550 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
(May 4, 1895, 
nd can be obtained by the lavish use of a few 
specie 
weer ee. to the writer that it would not add 
uch to the expense pas maki ing the beds if seeds of 
Poa trivialis, P. pratensis, and Festuca ovina were 
sown after the balbha were planted, so as to hide 
mother earth somewhat by the herbage of these 
grasses; grass seeds sown in late September or 
October oe sufficiently by the April following 
to attain this end, and it would cena enhance the 
floral aa of each bed. Pro bono publico 
DROPMORE. 
Ir is specially n to learn, that however 
e arm 
great may ha done generally, that 
this fine place and its oble trees and shrubs 
passed through the severe winter and the later fierce 
windstorms almost unsc A oniferse are 
thanks to the abundant tree cover, are all unhurt. 
ery little change is being made, as all the old 
favourite features 
Now and then some fresh t 
but there is little room for work of that description. 
In every sense Dropmore remains one of the most 
secluded, sheltered, and enjoyable of places, and it 
seems as if weeks might be spent in walks amidst 
ming 
not be so much of bloom on the Ponticum forms of 
the former, Azaleas will prese blooming most 
indeed in great 
3 Dropmore they 
roses are 1 „some b - 
tel e are 0 ag “finely in the flower 
gardens. pale-hued ones in a semi-wild form, 
and others of i har bolder and richer hues in beds. 
All sorts of Daffodils and Dog’s-tooth Violets, Squills, 
and similar hardy early 2 bloom here abun- 
dantly. The old "sates 
| are not so 
enduring, Herrin has wisely provided 
against such contingencies by ting both in the 
more especially in the 
stiffer soil doing wonderfully well; stout, aturdy, 
yet largely full of fruit · bude, that wi make each 
little tree a 
‘youn alike 
are full of bud, and promise an bloom, 
berries usually „it is found 
best to treat Noble practically as a biennia!, for 
taken from 
a south border 12 inches apart each way, and a very 
early and fine crop is produced, thus the same 
is recropped 
the i There is in the woods an old wild 
having three or four 2s, and from out of the 
hb +h e form t 2 large Yew 
e t down the main stem, 
It is needful to have an abundant supply of 
vegetables, and to help through ‘the winter some 
5000 of stout Seakale roots, are obtained from root 
cuttings each year. Cabbages have atood the winter 
well, and are jut turning in. Even white Broccoli 
have stood fairly well. N of the yey 
Abundance—Mr, Herrin’s own raising— 
of the houses, Ayena fruit in abundance, aad will 
carry a wonderful crop. 
AMERICAN HYBRID 
CYPRIPEDIUMS., 
N our number for February 16 we gave a list 
Mr. H. J. — of tho i gion 
The names of the paren 
r — were also given. 
given to the Gardening Charities. 
ee a similar list of French-raised forms W 
8 issued (p. 370), and we now take fro 
Gardening of March 23 a cor responding enumeration 
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ROTATION OF OR Ops. 
A COMPREHENSIVE and valuable pamphlet of some 
sixty-four pages has lately been 
issued 
N Experimental 1 4 RAD 
by Si 
is essen 
y to consider, both in What 
the practice itself consists, and how its benefits ara 
to be explained 
If the rolatiod of -E as bing! in England, 
and over large portions o 
in the 
graminaceous crop—Maize— 
which largely takes the place of root- -crops in 
Europe. 
The ce ereals—Wheat, Barley, Oats, &c,.—eo 
it was natural that they should be grow 
almost continuously, so long as the land would JA yield i 
5 crops, ence, the history of agricul- 
ture shows that it very generally came to be the j 
custom to grow = cereals for a number of years in 
succession, and then to have recourse to bare fallow; 
or, in some cases, ai abandon the land to the e growth 
of rough and weedy herbage, affording scanty food 
for 2 animals. 
The improvement upon these practices, * 
very 
a legu 
e ee the introduction of 
which is of comparatively recent 
It was, in sy oe recognised by the Romans 
o thous 
succeeding crops—in fact, that they were of value 
as restorative crops grown in alternation with the 
cereals, There is, however, very scanty indication 
that root-crops were an element in their alternate 
cropping. 
As in the agriculture of the N so in that of 
pae modern times, especially wn country, 
us leguminous crops were een in * 
vith leuk long before roots were so interpolated. 
It was, indeed, not until about the year 1730 that 
as Secretary to 
ing as a field oop on his return, int 
his own estate or 
celebrated Norfolk four-course rotation of Turnips, 
"RS Clover, and Wheat. 
His own land was A top to a great extent a 
value was increased 
enormously under the new fet . 
It was thus that the four-course rotation, or, in 
other okie the alternation of root-crops and of 
wh 
It is wo: aay m remark that, although we owe the 
introduction of the essential elements of our rotā- 
rer system, than 
e or than in America, under whatever 
f climate, or under whatever system of h : 
or of aià of holdings. 555 
There can be no doubt that the effect of wie! 
was—to 4 a 
cially for winter feeding; so as to lead to 
increased prodaction of meat and vray 
increased supply of manure, and thus 
