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a garden were too small for such a walk, there might 

 still be room for an occasional self -forming arch, which 

 adds mystery and charm to any garden. It could be 

 made either with Hornbeam, Beech, or (perhaps best of 

 all in light soil) Mountain Ash, which flowers — and 

 berries too — all the better for judicious pruning, and 

 which could make a support as well for Honeysuckle or 

 a climbing Rose. This kind of planting to gain deep 

 shade can be done over a seat, and would not take very 

 long to grow into a natural arbour. A Weeping Horn- 

 beam — which, I suppose, must be a modern gardening 

 invention, as it is not mentioned in Loudon's very com- 

 prehensive 'Arboretum et Fruticetum' — is also a splendid 

 tree for a sunny lawn; and in the female plant the long, 

 loose, pendulous catkins are very attractive. The seeds 

 ripen in October, and the bunches or cones which con- 

 tain them should be gathered by hand when the nuts are 

 ready to drop out. The nuts separate easily from the 

 envelope, and if sown at once will come up the following 

 spring. All this sounds rather slow, for in these days 

 people buy all they want and never wait. Messrs. Veitch 

 sell both kinds of Hornbeams, and even tall, well -grown 

 plants of the weeping kind are not expensive. 



'Bosquets, or groves, are so called from bouquet, a 

 nosegay; and I believe gardeners never meant anything 

 else by giving this term to this compartment, which is a 

 sort of green knot, formed by branches and leaves of 

 trees that compose it placed in rows opposite each 

 other. ' The author of ' The Retired Gardener ' then 

 adds : ' I have named a great many compartments in 

 which Hornbeam is made use of ; yet methinks none of 

 them look so beautiful and magnificent as a gallery 

 with arches.' 



December 13th.- — We have just, been digging np and 

 preparing a good -sized oblong piece of ground in the 



