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selection of ornamental trees and shrubs, many being | for localities where stone is scarce. This coping is | the wall to prevent the wind flapping the curtain 
deciduous, and which at the present day do not receive | ma t and sand in equal proportions; | against the trees. To keep the weight of the curtains 
the attention from planters they deserve, often giving | in making the coping the cement is laid down Ij inch | from dipping the top wire, and consequently expos. 
place to things that are inferior and doubtful in being | in thickness, into it is bedded a quantity of broken | ing the trees, hooks are driven into the wall at inter- 
har were several examples of the old white | pieces of thin roofing tiles, to give strength, on | vals so as to carry the wires ; and to allow of the ri 
amongst the finest we possess, associated with the | cement as wi g 
Mountain Ash, the branches of which were loaded | in thickness, bevelled off at the edges in the usual | when the curtains are drawn and undrawn. This is 
shape to the hooks in the wall, the wire afterwards 
- ing as quickly replaced, when the curtains are 
I drawn or undrawn, as required, is is m 
quicker, and there is less strain u 
rries, as all through the neighbourhood, do 
remarkably well, the strong heavy soil suiting them. 
At the head of the central divisional walk is a beauti- 
more generally grown together than we often see, 
being so distinct in habit. Culinary vegetables are here 
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done, both early and late, The garden slopes 
more favourably plac for catching 
spring sun; but it has one advantage 
i kingdom, where usually th 
summer rainfall is light—that crops of all kinds do not 
suffer from drought nearly so much as ona southern 
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garden I noticed a aged of cordon Apples on the 
margin of the walks, which form an g 
feature, the moisture from the ground in its near 
proximity to the fruit having the effect of causing it 
to swell above the size it has on large trees higher up 
from the surface. At the bottom of the kitchen 
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dwarf hedge of Fuchsia corallina, that has stood here 
for twenty-three years, defying the severe frost that 
rienced since. 
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are also near these two narrow vineries, one filled 
with Black Hamburghs. 
The inside department, represented by the different 
houses devoted to plant and fruit culture, ali i 
home farm, are under the able management of Mr. 
Booth, who previous to his appointment as steward 
was equally successful as a gardener, an ho 
yet in his leisure moments evinces his love for the 
pursuit by the care he bestows on his own well-kept 
garden. 7. Baines. 
PHALAENOPSIS SCHILLERIANA. 
annexed illustration (fig. 34) is of the plant 
sold at Stevens’ Rooms on July 28, to Sir Trevor 
ence for 672s. It was in bloom at 
Court in April last, and from the bottom of the pot to 
: the top flowers it was a little short of 7 feet, and a 
little more than 5 feet through. There were three 
icles bearing respectively 96, 108, and 174 flowers, | 
FIG. 34.—SPECIMEN PLANT OF PHAL/ENOPSIS SCHILLERIANA, total 378. The pot measured 20 inches in diameter, i 
d and so did its thick network of roots. So much for 
beral pot 
li much more light 
‘ : ose, and appears as if : allowed by most growers, The roof 
Mh tte it: duced quite a glow of | way. This answers every purpose, and ap than is usually allowed by m 
nd dcr d Ges wah карі ар, such | it would last for an indefinite — б was merely dressed over with flour and water, so that 
the Spani T Chestnut and Ailantus glandulosa, | project several in rom the wall over the trees, fe pati gót thi єй. amomit of light; wik dio 
one of the best ornamental trees we have: numerous | and close under it runs a stout wire 3-16ths of an den гё aes denn iiid day, ih belii 
others of similar character are intermixed with these. | inch in t ene er — ght ra Le Leda "ib dens MEME EUR bs y 
are kitchen garden, moderate in size, 3 acres inside EDA iron holdiasts anive of rings into The first flower opened on January 14, and the plant 
: i ction on Ap сеп 
. On the | of 8 yards: on this w ril I. The central spike grew 
insid s wall, [rimam е Sen s are devoted | which the hooks which are а! to the curtains | was in d aly en pie! dione ба fammi: 
to Peaches MAT Неси. The wall coping and | hook; a similar wire, with ve ad rtai w dnm but the plant was too р dto form so many 
rtai ed for protecting the trees when in bloom above the ground, into which e Каало — flowers and could only perfect its present number ; 
are not of the ordinary kind, and des: м ond vii fe pained aris diiine аба tly far from this accounts for the thinness of flowers at the top. 
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