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RURAL CHEMISTR 



~ By Edward Solly, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., 



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THE COTTAGER'S CALENDAR OF GARDEN 



-*- OPERATIONS. 



By Sir Joseph Paxton. 



Reprinted from the Gardeners' Chkunicle; above 91,000 

 have already been sold. 



CONTENTS. 

 iGilias 



(iooseherries 



Grafting 



Green -fly 



11 ase 



Herbs 



Herbaceous Peren- 

 ni | 



Heliotrope 



Hollyhocks 

 Hon ickle 

 Horse-radish 



I lyacinths 



I I ydrangeas 



Hyssop 



Indian Cresa 

 Ins 



Kidney Beans 



Lavender 



Layering 



Leeks 



Lep to siphons 



Lettuce 



Lobelias , 



London Pride 



Lychnis, double 



Marigold 



Marjoram 



Manures 



M arvel of Pern 



Mesembryanthe- 



mums 

 Mignonette 



.Mint 



Mustard 



Narcissus 



Nemophilas - 



Oenothera bifrons 

 Onions 



PfiPOniCS Ti<"-i^ia "PaTTrtTir* 



Parsnip 



Parsley 



Peaches 



Pt a-haulm 



Pears 



Peas 



Pelargoniums 



Perennials 



Persian Iris 



Petunias 



Phlox 



Pigs 



Pinks 



Planting 



Post-office orders to be made payable to James Matthews 

 5, Upper Wellington Street, Covent Garden, London. 



African Lilies 

 A nth us 



A nemones 

 Annuals 

 A pples 

 Apricot 



Auriculas 

 Beans 

 Beet 



Biennials 

 Black Fly 



Books for Cottagers 



Borage 



Borecole 



Box Edgings 

 Broccoli 



Brussels Sprouts 

 Budding 

 Bulbs 

 Cabbage 

 Cactus 

 Calceolarias 

 Califomian Annuals 

 Campanulas 

 Carnations 

 Carrots 

 Cauliflowers 

 Celery- 

 Cherries 



China Asters « j 

 China Roses 

 Chrysanthemums, 



Chinese 

 Chives 

 Clarkias 

 Clematis 

 Collinsias 



Colewort 

 Cress 



Creepers 



Crocus 



Crown Imperials 

 Cucumbers 

 Cultivation of flowers! 



in windows 

 Dahlias 



Daisies 



Dog's-tooth Violets 

 Exhibitions, prepar- 

 ing articles for 

 Ferns, as protection 

 Fruit 

 Fuchsias 

 Gentianella i 



Plums 



Polyanthus 

 Potatoes 

 Pi ing 



Privet 



Propagation Try cut 

 tings 



Pyr \ntha 

 1." 



K:\nuncuhra 

 RaspberrftM 

 Rhubarb 



K kets 



1 J oses 



Rue 



Rustic Vases 



Saire 



Salvias 



Savoys 



Saxifrage 

 Scarlet Runner 



B ns 

 Seeds 



Sea Daisy or Thrift 

 Seakale 



elect Flowers 



Select Vegetables 

 and Fruit 

 nails and Slugs 



Snowdrops 

 Spinach 



Spruce Fir 

 Spur Pruning 

 Stocks 



S trawberri 



Summer Savory 

 Sw t William 

 Thorn H< 

 Thyme 



Tigridia Pavonia 

 Transplanting 

 Tree Lifting 

 Tulips 

 Turnips 



Vegetable Cookery 

 Venns's Looking- 



Glass 

 Verbenas 

 Vines 

 Virginian Stocks 



Wallflowers 

 Willows 



Zinnias 



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«E TREE ROSE.— Practical Instructions for its 



j»jy»tHm and Culture. Illustrated by 24 Woodcuts. 

 1 ■* trom the Gardeners 7 Chronicle, with additions. 



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5J?7 Panning 

 2L pnnci P le of 



***** knife 



_ time of 



E*' ^ *»nie of 



S;* 11 ^ of the 

 BJJJt care of bud 



CT^S «P«n body 



\^n of, 

 ~ Preparation of, 



and 



budding 



^J*» dormant 



snail .s 



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CONTENTS. 



Pruning for trans- 

 plantation 



Planting out. and ar- 

 rangement of tie* 



Pushing eye, spring 

 treatment of dwarf 

 shoots from 



Roses, difT* nt sort* 

 on the same stock 



Roses, short list of 

 pesirable sorts for 



with a 

 pnshing eye 



Sap-bud, treatment of 



Rape of trees 



Shoots and bnds, 

 choice of 



'ts for budding 



npon. and their 



arrangement 



s, keeping even, 



and removing 

 horns 



™™ shortening wild 



ots 

 Stocks, planting out 

 for budding upon 

 means of pn 

 curing; colour, agi 

 nf ht; sorts t >r 

 din" ut species « 



*••€ : taking up, 



a 



■fc^, 



to 



g 



trimming roots, 

 sending a distance 

 shortening heads, 

 &c. ; saw proper for 

 the purpose. 

 GRAFTING. 



Aphidesjtokeep down 



Free-growers, re- 

 marks on 



Graft, binding up 

 and finishing [of 



Grafting, advantage 



G raft! ng, disad van- 

 tage of 



operations in differ- 

 ent months 



Preliminary observa- 

 tions 



Roses, catalogue and 

 brief description 

 of a few rts 



Scion, preparation 

 and insertion of 



Scion, choice and 

 arr gem en t of 

 tock. preparation of. 

 APPENDI 



A selection of varie- 

 ties 



Comparison between 



budding and 



gra ng. 



TO GARDENERS AND OTHERS. 



TO BE LET, within an easy distance of Covent 

 Garden, a FLORIST BUSINESS, with four Large Green- 

 houses, a Propagating-house, with Pits, Frames, <Src. t with about 

 half an acre of land, walled in, and a good stock of vlants tor 



market ; rent moderate. — For particulars apply to T. B., Oflice 

 of this Paper. 



r T^O BE LET, in a new neighbourhood and close to 



-1- the town of Rugby, a SMALL NURSERY and MARKET 

 GARDEN. The Ground is well cropped, there is a span-roofed 

 House, Stock of Plants, Pits, Frames, &c. Capital Plots of 

 Strawberries, Fruit Trees in full bearing, Shrubs, &c.— Apply to 

 R. Vincent, Hill»9treet. Rugby. 



HIGHLANDS OF PERTHSHIRE. 



TO BE LET, CASTLE MENZIES and SHOOT- 

 INGS; the House, as furnished, affording ample accommo- 

 dation for a numerous family and establishment, along with 

 10,000 acres of Murr and Low Ground Shootin . The tock of 

 Game, which has been stricrly protected and well pn rved, will 

 be found good, healthy, and of all the usual descriptions; and 

 Salmon Fishing is to be had along the banks of the Tay and 

 Lyon, which bound the property for six miles. The post passes 

 the gate, and from Aberfeldy (two miles distant) coaches proceed 

 in ail directions. Supplies are easily procured. The climate is 

 exceedingly good ; and the place would be equally suitable as a 

 permanent residence or as a shooting quarter.— Apply to ARCHI- 

 BALD Campbell, Camsemey Cottage, by Aberfeldy. 



FARM WITH RESIDENCE. 



V\ 'ANTED TO RENT, upon an improving lease f 



* * an ARABLE FARM of not leas than 500 acraa, w i 

 house and garden ited to a gentleman's residence. The situa- 

 tion must be sily accessible firon London, and near a first-class 

 railway station south of the Thames Will be preferred. The 

 o lpation will be verv beneficial to the property ; most satisfac- 

 tory refer. both as to means and agricultural skill will 

 be readily n Horded. —Addres with full par !ar to Messrs. 

 Davis A- Vigep.s, 3, Frederick's Place. Old Jewry. London. 



'TO BE SOLD, by private treaty, a NURSERY 



-*- and PLANT BUSINESS, established nearly 70 years. The 

 Proprietor of this old-established Nursery Business is willing to 

 retire, and dispose of the Stock and Good-will. The nurse rv com- 

 prises about 20 acres of ground, and about 15 lar^e and com- 

 modious Stove, Greenhouse, and Props ting Houses, with 

 numerous Pits, frames, &c. The buainest is in full working order r 

 and is capable of It ing increased to almost y extent id of being made 

 one of the best provincial nurseries in the king .«. The stock is in 

 a flourishing condition, being young, healthy, and in good sale- 

 able order, and comprises a general assortment of all the most 



aleable Forest Trees, Shrubs, Fruit Trees, Stove, Greenhouse, 

 and Miscellaneous Plants. The Nurseries are situated close and 

 adjoining one of the largest towns in the West of England, with 

 a population of more than 100,000 inhabitan I G . The whole of the 

 land, houses, &. .. belongs to the proprietor, who will have no ob- 

 jection to grant a long lease to his successor or successors, and at 

 least one-half of the purchase money could remain on st it 



common interest The business has been carried « with ^reat 

 ss by the present proprh r, which partly contributes to his 

 retiring from the business. None but principals and bond fide 

 pnrcnac rs will be treated with.— Apply to Mr. William E. 

 Rendle, Union Road, PI south. 



TO SPORTSMEN, STOCK-F* RMERS, ETC. 



TO BE SOLD, n range of nearly 6000 acres of 

 easily-travelled GROUSING GROUND, not surpass in 

 the Lowlands of Scotland for its sporting qualifications, and 

 w:t ral small Trouting Streams, having alsoaoom- 



fortabi* Small Lod; I situated i lie midst of several strictly 

 preserved e in one of the most southerly counties, and of 



isy at s from England r el here, from being within five 



miles of a seaport, as ell as forming a v< improving and 

 easily-mar ir.\ tment as a SS1 ck Fan for a moderate 



capital. The propriel r is rem for a i: "tin* same. 



—Apply, free, to No. 6 . N.B.A.O., E.iinl i. 



o~BE SOLD, three strong built GREENttOl SKS. 



One 18 ft. by 10 ff. ; 14 ft. by 10 ft. ; 10 ft. by 8 ft.; glazed 

 with strong 16-oz. txlass.— A Idr s, pre-paid, to W. Smith. 85,. 

 White Lion Street, IVntonville. 



rrO BE SOLD, BUFF COCHIN CHICKENS, from 



A first (lass Prize Birds, Brahma Poo tra Chick ens,from imported 

 American Prize Birds, and Spanish thickens. Also some very 

 good one-year-old Birds of the above descriptions. Wire, Game, 

 and Poultry Netting, Poultry Hurdles, Hen-houses, Chicken 

 Coops, Flower Stands, and Trainers, Garden Arches, and every 

 kind of Wire Work, useful and ornamental.— T. H. Fox's, City 

 of London Wire Works, 44, Skinner Street, and 6<fe8, Snow Ilill. 



Illustrated Catalogues forwarded post free. 



T° BE SOLD immediately, FANCY and USEFUL 



i POULTRY, all kinds, from 12s. to 30*. each. Black, Nor- 

 f :, and W bite Tuikh pit sid BrahtMk I -ilver, 



Cinnamon, Bi White, and Grouse Cochins \yi mry Docks 

 of the purest stock. Also : endid White Poland Fowls;. 

 some of these birds now Lay, and their eggs will be sold fro* 6d. 

 to 5s. each: also the noted large Grey Cambridge Turkey Sggs. 

 A ^ the owner wishes to part with all the poultry, addr and 

 make Post-office Ordess payable to Mr. Samuei Newma*. 7, 

 Giles ot, Norwich. ^^ 



TO BE SOLD, EGGS and FOWLS of profitable 

 and ornamer 1 P fry of the best breeds, from Cochin to 

 Bantams, «t reduced pric* in consequence of a new fowl-house 

 being constructed.— For pa lars apply to 1 i . Mr. 1 les, 

 Wo. took. 



ORK ING BLUE MOTTLED FOWLS' EGGS, 



12s. per dozen. Took first Prize at Brighton Exhibition^ 

 of throe connt'es, 1-54,— Address Mr. Ed. Hs* ', Beehive Inn^. 

 Dorking, Surrey. __^ 



TO GENTLEMEN, FLORISTS, AND OTHERS. 



MESSRS. PROTHEKOE and MORRIS will sell 

 by Auction, at the Mart, Bartholomew Lane, on THURS- 

 DAY, April 19, at 12 o'clock, a tirst-class collection of CAR- 

 NATIONS, PICOT1 , and PINKS, from a celebrated grower; 

 a choice assortment of American Plants. Standard and Dwarf 

 Roses, Dahlias in dry roots, Camellias, Fuchsias, Verbenas, Azalea 

 indica, &c. — On view the morning of sale ; Catalogues had at the 

 Mart; and of the Auctioneers, American Nursery, Leytonstone, 

 Essex, 



ORCHIDS FROM INDIA, 



^| R. J. C. STEVENS will Sell by Auction, at his 

 A Great Room, 38, King Street, Covent Garden, on 

 TUESDAY, 24th April, at 12 o'clock, an importation of 11 cases 

 of ORCHIDS just received per Overland Route; they have 

 arrived in the best possible state, and contain the finest parcel of 

 iccolabinm retusum that has ever reached this country; also 

 large mas-es of Dendrobium Devonianum, formosum, Cam- 

 bridgeanum, clavatum, transparens, Falconerianum, and a new 



yellow species— Coelogyne Wallichi. a new Cymbidium, Vanda 

 Jenkinsoniana, &c. &c. — May be viewed on the morning of sale,, 

 and Catalogues had of Mr. J. C. Steveks, 38, King Street, 

 Covent Garden. 



St. 



MESSRS. SURRIDGE and SONS hare been 

 favoured with instructions from J. J. Mr:< in, Esq., to sub- 

 mit to unreserved Sale by Auction, on TUESDAY, 24th of April 

 inst., at the Ship Inn. near Tiptree Hall, a large number of 

 useful FARM IMPLEMENTS, m :ly rendered unnecessary D7 

 tiie new system of Irrigation, Ac, and many others purchased 

 experimentally, or presented to him, consisting of Land-ditching 

 Tools, Steel Digging Forks, Iron Pig Troughs, Tanks, Lord 

 Dueie's Drag. Coleman's and other Stetch Scarifiers, Garrett's 

 Manure and Seed Drills, Bean and Linseed Crushers, Chaff 

 Cotters; Smith's, Rausome T s, Scotch, and other strong Iron 

 Subsofl and Surface Ploughs; Norwegian Harrow, Hussey's 

 Reaping Machine, &c. &c., full particulars of which will be given 

 in Catalogues, to be had at the Auctioneers' Offices, Inworth Hail,. 

 Coggeshall and Halsted, or posted free, on application. 



NJL The Sale will commence at 1 o'clock. Gentlemen leaving 

 London by the 11 o'clock train will, on their arrival at Kel- 

 vedon, be able to procure immediate conveyance to the place 

 of sale. 



**% * per Welling 1 Street, Cove-: Garden. 



IMPORTANT SALE OF HURDLES, GATES, CONSERVA- 

 TORIES, HAND-CLASSES, IRON BUILDINGS, ETC. 



HOUSE AND SHOOTINC.-ISLAND OF MULL. 



'O BE LET, CARSAIG HOUSE, beautifully 



situat* d on the South Coast of Mull. It contains three 

 public rooms, seven bed-rooms, three dressing-closets, and a 

 bath, ample accommodation for servants, and is well supplied 



with water. The tenant may have accommodation for two or, ___^ ,,« CAT ^ nX7 4 TT^nurxT **^* t^ 



three horses, and may have a pasture for two c*.ws, or be supplied TO BE bULJLJ hi A LCI ION, on MONDAY, toe 



with dairy produce. There is a good Vegetable a. The | *- 30th of April, on the premises of Boydell and Glasier, 



Shooting extends over about 50CO acres, which have? n v y 



little shot over for many years. Other 4000 or 5000 acres a 1- 



cent may be obtained. The G le consists of grou b k 



game, partridge, hare, and rabbits, and occasionally red d r. 



The I 1 Fishing is excellent, an here are two small Trouting 



Streams on the Estate. There is a commodious Quay an 



Landing-place, and ; am-boats pass the house la the summer 



three times a-week. 



Camden Works, II aw ley Crescent, near the Canal Bridge. 



n Town, London, about 20(0 Patent Twisted IRON 

 HUI S, 14 COSSERVATOUI1 ~, 200 Patent HAND- 



50 n;<>N HOt <. suitable for labourers T 



•s, out-buildings, &c. Arrant cents will be made to 

 erect the Conservatories and Houses within a given dis- 

 tance of London.— May be seen, acd Catalogues bad <ki the 



pr« 



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one week jnii ■; 



