Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1842-11-30
CURIosITIEs IN GARDENING.

Gardening well as literature, has "curosties" and
volume might be filled with them. How wonderful for
instance, the sensitive plant which shrnks from hand
OF man-the EGGPLANT that almost coos by looking
1.-THE pitcherpant, with its welcome drought-the hair.
trigger Of the stylidum-and the carnyorous 'sVenls y
trap" (DioHea mUSeipuia-
"only think Of a vegetable being carnvorousi")
which is said TO bait its prckes with something which
tracts the flies upon which it then Closes and whose decay
is supposed 10 afford food for the plant. Disease turned
into beauty in the common and crested rose and a
usus nature reproduced in the hen and chicken daisy
There phosphorescent plants, the rees and glowing
worms of the vegetable kingdom There the microsco-
pic ichens and and there is the RI Tlesa Anodi
each OF whose petals foot long, its nect, foot da-
meter and to contain three gaoos and weigh
ing fifteen pounds! What mimcry there in the orchis-
ses and the hare foot fern, and the Tararia amb Poly
podum BarOneytE y What shall say toit erards Bar.
nace tree 'heeon do certain shells of white colour
tending TO russell wherein are contained little living
lures which shells in time of maturity do OPEN and out
OF them these little living things, wi falling into the
water DO become fowles, which we call iaccsl' What
monsters such at least they called by b6tansts) has
produced in doubling flowers, in dwarng and hybrdizng-
painting the liy-for there pink @ lilies of the valley
and pink vole and and blue hydrnngeus; and many
others are now busy IN seeking that philosophers
gardening, The blue dahna useless search if il be true
that there instance Of yellow and blue variety in the
same species Foreigners good this foolish
of for every thing novel; and mosrous and un
natural, worthy of Japan and China than of England
by imposing upon the credos seeds and cuttings of vel
low roses, and scarlet abenuns and fragrant peo-
MES, ana such like Strange things, too have been at.
tempted in garden We have spoken of water.
works like the copper-tree Chaswor dench the un.
wary and the Chinese have in the middle of their lawns
ponds covered with waer-weed that looks like grass
that stranger is plunged in the head and ears
while ne thinks he is sitting his foot upon the turf In the
Ducs gardens at SAKE Goiha is ruined castle which was
built complete, and then ruined eIpres by few sharp
rounds OF artillery Sansaus, in the grounds of Lazien
had broad walk, anked by pedcstals upon which living
figures dressed undrcssed, after the the an
clients, placed great occasions. The floating gar.
dens, chinampas of Mexico mentioned both by Ga
vgero and Humboldt They formed wickerwor and
when proprietor wishes for little change nd him
self of troublesome neghbor, he has only his pad
dies work. lug his towingrope and betake himself
10 agreeable part of the lake. We wonder that
the babarc magnfcence which piled up mimic pyramids
and Chinese watchtowors and mock Stonohenges never
behought itself OF initiating these pOetical chnampas Ii
was OF NapOleon's bubble schemes cover in the
gardens of the Tuleres with glass-those gardens which
turned into potato fields during the Revolution though
the agent nny complains that the Directory never paid
him for the se One Of the successful pieces of mag
niiccnt gardening the conservatory Chatsworth
with carriage drive through the centre, infinitely more
perfect though not extensive the covered winter
which described scucrcular Conservatory attached
To the hall of te palace wherein the "waks wander amidst
howery hedges and trnt be ong shrubs, winding it,
tic hils,-in TACT complete garden, arically heated
and adorned with the usu embellishments Of busts and
When this mighty in his travels halted il
only for day. his travelling pavilion erected and
rounded by garden Anglaise composed Of trees and
shrubs aud divided by gravel walks, aud ornunented with
and siatues all carried forward with the cavacade
We ought in fairness to readers ndd that Sir John
Carr notorious by another less honorable prBnomen
the authority for ts though, indeed, his statement il an.
thenticatcd by Mr. Loudon (Eneyc. Gdrd sec 1872 We
have heard Of the effect Of length being given an avenue
by planting the distant nearer and nearer togo
Their but among gardening crotchcts have never yet
cnIdren's garden we think It might be made
beds, seats, arbours, mo house ALI miniature, with dwarf
shrubs and fairy roses and other flowers Of only the small
est kinds II might be laid out ih, suit the nteec.
tun spirit Of the age, like map Of the hemisphere
QUaTterly ReDiew.