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January 3, 1857.| 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
3 
inlet 
Som 9 CARRIES EROS —All Seeds procured 
whe Co., Seed Merchants, are deli- 
ERS CARRIAGE PA 
All a for "Seeds above EI (cxoptng heavy articles, 
as Grav Secd P &c.) will l be 
aoe FREE. or CARRIAGE to “mes aplialibey Station 
between Plymouth and Paddington. 
orders above £2, with t ex REE 
to any Station on the BROAD GAUGE RAILWAYS, 
or to any own in Devon and Corn to 
ea: 
and to any Steam 
farter ap apis to WILLIAM E. RENDLE & Ço., 
RANCE, 
INCE EDWARD 5 | 
Sy a and they have supplied 
age quartered in Plymouth), to 
take to th 
AGRICULTURAL 
| apop a age mrn T- AM 
lborn, London ve. 
three rep e 
n received from a Nurseryman 
rtant a showing that by careful and | 
thousands of miles, and through 
The following Ch has just bee 
im 
arrived in exce 
so MANY THOUSANDS 
PACKED. I have to to tender my best shanks to you for your s ar 
80, for generally s 
dam sig passage.” 
Our aa of aara them succeeds 
letters from our Foreign C ents te e tale. All 
Foreign orem ii be at to with prompiness aaa care. 
Wikram E. RENDLE & CO., Foreign an rt Seed Mer- 
chants, faa” 
T YNCH’S STAR OF THE phi CUCUMBER. 
—This has proved itself during the las ecg seasons to 
Cucum for 
being on has hesr sella 
ee and all the | __>~ 
AND GETABLE SécOS. 
RTER ties Co; acta 238 
a .C., beg to announce the pr ublica 
he twenty-second series of their ENC YELOPEDIC 
CATALOGUE oF 'FLORICUN ULIU “er a ND 
8 wh 
FLOW 
AMES CA 
Holborn, en 
ext 
— tee round. 
th 
= h VEG nki 
is 
de er of eat two tho sitar i % 
| See List of Vege Seeds, £c., orwarded | | amount ; 
fre d post paid to ALL PARTS OF THE W one | distension, cracks, peels mbles away, 
ance. & a der such circumstances the seeds of loa’ Lichens 
vi ed themselves to the 
eive 
iget charge an 
Ho! 
HEN ea SEE 
AMES CARTER A D CO, Plassa A 238, High 
Holborn, London, W 
VEGETABLE SEEDS of frst rote quality from 1l. to 
. Vv 
upwards. For Specified List of VEGRTABLE SEEDS 
a Go. beg to refer to their ENCY YCLOPADIC CATAL buve establish themselves, and to form th i 
eerie VEG 1 nd nal i aad .AG AG se free that load some ancient orc ees; this 
J the twenty-secon rrom pem we her ree : : 
of charge and post paid to ALL PAR oon | a of a sufficient expanding force i owing 
application. ka the tree aude ceased to grow with ago" 
|3 AMES CARTER & CO., Seedsmen, 238, High Holborn, London, W.C. | y r; grow is to form phi , to 
HEELER’S LITTLE BOOK,” or Select Seed eva ae- is to form wood abundantly, y tase sit 
or 1857, is now in thepress, and will be ready yr tony is to lose surface rapidly ; 
A copy will be forwarded on receipt of js, therefore, to render the presence of rh anes im- 
ossib ble. But we may reverse the description; to 
rm wood 
in a few day. 
mps. 
. WBEELER & Son, Seed Growers, Gloucester, 
in ghar stock in 
very low 
of i 
e latte is without 
or the former th Young 
es mtg a 7 to 75 y 
m the soil in rnp 
wet, or in some o 
sata “hy 4 
seldo 
À] QUTTON’ 5 SEED CATALOGUE. —The addition ah fro 
new and original wee to the present Edi m 
delay, but it will be published ina pin 
days. It will il be sent post aie receipt of one penny | * 
they grow poor, or 
her way ete. s their con- 
a remedy, but this 
Also 
UTTON’S AMATEUR’S GUIDE IN HORTI non yes reuse 
sent | CULTURE AND cea free by P red for the fault of the 
noine rs 0 bili 
DIRECT 
be had gofa the Booksellers or pig the Proprietors in 
ven postage stamps. 
en prepared this season, | ; 
which will poder gee free for 18 praha stamps. Appli- n ait 
cation to be 
digging and deeper draining. 
Wim E. Remak A Seed d Merchants, Plymouth, Seiad ta ce oo ote es vained 4 feet, er 
Riro PRICE CORRENT AND GARDEN |in any soil fit for fruit trees rapidly recover its healt 
Y.—At the solicitation of several very and keep it. 8 circumstances wood wil 
have been induced | form fast, bark will peel ol, or smek or crumb] 
and away, and with ` ens 
will also go. At the same time the 
ood fruit will follow. 
wires Bs this 
ned j ant y any Bookseller, or from 
maA Road, Plymouth, in isnod 
one 
kaitini a ; sae other w 
- long, 74, inches in peer age ge 
the flower at the end. The flesh 
~exceéllent, and the surface so even that 
4 lace in pops 
Mr. Joseph Hamilto oni Cucumber r grower, an 
sauthor of the“ Hamiltonian n System of Pine Growing,” ina = 
Sas October 1s! stan or m 
YNCH’S STAR or TH e WEST 18 A GREAT araar ~ 
WIDL US YO RECOMMEND 
Per edia —s. oe 
SEE pint 
TWELVE. SEEDS 
TWELVE LARGE PACKAGES POR naib FOR 20 0 
as WILLIAM Rexptz & Co., Seed M 
“Plymout 
AYRES’S PERPETUAL BL a CUCUMBER. 
E. RENDLE anp CO. have the pleasure to an- 
have secured the stock of the 
and 
: ‘The rhe Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
How 
$ APPLE race Shall I scrape it off ? Can I kill it 
rehants, | often 
trees will be restored, and g 
ly because draining relieves the 
But it is not mere 
soil of water when i injurious é and brings it when the 
for 18 penny ree by pos 
Apply to ge he _ REND 
Seed Merchants, Plym: 
O, Foreign and Export 
of orchard trees; it also acts acts by ca the air 
a rests upon the henpees itself goi d - n 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1857. constitution of a Lichen 
MY 
$ 
m I to prevent moss from growing ON osphere ; 
getting no aaah: or can little, sie, Even the bark 
with und sort of T's ? Willit come again? Does | itself they of necessity feed upon whatever the air 
Ris ; ly than on the 
it do mi 
iaiia 
seems desirable to Diani san. “ll under one gor ply, 
at this time of the year when whatever has difference in the amount of water floating in 
done should be done quickly. i undrained and thoroughly 
W » nounce 
above unri i . “ae is a most proli, i. N9 ee, of the manner in which what is | drained land. 
being fit for table when 9 inches long, but ng to the|called “ can be dealt with is worth having being the true history of “ Moss” on fruit 
s F15 to 18 inches, if only two or three fruit are | unless n why it comes is ee ig TRH g trees it is obvious that scraping, and washing, and 
left upon the plant at the same time. It isa rich dark | We will ataa at once say that Moss or Lichen painting, can have no permanent value, if any. hen 
with black spine, and fine bloom, is | grows on of trees for three reasons :— me upon removing it it i that 
ore s el to the pony Ma the ers 1, The bark is dead ; 2, the bark n mains ithout |the Moss is ine injurious, We believe 
e; 3, ar it is loaded with moisture. it rm te It is merely a 
gal a good fi ae in nie weeks from the day of sowing |° Tt is an invariable law of vegetation the | sym pte tom of af decrepitude removeable or ra A 
E PO a challenge he | Surface ee dies a time ; this as case may be, a to 
oaniieanian Chronicle by Mr by Mr. “Wild, to i oy paa seen even in young branc skin of which has palk pepan that their trees Laa better treatment. 
da This Mr. Ayres declined, consider- | become brown, f nness is among plants an| It may indeed, like rifts in bark, harbour apne | 
ing uction of a brace of fruit on a given day no absolute indication of death, and s in such a way be injurious; but that is a s 
ert the worth of a variety ; he for- | Sea’ s excepted s the branch grows older, | matter, and easily ied seraper. It will, 
warded seed of the Perpetual to Dr. Lindley. Mr. Wild | superficial death becomes more evident, the bar! however, be fonnd that as soon as the improved 
: p same of the Tj aaee et en cru x eN . skilful 
divided, and put i f M McEwen, | 
Gardener to the Duke of Norfolk, and Mr. J. B. Whiting 
A, pa- RAPP , for proof, and the following was 
preferre 
eiar pier v ks have 
rom the pen of Mr. Errington; ge 
prani letter, observes: — me exellent, 
d quite deserving of ai that jas been wiid of of them.” 
FOUR SEEDS- for .... 2s. 6d EEDS for .. 
Apply to “= E. Rexpie & Co., Seed aca Plymouth. 
4 age vied a fe that the ground, so 
g soil begins to act no 
| physiol ogically s u or m praning thinning is demanded. 
pon which ik raja wil grow, the seeds of which 
n attach themselves to it and subsist upon the 
Tue daily and weekly papers with 
e filled 
ees T writes thus :—“ I have tried one plant of Janene of the atmosphere. Lichens fulfil such | accounts of a most jina ASR journey in in pa acm 
each in a pot, in a Pine-pit wader ecactly similar con- | conditions; their invisible seeds floating in _ ne “a Ri which occupied the fear eller 
ditions, and Ayres’s is both a better grower and a better fall on trees and hold to them by the mere of | sixteen weary years. The hero of this exiraordinary 
Bedier” than Wild’ * ee general usefulness, I attraetion; sprout seri a theroaalies = with | ani Dr. Lrvinestone, is des as ‘ a 
su axitatingly give the preference pg Ae ’s Perpetual.” — | the bark, "and at last grow up into visible plants. | man of great bulk, but we boldness. erei 
` rs’ Chronicle, May „h 1856, p. 302. Hence all trees maybe Dakai by Lichens, Minea, | and paa maaa a on te ules. During his long 
Mr. Whig a after confirm apy cedin ing, remarks : | and similar plants and weary peregrinations, mepa has travelled over 
oni supply nef 0 "gentleman's family.) But all trees are not attacked, or M ant we 11,000 miles of Southern Africa, the greater part of 
which “i allt as Othe true a ffs » I | perceive no sign of their being so. This m | which j journey was never Lefore t on by the foot 
reaps x ar eia heats Perpetual is much to oe rapid decay, or the frequent + i a re of Eur His first expedition extended from 
urface of certain trees, the newts arb of which is | the ations meme ate point of the African continent 
h in t nth degree 
o say, on which the Mosses iS, of south latitude on 
stand is perpet nally eippng er under such incum rn coast, over twenty-four degrees of latitude 
brances and carr them away. The c iniciei land nine of longitude, mostly on his own feet, wi 
xpansion of the din brings this about This s year | the occasional help of those of an ox, the dainty 
a branch is an inch in diameter or 3 inches round, | vebicle of South Africa. His second, last, and 
