^ pecentër 4, 1875.) THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
709 
; ercus eee. &c. h — 2 Е 
M ao montana, &c.), are very pro 
in this way. The other av of Pari к бе alluded to 
ofera m pes problem for discussion ; but one 
| thing is ce amely, that trees, shrubs, and her- 
| baceous em А е normal state and px n , when 
| planted, her by des r e in clos 
proximi iy with others that are variegated (not neces- 
sarily of € ose species, genus, or family), occasion- 
Men ariegated, and even with the same strain 
шоп , 
е e my views as to the possible causes 
uon aim the two heads already indicated, 
1, VARIEGATION BY DAMAGE.—Trees are built 
up of, or grown from, minute fascicles of cellular үө 
tissue—herbaceous plants chiefly from 
ne орон, or chemical combination, 
b e life-giving agency (probably both 
dial and деше) through their whole structure, 
Wem y, I think, t 
nt thro ough a a wrong 
е robab I puer organisms 
us glan our bodies, and 
‚ By Sap Nou 4 has been observed 
| t distinct genera of herbaceous plants, and even of 
. | Mts and shrubs, which have been placed closely 
‚ | iether, one in each case being variegated, that one 
hlwenty, or even a greater proportion from amongst 
the norm owth and colour, become varie- 
t is ivifying organism, perhaps 
fly susceptible with the females ater. alluded to, 
receiving an ith 
may in course of t 
US with “the au the whole (o ad 
ж the truth,” 
€ with a few examples of variegation, pro- 
бег in intentionally or now acci yes ке ncs 
ormal, 
ia officinalis, 
me "cca by Mesa rotenditolia 
Bambusa 
ed, i ү Prunella vulgaris 
Badly varie- l , 
gated, d = айы, Phalaris aründinacea 
inch &c. 
Wollaston, Bishop's Well, Chiselhurst, Kent. 
our correspondent’s premises till 
they are улет by much stronger d than he 
gives. The subject, however, is so important that we 
greatly indebted for any "uero to elucidate it it. 
In the first place, we do not think the Ее 
njury and varie gation, plausible as it is, 
made out p isfactorily ; nor ist os effect of association 
better 2 = E bes to the simulating p 
ascribed to plan are А. р sure that w 
rightly Pind mers his. seg Ds. ] 
BRITISH GARDENERS.—XXXI. 
JAMES FOWLER 
Mr. JAMES FOWLER was bet in Edinburgh in 
1830, and educated at the parish school, Drumelzier 
Peebleshire, his father te d been employed for fifty- 
, of Dalwich, Peebles- 
edeki, he tells us, was 
formed during his school-days, when he had the advan- 
tage of the instructions of Sir 
abilities as а lan d 
After leaving school he was employed by Sir John 
for a considerable time, and afterwards, in 1847, was 
engaged as apprentice for three years under Mr. 
Anderson, gardener to Sir Graham Montgomery, Stobo 
a i Peeblesshire, having during the last year of his 
erm the charge of the houses. Mr. Anderson was a 
idi fruit and kitchen gardener, and Mr, Fowler 
acknowledges having reason to be grateful to him 
for his kindness and instruction 
TI prg 1850,” 
he writes, **I went as 
foreman under Mr. Cruickshank, gardener to Mr. 
Colquhoun, of Killermont, Dumbartonshire. f: 
Cruickshank was considered опе of the best Шы 
gardeners in the West of Scotland. My nex 
wasin November, 1851, as foreman under Mr. лан 
ener, Ardurroch, Argyleshire. There plants ап 
fruit were well managed, Mr. ов being a well- 
known exhibitor at the Glasgow show: 
** In November, 
kindness, I got emp 
through some misunderstanding I did not remain 
long. After leaving there I went to Mr. W. Thom- 
havi 
е he left 2 Fen ern: ^ of carrying on the 
ardens almost wholly im ‚ This proved 
—— engaged, 856 as gardener to the 
Iw e HI as ener 
Ea lof. н satan = Yorkshire, 
Harewood, at 
и my 6" Аг крл of my employer, І have 
ained e 
A desediption ‘of p^ gardens at Harewood Hous 
will be found in our volume for 1863, p. 919, froin 
which it will be seen that amongst the horticultural 
attractions of the Tokay Vine; which 
a 
Thi 1783. d 
r that ‘ane 1856 it pet м. іо] B — but 
e border 
to vides em in 
indusitig it to finish off Sell excellent crops of grape 
SOUTH KENSINGTON 
IN EXTREMIS. 
E deplorable nag ечен into which the various 
institutions at South Ke ton h derive their 
fro 
the Royal Albe add биги, ате 
pay а second 
time for privileges which hitherto have been little 
better than a ry ; and the International гам. 
тоске 
bitions have sunk into an auction-room for reign 
dau It is impossible 69 іт wee ive 
commentary on the artifices and re ith 
terpri originally started than 
267 have rapidly de Whenever the T of 
the grea 1 Renaitigton scheme is written it will 
fo о urious and highly instructive ir, 
о 
n puflery an 
убт 
ism, and 
a king under the cover o. 
that dazzled outsid Id. Th 
ac ly ceived of converting the gravel-pits 
of Brompton into a new and — suburb, 
where graces, all and 
sciences, should disport together ie. courtly 
protection, It was expected that all. these attrac- 
tions would at once s m Presa 
quarter of the town the 
large sums of money y night be obtained t by judici Ре 
house-building speculations. It miliar device 
with aspirants for fashionable distinction to drop the 
байби бе mily name and try the effect of a more dis- 
m ou 
ton. Inp of this project the Royal Commis- 
sioners were persua to invest their m 
in the purc of an LL at South Kensington, part 
of which was sold as building ground and part leased 
to the —— Society. The Commissioners 
pou e" eed to spend £50,000 on ground works 
&c. pn that the Federer 
Sut should expend ual sum in laying o 
n la 
father ‘entangled themselves with 
and successive 
that 
garden, and the 
the International pene of 1862 
ors v ed their property t 
in the course of some five ix years the estate was 
overwhelmed with | respatibilitia, and deeply mort- 
much mended, e as tural Society 
is at the end of its funds, and in debt to the Commis- 
sioners, an I nal Exhibiti 
have been pecuni ures. 
In a circular which has just been issued, 
is signed by Aberdare, **the Council of the 
Royal H Society — 
— to the Fellows that they have succeeded 
in making arrangements with Her СЕ Сот- 
missioners of 1851, whereby the gar ted 
to a iens -— vim sem only uie the per- 
formance of on ondition—namely, that 
the annua "Атей from рден shall raised 
for the advantage 
may be asked, hehe die k Horticul tural Society, more 
than any other speculative body, pported out of 
