70 LAE 
GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[JULY 18, 1874. 
Catha edulis, Pentzia a saath as epp fodder), 
Myrica sapida, Cas varieties of 
— At as st in ayer to athe Tacal yptus before 
icted b Win 
Among herbaceous plants nts and herbaceous peren- 
ally gat and nay them 
o the 
s Tnb E. vulgare, is 
i Vipers chalk d 
ere E. giganteum, 
aeg E praat with blue 
with pink flowers, and E. ee tie with white 
blooms. 
Turf, our sense of the word, is obtained with 
dificalty, but t the grass plots abound with Anemones, 
Tulips, Alliu: m roseum, and later Tiu grandiflorum, 
absence of velvet turf. 
Ti a (here 
A ne aver but the Tater, e- 
to shy bloomer ; in plac 
it does bloom ñothing can = more brilliant 
reis owers. Passiflora 
grown, scores more of these very ‘peautifal plants 
pe be readily = in such a 
climate. Lopho- 
ignonia equinoctialis, and 
poe the single Banksia Rose, deserve mention, 
but we might o mns in the me 
enumeration of the t garden. 
r former illustration (fig. 7) gave a general view 
of the ground 
MT MEIEGA Y 
s, as taken from the gorge to the west- 
iew we now give (fig. 12) from 
s resid fro a general view 
is obtained of all this wesith of | interest nope psi uty. 
PY ot, 
Me A at dusk, after a | diy’ s statin 
at the manifold beaut ies of t the colar 
physically and 
e econo S0 1 
perhaps, in Britain as in other parts of of the world. 
the Typha which e 
novelty is its employment as a ic full details 
o which 2 arë given by Dr, Clark, the well-know 
Among the Tartars and Cossacks its use 
traveller. 
| especially i in 
the $ 
are seen to the right and left 
ee Pim vals we ey 
are Olives. To the left, in the re- be ea ger i a 
$ peri that of Ranunculus 
i Beato as I knew it would be; was the 
their trained ben ye laden with ; 
cruel and 
common Ghent Azalea, T 
is very dngn extended, and the plant is held i 
great repute, so much so, indeed, that the inhabitants 
of Tcherkask, in Sou th Russia ,„ look upon itas a 
sacred plant i a special gift o Provide ence. 
According to Dr. Clark the lower portions = 
the stems form a portion of every meal; “es 
these ea to the length of Saat 3 fee 
are sold the markets tied up in bundles, like 
Asparagus. Like A sages iy too, it is best used in 
the early part o E the y when the plants 
beginning to 
table is N. wy to all san ich or poor, 
or old. They peel off the cuticle, , choosing the young 
tender part 
the Typha is subjected are 
oe ae ae 
red with 
ing to which 
similar to those which we ony in 
table has ever been tried in England ; 
in many localities, and experiments 
upon it are desirable. 
The rhizome of the rd is not the only portion 
whic an ar of food. The pollen is 
prepared as meal by the Mighlan , and made into 
a kind of bread. In India, that of another speci 
(T. elephantina) is similarly emp sgi w 
E of a third (T. pix forms the 
oh aland, being made into loaves e the 
tioli is very in 
a substitute for the m of L pe podium qa 
exhibitions of fireworks. It is said that the whole 
spike nd produce a “flash of light if it be held near a 
cand 
or formerly employed in stanching 
blood, and for F applet, to “kibed or h 
heels, as xi are called,” gn tg to G 
was also used for stuffing pillows and mattrasses, 
Sweden, e it was gen 
a instead of fe: athers ; but it became matted and 
cause one to be deaf, if it happen into the ea 
A writer in Loudon’s Magazine of Natural History 
says :—‘‘ A weaver of valle t told me that at Spital- 
fields and other places the head of this Rush is al 
for cleaning their work in preference to a common 
brush. Since then, being in the mer ere of 
Blackhea iki a man carrying a large bundle of 
and, upon inquiry, he told me that 
each, for the pur ose 
of a hat brush.’ a purp 
NOTES oS e Sa ip 
July 1 ea a pes beraad than usual 
y among the 
the bed of 
Briar Roses, wit 
sweet little cag blossoms. « 
The Kalmias, too, are óver, and the alpine Rho- 
dodendrons (Roses s des Alpes 
int oe or = two. itech owens always have ths 
sweet Ta one? On one single blossom, which I 
erally em-' 
which is a white C; Rose, 
Celeste, the thin Mite tae of 
his. : 
ore greedy than the 
T think, the large 
a 
paste just nee Arakna home, at the end of Ma 
found no less six flies ; four of t 
Lama 
dead, “eae. of a o grem 
ng. o others were still a but the Azalea 
ad already nearly draine ir 
thei a o tightly w. 
release them from ‘a 
in the truss were other flies, three, four, or five; s 
that the pears Azalea shrub had pr robabl ly canot , 
=o dr 
ixed at oe as almost past their best ; s 
least de hairy red Poppy, the day Lily, and the 
early pupie, Berem. = o i and, of course, 
Irises and t present various Cante 
Bells, Valerian. ten I saw bedded ut the o 
which is 
long sin T 
our korn n, the spire of a aaa with 
oa rg crockets compared to a spike of Mullein — 
flow It rtainly the M allen (the distin $ 
name Eat which I j not know) which is now in bl 
deed, the silenn nce had occur 
ook, 
But I hardly care to linger over other flowers, w 
the Rose saree in their fullest splendour. 
summer Roses must eo been better a fortni 
back, but ihe i perpetuals are as go 
many of the summer 
fear that the passion for larg 
and the desire of novelty, 
old Roses of our chil pass into entire negle 
yet, when we think ofa met of which any poet h 
written, it — no France, or Sénateur Vai 
or Alfred C heed — beautiful as they are. V 
Herrick warns us— | 
“ Gather ae Rose-buds while ye may,” 
or when Hood t ge 
“Tt was the m 
We Biined them as we paasod? 
—their Roses were other than the favourite Roses of 
“2 
China, with its pink shell pe comes so soon 
and lingers on so late—-the last Rus not of summg 
but of autumn. Then there are other old Ro a 
which should not be Unique, | 
i one; the 
which are so be 
tiful, is another. Then there is the little 
Meau ux, and the old Damask, which, 
to have nearly disappeared. 
It must have been one of these Roses, be su 
not a Tea or a Ap EA which Lady Corisande fi 
in her Se for Lothai 
rse that we are not —— for = 
Roses, with ‘their brilliant colouri d thei 
Rose 
indeed, see 
have. is e de th 
summer the name: of I 
but which, when fully out, much resembles the Com 
de Ja are not trained in any way, 
ey 
I find, measuring round their h 
I now get from the nurser 
inclined to attain to half the e size. 
except as a gaint sac 
to be a curiosity it would 
tingale ; t 
those famous Ro e pu in the Tem 
Garden, of whisk ct “the pale and bloody petals” 
