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THE GARDENERS 1 CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 



[Oct. 12. 



DRAINING OF LAND. 



THE A LEVEL, designed for the Use of Workmen, 

 in preserving n uniform fall in Drains and Watercourses. 

 In consequence of the approval expressed and the demand made 

 for these Levels at the recent Southampton Show, Mr. Haii.ky 

 Denton- has arranged with an eminent Loudon Mathematical 

 Instrument Maker to make them in any number required. 

 Prict i. 



This Level is as accurate as a spirit-level, and so simple, that 

 the workman unable to read can use it with facility. When 

 closed it forms a 5 -feet staff. 



Orders addressed to Mr. Denton, Land Agent, 9, Gray's Inn- 

 square, London ; or to Mr. C'harnock, Wakefield, Yorkshire, 

 will insure a perfect instrument. 



GRICULTURAL DRAINING. — The DERBY 



LEVEL. —The attention of persons Draining their land 

 is directed to this efficient but simple Instrument, presumed to 

 be all that can be required for the purpose, and its price such 

 to place it within the reach of all. To be had of the Maker, 



J. Davis, Optician, Derby. 





SEED WHEAT. — Donnington, near Stow, Glouces- 

 tershire. — From the number of testimonials received of the 

 extraordinary crops produced both this year and last, ROBERT 

 BEMAN is induced to offer to the public his Red Cluster 

 Wheat, which both seasons has produced 60 bushels per acre in 

 several instances; and, having been grown upon old turf, and 

 hand-picked before it was planted, it is beautiful seed, and per- 

 fectly clean. Price In. 6d. per bushel. 



R. B. has likewise a small quantity of the celebrated Whitfield 

 Reil stiaw White Wheat to dispose of. Price 85. per bushel. 



Ord . accompanied by a remittance or good reference, 

 punctual t tended to. Sacks marked is. 6d. each. 



SEED WHEAT. 



JD. PIPER, of Colne Engaine, Essex, (Member 

 • of the Royal Agricultural Society), has been four years 

 raising" two new Stocks of Wheat, viz., Piper's "Thick-set," 

 and " Colne Whitechaff Red." At the last Southampton Meet- 

 ing tw heaves of these Wheats were exhibited outside (notice 

 not having been given in timefortheir admission inside), where 

 they produced much excitement, and 6d. per ear was offered for 

 them. Last year, in the same field, side by side, the Piper's 

 Thick- set grew eight bushels and a half, and the Colne White- 

 chaff Red five bushels and a half more per acre than the most 

 prolific Wheat crrown in the neighbourhood. Last ahtumn 

 J. D. P. measured a quarter of an acre off his field, and dibbled 

 theThick-sct in row* a foot apart, and one bushel per acre; 

 and though the plant was partially destroyed by the slug in the 

 winter, and a good sprinkling of self-sown Potatoes were left 

 to grow, still the yield was U bushels and a half, being equal 

 to 14 sacks and 2 bushels per acre. One person this year grew 

 15 sacks and 2 bushels, another u sacks, and another 13 sacks 

 per acre. One? part>el weighed 6*31bs. per bushel. This is, 

 perhaps, the stiffest-strawed Wheat in England, and is adapted 

 for strong or hollow bottom ground, and is not likely to get 

 laid. J. I\ P. will send to London, or to any place within ten 

 miles of Colne, carriage free, and he will be glad to receive a 

 post-offic rder, or reference to some house in London for the 

 money, with the order for the Wheat. When it is all sold, 

 J. D. P. promises to inform the Public, by an advertisement in 

 this Paper; hut if he should get any post-office orders after it is 

 all sold, he will return them. The price is regulated according 

 to the yield. Thick-set, 155. per bushel; Colne Whitcchaff 

 Red, Qs. p?r bushel. Sample* of the above, both threshed and 

 in the straw, may be seen at our Office. N.B. — J. D. P. adver- 

 tised in the two principal papers in Essex, where the above 

 Wheat was growing, in order that Agriculturists might see it 



and j'ul^e for then of the quality und quantity. 



WHEAT SOWING. 



FREDERICK BRAIN begs to call the attention of 

 the Agricultural world to his GUANO MANURE, prepared 

 expressly for Wheat crops : it abounds in all the ingredients that 

 are necessary for a good grain crop. He particularly solicits 

 persons who found the Foreign Guano a failure last season to 

 give his a trial, it being much more powerful, and free from 

 adulteration, so justly complained of in the Foreign by Agricul- 

 turists, as well as by all the leading Agricultural Journals. 



Testimonial to Brain's Guano Manure. — u 5 A, Hawley Road, 

 Kentish Town, London. Aug. 15, 1844.— This is to certify that 

 we have subjected Brain's Guano to a most patient and rigo- 

 rous analysis, and find it contains all the necessary constituents 

 of a good manure, and is well calculated to give fertility to a 

 soil which is either naturally barren, or has been exhausted by 

 over-cropping, by supplying the land with thoie substances 

 which are absolutely requisite to a healthy vegetation : (it is 

 not adulterated, and can always be depended on, being of uni- 

 form composition.)— (Signed) Johx MiTCHKLLandFaimKaicK 



Field, Analytical Chemists, late of the Royal Polytechnic In- 

 stitution, London.'* 



Also, Brain's highly- concentrated LIQUID GUANO, for 

 Grass Lands, Gardens, Shrubberies, Hothouses, and Conserva- 

 tories pi ice ls.gr/. per quart bottle, with full directions for use, 

 (enough for f:0 gallons of Liquid Manure), to be had of mo-t 

 respectable Florists, Seedsmen, and Chemists in town and 



country. 



Works, Thomas-sh, Duke-st., Stamford-st M Blackfriars-road. 



JR. and A. RANSOME, Ipswich, have published 

 • a Descriptive Catalogue, with Cuts, of their AGRICUL- 

 TURAL IMPLEMENTS and MACHINES, which maybe hadby 

 post, the order being accompanied by six penny stamps. 



Price Sixpence, free by post. 



®fte Xtailtoag chronicle 



Of Saturday last, October 5, contains 

 THE SOUTH-EASTERN DIRECTU »\ _ CHESTER and 

 HOLYHEAD LINE— SHREWSBURY, BIRMINGHAM, 

 and GRAND JUNCTION DIFFERENCE-FRENCH LINES 



—POLICY of NEW RAILWAYS— The ATMOSPHERIC 



SYSTEM. 



REPORTS OF MEETINGS— Manchester, Bolton, and Bury— 

 Durham and Sunderland, with the Report and Accounts- 

 Great Southern and Western, with the Report— The Clarence 

 Accounts. 



PROJECTED LINES— Central Cornwall -West Cornwall— Diss 

 and Attleborough— Halifax, Leeds, Bradford, and H udders- 

 field— nondham and East Denham — Blackburn, Darwen 

 and Bolton— Direct Portsmouth, Atmospheric— West York- 

 shire— Great Western, Irish-Cork and Bandon-Dundalk, 

 Enn:skillen and Derry— Goole and Doncaster— Railways in 

 Portugal. 



RAILWAY LITERATURE-Cost of Transport on Railroads 

 by C.Ellis, C.E. ' 



VALUE OF SHARES— Returns from London, Liverpool, Man- 

 chester, York, Hull, and Paris, with comments on the re- 

 spective Markets, and latest Prices. 



CALLS, CONTRACTS, DIVIDENDS, SCRIP, TENDERS 

 TRAFFIC TABLES, TRANSFERS, &c. &c. ' 



Order Tbe Railway Chronicle of any Newsvender. 



GARDENERS' CHRONICLE, WANTED, to 

 be forwarded the day after publication.— Direct, stating 

 terms, to Mr. F. Lobb, Torpoint, Cornwall. 



Just published, price Is , or post free. Is. 4c/., 



A COMPLETE READY RECKONER, for Measur- 

 ing: and Valuing Hay Rick-?, with very plain Instructions 

 for taking the Dimensions, and for judging the Density of the 

 Hay, by Edward Kyde, Land Surveyor, Sunbury, Middlesex. 

 Published by Gilbert, London ; and will be forwarded by 

 the Author, post-free, to any part of the kingdom, on the 

 receipt of is. 4d., or an equivalent number of postage stamps, 

 in a prepaid letter. 



GARDENING.— The Fruit, Flower, & Kitchen 

 GARDEN, by Patrick Neill, LL.D., F.R.S. E., Secretary 

 to the Caledonian Horticultural Society. In post 8vo, illustrated 

 with upwards of 60 Woodcuts. Price 6s. 



" One of the best modern books on Gardening extant."— Lou- 

 don's Gardener's Mag. 



*' Practical gardeners and amateurs owe him a debt of grati- 

 tude for his excellent work on Horticulture, which is now one 

 of the standard works on the branch of science of which it 

 treats." — Prof. Dunbar's Speech in the Caledonian Hort. Soc. 

 Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh. Long,mav& Co., London. 



In 4to, with large Chart, and Steel-plate Coloured Maps of 

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GILBERT'S SUMMARY of the OCCUPATIONS 

 of the PEOPLE of ENGLAND, WALES, and SCOTLAND, 

 from the Abstract of the Population Commissioners, by Com- 

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 " The extraordinary interest and value of the information now 



for the first time brought to light in this Work, must necessarily 

 command extensive and permanent attention. Great weight 

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 have been digested and classified."— Times, September 10. 

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Just completed, in 3 vols., imperial 8vo., price 3L 3s., rich 



ornamental cloth, The 



ILLUSTRATED SIIAKSPERE (formerly published 



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Bard, embellished with nearly 1000 Beautiful Engravings on 



Wood, from Designs by Kenny Meadows. The Text carefully 



revised from the best authorities, and Introductory Remarks on 



the Plays by many distinguished Writers : also a Memoir and 



Essay on the Genius of Shakspere, by Barbv Cornwall. 



*»* Back Parts to complete Sets may be obtained of all 



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W.m. S. Orr & Co.. Amen Corner, Paternoster Row. 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 

 Price 3s. 6d. to Fellows of the Society, and 5s. to others. 



A CATALOGUE OF THE FRUITS Cultivated in 

 the Garden of the Horticultural Societvof London. 

 Third Edition. Sold by Longman & Co., Paternoster-row ; J. 

 Hatchard, Piccadilly; Ridgway, Piccadilly; Rivingtons, 

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A few copies of tbe Second Edition of this Catalogue may be 

 had at the reduced price of is. 6d. each. 



Just published, price One Shilling, 



SUGGESTIONS TOWARDS AN INQUIRY into 

 the PRESENT CONDITION of the LABOURING POPU> 

 LATION of SUFFOLK. By the Rev. J. S. Henslow, M.A , 

 Rector of Hitcham, and Professor of Botany in the University 

 of Cambridge. 



'• Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is 

 destroyed for want of judgment." — Paov. xiii. 23. 



Also, by the same Author, 



LETTERS to the FARMERS of SUFFOLK. 



Price 2s. And SERMONS on IMPROVED ATTENTION to the 

 SACRAMENTS. Price ]s. 



J. W. Parker, West Strand, London. 



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VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY and BOTANY, in- 



v eluding the Structure and Organs of Plants, their Cha- 

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In one vol , postSro, price 10s. 6d. t cloth lettered, 

 ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY : including a comprehen- 

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ZOOLOGY AND INSTINCT IN ANIMALS: a 



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of the Principal Families of the Animal Kingdom, and the Chief 



Forms of Fossil Remains. By W. B. Carpenter, M.D., F.R.S. 



In one vol., post 8vo, price 93. 6d. cloth lettered, 



MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY, HOROLOGY, 



and ASTRONOMY: being an Exposition of the pro- 

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 Description of the Heavenly Bodies. By W. B, Carpenter 

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Just published, the Fourteenth Edition, price 2s. (id. ; free by 



post, 3s. 6rf., 



HPHE SILENT FRIEND on NERVOUS DEBI- 



r\ L1TY ' CONSTITUTIONAL WEAKNESS, &c. By R. and 

 L. Perry and Co., Surgeons, London. Published bv the Authors, 

 and sold at their residence ; also by Strange, 21, Paternoster- row; 

 Noble, 109, Chancery-lane; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street ; 

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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 

 Tate work should be read by all who value health and wish to 

 enjoy life, for the truisms therein contained defy all doubt."— 

 Farmers' Journal. 



The Cordial Balm of Syriacum is a stimulant and renovator in 

 all Spasmodic eomplamts. Nervous Debilitv, Indigestion, Asth- 

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 the result of an impure state of the blood. These Pills are per- 

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MR. HOARE'S NEW WORK ON THE VINE. 

 Just published, l2mo, 55. cloth, 



A DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF A NEW 

 METHOD OF PLANTING AND MANAGING THE 

 ROOTS OF GRAPE-VINES. By Clement Hoare, Author of 

 "A Treatise on the Cultivation of the Grape-Vine on Open 

 Walla." 



" Mr. Hoare maintains that the system of English Grape- 

 growing requires to be changed. His arguments deserve very 

 serious attention, and cannot fail to lead to most important 

 changes in the cultivation of the Vine."— Gardeners 1 Chronicle. 

 London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 



rpiIE HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE -.j^ 



-*- published, price I*., the INTRODUCTORY N'Umrpd * 

 this new Magazine, containing Original Papers on everv Rrin °i 

 of Practical Gardening, Horticulture, and I Flork ulfire \m 

 by all booksellers. Communications for the Editor *«iL 1 * 

 to the Publish er, Thoma._Houl 8 to». 15,, Strand? London"* 



NEW WORK BY PROFESSOR LOW 

 Just ready for Publication, 8vo, with very numerous Illustr* 



tions on Wood, 



QN LANDED PROPERTY, and the Economy of 



^ Estates ; comprehending the relation of Landlord and 

 Tenant, and the Principles and Forms of Leases- Farm BuiM 

 ings, Enclosures, Drains, Embankments, Road's, and other 

 Rural Works; Minerals j and Woods. By David Low Esn 

 F.R.S. E., Professor of Agriculture in the University of' Eriin 

 burgh, &c. &<^ 7 U1U " 



By the same Author, 4th Edition, 8vo. 21 s 



ELEMENTS OF PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE 

 THE BREEDS OF THE DOMESTICATED \\l 



Plates 5 , 16? Pef EAT BR1TAIN ' 2 vols " 4to " with ™ floured 

 London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Lo.vgmavs. 



13 AY SOCIETY, instituted 2d February, 1844.*- 



-»- V This Society has been formed upon the princiDle of the 

 Parker, Camden, Sydenham, and other Societies, for the purpose 

 of securing to those attached to the study of Natural History 

 such Works on the various branches of Zoology and Botany as 

 could not be obtained by other means; and will consist of 

 original works; of new editions of works of established merit • 

 of rare tracts and MSS. ; and of translations and reprints of 

 foreign works. Every subscriber of One Guinea annually will 

 be considered a member of the Society, and will be entitled to a 

 copy of every work published by the Society. The Council have 

 great pleasure in stating that the number of Members already 

 exceeds 300, and beg to call the attention of their friends to the 

 necessity of sending in their names as early as possible, in order 

 that they may be enabled to determine the number of copies of 

 their works which they ought to print. The Council hope to 

 publish two volumes before Christmas, the first of which will 

 consist of translations from the German and Italian, of Reports 

 on the progress of Zoology and Botany during the last few years. 

 Communications on the business of the Society are requested 

 to be addressed to the Secretaries, Dr. George Johnston, Ber- 

 wick-upon-Tweed, and Dr. Lankester, Golden-square, London. 

 Subscriptions to be sent, by post-office order or check, to the 

 Treasurer, J. S.Bowerbank, Esq., 45, Park-street, Islington. 



George Johnstone, M.D.t „ . . 

 Edwin Lankester, M.D.i Secretaries. 



T 



DOMESTIC COMFORTS.— READ'S STOMACH 

 and ENEMA PUMPS have long had the reputation of 

 being the best Instruments of the kind ever offered to the 

 public (vide the Life of Sir A. Cooper). This distinguished 

 patronage has induced some unprincipled adventurers to palm 

 upon the pub'ic imitations of Read's Patent Instruments, which 

 has baeu made known to the Patentee by the number of 

 spurious instruments which are daily sent to him from all 

 parts of the Kingdom, and frequently from India, for repair, 

 some not worth the expense of carriage. As a protection in 

 future, J. Read has directions from the Hon. East India Com- 

 pany to place their mark on all his instruments sent to their 

 Presidencies. ■ The above are manufactured only by the Pa- 

 tentee, 35, Regent-circus, Piccadilly. Likewise improved 

 Enema Fountains, with tubes that require no fixing or 

 screwing, or the incumbrance of a stop-cock, &c, but which 

 are as durable as the Instrument itself, and are not affected 

 by the hottest climate. May be seen and proved at 35, Regent- 

 circus, Piccadilly. 

 N.B.— Observe the Words " Read's Patent," without which 



none are genuine. 



.NNER'S VITREOUS CLOTH, a SUBSTI- 



-A- TUTE for GLASS for HORTICULTURAL PURPOSES.- 

 The above recommends itself to the notice of Florists and Hor- 

 ticulturists, as producing effects superior to Glass, at a less ex- 

 pense. The support the Proprietor has received from very 

 many highly respectable Florists encourages him to consider 

 that his labours have not been misapplied in bringing before 

 the public an article so generally required. Price of cloth, 

 7-Sths of a yard wide, thin, 2s. 6d. per yard. ; stout, 3.?. 1 yard 

 wide, 3s. 6d. Price of Fluid (for renewing the cloth alter 

 lengthened service), 4s. 6d. and 2s. 6d. per bottle. Manufac- 

 tured only by N. W. Tanner, Chemist, Exeter; and Sola 

 bv Messrs. Butler and Muckley. Covent-garden, London; Mr. 

 Cunningham, Paradise-street, Liverpool; Messrs. Lucombe and 

 Pince, Exeter Nursery. ^ 



H WALKER'S NEEDLES (by Authority the 

 • » Queen's Own") have large eyes, easily threaded, 

 (even by blind persons), and improved point-, temper, and 

 finish. Each paper is labelled with a likeness of Her Majesty 

 or His Royal Highness Prince Albert, in relief, on coloured 

 Grounds. Every quality of Needles, Fish-hooks, Hooks-and ; 

 fves Steel Pens, &c, for shipping. These Needles or Pens for 

 the home trade are sent free, by post by any respectable^ dealer, 

 on receipt of thirteen penny stamps for every shilling £»«• 



H Walker, manufacturer to the Queen, No. I (late 20), 

 Maiden-lane, Wood-street, London. . 



t*UR13IDGE ax.) HEALY'S COOKING APPA- 



13 RATUS, combining Sylvester's *^*^™" j^ 

 Apparatus is believed to possess greater general advantages ^thaa 

 any yet submitted to the Public, both as regards , strength c matt 

 rial and workmanship; in fact, the laws of heat are so appl eel as 

 to produce the greatest effect with the least « ;onsu mp t 01 f fuel, 

 without destruction to the Apparatus ; and B. & H. can ^awiy re 

 commend it, from experience, as unquestionablj superior to 

 anythfng of the kind hitherto made. A Prospectus can be for 

 warded upon application, detailing particulars and prices, to 130, 

 Fleet-street. ^ T ^ t> r ; — ~~\ 



oTlVER TEA-SERVICES.— A. B. SAVORS and 



S 1 SONS Manufacturing Silversmiths, U,Cornlu11,^ S 

 opposite the Bank of England, ^^^^^^T^. 



Cottage Pattern. 

 Strong Silver Tea-pot ^"12 os. 

 Ditto Sugar-basin 6 16 

 Ditto Milk Ewer 4 10 

 Ditto Coffee pot 15 



Complete . . . ^38 6 



King's Pattern. 



Strong Silver Tea-pot £tt 



Ditto Sugar-ba in , 



Ditto Cream Ewer 5 



Ditto Coffee-pot 15 



OS. 



10 



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A varic^y'ruTwarks^O-tea and ^SSSl^Sjm 



in the s" o w-rooms, where may be selected every article j o ^ 

 requisite for the sideboard or plate-chest. Pamphlets of prices 

 SSSS&d with sketches of the various articles, grat.s, and for 



warded, postage free, to ^ny -part of the .J^X'rTk of England, 

 an d Sois, 14, Cornhill, London, opposit e the Bank ot fc-ngm _ 



i^ i: i by WUX1AM B«A»OT*T, of No. \™*™*>*^1£hS& 



and Fkkderick Mcilett Evans of No. 7, ^""^TO^p ™ Lombard- 

 ton, both in the county of MMMmu. Pnnte *•>£*< £ ' ?% lo^.n ; and 

 «tri»?t in th* prec nut of Whitetnars, in the <■•"? ■ rarish 0* 



Sishedby th.matthe Office, No 5. Charles-streel , m the ^1.^ 



IrpSS'.. Oo*.nt-Garden, in the ,aid eounty, wher« ^^urd.f, 

 and Communication* are to be addresied to the t.anos 



October 12, 1044. 



