. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. its purpose. Awild and shelving hill, surrounded by forests thinnedwith great skill, the distant woods beyond, afford themeans of making a series of terraces, all shelteredfrom the northern blast. The flowers seem almost asif Nature had in her prodigality planted them to formmasses of colour in their own way, and if a rare plantis there it seems as if it were so by accident. Ido not enter into details—I only give the impres-sion the garden gives. It is the right direction whichgardening should pursue
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. its purpose. Awild and shelving hill, surrounded by forests thinnedwith great skill, the distant woods beyond, afford themeans of making a series of terraces, all shelteredfrom the northern blast. The flowers seem almost asif Nature had in her prodigality planted them to formmasses of colour in their own way, and if a rare plantis there it seems as if it were so by accident. Ido not enter into details—I only give the impres-sion the garden gives. It is the right direction whichgardening should pursue if the general aspect ofNature is to be preserved. The art of the gardenershould be, not to force Nature into unusual forms, butto control and embellish what Nature Marlay. New Torenias.—Last year I was much struckwith a new Torenia which I saw, sent out I believeby Mr. Thomson, of Ipswich, the flowers and foliageof which greatly resemble those of the old well-knownT. asiatica that used at one time to be such a greatfavourite for growing as a basket plant—a purpose. Fig. 95.—fritillaria (see p. 533,) clears off any loose confervse, but also aerates thewater. We then fill up the tubs with fresh water,flushing it over the edges. Another way of gettingrid of , which we occasionally adopt, is thatof excluding the light by covering the tubs with aboard or lid, leaving it on for a week or two, whenthe conferva; will be found whitened, and can thenbe easily syringed oft. When the plants are clean, allthat we do with them is to syringe slightly once aday, running in a little fresh water to fill up the to the mode of increasing this plant by division ofthe root, the warning given by the writer of the other-wise excellent cultural remarks in your last numberis quite unnecessary, as we have taken off hundredsof plants in this way, and have never yet seen onepiece fail to grow at any time ; and so far from anyinjury being done to the
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