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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[January 26, 1895, 
bowling-greens, with Perennial Rye-grass, is about 
the most economical and the most effective in the 
end. ymnasiums form capital resorts and afford 
capital exercise for both boys and girls. A few more 
clumps of trees and shrubs about the open spaces are 
h needed, keeping off, of course, the football- 
ground, Footballers in their eager anxiety for the 
io conservation of 
rubs, or flowers, and all places of that 
kind should have a wide berth from any dress grounds. 
There are shelters and band-stands, and other con- 
of the Evergreens, such as Aucubas, Cotoneasters, 
Bays, and Laurels, are browned beyond all previous 
years to such an extent as to look as if they were 
useless—however, spring will revive them again. 
Tus ALLOTMENT GARDENS 
are a portion of the Moor, but have been leased by a 
company, one of the most active members of whom 
ie. These allotment gardens 
The allotment committee 
ve to fence in what they purchase; but notwith- 
standing all thie, they are enabled to 
were only too anxious to 
have a pastime of this kind to indulge in after the 
hours of work, so that in the meantime there is less 
demand ; but the cessation is likely to be only tem- 
porary. The system here is to parcel out the holdings 
in divisions of ten to the imperi 
parties, even to the extent 
of going beyond the famous three acres,” and some 
tenan graze a portion of their holdings, 
price is between £35 and £40, a very reasonable 
workable figure for good land, and with help on the 
mortgaging principle, tenants are going along well, 
This system of allotment, however, is more for those 
who make allotment-producers pa 
s to be give 
to provident people to add to their creature comforts, 
by sound, good vegetables and fruits in their 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE, 
ADIANTUM CAPILLUS- VENERIS VAR. GRANDE, — 
puis at the — arrest). Dersingham, this week, 
: ee the above Fern in 
bat gean and in fine 3 This dwarf variety, 
e Chronicle 
24, 1888, by the late Mr. T. Moore, e 
seen to be admired, — * prey t 8 
recognise its value, I 
grati i 
Mr. T. Jannock. It 
nhouse, and in pans 
ordinary eulture, 
$ stage by 
is well adapted for 
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as owing to its t hi eby gets dia- 
coloured. For fillin „ &e., it will reat 
senting rough usage; it is 
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have known Grapes to shank, the borders in which 
they were planted were in bad condition v 
examined borders which have been 
deep, and ome instances where I have lifted 
Vines, the bottom the Vine, w 
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look upon this as being very absurd, but it is neverthe- 
less a fact. Again, these deep borders were made, 
and the planters of them seem to have taken no 
consideration whatever as to the character of the 
soil they were using. In some borders I have found 
the roots of the Vines right under the drainage, and 
they have again come towards the surface, some dis- 
tance away from the border. The result of this 
was, that the roots were without any fibre, except at 
the extremities, and they had become almost useless. 
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he atmosphere. 
Grapes which were a bad colour and of poor flavour, 
t did not i 
tha 
lost all its fibre and become putty-like through 
excessive watering and bad drainage. Again, how 
n the same border, 
although some varieties grow stronger than others, 
sized bunches of fruit, which ripened off large berries, 
and not a shanked one in them. J, Lunn, The Gardens, 
Melchet Court 
STONECROPS AND SEDUM8.—These species of 
plants are very suitable for setting on those narro 
window-le ges that are not w 
These p ants have no more root-hold on the 
roof than what is afforded by the natural deposits of 
dirt, yet they 
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near the edge of the window-ledge ; inside 
little soil had been p i 
laid about. 
manage, F. [Toth 
of certain species should be added, for although not 
quite hardy except close to the sea in — and 
Western counties, ich are very 
easily wintered. Perhaps some of our orrespondent 
ll Kindly furnish a list of the best of these. Ep.] 
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PINUS EXCEL8A,— 
y surface, measured 1 
85 ymi and ebe cumference of the ** 
n e tree was feathered to the ground 
yas, af 
bole at 3 feet from the rot ction mad ethrough the 
l t metri: 
tree a beautiful object, which fet ae 
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off by the darker Coniferg surrounding jt, Thats 
were eight large cartloads of the small branches, 
i d, which was hea = 
its foliage is not so elega 
in colour, A. Harding, Orton Hall Gardens Petey 
borough. 
HILL'S EDEN.—Mr. Hemsley does not seem tohe 
aware of a second edition of this work, dated IN 
I may say that my edition is dated 1773, and it is 
entitled “ the second edition, corrected and enlarge, 
with the addition of twenty folio plates of ner 
plants, now first raised in the Royal Gardens, Key’ 
It has evidently been reprinted, as the Daff il is 
e in the Royal Gardem a 
periode since the year | 
when this work was first published.” 
rubra 
(Crimson Meadow Sweet), Amaryllis undulata (Way 
Fairwort), Ginothera laciniata (Jagged-tree Pri 
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Genista striata (Streaky Broom 
longifolia (Wavy Crown Imperi 
i (Embroidered Bitteret.h), Vio 
obliqua (Uneven Violet), Rhamnus scandens (Ciar l 
bering Buckthorn), Viburnum lanceolatum (Lanei 
Mealwort), Aloe Caroliniana (The Carolina Alt), 
Scutellaria pilosa. There is an excellent 
Dr. John Hill in this edition, dated 1757. There 
no publisher’s name; the i 
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Steevens, the Shakesperian critic, had a bitter sal 
Thos. 
Noilekens and His Times, When he 
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epenthes, at page 293, hs says, “ The eco 
yes ith the increasing lat 
compilation from Mil 
Since finishing these short notes 
in e Li 
says, “ I believe I forgot to tell how Dr. Bill Pas 
s Herbal, H 2 N 9 
have from m en G i 
whom this print-mender told it, profanet g 
‘I make plants now every day that ¥™ 
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dreamt of. J. Douglas. 
at a rough guess, would be a 
By cutting down this timber or 
(which had hitherto been the 
