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GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
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roof, which br promote the convenience and co oe = 
those using the market. T re contractors wh 
cuting the work, hih s carried out at the So of 
the Duke of BEDF ORD, the owner of the market, are 
Messrs. CUBITT & CO. ae veri St of a ree 
formed of iron and g single sem of 
about 80 feet in width ming pdit d of 30 feet i in height 
from the ground to the apex. The covering is carri 
n, springing from iron column is 
A frame- 
r A 
arches or spans have already been fixed in their places, 
and the work is being aaa carried forward.” 
there imported some from China a few years ago, 
which have succeeded so well when aol DERE 
were losing their yield of silk through sic of the 
s ede there is 
fifty-five srs t £7600; with whan 
result it is not yet report rted. 
e learn that a WOODFORD is about to 
i hoped tha 
of an establishment better suit 
E which has, owing to paai circumstances, 
"ii an impoverished conditio! 
—— It has been decided, on the recommendation 
z the P arks, Comm 
mon s, and Open Spaces Committee 
the Metropolitan Bo ard of ae hat ‘the 
FOUNTAIN in LEICESTER SQUARE be closed until 
y The r bill for supplying the 
fountain for three months, when it was playing for six 
4250, and to work it ee _ oni 
per m per annum would requ 
If it owe abolished altogether no great Diras beere 
be done, 
—— We learn ee give H. re M.P., will 
preside at the ann endors’ 
ewsv 
and "Provident Taslivation in January 
Conesohiat 
next, 
Academy says eat ne question of the 
despatch a a Government Arct pedition will ea 
iscussed and decided ai oe fincas fing Ort 
T inet, 
—— Two of the most striking of several bold 
groups of plants in the sub-tropical garden at Heck- 
field were planted, one with Solanum Mapia teap n 
the other with Acacia lophantha. The growth of 
t two was something remarkable, seeing 
that they were ra only in February last. 
The plants of the Solanum averaged 6 feet in height 
the leaves of great si i n of their brown 
-stains sp were very effective. 
The plants of Acac phantha averaged 8 feet in 
height, and were kasd clothed with leaves from | 
t 
: suffered a from drought this season, it 
the summer proved there is no doubt bui 
the above-named plants have attai 
proporti: pepo r conspicuous feature in the 
subtropical ga na Draco, ying a 
P 
the ey: pendulous body o of leaves measuring fully 
purposes, 
lings of this Centaurea alwa 
confused in er? 
— The dou m oan of the TREE VIOLET (V. 
) deserves ice because flowering so freely 
during the ihe x October in the ar Berong 
Well-established plants are loaded wi 
this season —— a mnan rnana g a 
_ — One of the most useful hard: 
early reach the wonted size of the re Itis a 
continuous blooming plant also, and it is unsurpassed 
by ering plant eg the pearly 
A genet 
Re Ape f the blossom 
— In many of the pies of London, trained 
to verandahs on the south or sunny aspect, may now 
Passiflora ccerulea, making vigorous growth, 
aa freely flowering at “ae resent time. Loni a 
reo-reticulata, oft ing by the side of it, 
iaio ts golden sae ee tage the blossoms of the 
Passion-flower, and work a pleasing effect. 
— The Farmer, in o — er for 
done us the honow 
occupying four — telating to the 
of NUT bly by a A ERES it pira oseas 
uc 
reciate the compliment, we cou suld well eeg dis- 
Ar h i le 
pensed with it, unless the orig acknowledg- 
ment had been made at the same t 
BRITISH GARDENERS.—IV. 
THOMAS BAILEY. 
e in the cape mee ager 
most successful exhibitor in other departments of 
horticulture. 
Mr. 
gu ee born at Croydon on October 13, | 2 
a his first horticultural lessons at 
Lone: where he remained until 
d thence removed to Add ing- 
ined for under the 
home, in i mark 
nme years of ema 
where he rı 
of t Mr. 
Addington he went to Althorp Park, Park, ander his uncle, 
who was for many years park steward and gardener 
The next situation upon which he entered was that 
head gardener at Delapré oe “the seat = the 
late Edward Bouverie, Esq., where he remain d for 
mone on oot hela for tt thirty-seven “tog ol s ariaa 
wrest Mr. Bailey wri eply to 
saciid: =e Tt hink my most su cael points “od 
been fruit culture and Fidaspvaines culture. 
THE OLD WALLS AT KEW. 
(Continued from p. 496.) 
IN the first place 
graphical errors ge 
doubtless, to gE 
here e speaking of the 
ee me correct one or two typo- 
curred in my last paper, due, 
iting. Under Ceanothus, 
its! 
I have already gone pretty fully into the — ad 
Euon yas japonicus, but when alluding to the s 
ans 
ng itself to a For covering 
dwarf wall, rockwo similar purposes, this shrub 
is really a gr isition. and I strongly advise 
those who have not tried it this way to do so forthwith. 
There are several varieties sat yale form, the one I have 
in view is named argenteo-m us, 
Another valuable ariaa shrub is the Japanese 
It does not need the 
numerous species and y 
Privet, it yer bear the knife 
that there a handsome Vay aii vavleoutial 
foli 
Camellia japonica or. no more than a simple 
i Eve ws a Camellia, em 
vuja ; and Flora’s t es 
than is to be found i in this genus ; whilst for elegance of 
form 
all the double flowers known. „But a Somallie flower 
does nite ail plants h it is deficient i in 
cubas, for example. 
x small plant of Heteromorpha arborescens 
me an opportunity of m 
n os paak et size of the leaves of t e same es. 
ve both simple and 
Forsythia 
of Fo 
furnishes us with 
in the 
characters ed by 
nai even ports to alight dif- 
ie pe O the 
Seek ‘the nat and the 
rn are often co! 
rences in form. mbellata is p 
shot jaena z variable-leaved plants, 
says of it, ‘* speci e pa rpha ; 
Wight and Arnott’s ‘Prodromus it. is stated that is Aae 
s for ther 
c difference. 
l as to what 
Indeed, the utmost 
pr should be taken f 
tes to define species, and in practice we find 
ne genus will be the fi 
