428 THE: 
GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
[Остовев 2, 1875. 
HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS, 1875. 
са 
1o, —Royal Horticultural S outh Kensington. Meeting 
of Fruit, Floral, and s ғ готи em ees. 
DECEMBER. 
1.—Royal Horticultural Society, Sa Kensington. Meeting 
of Fruit, Floral, and Scientific ‘Comms ttees. 
Gardeners Ана, 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1875. 
с OE FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
Pus t. 4— Sale of Dutch Bulbs, at Stevens’ Room 
of Poultry and Pigeons, at Stevens 
vrstar, Oa. 5 ( SH ur Rooms. 
p Horticu!tural Society : Meeting of the 
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 6 ruit and Floral Committees; Fungus 
Sale of ‘of Dutch Bulbs, at Stevens’ Rooms. 
THURSDAY, | Oct.7 {Заа Зада. obe of Imported Orchids, at Stevens’ 
SATURDAY, 
ict. 9— Sale ot Di Dutch Bulbs, at Stevens’ Rooms. 
a ЕЕН 
ABS the bedding-out system, with the carpet 
and geometrical borders, have become 
more and more popular, the combination of the 
useful with the beautiful has been отд 
dying out in the Pimp AND PLANTING 
sufficient 
apart, giving to each a D kingdom, s 
suburban villas, our уюу country dwellings so 
aptly described as coz 
very fashion, С € and appro- 
priate, i cain to run to extremes ; the gardens of 
our time and the costumes of f the period are a 
ridiculous - by substituting dazzle for worth. 
Appropriateness is a noun which will doubtless 
soon become obsolete, We have already lost 
sight of its applicability to persons, lx an 
things. The merest. brick and mortar struc- 
ture recently viia is styled villa, and a few 
eet square of рг übbed croquet lawn ; 
some half- dien poen called the shrub- 
a 
homely, useful beauty are turned into pretentious 
and ridiculous copies of extensive grounds. 
en an amateur first commences gardening, 
his imagination of future grandeur is apt to 
outstrip the Pru i ties of practice in the 
limited s at his and, an: is asto- 
nished to fi t die croquet lawn and parterre 
oves out and the JY) y border allowed for, 
How алый ч, y appear the difficulty of 
emptis opposing pela there is generally 
one loophole by which to о escape a compromise, 
and in gardening a compromise is generally, i 
We may blend the useful 
to plant his orchard so as to render it orna- 
mental as well as useful. We remember at the 
time wondering whether the querist had ever 
seen full | ‚ ог whe 
his question instantly suggested | 
t " 
the thought of how much we waste and lay out to 
] them t 
little advantage э. эе circumscribed island of 
which we are so 
If a tree is өне to form a leafy bower in 
the ornamental garden, a Weeping Ash is gene- 
rally selected, when a Vine or a Fig tree would 
be quite as appropriate, far handsomer and 
In the shrubbery, when it 
deciduous trees, Birch, Lime, or Oak suggest 
themselves to the mind, while the Pear, the 
Plum, the Apple, and the Cherry would give 
T variety and greater beauty to the scene, 
perhaps prevent that too common blemish 
in em iia out gardens — over ан. 
‘When putting in fruit trees it would be difficult 
to forget em MCN planting would enable 
to bear a mn crop, and they must 
have room for root Fn branch ; therefore there 
would be given a better chance for life and free- 
dom of growth for them and the surrounding 
evergreens. 
Sorapidly do towns and villages arise and 
spread, that even in suburban districts almost 
every house is new, and the house being new, so 
also is the garden. A house may or may not 
be handsome and commodious, but a new gar- 
den is ud and seldom useful, and is sug- 
P Ud f yards upon yards of dre 
brick walls, stretching the double length of the 
plot of garden ground—an eyesore and a tribu- 
lation for years. 
That which to the amateur is a grievance and 
hands of a market 
brick walls, especially where the ground is very 
limited, are a boon to those who know how to 
make use of them ; fruit trees—prejudice once 
got rid of—would appear as beautiful on the 
e garden as many othe 
d 
exclude Roses. dioneysucktes,. Clematises, and 
il, glorious beauties of the 
vegetable kingdom, we would only now and 
again set them on one side, and substitute fruit- 
bearing subjects in their stead, and while these 
are growing up, cover the walls as far as pos- 
sible with such handsome and remunerative 
annuals as Tomatos, a hardy Melons, 
&c.; keeping inm w sweet and pleasant 
in every way were diow old-fashioned homestead 
gardens, where Lavender bushes and Currant 
ees, seberries and Roses, sweet-scented 
posies for the parlour, re aromatic herbs for the 
kitchen, grew side b e, and spread a charm 
over the place which "ko it still green in 
memory's page. 
—— THE illustration (fig. 92) which we give on 
р. 429 shows the fine WATERFALL AT ST. Dav 
— one of the sights of to ic 
h af this fine object we are indebted 
to Mr SHUTTLEW ORTH, and, as appropriate to the 
sects w e insert the following сене letter from 
work, 4 Naturalists 
pode in Jamaica, will be held in cherished memory 
by many of our readers :— 
‘I was never in the Гавран of St. SN за sepas 
my own researches having been carried etly at s 
western end of the island ; but my ene py co-worker, 
the late Mr. HILL, was famili at picturesque 
and romantic district, which is associated with a 
а good deal o 
this creature, Sion ho 
seen, 
woven in the pages of my Naturalist's Sojourn, from 
ga ch T wil take the liberty of making the follwing 
E Under date of Feb. 5, 1846, Mr. HILL says, “I have 
ith Dr. PALMER, who has informed me he 
snakes, about which your 
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p 
without being more 
Мар. о пати D found. 
medical vi: ago. 
bi nt plantation people brought to the pe Dds p 
which = had just killed des its remarkable 
crest, he ч ой дану struck with its shape, It was 
reary, staring , 
speaking of its habits, PG aus it as making a noise 
not ock, and as being addicted 
to Pm: on pou 
* Drummond Castle 
is about eight miles from Kings. 
imm AETA vicini у & some 
waterfall Scenery, remarkable as 
freebooter, Three-fingered Jack, id үү: known аза 
Е 
melodramatic hero he sce of the Falls, as this 
cascade trict is called, is very rom e 
imagination of inter theatrical s 
surpass wonders of the mountain-hold of the 
real Three-fingered Jac art of the b ich 
you ascend the Fallsis a subterranean pass and 
caverns are entered by simple crevices, which mere 
chinks in the irregular surface of t о 
e district is 
[Gosse" "i Naturalist, 
о pu esearch e ач ^ B н. 
‘Gost, Sandhurst, Tértwáy, Sept. 
e lately received some FEMALE 
ich the 
in 
Р e species of Ascom; 
The asci have the truncate tips 
and ,0002—, 
as — in bread 
‘eaten A t ven by 
WORONIA, in Annales des Some. dl 2 186 
ho refers their contents to us Schinzia. 
tubercles are probably not DEM we 
them at Powerscourt in 1867. M. F. B. 
—— The Hererorp Funcus MEETING, from 
October I2 to 15, promises to be of unusual terest 
this year, for, exclusive of the excursions and exhibition 
in the ne oolhope C ; 
important papers will be 
BROOME, of Y Datheaston, у will bring 
vations on the “ Pollinaria and i Parapet 
F pogi,” a » xd of the highest interest. 
SMIT] a on the ** аву hich 
[ivo Qi мы ee 
* Ascomyces Alni, В. inflorescentiam deformans ; 
sporidiis in ascis, da i сайн. 
