. Die Gärtner' Chronik und Landwirtschaftliche Zeitung. wever, der thepresent Tag ist die Wiederherstellung dieses Grand Merkmal des flowergarden. Southey, hke mich, hatte die magnificentterraced Gärten von Lissabon und Cintra gesehen und gefühlt theirbeauty. Um dies zu beweisen, ich sende die folgenden Auszug fromone seiner Briefe gerade veröffentlicht: - ich gratuliere youon Austausch der Gehsteig der Whitehall für yournoble Terrassen, die ich nie denken kann ohne plädoyer - sicher, weil sie in sich selbst sind schön, andcarry ein zurück zu alten Zeiten. Alles, was diesem isgood. Waren, die ich zu einem Herrenhaus mit den Mitteln ofL bauen

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. The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette. wever, of thepresent day is restoring this grand feature of the flowergarden. Southey, hke myself, had seen the magnificentterraced gardens of Lisbon and Cintra, and felt theirbeauty. To prove this, I send the following extract fromone of his letters just published :— I congratulate youon exchanging the pavement of Whitehall for yournoble terraces, which I never can think of without plea-sure, because they are beautiful in themselves, andcarry one back to old times. Anything that does this isgood. Were I to build a mansion with the means ofLord Lonsdale or Lord Grosvenor, I would certainlymake hanging gardens, if the ground permitted it. Theyhave a charactar of grandeur and of permanence, with-out which nothing can be truly grand, and they are fineeven in decay. R. Southey to C. W. W.Wynn. Dodman.[Yes ; but who is to do such things without the princelyfortunes of these great nobles ?1 Monstrous Plums.—The inclosed, which I supposeis a malformation of the fruit, I have taken from a. Plum tree, which is nearly covered over with suchproductions. F. D., Newbnrgh-parlc, Easingtcold, June 17. [This is a disease which occasionally attackssome kinds of stone fruit. It consists in a fungousenlargement of the shell of the young fruit, which thengrows up into a distended leathery bag. The cause isunknown. In a Bird Cherry, found in the Himalayas, a similar appearance is so common as to have givenrise to the supposition that the plants in this conditionare a pecuUar species, and to the name Cerasus cornuta.]Change of Note in the Cuckoo.—I imagine that theobservers of natural history will agree that the changeof note alluded to by Este is by no means uncom-mon. About the same period I noticed in my localitythe same fact — the note being frequently repeated, ctick-cuck koo, and in one or two instances cuck-cui;k-cfick, without the usual final koo. In Essex there isan old rhyme, a part of which is as follows, viz. : May. th

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• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1850
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• booksubjecthorticulture