614 THE 
GARDENERS “CHRONICLE. 
[NOVEMBER 21, 1874, 
schides pygmzum, and the like; a few econo- 
mical, medicinal, and typical plants—enough to 
indicate to the inquisitive stroller that more 
information is to be acquired in more favour- 
ably situated and more richly endowed estab- 
lishments 
nward in the same direction, passing newly- 
built houses of considerable pretensions, you 
arrive at a small green resting-place, o seats, 
shrubs, grass, and a central fountain— a 
Close 
e real garden of 
Lille, once the Jardin de Finan rateive. now the 
Garden of Vauban, the celebrated military en 
gineer. Here the town does all that wealth can 
do in the way of high keeping and the supply 
of plants. At the close of last October all the 
summer bedding plants were gone and their 
places already taken by spring flowers— 
Myosotis in varieties, Wallflowers, Pansies, and 
double Daisies (the latter very largely employed) 
some with golden-veined leaves. 
taste and 
moved into its winter quarters. By the way, are 
nu men justified in advertising this tree as 
“hardy,” unless they state whether they mean 
hardy i in Great Britain or hardy in Africa? In 
ficial grotto, brook, and stepping- -stones, after 
the pattern of the cascade in the Bois de 
Boulogne, and decidedly improved in natural- 
ness by exposure t to the: en oS smoky atmo- 
e by, but hidden- 
“as much as, if not 
im, it i 1 eetnting ia What Woks 
very like a ‘school of the art of training fruit 
rees. 
But Lille has also what it calls its own Bois 
de pea reached by crossing a canal and 
; it skirts; being a mee Sten narrow strip 
of round Tuning between the 
j Its great inequalities of “iietaee have 
dee landscape | garden 
er Saen convert = 
rufffans and exto) 
exceeded what the most depraved romance 
writer would dare to relate. The body of one 
of their victims, found in the canal, led to the 
; discovery of Dr Bap soe Thos who were 
; to trial, and, to the public 
t, the ste guilty amongst them 
ed only to ] labour for Ete; the 
of i onment. The 
— a a 
ell by how 
may y rest i 
body was strangled under m 
Lille possesses more i 
in a grand theatre, where, during the winti 
months, grand operas are excellently performed 
the Lille Cor Conservatoire de Musique stands very 
, without neglecting the spoken drama : : 
also a Théâtre 
TEN it 
F. G. Baker. 
ortioners whose deeds far | © 
nviting evenin resotts’ 
Gallery, or Museum, contains some valuable 
sketches and studies by the old Italian masters 
and others. 
Inthe Place St. Martin a baker sells delicious 
gingerbread, which he warrants to 
with. pure honey, and whose: flavour persuades 
you that he tells the truth. A provision shop 
offers nicely grown Mushrooms, in the button 
or unexpanded state, at 60 centimes (or 6d.) the 
pound—a reminder that, in the immediate 
environs of Lille, Agaricus campestris is culti- 
vated, for exportation as well as for home con- 
sumption, in subterranean labyrinthine quarries, 
which are worth a visit, if prudently made an 
with permission granted. Their actual extent 
is prudently unknown ; it is certainly vast, and, 
what is more, dan ngerous, as the facts, which 
shall hereafter be related, prove 
To be idee yi: 
for 
New Garden Plants. 
Drimiopsis Kirku, Baker. * 
Dr. Kirk sent in 1871 to the Kew collection se 
from Zanzibar gn two species of this curious and litt 
nown genus. These have now flowered, an ane at 
them turns out to be D. botryoides, renee. of which 
the locality was before unknown, an other is the 
w descrit 
= enus, 
1 - ‘lon, =|: 
DA the Zisi, ta tab. er e present plant differs 
its spi 
but in a lax raceme, and by its leaves, not narrowed 
ger ri sae petiole, but gradually to the 
tiole. 
Bulb globose, a iach kea with whitish truncate 
tunics. emporary the flowers, 
in D. macula 
onnivent as 
Ti 
oblong. “ix a line Tag prm capitate. 
WEetace su ASPHALE, n. spt 
A Dendrobè in the wa way of D. Tun ega, but 
with ays Sema t li stems and the leaves 
re both strong and shining and broad. es 
ris of Eria-like whitish flowers, however, are 
m t has the peculiarity of several 
is rather uncommon among ia. 
I “bare « ccc joked | to the anthers, which Prove 
me. My speci- 
Esq., Canonmill 
Neill Fraser, 
Lodge, Edinburgh, -M GRe hb. f. 
SULINARY NOTES. 
SERIOUSLY OCCUPIED, —‘ ‘Good ! 
of 
We have ami a nice drive 
he that and th ts oi pro- 
may say that Re = absolutel 
TAN t we have had 
TE -laxo 
pedicellis ; perianthio 3 lin. 
exterioribus erect ; segmentis 
genit talibus e to-patulis, interioribus diutine TAS 
tachyobium.) 
foliis < cuneat 
loris ; 
done, can be served 
; thas—lard or prick it all over with u 
but who is now exercising the influence of 
eye, says that invalids should never know a 
w o g's r dinner, aa 
Our 
we The rite 
have come Fe 
“It is alm a pity, because I = talk 
about fier ie Chee lotte ; but we ms 
else, doubtless, just as ood.” 
ope so, with the advantage 
behind my chair, in order to hear and see, 
if it were possible to do somethi 
“Asw 
complishing that. x A 
mayonnaise! Very nice indeed. But mayon- 
naise of what ?” 
“ That, dear madam, is 
remain so, unti 
mayonnaise. Here, 
when I turk a 
ings, lige os am 4 to do cue the insides ? ” 
nnoc 
eld in your right ated Ta sip 
fall drop by drop from this small bottle held in 
left. Add a little pepper and salt, and stir, stir, 
away patiently, until you produce a mixture of | 
pe eget on and appearance of good boiled c 
in short, a little thicker than cream. If you 
you might put ut the 
basin first, and 
secret is coo! perse 
You cannot make it delicate and 
than a urey “roy an hour 
tion should b o complete tha 
that - had hited ed into its composition.” . 
ought pod egg-yelk also was s nek 
ane timidly. interposes Mrs. Mun: 
e egg- 
ye 'Anely-chopped Parsley, i Tarragon, í 
or Pimp. we will not. make use of 
ready and joe sian that os Sale who 
Mrs . Munster haven’t sent the crust for the 
ve. ent,” 
. ** They are ‘overwhelmed ee orders 
the vol-au-vent without | 
surrounded with Euclid’s T cbc cut in 
bread.” a 
“Very well; oe = the  pie-crust comes toe 
shall just send i it b k again. 
no 
‘a 
e did the other day. k 
have weathered = ugly rock, tell — " 
Madam ees 
i 
think, as we m it. i er 
tion in a verbal foot-note o : 
next. The beef, taken up while still 
served another time as > 
