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gardening. At Trentham) one‘of! the princely ‘residences of “his'Grace® 
the Duke of Sutherland, we have seen ‘the most successful winter’ | 
gardenin this country. The walks are'so broad that a Bath wheel 
chair can traverse them; the temperature is kept low and the ventilation © 
perfect; it is, in fact, a mere shelter when out-door exercise would, for’ 
the delicate, be impossible. The’ supports of! this. choice construction” 
at Trentham are covered with’ climbing plants, and’ pendant fromthe 
roof are many ‘varieties of the Passionflower, ‘some of which are always’ 
in blossom. Orange, Myrtle, Lemon) and other fragrant trees filbcupe’ 
the quadrangles, and flowers we call common m summer are ‘provided 
by gathering late in) the jautumn°such? young plants’as spring from” 
selfssown seeds, and which if not removed to'such a shelter, will’surely 
die. ‘To force plants ‘for such a’covered winter gardenis not needfulos 
‘The conservatory: claims ' those’ ‘more ' tender “exotics. -One=twentieth © 
part’ ofthe cost of hothouses) and ‘much less of: labour, willosécure ‘the 
advantage of a congenial ‘climate, space for exercise, and the’ refresh+/ 
ment of floral variety;'to“all who choose tohave a pleasure-garden in © 
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Grafting is much practised in the orchards at Fesiole ; the method 
in vogue is similar to that i use among the Egyptians more than two 
thousand years ago, as it appears from a scroll of papyrus which I saw 
in the library of the Vatican, Ina book; printed three hundred. years 
since, the author, Sebastian Munster, gives an engraving shewing the... 
process of engrafting, which exhibits a coarse cloth precisely like what,. 
I saw a Florentine gardener employ but, yesterday. This. covering of... 
canvas prevents the loam, or whatever medium. is employed, from 

