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THE.’ GARDENERS’: CHRONICLE: 
[SEPTEMBER 5, 18745 | 
iit Ape “aa was forty years old, or older, seemed 
assed as like treading 
ere every one knows everybody e 
For trees, and an and há Fisted me and aed 
perennials have a koe eat amount of personality 
out them, hey are not, as pe “yy tite sete 
all of a sort, lik a flotilla of d upon a 
; they have their ‘individualites quite. as adhe ede 
ed as the e great majority of human bei 
a reality to dyi “how d’ye 
grow e better anders 
the most porters of the m 
TERS ature. One of the hilosophe' 
a 
os 
to us, a little further 
ose who monopolise the name, but 
ooker pere them this title at 
d y no means indis- 
m 
piii were a sort of cousins 
removed than tho: 
still cousins—Dr. 
ns, after a cordial welcome 
visited the vineries and the 
I 
clusters, but the same principle will asie 3 in ina 
= dimensions that expresses itself in anot er gene 
Tand dsome does. ati 
Speed im 
be one of the m 
s pos- 
und o 
my S| 
often 
ing more oe ‘ily, coe. and 
secleatatconsly, than would b gift of 
five times their one. in Rod ii s hin fro 
personal observation, 
wer and 
ce of a 
ma of a 
age. More th 
: on physicians sends patients: to Germany, 
Bavaria, the tah tos and other places, oo that 
they may become cu d by a course of Grape-ea 
is the t when enue 
Bea chee acess to. Of course 
ies mente there is no occasion to claim for th 
more than is really We are 
as “an 
o 
i the present era era has produced—the Materia 
Medica and d Tierapeudies of Dr. a Douglas F. F. 
Phillips. Speed Srg a ur hands, for the 
imental tec 
to one 
of, the apartment in 
nhs rit , 
occasion severa 
and pre-eminently 
ie calla The Shah. The 
oe ane le | i 
right acos iroda me d, EN a deing, as straight as 
if dete 
in the most e manner, 
ext in succ 
circ ki 
arrangement 
involves so Sm tel it te Roe A to lay the leaves 
in their | laces. he water in the Victoria-house is 
rts ot the pretty rosettes of ee Pistia 
S you 
endeavour tö ficiiten 
n 
hollow stalks of tis 
ae ee sent a = series = the 
— delic. eminding one of the 
oss partitions which render thè common Juncus 
artici 4 so o interesting, Only that in the P 
deria ba se very much larger, though in truth not 
m 
I fa eae noticed, na peculiar ip ror, 
the obliging way in which o oe pan English plan 
the weeds and flowers of the yside, present k 
miniature aba srr singular 1 faaks re that occurs 
rarely need go to one of the 
of the Trad tia again i 
e A thousand o miniatures of 
nature t be ced, let it suffice to mention the 
ves of the insignificant Hydrocotyle, which exactly 
represent those of the glorio elumbium. The last 
named plant, at the time of our Chatsworth visit, 
superb. was it. = can it ge oe ing else 
I have — b arvellous bium at 
his 
I0 pm it in athe light of t thet full moon ; 
I have contemplated it in the sunshine of mid- -day ; it 
s al same, always the grand old vision of 
voluptuous za transcendent Auge: that gave it thirty 
centuries a pla g the things to be wor- 
Sneed j ai no wonder. The matchless config gura- 
tion—Magnolia, white Rose, and white Water Lily, 
all -in one; the proud height at which 
water, not fike a Sagittaria 
or even a Butomus, m ariy dei above the sur- 
— but lifted to an altitude with which nothing can 
ompete ; the love wyni concaves of white and 
blush pot on that ** petals” do not seem a name 
pte 
tha culture is the easiest conky able. A mere corner 
dry during the winter suffices for the 
during their period of rest. Nei ther water 
nor heat are needed til th 
constantly expended upon 
1, it does seem a little 
The surface of 
ch 
the atmosphere the 
ing crimson. nservatory in which they 
DUTE 
are established is a long one, 
at various elevations, there is no sort o 
artificial arrangement, they go 
they do ast 
first-class rocket: 
Ambherstia and the various species of Nepenthes 
as usual tle paradise of curious beauty. With 
excellent taste the ground below the Amherstia is 
co ith the grand foliage of eas 
similar plants, so that all is in eping. It is i 
teresting, when in this house, to recall to mind the 
a oa nage hed the Upas-tree, which 
Pte ca so fatally that no living 
thing ev ees held it company. re, alongside of the 
Ambherstia, ome 20 feet in height, 
li It is us that thos t species of 
Nepenthes which have the double lines of bristly hairs 
n the side of the pitcher next ped , these 
hairs entirely disappear fr or younger 
hers. What is the explanation of this? A house 
n which innumerable s kept, in readi- 
ness for decorative purposes, s in a 
we 
is really the bottom of the inverted one, but which 
the areri converts i ittle piatfo rm. So 
treat th abundance of the moisture Palms 
so a but, ead it at their own conve- 
of the latter in co 
| presen 
with the spat hea ect and bal 
re hey are seen 
- stages pri so low that 
me wii pr foliage, 
heightening of the colours of the variegated 
wh etted. 
has a utiful simile drawn from 
aspect of tain descriptions of flowers when 
me wh 
" An bright-hued pebbles that the sun 
rough the small waves so softly shines upon.’ 
The pes leaves, when the surface is moist 
ay are wi lo 
ce 
in Fem ;” ¢ or, as I 
— 
the branches shoot out 
f ae 
ei 
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