NOVEMBER 7, 1874.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
591 
An examination, however, of the course of the 
e bundles shows that there is here a conge- 
nital union, e should prefer to call it, an 
arrest of de - 
tion between the main flower-stalk and midrib, 
so that, on cutting across, the latter two b of vessels 
are seen :—thus 5 , the upper belonging to the midrib, 
the lower he flower-stalk. pt ie pre ypa the 
place when a the lowers ee earer to the 
point ike le af, show a single pea pemeri thus, 
In © Botanical pooten the flower is ig 
rom avin x wo leave th he 
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next elow P rom th 
separation iin aa Tt is attached. n the 
flower itself "ihe wees structural points are the 
jregularity in the number of parts ; thus in ne ro 
= eae er ara a — 
which are st = latter opposite 
W ith 
e base, be eas apices are free. Lastly, 
ments. this 
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conventional as Sas flowers ie in all ways more 
me pes we gaye an illustration of a 
and most sipped pidea ” in Westmoreland, one of the finest 
view (fig Meee Singular specimens of f its c class. Our present 
Earl of F f the 
of HARRINGTON = Elvaston, near Bo 
features of the place, with its sinu 
ped Y a scarcely less formal Arau- 
f course there is no gain- 
rrowash, 
sinuous 
shown. O 
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Private taste in such a case as this, but atany rate 
for general 
We May say that it is not a model suitable 
FIG, 123.—VIEW IN 
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is ion. The avenues and other plantations of 
nifers are retthatle ble, and not aÀ the lake with its 
ilanda, 6 ed by Mr. BARRON, n Borrowash. 
Mr BARRON > skil a desi wrath and 
pm of his 
E bigs trees, former volumes 
success in 
of Ch křoni icle give abu ndant evidence, 
trans 
the Gardeners’ 
Eme Correspondence. 
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tisement t that puzzles me. On of our r principal firms 
of nurserymen advertise their hardy tr shrubs, 
att lato &c., and they wy T os oe wy 
ne, and unimpaired, not having b 
frequent or periodical aliction sales.” 
mean ? ei æ <i, trees E apa n aana ies, and 
know that they more uction sales, and 
have willingly er more, thinking that raat properly 
educated — that frec quently ‘moved, judiciously 
is, 
trained, &c.—were worth more. ws pr ow, too, that if 
pressure of work in spring prevents nurserymen n from 
putting their quarters inantig an mao sai trees make 
a strong growth, they do not move so well the i 
season, and be sold b sidtion, 3 How 
this weaken the stock ? "m ei of your eens: 
spondents enlighten me? Æ. A 
igs Fr sae gary onymus, about the 
e 
rivatio the name of whieh a writer eh the 
jaeren Kiticles on ‘‘ The Old at Kew in 
some difficulty (p. Sock | is ate pper after 
uonyma, the fe er of the Fu aries, o paa K acodit of th 
ernicious and painful effects of its s when swal- 
I fou a the a > afssdsoner s or Spind 
tree ine He a tangled and extremely diversified 
a gs i a beld sie on the hill overhanging Guildford. 
Fohn M. Gillington, O October 28. 
The Old Walls at Ma Slag 
rec Ilex latifolia as mri 
Kew. hirty years ago, 
I tried several plants of it, but they va died: I 
it is is quite tender in this part of England; i have been 
THE GARDENS AT ia aii CASTLE. 
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mon te ae | 
fik ieee | which 
equally unsuccessful in growing Ilex cornuta and Ilex 
furcata, The Ilex ne rg must be a beautiful tree, I 
should think, Wes ought to be hardy in the West o 
England. any of pte corresponden ts tell us 
ar et tree of NF FI or 12 feet high in 
The Taony 
he japonicus is har ea sea in 
bf orkshire [and A the coat coast St generally], but not 
t bear fruit a Bip is very com- 
iion ne e gar arden s in the South of Fra nd bears 
seed abe ndantly, which a much to the beauty of 
Sh ees — ee: the capsules are not in themsel 
th 
100 miles y—a remarkable fact in a distribution 
of plants, ad te i 4 > agar itis n 
one, there other precisely similar 
cases, C. W. iad, y Vhitw veil Hall, 
A Fine Pine-apple.—What may be pager OEE: = 
believe, one of the finest Pine- T 
we 
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b n cea aiid 
i and was a ‘most 
k uit, of the cane haan variety. J. Z 
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Our Liberal Nurserymen.—I don’t sas 
ther country can boast of so many liberal n ro 
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