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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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occupy eight lights of the old-fashioned ordinary 
wooden frames, like beds that are made up for sum- 
mer Cucumbers, in these are those he uses for the 
Violets. Of course additional soil is used if required 
to bring them up near ba glass. The only eben 
heat they get is applied by means of ferm 
linings m around the beds aid frames, ima aa 
are likewise well secured from the effects of frost 
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border in the "шереп. garden, and merely protected 
unding wall m 
them openly in the kitchen garden for a late supply. 
Other kinds of Violets also come in for every care 
and attention. The bien at this place form an 
interesting feature, and plainly indicate what can den 
achieved by means of skilful cultivation. G. Т. M. 
inte Abbey. 
NURSERY NOTES, 
MESSRS. SMITH & CO., OF WORCESTER. 
ar at Worcester you cross the 
. John’s, and in ten 
a tram-ca 
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of the death of William Pitt and Charles James Fox, 
with ря years of Napoleon and his wars still in 
pros a bad outleok for a trader) the father of 
the vss head of the firm made a beginning on 
nd. To this small sors ten acres 
were added, and afterwards more and more, bringing 
up the size of the nu fires area of 
200 acres 
stum preserved, and which became in due time 
Pitmaston House, 
of 
aving lent iu 
name to several fruits, especially an "Wo and a 
Nectarine, which or riginated here. 
One of the oldest and largest Weeping Ashes 
that we have eve n ce f 
beauty wo y of reverence caught our eye in the 
grounds immediately in front of the es. A tree 
hallow roo 
besid d e here ocular demonstration, 
ides үт кайы. of experts, that this is one of 
nid evergreens for shady places. It does not 
erely exist under the close shade of the great Ash 
and of th but it 
flourishes i look: pan бей and contented as if the 
On Just suited it. It is said here to be the best 
` shrub je we than Holly, Laurel, Privet, 
"m walk thro 
ugh th 
the main ent wa e "S ounds, starting from 
ursery, in- 
ling one shrub, which is abundant here, and not 
the less worthy to be named that it is common, Ivy 
(in its “ tree ; form). 
nd fo Smith's 
and when seen grow- 
rm а vel pudieron as well as 
varied collection 
There are 32 р of walks in the nursery, so that 
a day and a half would be required to walk through 
them, without stopping, at 
miles an hour and for seven hours a d e pre- 
ferred the plan of stopping often and visiting only 
the points of greatest interest. One ofthese is the spot 
"UE a фе of buildings includes, with stables and 
с shop, а long pac king-shed. In 
P Ria. cm this part of the business was in full work, 
Three hundred men are 1 altogether in the 
nursery, and from 130 to 150 of them are constantly 
engaged in the season in executing orders—that is, 
in lifting and packing. The quantity of string here 
deftly wound in securing the iem amounts to 
on per an straw used for the 
pt boxes and crates 
for the things that sd Lm are er by 
the thousand. 
Resuming our walk and talk we reached some 
plantations of Plums, where we were told of the sorts 
in fashion that one-half the total quantity raised 
here consists of Victorias, one-half the number of 
Apples of the class to which Lord Suffield belongs ; 
жк. sorts for cooking аге of that early bearing 
kin 
жене. opinaba land too extravagant, whereas there 
are now many houses » 220 feet, and one of 365 feet. 
The а of pots erns in one of the houses 
is 20,000. In a бж house full of fruit trees in 
pots a Vine cordon, carried round just below is 
T ich the roof rests, is 200 fee 
long. As such a cordon does not much obstruct aia 
uu it is al irem to the production of Grapes 
n hou ted to flowers. Other figures we 
каа ена ате bee 300,000 grafts of plants under 
glass are worked every year. There are 80,000 Tea 
Roses in pots. The different sections of Clematis, 
including from аА to eighty species and varie- 
ties, are represented by 80,000 specimens, one of 
which, the latest yenit was raised here, аб 18 
rightly named the легу of Worcester. 16 
ала. with віх or eight 
handsome petals of a iir stale shade, and it owns 
the peculiarity of pe both single and double 
flowers on ie es , and is claimed by its 
raisers as me and а n greg 
vigorous in habit, ver well suited for be 
There are, of course, houses for Camellias, ‘houses 
for Heaths, for Chrysanthemums, foliage and stove 
The pit 
erin as the space may b and elsewhere, it has 
to be very carefully lear Virgil speaks of 
“ burstin arvest; here the 
harvests seem unfailing, and the houses are kept 
cramful in spite of continual sales. 
During our ramble, which occurred later in autumn 
than we could d wished, we observed ut 
more remarkable in appearance out-of-doors 
bed a imap Poplars, with late neris 
leave as white as snow or whitewash 
Other вый of king foliage which we saw in their 
undress are the еер Limes and Birches, and 
the Scarlet Oaks, wi foot long, and as 
ine for autumn ный as the Virginian Creeper 
itself. 
ut twenty-four Elms here, including 
the handsome silver variegated variety ; 
Japanese species Ulmus, Kaki; the Weeping Cam- 
perdown ; and, if өйы of note may be name 
plumosa, ‘whose shoots are arranged in a plume-like 
not 
sible Bibles, “which seem determined to win 
insat by their fruit, as they have always done 
for the colours and markings of their leaves. 
The ilson Junior a tied has delicious 
flavour, and is productive, with large jet-black 
berries of characteristic Жы эя барт” It is 
quite hardy; the berries are as] as Mulberries. 
It is a sport from Williams' Early. As a la 
number of the fruiting Brambles have been sent out 
from this энер to the trade and the public, ed 
value c to be thoroughly well tested a 
an mq dat 
We e compel ed to ad we for the present 
several edm rtments, на e herbaceous = 
alpine ee which fill with a names а PA 
of no less than гт -four pages, each depa i 
having a catalogue to itself, as for instance Eel ны 
, Conifers, 
seeds, bulbs, al arranged 
and reliable in i e атды hints and other 
matters. 
CAMELLIAS AT THE ROYAL NURSERY, $100сн, 
The house of these at MA сои it doe 
many fine specimens in pots in th 
now to be seen to excellent tsp 
are the white varieties, alba plena and fimbriata, two 
ne old favourites that will not be beaten for 
Cup of Beauty, Lady Hume's Blush, 
ve e; Reine de ia 
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are laden with fine blooms. 
also an aviary, and the cheerful chirp of canaries and 
other song birds impart a ү a of the 
springtime that appears so slow to 
PLANTS AND THEIR CULTURE, 
HARDWOODED GREENHOUSE PLANTS, 
Tue commonly designated New Holland and Cape 
gtr are ges so generally cultivated as formerly, 
and i rare - to meet with a w 
collection i in a priva is, doubtless, in a 
still growing € - plants for room decoration and 
utting from, 
the cultivation ofi чат 
—will now require great attention, and the 
should н Tod examine ed; those which 
be given ! enough rain-water (if it can 
be had) de poe the soil through, and be left until 
again in need, No class of plants are more sus- 
ceptible of — Rea haphazard watering than are 
me ese, and frequent surface wettings, instead of a 
orough soaking сйн wanted, means death to them. 
the reme 5, d the st 
will dema that no chec 
injudicious xin im of cold — for although 
a stuffy atmosphere is by vein ns to be avoided, 
re al a chills resulti it 
from currents of Е - аза ets blossoms wi 
remain in n for so long a time as ur 
otherwise would i if subjected to them. The 
flowers will also "a longer if the plants are placed 
out of the reach of direct sunshine, heavy shading 
would, however, be hurtful. 
The potting of young plants that require i 
root-space should no longer be delayed 
Eriostemo: аз, 
Genetyllis, Рот, and Leschenaultias, 
be formed of the best quality finely ал 
up and freely ae with silver-sand, and in 
Chorozemas grow most freely in a mixture of peat 
