111848. ] THE 
GARDENERS’ CHRONIC 
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NE W wW AND GENUINE SEEDS 
FINE GROWING QUA 
LIAM E. RENDLEE AND O., Piymouth, are 
which have been ae with the greatest care from truea aad 
selec 8. 
lants ‘ 
lectern BELGIAN CARR ROT osi . Per Ib. 2 0 
Tode RED ALTEIN HAM DO. — > p 
LARGE GUERNSEY CATTLE PARSNIP © oe 
WHITE SILESIAN BEET Š h 2 
KOH ABI . +s : 
LARGE DRUMH aie one GE. . 805 1 
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en & YELLOW GLOBE 1 
i Allo her yay snaga moneat 
Early purchases are recomme nue d, as prices may probably 
advance, the sa 
Sample packages containing 4 an ounce of each 
the above kinds, to prove their quality, will be sent 
8 Sree on receipt of 36 penny postage stamps. 
* Orders above £5 will be ee (hamper and carriage 
wa to sa on Bristol, Exeter, Bar prierai or Falmouth, op 
n the Gr ‘eat Western Railw 
to any statio 
AHA gen rl Catalogue of Agricultural, Sinica tpg and 
4 Seeds can be had GRATIS re application . Cash pay- 
ents or reference in London is p 5 from unknown corre- 
dents. Wu LE & Co., Plymouth, 
HOMAS CRIPPS, ioaeun Miner — * 
— un ock of — 
sibs 
Ene selected ‘Standards oe oe ee . 24s. per doz. 
Extra fine do. ie we warty BNSC 5s 
Fine Dwarfs oo oe oo 5 
Superior do. „ We Ser ee py 
Fine do., on ood own. ro 68. to 128. 55 
thout names 4% „ 
‘Good 
. e and Bourbons in pots, 12s, to 243. 
r reference is expected. 
se na n, Mr. eee Seedsman, &e., 14, 
1 aip k. row, Covent-garden. 
$ 9 7 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY l, 1848. 
MEETINGS 5 THE FOLLOWING eee 
— Jah. Eh rie mo ee . 32 
ü 
SomETHING more br two years since we men 
“tioned 501 1845, p. 703) a case in which the 
scales of a Hyacinth, had been compelled by art to 
bares a brood of 
e subject. 
e Japan Anemone produces its 5 — purple 
e he blossoms in the months of October and 
ains of Japan, this had Asiatic disre- 
pE; the chilly night air of Great Britain, and all 
y | Anemones of Meso 
his is to be added a sarprizing 
iply nid eat ge of seed: so 
ve: res may in a few 
‘Months, with a modicum of sf skill, ob Spe Knin ones 
cover square yards o und. 
rty to an 8 rdinary power 
ts. In general the 
late a e 
order, „in the Plum tree, the Pyrus japonica; and 
ters; but in none of them, nor in any othe 
species with which we are acquainted, does the 
power reside in the 
Anemone. 
If a root 
wa flowering, it will be found to resemble br 
ber of sr ls 
Tita be perce 
ingly white « . — projed ibni sometimes growing |t 
my sah A view of these bodies is shown 
15 They are young buds, every one of which, 
deut from its parent, will grow and form a stron’ 
lp 
of |in 
„ So Papen,” pp. 83 an 
d 
same degree as in the Japan | ti nage 
of this plant be tak pr 
plan e taken from the gro und | glass, 2 te moderate lig 
young plant in a few weeks. These buds are not 
confined to the main trunk of the root, but extend 
even towards its eae” so that every fragment 
of the plant is reproduc 
uch being possesses an- 
mone japonica has nothing to do but to turn 
it out of its 
1 
at the present 
early season in order that e e may set about 
making ample provision for their flower borders 
next autumn; for it is s obvious that the sooner the 
young plants are gbtäine 
stronger will they flo 
also another reason 
reais making experiments upon propagating other 
plants by their roots. It is certain that wherever 
cellular tissue exists it is capable, per se, of forming 
buds, which 
ck a roperty 
to be sought in the perishable nature of the cellular 
tissue itself Thus leaves and petals are both cellu- 
t leav es are sapiens ent organs, an petals 
the ¢ e is that leaves 
and many y after 
trunks to which they belonged had been — d. 
ave ourselves see Whitethorn 3 
her 
E 
i 
a 
© 
taken o a fiel 
collect having seen meere gri Reda: 
This was tone since pointed ou . KNIGHT, 
5 11 in i experiments with er niin found con- 
tinual evidence, as he has sta of the roots of 
— ‘ied ae, eee, far mo — i sind vigour 
(See aoe especially his “ Phy- 
325.) 
Who, then, shall say that such plants as ee 
nanthus, Daphnes, 3 _ layssar variety o 
other shrubs, either very difficult to 
agated if pieces 
as ager 15 
0 is is a ratte 
tion, and assuredly there are no sen 5 d re 
of 5 yet as the intelligent genden ners o 
e er to guide them in the > fey 
unex 
ht, and — at a aw 
85 m fro here is every re 
3 that ges ite “Tight itbat e 
to the excitement of vital a 
action, and consequently 
o the formation of buds 
Ler us again listen to the voice of the American 
Landscape Gar cog He is on the subject of 
while paee can- s 
he 
ressed half way into it, covered close with a bell | 
But the main principles 8 are true in the 
United Sata, s, are 4 t e her 
Dow men ae Rie ctrine laid down for 
iiot; "the eee that “the Spent style 
would always be preferred in a new countr 
any country where me amount of land under culti- 
vation is much lens t han that covered with natural 
he inhabi 
i al beauty, 
their a and 
would always incline to lay out 
the 
pleasure-grounds in regular forms, ee 
distinct exhibition of Art would give more pleasure 
by contrast than the elegant ‘itation of beautiful 
ature 
He is quite right however, in saying that this 
assertion “ evin a meagre taste, and a ani 
state of the art, or à Slik er perception of beauty in 
the individual who employs the 3 a} in 
ase at where the pl 
an imitation of e -a within the very confined 
limits of a park o ut,” x 
ING, “he is not, ihe ra obliget to resort to right- 
lined plantations, and reg lar grass-plots, to pro- 
N- 
s | duce something which shall be at once sufficiently 
different to attract — and so beautiful as to 
command admirat 
we ag hele NING’s general Mere 
think that the — “A agraph is worded rather 
cautiously. Ifthe scenery so created be really “ var 
” 
beautiful as to 3 admiration,” there is an 
n 
e flat-nosed, c 
s equally a ian exquisitely "beautiful only 
the contrast is complete. At all events, the doc- 
trine of the 88 25 eontred would go very little 
to reconcile us to the idea of having a flat-nosed, 
e ee ee. partner for life. 
s Down1ne meet the difficulty? Very 
curiously ibd eed.. He speaks thus. “All that it 
rould be requisite for a man to do i 
oe 
legant flowering 
7 
cipal trees e 
utiful ampan instead of Sum 
nd to have his place kept in high a 
ished order, re of the pa Se boldness r 
8 nature.” e seems to vstifi- 
cation in his mind a this s point. For “the high 
polished sede” “which he himself here advo- 
Sycamore are the prin 
shrubs and bea 
Hazels—a 
rary, were a ‘person to desire a resi- 
dence newly. nd out a ene in a district where 
aroun n a high state of polished pie joa 
in ‘ls e of a city, a species of pleasure 
would result from the imitation ofscenery of 
am 
spirited natural character—as the picturesque—in 
his grounds. His plantations are made in irregular 
groups, composed chiefly of pres trees, as 
the Larch, th —— is 
our readers DowWxI 2 e, est 
ciples on . in the nite States) grounds 
oa “ five A e hundred acres” > shod be laid 
W 010 enough for the present to 
2 the Englishman to judge whether, under all 
the cireumstances, he is a pproached, rivalled, or 
his Landse ape, Garden! ng brother of 
Do es vā, it will be be observed, 
ore 
wn erwise overpowering influences of 
mere art. by ‘displaying in i a scene the most pic- 
turesque beauties 
Is, or is not, this one et the first principles in 
bu ang 
„ Woop ann PLANTATTONS.“ He has of course to 
deol with the . of his own country 
villa-gardening — d especially in subur illa- 
It is a moot point and io 
gardeni 
sul soon siik the question. = 
