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CHRONICLE. 
[APRIL 9, 1887. 
baceous Өрө, showy Gaillardias, and Helian- 
thuses ; scarlet Lobelias of California, annual and 
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ceous plants and Agaves | of Mexico as are ا‎ 0 
High Holborn 
same firm will also sow the lawns. As yet little 
has been done in the way of tree or shrub planting, 
but the ground is being prepared i in all haste for the 
purpose. A large area is ira I ant or a Rho- 
dodendron display on groun th undu- 
lating slopes, and which wil 5 СТЯ covered at 
the flowering period with. canvas. Plots are to be 
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—an a 
building by a wide corridor of about 100 yards in 
length. 
rt will be devoted to “ Buffalo Bill’s” ex- 
hibition of life on the prairies. It will be laid out 
ide track, surrounded by an 
ome 200 in ry 
are to be encamped in their grind fashion on 
the slope behind this stand. 
In this section Mr. Goldring’s work is of quite a 
different character. to that i in the other portion of the 
groun 8, 
requirements of this remarkable troupe. The e grou und 
nted —Ó quite a flat surface originally, 
ted by large excavations of the 
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nd for a scenic representation 
which is being painted to form a screen. 
THE FLOWER GARDEN. 
EVERGREEN SHRUBS. 
are considered the best 
reenter 
PRIL ap Augus 
month the year for planting evergreen 
If shanti ert: the winter the chances are 
that the delicate fibres are ery Rai but ud 
ild genial showers 
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species referred. to are Sweet Bays, Portugal and 
mon Laurel, Aucuba, айас diui Hollies, 
Privets, Laurustinus, Yew, &c. 
Lawns. 
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ded to be sown being well dug 
and the roots of a aree carefully picked out as 
the work proceeds. The surface should be carefully 
iss des if lumpy а heavy roller should be 
rit when it is in a dry state: give a good 
raking sie mee he surface even, and remove all 
i he following mixture of sorts will be found 
suitable :—Aira cæspitosa, Lolium perenne, Festu 
ovina, Cynosurus cristatus, with a mixture of Tri- 
folium repens; and T. minus. Choose a mild day for 
the sowing, rake and well roll. Ifit is desired that 
awn should be fit for use immediately, turfing must 
rtedto. Select t turf from an upland pasture or 
where the coarser kinds of | ; 
are similar altitude to A. 
to be as 
begins. Some fine soil should also be brushed into 
the open joints between the turves and a roller 
passed over it occasionally. 
Grass SLOPES. 
Great difficulty is experienced in turfing steep 
slopes sar he rdinary turf. If the slopes be almost 
top and 4} at bottom, no difficulty will be experienced 
in getting the turves to stick in their places 
mence at the bottom, and lay a course along. It 
will be necessary to cut’ 2} inches into the bank to 
This relieves the 
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come to the middle of 
the turf which is being laid. e the whole with a 
at beater as the work progr and it will give 
little trouble after. W. M. Baillie, Luton Hoo. 
THE ROGK GARDEN. 
SAPONARIA HYBRIDA. 
Is is a curious form of the common gne 
officinalis, with connate upper leaves and a 
talous corolla. It has been found in pie. victa 
notice of the plant is by Gerard, who found it in 
Northampton, towards the close of the sixteenth 
century, and gave it the name of Gentiana concava. 
It produces no seed, and therefore, unless propagated 
by cuttings or division, would be very likely to 
disappear unless 
still exists in some old-fashioned garden, 
information respecting it would be welcome [om many 
cultivators of rare and curious plants. Mons. Pla 
chon, in his catalogue of the seeds of the Montpellier 
hitherto 
in vain, though many such things drift in our direc- 
tion. Ep. 
ACIPHYLLA SQUARROSA. 
In localities pene this plant is found to do well 
its worth as an ornamental foliaged plant can hardly 
be over-estimate ME e i i 
thing like that attained in the Bota 
burgh, where the clear bracing cool air s o su 
its requirements admirably. The Nev w Zealand 
settlers call it the Wild Spaniard, or Spear-grass ; 
the latter name it well merits, as an y one having 
much to do in the way of handling it will know to his 
cost. It is ызан їп Ше по. Chronicle, 1884, 
p. 329. er many experim rfectly 
satistied at it is A and uil 2) that this plant. 
suffers from in low ow-lying Pu ns, and the onlv 
plan to be followed is that of ra 
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oisture caught by the spreading leaves 
trickles to dii centre of the plant, where it is held 
clasping E and brings about the 
A group where it could 
ine feature in a rock- 
cence is very inem and is thickly beset with its 
needle-pointed X ie > ripened in this 
co i y sparingly. А. Colensoi and 
untry germinate very 
A. Lyalli are ihat in cultivation, but their hardiness 
has as yet not been tested; coming, however, from a 
squarrosa th ey wil | 
А. squarrosa, but аз that species is known to varv 
much in the breadth of its leaves, a may n 
namen an id 
ance s rendering them oen of interest all through 
the winter. 
SAXIFRAGA LIGULATA. 
know of tinm) to surpass this either on the 
flowering stems on К and the blossoms аге, owing to 
conservatory would be striking and valuable deco- 
ative objects. R. D. 
FRUIT REGISTER. 
——P MÀ 
APPLES FROM SOUTH WALLS. 
. Goopacre E, of Elvaston, has just sent me 
олы of the American Newtown Pipp in grown 
ona south wall at Elvaston, which for size, d 
never kno 
This peculiarity is the more puzzling, inasmuch as 
we are usually wont to associate quality ‘with high 
кытыы, which in this Apple, as imported, is generally 
n, having а е cast, and the faintest 
br und on the side next the 
tis not all of us Aer can afford 4 on à 
south нт ^ bien, —— but query, if fruit 
so good can be grown on a wal n Derbyshire, why 
should it int be ee goodit posa in an ordinary 
orchard in Kent? This may have been the case, but - 
the English-grown fruit we have hitherto seen has 
been of the most scrubby Каң. F. Н. 
APPLE LADY D. 
This Apple was raised b . John Be 
gardener to Sir wi tmi P a Bart., at Gil- 
merton House, East Loth and exhibited a him 
as a new seedling at the vem 
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size, slightly angular on the sides, and handsomely 
shaped ; skin a clear yellow, with streaks and dots of 
red on the side next the sun; eye closed, with rather 
smooth ЖЕМ. cavity ; flesh 
Mr. Brunton вуз 22 “The seedling Apple, Lady 
Kinloch, pos by me at the Edin Apple 
and Pear n 1885, was raised =” һу ше, 
along with a ; ae of others, nine yea I 
selected it from amongst 
promising-looking variety, me ape 
sout ern 
healthy, vigorous-growing es ree, of f good habit, and - 
e-bearing. The fruit keeps well, is excellent for 
November to February, and is | 
good and useful as а kitchen Apple. 
