554 THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[OCTOBER 31, 
NOTES FROM k T i RT amen 
GAR 
CTOBER 15.—This is ik ee nero or the 
*¢ Indian summer,” as it is called in Ameri The 
air is soft and warm and still. Edi yellow leaves fall 
from the Beeches in countless numbers, but slowly 
and noi ly, as if Pelactant to let d their hold. 
The roo Ao E us again acros fields, an 
clamour pera the empty nests, which were their 
The “r oses are put- 
in s 
ting eri thei latest blooms, an 
Mullein some few other eg show them- 
selves nee Cai * “eisoy her aromatic 
where from the Viha leaves and 
We cannot deceive 
ourselves, but we know that all is aeg over, and that 
n and leave us 
in Morris a she pad 
the very best at ink, in whole poem 
which — of some old men’s bo peaceful days as 
When 
of later autumn-tide, 
n may chance to bide 
ie ate in some tow 
sare > air bes 
—thinket 
ar can scarce be pe 
Sut then he leaves the clam ay ia town, 
Be this spring ? 
ing. 
HUU DO 
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sun 
And knows the pleasant time is Wvell-nigh done.” 
Was picture ever more truly painted ?—and any day ” 
may be true for us. 
trees have, for 
_ Ribston Pippins are es 
Apple which we believe to be the King of e Pippins: 
On the other hand, we have some poor and worth 
sorts—probably local varieties, —which no 
however able and obliging, 
One of the prettiest of ai 
= too—is Delaware, It 
aul 
soft day, red have just 
s, and lie there warmed by the ra rays 
Petts T I have not much to s say: the new 
poise I have planted have hardly come into bearin 
1¢ old ones are of Prees uality. In another 
year or two, however, to be suppli 
all the winter scone up to the — of the 
have done but litt , and D; 
Tan aa I havets orate 
great bush which stands by thegrass walk i in the walled 
ee of scented 
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: 
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spare : it is the French White Haricot. 
It is not often 
seen with us, th i 
I e 
white bean i 
suspect that, taking England through, there are very 
few garder nee pe White Haricot is fou 
Aa s A pei 
are now busy hodi padi, Some Rhodo- 
diii and Aucubas in the borders near the front 
gate have been pining away—starved by the 
ine around them. Weare tr g up the poes 
tting away what smaller roots 
work to rearrange the rocke ery. s, I think, 
ed. the middle of the little 
wood was once a pond, but I found the stagnant water 
and the ng leaves, whi and rotted there 
no advantage to the place ; I therefore drained awa 
dendrons along the slopes, 
Bells, and in the iddi of all I have lately 
On one slope I have 
ea urnin 
on pen Be into the tank, and I am well repaid for 
A fanr ia spicy scent, rise up to the surface of 
e ockery i ch 
ere. ban 
Aquilegias, Aubrietias, the whit 
e Moneywort, besides Ferns of various 
kinds, all d . In another part 
loggery, w hich I ge Sega? covered with the large 
white Bindweed, s about at its ee 
m 
ry some Tree 
d A standard Hone 275 which I have 
endeavoured to grow, has do g as yet ; its 
shoots get nipped by the north. Gst winds, but I do 
not yet despair. The most useful undergrowth I find 
is ie Elder ; it thrives wonderfully, garbe ale 
th blossom and wit One variety, 
Posies: leaved Elder, is here “equally hardy with the 
mon Elder, and much mo ful in its growth. 
Ve have i koda and half-hardy 
plants, for fear of a hoger frost. Th eM 
yrtles, 
in their boxes, ag be placed 
in safety, and Lobelia other 
oe gage: which we may need next gore must 
My further plans for the coming year will properly 
come into next erme wig Pi —the last Note I 
peas È to write about my garden for this 
HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 
ON THE BESE peel OF ARRANGING 
THE taste for r hardy 
ioe =e still 
general than it was in the days when beddi 
os gardens w i 
i 
the attention of our 
ver, that any one really fond | 
the haga variety and 
me plan was followed, plants of the sameo 
untry being scattered through a series of b 
birdies with more reference ad their size, 
cultural “requirement than 
Maw’s n is decid 
systethals 
lar pan’ coiii 
are grown rap im on account of thei 
Selection rather than collection is the pola 
aimed at in ordinary gar ns, 
the vast number of plants 
nd duri the sent cen 
comparatively speaking, that can finda pl 
private establishments, it is 
ult task is placed before us. To choose out 
5000 or 6000 si at c 
trial by’ those who hav muc 
em. 
If more attention had bee Li to this- 
edie wae neg : would have ch be 
any straggling and weal plani 
stil bs pores fe would be replaced by better es 
e best b 
ding plants i in the brilliancy and eateries of 
~ 
nuals, A hp may be grown in the 
Cee at times and in places so as to 
the gaps whicli would otherwise occur. — 
p. 
nother kind of mixed border, w 
so showy or striking, will have a 
and give a e irag occupation in om 
c the first days of Februar 
delicate gems th 
find us lingering over 
C or protecti 
eor lant. 
mi 
visit on “onne m afi 
t ne Primula has thriven ; whether tä 
novelty from Backhoust is in flowe: ee 
seeds which some friend i in America 
is border we shall be able to ea 
tig rejoicing, with a basket of gladly 
for who ral in this way as the owner 
herba e no 
that ne evallia or a plant of t 
of sae 
ae Ellac meee 
must not, grag in expa! 
tiating on 
sures of a border, lose EF of m 
object, which was the arrangement of it. 
namely, as far 
to their p distribution ? 
_ In this way we ae not only 
fair, though of course 
parts of the te. 
gether from the 
: tr 
pee ete dosi when mixed i 
ii thet is ; 
SO REES 
- certain ; t of bloom and = of. the 
and that the more wane and fastidious Jap soil d = ma 
pianis may not be ov by coarse He capil dri of thé “icp a ion wW 
or torn up an) gis in winter by the spade of a | light sandy: soil, yell drained, in the 
In.the twee best collectiaas of hardy plants I have Cane be wich ibe. gaclen. ae 
seen in mer ne namely, those of Mr. Wilson | in wi or ee oe 
Saunders, at Hillfield ; of the Rev. Mr. El lacombe, | the hea rains, The Himalayan 
at Bitton’: „and of Mr. Mr. Maw, at at Benthall, no ville osadia protect its amet 
