. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. flower garden embellishment. Wall-flowers are remarkable for their even regular were too early to see them at their best, yet theygave promise of fine masses of bloom. As we passed along the various terraces andthrough the rock gardens, admiring their manybeauties, we could not avoid noticing what .simplematerials are brought together to produce suchstriking results. The generality of the plants em-ployed are such as can be found in any cottagegarden, and may be grown by the humblest subjec
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. flower garden embellishment. Wall-flowers are remarkable for their even regular were too early to see them at their best, yet theygave promise of fine masses of bloom. As we passed along the various terraces andthrough the rock gardens, admiring their manybeauties, we could not avoid noticing what .simplematerials are brought together to produce suchstriking results. The generality of the plants em-ployed are such as can be found in any cottagegarden, and may be grown by the humblest subject inher Majestys dominions. The common red Daisy isgrown by tens of thousands, and the mossy Saxi-fragas and Sedums are extensively employed. Everyinch of ground is also covered, not one inch of baresoil being allowed to be seen. \iolets also form animportant factor amongst spring flowers. The threefavourites were Victoria Regina, the best of thesingle Violets ; Marie Louise, very large doubleflowers ; and Belle de Chatenay, pure white doubleflowers. These were cultivated on a large FlO. 78.—SPRING 0,\RDENING AT BELVOIR CASTLE, References to Plan ;—a, Pulmonaria; D, Arabis ; c, Purple Pansy ; d. Pyrethrum; e. Heath; r, Aubrielia; G, Pansies ; H, Red Daisy; i, White Daisy; ;, Sedum; K, Arabis; L, RIyosotis ; M, Red Daisy; N. Primroses. must take it. If it is too strong the effects areseen either sooner or later, but often whenmuch mischief has been done. It is always wellto keep on the safe side—frequent applicationsare very much preferable to stronger doses evenwhen they are only slightly too strong. As arule the slower the growth a plant naturally makes,the less able is it to bear manure-water ina strong state. Through the absence of thisfact being fully seen and acted upon, thereare many plants that are generally supposedto be unable to bear manure-water atall, such as the slowest growing hard-woodedgreenhouse plants, Heaths in particular ; yet itIS in the case
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