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URAL CHE M 1ST R 



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



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THE 



1 OPERATIONS. By Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P. 



Reprinted from the Gardeners' Chronicle. Upwards of 

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,H)R THE BENEFIT OF SUFFERING 



HUMANITY.— A retired gentleman having cured him- 

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HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS WON- 

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COTTAGER'S CALENDAR OF GARDEN 



Little Dorrit. 

 Dickens. 



By Charles 



Principles of Government; or, 



Meditations in Exile. By 

 W. Smith O'Brien. 



An Essay on Intuitive Morals : 

 being: an Attempt to Popular- 

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 Theory of Morals. 



With Shorter Notices of 



The Last of the Arctic Voyages ; 

 being a Narrative of the Ex- 

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 Capt. Sir E. Belcher. 



The Reformation. By J. 

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Christmas Books for Children. 



Year Books. 



Almanacs. 



Simplicity and Fascination. 



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 Adventures of My Cousin 



Smooth. By T. Simpleton. 

 "War Pamphlets. 

 List of New Books. 



Passages from the Private and 

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Doctor Antonio. A Tale. 



The Faces in the Fire. 'By 

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OriginaL — Longfellow's ■ Hiwatha.' 



Weekly Gossip- — Campbell Monument—Middlesex Ar- 

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Societies. — Reports of the Proceedings of the Royal- 

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 Actuaries. 



Pine Arts. 



Society of Arts — Institute of 



Beul<5, the Acropolis [L'Acropole d'Athenes.] 



Pine Art Gossip. — Marble Figures for the Mansion House 

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 Windows 'Colour and its Use in Architectural Art'— 

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Music and the Drama. — Princess's (' Every One has 

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2/tusical and Dramatic Gossip. — Sacred Harmonic 



Society — Philharmonic Society— J ullien's Concerts — Ma- 

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Miscellanea- — Recovery of Waste Places— The Vines of 

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The Athenaeum may be ordered of any Bookseller. 



African Lilies 



Agapanthus 



Anemones 



Annuals 



Apples 



Apricot 



Auriculas 



Beans 



Beet 



Biennials 



Black Fly 



Books for Cottagers 



Borage 



Borecole 



Box Edgings 



Broccoli 



Brussels Sprouts 



Budding 

 Bulbs 

 Cabbage 

 Cactus 



Calceolarias 



Californian Annuals 



Campanulas 



Carnations 



Carrots 



Cauliflowers 

 Celery 



Cherries 



China Asters 



China Roses 



Chrysanthemums, 



Chinese 

 Chives 

 Clark ias 

 Clematis 

 Collinsias 

 Colewort 

 Cress 

 C reepers 

 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 



CONTENTS. 



Gilias 



Gooseberries 

 Grafting 



Green-fly 



Heartsease 

 Herbs 



Herbaceous Peren- 

 nials 

 Heliotrope 



Hollyhocks 



Honeysuckle 

 Horse-radish 

 Hyacinths 



Hydrangeas 

 Hyssop 

 Indian Cress 

 Iris 



Kidney Beans 

 Lavender 

 Layering 

 Leeks 



Leptosiphons 

 Lettuce 

 Lobelias 

 London Pride 

 Lychnis, double 

 Marigold 

 Marjoram 

 Manures 

 Marvel of Pent 



Mesembryanthe- 



mums 

 Mignonette 

 Mint 

 Mustard 

 Narcissus 

 Nemophilas 

 CEnothera bifrons 

 Onions 

 Pa?onies 

 Parsnip 

 Parsley 

 Peaches 

 Pea-haulm 



Pears 

 Peas 



Pelargoniums 

 Perennials 

 Persian Iris 



Petunias 



Phlox 



Pigs 



Pinks 



Planting 



Plums 

 Polyanthus 

 Potatoes 

 Pruning 

 Privet 



Propagation by cut- 

 tings 

 Pyracantha 

 Radishes 

 Ranunculus 



Raspberries 



Rhubarb 



Rockets 



Roses 



Rue 



Rustic Vases 

 Sage 

 Salvias 

 Savoys 



Saxifrage 

 Scarlet Runner 



Beans 

 Seeds 



Sea Daisy or Thrift 

 Seakale 

 Select Flowers 

 Select Vegetables 



and Fruit 

 Snails and Slugs 



Snowdrops 

 Spinach 

 Spruce Fir 

 Spur Pruning 

 Stocks 

 Strawberries 

 Summer Savory 

 Sweet William 

 Thorn Hedges 

 Thyme 



Tigridia Pavonia 

 Transplanting 

 Tree Lifting 

 Tulips 

 Turnips 



Vegetable Cookery 

 Venus'* Looking- 



Glass 

 Verbenas 

 Vines 



Virginian Stocks 

 Wallflowers 

 Willows 

 Zinnias 





TO MARKET GARDENERS. 



TO BE LET, within two miles of the Ashfor.l Sta- 

 tion, on the Windsor and Richmond Railway, a newly-built 

 four-roomed COTTAGE, with Kitchen and QflteiM, Cowhouse, 

 Piggery, &c, together with a productive on hard and Garden, 

 and 12 acres of Arable Land, suitable for a Market Garden.— For 

 particulars, apply to C. CHARLES Hormr, Esq., The Grove, 

 Staines, Middlesex. 



rpO BE LET, on Lease, the FREEHOLD ORNA- 



l BlENTAL COTTAGE AND SMALL GARDEN, with 

 Goodwill of the Business as LANDSCAPE AM) CONSULT- 

 ING GARDENER, sue*- illy carried on d ;ng many years 

 by tho late Mr. Thomas Dig< -, at Singleton Brook, Higher 

 Broughton, near Manchester. — Apply to Mrs. Di< ks as above. 



N.B« Upwards of an acre of Garden Ground adjoining the 

 above mav be obtained by a satisfactory tenant, at a moderate 

 rental 



'|H> HE'LtiT,A NURSERY and SEED BUSINESS. 

 A —John Youno begs to say that he i lestroni of treating 



with a Tenant for his Nursery Ground, which he is at present 

 occupying himself, and which offers an eligible opportunity to 

 anyone wishing to enter on the business. The Stock is light, 

 and the quantity of Land may be made to suit the convenience 



of the Tenant. — For further particulars, apply to John Young, 

 Elm Cottage, Taunton. 



rpO BE SOLD, at a low price, 60 or 70 very 



J- superior FRUITING and SUCCESSION PINE PLANTS, 

 principally Queens. Also 12 dozen pots of Strawberries for 

 forcing, promising an abundant crop.- Particulars and prices 

 may be known on application to G. Edwards & Soy, Nurserymen, 

 Wells, Somerset. 



! 



CANNES, SOUTH OF FRANCE. 



TO BE SOLD, completely furnished, in one of the 

 warmest, driest, and most healthy and agreeable localities 

 for invalids in all Europe, that beautiful Marine Residence and 

 Grounds known as the CHATEAU ST. Gl RGES, fit for the 

 immediate reception of any nobleman's or gentleman's family, 

 and situate one mile west of the town and port of Cannes, with- 

 in a few minutes walk of the chateau of the Right Hon. Lord 

 Brougham, and 20 miles south-west of Nice. The property faces 

 the Mediterranean, which forms its southern limit, while its 

 northern boundary is the grande route from Paly to Marseilles, 

 from which latter town it is only 14 hours' by posting, or 11 hours' 

 by the steamers, and there are als> two diligences d reach way, 

 in connection with the railway from Paris to Marseilles, which 

 is now opened throughout, and the distance is performed each 

 way in 20 hours— total travelling from London to Cannes, 47 

 hours.— For particulars and viewing plans, apply to Messrs. 

 Green, Estate Agents and Auctioneers, 28, Old Bond Street. 



Sales hu Auction. 



J. Matthews, 5, Upper Wellington Street, Covent Garden. 



Just published, the Second Edition, with Additions, pince 5s. 6d. cloth, 



ORNAMENTAL AND DOMESTIC POULTRY: 



THEIR HIoTORY AND MANAGEMENT. 



By the Rev. EDMUND SAUL DIXON, M.A., Rector of Intwood with Keswick 



THE BIRDS 



The Mute Swan 



The Canada Goose 



The Egyptian or Cape Goose 



The Musk Duck 



The Grey Chid a Goose 



The White Fronted or Laugh- 



The Wigeon [ing Goose 



The Teal, and its congeners 



TREATED OF ARE- 



The White China Goose 



The Tame Duck 



The Domestic Goose 



The Bernicle Goose 



The Brent Goose 



The Turkey 



The Pea Fowl [burgh Fowls 



The Golden and Silver 11am- 



ftomestic Fowl in general 

 The Guinea Fowl 

 The Spanish Fowl 

 The Speckled Dorkings 

 The Cochin China Fowl 

 Hie Malay Fowl 

 The Pheasant Malay Fowl 

 * be Game Fowl 



''.ft will be found a useful and intelligent guide to the poultry-keeper; while the lively and often amusing manner in which it is 

 !<?m €n £ ive s it a claim upon the attention of the general reader."- Midland Counties Herald. 



This book is the best and most modern authority that can be consulted on the general management of poultry." — Stirling Observer. 



—————— _______________________________________ « 



Published by JAMES MATTHEWS, at the Office of the Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 



ft, Upper Wellington Street, Covent Garden; and may be ordered of any Bookseller. 



The Cuckoo Fowl 



The Blue Dun Fowl 



The Lark-crested Fowl 



The Poland Fowl 



Bantam Fowls 



The Rumpless Fowl 



The Silk and Negro Fowls 



The Frizzled or Friesland Fowl 



PERMANENTLY EN LARGED TO TWEN TY-FOUR PAGES. 



Every Saturday, Foolscap Quarto, price id., or Stamped 5d., 



NOTES 



AND 



QUKRIES: 



EXTRA POULTRY SALE ON WEDNESDAY, 12TH DEC. 



MR. J. C. STEVENS begs to notify that he will 

 Sell by Auction, at his Great Room, 38, King Street, 

 Covent Garden, on WEDNESDAY, 12th December (being 

 during the week of the London Cattle Sh« ), at 12 o'clock pre- 

 cisely, a selection of first-c!a - POULTRY and PIGEONS, 

 comprising some extraordinary Vulture hocked White Cochins 

 and Black and Bnff Cochins, Spanish Dorkings, Bramas, Malays, 

 very choice Gold and Silver-laced Bantams. The Pigeons include 

 some first-rate Carriers and Pouters from Mr. Bait's renowned 

 stud.— Catalogues had by enclosing a s'amped directed envelope 

 to Mr. J.C Stevens, 38, King Street, Covent Garden, London. 



— p £ a ~r T RE E S. 



Cultivated by Mr. db Jonohe, op Brussels. 



MR. J. C. STEVENS will sell by Auction at his 

 Great Room, 38, Kin- Street, Covent Garden, on TUES- 

 DAY, IS h December, at 1 o'clock precisely, 500 PEAR TREES, 

 3, 4, and 5 years, grafted on Quince and Pear stocks and trained 

 as pyramids and Dwarfs, including the best varieties amongst 

 the hardy novelties cultivated in B« ium, where they are still 

 scarce.— May be viewed on the morning of Sale, and Cata- 

 logues had. ' » 



IMPORTANT SALE OF DRIEO PLANTS. 



R. J, C. STEVENS has received instructions to 



SMI bv Auction at his Great Room, 38, King Street, 

 Covent Garden, during the month of JANUARY next, all the 

 Valuable Collections of DRIED PLANTS, which have been 

 formed bv the Travellers employed by the Horticultural Society 

 of London during the last 40 years. The Herbaria consist of the 

 Collections for: 1 by Douglas, Hartweg, Fortune, Forbes, Geo. 

 Don, Parkes. Potts, and others in North America. Mexico, Peru, 

 Brazil. Chili, and other parts of the Globe. Catalogues are in 



niv paTation.— 38. King ^ Covent G ar c. 8. 



IMPORTANT SALE OF DUTCH BULBS, 

 Consigned for arsolute sale from one op the principal 



growers in Haarlem. 



MESSRS. PROTHEROE and MORRIS will sell 

 by Auction at the Mart, Barth mew Lane, on FRIDAY, 

 December 14th. at 12 o'clock, Eight Ca 1 of DUTCH BULBS, 

 comprising 31,000 Crocus. 23,140 Tulips, 4000 Gladiolus, 2300 

 Iris, 1780 Narcissus. 2000, Anemones, 758 Hyacinths, and 180 

 Fritillarias, &c— On view the morning ot Sale. Catalogues may 

 be had at the Mart; and of the Auctioneers, American Nursery, 

 Leytonstone, 1'.--> -v. _ 



TCTCENTLEMEN, FLORISTS. AND OTHERS. 



M 



MESSRS. PKOTHEROE 

 Auction. at the Mart. Barthol 



December 13th, at 12 o'clock, afirst-cla>8 collection of DUTCH 



BULBS, consisting of the finest Douhk and single Hyacinths, 



Narci is, Jonquils, A« DOnes, Crocus. Tulips, Snowdrops, 



. JRanuncnlu »,Gla Jus, &c. ; also a selected assortment .of fine 



for opinions of the Quarterly Review, Alhenamm, Examiner, Literary Gazette, Spectator, Dublin Kexiew, &c. stnn d a rd and Dirarf Hoses, Including Hybrids, Bourbons, uunas. 



Noisettes, &c; and American Plants, comprising Hybrid 

 Rhododendrons : Ghent and other Azaleas. Kalmias, Andromeda 



A Specimen Number sent on receipt of five postage stamps. noribuuda, beautifully furnished with nioom h ™)*\°*J}J? ™l 



w - ^ morning of Sale. Catalogues bad at the Mart ; ana 01 tne 



Auctioneers, American Nursery, Leytor me, Essex. 



A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOE LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, 



ANlIQU ARIES, GENEALOGISTS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, &c. 



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