THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



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■y. Whenl 



for his Turnips, 



in 1839, at Leigh-court. 

 Miles, Esq., had, fror 



favourable results. Ai 

 lings he tried it on Pine plants, and the e; 

 d were wonderf ul. In IW2 

 t Bowood, used this same hone-dust for Pelar- 



: were " spotted " were put in 



tnttt, and in 10 days they had 



put on so many young leaves as to completely hide the 



"spotted" tm (based ch 



the factory in Bristol in 1839, but its value beic 



ejcpense.— M. Saul, Exotic Nursery, Chelsea. [Bon 

 ash is much the same thing.] 



Th- Stra>rr,rr*;;—" ■/ „ < ;' ■■ L'-.-itf'v Volume" o 



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n is to be regretted, for sfthongi 



hat many of the much vaunted new kinds ar 



■ 

 hing properties of all those new Kinds, 



and useful standard for reference would 



the properties of a particulai 



eligibility or otiier- 

 ey appear, the ques- 



1 ofthe runners may 



naming the sol 



ZTn'^V^ 





b months of May, June, and July, i 



[ not possibly, under e 



:koospit or froth-fly (Tettig; » 



ROYAL CALEDONIAN HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



Sept. 2 At this, the Fruit and Dahlia competition, 



: :.sive, especially of Peaches, 

 Apricots, Grapes, and Plums. For the 

 prize offered for the best Peaches, three 



was voted to Mr. Crocket, gr. to Colonel Ferguson, for 

 Noblesse, Bellegirde, and Royal George. A 2d pre- 



: ■ -. ■ • : .. :■".', .,. ■■ V: ■ i... '• 



yal George, and Red Magdalene. In Nee- 



Edmund Antrobus, 1 



vv. n. nope vere, JEsq. ; his kinds hpin-n ^^' 

 .robus Standard of Perfection, R&S^B 



Young, gr. to Mrs. H. N. Ferguson, 'of AwhJrfJu 

 and a third to Mr. Addison, Gosford, both 22] 

 excellent collections.-The Silver Medal offered fo^S 



Mrs. Anderson, and S 



Erfurterie. The 



a second premium to Mr. Sander 



The Medal offered for the best 



for a well-shaped dark maroon-cobm-ed Dahlia. ranT^j 

 Roderick Dhu.— The prize of one guinea, offered by 

 Messrs. Dickson and Co. (through the Soeien . to [•---'. 

 tical Gardeners for the best 12 Hoi 

 by Mr. Foulis, gr. to J. Tytler, Esq. ; a second pre. 



specimen of the fruit of the Trichosanthes Colutom, 

 8 feet 6 inches in length, from the garden of the Earl of 

 Stamford and Warrington, a Silver Medal wasawarW. 



tensive display of Dahlias, consist 



merit, was voled to Ur. < el f !! h, 1 i 



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for Seedling Hollyhocks ; 

 'ansies; an 

 was awarded to" Mr! A do- -in". 



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- - golds and China Asters ; to Mr. Clark, lor ttacnes m 

 J '—a Gourd, 20 men* 

 ighing 2U M 



Hamburgh, and Frontign; 



to Mr. Grieve, gr. to W. B. Callender, Esq., Prestoi 



Annandale, Esq., for Lombardv and 



For the best .-. of Alexandria 



to the Earl of Haddington, and the 2d by Mr. Browne, 

 iray, Esq., of Polmaise. Fourteen compe- 



i 



Clerk, Bart., M.P. The 1st prize for 

 Grapes was gained by Mr. Lees, the kinds being 

 Black and White Frontignan ; and the 2d by Mr. 

 J. Reid, gr. to Professor Syme, for Black and Grizzly 

 " the best Queen Pine Apple a premium 



st premium was voted to Mr. Addison, Gosford ; 



to Mr. Robertson, gr. to Lord Gray ; and a 3d 



. Ramsay, gr. to Sir. D. Baird, Bart. For the 



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premium was awarded to Mr. Clark, for Breda and 



Orange.— In Greengage Plums there were 10 coni- 



ors. A 1st prize was voted to Mr. Ch 



Marquis of Lothian ; and a 2d to Mr. Browne, 



aaise. For the best three sorts of Plums, exelu- 



of Greengage, a 1st prize was voted to Mr. Browne, 



\ 

 a 2d premium to Mr. Goodall, for Victor; i, Wzsh- 





■'-.!al, as Is 

 Sir J. Hope, Bart. ,*M. P., for Iri.h 

 .remium to Mr. Laing, gr. to a. 

 for Beechwood; and a 3d to M 



W. R. Ramsay, Esq., for a greei 



of Bedford.— ! m an award 



was made to Mr. J. Murray, gr. to A. Fletcher, 



Esq. ; and for the best Apples an award to Mr. 



iith. gr. to W. L. Paterson, Esq. ; the kinds 



ng Thorle Pippin, Autumn Strawberry, and Julian. 



Dahlias : The piece of plate offered for the 20 finest 



oms produced by nurserymen, was found due to Mr. 



Handasyde, of 1 s were, Bees- 



voted to Mr. Dow 

 Millar, for Seedlii 





Country 1 



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Villus, a ,r. 



The Rose Garden. By W. Bj^ Sherwood tfdlA 



The lover of Ros«°will, SJhis P^^^JU 



We mav pass by the historical part, and « ^ 

 information. The P"^ 1 /^ arranged acc^ 

 inTto P the n p^riods at which th ey bl ooVh one^ ^ 



