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THE © 
GARDENERS 
BARONICLA, 
[NOVEMBER 28, 1874. 
often taken for a Magnolia, and hn pr it is ps 
fested when the mistake is pointed ou 
in bedori clusters at the foot of each footstalk, rhe “the 
ae 
that ih 
Holly, 
birds, Within a few feet of ‘ae flex are growing in 
high, with two main stems l e; a 
Ben fragifera, 18 feet high, which annually 
produces its singular flat, greenish flowers in abund- 
an = oh of een colour, not unlike 
Ar . on—arbor- 
large r 
eum album. This is probabiy the finest specimen in 
the om, 70 feet in circumference round 
the outside, and 18 feet high. ma Yes gr in 
appearance, hy to un e wget 
is hollow, and would apie genre y te a g 
It flowers freely and early, generally afford. 
ing a a supply of white hart for church decorati 
Good Fridays. The above are owing in a stiff 
clayey soil, and have been planted about forty tsp 
W. Hf. Ragers Red RK: peter. Southampton. 
TheS hi We have here 
5 WC Liayvye Cio 
can of Prilae, con on more nas one wee, They 
— been going 0 on blooming in sn way va the last 
fortnight or We had a is traw- 
an sensi 
years in an outdoor fernery with a 
‘enbury. 
Hardiness of Lardizabala biternata. — In 
replying to my query as to the name of the plant 
Lardizabala biternata, you ask if it is growing in the 
M a air, and quite hardy. The plant from which I 
sent you a ret has been gro out-of-doors 
for several without any protection heer 
wall of a oman facing the west in the south of 
Treland ne Waterford). It has not been observed 
to be in fl Dean; tae as the plant is growing 
amongst several other creepers, and the blossoms are 
not very conspicuous, it is quite possible they may 
have existed without being noticed. Z. C. 
Windsor Forest, Virginia Water, &c.— Having 
seen in your a ot lent me by a gardener hore $ two or 
three weeks since, a portrait of old fell: 
my - 
t, also of z 
where I have toiled many a cold and 
me yout sie die 
those been 
employed for full forty-five years with not less than 
rough the Royal 
i time of George IV., 
tions in Windsor 
land 
nted, he 
young man (in menan ander Tidy 
not classed wi Talso 
Thomson’s superint 
who Deka maces, 
| Duke of | 
temple stands, as he, by desire of Mr. Aiton, with 
what we call a razor [racer], marked, in the aeron of 
rge IV. an e Marchioness of Coni 
his side, the very first tree to be cut down, it then 
ing a dense island of Lan ch and other Fir ane from 
4 i and he con ecg Ye: mar 
them under George IVs direction, iton 
and myself and af least me or fifty song pe See 
with axes went to work he custom, until 
hea enough trees were cut Edeni in the presence of 
the ag" and the Marchioness of Coningham to form 
pace early suffici ent for the fishing prea and 
irc 
I remembe 
ra remarica 
stance > which took place on the same döeksin, It 
s :—The 
his ade desired M 
he always did when out with the aÀ to a place in 
the park called-the Belvidere, but Mr. Aiton not 
understanding him went to another place i in the park, 
called C King returned, 
Aiton’s boy John was staking a road that turned out 
of the main road to the island, and the King, pare 
red the boy John 
and Thomson not lating 
ante ‘ints and being a little con- 
desired to get out of the job, and Mr. Nitchell coming 
that way, he said, ‘* Your lh Mr. Nitchell is 
near, shall T. call him?” “You —— fool !” was his 
reply ; ; and the boy John was soon n out of si ight i in ah 
which m to 
who, if still 
living, ck tell ae a shou ¢ this, with lots more 
that I have forgotten that 
of what oc bou d 
management under th of Mr. Aiton and 
Mr. Nitchell of all these alterations, I will tell you 
tance that occurred sorte this 
m with Mr. Aiton, previous 
to the young gardeners, a Ra ie ae sent to 
Ke sent with we n: 
“an oiar he called 
oug can 
hn Mann, afterwards director ‘of Hyde 
Parks Lh oi Drewitt, ‘Yering sonia and 
H others whom I do 
was this. We had all 
may o for all to 
following week a Royal Lodge gardens, and each 
had to take the icles he had been using home 
to the Royal Lodge, ce o iiy 3: on Renee 
j rd Of oti Shc a 
is reply was ‘that 
“the order only applied to Tboir like him; ” and 
I shall never fo the flare-up. Drewitt, a big 
rogi Staffordshire chap, threatened to kick the 
boy, and had the threat been carried : 
, and planted under 
endence, a asI helped to dig the holes 
they w ere brought from 
like an aspen fean as we Ey it, 4 three 
labourers, had carried the soil days 
before ; therefor if yi ye re o give a correct | 
account to the world, you should as: omson, if 
rl k Thom 
living, to give it, as I kno lan did a good deal of t the 
kohra Sid: gardens, always 
e E that the 
pote atoa oa the island where the fishing 
obliged to bring th "d i 
ige to bring them in a sailing ves 
o steam-vessels going tò F vate rage Pr rt 
Tha ate forgotten to tell you that all I an 
gardeners ha 
urse was 
125, 
sae cen near 
pet o a butcher’s sho 
nglish ilenan called acka. a = 
called the faa an arpe 
by a fine old En 
m poor gardeners a 
ood nose to start the week a5 2 This s bringsan 
incident to my ony lpr t 
1, aS m TUL g i 
e alloted on earth to man, 
shaking feet and hands, butstill with a sou nd wins 
te ws as the sa’ i ngs 
on one of these o aa pa ‘when gipsying ae the : = | 
Temple gardens at Virgin inia Water, when beg bo 
as was customary with him—he bein 
Can nibal Islands song 
gipsies’ fire exalted on 
to gh PE ag rea adin 
mh 
Whiteknights. Thomso 
, after 
breakfast, throw the next ita into a 
pot of water to swell for dinner o 
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story is written by m 
verbatim as possible. Eps.] I send y 
of what young ing wane through fifty years a 
many of them become by good conduct and 
verance aah as Sir Teni p John Mann, — 
and others wien 
who were my fellow workmen at that time must know 
I have given you a faithful account of our 
and = be oant to see these old stories and times 
brought to their recollection. % Morris, Pl Plumstead 
perse 
Knight, Drewit tt, ‘Thomson, 
rit Eeue have not grown the M: arie Louise 
on a wall, and erefore unable to give any iny opinion 
in respect of ha alg: be have, however, for some 
gga the Bon Chrétien (Williams’) both on,a 
and on standards, 
grow a great 
and which are ce ot apt) in every t 
to those grown on standards. B. S. R. A. r 
the Royal 
Floral and Fruit Committees of 
Horticultural Society.—I qui 
to the pursuit, but should be real work 
have won their spurs, and in whom 
«York's = =. ae . 
TK Ss as . 
endorsed: by a host-ofe ere this; but, 
yet, only Mr, W, ae 
