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THE GARDENZRS 
CHRONICLE. 
217 
age become tinted with pale lilac; and the double 
purple, which is inferior as a decorative plant to 
i i A 5 
is known in 
oer The first three appear to be getting scarce 
plants, they were scarce fifty years 
im- 
t that declines in health as soon as it 
is no doubt but that the 
fine specimens sometimes met with in cottage 
gardens are petted plants, and therefore well 
looked after. Of methods of propagation, that 
by means of cuttings is preferable to division 
of the roots in Septembe 
when the shoots are to 12 inches in length, 
dividing shen into three joints in length, the 
Fie. 44.—CcARPET-BED, RAVENSWORTH PARK, HAMMERSMITH. 
rincon bud being taken out, otherwise it may 
become a bloomiag shoot. A bed for the reception 
of the —— should be р under a wall, or 
l in а small ; and a com f 
to um d in, e up by mixing three- 
ellow 1 with one of sharp sand, 
faking care the 1 lattar i is in qosin MM. = surface, 
The paopao 
bel a good 3 is ед 
the frame, and the 
An о 
0 very su ecesaful with the 
culture of the double Rocket, states :—“ Where it 
e soil in which they are 
planted; e it will cause a sath exuberant growth, 
heavy ; in such the plants will grow stocky, they will 
throw man ms, and bloom in thick dense 
spikes 1 foot in length. » of the ol 
growers who & of this plant would allo 
their plants to bl but twice only, considering 
they bad reached their highest 
when they flowered the second time. А few cuttings 
hould therefore be struck 
every year, so that a 
succession of plants may be assured. B. D. 
ARAUCARIA IMBRICATA AT BOURNEMOUTH — 
мн. Bek arte semuke about the посни Ріпев 
an ark. Alderbury Vicarage, in 
the Gardeners’ Chronicle for July 20, reminds me of 
some flattering notes I made last year of the - 
frees seen in 
h symme ап uty of 
Araucari The lines Kias each side of the main 
walks mee in robust health, and specially greon and 
flourishing. It seems a mis керк any number 
of —— of Chili Pines avenues, as mo 
ciate the name fh lines of overarching verdure and 
и and it would be impossible for Araucarias бо 
form в — however high or wide they might 
grow. evertheless, regular lines or ranks of 
aucarias, Or groups or m of them, 
very original ap ЖО ossibly, ard 
right about the soil being — light sandy peat 
out Bournemouth. cotch and other 
i n it, and so pe the Araucaria. 
i : 2e I have seen the Chili Pine do well on loams 
ous texture. Provided the latter is well 
drained, fairly dry, а moist genial atmosphere —— 
M more to do with its verdure and health than 
At Castle Kennedy in Scotland, 
m as in 
Uaited Kingdom, fine Ага 
Bat in East Anglia, the climate seems too dry A it. 
n under E care for da 
e; this ч was 
No surface care, however, nor top-dressing could 
atop the botto b from i 
This fine speci Owever, was о 
loam. Others on lighter soils, however, followed 
its example oid ра , ла of 
the Саш 
i man ocalities. 
Even at Bicton in Devon, ander the skilful е 
and planting of the arnes, s0 dis- 
tingui d for h 888 of this and other hardy 
ап where the 
meee of syuimetry mae 
AND PERFUME IN SWEET 
і pinks are very 
day I ventured 2 suggest toa few friends, and my 
ouse asai that I could blind-folded. teli 
distinct varieties 
the names and — of three very 
that were in water on the counter, viz.. Lottie Eck- 
ford, Emily Henderson, and Princess Beatrice. The 
first being white tipped with blue, the second 
a well-kn n ite, and the third a deep pink 
and is too Jon 
this through egotism to the readers of the Garde 
Chronicle ав being anything wonderful, but venture 
to suggest that colour in flowers may have е- 
thing бо do with perfu In Roses, for instance, 
he rich сг * are s the richest іп 
[How t Maréchal Niel? Ер ]; and I think Кове- 
0 may, blindfolded, be ab o with Roses 
what I did with Sweet Peas. Certainly the one called 
Cardinal, in scarlet, is to my mind, almost the finest 
What say your readers? Wm, 
whites. 
Baylor Hartiand, Ard Cairn, Cork, 
(sx >. 216.) 
Law NOTES. 
LE NATIVE GUANO CO. v. HIBBERD, 
he City x London qu before Mr. Com- 
vinione Kerr case e Native Guano Co 
td, v. Hi weg was heard, in 2 the * 
compa a of 29, New Bridge Street, E.C., sought 
recover from the defendant, Mr. Henry Hibberd, gar- 
turned out to be 
different to what it was sera Be he should have. 
He had to give it a trial before he knew what it was 
like, and so he had broken into it. As soon as. 
found 
he should at once return them, and on no account 
keep them on his premises, He had been X 
people so for а long time, but they did not seem to 
pay attention to what he told them, The defendant 
might bring an action for damages if he liked, but in 
future he must see that he received the right stuff. 
For thirty years he had n warning people N 
only ap » — pupa was to find for the pean 
for the med, and give them the of 
the отын 
