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3, 1855.1 



THE GARDEN] R 



CHR0NICL1 



NEW ROSES. 



WILLIAM WOOD and SON have again much 

 pleasure in recommending their beautiful Seedling- Rose 

 the Perpetual DUCHESS OF NORFOLK; the colour is a very* 

 rich vivid crimson, the underside of the petals shaded with lively 

 pink, giving the flowers an exquisite shell-like appearance. 



Price for Standards, or Dwarfs, 35. 6d. each. 

 Williams' Evergreen Climbing Rose, 1 s. M. each— This Rose 

 \a a seedling from the Ayrshire Splendens fertilised with the 

 Yellow Tea Rose; its flowers are creamy white, deliciously 

 sweet-scented. 



N.B. The New Rose Catalogue and Supplement may be had 

 on application. 



Woodlands Nursery, Maresfield. near Uckfield, Susse x. 



TRAINED FRUIT TREES~ ~~ * 



TT/TLLIAM WOOD and SON have much pleasure 



VV in recommending their very extensive and superior stock 

 f Dwarf two-years-trained PEACHES, NECTARINES, and 

 APRICOTS, which they feel assured cannot be excelled. The 

 trees are remarkably healthy, and furnished with well ripened 

 shoots; they will be supplied at 60s. per dozen. 



Pyramidal Pears on Quince stock3, per doz. ... 24s. Od. 

 Pyramidal Plums, extra fine do. ... 20 



Pyramidal Apples, do. do. ... 16 



Catalogues forwarded on application. Extra plants presented 

 with each order, to compensate for distant carriag-e. 



\VoodIands_Nursery, Maresfield , near Uckfield, Sussex. 



ROSE CATALOGUE, ETC. 



MESSRS. LANE and SON, Nurseries, Great 

 Berkhampstead, Herts, beg to inform their patrons that 

 the undermentioned descriptive CATALOGUES may now be 

 had. General Rose, Tree and Shrub, and Fruit ; also of Azalea 

 Indica, Camellia, Hollyhocks, &c. 



The Hardy Rhododendrons are fine ; the Araucaria imbricata 

 Cedrus Deodora. the Pinus, with all other Evergreen and Deci- 

 duous Plants, are remarkably healthy, forming fine specimens, 

 giving immediate fjject, , a nd well worthy the attention of Plan ters! 



A NEW SEEDLING APPLE FROM THE RIBS TON PPPN\F 



OTEPBEN SHILLING begs to offer to gentlemen 



O and the trade Trees of his entirely new Apple named OMER 

 PACHA, it being a first-rate hardy grower, strong compact habit, 

 early and productive bearer. Fruit excellent flavour (dess-rt), ripe 

 in November, keeps until May. Respectable testimonials given 

 from those who have tasted the fruit. Strong plants supplied at 

 5«. &?. each, or 60a. per dozen. The usual discount to the trade 

 where one dozen or more are taken. Early application is re- 

 quested as the stock is limited; all orders carefully and promptly 

 attended to Fruit of the above can be seen at the office of the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, the British Pomological Societies' Rooms, 

 20, Bedford Street, Covent Garden, Messrs. Nutting & Son, 46, 

 Cheapside, Messrs. Sutton & Sons, Reading, Mr. C. Turner, 

 Royal Nursery, Slougb, and at the North Warnborough Nursery' 

 nearOdiham. Hants. 



NEV PHLOX, PANSIES. & PENTSTEMONS. 



T\OWNIE and LAIRD, Nurserymkn & Seedsmen, 



J- 7 17, South Frederick Street, Edinburgh, beg to intimate that 

 they are now sending out their new Phlox Countess of Home, 

 figured in Turner's "Florist" of December last; it has been 

 awardnd First Class Certificates at the Royal South London 

 Floricultural Society on August 30, and the National Floricultural 

 Society on Sept. 6, and is unquestionably one of the finest Phloxes 

 yet raised ; white, with distinct dark crimson centre, form perfect, 

 grows to the height of 2 feet. Price 5*. each, or to the trade, 30s. 

 per dozen, and may be had of the principal nurserymen in 

 England or Scotland. 



D. & L. are also prepared to send out the following new 



Pansies and Pentstemons, which they warrant to be first-class 



flowers. Pansies: Annalla (D. & L.), glossy black self, pure 



white brow, large, and of extra fine form, 5s. each; Jeannie, 



(D. &L.), dark self of the richest texture and finest form, with a 



circle of blue round the eye, first-rate show flower, 5s. each; 



Mrs. Dundas (D. & L.), cream and deep purple blotch, large and 



fine form, 3s. 6d. each. Pentstemon M r Nabiana, ruby scarlet, 



grows to the height of 2 feet, stem strong and erect, free bloomer, 



os. each; Pentstemon purpurea magnifica, large purplish blue 



with a white throat, grows to the height of 2£ feet, free bloomer, 



5*. each. The above two beautiful varieties are in the way of 



Purpurea hybrida, but quite distinct in colour, and will be found 



a great acquisition. 



PLANTING SEASON. 



TOHN CATTELL respectfully invites an inspection 



*J of his extensive Stock of Fruit, Forest, and Ornamental Trees 

 and Shrubs, American Plants, &c, &c, consisting of the most 

 esteemed varieties of each kind of Fruit Trees in standards and 

 dwarfs, trained and untrained. Also the best varieties of Goose- 

 berries, Currants, Raspberries, Strawberries, Filberts, Spanish 

 or Kentish Cob Nuts, &c. A general collection of Evergreen and 

 Deciduous Trees and Shrubs, Coniferse, &c. 



The American Plants are particularly well grown, containing 

 selections of the richest and most distinct varieties of Ghent and 

 other Azaleas, Sikkim, Hybrid Scarlet, and other Rhododendrons. 

 The Andromeda floribunda and Kalmia latifolia are remarkably 

 fine. Roses are also extensively and well grown; the collection 

 contains all the newest and most select of the older varieties. 

 ■Priced Catalogues of the various descriptions of stock are now 

 ready, and may be had on application. 



NEW PORTUGAL LAUREL. 



Crrasus Lusitantctts Myrtifolius. 

 '10TIN CATTELL has much pleasure in informing his patrons 

 and the public that after the 1st of November he will be prepared 



ft s ? nc * . ou * Plants °f this very desirable new hardy Evergreen ; 

 the habit of growth is quite upright, like a Bay, and the whole 

 plant is densely covered with beautiful shining leaves. A> a single 

 specimen it is quite distinct from any other hardy evergreen. 



Strong Plants, 3 years old, 75. 6 J. each 80s. per doz. 



Do. do., 2 years do., 5*. each 60a. per doz. 



A few extra strong Plants 10s. 6d. each. 



Nurseries, Westerham, Kent. — No v. 3. 



"WATERER'S AMERICAN PLANTS— A new 



T DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE is now published of the 

 celebrated Collection of hardy Scarlet and other Rhododendrons, 



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H T . > TT , FRU,T TREES ,N POTS- 

 LANE and SON offer the following , 

 * Trees in Pots, well set with bloom buds, consisting o 

 Apples, Apricots Currants, Figs, Gooseberries, <riu«8, 

 tvaches, Pears, Plums. Also a fine assortment of the finest Yin 

 from eyes, and Strawberries for farcin- ; dwarf-trained Cherries 

 NectaniPs. loaches, Pears, Plans; s-aniard-trained Apricoto 

 Nectarines, Peaches, Pears: pvramidal Apples and Pears-' 

 staMdard Apples, Cherries, Pears, Plums; also Currants, Goose 

 berries, &c.-T he Nurseries, Great Berkhampstead. 



WHEAT FOR WINTER SEEDING. _ 



WILLIAM BARNES invites the attention of his 



patrons and friends to that well-known and much 

 esteemed species called the OLD LAMM V< or Winder Win - 

 and which he warrants the true original without admixture of 

 any sort, and perfectly clean This Wheat h been grown by 

 himself on light black soil, and the character of it r.-raai per- 

 manent, having no tendency t -degenerate or liability to disease. 

 It may be sown on the coldest description of clavand heavy land, 

 and as late as the last week in Dec*mb*r with the almost 

 certain prospect of affording a good return.— For further par- 

 ticulars, address William U arses, the Elms Farm, Spalding 

 Lincolnshire. 



1 not anywhere surpassed, and which reminds one of 

 fruit the most lucid expositions of Humboldt. 



these the only meriti of the volume. 



Nor are 



T R. and A. PEARSON, Cl.il well Nurseries, near 



*J * Nottingham, be:? to offer the following :— 



Collections of first-rate CARNATIONS and PICOTEE3, 12s. 

 per dozen pairs. 



The finest summer ROSES, show varieties, 21j. to 42*. per 100. 



own roots. 



PERPETUAL ROSES, grafted on short stems, one foot in 



height, 12s. per dozen 



RHODODENDRONS, the finest in the country, 30*. per 

 dozen varieties, all hardy. 



AZALEAS, a selection of the best hardy kinds, from both the 

 Continent and the best English growers, 24*. per dozen, all 

 own roots. ROCK PLANTS, 6*. per d. n. 



NEW HARDY PLANTS^ 



A VERSCHAFFELT, Nurserymin, Ghent, Bel- 



£*> * gi ura, begs to offer the following New HARDY PLANT- 

 RHODODENDRON MADAME WAGNER (hardy) ... 15*. Od. 



PRINCE CAMILLE DE ROHAN (hardy) 7 6 

 WETGELIA MIDDENDORFL— N.B This splendid 

 Wnigelia has been sold already twice under wrong 

 names. The one I offer here is warranted Vie true 

 species. Good Plants each 12 



The Geogra- 

 phical details themselv. and the n p illustrative of 

 them, together with the explanation of the author's 

 notions of the general formation of the vast 

 Him; ayan rang*— principles which may be applied 

 with profit to correct the crude notions of geogra- 

 phers in other countries— afford at once general 

 conceptions of a vast territory which could scarcely 

 he formed befor* and a starting point from whence 



important improvements will we have no doubt arise 

 hereafter. 



In a merely strict botanical point of view the 

 work is calculated to be of infinite service. The 

 extensive travels of the author themselves through 

 India, and the vast mas* of materials which has 

 pa v{ through their hands, has enahled them to 

 L-ive an account of the geographical distribution of 

 the plants of India and their connection with 

 European, African, Siberian, and Australian forms 

 which would have been absolutely impassible to 

 any previous writers on the subject, and has a most 

 important bearing on many geological arguments. 

 The loose notions, again, "which prevail on the 

 limits of sped* and the recklesi way in which 

 multitudes of useless names are daily inflicted on 



from imperfect materials, or from an in- 

 ability to perceive that differences do not necessarily 

 indicate distinctions, is matter of i jret to every 

 intelligent naturalist. The authors have in conse- 

 quence not only enunciated their opinions on the 

 subject in a manner not to be misunderstood, while 

 they have exposed by pertinent instances the pre- 



._ „ vailing evil to which wv have ju-t referred, but hare 



A. Verschaffelt begs to inform Amateurs and the Trade put their views in practice in the specification of 



that he has just published anew PLANT LIST, containing the the 1.5 natnnl nrrW<a wWh flP p M «m« M< 1 ; n *U* 



English and Continental Novelties. - e lo nalural orners w men are comprised in the 



His Catalogue may he obtained on application of his Agent, 

 Mr. R. Silbeerad, 5, Harp Lane, Great Tower Street, London. 



' 



prise 

 remainder of the volume. The mode in which these 

 j are treated is a model which may well be adopted by 

 future botanists, embracing not simply the correct 



(CftC (B&trTTCttCrST (2£fiVQtttCl£ d ? fi . nition an(1 limitation of species, but discussions 



NO 



as exhibited by John Watbreb at the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

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

 ations on their successful management, and will be forwarded 

 ya application by enclosing two stamps for postage. Apart from 

 *. Numeration of the most popular American Plants in cultiva- 

 tion, a kist of choice Coniferce will be seen, embracing the latest 

 importations of this fine and hardy tribe of Plants. 

 Ail ii nas now tne pleasure to offer in large quantities, and of 

 rem he i? hf8 » the following selection of CONIFERS, with the 

 bi^h tliat tne ? are a11 now growing in the open ground, are 

 r>la ♦ a and nand »onie as can be desired, and have been trans- 

 fer-^ • ea °k 81|cc eeding spring, whereby no risk can be encoun- 

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

 }; f ^ l .' torne na japonica; Pinus DouglaM, Cembra, excelsa, Lam- 

 , ana > in signis, Jefferyana, Beardslevi, tuberculata, tfec.; 

 n lm rus ^dara, Lebanon, and Africana; Wellingtoniagigantea, 



■S?SJ Jmrfpwi*, Taxns, Thuja, &c. 

 suoT^! . at tention of gentlemen, public companies, and others 

 intWd n n . P ,:intin *» is especially directed to the foregoing; 

 insnw4 ^tending planters would be well repaid by a visit to 

 cannn* fc 0Ur 8t0ck » ** much may be seen which of necessity 



Thp n KlVPn withio the ,imita of an advertisement. 

 Pamh Urserv is easily reached by railway, being near th« 



on thTl 0U *} 1 station - South- Western Railway, and Blackwater 

 the South-East*™ Railway. 



The American Nursery, Bagshot, Surrey. 



It is hardly possible to exaggerate the importance, 

 as regards the successful cultivation of exotic 

 plants, of correct notion* as to the immense varieties 

 of climate which exist in tropical countries, even in 

 contiguous provinces, and of the causes on which 

 those differences depend. The cultivator, indeed, 

 is for the most part well aware that a totally dif- 

 ferent vegetation occurs at great heights, from that 

 which is found on the lower portions of the same 

 mountains, where it approximates to or is identical 

 with that of the plains. He knows, too, that 

 in different latitudes the heights at which alpine 

 forms commence is different, and he is prepared to 

 a certain extent to make the necessary allowance. 

 When, however, the information he receives is 

 limited to an indication of the particular province 

 from whence an individual species may come, he is 

 quite at a loss, and can only act upon general 

 notions of the temperature required by plants from 

 a certain quarter of the world. Suppose, for instance, 

 India be the country in question, the commonly 

 received notion of the climate is confined to great 

 heat at one time of the year and a deluge of rain at 

 another, though independent of the particular height 

 above the level of the sea at which any district maybe 

 situated there are infinite varieties of climate, ranging 

 from perfect drought to a rain-fall of which we can 

 form no conception, and that accompanied by very 

 different hvgrometric conditions of the atmosphere. 

 A range of hills if high enough will condense the 

 greater portion of the moisture brought by gales 

 from the sea, so as to impede its further progress 

 except where there may be depressions in the chain 

 low enough to admit of the passage of any consider- 

 able quantity of air, insomuch that while on one 

 side the rain-fall may be counted by hundreds of 

 inches, that on the other will be reckoned by time, 

 and under certain conditions the most arid districts 

 may be separated by a few miles only from one re- 

 markable for humidity. The truth, however, is 

 that such local details are scarcely to be met with 

 except by wading through a vast variety of books, 

 which are quite beyond the general range of the 

 cultivator. 



It was therefore with much pleasure that . 



perused the introduction to the first volume of f most importance 

 Hooker and Thomson's Flora Indica,* a work which 



of the greatest interest with regard to structure and 

 affinities. The general observations, for instance, on 

 Menispermads and Nymphaeads will be read with 

 advantage by the most practised botanists, and will 

 be found highly suggestive. The anomalous struc- 

 ture of the stem in either order is discussed with a 

 fullness and intelligence which make one regret that 

 the portion of the Flora which have come under the 

 authors' hands is at present so small. The vexed 

 question of the affinities of the Water Lilies is de- 

 cided in favour of their being true members of the 

 great division of Exogens, on a full consideration of 

 their structural peculiarities; and it may be added 

 as a corroboration of their views that the germination 

 of Limnanthemum as observed by Griesbach is 



Imost identical with that of Nymphaea. 



It is very unfortunate that the East India Com- 



any was not induced at the suggestion of the 



ritish Association to promote this work, either by 



a liberal pecuniary grant or a large subscription. The 



completion of it in its present form, all important as 



it is to the interests of India as well as of science in 



general, is scarcely possible with mere private re- 

 sources. Their promise to take its merits into con- 

 sideration on its completion would scarcely have 

 been made if they had been really aware of the 

 difficulties which lay before the authors. We still, 

 however, hope now that the first volume is 

 brought under their notice, they will reconsider the 

 question, and insure if possible the continuation of 

 a work which is admirably begun, and would reflect 

 honour upon their patronage. 



Of the value of liquid manure to crops in a 

 growing state no one can entertain a doubt, but the 

 best mode of applying it is a subject open to dis- 

 cussion. The usual practice, we need not say, is to 

 water the surface of the ground with it among the 

 plants it is intended to benefit : hut this is objection- 

 able in more ways than one. In the first place a por- 

 tion of it when thus applied is wasted in evaporation 

 under the influence of a powerful sun, and from 

 being used where it affords no nutriment to the 

 crops ; and, in the second place, besides its being 

 unsightly on the surface of the soil, which it bakes 

 and hardens, and renders impervious to air, it is 

 alleged to be injurious to health from the noxious 

 odours which arise from it, more especially during 



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should be in the hands of every intelligent culti- 

 vator, in which the climate of the whole of India 

 taki 



summer, wnen its application is 

 . This last objection was that 

 great market gardeners to give up 

 the use of London sewage in the Fulham fields, and 

 to employ clean water in its place. 



Mr. Wil&irs of Walworth, however, has recei 



Afghanistan to the Malayan Peninsula, is discussed patented a plan for distributing liquid manure, which 

 with an amount of detaif and intelligence which is seems to obviate these objections, and from the 

 ' "" — "~ — " glowing accounts of this system and its results, 



Flora Indica; being a systematic account of the Plants of 

 ish India, together with observations on the structure a*d 



affinities of their natural orders ai 

 M.D.. F.R.3., and Thomas Thomson 

 DP. 285. Pamplin. With Maps. 



\ genera. By J. D. Hooker, ^ see ^ 709) we have been induced to visit that 

 , m.d, F.L.S. Vol. 1, 8vo., • gentleman > s experimental garden at Reading, where 



