. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. Nowhere in NoordHolland have we a more agreeable example of theadvantages to a town of disused fortifications ; for,being of made earth, and of varying levels, they veryreadily fit into the notions of an elastic-minded gardenarchitect, but they favour the growth of many kindsof trees and shrubs that are as aliens in the , amidst the drenching vapours of the ZuyderZee, where an artists eye may have a perpetual vaporous colouring, many of the fine trees thatadorn Kampen would not
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. Nowhere in NoordHolland have we a more agreeable example of theadvantages to a town of disused fortifications ; for,being of made earth, and of varying levels, they veryreadily fit into the notions of an elastic-minded gardenarchitect, but they favour the growth of many kindsof trees and shrubs that are as aliens in the , amidst the drenching vapours of the ZuyderZee, where an artists eye may have a perpetual vaporous colouring, many of the fine trees thatadorn Kampen would not live in the common soilon the natural level, but are seen to thrive onthe mounds and tlie terraces of the embankmentsthat in the of old were designed for Cellebroeders Poort, one of the sweetest archi-tectural bits in Kampen, adorns one of the mostlovely gardens, and illustrates the indissolubility ofthe sister arts of Architecture and Horticulture,every good building needing green grass and wavingtrees to set off its beauty. 624 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [May is, APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. Monday, May 17 —Popular Flower Slinw at South Kcnsiiietonr Royal Botanic Society s Show at of Orchids and Specimen Stove and tJrccnhouse Plants, at Stevens of Stove, Crcenhouse, and DcddinRPlants, at Park House, Catford, by Pro-thcroe & Horticultural Society of IrelandSpring Horticultural Societys Spring ol the Collection of Orchids formed bythe late J. U. Cockerel, Esq,, at StevensRooms.,, f Sale of Phah-Eiiopsis grandiflora, just im- .Maj 31 -j^ ported trom liornco, at Stevens Rooms. Wednesday, Jlay 19 Thursday, May 20 Friday, TWO remarkable papers have been readwithin the last week or two before twodifferent Societies, but both of them unfortu-nately of such length that it is quite impos-sible for us to reproduce them in theirentirety, but to which, nevertheless, it isdesirable to call speci
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