712 LAE 
GARDENERS 
CHNOIVICEÉRE. 
[DECEMBER 4, 1855, 
soon afterwards, and the result is two a 
which I have j р I cannot account for 
м eec 5 саи refusi т: о produce f * ed 
glass e particu H^ as he appears to have 
applied to the pistis of the plants their v and not 
foreign pollen. During the early M" of last summer 
I placed a plant of Geranium anem иш m, а some- 
house, and 
бае Љеб оге the 
carefully emasculated several hiiti 
was and e 
pollen ripe , when the stigmas of the blooms 
So treated became s dufüiciently forwarded, I applied to 
all of them v taken fro ious Zonal Pelar- 
goniums. m-buds produced which were not 
em a e removed before they expanded, so 
roduce a single 
P 
ripened w nym a 
origin, 
family, ad ү нб evidently а. 
Geranium наги but appeared to be neither 
ess than Geran 
more nor 1 m pratense, so that it may 
be truly said that, alt 
‘* The thing is qe rich n 
' One can't hel ndering how it it got there." 
For although Cg are res of this variety growing 
upon the herbaceous border they are, nevertheless, 
the seeds of olium were 
peg yet this appears to be ba pore; PR conjec- 
ture than can be formed respecting бм matter. And 
as regards what appeared to be plump seeds of G. 
anemonzefolium, they must Тш» uS been only 
empty capsules, If you will be: me to leave the 
ema ar s 
of plants ion that Mr. Alfred Fryer, 
of Chatteris, who has made the culture of Tricolor 
Pelargoniums a speciality, and who is well known 
a mast Aie propagator = these plants, sent to 
of the well known 
Du ue, 
. silver- 
the 
of grain пау 
which P "the pn instance obser 
e ergo i in the form of variegation ical place. 
ould no doubt be OMM tC to "e if any of 
аъ 
Committee's meetings at ut 
sington. Р, Grieve, Culford. [Weshould recommend 
you to do so, Eps.] 
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GARDEN ENCLOSURES. 
AMONGST various matters connected if not identical 
with the Villa Garden, its method of enclosure is one 
of the most impo ortant, In large country gardens, 
жайы passing through a kind of series of outworks 
of ornamental shrubbery and so on, into the surround- 
ing grounds, the exact boun undary is not necessarily 
clearly Wenn i and park may blend i into each 
е not extending мем Һе жези itself, the 
first object is security from intrusion, the next very 
probably to shut out undesirable points in the imme- 
diate neighbourhood. 
are o 
ole boundary 
road, but in айний districts, 
en and the next 
an 
edge is often the s 
whether to заха ог 
wW 
le 7 No means, snch: КА 
е been resorted to to otse i р" result, 
me o 
wall that gives —— might not also be mad 
some cases a 2 ore picturesque object than is is 
usually ever a n 
The part that is usually least attractive is the top, 
d then athered 
wild flowers, or again fro 
stone cliffs, with different plants, Ivy, Hone 
or Clematis, —— in garlan nd flowers varying 
with t , niched into any "little cavity or creep- 
ing along the едр. 
т, however, in the enclosure of the 
th oc 
occasional foray or panic right ori Shaving the 
most grievous holes to be drawn together ; and as for 
the smaller ones— 
“ Tf they could ry: eunt to the ^ d of the wave 
eedl'it it through belo 
r peace nor Were 
lar ounds there 
whilst ТА I undary 
whilst the LI can Б sm ated 
or road fence the case is som Бочи les 
1 seme 4 =n high 
may be 
a foot of masonry 
he ordeal will often ies ts porvarit À 
or the stone of the district ; if it has a neat 
security) a strong iron railing fixed in - эле coping 
may be completely hidden in the hedge 
; order 
ает for the common wild Thyme, which 
does not need any care, and зн а beautifully even 
carpet d in or out of eu 
For a common boundary edie Privet and Thor 
are бош joined to а low wall ; Holly, of cout, is is 
a - greater be Ste but requires longer time for 
wth ; and for men — divisions in the enclose 
aint itself tri e Box 
constant neatness, and do nt necessarily take much 
oom. Double-blossomed e, variegated о 
prickly leaved Holly, and Laurusti 
us well trimmed 
li 
mingled, so as to secure bright berries ell as golden 
leaves duri xp bes winter, - bem desirable for 
ny pi the ба lines of bright 
cheerful =з during t the. winter months, 
This point ken is, cheerful t tints à in the hedges or 
screens close to the house) deserves — care ; 
some : things, Scotch Fir for instance, twisted in о a sort 
эйзи їп any kind of геше! grounds m a tall 
of dark evergreen like the P 
save for a short fom à in the ^ ci Some 
СЕЗЕ except from its increasing s is 
the extrem The Са zem 
and complete € out of all distant objec 
with the g patches of pro snow 
ying de nee sik tock each winter, or the bits of 
scorched ground ve the roo ch summer, 
m 
a sort of reminder of a series of 
ents which may be well r — » some in of 
division, cheerful in itself, variable in appearance, 
possibly so arranged as, while it screens what is 
i recogniti 
such po - ma 
solid mes requisite, ter vol may 
нес = — " md requisite help, and 
with this to fall back o bank ma thrown 
ар with bright-eaved Bec elei shrubs 
ong the top, the part Кн» covered with 
creeping flowering plants, or such es as may 
be fanci e common some 
ler Clematis 
smal allowed to pr cm о over it, looks 
bright and cheerful, and a row of ips 
ee 
wis ү dein ris pen m de E 
th 
st in ata (or | 
giving the — irri ts ar which is а 
desirable in t of a solid hedge or screen, neces 
sarily in — con tien 
ep a stout iron fence (ornamental or ome 
overed with va 20 Lente fl 
Сус, ог Сок orus japonica, Ругаса Mame 
red ae te or anything else that may be [зл ine 
to it—is enough, pn кич what is behind, b 
t ias ime t giving such a mass a Po 
heavy black shadow regularly during some portion of 
the day over the immediate foregroun ometimes 
ide to the fi 
the eye A on п to the distant 
prospect without feeling of restraint. here the 
Villa Garden scs park-lan hee o hip, an 
open stone balustrade fence is particularly appropriate. 
Thé ù handsome masonry gives a solid division, 
and at the same ti ind of terrace-lik edging, 
pleasant to look at from either side, 
and fro 
ontrast in colour and ms d of form ‘setting oit de 
natum surroundings to ntage. 
The gr ifficulty, ‘however r, is Feet recta miens 
garden, enclosed with a bri ck wall on every side, an 
here it is that some hints may be gat ithered. fr rom the 
be the — is low, it is much prettier to look 
down of Ivy running along the E than 
eiii on bare Britka. he plants to supply it may 
be set at regular distances, and the whole, though 
Hon e, Swee 
ther half-wild laces including ^» 
oppy (Meconopsis cambrica), 
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resting place for pe pass Шеки у under the head 
of Stonecrops Taking the Sedums Sepervivums 
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and their allies, an immense variety of shape, c colour, 
and vem of | growth may be obtained, some wit ith dee еер 
gre 
ful pendants, others made the most compact covering — 
with their sea-gre and some little interest — 
en leav 
fl 
Mie ad e P Some of the wall Ferns | 
look well when so pk , but for them a kind | 
showi em pre - 
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ely 
little care, in "e as healthy grow may 
— of brick, but with stone there are “no difücalties 
~ The width of each buttress, and the distance between 
them, should t be settled, and then 
M built of small ipe of unmortar 
u 
ween The 
stoi dibus have а | slight citation backwards and 
the sides of the perhaps better дес 
ers е 
wort (Ceterach) апа s iums, —— 
. Trichoman uta-muraria, would 
pond at home, le 
es of two or three steps, or merely 2 high d 
а Tike a low square pillar, abo т 3 feet hig | 
built of solid masonry at regular interv against the — | 
wall, help to break its E. айту re ornam 
o 
gives a oved by the po 
to lessen the chance of breakage in a gale О 
an 
-— anag j 
ibid oo, - piap a very 
they should 
ed stones, the pieces _ 
nings | 
à 
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a dress | 
about half the usual height at twice its width, os ] 
ery much 5 its erae d 
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