ce, 41, Wellington Street, W.C. 
wdeners’ Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1874. 
_ APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
Monday, $ ieaanc, Sale of Nursery Stock at Felt- 
t Sale of Dutch Bulbs, at Stevens’ Rooms. 
TvEsDAY, Nov. 24 bee Manchester Botanical and Horticultural 
veL s Meeting. 
tte = the “Peterborough Horticul- 
Nov. 23 
They are a of landscape-mate- 
$ that is all. ar more land- 
than cakes of iagi are pictures; The 
might, in fact, with just as much 
make 
ce, nor by crowding arou 
The shade of masses, the 
om our great 
trees or 
that the water was hidden = their 
ws. ligh 
» these are the foundations of 
y for open spaces comes as loudly 
oF our gardens as 
There are many beautiful landscapes 
that one positively cannot see for the trees and 
the shrubs. e is so crammed with 
furniture that there is no room for enjoyment. 
How often in such overcrowded scenes one slips 
backwards and forwards in vain for a point of 
observation, Even to enjoy trees in a pinetum 
or arboretum open spaces should be left, from 
which one’s eye may take in med magnitude 
and admire their stately grandeur. We know 
several such in which the aes "obstruct the 
proper view of them; you cannot see their 
goodly proportions, try as you may; and the 
case is often much worse in pleasure grounds 
and so-called landscape gardens furnished in 
the mixed style. There is not only a crowd 
but the endless monotony and repetition pro- 
duces, the first distraction, the latter weariness 
and listlessness. The only repose and sense of 
relief comes from closing one’s eyes upon the 
hole 
W. a 
Most of these evils might be modified or 
remedied by what may be termed the cumulative 
style of furnishing landscape. It does not mean 
over-dense planting. It has too much of that 
already after a fashion, but it Saad be cumu- 
lative in two lense, as con- 
of everything everywhere, one thing only should 
be had in one spot, and that in sufficient volume, 
if it may be so expressed, as to form a distinct 
impression. Our present modes of furnishing 
landscapes are almost as reasonable as if the 
artist should mingle and mix all his colours as 
thoroughly as possible, and paint all his canvas 
of one medley of colour, or, more correctly, as 
if each et were interdotted at regular an 
irregular in In combination-planting we 
should a the lead of the highest artists: 
those who give you ea , ocean, mountains, 
trees, grass—all of the right colour, and all in 
quantity sufficient to make the distinct impres- 
sion intended. ‘The same again with form 
There is probably a higher satisfaction in the 
contemplation of form than in that of mere 
colour, Whoever tires of gazing with rapture | seve 
> TÈ that | c 
on the i 
were jostled by the rotesque and the absurd : 
our sensibilities woli bej and our satis- 
faction gone. Butin our landsc all forms 
of vegetation are often jumbled together ; and 
the result is, we get no distinct impression of 
form at all, or a confused one that only gives 
pain. By grouping masses of the different 
formed trees together, the result would be that 
each feature of our landscape might become a 
fresh illustration of form, and the source of a 
new pleasure, 
ment of the esr 
Royal acolo Society kn 
were constituted like most other 
certain proportion of 
annually. Somehow bees 
NOVEMBER 21, 1874] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE 653 
Notice to Subscribe cities. In the latter population d 
: p RANT i population is so dense that the present Council, in no hostile „to the com- 
THe DARDEN fom igo p da we room is eeded to breathe in; in the former | mittees, but in the hope | of rein them, to 
J may bet ceca mien Clink o e th pie open air is almost as much needed for the | 22¥e. recourse ee ¢ old, custom nga 
apea Tinited Kingdom :— ue perf fo pie 
pal Pe ee Monti. a hae be ; ormance of the vital functions of vege- | believe, of the original number—of aa res 
per ee A e life, and yet more, that its beauties may be | removed on : seniority of 
seen. In many British gardens landscapes men , mati slack attendance, or 
FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIO need cutting out rather than planting in ; not moved me being again eligible 
{rbs for 12 months, bgcteding postage to— ; more shade and mass, but less, is what is va age or Ome Jasra shesace Irom the Boars. 
a pnuu EN | aw Zes Featanp|Unirep Srargs | Wanted, and more light to illustrate and make | class of semi in gpa in aks ap ae 
T E cs months, inclu ding postage Be visible the beauty already there. And force | geou replaced by some of the leading country 
i pees peny m e witnessed, circulated, by cutting | borticulturists, whether amate or 
Cua Russia > | Swirzmecaxp out ell lanting in, The weight | be ex ected for though country members could not 
W 1s 8d. for 12 wuts, eB pida a: and density of the shade can only be seen in a members, sil their services = grenj ae a 
i good bright light. Open spaces t made f on ns as they might find i 
athe King Set de eg observatories as well as the lights of land- convenient to visit the metropolis at at the am of any 
of the shows or meeti 
ne and compliment, if it proved to be nothing 
— We give the prominence which it deserves to 
ed accompanying letter respecting the Arc LAMB- 
PES, ny ch needs on further 
as we 
mpa ny at dinner, I had arches of round iron fixed to 
the ends of dhisg silver baskets, and covered with Vine 
from 
there pi any : a gamation, I should cer- 
_ From the eye from which the bun ch 
whe or cation commen 
there was about 4 inches of true stem round, 
with no sign of flattening throughout the remainder 
the bunch gave 
the bunch, i 
berries a | ap 
individually with others of moderate 
The eating qualities of the Grapes 
pulp being y firm and sweet, 
no doubt age agp ater ding the the bunch in 
question being a densities beg G, Smith, Vice. 
regal ise ag Dublin November 1 
EYA BURGESSLA i is Apta, in the 
Palm- Perret = Kew, an nown is worth 
shrub, The 
slativé only of tha 
from a he too common colonial error 
, for firewood | or other } purpo 
T has been ea $ 
The Redwood of St. Helena (D. E 
ie said not now to be found in the island, which we 
suppose a seeds having been received. It 
has doubtless been reduced to a few trees. 
y the decision of the Master of the Rolls in 
the e great EPP PING Forest suit, the encl 
since 1851, to the extent of 3200 acres, are declared to 
be ill 
— It is announced that Her Majesty’s Govern- 
ment have determined to send ot retell PoLAR 
EXPEDITION. e with Si ENRY RAWLIN- 
SON that ‘‘this announcem ill be received with 
equal gratification by geographers and 
ig the naval service, and by the mion 
of Mr. 
