THE GARDEN. Walks. (From the " Auckland Star."

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 55, 21 June 1884, Page 5

THE GARDEN. Walks. (From the " Auckland Star."

Good, dry, sound walks are a necessity in all gardens, especially during the winter months. Gardens in which there is 01A the natural soil for the walks are heavily handicapped in the way of working, To make these good it must cost a great deal of trouble and expense, but they are better done well at first. The best way to make these is to take out all the soil in the walk or drive to a depth of nine or ten inches. At each side of the verge, if possible, place a drain-pipe six inches deep, then get rough scoria ash ; if such is not to be had any rough materials such as broken brick bats, shingle, stones, etc. ; place this on the bottom of the walk or drive to the depth of five inches ; on the top of these put two or three inches of fine scoria ash, fine gravel, or, if no other is to be had, fine coal ashes. After this is spread put a heavy roller over the surface, binding it down at once, thus making a walk or drive which Mill last for years.

Planting Nurses. With the judicious planting of good nurse trees almo&t any shrub or tree which suits the climate of New Zealand may bo made to grow anywhere. Without it there are hundreds of places where all the best of our introduced and native ornamental and useful trees and shrubs would not be able to live. Plant choice trees and shrubs in their proper positions, and at the distance apart which you may wish them. Then plant plenty of nurses — pines, cypresses, or anything that grow s quickly. Let all intervening spaces be filled up with these nurse trees, planting them very thickly if the position be very bleak. The functions of these nurses are to help the other trees to grow. Then when these nurses begin to interfere with the permanent trees, limbs from the nurses should be cut away every year till at last the whole nurse can be taken down. Never allow the nurse to interfere in the slightest w ith the symmetrical proportions of the tree it was planted to protect. How often in New Zealand do we see the nurses allowed to interfere with good subjects — in fact, entirely spoiling them, making them one-sided trees. This in a measure is allowed through the mistaken idea of the proprietors that a tree once planted should be allowed to grow. Such ideas are sometimes carried to such a.i extent that every tree is spoiled before remedial measures are taken — too latG to save the symmetrical appearance of the plants or shrubs. Thin out nurses whenever they are in the slightest interfering with the permanant plants.

Lemon Syrup. At this season of the year lemons are usually plentiful. It mightjdo some good, therefore, to print the following receipt how to make good lemon syrup : — Press your hand on the lemon and roll it back aud forth briskly on the table to make it squeeze more easily ; then press the juice into a bowl or tumbler, never into a tin ; strain out all the seeds, as they give a bad taste ; remove all pulp from the peel, and boil in water, a pint for a dozen pulps, to extract the acid. A few minutes boiling is enough, then strain the water with the juice of the lemons ; put lib of white sugar to one pint of the juice; beil ten minutes, bottle it, and your lemonade is made. A tablespoonful or two of this lemon syrup in a glass of water makes a cooling, healthful drink, A lawsuit which has already been going on for three-quarters of a century is to be revived, and a new court has been added for M. Daudet's study to the numerous existing courts of the Rois en Exil in Paris. The widow and children of M. NaundorfF, the second son of M. Edmond Naundorff, the clockmaker who avowed himself the lawful son of Louis XVI., are going to vindicate their claims to the title of the Bourbons, and have served assignations upon the Comtesse de Chambord, the Comtes de Paris and de Bardi, and the Due de Panne. " Princess Ame'lie " is already adopting the manners and etiquette of a Queen. The case was heard last in 1874, when the Princesse secured the eloquent but unsuccessful advocacy of M. Jules Favre.— "Pall Mall Gazette." The opponents of capital punishment will be somewhat exercised by the recent riot at Cincinnati. When in any country 1,500 wilful murders take place in a year, or more than four per diem, and only 93 murderers are hanged, the services of Judge Lynch are naturally called into requisition, The worst of that expedient is that it often results in the hanging or shooting of the wrong persons. But even that is popularly felt to be better than allewing wiful murderers to save their neck 3. Bad as has been this business at Cincinnati, it will probably clear the air, and make matters } worse for murderers all over the Union for L some years to come. And that is a distinct gain,