May 12, ae, 
_THE GARDENERS. ESME AND Se GAZETTE, 
433 
aif may be K or allow ed to ep sto waste. oe microsco- 
i likely any ins tances 
iai Pie feel of co KEE 
t ple 
ine Reed be ae only the common Yew is employed, as] 
d rose-coloured Ger: 
scarlet an ranium would. suit better, 
we are retrograding and going back to the times of | but we have no room for close e particulars. The golda nd 
Le Nôtre and the “ Grand Mo onarque ? ne inste pad Box and 
progressing wi he a W very beau- 
ith the age. 
this s is true to some extent, and that we are going back 
tiful s scroll fens pi the richest olden variegation is 
arie: easil 
But we wish onl ly to 
us int 
graft the improved | materials | 
che orcas in estes te. “others of tn sam 
we shall reserve onr for ther rem: 
tos e hayo examin: 
t hav 
ue nts of the natural family, Asclepindaces : vin 
Yercum or r Calotropis gigantea; Ootamun nnie or Dem: 
shape by pruning. The 
modern results 
pattern a ad: rich elaborey, eness of dak sei charac 
dtre. 
eak advisedly he n we say that very many o 
‘the elaborate 
old 
We spe of | to 
ur most celebrated gardens, ax with them we shall 
could be w 
Palay or 
rnini j Soorinie —Tylop hora asthmatics In addi- 
ymus, 
the pa these all yield a 
fibre like Flax from the aan a 
a milky juice possess- 
ing Properties Fagin dyne "rubber or ‘shellac. The ae 
Alexa 
| several other plants, which will be called for, when once 
der Hunter, H D. et Spectator. 
me Correspondenc 
The Origin o of Species.- —I notice i in your e Nai of 
April 21 Mr. D: 
my prior claim relative to the origin of species. Ih have 
lee 
believed he was the first discover rer of thi os 
. He is however wrong 
naturalist, a professor of a celebrated uni 
‘Nav aii r, 
ere ee i 
class those of the Crystal P: 
leadi: principle of ae ea composition. ~The introduction of clipped evergreens for carrying | 
They are, to speak plainly, composed of mi patterns, ould have 
cellaneous fe gin ions of tits frequently at | charming effect in winter, when ordinary flower gar- | 
variance with ste r, Toy ve cu rarely pre- | dens are naked, or at best with the beds promisenonsiy 
nting nit, ee ta even each | filled with dwarf shrubs, which never look satisfacto 
part by itself. We a not Petik this. arrangement | and would present a no less pleasing co mbinatio tion i | 
uch we do t agement, or planting, | colour during the summer season, with the outline of 
$ wo in nt nearly ev ery garden we inspect appears rec) ol ore aoe relieved by flowers. Taxus 
egenerating into a mere formality—a ner & Spencer's Florist, Fruitist, Garden 
Mactan Jor May 
repetition otat and over a of the same elgg’ we 
the same plants. We regret this the more 
frequently have witnessed marked . a distinetive 
ividually 
uain and ota to the dato 
We ha ave e stated alread ly how much the taste for ex- 
sig EP pier nated 
BE YERcU CALOTROPIs | 
Praen fi su issue of jong ist Habiesty there is | 
an article on the subject of Yercum cultivation which | 
‘or u 
g such views before his class 
phold Koen prk Tom fear of the cutty-stool, a 
| sort of at punishment, not in the market- Place and 
not devis is or this offence, but generally pragi fies Po 
little Kaban than } It was at 
part this ross id resistance to scientific ‘ovtrine that 
caused m k to 
dees of ths “fair S ty itself. The 
be voted me te sig the a poine 
ra few , as it contains Mi. deas, ae do I kes ay -H t e, houe 
fear at the expense of more really Jinpectant obj ects. of the information regarding the Yereum aad with Darwin’s formidable wo mak g Way- 
How lerena § in our young oy : which the public inds up by | As or the attem ts made by many ir odicals to throw 
to Woburn, to look over the various collections of | stating that, “ under: the m microscope prone ale. the | doubt upon Nature’s law of selectio originated 
plants, hardy and pol Seg for siidi. it was then famous; | Yercum de not seem to contract in the same manner | species, T consider their unbelief incurable leave 
or to Wen e Mr. Cooper’s Orc! es nd | as those of cotton; they will arala ‘te anes to | them to it. eo! re requires a certain grasp of 
Seite mines, Somes of the kitchen a in, and easily pulled asunder in threa rom the|mind. No direct of phenomena em 
magnificent ‘Chatewworth thanks to Sir e | rigidity of the walls of the tats too, ge must be | long a period of t time is within t compass of 
hear that this place is not modernised vet), with ‘te brittle. Yereum hairs therefore can never enter the | lived man. To attempt to satisfy a school of ultre 
giant con , its Lily house, EEN marie as a substitute jor Rae ” Your paakt aaa | sceptics, who have ob wonderfully limited power of per- 
above all, its carefully ot ar and wn ags not appear to be a at machinery has been | ception of means to ends, of connecting the phenomena 
bites: wall. Then there yon. whe: Forrest | ve and hab ia very y successfully applied to over- | of Nature, or who perhaps crs not the peren, 2i com- 
ntained astyle of ety no admirably pen come the difficu ei of arn this and some of our | pre ehe ndi Ing the subje ect, ould be labour ain. 
place. At the present time the arbore and the Jutes, which discoveries , 
tl 1l facturi they would deny the axioms upon w n ite exact 
© yor 
I 3 1 nihit 
itis b aarp had absorbed every afeti it is oe eee 
2 f the place and county. Let us ask what 
; | can be drawn pete er i modern aimee 
and the interesting and u collect 
Slant which occupy the teas s “Abbotsbury Castle 
on the Dorset coast (which ae at ni si enr evi iden 
| texture made from mix! 
es of the 
and other bri 
f | substitutes ‘for flannel in warm climates. 
bales of the cag have been collected 
Mess: rs. Thres and Glennie of London 
in ay iaa a great partes of fren at a light soft | co nceive the purpose of a bandsaw though they, 
n | its action, if the ithe whole, individual | ing it 
to con: 
large e 
for aopen W 
M 
are based. They could not te Sek hs 
a i the a cid king up 
he 
ercelve 
e the Cites a oe dines, 
are worthy PF attention. Tn ‘the first ae Piatt it 
or the general collection of aara eat Elvaston 
where we har aa know (admire ost 
a 
3 
E 
si; 
an engine 
pei and have riii 
id 
which t it thrives bost, in the neighbourhood of iga y wer towards affec ecting A g: 
ty of th the arti i nd this is because the pigs, th posed pi Out of this class there could arise 
them. s to some mesian pate remain many | an abundant pase of nitrogen, which Cuvier. 
places where other thin ngs beside Calceolaria s and | essential to its s perfection: Another ts 7E B ve the character and paren. in Nature of the exti ng 
let Geraniums are cared for. The grand ba Ake of | silk cotton is going to be applied is the ob of Nature aware of the. ees hid 
American serge at ae Park and peer of paper, les of it have been nares cleaned | the modifying power d of 
are ol grubbed up make room for Verbena | and put up at the request of Messrs. Cowan and Co. | varia in anterior time, not fettered by ery ib 
we hope a "nig remain, as vere y | to be tried for making some of the fine descriptions of | judices, sed l ught or closet-bred 
the aa that plangea them and the sites which they | note and letter paper: it will probably not answer | ideas, but with dagang free to act upon a compreher 
80 magnificently ador alone, eo with the fibres of the Plantain and Aloe, it | sive survey of Nature past and present, a of 
We understand that the first landscape gardener of | might yield papers of great strength and whiteness. | mind able to digest and generalise, I thi kt 
nd that tł will not see intuitively, unless they wish not fed a al 
Ter: of the many suitable E of ever- ing the attention of merchants both in Madras and | that has Pr n p aaie mes in “regard to 
he is employ mbay, ps while we are on the saiek, we may point | of spec To ption of this law of 
ing them more Ez ely on n every occasion, not only as oat some of the other pate GA the Yercum plant, | came intuitively. a a ger pein Ay Ape without 
architectural tre ut eee - tea ad patterns, | and the importance of c direct ponie |an e at t of Sperta Ny ay. we Mr. Darwin here 
pl figures We- re hope to | attention to ame raw ‘roca FA India. While seems to have mo in the discovery then TRA 
G p th qens in this Presidency regarding t he | had— Ai me it did phy re iscovery. He seems 
rg by os Soman we allu ‘as on ate esfield. silk c pod, an enterprising firm in Bombay | | have worked it out hya sat mg Oy sip slowly and with 
It is a necessary principle in geometri i g ardening, is collecting Pie “abre ae e hi is ynthe ap from 
substances for Flax 
e bark, as wes of the best | due cau ation t o have 
h 
that, however Eee the seet Sr figure of it, the natives in Baas le eneral 
„and each me mber e figure, hould be clear]. coll ting the mi ky. ‘tice for export as a substitute for | glance at the pte of Nature that I ERS this 
. defined. The i tood llac or Gutta Percha. The exhibitions held in | select pinay ction of species as an a priori recognisable 
-by the originators of the style, and th utiful | Madras proved how many good fibrous materials this | fact—a 
esque patterns and embroidery work usually planted | Presidency produces; and the contributions in this | admitted by 
-out in dwarf Box , Was surrounded by coloured gravel, to | department to the last "Bxlibition, showed that the rick 
“The int mack h aie out me ures in relief. | natives were Minced =~ a antage of any sugges- 
Sees i ill | tion t or t ement of 
at the time admit of seve Gon hinkt a raw of the country. A ull report upon | 
resent, ti ountry. e pon | 
clos waich may be worked into the design, so as to | these fibres has been drawn up for publication by Dr. 
relieved, by egg the fgures of the pater, with | a the request of some enterprising 1 art 
o e er e 
flowering plants to conti just as ar A, paret ein paren of the most important Ted's vegeta Hater aig ini this t asi that t thea our 
his gon with different cts. Some very in ng Sing 2 the | the Oak it t has a wh tonic 
we be rge — So and scroll, where the centre lines | plants yielding silk cotton act z Hoogu to pan it, | pcg par AK: 
to 36 inches in heigh the importance mbination of botanical, che- | Li 
ig and Tree Box-will still be the oan eel pants ion, ai entific, and ge eee science have been | Druids ae iii for the isto o of TEVE Dorset. A 
green, Both these =a oe a shades sea early demonstated. pra simoat every which appears to be be in a bad eds of health. I kept it 
with i inei y relieved by edging them are now berte that science in y ps ay gee Fs ackeeth a “greenhouse, I 
arog a for uan aa l h side | siti nd Ppa on pia of | thou ngbt, th react : a by ae nee i a ir pot a" 
x best variety of gold-striped ew, edgin ta ws of ? cheat ey detect ing or tracing | a agen ttom-heat it might recover, but i 
y ng ndents might 
psy Re band wh go bated silver striped va mat oA magh you aan in i a pss r kingdom. The chemist shows | done agape ‘ae ghee Tag M4 a ve ents mig 
intricacies of a scroll or pattern g pane repared, or how b —I have a fine large Ros enir de 
effect of the richest description; and wil give an et ien auality m of Aea of: Tran valuable hl Wales, the flowers of which an phy with ith half 
