THE 
SEPTEMBER 26, 1874.] 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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in the parish. Then, besides the more ordinary and 
weeds, I have two varieties - Willow = 
r the, bord 
ng wher 
they utterly inion A yel ow Oi 
too, has seemed into a nuisance, and ma where it 
are over. T have 
gathered, and most of the Figs, The Apple-room 
begins to fill with Keswick Codlins for cooking pur- 
and klin’s Golden Pippin for desse 
As yet none r Pears are ripe. e Mulberry 
- tree in the orchard drops its fruit before it is matur 
but i ther too much with the orchard 
R it otherwise, there has been but little 
sun to g Mulberries, how 5 
Cow 
he Foxglove and the C 
o “In Spain and those 
y the oppas 
Ee EETA 
ittle nourishment to 
corrupt.” Nor 
joes i Langley, 1728, mention 
_ Tomatos, ts ot ‘raw 
arra- 
handsomest our beds at present (except 
‘always the beds of jens Clematis and bray ere 
ritomas, whi old 
ich form a haggis 
ing spikes mpas-grass 
would be better still, but I have not ‘in able to 
make them blos her. A patch of Tritomas 
k on the corner of the lawn 
ofa gardener, who cut them down 
with big: A sey in mowin 
r bed, vache a a permanent one, I have still 
es Ra It is a mass of Anemone japonica alba 
rah, Statice latifolia and it. This Anemone, with 
its 
rrounding a yellow centre and 
wild 
vening, or after a 
shower of rain. In hot weather the garden is 
when the sun is full Er it, and I 
marep as ai ie may 
~ possible ; but — g these annuals, with several 
ers, ha lon good. On the ocha bund the 
large tall aatia opens hundreds of yellow stars 
each a ; any pee still, the beautiful Œnothera 
unfolds a 
number o “ae its out 
k.: 
ers 
lease white blossoms, which gleam 
among the rich green foliage close sia boa E 
the Ice-plants, the cee plants and the Aw aranthus 
salicifolius, nor do I sers sufficient 
t reason for it. 
The ri benal the flower which, even in the 
per- 
with But 
garden; we bring the pots, with tall 
ti eg wep ses py ay tufts of bloom, 
tm perfume rises 
he staircase and Fos ae the open gallery above. 
Sept. —I have just gathered from the wall 
_ between the vineries the finest blossom I ever ha 
S ne nt! sis uberose even 
seems a plebeian by the side of the Magnolia. 
Gad baly have [ seen the olia Geciivili ebb a 
lawn as a standard, and I never saw any flowering 
tree so grand, its dark green leaves lifting up the 
white chalices as if to catch the freshest dew: 
heaven. swil at m be where t 
on 
ce 
with me this year, | i 
; fect + gai E “Sensitive Plant,” vato a torpid state 
they are the flowers that liager sp not the Samen 
leasures for the Michael 
fines with variegated leaves, 
k pedestal in the middle 
beauty. Th 
that clings — an old b 
aK blossoms, 
almia still hn its white 
night still to, come. 
end, and we talk only of the i. for the spring, or 
arly winter. 
ds 
ave past since I found 
e ca growing on the hill-side at 
Concord behind Hatho orne’s house, isd reminded 
him of Emerson’s line 
en n me not, laborious band, 
the idle flowers I brought ; 
ety Aster in my ha 
Goes home loaded aes a thought.” 
ies br. ons side of the vinery, is growing 2 i 
w of Indian Corn. The plants stand each fro 
each bears its flowering Litas 
ve, and i rs below. are two 
varieties, one yellow and one red. I brought them 
in heat, planted them out hey were 
about a foot in hei d this Pi as = three 
years past, they have ripened with m T send 
our Editors a specimen, and with it A ‘curiosity which 
I hope they will o eeplaic ; it is a piece of the 
poe which has itself fructifi not bibani 
nou understand how this has he pened. Æ. 
[it i is simply an admixture of the p ae fo 
with the pollen-forming flowers—a not very un 
event, though ordinarily the sane oer Paes lassie 
are borne in distinct spikes or panicles. 4 
TRANSPLANTING AND 
REMOVING Ae ite ee. 
Tue season for planting the ot may be termed 
ainly differ in opinion 
a vexed epid for People cef thi 
respecting bes most. ‘rope time this opera 
tion should be performed ; e advocate auton 
ing, whilst acs advocate spring. The removal 
of evergreen shrubs is a most importan iderati 
in ornamental gardening, should every 
attention. There cannot be any doubt, where labour 
ay 
is s puana spa a good supply = water at command, 
mall sh may be removed at almost any 
> 
ties ‘with seats equal ators but i the case of 
I am of opinion 
er than any other 
large plants success is not so certai se: 
that pei is fegar one time bet 
garden- 
Two seasons m pot “appear to ; 
xcitement which the more or less unavoid- 
-= mutilation of the roots aaka render Aa unfit to 
_ whereas the latter case the fibrous 
perish from the extended pe 
which the pri will be comi to 
Well, a time “between 
must sy 
the three pane cited “— not to p — 
It will be ived from t pao a 
that there is yet another season which the were 
ul — ener may nai rendered mpi 
memas discovering this period is 
st 
matter of common practice, that the 
tion of a 
fected at 
used 
| for come making, \ was ject cultivated is padre 
m Horace’s 
a great inanlar of evergreen 
the tim e when the a 
ntly emits roots. at this season during the 
dleplising year which will be found the mo desirable 
season to conduct the operation of transplanting ever- 
een shrubs. The. young shoo! will 
have attained sufficient maturity to render man suffer- 
ing from removal or from the aridit e season 
very trifling, -as the whole plant will ie enough 
of the active to propel fresh spongioles when 
located, so that, after copious watering, the general 
appearance of the plant will have sustained little 
hange. I thetoiare < come to the conclusion that early 
in September i most suitable time. Adward 
Bennett, Hatfield Park, Herts. 
THE VIOLA OF THE ROMANS. 
As I rather think I am the to whom 
Mr. Gri ndon (in his aiy: interesting paper) re- 
fers, as having remarked on t e fac esr s 
erpii respecting the ‘* Viola S of the mans, 
should be gla w of a few words to explain ake how 
m aga a 
Mr. Raskin who first in his Queen of the 
t that the flower ac name 
asin truth an 
speaking of the sine ion, but the Viola i is no doubt 
pie id the zon 
was published i in ie a paper, hac e- 
viously read t et “one of Watiguaket treats 
of the ** Viola of the 
Lo de teats a her the Iris, ani on 
the follo rine cigs =~ riding 
ee ° Sic y in the winter of 1828, he many 
Irises and no Violets, and heard that che country 
peels ‘called the Iris Viol: 
Pliny spea aks ‘of oy luteze, whereas 
there are no Violets of that colo 
3. se Piiny p deceribes the Violet as grow- 
ing in su a rren places (f‘apricis et masris 
locis’ h mies reilly Violets always grow in the 
i 
© 
Because he speaks of the Violet as springing 
Gota a fleshy root-stock (‘‘ab radice carnoso”), 
whereas the Violet root is fibrous. 
5. Because Ovid couples the Violet with the Poppy 
and the Lily as flowers which, when broken off, hiag 
their San to the ground. 
ced, when Lord Stanhope’s Miscellan'es 
appeared, to review it for a literary journal, ani 
went at ee oe ion, which interested 
Nor does = fact or the S 
the Iris as a Violet dist sf it any more than w I 
hear a Scotch peasant speak of the ‘* Hairbell” as a 
luebell. 
he real authority is Pliny, and Pliny settles ne 
question conplit He srg a on for conyenie: 
m Bohn’s lated ed oe ‘Next afier de the 
me. 
- He on to say that of orig kinds a 
yellow Violet. i is held in most es He s 
then of the Tusculan and marine Violet as a 
broader Peat than the Pires bat being less s sweety 
ar see 
spay Sah To of 
hen 
may 
a up the Rigi), or that Violets do not o 
grow in sunny and sterile places, or that the purple 
Violet +e not a fleshy root-s s iis 
That the sweet Violet, w Pliny says w. 
rom 
s Fam, violaria et 
Myrtus, et omnis copia narium 
w PAER olivetia odorem. 
