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JULY 24, 1875.] 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
99 
its prickly calyx, and the numerous leaflets which 
for m Let its y "IY: fo oliage. Both of these being 
- speci s e av 1 оза eue ЖУ (the 
broad- se), which a handsome 
whose foliage is singular and striking, though scarcely 
the cli of Montpellier, it would have a difficulty 
i ia онр а a footing in England, hogst it would tax 
1 all our skill to make it behave bet 
The Macartney Rose flowers Uo Nate to ripen seed 
in the British pist, Even in France it dos not see 
freel sursis r grafted on an eleva stem it 
A иңе dard + Went protection. 
e 
wall. most promising 
the Macartney, if British nurseries 
north o 
e e mild, as Dublin and 
Brest, did those in the south of France, and in Italy. 
E. $. D. 
| — —— If I understand rightly the purport of the 
| noteat p. 78 on the *' Extinction of the Ma 9 
T Rose,” I think I may say that ffe fact i 
universal as there stated. h 
a 
| or three years ago, that are growing luxuriantly. 
| e buds or uttings happy to 
send them ben William por Valentines, Llford, 
eee ee CISTERNS. 
retired parts of England, especially the 
7 hilly неи а, the west, t, where the cliffs, rising above 
slopes, 
natural cistern or tiny pool, perhaps only 3 or 4 feet 
» across, at once so picturesque and so well adapted to 
its = as to give a useful suggestion for the 
garden 
me o natural basins 
bn tke their place’ with thoroug h UE beris 
oupings, 
о 
Substitution of cultivated plants of — growths ; 
i w of the most 
r one of the sim fat in nd M transferable 
H ы little basin, someti e of b t or euo 
right “lowering 
Ачы Г м d 
so completely con- 
est the natural grouping 
hee origin, as the Tatericing forést boughs 
Xn ches re QUEM ne originals of the) wr ae 
A la; 
| fom M form of Peces кру їп sieh Ferns 
CE i ange thickets of 1 of Nul bushes, and a 
Pool is “umally’ overt someti letel 
Jer eee 
fronds almost into the water, or rise in m 
the bank mix wit 
e ,tom th the bushes ебу in healthy 
luxuriant growth, uninjured as well as tended, 
othing being need ut ry approach to make 
5 а spot an excellent centre for a fernery in the 
ore shaded parts of a garden shrubbery, and it is 
usually easy of arrang t. Inthe garden adapt 
tion the red endron on the bank, with Guelder 
oses and Laburnum for the higher growths, and 
masses of Broom trailing down towards the water has 
e г 
an excellent effect, but the Ferns alone make a lovely 
bushes, and form the 
n, fi rely of a few stones 
with the water елау а in "the full ang and 
Stonecrop and Cistus cr ver the thin sprink- 
or 
ood to as a cover, have each their boing i 
hdd йене for various Aere and wher 
cumstances supply o 
formal 
arranged dipping аса жр y be made into а 
good pictu iu i on. 
The tinies t pool above, shaded by bushes or large 
pieces of stone a 
yard or so 
h 
cistern of sadi b arranged to 
wee over sips and a little conduit to carry 
off the us water, is always useful, and whe 
"On eat point is to have the water easy of access, 
and for this reason it yA desirable to have its source 
so far qmd that it may be allowed as an orna- 
mental o Ps ^i the same time not so fanciful 
as to de o M eR scd for its proper objec 
ornamen ntal fountains so often seen in the middle of 
mall gardens are frequently well nigh nielen for any 
purpose save pleasing the eye of those who admir 
e form of deco oration, woe the little iets (like 
any an ornament e picturesquely arrang 
garden} will not stand out t sepa arately to catch the eye, 
but will at once blend contrast iu the same wa: 
о 
ways an agreeable 
object, but an artificial supply is almost equally use- 
ired, and there i 
о have nli mite wers 
ies of the Lay. RES 
middle of their orm especial part of the pm 
help. Also in this 
ing, but for 
en Is pri etty 
sure to be a dry mot to stand on somewhere, whilst 
the neighbourhood of a pump is too apt to be one 
P 
a long rope w 
beneath at full speed, with more 
but still holding a pot beneath 
e much impro зуй 
> е em head that a 
pumper flew to and fro 
exertion than results ; 
an 
MH uet Зада. apparatus may be 
tures 
pic agers sodden water-cask i s лук a sunken 
we mies involves the neces sity o the watering- 
carried at their falls "d up a flight of 
dp t a sli descent without steps 
steps, or worse, ge ippery 
Tr the firmest r^ heels to be vexat ed safely, 
e all undesirable where they can be avoi ; 
i d ‘ 
yi ts su 
seeker, will often be found 
appropriate and 
PEASANT GARDENING. 
[WE extract the following too truthful description 
of two villages from = interesting article - SM]. 
If one strolls from village кши remoter 
districts of йы oer nothing is 
the contrast АЕ tha cottage quens. 
place Flora seems to have made her hom 
Ev 
Apes of raat is tended ; or 
e 
bright with flowers, green 
dem 
wen with 
out its inen. Dense sheets of Lo ds clothe the калку 
and keep the rooms within both dry and warm ; 
"E there will be seen not pe a beri bes 
ow i a 
ow 
ost, has gone ido the production 
of the pride of some =з these cottage garde e 
yellow Austrian Briar is a matter е: of ancient 
5а: 
love of the -beauties of the 
into the next шн 
your aedis fto your as you pace the heap thar 
denotes its boundary ; the heap of brickbats, stones, 
broken slates, utterly useless potsherds, and worse 
efuse, diversified b n-out shoe or , and 
perchance by the remains of a hunted cat or dog, and 
by a dense gro ettles, showing what 
Nature would do if gently sig ye This unsavoury 
Itar to the terminus he characterises the 
entire as in If foul puddles be ab ent, if drainagi 
as introduce th gh 94 still the 
a daily and 
grudging toil in some way to tend, are the Potato me 
the Tobacco plant. 
Where does the cause of the difference lie? 
can answer th 
e great major 
longer to la foun 
= of the c вечно wife. rig 
ed garden, in the manse af the hall; a tasteful, 
graceful truly feminine love о 
well as of the fruit ; the gift, at odd times, of 
i or of ; 
r of flow 
other than an odour of the : sanctity of N Nature, 
GREENHOUSE PLANTS.—XXII. 
THEIR CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT. 
Pimeleas.—These well-known plants are found in- 
digenous to New Holland, and have long 
favourite subjects for pot culture. They differ very 
considerably, not only in the size and colour of the 
flowers, but in general appearance. Of late years 
they have not bosi so much gres as e times past, 
neither does ti 
stood by the plant growers of the um day as by 
those who some twenty-five years ago used E Jm 
them in such fine condition, which ma counted 
for in this wa are plants that are ‘neal 
suited by their general habit for exhibition purposes, 
and the exhibitions of the present day are not held 
so early as they were some years past when the 
| Ponga пет used to commence in the beginning of 
w there is rarely anything of the sort 
EU d towards the close of the month. This 
necessitates the whole of the greenhouse hard-wooded 
stock bei 
e than would have been necessary with the 
old time of commencing the i 
plants do not well bear this lower 
not liking to be under 
once р 
„onl mE tae cate, ы on con- 
tinuing to grow all through the winter, not only by 
| the development of the flowers, but also their forma- 
tion, so different from plants that ye their growth 
flowers summer 
alt as er, т set their 
аса, their winter growth ем confined to advanc- 
already-formed bloo 
rhe different varieties of Pede require more water 
than many 5 same country, to some ex- 
tent at the root atmosphere, 
particularly йгесйу о чокы їп paces shape of of 
syringings during their season of growth, without 
