714 THE 
GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[DECEMBER 4, 1875. 
foliage "prae and shrubs vie peras grouped, while 
a handsome Ara a Bidwillii, and 
ed 
tony. Among tho 
Cannas, €— Coleus, Crotons, Panax, 
Graptophyll Ixoras, Allamandas 
Datura), Hibiscus (a dozen о Meyeni las, Du- 
rothamnus, Cotoneaster, Aralias, and a 
to contrast wit whieh | there 
rA of the Euphor- 
C 
a bus 
e Me eyenias, Lantanas, Plumbago rosea, 
can be similarly prun ned. Then ‚ growin 
Bitter eset a lit v half shade," there are Draczenas 
Colocasias, Caladiums, Marantas uchar amas 
zonica, Fern rns, Tradescantia discolor 
n great luxur iance, in clumps 
s long and 6 
nonia Xn a brilliant can 
` The К is not large, but great ates of culti- 
is shown in it, and, by iege us Sera м Д 
Ы отоор рої 
moreover, by ada 
even r unpromising ground within i 
laid out with rockwo 
been converted into R kind of orderly arrangement. 
The new rosery is of oblong-rectangular shape, 
formally laid Me “surrounded o on rag sides by ston 
r Roses 
ich 
de Dijon, Chromatella, Lamarck, 
he ieget qe side of this is flanked by a collec- 
n of Pelargoniums, Coleus, enge and other hardy 
foliage Longer bac kel by flow shrubs and trees. 
ie 300 choice Roses ar vim к arranged in pots 
in geometrical nd of coloured gravel, dear with 
ternant This edging plant is of great 
awe" as it can be cli clipped like ei under which t treat- 
titappearst 
est hue even in the h Beyon ond and around 
thé pillar Roses is a plantation of Tamarinds, Mango, 
and other trees, w serve to break the force of the 
zain i the foliage plant house 
E 
, and redes of 
rk, or by some similar device has 
üp a lucrative — for persons of small m 
nor would the benefits be con 
MARKET GARDENING IN THE 
PROVINCES 
уйе, for тайна vegetables, for which there is and 
Ju i уз edm tant n provincial 
IT is a singular fact that almost all the supplies of | markets, could be retailed with only tradesman's 
vegetables for provincial towns first pass through | profit added to the cost of production, whereas at the 
Covent Garden Market ; this custom doubtless arose p time there 15 not t triage along 
when London was celebrated for the immense market | hun of miles of rail to be paid, 5 there are also 
of r 
pers eene profits to be сонна to p y for the time 
nd labour of each person through a Gear: they 
may pass belts they reach the consumer, 7; X, 
gardens in close contiguity to the western district of 
the town ; these, at any rate the greater part of them, 
Foreign Correspondence, 
NOTES FROM KASHMIR,—The heat beginning 
to be unpleasant, we determined to leave 
he absence of glass—the windows being only 
lattice-work—admits, of course, hot air, and in the 
winter must equally admit the cold. Glass and iron are 
ata premium in Kashmir, and we were warned to take 
spare shoes and nails for the horses ; any procurable 
there are dear and of the worst, warranted to come” 
off in the first stony torrent bed the luckless horses 
have to cross. 
the less hardy vegetables are sent from remote counties 
rail, 
'The mild and humid climate of the south-western 
counties a appears particularly suited to the growth of 
abbages, and such things are 
bes ipsam in pump quantities and pénis 
to every town in England, the greater part hav 
first лути through the hands of the iden ‘of 
Coven 
That 
things welli in cer 
en 
s are eee facilities for wowing certain 
tain — ex Ax gos ot to be contro- 
Men yet, accepting s е cae it see 
that so little seii. ye been shown in | Valley, going first by boat down the River Jhelum, 
in the vicini Ms of towns | thence by the Sind river into the Anchar lake, a most 
ume an нце amount of | miserable нса place for the id as bs ipte 
were legion and of the hungri t reached 
Gunderbur, ae there ае a f bit: pene 
and da ndies ; : 
establishing market gar ens 
large enough t 
E 
limited area aroun exten ru to ap "south: 
east into Kent, in ded t into Essex, and occupying | man hapes, some for like a boat, of stron 
miles of the district “lying to the west of the carpet, admit of a recumbent ponies, having а Mee 
M is. pole, single or double, which r r both 
t has often been said that a demand is sure to | shoulders : ; four men are ne eas pde the gatto two. 
create a supply; it certainly has done so as regards | at a time, changing with the two other men when 
the products of the earth, for it is se re is any | tired. Another dandy i$ much like a chair, carried 
lack of the moner descriptions of vegetables in any y two men at atime; and yet another is made of a 
of our markets, t s to be seen Mee carpet gathered up at both ends, the occupant sitting 
such vegetables could not be supplied at a chea sideways ; b Ithink, wo atiguing 
te by growing the bulk of them as close as possible for long distances, though of course they are light. A 
to the spot where they. "P be retailed hampan is nn f anf the hills, 
Such towns as Re nthe west and Liverpool | useful for going £o: dinner i more 
in the north-west, any others in different | roomy, but ver Lee and unwieldy, requiring (unless 
districts in England, are quite dependent on the | 4 very light one) many more men 
supplies which come from London, and yet on farms | kinds, ке ats unsuitable to the rough, narrow, and 
| adjacer LENS root c hilly roads of K Good **kahars? or bearers 
raised, is no valid reason Mini ie o go well aec. sád get o ver цей marches enn 
garden veryth ү fully we i; xii we e you Cann есуй өгү of Ње 
grou 
large pop pulation, vast quan 
rate, and excellent roads or P ral for the carriage of 
duce 
effected by r: raising the surface in the lo w-lying p 
an — ЕГ МЕЙЕР the entire peering and 
ne ns of convict labour a lake 
Б t opposite the ps eer A large 
* . Some since Mr. 
to take c оде ol Є of these gardens, and the repo 
ark 
walled алуы compris ing glass lean- dea 's and ute 
has also onstructed, which adds 
а great success, insurin: equered shade with a 
free circulation of air, withoat ih for ‘lant 
which w er from a too direct exposure to 
sun 
e of the summer-houses receives the name of 
It was giv en in a playful MN and 
ined. A large monkey-hous 5 con- 
о Td throwing down ре, lide partitions 
and erecting an ornamental veran dah round it, into a 
very isis. da pens -house, capable of accommo- 
пете one side, and 
ontheo while in front are a Safer effect- 
ling p plant and ower beds on a well kept lawn. 
i eron went out Sie Kew 
*' getting everything i into very orderly : tane A 
"i is is matter for regret, on more than o 
(mstances ha 
e 
n the irregular о brought in b 
the farmers bes they had more than e ts hs 
home EE such vegetables гањ. of the very 
commonest descriptions, as Carrots, Par 
es ed 
unbreakable licis t buta as they E ie particular — 
zr t pbi their loads over a pre likely 
ot—you are obliged to use coolies ‘largely, but | 
the Mead: -man of the village i is bound to 
and as there a i fixed ra 
e. 
десен cope in дин pla се ті ight in this иша» the coolies one-eighth of their daily receipts nee 
as the very j , and the head-man s p 
description, а and must have commanded a | levy Wena ey So арга s le cat 
The whole ня the ‘Sind valley i is pretty, but it cul- 
era tivation of the ` minates in the glorious grandeur of Sonamarg, which 
a t сеен, the situation — Sona,” — * marg," meadow. There | 
d lying open to (oye uy Ea ersected by streams | ar wine cere p sharp, neat МО 
cold 4 winds by high hills ; with all these advan. 3e E ui sky n towering ar ae 
ere were no mar i cocum n grounds, M e тее pos mms e AE uw 
Теано Так, Ashford, Dawlish, and о 
of importance were situated within afew alles. 
rass of the most exquisite 
Reading the greengrocers depend almost entirely | feast for t j 
upon obtaining their supplies from town, and со: 4 Then t Е сад аберааш $n enjoy and all the 
signm ch day — hie are cro m to their very 
