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JOUBNAL OF HOETICULTDKE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEB. 



[ Angaat 3, 1871. 



lis, fiEdiDg that he was chairman of the Markets Committee, asked 

 him if the Corporation conld acrommodate the salesmen at Covent 

 Garden. He eaid that the Committee would be happy to receive from 

 the Association any information they were disposed to give ; and that 

 if they could provide any accommodation for them in Farringdon 



Market, they would be happy to receive them. The Committee had 

 set the architect to work to prepare desirable plans, and to submit 

 them to those best acquainted with what was wanted, to see if they 

 required any alteration. Then, when they were as perfect as possible, 

 they would be submitted to the Court. 



GROUND LEVELLING AND PRACTICAL GARDEN PLOTTING.— No. 20. 



DRAWING PLANS. 



£0- 



To draw anti transfer Jig. 43 to the ground. Draw line 1, 7, 

 representing 58 feet ; divide it into six equal parts, as 2, 3, 4, 

 5, 6, 7. The points thus found are the centres from which to 

 describe the circles. 

 Produce line 1, 7, to 

 points G H ; bisect 

 line G H with line 

 E F at right angles ; 

 where the two lines 

 out each other is 

 centre 4. From 

 point 1, with radius 

 1 a, draw arc a ; 

 from the same point 

 draw are 6. as shown 

 by radius 1 b. From 

 point 2 draw arcs c 

 and d, as shown by 

 the thick and dotted 

 lines. From point 3 

 draw arcs c and /; 

 draw similar arcs 

 from points 5, 6, and 

 7. From centre 4 

 draw the outside 

 circle, then draw 

 lines 8 9, and 10 11. 

 On each side of the 

 diameter line G H 

 draw straight, lines, 

 as shown in the 

 centre — that is, be- 

 tween the arcs drawn 

 from centres 3 and 5. 



To transfer _/!ir 43 

 to the ground. The 

 diameter of the out- 

 side circle is 82 feet. 

 Lay line e p, and 

 bisect it, at right 

 angles, with line gh; where the two lines cut each other is 

 centre 4 ; insert a peg at that point. From the peg at centre 4, 

 with a string 41 feet long, trace the outside circle. On each 

 side of the peg at centre 4, on line g h, measure 29 feet 



Fig. 43. Scale 24 feet to the inch 



6 inches ; insert a peg at each point, as at points 1 and 7. On 

 each side of the same peg measure 19 feet 3 inches, and insert 

 pegs as at points 2 and 6. Again, from the same point measure 



10 feet on each side, 

 and insert pegs aS' 

 at points 3 and 5» 

 From the peg at 

 point 1, with a string 

 12 feet long, trace. 

 arc a. There it is 

 better to trace the. 

 circles, as shown by 

 the thick and dotted 

 lines. Where the 

 lines traced out each' 

 other are the angles 

 of the beds. Euduce 

 the string 4 feet and 

 trace circle h. From, 

 centre 2, withastiing 

 21 feet 3 inches long., 

 trace arc c ; reduce 

 the string 4 feet and 

 trace arc d. From 

 centre 3, with a 

 string 31 feet long, 

 trace are e ; reduce 

 the string 4 feet and 

 trace arc /. From 

 centres 5, 6, and 7 

 trace corresponding 

 arcs and circles to 

 those traced from 

 centres 1, 2, and 3» 

 On each side of the 

 diameter line E f 

 measure 2 feet, in- 

 sert a peg at each 

 point, as at points 

 8, 9, and 10,11; laj 

 a line from peg 8 to peg 9, and from peg 10 to peg 11. On each 

 side of the diameter line g h measure 2 feet, and lay lines — 

 that is, between the arcs traced from centres 3 and 5. The lin6& 

 are in Box ; e beds ; w, walks. — M. O'Donnell, Eichmond. 



NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 



In a previous volume were some notes about Findeene 

 Flowers (Vol. xvii., page 82). Inquiry was made without 

 success for their names, but a correspondent in "Notes and 

 Queries " writes as follows : — " After a careful investigation of 

 the locality and identity of the Finderne flowers, it is satis- 

 factorily ascertained that they are Narcissus poeticus, a plant 

 indigenous to Palestine, and of doubtful nativity in England. 

 — Anna Hakrison." We think that this Narcissus, the com- 

 mon Daffodil, is a native of England. We have seen it wild in 

 the woods and other places in many counties. 



Mb. W. G. M'Ivok, Superintendent of the Cinchona 



Plantations of the Bengal Government in British Sikkim, has 

 published a lengthy report, of which the following is an abs- 

 tract : — " The plantations are situated in the Valley of Bungbee 

 in the Himalayas, about thirteen miles from Darjeeling, which 

 seems admirably adapted for the growth of Cinchona. The 

 climate is very moist, being rarely free from rain. Neverthe- 

 less the state of the plantations is reported as very unsatisfac- 

 tory; the plants have nothing like the luxuriant foliage which 

 characterises those grown in Southern India on the Nilgherries. 

 They seem to thrive for three or four years at the most, and 

 then become diseased." Mr. M'lvor says that trees of equal 

 height do not produce so much bark as in the South of India, 

 being ol more slender growth, and the bark being thinner. — 

 (Nature.) 



Sigismund Euckee, Esq., one of the foremost Orchid- 

 growers in this country, is about to give up their culture, and 

 his magnificent collection has passed into the hands of Messrs^ 

 Veitcb, and will be disposed of at Stevens's rooms. The sale 

 of the first portion of this extensive and rare collection is ta 

 take place on the 8th and 9t;h inst., and will, doubtless, attract 

 purchasers not only from all parts of the country but from abroad ;; 

 for in forming and keeping up the collection no cost was 

 spared, and the highest skill was exercised to maintain it iji 

 the best possible state of cultivation. 



Mr. Thwaites, in his "Enumeration of Ceylon Plants," 



says that from the large extent of forett land which baa been 

 and is now being appropriated to Coffee cultivation, there i& 

 little doubt that some of the indigenous plants will in time 

 become exceedingly rare, if not altogether extirpated, or exist 

 only in the Botanic Garden, into which as many as possible are 

 being introduced. The obtrusive character, too, of a plant 

 brought to the island less than fifty years since is helping to 

 alter the character of the vegetation up to an elevation of 

 3000 feet. This is the Lantana mixta, a verbenaceons species 

 introduced from the West Indies, which appears to have found 

 in Ceylon a soil and climate exactly suited to its growth. It 

 now covers thousands of acres with its dense masses of foliage,, 

 tfiking complete pnpspssion of land where cultivation has been 

 neglected or abandoned, preventing the growth of any other 



