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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
(Jone 15, 1895. 
UPROOTED TREES IN THE TEMPLE.—On 
ar gay: June 7, the Temple gardeners were 
says the Daily News, in replanting the 
fice Plane trees in Essex Court, which had been 
uprooted an 
n 
ourt was nearly over- 
The trees have now been 
provided with props or wire ties. 
W NYMPH4AS.—The Revue Hortioole, Jane 1, 
cae ai a coloured plate of three new preria.) Water- 
Lilies, obtained b 
N. ng ee deep orange i N. Tapdakert i T SEN 
wers ine, with yellow stamens; and N. 
ene fulgens, flowers light carmine, tinted with 
amaranth. these, together with the yellow 
N. Marliacea, are hardy, and form glorious additions 
to our lakes. 
eee RECEIVED.—Park and Cemetery, 
vol. v., No. 2 (April, 1895), 334, Dearborn Street, 
Chicago. A journal devoted to parks and cemete- 
ries, and to the layi 
such grounds to the greatest advantage. Such a 
journal should do much good, by inducing improve- 
ments to be made 
fase of the Chrysan- 
themum will value, K contains papers relating to 
the Past Season, the — | Lene, of Eagland, 
Beds and Benches, vg e, the American 
Society, Diseases, Insec * rer Best Varieties, 
and similar details relating =À the Plant, its History 
and Cultivation.— Biology Ni es, County of Essex 
Techni ction (Couey “Technical Laborato- 
ries, Chelmsford), ver 6, 7, and 8, for March, April, 
he numbers of this publication 
as: 
Proceedings 
Meeting at Boston, February 21 
and 22, 1895 (A. T. de la Mare Printing and Pub- 
lishing Co., New Tork). This includes a report on 
the proceedings of the meeting, discussions concern- 
e diseases peculiar 
and descriptive lists of the best 
Ivy AT 05 HIR ABBEY, 
RADNORSHIRE. 
Aer has a been directed to the Abbey 
of Cwm Hir as th 
MUMES 
made one or two sketches illus- 
trative of the senna. work of Ivy. Tae fragment 
illustrated represents the base of a wall pier. An 
Ivy stem 3 inches i in diameter has bodily raised 
moved the wall to that extent, 
In s0 doing, the Ivy has split into two pieces 
three of the horizontal stones above. W. G. S 
[Another illustration of the power of vegetation to 
effect the destruction of buildings is to be noted — 
Cliveden, Maidenhead, where a branch of a Fig tr 
growing in a forcing-house has pushed itself een 
the courses pi the brick wall at the front of the house, 
and is heaving the upper courses of bricks out of 
— level. Tais branch is laden with Figs, and well 
furnished with leaves at the present time. Ep 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE, 
NA’S PRIDE POTATO. ek answer to Mr. T. 
Goddard's remarks on this variety, p. 692 in Gar- 
deners’ Chronicle for sane 1, I wish to state that it 
is our main out of 75 t may in 
some gardens be a little | 8 than rly Ash- 
leaf, but we find very little difference yon I shall 
pleased to fo h dish to try quality. 
We have plenty of “black diamond” unde h us 
at Mostyn. The e variety, Magnum Bonum, which 
grown here as the main-crop, turns out splendidly 
most years. J. Barnard, Mostyn Hall Gardens 
RANSPLANTING VIOLAS.—The relatively old 
at ay of ar Geo Violas in the autumn—say, 
at the end of September, and early in October—for 
ejing — aad as early in Februiry as the 
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be excelled. I should have thoazht that m 
i itain knew these sim ple. facts, N yet 
the matter of transplanting the Viola is being dis- 
cussed by certain of your . de . as 
if it were a novel proceeding. hat is simpler than 
to ati 7 the plant by cattings, or slightly 
rooted s slips, in the late summer, placing these 
inches apart, will fom ee planti 
stuff by the autumn entioned. a 
for mer season ait ——— derived 
mps, &c., that have rem 
bands, e 
disturbed all throùkk the summer, autumn, and win — 
with cow-shed 
nure, dig it deeply, level it roughly, tread it firmly 
— evenly all over 
— pieces in 
‘Au old. bed of Vad be desired, 6 to 8 i 
inches apart, 
old bed of Viola p 
plants will supply enough 
and a al 
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quiet place for dividing and sorting, pinati 
the stronger pieces in damp soil in one wheel- 
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barrow or trug-baskets, and the weaker in others: 
or failing these, cover the plants with dam 
nothing being pore injurious than exposure to dry- 
ing winds and sunshine. In prepar 
much of the to * * if any has remained, should 
be neatly cut off before planting, and that which ia left 
i 1 
the beds about 
nurserymen in the autu 
CEDAR OF LEBANON.—In er: grounds oft 
near . is a Cedar tre 
inclining to the s 
at 4 feet, 13 feet 2 hes; 
un north-west and south-east, the length of the 
1 eing 403 feet, and the latter 48 feet, 
a — of 105 yards. W. T., 
GARDENERS AND OLD-AGE PENSIONS.—When 
observed from a practical point of Mae the ol 
e ere success is ass by @ gar- 
dener seem to be so numerous, that but few persons 
ho are not conversant with the business could have 
apprentice to carpentry in a goo other is 
put to n The former, if he be an attentive 
the age of twenty-one; after that time he would be 
enabled to obtain full Pay. The — who com- 
menced in a garden, would have many dificul- 
superiority in many poi 
his friend the carpenter, Let us for 
see how the two progress till they are thirty years 
eek which would be about the when the 
gardener might obtain his first situation as head 
ar. 
settled w some year at the least. In the course of 
a few P } 
3 1 £. 
80 — have to ee it may be at the py ny at 
h 
What is he to do, suppos 
will have taken — * earnings t to 5 for, eren ie 
though 
—— days, many Ar mr were alen by 
the leading nurserym iaries 
betwixt employer and em 
— ar the reasons for 
testify to his h 
ever, matters are altered, and the greater nu 
eners’ posts in 
gard: ys; 
gardener who has a is friends stands a 
5 to manage a 
as at forty, but few will — 
have not e able e any rovi 
will in all probability require to 
—— therefore, who are able to do 
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