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HORTICULTURAL 
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GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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rts.” Ortho гарра рабар in pomology 
ul in Ри district ; j or it 
ron ULL YORKSHIRE, AND LINCOLN- 
SHIRE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY’S first great ikowe: of 
ng eie nts, кта, will take placeon Tuesday 
and W "Oct ber 26 and 27, 1875, in the 
Artillery Ponchs; Park Street, Hull. 
—— The white ABUTILON BouLE DE NEIG 
iter” a sei plant for beddin 
m wit 
beds, as an excellent frin 
Erythrina, finished off with an outer ring of ica 
Andersoni, and edging of Euon radicans 
riegatus. hen th "e e in perfection, flower 
of late planted Lilium 
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ratum mingled with Ery- 
thrina, and of Lilium а à with the blue Veronica. 
LFRED NEWTON, of the New Corn 
change, writes :—‘‘ As I v entured to anticipate at 
the close of last year's Él: the past twelvemont 
has witnessed a steady a in the value of white 
MusTARD SEED, rise being fully 2s. per bushe 
on fine qualities, and stoc ld seed ex- 
edingly small. Ug see vin good 
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ех; od aver 
of fine quality, but in the Cam 
district i it is decidedly a short crop. The b 
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er the UE ; but 
and I see cien 
e as yet, fora high аге of prices ur brown 
see 
—— Among dwarf golden-leaved ee гри 
BIOTA ORIENTALIS SEMPERAURESCENS must hold 
the — i because of its perennial ides colour 
and of habit, and the rem n- 
Tree gag none variety of B. orientalis, 
Т, 
a meeting of the committee of the 
CLUB, held at the Club-house, 
3, Adelphi 1 Terrace, = — last, the following 
d: 
г даа as Austen, Glasgow ; 
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ong the newer bedding plants AE 
Песи» о ‘OF EDINBURGH well deserves a plac 
warf, but it ‘is of 
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en with mar! 
*pproval by tipa lending -— Dudes, who 
intend using it largely next seaso: 
WIMBLEDON GARDENERS' IMPROVE- 
The 
MENT | Society was re-organised on Monday evening 
last, wenty-two garde of the neighbourho 
present, and Sir HEN P., with his 
iu liberality, сна metre ven rcd 
Bardener at Wimbledon House—Mr. OLLERHEAD 
| Ма the chair, poa after the rules and regulations 
| Vine bord agri à to, 
ion 
_ follow, hd o iR t meeting. 
—— At this season of the year, when the raisers of 
SEEDLIN m DAHLIAS are or their attention to the 
harvesting of seed, it is — recall a caution given 
by Mr. “prone ago, that **so 
blooms of the 
and the moment dee states Mr. yon a plant id 
Fine 
to seed, its flowers c to ect, 
blooms and the production of seed А together, 
he stoppage of gr th ts by keepin 
ris 
MÀ the frost, the seed-pods are cut away w 
ome 6 or 8 inches long, an nd the practice de to 
tie ‘dons up in bundles, a half-a-dozen or so together 
and hang them up in a луи loft, greenhouse, &c., and 
i o finally an ps pods wae oe the pero 
eeds Men rubbed roughly ont oF the: E 
pup bags, and hung up in a dry place, and 
ndk at leisure for sowing in ipi spring. 
— The New rai 4 к, а Mercer 22 
од that Mr. К, w York, has 
nted a ices for said cia d Кайту. 
h n VEGETABLES by encasing them IN PARAFFIN. 
As a test of the his process, he 
on September I5, t crates of A ES pe 
Crawford’s Late Vere, from 
he 
ddle КГР which denm e 
pool by the Son Star 
Line of steamships leaving New York on Sep- 
he fruit үм чеш picked, and at once 
are 
es. ry 
Agricultural And Pomological Associatio c "n 
ibtd рати and packing of this tal 
shipment ; and he expresses the opinion that the ere can 
be no doubt of its success. We shall be pleased to 
Тагы: the results of the experiment. 
rarely the gorgeous TIGRIDIA PAVONIA 
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nd We recently saw in кы зон оше е large patel еа 
їп ce spring, and had made a prm rice да 
with great freedom and continuously = 
through the summer. It does well in 
— attended to. In order to have the beant} 
of the richly-tinted flowers as long as possible it is 
wel to plant in the shad 
flowered 
—— One of the tics at the Chiswick gar- 
dens of the Royal Hortic ө. q ciety is now gay 
with lines of flowering plants of the old Diplacus 
glutinosus, with i ёр Browallia 
cerulea grandiflora, clear pale violet- blue, very free 
ective; a d tb free оопа ng Trachelium 
cceruleum. es yc g, 
and it isa ЖЫ een for — in late summer 
tuma. 
—— Mr. STEVENS NT P ed sale Ls Thursday 
next a quantity of the N W PLANTS of the past year 
or two, consisting of Cro ton, Spatbiphjllums, Pleoc- 
mias, Ui tae nr Can- 
r. ULL, W 
houses, he tells us, are becoming overcrowded ux the 
constant АЙ from his и asa f 
the plants offered are described as being of bc 
size. An illustrated catalogue fies been issued, 
HAWKSTONE : 
THE SEAT OF МЫ aire 
Тніѕ fine is si ut a doze! 
Shrewsbury. The family i is ч considerable а antiquity 
ided here in the time of Henry VI. ipal 
entrees is at Weston-under-Red Castle, distant about 
mile and a half from the Hall, The lodgeis a very 
handsome structure, in keeping with the mansion and 
grounds to which it le ваў 
see that, with few in the case of 
entrance lodges that are built at the present day, 
is evinced towards the com- 
fort of those w Yet there 
are hundreds of lodges to be met with throughout the 
t za era are 
country that, so far as the 
doomed to live in them is concerned, are t for 
uman abodes : they realise the байоо jd in 
a very old ballad of a ** neat little cottage wi ground 
for its floor," for they m all ground floor together 
damp, dismal places, 
lation, ое under bd shade of trees 
in them that y 
upright in, Why shou = ob be so? Without in- 
congruity a lodge may a s be designed to har- 
monise with the style bee pr hig of the mansion 
to which it is an without making 
which many of them resemble much more than they do 
a sap for human beings. The lodge here is not 
only very handsome and substantial, but contains 
plenty aii room, «а ups a most favourable first im* 
MU of the pla 
hen fairly inside the park, which is 1600 acres in 
— the visitor cannot fail to be struck with its 
аа 
height, huge masses of perpendicular rock, 8 ог 
yards through, оонай, at a distance, я i they 
columns that had been hewn out of the solid rock. 
u 
they pre 
encumbered a the weight of of the extraordinary quantity 
of m —— being 
50) d wit 
tities of old Thorns with large ats i thick t te 
an evidence of the quality of the land, as these seldom 
much size mere їр боой, soil sufficiently dry. 
Midway betwixt the en rance and the Hall some 
oe s ago th was diverted to the right 
m its then course, and now leads through a high 
сон еі that has Бе through the ridge of 
solid . At the extremity of the park, on the oppo- 
site or Whitchurch an arket Drayton is an 
entrance in part u the тутт of vehicles 
e h ig the pP parties who are admitted by 
su; to ram about 
Mie very large numbers avail themsel even 
rom places as far away as Manchester, whi 50 
n distant. They have ample space to roam about, 
or the roads alone inside the park are some 7 miles 
in^ extent. This road leads on to the lower ground not - 
ar from the lake, which is of e, and. 
some distance below H i je 
from the main entrance, dier) dao desc , and 
by which is the principal a S It p saii fora 
onsiderable distance east ost on a — with 
le 
large extent Е te ji rir ir eei ground north- 
and bounded to the rege or south 
here 
condition, and which 
we үр. a gentle rise to the right are 
reium Pha Winding 
найце of Wellingtonias, Picea Pinsapo, а 
onica—many of these are бона 50 feet in height ; 
some beautiful young trees of Cedrus atlanti 
a 
th 
except Pinus insig 
ing from the first a stunted col 
it could not be : 
