fiium n, 1878) TUE GAdBDENERBY CHDONICIA 325 
* During this time my attention was not A—€— 
confined to these departments, as I had very f 
quently to take a share in whatever was going "- 
asy for you attain n, , if pie will, to a 
theoretical кане ре ot the subject, but in those 
days we had few helps, and the necessary knowledge 
came to us only by dint of hard practical work. 
his admirable works, and one of my firs purchases 
was his Hortus Britannicus, om which I soon found 
that I needed to know a little of the construction of 
as ut would ise 
young men who have not attained proficiency i 
these during the time of their — s obation, to 
follow it up in their leisure time afterw 
i 
depart Mowing machines were just then 
“pudding, i and were looked upon with much dis- 
2 In 1836 the p Js Spencer, who came 
Cornbury Park o d Lord Churchill if 1 
would go down ime б 5 ornée on the edge o 
the moors in D Pett -ride to help him in his garden- 
is 
(mtt ere Oak : 
by the end rà June where € common Laurels "were 
either killed o К, ‘or were cut down = the ground 
. everyyear by ponticum 
. and E ed га bore with impunity—ell so very 
different from sunny South. The discipline wes, 
gave me every possible encouragement. He gave me 
the run of his extensive library, procured Paxton’s 
Magazine of Botany, subscribed to the Ga — 
rdener. 
ee ne TRIS T MORES ERN ee Eee TAM v D Oe 
. 
. two guineas 
been ripened within 9 or 10 miles of the place. There 
A A within two years after at Buxton, where 
on put up one of his ridge-and-furro w houses, 
which succeeded зб 1п к after the Bishop 
and Spencer had gone to India, I thought 
“Mayin a month or two to > муры de going to 
y n 
thus up a go 
о f plants, оҷ much u пзе eful | formation which I have 
er-life. 
ord 
keen сарае it if they 1 dad been fully taken advan 
attractiveness of ae ET well laid ont lawns a А 
реа Lue v YO ag by the way, were 
ke kA 
w 
arin beds filled with ‘tants all of one colour, 
to the Peach-house, where I — — very 
gradually with plenty of air on; they were very suc- 
cessful, and my account of the same was pue into 
several papers. 
‘In 1847 the situation at Redleaf became — 
and my late kind employer wrote to say that 
been recommended to bim. to x the place, which I I 
was proud to accept, and course left Thame 
Park, greatly, as I was zh шый told, to her lady- 
ships r egre 
** Redle af has been too often described in ж 
Im 
say, however, that since it came into the hands of its 
present Bina sia F. C. Hills, Esq., in 1870, many 
great and substantial additions have been made by 
ture lakes with aquatic plants, all of which. has 
f Redleaf. 
greatly added to the charms of R Other great 
i E his ns have n i 
department, too numerous to be mentioned here, 
hut vh which e det increased the attractions of 
the pla 
PT has for some years occupied a seat on the 
Fruit and "Vegetable Committee of the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society, where his pees: practical know- 
ledge is often m"—7 to cite 
Forestry. 
From the well-known fact that many рор ors 
take a much deeper interest in their woods and planta- 
tions, on account of the pleasure and sport b are a 
of айо Leda than from any actual money value 
r pecun turn they make out of them, foresters 
are not э etin eripe but to bestow 
labour and expend m upo ich they 
time has arrived for sportsmen to enjoy the plea- 
sures in which they so greatly delight, it becomes 
as he in 
com- 
fort of walking through the woods, and removing 
obstacles to the killing of game, If these objects 
fa pro- 
nounced, Any one who has trav elled thro А ап 
extensive wood or forest, either swiftly or slow of foot, 
and whether on pleasure or duty bound, can testify to 
the com ease, and enjoyment afforded by well 
laid = and properly made ppn roads, or rides as 
mpared with others 
somi ermed, 
нА 04, rx бе lle: Кай of Be traveller i is armi 
looking to his footst 
has 0 
should feel dissatisfied with inch as not only bid defi- 
ance to all comfort, but аге fraught with danger 
to Mp ur 
ri 
оо ds each way, previous to an ot in or planting, 
wet, the margins e 
Ifthe ground is of th roads are 
e ains cut along each side, 18 feet apart ; 
a row wp Rv weg t 
ciptous or r hilly I dim curved e 'erpen 
мм or more so Mud д to > the gradients of the 
their management as to have all their plitali 
properl ded fro rst, and t ore what was 
not done at the formation of the p 
doing at some su period. 
engaged r n extensive old wood or forest, 
has been cleared ive crops of ma ber, 
cro ir, and 
and other herbage, and is in many parts very wet, ren- 
woodland both injurious 
M ok MC M. 
to the growth of cover is in many 
ath бү daly x few judi óc even can 
w 
ments req e 
ing, zy having once fixed 1 upon a certain base line t 
| vor ei c , the operation as to lining is саркый ien 
' shoo ooting roads in ies. formed plantations I 
e 
| make 18 feet wide from drain to drain, but diminish 
| the width at first by ано а Мосе то row of trees 
| (gen 
enerally Birch) on the roadside, to be cut down 
ceo 
| when the extra width of road is 
