516 THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[OCTOBER 23, 1875, 
however, tradition has added to the facts by 
the assertion, generally believed by the neigh- 
bouring villagers, that the Roses will not grow 
if transplanted from the field. In the case of 
the Lilies of the Valley of St. Leonard's Forest 
in Sussex, which are fabled to have sprung up 
from the blood spilt i in a sanguinary conflict of 
hood, the very battle itself must be consigned 
to * the realms of infantile romance and ancient 
fairy tales." 
New Garden Plants. 
Ws ae FULGENS, #. dream 
This belongs to Dr. Lindley's ** A = 
and has no affinity veis except to Pleurothallis 
iflora, Focke. Bot 
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1 very short stems that * collectors 2 
to drill y 
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we pg make ке lucrative exchanges. 
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ered with quite various sketches If I had ру - 
— the first rots ers (as 
ursegymen have 
easily have believe my true mim to be wrong, 
vnd Fd d have observed variations, Æ,- С. 
HINTS — iain 
TING 
[THE Mene meting о e fifth session of the 
Helens ensburgh H icultural Нон took place on 
зна вле. of pius 8, when the following paper 
r, James Niven, one of the Vice- 
ати of the Association.] 
The following observations on ornamental planting 
will not be understood to embrace all that it necessary 
to be in relation to this important subject. 
To have done so would hav 
longer than vitbur your patience or 
shall, therefore, 
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e pigments 
nter, so are trees 
асе hand of the planter the materi ials by 
; Or distorted scene 
" Fantg isthe principal means of ornamenting 
is nothing which 
pertains 
requires more skiil than 
of 
in the planting of extensive parks. Like the 
put upon the canvas by a skil 
and re ae in 
e t 
absence of these, and on their wise arran 
distribution, to a great extent depend the speedy 
and b beauty of one р 
* Pleurothallis fulgens, Rchb. f., ы ‚ Sp. (Apodze cæspi tosze.) 
a itosa ; = libus brev 
over those of another, The difference may not be so 
apparent at first, but the yearly growth of the trees and 
shrubs will gradually develope the perfect conception 
of M: "e into a beautiful picture. A flat surface is 
t propitious to the production of pictorial 
effect, still, by careful management, a great amount of 
roduced. The artist will, on such 
ground, have to depend on his own power of grouping 
together the masses of wood which he deems necessary 
for the purpose of decoration. 
Having none of the advantages which undoubtedly 
arise from undulations, calculated to heighten the 
effect of a plantation or relieve the defects of an out- 
“go! admitted 
Reet on a Ast tha un- 
dula abr ds hor but, андин be the nature of the 
ground, all the open spaces should be light and roomy, 
the glades wide and sunn 
ligh É and airy. hsc un 
woods ought ra the rising groun 
or the sides oft "e hills, than i in the hollows or valleys. 
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n ey are seen to greater advantage and 
tend to heig the eminences on 
which they are placed, and proportionally to deepen 
e n room 
- three or ps main combinations all the outlines of 
hich should be bold IM sweeping, and b 
at intervals by ample 
ndividu 
bee 
Oups s siod 
down in correjon and in die proportion, 
Single nes should be scattered here and there, in 
b hates with the larger masses, 
these will t y constraine cmm pre- 
sented by the ub of the denser plantation: 
The grass lands ghouls ba ih thrown into pns of 
great bread! he surrounding and groups 
of trees should ibi entire scenes of Mahan 
connected, ilar ; c yet diversified—by 
the ever-varying interchan grassy nse, o 
e and wood, and group, ax Ба trees, не 
at one time the деер, shag e and d of 
Беш шу. 
is very infelicitious, 
and has Pattern of Spriggs = 
matin. When ie EE way in pleas 
figures xen 
fl as shrubs and g shrubs 
with the most undeviating Big, ire 
object seems to 
рар paltry and 
ess syste n carried out to the greatest 
perfection a better te is now, however, bein 
diffused. f the " 
The results “ dotting sys eral 
monotony and an insipidity which n no ‘variety M the 
character of у нр trees ог shrubs will ever overcome. 
There is T same breadth of pe and shade on this 
hat—a 
patchwork of sunbeam and 
ess interchange of 
ree and bcc HO Be 
eye never fails to dwell with pleasure. 
dae Rd 
productive 
кымы: of insipidity, monotony, and languor, 
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numerous spikes of т 
| beautiful in 
w, gentlemen, m. a few words on the o 
Seul character of trees 
i 
studie no more 
planter be huapai than he w 
quanted with the u 
arks as nearl 
other respects, still, if each is pasta 
distinct and peculiar 
so great as ver Dach to 
чанка them. 
give a permanen 
trary, deciduous trees зк з 
t e summer and autum m 
in winter, It is, oe TA evident that much ds ps 
gained by a s € ibution and mixture of both 
So, groups and single trees, 
TE of the eflect pow on the kind of trees 
"To 
Firs, w ante 
t evergreen character ; 
e gi 
mixture of both 
кешеа and deciduous trees When a flat at building or 
ы hind it is always much enbanced by the introduc. 
tion of a few rid among t und-headed tri 
seeing it is adm i 
iegated Plan 
ү к<, ee vd Рори 
ag mixture among r 
ing the decapitated look. 
and its 
ue EE depth 
nM Ash has a light | figs and a 
it hi 
not continue such 
i о 
к other hardy tree. 
t of all our hardy 
and пала арреагапсе, "but when it i | 
yields to the prevailing winds, and beco: а noes 
e ient ы ime is 
wn tree, standing 2% a when its 
dió» oop to the turf i zh a fine, stately appearance. 
It forms a noble ave 
— Chester? is almost as fine as the = 
an ibits a beautiful foliage, varying wi 
the advance of the season. "Thé Hose Cheeta t has 
striking large green foliage, and, when —_ with its 
red flow is very 
The. Yey native 
trees. The Cedar of Lebanon 
harmonises well йр devel architec 
repeat them 12 
Ww is one of oe our 
to take a lesso 
with which he may о com 
nas tuer ng to excite to . study of this most neg 
THE REDWOODS OF CALI- 
FORNIA. 
SPECULATIONS ON THE DURATION OF e 
along the line of coast, in 
Sein, aait rri oboe the he Russian an. River 
hitet т его» to heighten the lights of some of the | 
ojec 
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eculiarly а park or 
branches - 
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