THE 



GARDENERS 



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AGRICULTURAL 



CHRONICLE 

 GAZETTE. 



A Stamped Newspaper of Rural Economy and General News.— The Horticultural Part Edited by Professor Lindley. 



No. 6— 1844. 



SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 



Adrice on the Management of 



Farms rev. - • ' 

 Agricultural value of land • 



^•"2- Society of England 



Utrberry bU*h* 

 Bonet, remarks on 

 Burnt clay for foils - 

 Burthen* on land • 



Butter, flavour ot • 

 Cacti, to tow seeds ot 

 Calendar ot Operations 



CAmelHasativa - • * 



Chemi.try,toapplytoAgncult. 



Chepstow Farmers Club 

 Citron, a remedy for poison - 

 Coprolites 



Cow, swollen Vy Turnip-tops - 



Cucumber-fi.tes, steam in 

 Currant, spotting of 



Drainage, effects of - 

 Elm-rcvts, effects of frost on - 



Experimental farms desirable * 

 Euonymu* japonicus 

 Famiiiar ]i<.t*ny 

 Fmrm-hi>rses 9 to keep 

 Ferni, to remove * 



Flax-fields, weeds in # - 

 Ghent Horticultural Society - 

 Gluten in grain - 



Gone, food for horses 

 Grapes, to mature - 

 Grass land, to manure - 

 Greenhouse plants, list of 

 Guano, constituents of 

 Hardiness, cause of - 



Horticultural Society's garden - 

 Ipswich Cucumber Society 

 Ivy, stem roots of 

 Lactoscope, described • 



Landscape gardening 

 L*mons, to preserve 



93 a 



m b 



92 b 

 83 c 



92 a 



91 c 

 85 b 



93 c 



92 a 

 C3 b 



87 

 94 

 91 

 93 



87 

 91 



91 

 85 



87 

 91 



87 

 M 



80 



84 



INDEX. 



Loudon (Mrs.), meeting for 



Linnean Society ^ * 



Lycaste Skinneri • 



Manure, quantity for crops 

 _ experiments with 

 dropped in fields • 



Manures, how they act 



Mistletoe, remarks on 



Naturalist's corner - 



New Berry • * * • 



Oak, cut in winter - 

 Perennial flower-seeds, to sow • 

 Picotees, seedling • 

 Plants in pots, cultivation of 

 Recipe for wounds * • 



Rhododendrons, list of 

 Rose Garden - 

 Roses, select • 



Salt, thistles killed by • • 

 Seeds, to preserve • 



— to steep - 

 Seyssel asphalte to preserve 



stakes • • • 



Slugs, to kill - 



Sprengel on Manures 

 Streptocarpus Rexii • 



Subsoiling for Turnips • 

 Sulphuric acid and bones 

 Tea, adulteration of - 

 Thistles to kill by salt 

 Tulip-bed, to protect 

 Turnips, to manure - 



Ulva palustns 2" ■ * 

 University of Erlangen 

 Vine borders, to dig 



c 

 a 

 a 

 a 

 b 

 c 

 b 

 c 

 b 

 b 

 b 

 b 

 c 



• 89a 



i - 



88 



89 



87 



92 

 90 



91 



B8 



94 



85 



85 



86 



88 



88 



83a 



86 a 



b 

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 e 



b 

 c 



c 



c 



b 



b 

 c 



e 

 b 

 b 

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8* c 

 86a 

 8*J c 

 92 a 

 92 a 

 93 

 93 

 85 



87 

 87 

 85 



88 



85 

 83 

 93 

 83 

 84 

 88 

 91 

 33 

 94 



a 

 b 

 a 

 b 

 e 

 b 

 b 

 b 

 c 

 e 

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 a 

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 a 



b 

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87 

 85 

 89 



86 a 



§4 b 



94 . 



87 

 91 

 83 

 93 

 87 

 87 

 85 



c 

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b 



c 



b 

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c 



FASTOLFF RASPBERRY. 



Waggons and carts, relative use of 8P a 

 Waste lands, to improve - 91 c 



Weather, effect of - - -87 c 



Weeds in Flax-fields - -89 c 



Year-book of Facts, rev. - 86 b 



Zinc milk-vessels poisonous 86 c 91 c 



THE LATE Mr. LOUDON — A Public Meeting of 

 the Friends of the late Mr. Loudon will be held in the large 

 room of the Horticultural Society's Establishment, Regent- 

 street, I/"'* don, on Saturday, Feb. 17, at Two o'clock precisely, 

 to considv : the best means of extricating his Widow and Daughter 

 from the difficulties into which they are placed by Mr. Loudon's 

 sudden death. 



It is hoped that noblemen and gentlemen who patronise Horti- 

 culture, and also all Gardeners and Nurserymen who are within 

 a reasonable distance, will attend. 



TJES1DENCE, WANTED to RENT, placed in a park 



-"-»» or parklike grounds. Must contain good entertaining 

 rooms, five or six best bedchambers, with all suitable offices for 

 not an extensive establishment, and if with a farm of 20 acres, 

 would be desirable. Would be taken on lease, and the occupant 

 prove an unusually advantageous tenant. Full particulars and 

 terms to be addressed to Messrs. Hedger, Land Agents, 10, New 

 Boad-strcer, opposite th e Clarendon. 



Y? P. FKANCIS, Nurseryman, Hertford, begs leave 



- M ~ J • to recommend to the Nobility, Gentry, and the Trade in 

 general. Snow's superb white winter BROCCOLI, in 2s. packets, 

 containing half an ounce, which was advertised last season, and 

 will be found to give general satisfaction this winter and the 

 ensuing spring. Also Snow's Hybrid Prolific Green-flesh MELON, 

 of most excellent rich sweet flavour, warranted to produce two 

 and three crops in a season, from the same plants; has taken six 

 first prizes at t e North Herts and South Beds Horticultural Ex 

 nibitions, weight from 2 to 3 lbs., sold in packets, 5s. each. Also, 

 Snow s Superb Walcheren CAULIFLOWER, which is found to 

 be late and hardy, never runs, and produces beautiful large com- 

 pact white heads, and is very dwarf. Sold in packets at 2c. each, 

 containing half an ounce. 



n E ' P .' F*. i ,eg:s also to recommend a very superior kind of 

 orange s White BROCCOLI, which produces large compact heads 

 in tne months of January, February, and March. Sold in packets, 

 -s., containing half an ounce. The above, making four packets, 

 ir ordered together, may be had for 10s., at the Hertford Nur- 

 series, or of Messrs. Noblk, Seedsmen, 152, Fleet-street ; Messrs. 



tho m NC - H & TT SoN » London Bridge, and Mr. Flanagan, opposite 

 the Mansion House, London. 



T? 



Tpr . . __ KENSINGTON NURSERIES. 



al r 1 D F0RR EST and Co. beg leave respect- 



STnp£ lly , t0 u direct attention to their GENERAL NURSERY 

 eiti • Was never finer than this season, especially the 



SI i? Ve . and corre ctly-named Collection of FRUIT-TREES.— 

 *ee Advertisement for Nov. and Dec. 1843, of this Journal. 



B t,rt k Sequence of tne Leas e of one of their Nurseries expiring, 



tort t S re( * u,re(1 for other purposes, R. F.&Co. deem it neces- 



■inn *h ass " r ^ thei r Customers everywhere that it will not occa 

 ■ion the slightest- ;«*«,.,..»: j_ t \ ie - • 1 ww. cv,„„ 



itur 

 little ah " " aa ucen ma ue m the adjoining .Nurseries ior tms 

 Cuirn™ ffe u! U h,5Ure the same supply, and attention to all the 

 ^hohTv - Ch they have uniformly experienced. To those 

 Perhant Slted tne Nurseries recently, these observations are 

 tunitv L Unnecessar y 5 but to th ose who have not had an oppor- 

 consider : T u" n< * sin e the improvement of their Stock, R. F. & Co. 

 that mi k! t ent not ice necessary to counteract any prejudice 

 thronphn f ?u raised in the minds of their numerous friends 

 -^---f!!2^i^ gg kingdoms and elsewhere. 



^'SEEDLING FUCHSIA "SIDMOUTHIl" will 



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carriage fro* 17 to send out in May next; price 10*. 6d. each, 

 Mr. Bapi. Tllls magnificent variety was raised last year by 



th e fines^l*' Nurser yman, Sidmouth. It may be considered 

 liant is a J bnd extant. The flowers are large and colour bril- 

 A specimen S ng erower and prolific bloomer, with fine foliage. 

 Chronicle l it f i? Wer was sent to the Editor of the Gardeners' 

 * hi ng furrh . to °er, who spoke so high in its praise that any- 

 Visitors to i^ 1S su Perfluous, beyond its character as above. 

 tio n of thu 1 0uth wiU be gratified by viewing Mr. B.»s Collec- 

 TO ent nee Ha°i Ve l y and ^racelul flower; having a mode of treat- 



*.* -I y s own> 



Jo^ secure fine plants early orders are desirable. 



LOTTTQ ir»^ T SEEDS AND DAHLIAS. 

 s««n HOUTTE, Ghent, Nursery and 



Trade thattt^J THE KlNO OF Bkloium, begs to inform the 

 out , cont a ;n- 1S Pr,ce -currknts, Nos. 13, 14, and 15, are sent 

 stained hv i ng ,- the SEED S and the DAHLIAS, and may be 

 London (if h ai i p !i cation to Mr - G «o- R«an, Crescent, Minories, 

 V»0y letter post-paid). 



PATRONISED BY HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE 

 QUEEN. HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF RUTLAND, THE 

 MOST NOBLE THE MARQUIS OF AILSA, THE EARL 

 OF HARRINGTON, THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL, THE 

 LORD BISHOP OF LONDON, LORD VISCOUNT LORTON, 

 LORD SONDES, &c. &c. ; as well as by the HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



YOUfiLL and Co. have much pleasure in announcing 

 they are now supplying fine Canes of the above highly- 

 valuable and much-esteemed RASPBERRY, unequalled for the 

 extraordinary size of its fruit and richness of flavour. 



Those to whom Y. and Co. sent it last season have expressed 

 their high admiration of its superiority over all other varieties, 

 and has been awarded several prizes at various Horticultural 

 exhibitions during the season. As a proof they have not exagge- 

 rated its excellent qualities, fruit was submitted to Dr. Lindlky, 

 (see Gardeners' Chronicle of the 22d July last, page 502), whose 

 opinion of it is as follows : — 



'•Fastolfp Raspberry.— We have received from Messrs. 

 Youkll, of Great Yarmouth, fruit of the Fastolff Raspberry, and 

 we find it merits all that has been stated in favour of its excel- 

 lence. The fruit that we have received is very large, obtusely 

 conical, and of rich flavour, far exceeding in this respect some 

 other new and large varieties. The plants bear abundantly and 

 in long succession." 



They also exhibited it on the 1st of August, 1843, before the 

 London Horticultural Society, 21, Regent-street, to which a 

 prize was awarded. It would therefore be unnecessary for 

 Youkll and Co. to recommend it more fully, or with greater 

 confidence, to the notice of the public, merely observing, that it 

 continues in high perfection throughout the autumnal months, 

 and has maintained its superiority in the most unfavourable 

 soils and situations, and requires no other than the ordinary 

 treatment of the old varieties. 



Fine Canes are ready for delivery, and can be sent with safety 

 to any part of the United Kingdom (on the receipt of a Post- 

 office order), upon the following terms : — 



Packages containing 100 Canes . j£2 5*. Od. 

 Do. do. 50 do. . 15 



Do. do. 25 do. . 14 



Package included. 

 The usual discount to the Trade, when not less than 200 are 



oidered. 



*»* Cautiov.— Y. and Co. beg to call the attention of their 

 Friends and the Public in general to the fact that they have ap- 

 pointed no Agents in London for the sale of the above, and can- 

 not be held responsible for its being genuine, unless purchased 

 direct from their Nurserv. 



YOUELL'S TOBOLSK RHUBARB, Patronised by 

 Her Most Gracious Majesty the Qurkv, and many of the 

 Nobility, 12*. per dozen.— For particulars of which see their 

 Advertisement of the 18th November. 



TWO NEW SEEDLING PICOTEES. — " Lady 

 Alice Pekl," 10s. 6d., and "Mrs. Benton," 10*. 6rf. per 

 pair. —These two splendid Picotees were raised by the Rev\ J. 

 Burroughes, of Lingwood Lodge, Norfolk, and kindly presented 

 by that gentleman to Messrs. Youell and Co., for particulars of 

 which see their Advertisement in this Paper of the 16th of Sept. 



FINEST CARNATIONS and PICOTEES. 



YOUELL and CO. beg to refer the readers of the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle to their Extensive List, with Prices, 

 of the above highly-esteemed Flowers, which appeared on the 

 Advertising pages, "06 and 707, of this Paper, of October the Uth, 

 and will be found to contain every variety worthy of cultivation. 



Prices as follows : — 



1 2 pair of good Show Sorts 



• 12 ditto fine ditto 



25 ditto ditto 



12 ditto extra fine and very superior ditto . . 

 25 ditto ditto ditto 



The selection being left to Youell and Co. 



FUCHSIAS. 



1 dozen of the newest and very best sorts .. 21*. 



1 dozen fine ditto . . .. 12*. 



1 dozen good show varieties . . . . . - 8*. 



Sent by post, free, to any p;».1 f the United Kingdom. 



ARAUCARIA IMriRICATA. 



YOUELL and CO., possessing the most extensive 

 stock in the country of the above Splendid Hardy Orna- 

 mental Tree, beg to offer them on the following advantageous 

 terras :— Fine robust 4-year-old plants, 8 to 9 inches high, 10/. per 

 100, or 30*. per dozen.— Great Yarmouth Nursery, Feb. 8, 1844. 



£ s. 



d. 



1 4 







1 10 







3 







2 10 







5 







TO NURSER MEN, &c.. Sec. 



JOHN BETH AM, CO OM-HOUSE and GENE- 



O RAL FORWARDING i >H\ begs to inform the above, 

 that he continues to receiv c forward consignments of Plants 

 and Seeds with strict atten,*^, .espatch, and moderate charges. 

 Every information given as to tae arrival and departure of ves- 

 sels to or from Hamburgh, Rotterdam, Ostend, Antwerp, Calais, 

 Havre, or Boulogne ; also the United States, Scotland, &C, &c. 



Address, Cox & Hammonds* Quay, Lower Thames-street. 

 London, February, 1844. . ** 



EW DAHLIA, " SYRED'S HERO of MAIDA." 



Colour, bright orange j well capped, and very constant, 

 strong robust habit, adapted for a back -row flower ; and where 

 colour is predominant in class- showing it is superior to any 

 orange yet out. Haviug been raised by an Amateur it was only 

 exhibited for competition at Hammersmith, where it obtained 

 the first Seedling prize, and at Stockwell Seedling Show, where 



it also obtained a prize. 



Daniel Syked, Nurseryman, Blomfield-rcac'., Maida-hul, Pau- 

 dington, having purchased the stock of the above fine Dahlia, be 

 has a few ground-roots lest to Spare, at 3/. each, and strong pot- 

 roots at II. 10s. each. Plants 1st May, 10«. to. each. The usual 

 discount to the Trade. No objection to exchange roots or plants 

 for any approved variety.— London, Feb. 1, 1844. 



[Price 6d. 



GENUINE BEECHWOOD MELON SEED. 



RGLEND1NMNG respectfully begs to inform the 

 • Cultivators of the MELON that he has had presented to 

 him by Sir John S. Sebright, Bart., Seed* of the true variety of 

 his delicious MELON; for besides being one of the very best 

 sorts known, it is of easy cultivation and a good bearer. This 

 opportunity will enable gentlemen to procure it quite genuine, 

 which is rarely the case, as the following note will testify : — 



" Beech wood, Feb 5, 1844. 

 «« sir, — I send you a small parcel of the Beechwood Melon 

 Seed. None that I have seen exhibited under that name, nor 

 any that I have seen grown from Seed that has been bought, are 

 of the true sort, but have obviously been intermixed with other 

 varieties. I have grown no other for many years. 



" Your obedient servant, 

 "To Mr.Glendinning. " J. S. Sebright." 



R. G. has also a few Seeds of the true SION FREE-BEAR1NQ 

 CUCUMBER, a splendid variety which has been nearly lost. 

 Packets of the above sent by post free. 



Beechwood Melon, per packet . . .5*. 

 Sion Free-bearing Cucumber, per packet . 5*. 

 R. G.'8 Kitchen-garden and Flower-Seeds have been selected 

 with great care, and embrace all the new and good kinds. 

 Chiswick Nursery, near London, Feb. 6. 1844. 



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A SUCCESSFUL METHOD OF GROWING LISIANTHUS 



RUSSELLIANUS. 



JCUTHILL has printed the whole account of his 

 • treatment of the above Plant. It is said by Da. Likdlet 

 in the Gardeners' Chronicle, that he (J. Cuthii.l) is the most 

 successful grower of it round London. From its noble and 

 splendid appearance, it must become as generally grown as any 

 other tribe of plants. His larpe Plant this year had 600 blos- 

 soms on it, and gained the Large Silver Medal at the Royal 

 South London Exhibition ; and at the same show, eight mora 

 Plants, with nearly 2,000 blossoms, pained an Extra Prize. The 

 Printed Directions and a Packet of Seed will be sent out at the 

 moderate price of 2*. 6d. ; also plants of the above, from 2s. to 

 3«. each ; they can be sent in little bulk until the end of this 

 mouth, when they will begin to grow. 



Cuthim/sCki-kbratbd Earlv Mklov.— J. C assures those 

 Gardeners who have not grewn it, that it is one of the most 

 Early and Prolific ever known ; his Early Black Spine Cucumber, 

 the true Beechwood Melon, as exhibited before Dr. Linolky at 

 Regent-street — the single packets 2s. 6tf. each, or 8*. for the 



four. 



A Lad about 17 years* old wanted; board and lodging, with 

 2s. per week, will be given ; a small premium required. 



Orders payable on Camberwell Post-office. — Direct, Jas. 

 C uth ill, Florist, Denmark-hill, Camberwell. 



*** Fine Cucumber-plants at any time. 



HPWO ARAUCARIA EXCELSA and one A. CUN- 

 -L NINGHAMI, in pots, 8 ft. high, well furnished and as hand- 

 some as ever were seen, to be sold a bargain, for want of room. 



Also Araucaria imbricata, 6 to 9 in., 5*. to 7*. 6d. ; Pinus ex- 

 celsa, 18s. per doz. ; P. deodara, 3s. 6d. each; P. Lambertiana, 

 10s. 6d. each ; P. Gerardiana, 5*. each ; P. cimbra, 3 to 4 ft.. 

 3s. 6d.-, P. Morinda, 2 ft., 5s.; smaller, Ja. 6d.; Abies canadensis, 

 4 ft., and very handsome, 7s. 6d. ; Cupressus torulosa, 2 ft., 5s.; 

 Juniperus thurifera, 3 ft., 7s. 6d. ; J. recurva, 1£ to 2 ft., 3s. 6d. to 

 5s. ; Juniperus, a new species from Nepal, 21s. 



A large assortment of Epacris and Heaths now ready for the 

 one-shift system, 9s. per doz. 



To be had of Mabnock and Mavley, Nurserymen, Hackney. 



P. S.— Their Walcheren Cauliflower is peculiarly their own (no 

 connection with any other house), and should now be sown for 

 the first crop.— Catalogues of new and choice Flower-seeds, with, 

 the best modes of cultivation, to be had on application. 



Hackney. Feb. 7. 1844. 



HYACINTHS AND GROWING STOCK. 



HUMPHREYS'S COMPOUND, applicable to all 

 Greenhouse Plants, to Hyacinths and other Bulbs, and to 

 promote the germination of Seeds. Sold in bottles is. gd. each, 

 by Flanagan and Son, Mansion-house-street j Earner and 

 Warner, Cornhill; Hurst & McMullen, Leadenhall-st. ; W. 

 Clare, Bishopsgate-within; Smith, Islington Nursery ; Grim let 

 and Co., Covent Warden; Batt and Rutlev, 412, Strand; 

 William and John Noble, Fleet-street; Smith, Covent- garden; 

 Charlwood, Tavistock-row; W. J. Nutting, 46, Cheapside; G. 

 Lawrence, 18, Piccadilly ; John Kernan, Great Russell-street, 

 Covent Garden ; Locbhart, 156, Cheapside ; Shlttle worth, 

 Pantheon; Minier, Adams, and Nash, 63, Strand; Thatcher 

 and Son, Islington ; J. Fryeb, Clarendon-terrace, Cam- 

 berwell; Thomas An sell, ramden Town; Thomas W At- 

 kinson, Market-place, Manchester ; W. B. Rendle, Ply- 

 mouth; Dickson & Co.. Edinburgh; Pontev, Leeds; Fisher, 

 Holmes, arid Co., Sheffield; P. Lawso.-c and Son, Edinburgh ; 

 J.Thorne, Shepton Mallet; and other leading Seedsmen in 

 town and country. Wholesale Agents, Davy, Mackmurdo, 

 and Co., too, tl pper-Thames-st.. London. 



RANGE* and LEMON TREES, from 8s. to 25*. 



DOUBLE ITALIAN TUBEROSE ROOTS, 3s. per dozen.— • 

 R. HALL begs to advise the arrival of his Annual Importation of 

 the above-named Trees and Bulbs, which are this year remark- 

 ably fine, at his Foreign Warehouse, 63, South Audley- street, 

 Grosvenor-square — facin g th e Chapel. 



USHELL'S Light Seedling Dahlia " Emma. "- 



Plants in May, \0s.6d. Colour white, tipped with deep 

 cherry; the petals, form, and centre, good; the largest, most 

 constant, and free in flowering of any Dahlia yet propagated, and 

 has obtained several prizes. «* Pet Rival" Plants in May, 5*. 

 Colour, purple maroon ; fine cupped petal and free bloomer ; ex- 

 hibited in several winning standslast season. Kennington Rose, 

 Plants iu May, 5*.; most constant Rose grown. To be had of 

 Messrs. Anseli, Camden Town; S. Girling, Stowmarketj 

 F. and A. Smith, Hackney; and J. Bushbll, 12, Hall-plaoe, 

 Kennington-lane. 



LARCH~PLANTS. — One and two year trans- 

 planted ; of good size and quality. On Sale by Dickson 

 and Turnbull, Nurserymen, Brechin. N. B. — Will be sold 



chean. and freight pstid to London. — Br»c hin, F«t>. t, 1844. 



I^KUIT-TKEEJS.— Just arriv . soma D*<ch GraFI- 

 ■*- Currant Trees, the fru»t of *«? !**'*• *« d *** 



flavoured, 6.v. 6c?. per dozen. Also a I** •' »' w Goose. 



berry, 12$. per dozen.— H. C. Cobs - aeld-st., Sono. 



