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AUGUST 1, 1874.] 
GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
137 
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in the churches on Palm Sunday, is a favourite adorn- 
ment of a French churchyard ; and the effect of the 
win — stuck over the graves is more 
us than pleas 
ot. Periw Ekle Wi ca AN is pte favourite 
-misk for graveyar ep n. In Switzerland and 
lant n the dca S 
while ir in snp it is wr rohe 2 und 
ceased i and planted in “their tombs, whence it 
is called he a Flower of Death” (Fin di sere) 
The ogee of So Liev appears to 
mon e pa 
to pay some poor 
ornament the grave with slips of Yew, Box 
eve: eks after interment, and in 
some instances for weeding and adorning it o on the eve 
eae Whit Sunday, and other great festivals “a 
a year or thee wards, _ The same ceremony w 
orm 
Sundays Sibsequnt t o s interment. 
deta unt is that quoted z Brand toe Mal. 
any, Antig pies and Biography of South 
hic extracts relating to Gla- 
ing :— 
" It is a very general practice in Glamorgan to plant 
79 
z 
o 
b ; the red Rose is appropriated 
r goodness, and 
otherwise dressed, 
ed agate. "i is n copra 
themselves i 
: graves of their fiends, <n 
py ane cultivating their own freeholds. k the 
ently been planted by some satirical neig 
Rot only with Rue, but with Taiata kiites Mata, 
None ever molest the flowers that grow 
gaves; for it is deemed a kind of sacrilege to do so.’ 
ue same writer adds :—‘‘ It is baes. as general a 
custom eP graves of 
em of pious r a ance.” 
was, Planting o ew coe in churchyards may have 
bt the speculat with this honouring of the dead ; 
tions ag ae with this brar are 
to enter (apan here. B, AZ. 
ALPHONSE KARR. 
of a ortraits of horticultural worthies 
ete if it did not include the subject 
own domains to realise as much pleasure as can be 
obtained from foreign travel. Much of i 
question is written in the style 
the Plants, and is, for the time in which it was written, 
correct, though—than ky measure to 
celebrated descendant o mus Darwin— ae of 
. Karr’s statements a yeeros wi would now 
revision men r 
inst thé florists 
hat constitutes beauty, 
ee eppect iated. No extract would 
suffice to convey a an idea of their f good. humoured 
banter. ut M scofiers 
to p propose a better system, and es savans may well 
retort that while their language and descriptions on 
aeo, mmes enough to those who will take the e pains 
n, his own are of no value save to the Fighe” 
renter; and are of no service even to the diletante 
q 
ALPHONSE KARR. 
who wishes to know what he is reading about, and to 
compare it with what he sees around ‘1 
ho re oliére can laugh m at the doctors, 
and a pr his raillery at their ex bu 
are glad enough, n hel o avail of 
n 1 
their services in case of need. So likewise the savans 
and the florists can sage fail to enjoy the laug er 
Karr, and, more than that, they would be 
to mend their w ways and adopt any suggestion which 
ye be likely to ae matters, but on these 
points M, Karr is silen 
ita al rs of M. Karr’s career from 
Men of the Ti ime, 
i w editio 
there is certainly less necessity than ever to stir beyond 
one’s garden in Arie of interest and novelty. 
terary 
1832, published 
oye a mélange of irony and sentiment, of good sense 
ng, which at trig made him popular e 
the same year he 
Moti het a monthly satirical journal, which 
success. After the Revolution of Nee 
d t 
es conasionlly in the Deux 
Mondes and other periodicals. His chief ootapation; 
cower is horticulture on a large scale. The publica 
complete edition of = author's works c 
Š Paris fn I as made Chevalier of 
our April 25, » T85 
and other works 
GREENHOUSE PLANTS.—XIII. 
THEIR CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT. 
rhe —These most elegant Pea-blos- 
t f New Holland. Viewed 
ead-li 
a well-grown healthy plant they are produced in 
quantities for from four to six —_— during the spring. 
The plant has, — either in or out of flower, a ve 
distinct appearan hey are naturally climbers er 
their native euena clinging to other more robus 
growing plants, consequently, in a Pisa pros 
Aiii 
an 
per on— a eko o begin 
are, unfurnished ap- 
ote 1 to th , pain 
over w. segs o train ihe shoot ts, thing’ care never to 
gn Reese ià become too much entangled. 
ecting young a woe A it is necessary to see that 
nae ate ame e clear from of the worst kinds of 
insects that plants are sihjese tå such as white and 
brown scale, e Gompholo mane are comparatively 
nted sticks 
ere the tem- 
n a light situation in a g 
poa in the m . from pin to 45° will 
peratu re 1s 
approaching drynes: ; might be done with im- 
punity g, coarse-rooted subjects. By the end 
of March the plants on m in a condition to remove 
into larg S. moderate piik they do 
not requ arly so enact Pd ot room as plants o 
A poy $2 geen larger will 
plant that may 
e an x ordinarily fall of roots. se d 
fibrous peat at this first potting, —_ the size of 
com er, his is of importance 
d 
ained, Pot firm using the p 
closer for two or three weeks, ishing satiy Each 
plant should at this time have tado ice thin 
sticks placed to it, over which the shoots should be 
evi rsed, training all over and 
— the plants furnished down to the base. This 
ese to with these plants from the first, 
me difficulty in remedying sy defect 
prAna oe Hin biit to tie the shoots with, not 
- allowing them to t npr so as to get 
too fast hold. Do not allow them to intertwine with 
each other so as to become ‘twisted ca like, or they 
will be injured in undoing them 
By the end of oe the plarits oo if all goes 
well with them, be gr hen apace. will at this 
stage of developaient Bebe efited bi a yA with the 
oon, jetty well under the leaves 
i ants round, so that all 
morni Peg ae , which t 
them. the flower-buds, whi will 
ES ney, get per ange tah m maggans they should 
the plants 
all 
req ed-spider. In the 
su of ashes, 
with a li seed willed: Fe ep this regularly damped 
sana a l 
be picked off before they e 
y : 
July they sh neil roqnine ‘ ‘oot shift to pots again 
inches larger, using soil similar in ee ry way to 
that used for the aon pring At this warm season 
eed kee ser and more ptian for 
— shoo’ In a fortnight or 
will get hold of the new soil, and wi 
and do “a only such shade as will 
rays in the middle of the day. Through the autumn 
lly inure inure them to plenty of all 
