sometimes 
called the M —.— — John Addison, e ener to 
the M of Sha 
lway — on Nursery Goods.— The excessive 
Pierre made by the railway companies for the con- 
stall-feed | 
b EM wi with x a certainty vf 8 
Shere, - roots and 
de escriptions nveyance of which is 
the third year, and henceforth for many years (Mr. 
of goods, t the 
attended with a * a — the . — of 
nurserymen. It ma t be known to m that for 
i 
Wi, 
to pots. i. 
st do to low our rie ret to learn. It 
the effect v e desire, and this we accomplis) 
orchards in 
h 
an inch of useless wood. 
Meri “tot 
ees che 
to the pereo that rend gh w wad | “heat 81 
training his tre in the 
small 
year), will produce two dozen fruit each, or 80 dozen 
altogether, the selection of various sorts and the 
atio by the simple expedient of 
fruit 
outer en it ‘often ha’ 
—.— — — 
and then, Tet the pot i the nortireast en end of the 
use be ta taken to the south-west; a a visiting 
their ir fruit, better, inasmuch as the 
ose having s 
manner of feeding them. 
rr^ i 
of the tree; to these nutriment is given 
to humans 
na this locomotive — is another slvatiewe tha that 
orchard-house trees have over those planted against 
, Apples Pears, Grapes, Figs, and Oranges are grown 
n this —— er with the -— a —Ó— ey and 
in addition to which, instead of one hole, 
des or Nee eae err ea tom of the pot, to 
2 pira = sammie ra n compost of two- 
thirds loam and one of manure, forming the border. 
“Baty? 4 says our —— “this, after all, is but a 
the choicer ston 
— — 3 — orchard-h. t aa designed for 
5 
ants n scales by charges exist ; — for plants 
. per —— 6s. 8d. ; for 
and plants not i in ! pot, 40s 
c 
oils 
per ton 
2 
ris 
precarious s nature fi 
to | small gardens and for small p All that is 
slip T n the sum, 
37 
uired is a of ground o 
M» id alos r the 
large enough: orchard 
"o should, if 1 5 * south-east b 
appear sọ, so, bat in IS reality it isa very different 
n the fi — eg hae ofthe pt, «good 
about roots, in the sha 
good 
tree, In 
call; 
y 
in order that the full summer sun may, in te 
course of the dd fi upon all sides of the trees, 
eem is sea 
Pe of harges t 3 2 hear per take 
me steps towards seeking a r e heavy 
rato of carriage, 9s. 4d. per cwt., w. th the hs for 
iage, is causing many of the country gentry to 
its Peach- — and | 
"1 
bee. not x fi — room for 
and throw upon him these 
mn Others refuse to order so liberally as wd m 
heavy tax * 
would do because of the 
f Rhododen dre 
wha m and expen n ob 
e hone may - erected for a Mag & few. pounds, whi 
ripen i its fruit as we ell as the And tae: 
with useless. leaves and wood, 
on the roofs 
of our houses, as they. do in a Fast. Where oo 
Lim orchard-liouses is a 
are flat- leads the erection of 
* But what about the * Ls 
reat the 
round, ju 6 inches deep, 
der Simply this: we must t 
M 
d the oth er day, w 
35. 4d. „e ied fore of 41 Tis. 
the t unless Mgr 2 
e to ae . per r emt about 2114s. It would 
help the railway companies if nurserymen were 
two os headings 
rammed into its me 
delicate De we must t provide them: with 1 respirators ; |a 
will perhaps smile w 
pe mossy orchards of th 
mble-down — leaning in 
Ferte i over acres of ground, and hundreds 
of wall trees bang compressed pem a little 
and thus made mde ockingly tame b 
man, that they are forced 
barn-door fowl, for their dai 
would I smile, and that — — 5 ight, to 
oid gr he cont, wick their 
every 2 eg and 
f yards 
3 
EE 
— 
e 
videneed by t 
by the time P have done r^ work for the season. 
e T 
"e of air, woollen n etting with -inch meshes dnt 
be stretched. The small fibres projecting from these 
mes hes filter the air in the most surprising manner, as 
will be e the soot 
re intercep 
A quam living» at 
uburb of 
the same manner. 
"Bos; 1 the 
ndon, i 
midst of t 
s nursery, thus filled gen | 
"iei trees, and * ne: ucated oes such a: 
orchard or garden y dream: 
s 
T 
en to roduce 
ed of doing. 
1 once potted and placed in Me mis 
the trouble attendant spon them is not very und. 
| t 8 "city go. honses, if requir 
Glass is now so cheap, that we see no reason why the 
I boun 
| a gy dier of | of them ps win 
like t The 
the. 
find aerae Netter pr — 
edge of the Frigi Dom 
over the twine, passing the needle E the — 
