NOVEMBER 6, 1875.] 
THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
581 
veis beyond. Walks are to be continued, and 
are staked out from this fom ар round the west side 
E of Ehe hill towards the summit, seats being placed a 
_ points where striking views of the surrounding country 
_ аге obtained. tions are still going on tot 
_ east of the flower garden—the ground being cleared 
- and sown down into la 
the dressed grounds, e 
3 E umps and belts of Rhodode 
Eh n put up, principally for growing plants 
g m decoration Cucu mbers, &c., and for winter- 
С 
Mr. Crawley е mg: a genuine love of gar 
e Mr. nis 
example will be cont 
ORANGES AND CITRONS. 
-THERE are no plants more Fart ч at this time 
the year than c Orange and Citron family, and 
t smod of them in large 
ey are. "There 
san erroneous с-а faf r^ Orange, Citron, 
and Lemon are slow-growing plants, while, 
the contrary, they are fast-growing when given 
treatment. The Lime, for instance, will make 
ths 2 or 3 feet long or pasa in a season, when 
free loam. Walls m ight be 
pera 
ted in a 
e season. aided 
ees so siad venim e in gardens that one 
is but indifferently 
акч y 
treatment, are not easily killed, and 
give сео for more tender plants, 
or two’ S bad treatment 
kin 
down the sides, each 
The same cool treatment as for Vines also suits 
say, 
tha me kept Ste for “lowering 
we re Frequently nd O 
а 
me im T growing season, 
the opposite. Av the treatment most needful to 
s handsome fam evergreens, A, 
y of 
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Uu 
BRITISH GARDENERS.—XXIX, 
CHARLES EDMONDS, 
THE subject of our qur memoir and pp 
Mr. Charles Edmonds, has lose long perio od occupied 
sition amo 
erly as gardener to 
the late „Duke of Devonshire, - whom ese р 
atter ly R.H, 
deem of bur by whom ‘Chiswick Ludi is now 
held. monds was born on December 7, 1811, 
at North Asi a ma Logd. in Oxfordshire, and at 
the age of thirteen en en з as house-serving boy, th 
garden of the Earl of Chou in — same village. 
There were three men kept in the garden, and here 
Mr. Edmo 
the men, and soon became promoted to the post of 
oreman. 
“I left this situation," writes Mr. 
N 
E 
den. At that nao. оа there was nothing re- 
ды done her e сз ay of garde ening the 
ini extensive of i and 
was devoted to all the usual objects of ion pos ines 
The w hole, however, has long since been converted 
eat plant-house or оч tory, with a 
ivision at one end Lai stove plants. 
xim to ‘the Horticultural Gar- 
ens, he great late Duke of 
agn as : T acis of Бет, m уйше this 
place, as it frequented school of 
pr ck a and Fish, Lumsden, F iid Dick m 
Camero and many whos 
have since сае аа. іп "he horticultural Snr 
ye among my contemporaries 
** In 1835 I was fortunate АХ j^ be taken on at 
Chatsworth under Mr. Pax 
sides of the principal walk that any one, in passing 
along, could easily see when he had arrived at each 
pecial fami It is a little strange that more ha 
not since been f this somewhat extraordinary 
collection, for it comprised all the known species a 
vallem of hardy trees and shrubs that could then be 
rocured ; Messrs. Loddiges of Hackney, who the 
1 had charge for two or 
on's Magazine of Botany, and had 
pe a supervision of the enormous amount of 
ke the 
cha: n this position I have 
— remained, _ Those familiar with the Arm — мый > 
the graceful liberality of the Duke of Devonshire, as 
adapted for a summer Aria. athering, and t 
brilliancy of the private /¢tes of "EL they had e 
been frequently the scenes, have of late been most 
ha ed ig in the > garden pud given by H.R.H. 
gr^ à of Wales. 
г, Edm onds Mie ees for some years a seat at the 
Council of ' the Royal Horticultural Soc 
ant dogs isition as a censor at 
con: 
the chief жырына ve 
A WAYSIDE DAINTY. 
N the Sainer ееси of September 4 there 
n exhaus rticle on ue ckberries, in 
o the use of this fruit asa 
is there iid that it (the Blackbe rry) 
to 
possess, and, 
necessary to gather large, fully ripe (9 to — 
art uem richness of flavour and 
vi she ii «ni 
taste of Blackberries shinee tlie the day is suffi- 
ciently aired, 
In most country places, tad advanced MEME 
has not — oved the Bramble off the of the 
earth, a very fair ан атт 4» is vas у made 
each autumn of d. ruit i jm ith Apples ; ‘bat ar 
1 аге 
т in company with other fruit, they 
ve that grateful recognition which 
s Asa 
obtain, e ve ry 
for orm a pi се ^d résistance 
beco 
scarce not ut 
subject : Rhubarb, by judicious blending w 
e into excellent marma- 
axton, who has since made | ре 
himself so well known to the world as Sir Joseph | lade, and Blackberries, with the expenditure of a 
Paxton, ere I continued about three years, and | little time and care, may be converted into super- 
took the management о ts, fnt especially | excellent jelly, as firm, as tasty, as delicious and as 
the Orchids, whic suc firm, with a peculiar luscious feront of th т "x 
collection, In 1836, vi the dire ction ия - vaunted Damson cheese o - 
eminent master, Mr. ton, of whose great geniality | mothe 
and ability I shall always retain the pl test and rns asons "T аз В ета that it is impossible to 
most appreciative recoll 8d the great | fix upon an ex e for the gathering of Black- 
Arboretum then formed, and su tended | berries for ane jelly suffice it to жу ey should 
the planting o v prepared | be obtained after a spell o dry weather, when the sun 
n clear white letters on black labels an epitome of | has had time to perfect their flavour, and neither long 
the history o ant, with its scientific and | before nor long after noon, for during mid-day in 
English name, native place and of introduction, | sunny weather they will be dry and free from dew 
and placed on ese in the front of each ; and, as | Having obtained a supply of the ев and ripest 
the natu ent of classification and grouping | fruit possible, it should be at once placed in a strong, 
en arrangem f n 
was followed, e labels indicating the various 
classes, orders, and genera, were so placed by the 
clean, stone jar, a saucer put on the top, tied 
ty 
| down with strong muslin, and the jar placed in an 
