. Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . Gardens,or in a column (fwater thrown up FOUNTAINS,in the guldens of warm | Fountains in this country thould be inactive, except daring the warm days of the year, andin uU countries they should tos»tLe water to a small elevation,but this should in falling, bythe arrangement of a series oftszzis, be broken into cascades be-fore it reaches its final basin; waterdescending may be always renderedgraceful. Such an arrangement iain this which we have borroweiifrom the richly-illustrated cata-logue of Messrs. A. Handyside&Co^B itffnn
. Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . Gardens,or in a column (fwater thrown up FOUNTAINS,in the guldens of warm | Fountains in this country thould be inactive, except daring the warm days of the year, andin uU countries they should tos»tLe water to a small elevation,but this should in falling, bythe arrangement of a series oftszzis, be broken into cascades be-fore it reaches its final basin; waterdescending may be always renderedgraceful. Such an arrangement iain this which we have borroweiifrom the richly-illustrated cata-logue of Messrs. A. Handyside&Co^B itffnnia Iron Works, Derby, an3Wttltirook, London. An approach to this form existe>amon^ the ruins of Pompeii, andit is a form whichwould not be mis-placed near a resi-dence, or in thecentre of a fountains,how-ever, we think,,are most suitablyplaced within agroup of trees, forthe water harmo-nises with the cool-ness which theirshade secures. Some of themost appropri-ately ornamentedof fountains wereconstructed by theGreeks. One espe-cially is described. to a height of 207 fe;t, as the Emperor Fountain at Chatsworlli. | with the water flowing from the mouths of dolphins. CYPRIPEDIUM accompanying is a porlroit the plant exhibited at i)o- I 19th, by Mr, G Ward, ganUner to P. Berrington, Efq., Pont-Floral Committee of the 14 .yal Horticultural Society, on April | j-Goitreo, Abergii enny, and of (\Lich we then obterved : Thi£> May 11, 1871. ] JOUKNAL OF HOETICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEF. 339 was remarkable in every sense—remarkable for its free flower- | as a spring bedder sufficiently recognised. I have now a bed,ing, one of the specimens having ten flowers, which from the I of which the centre is Beta brasiliensis, a small red Beet, trans- compactness of theplant formed quite aclose mass of flowers,and remarkable fromits entire distinct-ness of colour fromany other LadiesSlipper which weknow, bting purewhite, with somefaint dottings of pur-ple, external
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