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to ascertain exactly the state of the roots, so that the plant may have 
a proper supply of water. Whenever it is found that the Moss is in a 
state of decay, it is best to shake the whole from the roots and add fresh 
material. Attention to this will ensure healthy roots, without which 
failure is certain. The Phalsenopsis delights in a moist, shady tempera¬ 
ture, of from 70° to 85°, during the growing season, and with compa¬ 
rative dryness; a temperature of 55° to 60°, during winter, will be 
found most suitable. 
ROYAL GARDENS, FROGMORE. 
With the kind permission of Mr. Ingram we now intend giving our 
promised report of our visit to these noble gardens, during the out-of- 
door fruit season. And never do we remember furnishing a report with 
greater pleasure than we do this. We have often given some account of 
our visits to these (at all times interesting) gardens, but none has ever 
happened to be at this particularly interesting season of the year. We 
had looked forward to this visit with unusual pleasure; and we were 
not at all disappointed in what we had expected; for this depart¬ 
ment being so very extensive, and every thing in such a perfect state 
of cultivation, spoke for itself very plainly of the superior manage¬ 
ment everything must receive.. But our readers must not imagine 
that this is accomplished through any inconsiderate extravagance;— 
Far from that: for we can assure them that every thing in connection 
with this establishment is carried on with the most systematic economy; 
we were fully convinced, by the extent of the department, and the 
assistance allowed, that without the most perfect management things 
could not be kept in such beautiful order as we saw them in. 
To give our readers some idea of the extent of this department, we 
had to look over about five miles in length of trained fruit trees, four 
of which were on walls, besides dwarfs, standards, pyramids, &c., many 
of them specimens that filled us with admiration, and led us to exclaim, 
“ What extraordinary fruiters! ”— we were, however, informed it was 
not an unusual display. 
The gardens form an extensive square, walled in on all sides with 
walls 12 ft. high, with another wall running three parts round inside 
the gardens, 100 ft. from the outer, with cross walls from the inner to 
the outer, dividing the space into five compact gardens, about an 
acre in each. These gardens are devoted principally to one kind of 
fruit, so that they afford the facility of placing each variety according 
to their different habits or constitution upon either of the four aspects. 
The first of these gardens we looked into was for Pears, and a gratifying 
sight it was; for, in casting our eyes from one end to the other, so 
perfect were the trees that it appeared to us more like a garden bounded 
by a verdant hedge than a wall. Gardeners of the old school have told 
us that where we had trained trees to please the eye we never had crops 
to please the mind ; but we saw proof of the falsity of their theory, 
for we had trees before us in form perfect to a twig, in crops perfect to 
