650 THE * 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[NOVEMBER 20, 1875, 
We have seen several thousand plants of Araucaria 
imbricata, more than — > s Deodara, Cryp- 
ria ja a, Abi cid Pinus s excelsa, 
Cupressus torulosa, and aie pu thousands. M. 
Leroy published ini 1865 his e Catalogue # in 
Five Languages, 2 866 a the first 
valuable . Lero 
placed un angers cv an favourable conditions he the 
publication of such a onary, possessing as he 
in his nurseries a type “rs vies species. Three other 
volumes ave appeared, and the fifth, on Stone Fruzts, 
p M. Leroyt took a large part in 
horticultural affairs, and was a mem T of numerous 
ti i els pm p 
e, by M. Alph. Levallée e, in the ?ourn 
е Ja Société C. "ontrale @ Horticulture de pomme ары; 
1875] 
volumeof a Les sen work on pomologyin cam remi. 
the m beca 
IBI 
HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 
SEY. 
| YOUR с" toe the Rev. Thos, C. 
ut, ed as an otolistrdist (vide his six 
fine fruit of Uvedale’s St. Germain Pears 
ase 59) at the Royal Horticultural Society's Show 
k), k), butI fear that as a geograp pher he is hardly 
eh 
‘The best Nectarine I ever tasted in my life, and the 
largest—I forget its exact size, but I know we теа» 
sured it, and it was divided into two—was from one of 
bes orchard- houses at Richmond House, Guernsey, : and 
kis Mr. Bréhaut's opinion 2 to that of Mr. Rivers; 
very rust a yacht for him 
bour ii St. Peter Port. Your 
will wonder what all this leads to—it isthis, I 
notice in the Gardeners’ Chronicle of October 30 (a 
date, by-the-bye, i in which I have some interest, it being 
Au day) an interesting notice of the inflorescence 
ofan Agave americana in the garden of M. Victor 
Hugo at Hauteville. Mr. Bréhaut, as “ the gardener 
Де ё fev d „says nothing with which I can find 
a gardener, and far from pur et 
tic, but, alas! inaccurate 
well-intentioned and poe 
So of the Legere pomologist. 
Firs 
Pan," his gallery, — the garden 
Маний ata ке height," &c. e garden 
face of Hauteville House, of did a on rom М. 
Garnier's phot ographis в die - your кшм = as 
nearly as possible eem —the sam as 
House, if I mis ere 
Next, ‘‘ Before, five leagues away, lie the 
Douvres," &c. Like Sam Weller of renown, “І 
have a pair of eyes, and that's just it. If they m a 
часе о’ patent double million n' gas 
diate vicinity. The fact is that the Douvres lie five 
o rli i to the south of the e of каке, 
from the 
Haateville Home. — 
e rock with the Celtic 
ation m. which бшш,” &с. һа 
тп e la B 
perhaps, now overgrown (as I have not seen them for 
three years) probably yet apes the pedestal 
with the terra cotta vase, near the tranquil basin of, 
in my time, pellucid d is Led ed 
OU EST L'ESPOIR, LÀ EST LA PAIX, 
Behind, again, is a trellised alcove, covered with Fig 
trees, whilst Arbutus Unedo, Ilex, and tree-like 
Fuchsias and Veronicas flourish Пеле А к it. 
ere, over against a stone seat on a wall, over which 
droops the sweet smelling leaves and odoro is baba hes 
x А hu че рди: citriodora, half hidden under moss 
d Ivy, is recorded, 
IMMENSITÉ, DIT L'ETRE, 
ETERNITÉ, DIT L'ÁME, 
was the good fortune of the present writer 
reside for three years next door to Haute ville House, 
in fact, almost under the same roo ‘tha as ee eville 
House is only semi-detached. e 
period of exile of the poet, when the most neighbourly 
tinguish 
Gu цене, b however (w ith a few nobl ) , did 
ї fthep nce 
upon | her soil of one of: the greatest. vade ihtellects 
in Europe, and left him in the solitude of profoun 
oblivion—a species of second ee professedly indif- 
it is when he comes to talking of the | 
ann to his presence or absenc кан blissfully ignor- 
or ages to sane 4 mie e of Victor ey 
willim impart a portion ory to the 
— island where he found a halter. 
my first reaching Guernsey, and taking up my 
abode чн close to the great eren atist, I was warned 
my -— neighbour as a malignant Red 
nists were r- fot then invented), a 
world (and I have been over a great po 
where I could find greater sympathy and thoughtful 
I and my family have experienced at 
. Hugo's inexhaustible reservoir was at our service. 
Did we want fruit or gend flowers and "fruit were 
с lavishly offered. en was small: would 
our children E tö Bey im his larger 
pond es? The e was heartily 
afforded to us, with M Victor- Наро ike reservation, 
**thatthe ee о play basin 
- Ја d'eau. y should tumble in ; ay whilst w 
ade moms agreeably welcome in the sa/ons and 
si p» table of our illustrious hi, ако S, Р, Oliver, 
Pallant House, Havant, Han 
A iene HORTICULTURAL 
Mr. FisH has dures mee us with a copy of 
his paper—‘‘ Suggestions for the Formation of a 
National Horticul:ural Society "—read at a meeting 
of the Lindley Club on November 10, from which we 
have made the following extracts, the subject. 
dealt with at too great a length for us to give the 
paper in its entirety. After alluding to the import- 
ance of the subject and difficult nature of the work to 
be done, Mr. Fish points out that many societies have 
done, and are do доо, good work; that a 
not supplant or supersede any, but 
would help all to do more and b better for horticulture ; 
and continues :— 
Should any тосе, wee or low, forswear loyalty to 
horticulture, and to the idols of rank, 
rospe voyage, and done good service € More ulture 
in its day, off the ucro rocks of fi al disaster, 
or out of the miry clay of class iue B ould 
he c snap, the jet se e in to 
the open sea of national or international u ess, Or, in 
other words (and to drop figures an and state facts), should 
i resisted ve impos- 
si without, the old socii to its own 
place, and another, younger, stronger, ing, more 
more national, more launched | 
purchase their forbearance,” he well remarks, **Such 
t of its ts duties to the nation, and the world af 
arge 
Avoiding “‘ the ms of localism in the old society," _ 
г. Fish is of opinion that ‘а national] society must 
d be so constitut 
to encourage and i societies, These 
might all be affiliated with it, the central helping "e 
supporting, s end being helped by all other societies." 
regards the managing y of such a society, 
e FR su aes ‘That the Council should be com. 
Че reasons ass 
ney; society, for it age; the 
scientist, for ey gives the reasons ; the literatist, for he 
writes its records and pictures its possibilities ; 
wit a with 
satisfying beauty. Having placed the right men in 
the right p dud selection of ‘discreet’ 
ellows, we t the aid asd danger of 
allowing the same men to remain too in office, 
or return to it too requen t change i is the law 
of эч. аса, life, with societies as wit ysical 
following simple arrangement would 
а 
thus have а e annual а йо of new blood w 
would renew alike its youth and vigour. The simplest 
possible means should also be devised for the nomi- 
ble 
nation of councilors,so as to keep that body in 
complete accord with the wants and wishes of the 
Society." 
Forestry. 
OF THE Crop.—Another branch of forestry, — 
of nearly equal i importance with that tef cultivating 
ne crop упы 
ready for the market. there are, even so many 
ways of doing this, each adapted to its own peculiar con- 
dition and circumstance, I shall only relate the method 
practised here in the meantime, and refer to others 
at a future time. 
sales annually, the one about the latter end of August, 
the other about the middle of October. 
nsists of the thinnings of young Pine and Fir planta- 
tions, which are principally purchased by the farmers 
for stackyard purposes and farm fences, and by the 
peasantry for fuel to burn along with peat or coal, 
The number of lots exposed vary from 250 to 350 at 
а 
there is proper dem 
making up the lots, only the stems 
lected, _and laid in 
ein 
quality i in the centre to that 
€ nings and all inferior growths and 
class of people for fuel, or by 
rposes, 
ri 
5 
if Collected, "which o th that class o 
small consideration. 
The number of poles in each lot vary from one to 
three dozen, less or more, and the ae vary "with 
e qu de — of w h is usuall 
sold at double the price 
and ve unless 
ladders or fencing, 
mee a A ——— well grown it sells dearer 
other annual sale is held about the second week 
consists of a general assortment of 
On this estate there are two auction | 
The former - 
