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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
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WOOD AND WATER IN THE BOIS DE BOULOGNE. 
REES, and rocks, and streams of water, are just tlie materials which, in the 
hands of a clever master of the art of landscape gardening, may be' 
wrought up into a picture, which, avoiding every vestige of artificiality, 
may rise to the highest order of beauty, and take rank as an example 
of the highest style of art. Each of them possesses its own separate and peculiar 
features of interest, but it is when they are happily blended that they are most 
calculated to win admiration. The scene from the Bois de Boulogne, represented 
in the admirable ■woodcut printed on p. 117, shows them thus advantageously 
associated. We ow T e the opportunity of introducing it to the courtesy of M. 
Rothschild, publisher of M. Alphand’s grand work Les Promenades de Paris , for 
which it was engraved.—M. 
KITCHEN GARDENING FOR MAY. 
« F there are any failures among the Spring-sown crops, fresh sowings should 
be made at once. Attention must also be paid to the thinning of the 
young crops as soon as they are fit to handle, but the thinning should be 
9 gradual. Take advantage of every favourable opportunity to run the hoe 
between the rows of Onions, Carrots, Parsnips, Beet, Parsley, Turnips, Salsify, 
and Scorzonera; also between early crops of Cauliflowers, Cabbages. Lettuces, 
Spinach , and other crops. Slugs are sometimes (especially in showery weather) 
very destructive among seedling crops ; some quick-lime strewed over them early 
in the morning will destroy them. Make two sowings of late Peas this month, 
in deeply-dug, or trenched, well-manured ground; sow also some more Broad 
Beans and Dwarf French Beans. Sow Scarlet Runners at the beginning of the 
month for the main crop, and towards the end for succession. Sow a good 
breadth of Parsley for winter and spring use ; also Cauliflowers for autumn and 
winter use, and a good breadth of Turnips; and make successional sowings of 
Spinach, Lettuces, Radishes, and Salading. Plant out the early-sown Celery 
plants into trenches four feet apart, filled within a few inches of the top with 
good rotten dung, and if the weather be dry, see that it is all watered ; in the 
spaces between the trenches plant Cauliflower or Lettuce, or sow Spinach. 
Plant out spring-sown Cauliflowers and Lettuces; also the earliest sown Savoys, 
Brussels Sprouts, Borecole, Broccoli, &c., on ground that has been well manured and 
deeply dug, or trenched. Leeks sown in March will now be fit for transplanting ; 
plant in rows, twelve or fourteen inches, apart and nine inches in the row, on 
deeply dug, well manured ground. Earth up Potatos when fit; and prick out a 
large breadth of Celery. Clear away the materials used for blanching Seakale, 
and fork over the ground. This is a good time to make plantations of Herbs 
of all kinds. Towards the end of the month Tomatos may be planted at the foot 
•of a south wall. Prepare ridges for Cucumbers and Vegetable Marrows. Con¬ 
tinue to ply the hoe constantly in fine weather not only between growing crops. 
