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PART IV. 



ADVERTISEMENTS CONNECTED WITH GARDENING AND 

 RURAL AFFAIRS. 



AS GARDENER, or GAR- 



r% ' DENER and BAILIFF, or KEEPER, 

 a Situation is wanted for a married Man, Forty 

 Years of Age, without Incumbrance. He has 

 a general knowledge of his business in the above 

 branches, having filled them all, and can be 

 well recommended. Letters, post paid, addressed 

 to G. S. T. at C. and J. Young's Nursery, 

 Epsom, Surrey, will meet immediate attention. 



To the Nobility, Gentry, Vine-Cultivators, 

 and others. 



A MOST IMPORTANT and 



"**■ VALUABLE IMPROVEMENT in the 

 CULTURE of the GRAPE VINE, and for 

 advancing the Fruit to the highest state of 

 perfection. 



The Inventor, John Long, Hothouse Builder, 

 &c. Beaufort Place, Chelsea at the foot of Bat- 

 tersea Bridge), begs most respectfully to invite 

 the Nobility, Gentry, and Horticulturists gene- 

 rally, to an inspection of his newly-invented 

 moveable Wire-trellis Frames, by means of 

 which the Vines are lowered from the glass 

 roof, and raised at pleasure to any angle with 

 the greatest facility, without the slightest injury 

 to the plants, thereby effectually securing them 

 from injury from the extremes of cold and heat, 

 ensuring a plentiful crop of well-matured grapes, 

 and causing a considerable saving in fuel at a 

 comparatively trifling expence. 



J. L. can with the greatest confidence recom- 

 mend the adoption of the above invention, and 

 ensure its success in all cases ; its utility for all 

 the purposes for which it was designed having 

 been most fully exemplified, as, from the highly 

 respectable references he is enabled to give, can 

 be amply proved. 



Manufactured and erected by the Inventor in 

 any part of the United Kingdom, on the shortest 

 Notice. 



PINCE'S GOLDEN NECTARINE. 



LUCOMBE, PINCE, & Co.beg 



leave to call the attention of the Public to a 

 new kind of NECTARINE, raised by them, 

 which they have named as above; it is a most 

 beautiful and highly desirable Fruit, of a large 

 size, with a rich and very peculiar flavour. Its 

 appearance marks it out most decidedly as a 

 Fruit very distinct from any other hitherto pro- 

 duced. 



Trees may be had on application to Messrs. 

 Lucombb, Pince, & Co. Nurserymen, Exeter, 

 at 10.?. 6rf. each. 



Nursery, Exeter, Sept. 10. 1826. 



SOUTH AFRICAN BOTANY, &c. 



JAMES BOWIE begs leave to 



inform the Botanical Public,, that he will 

 be ready to receive and execute orders for Seeds, 

 Bulbs, Plants, and dried specimens (natives of 

 S. Africa), at the Cape of Good Hope, in the 

 course of a few months from this date, and as- 

 sures those Persons who may favour him with 

 their Orders, that he will attend thereto with 

 the utmost care and diligence. 



J. B. not having appointed any Agent in Eu- 

 rope for the disposal of his future Collections, 

 informs those Persons who may wish to favour 

 him with their commands, and who have no 

 correspondents at the Cape, that Orders trans- 

 mitted through the means of Visitors in transitu, 

 or the Captains of the regular Cape traders, will 

 be punctually attended to ; and the seeds, bulbs, 

 and plants, packed agreeably to their several 

 natures, will be forwarded in the proper seasons 

 only, and, when requisite, written instructions 

 will be given for the safer conveyance of the 

 specimens in question. Having been pretty 

 successful hitherto in the transmission of seeds 

 from the southern hemisphere, he sees no plau- 

 sible objections to seeds being still allowed to 

 cross the equator, with every hope of ultimate 

 success, and especially those of some fine species 

 which have hitherto failed in consequence of 

 the extinction or weakening of the vegetative 

 powers in seeds. With such, a course of experi- 

 ments, founded on practical observations, will 

 be made; and, should they prove successful, 

 they will hereafter be made public. 



Many Vessels from the East Indies, China, 

 &c. touch at the Cape of Good Hope on their 

 return to Europe, having plants on board, which 

 are too frequently in a very precarious condition. 

 The Advertiser, while in the neighbourhood of 

 Cape Town, and when requested, will examine 

 the state of such growing plants, and freely sug- 

 gest such farther methods as may be conducive 

 to the future preservation of them, free of all 

 expence to the applicants ; and in so doing, he 

 hopes to be the means of preserving many valu- 

 able plants for their owners, whose laudable 

 exertions and heavy expences too often end in 

 disappointment. ' 



Professors in the various branches of Natural 

 History will find this a favourable opportunity 

 of increasing their Collections, and perhaps of 

 adding new and interesting' specimens to their 

 Cabinets, as the Advertiser has already paid 

 some attention to this circle of the Sciences, and 

 is equally anxious to increase his knowledge ; 

 and this he will be enabled to do, being entirely 

 freed from the restrictions under which he 

 laboured whde in His Majesty's service. In 

 addition to any specimens he may furnish, he 

 will be ever ready to forward any true informa- 

 tion which may pass under his notice, of the 

 uses, habits, and economy of both the animal 

 and vegetable kingdoms. 



Kew, August 1826. 



