Oct. 6, 1855.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



659 



W IL £ 



NEW SEEDS.-CROWTH OF 1855. 



AM E. RENDLE and Co., Seed Merchants, 



Plymouth, are now harvesting in fine condition their 

 Oeneral Collection of Agricultural and Garden Seeds for the 



C ° m jn order to give increased facilities for conducting 

 their Seed Business, tliey are now considerably enlarg- 

 ino their offices and warehouses, which, when completed, 

 Zffl. enable them to attend to all orders with promptness 

 and despatch. 



"YViiuam E. Rendle & Co., Seed Merchants, Plymouth. 



Established 1786. 



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R. GREENUS, from his proximity to the Wat- 

 ford Station (London and North-Western Railway), begs 

 +o sav that he can execute all orders with the utmost despatch. 

 His Stock (being fine this season) of FRUIT TRKES, Trained 

 «nd Untrained : STANDARD and DWARF ROSES of the best J 

 «nrK- well grown FLOWERING SHRUBS, EVERGREENS. 

 FOREST TREES, AMERICAN PLANTS, and NURSERY 1 



STOCK in general, all which, from frequent transplanting, 

 can be removed with perfect safety and success. Carriage paid 

 to London on all orders above 21. Garden and Agricultural Seeds 

 supplied.— Railway Nurseries, Watford and Rickmansworth. 



TO BE SOLD, a bargain, a fine lot of Specimen and 

 other CAMELLIAS, beautifully set with bloom buds; 

 several collections of choice show and fancy GERANIUMS of 

 the most approved varieties; sets of all the NEW FUCHSIAS, 

 with white corollas, &c; about 700 VARIEGATED GERA- 

 NIUMS, comprising Mountain of Light, Flower of the Day, and 

 o shorn' s Brilliant; and a quantity of large STOCK PLANTS 

 of sorts, claiming the attention of all who are about to furnish or 

 propagate. Also a large BO ILER nearly new, capable of heating 

 a spacious House, and a small ditto suitable for a range of Pits, 

 &c.— -The above may be seen, and the prices had by applying 

 to Joh n Slipper, Villa Nursery, C amden Town* 



""CHOICE HOLLYHOCK, SWEET WILLIAM, AND 



ANTIRRHINUM SEED.-In Sealed Packets. 



JOHN CHATER and SON have well-ripened Holly- 



J hock Seed, saved from the best sorts in cultivation, in packets 

 -of 200 seeds, Is. 6d. ; 400, 25. 6d. Improved Sweet William Seed, 

 saved with great care from varieties with smooth-edged petals, 

 600 seeds, Is.; 1000, Is. 6d. Antirrhinum, 6d. per packet. Also 

 plants of Double Crimson Rockets, 4s. 6d. per dozen; 32s. per 

 100. Double Major White, 2s. 6d, per dozen ; 18s. per 100. A 

 large collection of Hollyhock plants, including the best sorts out. 

 Catalogues on application at the Nurseries, Haverhill. 



N.B.— The Seeds can be supplied by Mr. Denver, Gracechnrch 

 Street, or Mr. Hooper, Centre Avenue, Covent Garden. London. 



NLW PtLAKGOl\*!UIVIi>. 



GEORGE SMITH has a fine Stock of the following 

 first class PELARGONIUMS in strong Plants, at from 

 30s. to 40s. per dozen, according to the sizes of Plants, hamper 

 included with Plants to compensate for carriage :— (Forster's), 

 Jessica, Phaeton, Seraskier; (Hoyle's), Hubert, Lord Raglan, 

 Omar Pasha, Serena, Topsy, Wonderful, Yerda, Zoe; (Beck's), 

 Conqueror, Dido, Fidelia, Laura, Lydia, Silenus; (Turner's), 

 Grand Sultan, Pandora; (Forquett's) Petruchio; (Story's), Fair 

 Ellen, Snowflake; (Horken) Una; (Cant's) Vespa; (Dobson's), 

 Commander-in-Chief; (Fuller's) Gem of the West. With a 

 choice assortment of show and fancy kinds. A descriptive Cata- 

 logue on application. Unknown correspondents forwarding a 



remittance with their orders will be liberally dealt with. Post- 

 office orders payable at Islington. 



Tollington Nursery, Hornsey Road, Islington, London. 



THE IMPROVED BROWICK RED AND OTHER 



SEED WHEAT. 



WILLIAM BARNES, in returning thanks to his 



* * customers for SEED CORN, begs to offer this season the 

 following sorts, which have been procured from the finest and best 

 varieties, regardless of expense in the purchase and cost in the 

 cultivation— viz., Improved Browick Red, Spalding's Red, Old 

 Red or Lammas Wheat, White Chaff Red, and Bristol mixed 

 with White, all of which he will warrant true and clean. 



Mr. B. can recommend the Improved Browick Red with much 

 confidence as being one of the greatest acquisitions In Red 

 Wheat, for light or black land, yet offered to the farmer. In this 

 locality (Deeping Fen) it was less injured by frosts and mildew 

 than other Reds, and was pronounced by all who inspected it 

 whilst standing over several acres to be unrivalled by any in the 

 district. — For further particulars, address William Barnes, the 

 Elms Far m, near Spalding, Lincolnshire. 



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AMERICAN PLANTS. l 



WATERER and GODFREY beg to announce their 

 Priced and Descriptive Catalogue of American Plants for 

 this season is now published, and will be sent free on application. 

 As the collection of American Plants at this Nursery is altogether 

 unequalled in extent or quality, purchasers will find it to their 

 interest to pay a visit to the Nurserv. which may be readily done 

 by the South Western Railway to Woking Station. 

 Knap Hill Nur sery, Woking, Surrey. 



FRUIT TREES IN POTS. 



HLANE and SON have the pleasure of announcing 

 • that their very extensive collection of FRUITS IN POTS 

 are now ready for sending out, well set with bloom-buds, con- 

 sisting of Peaches, Nectarines, Apricots, Cherries, Plums, Pears, 

 Apples, &c, and are quite worthy the attention of those who 

 take a delight in this particular branch of horticulture. 

 The Nurseries, Gr ea t Be rk hamstead, Herts. 



PELARGONIUMS NOW READY FOR SENDING OUT. 



DOBSON and SON beg to offer the iollowin 



varieties, which have proved themselves to be first-rate ; 

 the plants are very fine, and cannot fail to please any purchaser. 

 The following 12 for 635., hamper, package, and carnage to 

 London, free :— Ambassador, Conqueror (Beck's), Carlos, Empress, 

 Gem of the West, Governor General, Laura, Leah, Phaeton, 

 Topsy, Vulcan, Wonderful.— Woodlands Nursery, Isleworth. 



V r EREA~ CRENATA - (%i7~Kai.a.\choe varians), 

 — the Lkaf op Life— Nat. Ord. Crassulace^e. — A small 

 importation has lately been made of the leaves of this interesting 

 botanical curiosity, which matures plants in the serrations of its 

 leaves. — Leaves on sale at 2s. 6rf. each, post free, at George 

 Roberts, 32, Moorgate Street, London, where a drawing of the 

 plant in flower may be seen. Further described in reply to letters. 



JOHN HOLLAND, Bradshaw Gardens, Middleton, 



*-* near Manchester, will be happy to forward his Autumn Cata- 

 logue, containing priced and descriptive lists of the following 

 choice and popular flowers, for one postage stamp : 





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Auriculas 

 Alpines 

 Carnations 

 Picotees 



Phloxes 



Belgian Daisies 

 Show Gooseberries 

 Currants, &c. &c. 







Pinks 

 Pansies 

 Polyanthuses 

 I Primroses 



A few packets of v ery choi ce PansyJSeed, at Is. & 2s. per pekt. 



RARE BRITISH FERNS. 



TAMES BACKHOUSE and SON can now offer 



J nice Plants of the rare PSEUD-ATUYRIUM FLEXILE, 

 from the Clova Mountains, Forfarshire, discovered by themselves 



in 1852, at ... ..• 21s. Od. each 



PSEUD-ATHYRIUM (Polypodium) ALPESTRE 6 

 WOODSIA ILVENSIS,* 5s. each, extra strong 

 LASTRjEA RIGIDA 

 CYSTOPTERIS DICKIEANA 

 POLYSTICHUM LONCHITIS 

 CYSTOPTERIS MONTANA 



Ditto ditto a few extra strong 



* Though a British species, the roots offered are Norwegian. 



York Nurseries, Oct. 6. 



TO GRAPE CROWERS. 



EAGLE and HENDERSON have much pleasure in 

 calling the attention of Grape Growers to the following 

 collection of Strong VINES in pots, from eyes, viz. :— 



SUTTON'S IMPROVED ITALIAN RYE GRASS. 



SUTTON and SON 6, Seed Growers, Reading, are 

 now harvesting their crop of Seed of this superior variety of 

 Italian Rye Grass, and are also importing a supply of fresh 

 Lombard y" Seed. As the demand appears likely to be great. 

 Messrs. Si t tton respectfully recommend their friends who intend 

 to sow these articles next season, to favour them with their orders 

 early, in case the stock should prove short 



N.B. Sutton & Sons do not appoint Agent$ for the 

 safe of their Seeds ; but they deliver them, carriage free by 

 Rail to most parts of the United Kingdom. 



PEO RGE JACK mXn begs to state his PRICED 



VT CATALOGUE of choice COMFERA, HARDY EVER- 

 GREENS and ORNAMENTAL TREKS, which are well grown, 

 and constantly removed; also P <«s f Standard, Dwarf, ana 

 dwarf- trained Fruit Trees, and Forest Trees, can be had on 

 application by enclosing one Postage Stamp. 



G.J. respectfully invites persons planting to pay a visit to his 

 extensive nursery, one and a half mile from Woking Station, 

 South Western Railway, where all trains stop, and conveyances 

 can be had.- ki ng S ursery, Woking -nr rey. 



RHODODENDRONS. 



JOHN WATERER begs to announce that he is now 

 prepared to execute orders for Ins two New Hardy Hybrid 

 Rhododendrons, in good established plants, at 42#. each. 



Rhododendron JOHN WATERER, colour glowing carmine, 

 la truss, tine foliage, and a most abundant bloomer, in 



perfection about tli«* 15th June. 



Ditto, MRS. JOHN WATB«BR, a bright rosy crimson, fine 

 conical trusB, a very free blooming kind, in flower about 

 15th of June. 



To the admirers of this justly noble class of Plants, J»»ot 

 Watf.ker has the pleasure of recommending the above as being 

 the greatest acquisitions yet offered, Tln-y combine in a marked 

 degree the necc try requisites for really first-rate hardy crimson 

 varieties, viz., imposing colours, abundant bloomers, extreme 

 hardiness, and flower at a time when they are not liable to be 



injured by spring frosts. 



The American Nui ry, Bagshot, Surrey, Oct. 6. 



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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1855. 



Barbarossa, Black 

 Black Prince 

 Burgundy, Miller's 

 Bourat Blanche 

 Constantia, Blazk 

 Cambridge Botanic 



Garden 

 Damascus, Black 

 Esperione 

 Frontignan, Black 

 Blue 

 Grizzly 

 „ White 

 Golden Drop 



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Gibraltar 

 Hamburgh, Black 

 Champion 



Millhili 

 „ Victoria 

 Josli tig's St. Albans 



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M usque Chasselas 



Nice White 



Prolific [end 



Sweet Water, Grov- 

 Royal 

 „ White 



Syrian 



Sonthfield, Black 



Seedling, Whitehall 

 „ Lady Donne's 

 „ Abprcairney 



Tokay, Chariesworth 



Tripoli 



Turner's Black 





WATERER'S AMERICAN PLANTS A new 

 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE is now published of the 

 celebrated Collection of hardy Scarlet and other Rhododendrons, 

 ■as exhibited by John Waterer at the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Regent's Park ; it will be found to contain a few practical obser- 

 vations on their successful management, and will be forwarded 

 on application by enclosing two stamps for postage. Apart from 

 its enumeration of the most popular American Plants in cultiva- 

 tion, a List of choice Conifers will be seen, embracing the latest 

 importations of this fine and hardy tribe of Plants. 



J. W. has now the pleasure to offer in large quantities, and of 

 <ul heights, the following selection of CONIFERS, with the 

 remark that they are all now growing in the open ground, are 

 bushy and handsome as can be desired, and have been trans- 

 planted each succeeding spring, whereby no risk can be encoun- 

 tered in their removal from the nursery : — Araucaria imbricata, 

 Cryptomeria japonica; Pinus Douglas! , Cembra, excelsa, Lam- 

 bertiana, insignia, Jefferyana, Beardsleyi, tuberculata, &c.; 

 Cedrus Deodar a, Lebanon, and Africana; Wellingtonia gigantea, 

 Cupressus, Junip^rus, Taaus, Thuja, &c. 



*3f The attention of gentlemen, public companies, and others 

 engaged in planting, is especially directed to the foregoing; 

 indeed, all intending planters would be well repaid by a visit to 

 inspect our stock, as much may be seen which of necessity 

 cannot be given within the limits of an advertisement. 



The Nursery is easily reached by railway, being near the 

 Farnborough Station, South- Western Railway, and Blackwater 

 on the South-Eastern Railway. 

 , Ti n- American Nursery, Bagshot, Surrey. 



nUCUMBEK SEEDS FOR WINTER SOWING. 



^ —The three best and most certain varieties ever sent out, 

 and such as are sure to give satisfaction for winter growing. 

 "General Canrobert, fine black spine, length 15 inches, 2s. 6d. per 

 packet Lo n Keuyon's Favourite, length 12 inches, very hand- 

 some, free setter, and most prolific bearer, 25. 6rf. per packet, 

 cordon* a White Spine, length 20 inches; this has proved to be 

 the best long winter variety now in cultivation, Is. 6d. per packet. 



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DIGITALIS, OR FOX-CLOVE SEED. 



This beautiful hardy biennial has been so much improved 

 Jrthin the last two or three years by continual hybridising, that 

 the brilliancy of the colours, the numerous varieties into which 

 it has sported, and the dwarfness of the plants, will cause it when 

 °nce known to be planted in the largest and smallest of flower 

 gardens, round the borders of shrubberies, and for making beds 

 jn large pleasure grounds where brilliancy and effect is required, 

 iney will grow well on rock-work or sloping banks, where 

 numerous other varieties of plants will not thrive at all. The 

 seed should be sown now in pans or boxes, and planted out early 



J t ,j prin S'i Dv 80 doing they will bloom well next season. 

 °° ld "» packets at 1*. &*., or double packets at 2s. 6rf. Every 

 ruermust be accompanied by Penny Postage Stamps, or Post 

 Office Order p able to 



EDWARD TILEY, Nurseryman, Seedsman, & Florist, 



14, Abbey Churchyard Bath, Somerset. 



Lorn hardy, Black 



La Cceur 



M uscat of Alexandria, 

 Black 



„ „ White 

 „ Canon Hall 

 Muscadine, Royal 

 White 



From 3*. 6d. to 5$. each. — Usual discount to the trade. 

 Shrub Bank Nurseries, Lei th Walk, Edinburgh , Octo ber 6. 



CRAPE VINES FROM EYES IN POTS. 



LUCOMBE, PINCE, and CO. beg respectfully to 

 call attention to their remarkably fine stock of Grape Vines, 

 raised from eyes in pots, in a bearing state. 



L., P., & Co. having two years ago erected a Vinery 90 feet 

 long for the especial purpose of proving every good Vine in cul- 

 tivation, are enabled to say that the Plants sent out by them are 

 true to name. 



LUCOMBE, PINCE, and CO., 



EXETER NURSERY, 



EXETER. 



Established 1720. 



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"Gynerium Aroenteum." 



LUCOMBE, PINCE, and Co. having now for sale 

 the finest stock of flowering plants in this country of the 

 above, are enabled to offer their well established plants to bloom 

 this autumn at the following prices :— 



Fine specimens with two flower stems ... 21s. Od. each. 



Ditto with one ditto 10s. 6<f. „ 



Smaller plants to bloom next year 7s. 6d. „ 



L., P., & Co. have also healthy seedlings at 30s. per dozen, 

 which will be ready in October, which, however, they deem it 

 right to say will most probably not bloom for two years. To such 

 parties as wish at once to see the plant in its beauty, L., P., & Co. 

 would strongly recommend the larger sizes, as they are much 



better and cheaper. 

 Few plants are more ornamental than this Gigantic Grass, 



the leaves (which are more than 7 feet in length, curving grace- 

 fully outwards) grow in large tussocks, thereby producing a very- 

 fine effect, and from the midst of these numerous flower stems 

 arise to the height of from 6 to 8 feet, surmounted by elegant 

 panicles of inflorescence nearly 3 feet long, resembling beautiful 

 waving plumes of silvery feathers. It is perfectly hardy, and is 

 also easy of cultivation. A grand specimen of this noble plant 

 is now in the Exeter Nursery, pushing up nearly twenty large 

 flower stems and numerous small ones, and will continue to be an 

 object of great attraction for a considerable time. 



EXETER NURSERY, EXETER. 



Established 1720. 



One of our acquaintances, a Mr. Jael, is a lover 

 of fresh Figs, and having a garden was ambitious 

 of growing them for himself. But his garden was 

 in a cold bottom, and its soil was heavy clay. He 

 had no greenhouse, or wall, and his gardener had 

 not been instructed at Arundel, or Chatsworth, or 

 Trentham. When he mentioned his wish to grow 

 Figs in such a place with such means, his gardening 

 acquaintance smiled at his simplicity ; what ! grow 

 Figs in clay in such a wet cold place, with no 

 shelter and no professional help ! it was chimerical. 

 The old Fig trees were pointed out in neighbouring 

 gardens, where walls and shelter and skill were 

 provided in abundance, and he was advised to take 

 warning by them ; for even they scarcely ever 

 ripened a Fig worth eating. 



It must be owned that the proposed experiment 

 was not encouraged by his neighbours' experience. 

 But Mr. Jael had already found out that in garden- 

 ing as in other pursuits what can't be done in one 

 way may be effected in another, and he concluded 

 that if soil, situation, climate, and all the conditions 

 usually thought necessary for Fig growing were 

 denied to him, he might somehow 7 or other find their 

 equivalents. And so he set about his work. 



In March, 1854, he dug a hole on the south side 

 of a ditch, and filled the hole with lime rubbish, 

 burnt clay, the ashes of rubbish heaps, and rotten 

 leaves. The hole was about 2 feet deep, 4 feet wide, 

 and its bottom mi^ht be a couple of feet above the 

 water in the ditch. In this place he planted, in 

 May, a Fig tree about 9 inches high. 



The plant grew well all through the summer, 

 and, if permitted, w r ould have been 4 or 5 feet high 

 by autumn. But our experimentalist wanted a little 

 plant, not a big one, and he was looking for Figs not 

 leaves ; so he applied to his Fig tree the stopping 

 dodge. As fast as 5 or 6 leaves made their appear- 

 ance, the shoot to which they belonged was pinched 

 back to 3 or 4 ; and all through the summer every 

 new shoot, of which plenty came, was served in the 

 same way. By October the Fig tree had been so 

 cramped and stunted that it was not above 2 feet 

 high, and on most of its little branches were little 

 balls no bigger than a Marrowfat Pea. These were 

 Figs in embryo ; in ten or eleven months more they 

 would be full grown, ripe, and fit to eat. So far, 

 then, all had gone well. The tree had done all that 

 the most unreasonable gardener could have expected 

 from it. But what was to become of it and its 

 little ones during the winter ? You'll see, said the 

 neighbour?, that all your young ones will perish of 

 cold, and most likely their mother too. 



We have already said that Mr, Jael 



had 



no 



NEW STRAWBfcRRIES AT RtOUCtu PRICES, 



Grown and Offered for S*le by 



WILLIAM J. NICHOLSON, Egglescliffe, near 

 Yarm, Yorkshire.— The following splendid varieties have greenhouse, Or Wall, Or shelter, to which he COUld 



been well proved this season «id given *w*** ^^ l ^; trust his pet Fig. But he had a few shillings to spare, 



is, pans, .,,._., _; , .,, ^ t i__jli. * *_j Q £ p^ t urves- 



the most useful 

 frost will go through 

 them easily, they form the best walls in the world, 

 and when the walls are pulled down they become 

 the most valuable of all the sorts of earth a gardener 

 wants. 





per J00; 12s. per 60*.; 7*. per 25. Nicholson's Aj ax, Ruby, 

 Captain Cook and Fill-Basket, Bs. per 10«» : Ingram's Prince of 

 Wales, Nimrod, Eli 2a (Rivers's), Surprise (Myatt's), and Bicmn 

 Pine, a lar K e white one, 6*. per 100 ; British Queen, Black Pnn 

 Eleanor (Myatt's), Old Pine, Trol lope's Victoria. Goliah(Kitley s) 

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payable at V arm are expected with aif orders. The plants wiU 

 be securely packed and forwarded to any part of the kingdom. 



Plants kept Kb frames for spring planting. 



■ Ciin; " Ku"i2 u ' r ~ 7i .♦ a. npr loo- Crvstai "«««• So with these turves the Fig tree was en- 



Seeriling, Old Roseberry, all at 45. per 1W, ^rysrai , u:„l* A - +1^« 



,averv large and latevs *y, 10*. per 100. Post-office Orders closed OR all Sides, till the Walls Were hlgner ttian 



"" ' " m "~ """"*" ~ m its head ; and then it was left till the leaves looked 



as if they were teady to come off. In the mean- 



