OcrosEeR 13, 1860.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 911 
=r Tt is useless plan pirg in nag situations slow | moved every three years rs; but whe they are old, and | plants of a really or ornamental or useful character and 
wers or delicate Triomphe de Rennes, |have been many years in the e same placo, i it is better to | pul bear full . The sub-classes will be 
Rosette, will do well with protection in the open, but | root-prune them, and renew the soi und them care- | separated k gravel walks 12 feet i ee and the 
it will do twice as well against a wall. Paul ase , | fully. In lawn holes aa may be rian pr a radius of | of | ni natural families 3 by tu $ 3 feet ap widu The shape of 
i i nder i ery year wi ife; i 
m ne! Grass edgin appropri 
north wall. And hardy, vigorous Acidalie will bring | new cetera crag ET should be given to them, and an ‘pe pen tago n, a mathematical division of the i 
É i m e ta wi |P acticable ; bat the natural families are ingeniously 
ev. Mr. Helyar told me, when here, that the south 15, aers 3o oun —Scoring the bark, like Apple trees, | capac by the intersection of a number of graceful 
wall is the e proper place for (H. P.) Napoleon. Eliza only remedy. I have found it succeed with both | Curves. 
Sauvage, here, is blooming beautifully in rig crux of a othe Tanet stocks, with their tongh thick skins, Thes: ir will, when finished, a 
eave east wall in ihe ares with an abutment to fha vion exposed, are very | lia bE to benide bii materially “t o the completeness of the gardens, and 
est, but open to south. These will serve 16. for Clay.—I h dth although the scientific. division may not tbe properly 
illustrations of r right "pan in right places. A ri ght ro ARE S appreciate: Ps by the public it will be of the greatest 
alue to those wh i botany. he 
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t che do I put a double oi "of poor 
ose on a wrong stock, and in a wrong kg has pro- Pees y, do good put | vi s! 
duced much disappointment i in ed Rose PE ae ai aa app om ng ph WAN ‘art ae who last season attended Mr. s 
= sa mida en ‘acy.—I have heat aope. say som Ai E ene OC GIRON OY) agaf lectures at the Botanic Gardens than during any pre- 
bee: ria ows finely in a poor edge, ere vio regarded as on 
the oil i is thin, and the cae Sago bo os re ie ‘hat 17. One he to ecnegaiogs —Send ou heod Roses | taste for this interesting ce is on the increase 
h goo n the Briar. I only, a nd on Weed out all t from Whether this be the case or not it is clearly the duty o 
ds burn, thale ( r Ros osery. se not bad large quantities of unproven the Government to furnish the proper opportunities and 
i escribe the Roses nega- | encouragements the s 
s a boi of ae mois: In Catalog pa i 
2r o same wa: tively as we for | connection with an institution where that — can te 
ulching; but, = Ao bd ab un Ani soil. a good aain, i and remember thata bad mee a good | so cg as and agree: ed, i 
At the back of my honse, half se nig a sedge: eastern EEN _ stock, is not worth accept- | Gardens are frequently visited by. mplished 
chalk hill, the fields i hedge and from and that with many persons it will impede the akinadicte from Europe, pe gan the eange colonies, 
them I have dug up the finest aiet some A feet bight parohaso of Roses that a ‘really good. and t tune piat to be able to. carry with them the 
ana fit, at that height, to bud “ Fulgen s? > as a weep 18. e Word to Purchasers, —Do not call nursery- peti , not only that pecan of all the most beauti ve 
, I found rnnt y ] The hey and: comm nercially valuable 
some oe “ys nee roots of their o n, their m ain d pend- | strive to p p lassifi 
ery large TES hick to which | great losses. As Eades new | pees Aa are aig, are understood. 
they che nkbtab hed by a strong cord. The strongest | by your haste for novelty, to sell Ay we —_— Most of the wy toma dies the Sydney Botanic Gardens 
land produces, on ae whole, the finest Briars, and suits | which they have received with the the express their admira of the beauty of the meas 
¢ seared ” Roses on the Briar. Attached to such like | before they have had time to prov inane When you | enclosure along t oe ae h upper 
_ stools I dug up jon swamps last winter fine Briars. | get a novelty don’t sled it, awd don’t kill it with | garden walk, being for about a rg of 100 yards 
There 3 m pa — why Briars grow finely even | kindness. encircled by Roses, Woodbines, Passion flowers, and 
in poor hedger heir roots are protected by} 49 One Word to beng —Cut your Roses for | other -popular varieties of climbing pints which 
fallen | Teaves, oN suggests mulching. I have found | Show with good stalks, and exhibit them with their | are trained around the trellis work, and cluster in 
here that Briar Roses in lawn holes do better with a pa buds and leaves fairly; and remember, that “Roses ie graceful profusion. he attractiveness which the 
nch radius free from Grass than with a larger one. not Races! Fra aud, u nder so fair a A national | leafy shade, the gay colours, and the delicious 
xperience goes, I have found fl da“ ag. oes ion in asin.” | scents of these flowers have imparted to this 
Cess Naver use stiletto, pincers, gouge, or r glue DHE. go and | beantiful retreat, wae ae be further increased 
return from the show. or loser, with the inward | by the mega agit viary in the centre o 
satisfaction of an hono tied ble will never, | the walk. Shor F aois, teing this colony, a few 
then, have to regret, that you have partaken of those | months since, Me Ifred Denison, brother of the 
well watered before budding and after, I ne ee 
that they would “take A quicker, and more certainly in unworthy frauds, ter? Bi an in jay to des public and | Governor-General, offered to hand over to the public 
hot a than cold, because the circulation is | thei incipient “ caries’ o good a his collection of birds, on the condition that a suitable 
quicker, aviary should be built for their preservation. A sum 
12. A few Roses that will stand gales of wi fecha ae AA EP Thought for this purpose was placed on the estimates for Hs 
which, though beaten to shreds, will; upon hey Tees hn aling; tipi at my eral |. on present year, but 
back, Leagan and oera on hede a Daher, That when the So Son‘ Or God for us was ee | struction was eee Mini a Jong pre’ deyel i in 
wi sweell san. _ re 
Willia: Griff Lafitte, Baronne noe naga au Not the rei captive ina a sexta guest, fern ein meres on oy aes Be Pie my 
“Colonel” is oe far, but not for a win So pure and lovely was his transient tom the rece 
okra tampest), Le Rein William. 5 eg "Ping ae aig tid ie Fated Se had prest, tion o the birds i is of wpe, with atone foundations: Tt 
the Lar Bouquet de Ploro; Aci iato Ainé eee’, But won for us an amaranthine d be h, and is divided 
Bachm Can lin Ps A > f ia eight comp tme: ts rae vari à 
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Carmel, Louis Odier, Duchess of Sutherland, and = oss e E Clean ae See tare 
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mt i eth ai = a cee hawantieonery sie o THE BOTANIC GARDENS, SYDNEY. through the several compartments, and fle sia 
me of them might be named, but observe the place t t d 
for which Iname them. I for one cannot afford t | Botanic Gardens are so gradual in their operation that | We subjoi pin a; list of the birds. ae in the. public 
with Baronne Prevost, La Reine, Pius the Ninth, and | they probably do ih attract from casual s that | aviary. regret to learn Pai r.. Denison 
William Jesse, Let what will happen, I get something attention — they deserve. Those, 1 aia, who | left: the colony owing: to the imperfect. acon lation 
out of them every year. Fou roe = the trash that | remember the and condition of the rdens | afforded at Government. House, no less than a third of 
l giv y to teak and |; k pc me recognise the desirable alteration that | the number has been destroy on 
to their fine and lasting constitution: hese four were Ios tude place. The improvemen , now consi ly of 71 birds, which are classified 
among my first 40, and they are “younger ” better | numerous, but perhaps the t t in | follows :—Pheasants, two golden. (cock. and-hen), and 
than when I had them eight psa . Alas! how | the lower garden, where a large quantity of additi two common Chin th: fi es, 
many deaths of other Roses have I witnessed. land has been reclaimed, part e and ne. Indian tree, from. India, m 
1 what do well on a Briar here, but which Cove. Some four or five years ago the China ; quails, nine ent vaca phew teal, three 
require shelter from wind; they should be in every | Botanic Gardens contained about 28 acres ; a that | Chinese ducks, from China ; ne Great Victoria 
arden.—Raglan, i Géant, Alp honse Karr, Lamar- | time three acres of land have been added an d partly | ( (cock), one a bronza wing, four me Wonga, two o dagger 
tine, Beaux Ari oir, Tpatrizzi _ (both lovely nea e Nicobar Island, two Navigator. Island, 
dark Roses), M. Pheip Tarass Fleuri, Avranches, | to the Governor’s bathing house, about three more | and one at hey doves, three prado, and two 
Lord Palmerston (both hold colour cater sun better gg op epenkled:: rails, one wingless, from New Zealand, and 
than any others that I have; the petals o the Inet are A large portion of the reclaimed Snr is about | three other ionda, from Papia Denham; satinbird, 
h 0 ~ is distinct), — [being laid out; one part. of it will be artificially laid | one y (cock); co katoos, three great white and one 
imes (both lovely), M.M ise | out, and crested, fram Wes tern Australia; parrots, two. lowries 
Magnan, M. cee de Rougemont “the Foroan ment. In the ornamental part a large teat of an | and one green ; air ue maar one large tailed; sparrows 
and most elegant of ey large Roses, but requires an [y eies has been formed ; in this and finches, 24 variet 
extra good Briar); M. Heraud, Alice Seon Sir J. | to grow s kind of aquaties, sopectaliy bs Targer | _ Although the eo ito is a comparatively small one, 
Franklin, siapa Leon, and Madame — Brin pd are Water ilies, “including the beautiful Nelumbium, of the choicest of those gorgeonsly- 
all nice R s for of thet egg or P hagoræan Lily, and the Nymphæa gigan- 
are the fin = in the world for form andi way. There the pia ie" and | blue Water-lilies of the sear 
quality labs and cree! The e pon nd in its narro amen pe 
The ‘followin; cisi Roses I can now and its sides 
E mind, on pou. a with rockwork and ‘suitable ‘te 
Peyro any i n Verdier’ pan gue), surrounding ground wil, be paoted ie or rare | beauti fal live 
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The following new, or me, I can most | ment, on a similar plat ig. alee ad 
highly recommend. bis o iest are hoble show | on the ground adjoin This plot is to be devoted 
Roses, and S in ae or first year of} exclusiv este ee the illustration “3 le srg f engri 
bloo ra viz. "9 oe eE Vicon (bo! hose h leaves: veined H K n in B i dese wi ‘ 
nearly 5 in Sor: in diame, mai $e goo quality ; the being a rey extensive one, r “ih bo divided into four | ment to making such presents to the Sydney 
er, I think will ie an Louise rate che, | sub-cl ecording to the method of Pro t t z 
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Me First, hs terised i i pogynous—plants 
d Altesse Impéria The three last are pot Roses | whose flowers the stamens-do-not adhere to either the 
planted i Hie eo and vid can only speak of them asnice | calyx or corolla. -2° Peri ep ag 
een it re dar pantie rich; the two pre- | adhering to either the caly. cater: pea : 
mg 1 ne e Me a Ree ipynons-— having j 2 y 
and well sha; ee Comte de Beaufort mained me bap oor ith either the calyx or corolla, all adhering to Shall as admirably shy sea the feat we a 
l year, uae + ig the necessity of patience with | the ovary, which isi nferior, or nearly so, 4. Declinous tribes of a alia as ps y ee a plants an 
ag ai fio wers t hat are unsexual. Each of th b- | do its botanical pr Sydney Morning 
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