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SUPPLEMENT TO. THE GARDENERS; CHRONICLE. 
(Serr. 18, 1875 
tratum, Arenaria grandiflora, Delphinium Bel- 
ladonna, Potentilla Dr. André, tae sp 
(double and single), also the double Lotus cor- 
ne of the most striking plants on 
ing у е 
is that of a slope facing the of sinuous 
outline, divided into numerous terraces, on 
above another, and surmou ds and 
nted b unds an 
bastions of too regular outline, but clothed with 
ther 
Yuccas, Golden Yews, Araucarias, and o 
striking plants. The mounds receive appro- 
priate names: thus there is a Mount Jenner, 
Mount Anderson-Henry, Mount Maw—bring- 
ing to mind the names of some of the most 
surprised that 
rock-gardens are popular in | 
the neighbourhood re) i | 
Edinburgh, or, with 
attempt to imi itate Nature in her grander rock 
features, but it is quite practicable in a.back 
yard to arrange and drape a heap of stones with 
perpetual beauty and interest. Even where the 
taste or powers of the designer would not enable 
him to arrange the * rocks" to the best advan- 
anna 
of one thing only in the garden, we would 
jid him to see the rock-garden, and be 
satished. Doubtless it does not always ae 
such a scene of interest and beauty as in 
or in the middle of July, but»at all ihe, it м. 
be most attractive. 
THE ARBORETUM occupies the western bor. 
ders of the garden, and contains specimens of 
most of the trees and shrubs that will bear the 
climate of Edinburgh. There are in addition, 
scattered throughout the inn 'clumps of 
genns W weeping; and igi 
taste or vage of the 
Among the “ weeping " 
andscape gardener 
trees are some Thorns 
enthusiastic botanists and cultivators ot the 
day. 
This wer {ЙТ rockery was constructed o 
the old building the 
Caledonian Horticultural Society. 
Staffa, and rocks and stones from various other 
der have also been utilised in the formation 
n 
of beautiful and interesting plants here brought 
close under the eye, in a manner most con- 
venient for examination, while the appearance. 
di ich Each 
at a distance is yond belief. 
species has a rectangular pocket or compart 
ment to f, and with such a depth of soil 
1 
that watering is rarely required. We are not 
THE LAKE IN THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN. 
tage he may soon get them concealed by the 
cindly aid of luxuriant Sedums and ot 
plants. Reverting to the rock-garden in the 
Edinburgh garden it farm always be borne in 
mind that utility and botanical instruction are 
о 
ч 
тау Siri the Sedums, abe 
re i the nde ө. including 1 
һе ser Ericaceous plants, and what not, 
entails a somewhat more symmetrical and 
urposes. ppose some unhappy 
turist to be obliged to “limit himself to the sigh t 
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which are traditionally associated with Mam 
Queen of Scots, and called Queen Mary's Thoms 
The parent tree, under whose branches the Queen 
Lou 
oudon’ 
== 
oom t mmer, its neighbour, B, Vi sü 
dile è dove, — te. year the arrang 
ment will be re 
We have ipiis ‘alluded to Mr. McNab’s 
