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GARDENERS 



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CHRONICLE 



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AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



A Stam ped Newspa per o* Rural Economy and General News.-The Horticultural Part Edited by Professor Lindley. 



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No. 51.— 1844.] 



Agricultural e xpprimen^s • 857 c 



— Soc. or* England - - 860 c 



American plants, no*es on - 854 a 



Ammonia ftxnd by £TP*um - 060 a 

 Animal nutrition, experiments 



<<n - 860 a 

 Apples for the North of Scot- 

 land - 856 a 

 Bet- s. management of . . 353 t 



Birds. 10 ke<*p off Gooseberries 854 b 



Brewing, remarks «n . 8 r 2 a 



Calceolarias, sftltct - • 856a 



Caledonian Hort. Society - 854 c 



Calendar of Operations - 855 6 



Campbell's corn-steep ■ . S60 b 

 Crop?, to protect from haras 



and rabbits - 853 a 



Diseases of plants ■ - 851 c 



Drilling, thin - 862 b 



Ease Lothian Husbandry • 858 c 



Farm hories, &<\, treatmentof 859 b 



Farm servants in East Lothian 858 c 



Filberts, management of - 856 a 



Flower beds, baskets round - 853 a 

 Frost in Dec, depth to which 



it penetrated the soil - 853 b 



Frost, effect of on fclasf - 854 b 

 Geological Society, Rev. Mr. 



An a ted appointed librarian to 855 b 



Glass, advantage of using sheet 856 5 

 Gooseberries, to preserve from 



birds .... 854 5 



Guano, value of - 862 5 



— liquid, to make - - 852 e 

 Gurneyism, remarks on - 862 b 

 Gypsum as manure - - 858 a 



— to fix ammonia - - 860 a 

 Hybridising, remarks on - 857 a 

 Hydraulic Ram - 855 a 

 Ice house, plan of - 853 c 



— ice in, effect of watering 853 c 

 Insects, attacking the Larch - 852 b 

 Ivy-stem, roots of - 854 5 

 Larch, insects attacking . 852 6 



INDEX. 



Linnean Society - 855 a 



Manure versus good cultivation 860 b 



— gypsum as - - - 858 a 



— we^ds in, to destroy - 85J c 

 Mealy-bug, to destroy - - 852 c 



•— Brown's liquid for killing 8=2 c 

 Misletite, trees on which it 



grows - - - - 856 5 



Mushroom, new method of 



growing - - . - 851 



New South Wales, crops in 855 /' 

 Palms, Tara, Indian system of 



planting - . - - 855 5 

 Pine-apples, Mr. Hamilton's 



mode of growing 

 Plants, diseases of 



— Mr. Linden's 

 Politics, non-interference with 

 Potatoes, effect of picking the 



blossoms off 



— of pinching off the ends 

 of the shoots ... 



— to plant in autumn 

 Rabbits, &c, crops to protect 



from ■ 



Rose-garden ... 



Roses, list of ... 



— mode of training 

 Sea Buckthorn - 

 Seeds, vitality of - 



— steeping of - 

 Society of Arts - 

 Stables, to put a'loft over 

 Steeping seeds - 

 Storm, singular effects of 

 Tar. apreventive of hares and 



rabbits - . - - 653 a 



Threshing-machine, hand - 860 b 



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851 c 



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859 C 



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851 b 



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853 a 

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856 5 

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Vegetable instinct 

 Verbenas, select 

 VineB for succession 

 Vitality of seeds 

 Walnuts, to plant - 



- 854 a 



- 856 c 



- 856 c 



- 854 b 



- 856 c 



(GARDENERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. 



VJ —a GENERAL MEETING of the Subscribers to this 

 Charity will be held at the LONDON COFFEE HOUSE, Lud- 

 gate-hill, on the 22d Jan. next, for the purpose of receiving 

 the Accounts of the Institution for the past year, and Electing 

 Officers for the ensuing: year ; after which an ELECTION will 

 take place from among: the following persons, whose Testi- 

 monials, &c, have been examined and approved of by the 

 Committee, viz. :— 



JOHN BLAYLOCK, aged 72. 3d Application. 



ROBERT CRACKNELL 

 GEORGE MARTIN 

 JOHN ADAMSON 

 WILLIAM EDWARDS 

 THOMAS FARMER 

 BARNEY FARRELLY 

 JOHN FISHER 

 JOHN GARNELL 

 CHARLES GIBBONS 

 CHARLES GRAY 

 JAMES STEDMAN 

 ANN SUTTLE 

 RICHARD STOYLES 



No person will be allowed to vote whose Subscription for 

 1844 is unpaid on the day of Election. 



Edward R. Cutlkr , Secretary, 97, Farringdon-street. 



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JESSOP'S NURSERY, Cheltenham, Established in 

 1815, from its extensive connection offers peculiar advan- 

 tages to Noblemen and Gentlemen requiring: Gardeners, 

 Foresters, or Farm Bailiffs, of established skill and reputation. 

 All communications promptly attended to. 



TO THE CULTIVATORS OF ROSES. 



KB. BIRCHAM, Hedenham Rosery, Bungay, Suf- 

 • folk, begs to offer the following: Select ROSES, which 

 he can with confidence recommend, as possessing: superior 

 quality. A purchaser selecting: 12 different kinds from this 

 list, R. B. B. \rill be happy to supply at 20*. The plants are 



strong: a "d healthy, and varying iu height of stem from l£ feet 

 to 3 feet. 



Aurelie Lamare 

 Briseis 

 Buffoon 

 Crivalis 

 Due Ue Trevisc 

 Egle 



Fleur d'Amour 

 Gil Bias 

 Gurin-sGift 

 Gurin's Desdanes 

 Leo the Tenth 

 Lionel Dumourtier 

 Madame Dubarry 

 ReinnemftSurpasse 

 Triomphe de La- 

 gueuie 



Agnes Sorel 

 Donna Sol 

 Duchess of Kent 



Duchesse d'Orleans 



Emerance 



Illustre Beau f e 



La Ville de L.ndres 



Mrs. Rivers 



Ntcolate 



Petite Beaute 



BemilaMO 



Theodora 



LaViilc de Bruxelles 



Volumineuse 



Ag!ae Dusart 



Agnodier 



Antonine d'Ormoise 



Also strong; plants of Climbing Roses (Evergreens), at 6s. per 

 dozen. These Roses will make shoots upwards of 6 feet long 

 in one season, and are very suitable to cover unsightly fences, 

 walls, stems of trees, &c. 



Descriptive Catalogues forwarded upon prepaid application. 

 Plants gratis, to compensate for distant carriage. 



Hedenham, Dec. 21* 



Las Casai 



Idalize 



Jambart 



Julie 



La Splendeur 



Nelly 



Becquet 



Blairii, No. 2 



Charles Louis 



De Candolle 



Fulgens 



George the Fourth 



clatante/Moss) 

 Princess Royal 

 Prolifere 

 Pom pone 



SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21. 



[Price 6d. 



ROSES, HARDY HERBACEOUS PLANTS, AND 



HOLLYHOCKS. 



YWM. JACKSON and Co. beg to offer Collections of 



▼ " the above from their select Stock on the following very- 

 reasonable terms :— - 



li)0 Dwarf Roses in 50 named sorts, for 20s. 

 lot) do. do. 100 do, fine sorts, as*. 

 100 do. do. 1U0 do., very fine sorts, 50/. 

 20 Beautiful Scotch Ro . with names, 10*. 

 25 Standard Roses, including the fine Moss and Hybrid 



Perpetuals, 40*. 

 60 Do. do. do. do., 75*. 



100 Showy Herbaceous Plants, in 50 named sorts, for 25*. 

 100 Do. Do. 100 do., 35«. and 40*. 



50 Very fine showy do. do., in 50 do., 20*. ; including 



several new and beautiful species and varieties. 

 100 Fine proved Hollyhocks for 35*. 

 The above are well grown; the Dwarf Roses on their own 

 roots, and from the same stock as those which gave such gene- 

 ral satisfaction last season. Plants given to compensate for 

 long carriage. Catalogues will be forwarded on receipt of two 

 postage stamps. 



A remittance or reference respectfully solicited from unknown 

 correspondents.— Cross Lanes Nursery, Bedale, Yorks., Dec. 21. 



UNDER THE 

 PATRONAGE 



OF HER 

 MAJESTY. 



JG. WAITE, Wholesale Seedsman, 1 & 4, 

 • Eyre-street Hill, Hatton Garden, London, returns his 

 best thanks for the very liberal support he has hitherto received, 

 and begs to call the attention of his friends and the public in 

 general to the following reduced scale 01 prices of a small por- 

 tion of his very extensive stock : jt t. d. 

 Waite's Queen of Dwarf Peas . . per quart. 7 6 

 A splendid new variety, growing only 1 foot high, 

 producing a larger pod than any of the same habit; 

 the seed is quite distinct from all others, and larger 

 than any Dwarf Pea in cultivation. It has been 

 grown at the Royal Gardens at Frogmore, and ap- 

 proved of as a new variety, and also at Her Majesty's 

 table, for its superior flavour. 

 Beet, Waite's Blood-red .... per cwt. 



„ White 



Broccoli, Early White 



,, purple sprouting . 

 True Grange's .... 



White Cape 



Cauliflower, Early 



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Cabbage, Hay's superfine Early Dwarf • 

 Early York 





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East Ham 

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 „ Imported Red Dutch 

 Cale, fine green curled 



M large Scotch , 



Celery, Red Giant .... 

 White ditto 



Soap • • . 



Lettuce, White Cos 



Drumhead Cabbage 

 Bath Cos ditto 

 „ Hammersmith Hardy Green 



Salsafy 



S orzonera ,, 



Cucumber, Cathill's Black Spine, warranted true, 



peroz. 

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Victory of Suff)!k 



Weerion's Black Spine 

 Melon Cabul (true) 



,. Beechwood (true) 

 Mignonette .... 



Candytuft, purple 



scarlet 



new white . 

 Convolvulus, Major (fine mixed) 



,, Minor 



Virginian St^ck. red . . . 



Nemophilla insignis „ 



,, discoidalis per g*l. 



Stock, scarlet, 10 week Stock . . . per cwt. 



Lupines, of scats per bnsh. 



GUia tricolor per cwt. 12 12 



Aster, fine mixed German, 16 varieties, mixed ,, . 20 



And all othqr icinds of seeds, too numerous to insert, at 

 equally low pricap. 



The above pjftlttf arc for cash only. Catalogues are now 

 ready, and can ** had on application as abore. 



BEECHWOOD MELON,— " MUMMY WHEAT."""""* 



HSILVERLOCK has to offer packets containing 

 « Six Seeds of this Melon at 25. 6rf., and 36 grains of th« 

 Wheat, at the same price per packet. They will be forwarded 

 by post, free, on receipt of an order for 5s.— Nursery, Chichester. 





 

 

 

 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 



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THE ARBORETUMS, QUEEN'S ELMS. BROMPTON, NEAR 

 LONDON, AND EAST COWES PARK, ISLE OF WIGHT. 



TJAMSAY BROTHERS, Landscape Gardeners, 



-" Contractors for Planting, Earthwork, Road-making, Form- 

 ing Ornamental Waters, and Improvers in general of Landed 

 Property. 



Plans and E^imates submitted, and works contracted for in 

 any part ofthe kingdom. 



Messrs. R. invite Noblemen and Gentlemen to an inspection 

 of their choice stock of Ornamental Plants, which have been 

 selected for the Lawn, the Parterre, and the Shrubbery, and 

 *>ow growing at Queen's-Elms. one mile from Hyde Park 

 Corner. 



FINE STRONG PLANTS OF SUPERB SEED- 

 LING CINERARIAS, all well trussed, and forward for V. er 

 and Spring Flowering, saved from the very best Blues and other 

 fine choice named varieties, at Gs., 9#., and 12$. perdoz. Packets 

 of ANAGALLIS BREWERII & SI'PERB CINERARIA SEED, 

 2s. 6d. each. — Applications, including post-office orders or stamps, 

 will be immediately and carefully executed. Direct to Michael 

 Brewer, Senior, Nurseryman, Cambridge. 



]VTAPOLEONA IMPERIALIS. — A few Plants of 



iA this beautiful Shrub, lately described by Dr. Lindlif, in 

 the -< Botanical Rkgistkr," may be purchased, price Five 

 Guineas each, by application to Messrs. Thos. Gibbs and Co., 

 the Seedsmen to the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 

 comer of Half Moon-street, Piccadilly, London. 



ADDRESS TO THE PLANTERS OF ENGLAND. 



TRUE HIGH LAND PI NE-TREE. 



-*- My Lords, Lapiks, avi> Gevtxbmkv,— The time h 

 COine when all those who have waste lands at their disposal 

 hould plant t a. Or this I am fully persuaded, and 1 beg 

 you Will allow me to explain on what grounds this opinion is 

 founded. England, g. Uy, is a tliickly-woodcd country 



yet, strange though i »ear, it has t been planted with 



anv v;ow to meet its most urgent wants. If the poor farmer 

 require an outhouse built for his cattle, he cannot have it be- 

 cause there is do deal-wood in the neighbour! I ! he builds it 

 therefore of whins, orof any other rubbish hecanlayh Id of In- 

 stead of having plent f fir- wood on all hands to fence yoong; 

 hedges, planted like other things on the common surface of the 

 ground, military-like fortifications have been raised to divide 

 fields, occupying as much good land as is contained in three of 

 the largest counties of Britain : it is on those banks ineffectual 

 attempts have been made to prow hedges. After the 1st of 

 March, when the Royal Agricultural Soi y's Prize on fences 

 shall have been awarded, a great pi rtion of the hedges 

 throughout England will be reconstructed by planting them on 

 the plain surface ; and the question will then arise, "Where is 

 the wood to protect them iu their young state to come from ?* F 

 Turning to the railways which are now being formed in every 

 county in England, another and greater question ariies as to 

 the supply of wood which will be required In their construction. 

 Go up, I am told, to the Lebannns of our island— those immense 

 forests in the north of Scotland— and there hew down as many 

 trees as will be required. From those, however, I find we must 

 expect but a limited supply. Like the famous Mount of old, they 

 are already overrun with the axe, and a continuance ofthe pre- 

 sent rate of demand for a few years more will reduce the trees 

 upon them to a mere remnant. It is not the original numbers 

 required lor sleepers which will effect tMis ch.w.ge, but it is the 

 incessant demand, ad infinitum, for timber to replace that 

 which is already laid down, or may be for the future laid down 

 in additional lines. Look at it how we may, the state of our 

 country at the present crisis prov s that our immense and 

 almost measureless tracts of what is generally cali vaste land 

 were not created to be a scene merely of unproductive solitude. 

 The rains with which they are refreshed, and the fostcriiur sun- 

 shine that n upon them, might have taught us that Provi- 

 dence had designed them to contribute iu some way or other to 

 the wants of man ; and though Nature has b unable to lead 

 us to comprehend her lesson, so simply brought before us, 

 necessity has at length compelled us to look to those districts 

 where only a sufficient quantity of timber can be raised to meet 

 our increasing wants. Now, then, is the time to plant: where - 

 ever there is a waste piece of ground, moor, or mountain, let it 

 be forthwith invested with trees, for every year, for many years 

 tocome, will unquestionably bring with it an additional demand 

 for timber. Thus far on the necessity of planting. Allow me 

 next to bring under notice thesortof tree I would recommend 

 to be planted, which is the chief aim of this Address. That tree 

 is the TRUE HIGHLAND PINE, for introducing which, I had 

 the honour, along with my brother, of receiving the Highland 

 Society's prize. It is admirably fitted, in every reject, to take 

 possession of all the uplands throughout England. It will grow 

 freely on all soils suitable for the common Pine; its wood is 

 very durable *, and for railway sleepers it is unrivalled. Brind- 

 ley, the celebrated engineer, considered its durability equal to 

 that of the Oak ; and Dr. Smith , i a the Transactions of the 



Highland Society of Scotland, that he has seen some of it 

 taken down alter it had been 300 years in the roof of an old 

 castle, as Iresh and full of resin, as newly imported timber 

 from Memel, and that it was actually worked up into new 

 miture, "Such," says Loudon, 4i is the durability of this 

 wood, that while the bog timber of the Birch is often found re- 

 duced to a pulp, and the Oak cracks iuto splinters as it dries, 

 the heart of this Pine remains fresh, embalmed in its own 

 turpentine." 



My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen*,— Allow me to add a 

 word or two on the merits of this tree as a landscape orna- 

 ment. In this respect it rivals, il not excels, the Cedar of 

 Lebanon. It has, at any rate, a much better ramification than 

 the Cedar ; for, as Mr Walter Scott observes, it assumes in a 

 great measure the bold and contorted figure of the Oak. In 

 illustrating the Seats of Norfolk (and the remark is applicable 

 to all England;, it frequently occurred to me that advantage had 

 not been taki prominent situations by im ,g them 



with grand er^rgrcen trees; for so soon as November comes, 

 our parks lose almost all that weight of grandeur for which 

 t*\i o celebrated :r imer-tu ir s< .nity ceases 



i th leaf; but were they ornamented with this 



its br I umbrageous canopy remaining green during 

 winter, the change consequent upon the approach of Winter 

 would be much less observed, and our country residences would 

 at all times be surrounded trttta the dignified accompaniments 

 so consistent with their character. 



The importance of this subject will, I doubt not, be accepted 

 as an apology for my thus venturing to express ray opinions se 

 plainly on matters of English practice. My suggestion as to 

 the improvement of park and pleasure-ground scenery bj intro- 

 ducing the Pine in qu*. is offered with the greatest defer- 

 ence, being fully persuaded that in matters of this description 

 England has been always distinguished for its refined taste. I 

 am ready to dispose of the Highland Pines at the following 

 prices: — 

 Single Plants, strong and well r -d . • . 6rf. each. 

 Strong Plants, 18 to 50 inches high . , . I*, per J00. 

 Strong Piants, 15 to 18 inches • 3»>j.p. io< . 

 Smaller-size l Plants for exposed situation; 10*. toSOr.p. igoo. 



I have the honour to be, My Lords, Ladies, aiid Gi ntiemen, 



Your nv * humble Servant, 

 JAMES GRIGOR, Nurseryman*. Norwich. 



t 1 FRASRR, N 



*- • road, Essex, in 



PERFECTION IN PEAS.— PHASER'S SHANLEY MARROW. 



rand Seedsman, Lea Bridge- 

 offering his friends and the public the 

 above Pea begs to assure them it has no rit al, its quality being 

 as far superior to Knight's and all other Marrows as those sur- 

 pass the commoner Peas. Its height is about 5 feer, a pro- 

 digious bearer, and continues in season much longer than the 

 usual kinds. The stock on hand is very limited. Price 7*- 64* 

 per quart. A remittance expected to accompany orders from 

 unknown correspondents. 





