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THE COTTAGE GARDENER A1VL) COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, May 8 , 18(30. 
the right man in the right department to whom to apply 
for advice. As in the case of Captain Fowke, K.E., 
aforesaid, “with whom they must also associate Mr. 
Henry Cole, C.H, and Mr. Redgrave, R.A., the two prin¬ 
cipal officers of the Department of Science and Art.’’ 
The ground for the garden is on the other side of 
the road, nearly opposite where the Crystal Palace of 
1851 stood. It lies on a gentle slopo to the south 
in the form of a parallelogram or long square, or just 
in the form of this page; and if you rest the top of 
The Cottage Gaedeneb on a pack of cards or anything 
as thick, and the bottom of the page, or number, on the 
breakfast-table, and place yourself with the back of your 
head to where the sun is at twelve o’clock, you are just 
at the bottom of this garden, looking upwards and to the 
north; V here you see “ Gardener and Country Gentle¬ 
man, in the centre at the top of the page is w here the 
large conservatory is to be. From each end of the con¬ 
servatory a boundary-line curves a little to join the black 
lines which enclose the printing. These two black lines 
down each side of this page are the boundary of the Garden, 
which is to be the back of the Italian arcade all round, 
just like the back wall of the colonnade at the Crystal 
Palace ; but instead of a roof and frontage that w ay, the 
whole will be in beautiful and highly-finished arches, 
rooted and (routed with glass. Without stopping much 
to look at things, a sharp walker would take just half an 
hour to walk all round, in the dry, under these arches, or 
in this arcade, the distance being three quarters of a 
mile. Then looking out on the garden from any part of 
the arcade, going up one side or down the opposite side, 
the garden straight across is quite level in any one place. 
You recollect the grand terrace at the Crystal Palace is 
not so, but on the slope, owing to the steepness of the 
ground, no part being level across the terraco but the 
walks. Here the whole garden is level across at any 
part. Look at the page again, and in the right hand 
corner where the black bottom and side-lines meet, is 
where the offices are now being built, and where the 
main entrance to the garden will be fixed. That is the 
most fortunate entrance to a public garden in England 
or Scotland, for I have seen them all. The reason is, that 
you enter the Garden w r ith the sun at your back, and more, 
that you have the whole Garden rising gently before 
you the moment you step on to the centre walk, and that 
you can see aught but the sky line beyond the conser¬ 
vatory, up on the highest part of the ground, or as you 
would see the Crystal Palace, if the main entrance were 
dowm below the beasts beyond the flood, where the 
broadest and centre walk ends. There ar’e to be two 
terraces and flights of steps, but not many steps at a 
time, as the slope is very gentle. On the centre of the 
lower terrace is to be a lake, in the same shape as the 
Garden, and on each side also are to be pieces of water j 
something of that shape. Coloured sand or gravel, or 1 
broken stones of different colours, are to form the Italian 
parterre ; but the plan was too far from my eye to read | 
the references, and I have no notion of how the display | 
of flowers is to tell. One thing I can tell is, that I never 
yet knew a plan of a flower garden by an architectural 
landscape gardener which could be planted after the 
fashion of the ladies of the present age. Sir Charles 
Barry is as clever at hitting off such plans as any one I 
know. I have seen him sketching off plans before a 
highly artistic lady by the dozen, every one of which -was j 
most beautiful, but not one of them, or one out of a ! 
thousand of such could be planted on the present style. i 
Let us hope Mr. Nisbet has been more modern at Ken¬ 
sington Gore. But now to complete the plan of the new 
Garden at Kensington Gore, let us suppose an otiter slip 
of ground, at the bottom of the page, and at the bottom 
of the Garden, beyond the arcade, which may be two 
acres, more or less: that extra part is for the grand ex- ; 
hibitions on fine days; but when it rains, on the Chiswick 
scale, the show may be under glass, safe as home, beneath ! 
the arches of the arcade, and a better plan was never 
conceived. * D. Beaton. 
The three new members of Council, in room of Messrs. 
Scott, Bohn, and Col. Challoner, who retired, are H. T. 
Hope, Esq., of the Deepdene; H. Pownall, Esq., Chair¬ 
man of the Middlesex Quarter Sessions ; and Mr. Robert 
Wrench, of London Bridge. We cannot but rejoice at the 
wisdom of the selection. In Mr. Hope we have a liberal 
patron of horticulture, with more than ordinary means for 
promoting the object. Mr. Pownall has long been known 
as an ardent supporter of the Society in its horticultural 
character; to him it is indebted for the straightforward 
independent course he took at the last anniversary meet¬ 
ing, when he seduously watched over the interests of the 
Society in the new arrangements that were about to be 
entered into, and which greatly contributed to securing 
better terms for the Society than were at first proposed. 
In the appointment of Mr. Wrench we have an evidence 
of the determination to preserve the professional cha¬ 
racter of the Council, and to assimilate it more to what 
was the constitution of the original Councils of the 
Society. For a long series of years the Councils were 
composed of a number of amateurs w ithout any of the 
practical element, or even gentlemen of business habits 
among them; and it is not, therefore, wonderful that 
under such government the Society should have fallen 
into difficulties and disuetude. In the Council, as now 
constituted, the nurserymen, seedsmen, and professional 
gardeners are represented by Mr. Veitch, Mr. John Lee, 
Mr. Wrench, and Mr. Edmonds ; and these working in 
unison with such gentlemen as Mr. C. Wentworth Dilke, 
Mr. John Clutton, Mr. Pownall, Mr. Godson, Mr. 
Blancly, Mr. W. Wilson Saunders, Rev. L. Vernon Har- 
court, and Earl Ducio, there is every assurance that the 
interests of the Society will be well guarded, and its 
usefulness greatly promoted. 
During the course of the meeting Mr. Dilke took 
occasion to remark, that although it was stated in the 
report that the Society was to expend the sum of £50,000 
in the formation of the new Garden at Kensington Gore, 
the Fellows of the Society were not to be surprised if at 
the anniversary meeting next year they should find that 
sum had to a small extent been exceeded. The Society 
was bound by their agreement with the Royal Com¬ 
missioners to lay out £50,000 on the ground, but that 
made no provision for furnishing and fitting up offices 
and other necessaries, such as provision for the great 
exhibitions and other matters which constituted the 
moveable property of the Society ; and hence it was 
reasonably to be expected that at the next annual meeting 
a sum of perhaps £5000 or £GOOO additional would have 
to be accounted for. He also stated that he and the 
noble Chairman had just returned from attending a 
meeting which had for its object the opening up of a new 
road across Hyde Park, leading from the vicinity of the 
new Garden to Tyburnia, and which, if carried out as ho 
hoped it would be, would have the effect of bringing into 
close proximity with the Garden that vast and influential 
district of the metropolis. 
PEARS ON QUINCE STOCKS. 
I observe Mr. Erringtou is possessed with the common idea 
that the blossoms of the Pear on the Quince stock are developed 
earlier than those on the Pear when it is grafted on the Pear 
stock. This is a subject quite worth inquiring into ; and the 
experience of those who have watched their Pear trees carefully 
would be of value to your readers. 
For several years past I have felt much interested in this 
matter : and having Pear trees on Quince stocks, and the same 
varieties on Pear stocks growing very near to each other, I have 
not neglected my opportunity. It will be ns well, perhaps, if I 
confine myself to three popular sorts. I will coinmenco with the 
Louise Bonne of Jersey. I happen to have two fine pyramids of 
