326 THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[SEPTEMBER її, 1875, — 
In advanced or old СЕ e as that in hand, 
ide 
ground all trees 
diameter, and clear the whole off the roads, at least 
eet 
к» түн 
men, but they require gloves, at least 
rs a iis till the hands Кор which they soon do 
by bathing them in hot wa 
The Heath and p ааа: an often gladly carted E 
can be burnt upon the roads by iab proper 
аы маде of making dl the sh 
van [n es ooting 
roads and in ht is experienced 
during the cover shooting, Miording the beaters 
the opp ortunity of coming into line at the end of each 
Draini Е plantations are also а great 
means of in ing game, as almost, if not all kinds 
of birds sed s parser, À delight | in сеча and fre 
The drains carry off the water and render the surface 
dry, and the openings produc py the roads от 
the rays of the sun to penetrate, heat an 
ne o the special delight of the hk partridge, éd 
pheasant, 
The roads also in a short time чечем апа 
fresh herbage, and if Sec tr an а little etm 
dressing, afford food for and 
od 
young well-roaded plantations are often 
exempt from Ld. by hares and rabbits when those 
in ite destroyed. 
: are qui С. Y. Michie, 
Cullen House, Cu Cullen, 
THE GLASGOW BOTANICAL 
THE Let red imum at errans was founded in 
17. Compared with 
chester, Hull, Sheffield, and Birmingh: 
though younger the celebrated Liverpool 
garden. At the time of its foundation the late Sir 
was a resident in the great industrial 
e Gael, and it would seem 
nt the prom The site was 
then western extremity of анна Raa a 
locality whi ch sixty years ago suitable enough, 
though now, through the prodigious dme of the 
town, in the centre of business, and of course covered 
with buildings or overlaid with pavement, 
_ curious coinci 
ear t 
ne oug 
garden, and which flowered in it for time in 
Britain, in his well-known and ad diues Exotic Fiora, 
bee 
Williamleft Glasgow for M n the spring 
41, there was no choice but © ме. Бе e garden 
to a more open situation, nd in 1842 it was trans- 
ferred to the site at pre 
Mon rhood, which lies due west. 
ped "bien ur 
The whole 
of Glasgow the са rises сомеа "t is site 
Я of better езт 
= we have * Pme ent ” and, ER placed 
pon a commanding b he magnificent new Col- 
e main н". Жич Чын ча westwards from 
rn Road," form 
IS 
^ ich gives immortality in the m of d 
song and the sweet fables of the poet 
** Let us haste ы. Kana Gro ues 
assie, 
Through its mazes kt us rove, 
onnie lassie, O ! 
ecay—t 
ere the midnight fairies glide, 
„© 
‚ Relics of the Grove survive in А epe s places, exte. 
its boundaries—all 
k 
ma improvements ; the river, o 
ent way, rushing justas in the lang syne when to 
its e shallow falls ” 
‘ Melodious birds sang madrigals.” 
Of its complexion, еа the least that is said the 
better ; T it long be 
worst that befal a AE once lim 
of TE rendered offensive to the 
y it ха! n order to secure ee bit id eim 
wild which constitutes so 
adjunct to de garden, and preserving the old sylvan 
sce пет осе DONI E те elvin, wit 
ared Бе indignity, last and 
ni nd romantic, 
owery paths, that the present site was chosen ; for, 
excepting that the whole of the area occupied ore 
or 1 lating, the situation cannot be said to ^ 
о soil turally poor ; 
to be scientific, is body 
out of the Зана The first difficult wits » ight have 
unfor- 
tunatel 
Омри. clay is аса the curator now ie at 
The t is 2 
нау, 
NE е ble dim 
any at all; 
к ensions, от 
ce of the ligneo 
P 
is, however, pu enough 
us kind to serve the immediate 
or, 
Trees, as a rule, in Gl lead a 
life. The climate, like the soil, is a trying 
Winter sets in early, and ina 
The average temperature is right enough, but there is 
a very inferior average of solar bright every- 
one knows that joyous eme P i 
e abs of what 
ature withholds is felt all the 
more by reason of the noxious influences of to 
тоне hese, as іп many other ces, are telling 
n the Oaks, everywhere in the district ; 
the trees which suffer least from the effluvia tes to 
be the Beeches and Chestnuts. “In 
assume the rich сак which, in the southern par 
of Great oriously 
is no slight ъй g^ be denied the spectacle 
the ripening of the leaf, NU UE ** fading." 
Ding gi 
holding e place 
drama of Platte that te purple and gold of 
the western sky, an oses of th 
zenith, do с іп In Glas asgow the 
uninteresting kind bg im summe which in the m 
f Englan istinguishes t the Ash, is not the к 
ae 
moodily, an sign, ving peret 
plan of € үү. ысы Veitchi, uu мого 
nto the Botanic Garden, s 
How озү we 
who, bringing these priceless novelties from the ends 
of the earth, leave i i 
The gar 
prietors and s 
gates, the 
Once a year, for five days 
is 
pa not nts at the 
Mio: having access at any time for 6d. 
the Fair week, which 
,an 
and. 
exten imperial acres, though a крвен 
-poch more, owing i to the skilfa i laying-out hich = 
name to all exact readers of the Gardeners’ Chron E 
better still to his personal friends, as a man n 
tot ii ont seeing эе дейс ciency in one pa 
is very gene ced by superiority or adva 
in some other, Bem mportant, 
the 
philosophic йы ia Mas 
possession of things which gratify without dazz 
culture may be considered to be 
wane the more warmly, or the reverse, that the 
ciple is recognised. 
ген these noble AA | 
they e, into a box that reminds one of the tale d 
the. zc Shroud.” Mr. Bullen is ue % 
strained to lop them periodically, in order 
tis, 
алза: опе understands and can appreciate. 
TM о зе et forth only the ‘rich any 
lic е ‚ is a pro 
а EL por wots it is wis Wise to - allur 
ht of the IA зеет " 
н sweet old-fashioned things 
Sti 
rative than solidly u 
sloping gravel wa rd which à 
a band disco music ious the 
бгаа cot сыкрану, is very prettily ‘ill 
