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Mar $8, 1864.] 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND coni ipm GAZETTE. 
505 
Quis G ARDENER’S VADE-MECUM. | 
W HEELERS LITTLE BOOK on SEEDS. 
Seeds Worth Growing. 
OBSON’S SEED 
——— 
edd p TA is 
packets, 1s. 6d., 9s. 6d., 
Pawel eae CINERARIA SEED. —Ten First 
Te r Collection in the Spring, 1862. In sealed 
opsovs PRIZE, Mo iil eae os nh 
yt hme 
astu 
LLIAM MO SSEY d lees s to offe 
Plants, at 21s. per 100 ; also ‘the undernamed. T 
GERANIUMS 14s. 100; BRILLIANT do., 14s. per 100; BIJOU, 
ede SH ESH AM PET, per 100; RIMSON IVY- 
LEAF. r 100; CALCEOLARIA. AUREA FLORIBUNDA, 
Yós. per 0; JOBELIA EC: Los per 100. 
Horticultural Gar ns, Norwich, 
Choice rioolor | eui for Pot Culture. 
TERED: FRYER offers the erret i - Choice 
icolor, Gold = Silver-leaved varieties, 
"d above fine 
OM THUMB 
Basket PA e inclu. der" 
Mrs. Polloc! Glow. 3olden Harkaway 
Sunset Ate” Golden [oo Thumb 
Mrs. Milford Picturata Golde 
Rainbow Silver Chain Silver N 
Remittances requested from unknown Aeris inr 
et Gera x FRED FRYER. aret Cambridgeshire. 
“Scarlet Ge serymen and Others. 
AWKINS. AND BENNETT, FRUITERERS, FLORISTS, 
Ly. eg te yeu. spec 
stock o 
pots. ice per pos! 5 on application to 
: Bennett, Fruit nd Florists, Stadt Adee S.W. 
1 FI, Wal SON, t urs ich plea: 
e). fine SHRUBBY CALCKOLARIAS. or 
garden ] "m 0808 ; n *- are ‘unequalled by eu ey cultivation 
EOLARIA BIJOU, brillian dwarf. 
A BEAUTY of HERTS c ‘sinber, 
CALCEOLARTA GENERAL TOM THUMB, esp. yellow. 
CALCEOLARIA STARLIGHT, fine red. 
The above are warranted thor roughly shrul Pag Full description 
given in Gardeners’ Chronicle, p. 334. Price 30s. per dozen ; the usual 
allowance to the Trade where six or more are taken. 
e Duchess of Buccleu E 
ERT PARKER begs ^to pies ounce that he has 
rranged for Us distribution of the stock of this very distinct 
WHITE GRAPE, rd bes the plants will be 
Full ee ticulars as its qualities 2 be 
em 
LJ T orgy e en ma dugme of i merits, as a lar; 
as and perma; fruitin ng a at that 
Ku Planting Canes, 21s. each ; Extra strong Fruiting Canes, 
428. uk. Orders are now being booked, and wil be executed in 
strict rotation. 
Exotic 
RAHAM'S 
"NUS OE Surrey, S. S, aer 
€ M U SC - D ^ N E, 
—This 
w Plants for 1864. 
LANS has much pleasure in offering the 
M. aM Novelties for the first time, descriptions of which 
will be Do in previous A E Eer ae de andin his NEW PLANT 
CATALOGUE, po: € to all applicant 
New ace ) 
gans | SINGLE PrrUNIAS. 
E 
Magnet E aen L 5s, 
€ Perfection each, = ‘the | Du s i "of Northumber- f each 
Vivica E 6 for 42s, and J 
Eclipse | 
New Fucustas. New ZoNALE GERANIUMS. 
7 Display 
Oe ne ae Beauties | 7s. 6d. | Beauty } s 
Gem of the North yalty. 
Minotaur 
each 
Paradise and Victoria Nurses, Holloway, London, N ie 
^ Two Hundred 
and "ie m ineas in Ten Prizes. 
| common lang guage, t the wood is not well ripened, 
When the next season comes roun 
sim a because its elements are puse ng i 
ew has not been ripened duis the 
Y^ way in which Nature works, it 
— that it is not diffieult to ke ar how it 
rature of day and night 
the days were clear and warm, -— while th 
nights did little or no harm, ,the warm and sunn 
days produced 
trees. the 
For Five Years Successiv ELY His La 
CoxsonT's Prize Curs E A WAR 
AUTTON'S CHAMPION SWEDES at the "Roxit East | 
k Bergs and Sovrum Bucks AGRICULTURAL SocreTIES, and many 
ot horse Prizes in various Parts ofi the Kingdom. 
"s Champion Swede is one of the hardiest sorts in cultivation. 
The ‘Champion $ e d beu Ww! KU gon never suffers from mildew, 
and doe: vi early as other Swedes. 
ROM "LETTERS RECEIVED 
iim Esq., Southwell. 
“Your Champion Swede eta most excellent." 
flowering shrubs a and 
autumn, which fiers the farmer pay an 
abundant crop of grain i into his ba "pps € so ane 
the leaves of our store 
now panke 
uit. In this 
| down he ayay laden with the 
J. W. J. Bar Little Weedon 
« You Chain pion Swede has pirén great satisfaction, having beena| We believe there i is more room. tor improvement 
splendid crop, and kept well through the severe frosts. 
J. SrRaTTON, Esq., Broad Hinton. : 
“With your mr sr Swedes I won a prize of 101, last year." in t any othe r kind connected with their 
. Parmer, Escri pr ve^ partieularly as regards the artificial 
“ Your Champion mSwodes "reas sound and as P emen : Al d it 
day I got them up ; I en sufficient to last till the lm of Mag cuit r rea y 
H. Ham arket Place, wou 
** Your Champion Gade: de obtained the first pele pen the Masham | 
Show, the 10th of Septem 
r. J. B. Reece, Harpswood. 
“I took the Shropshire Challenge anny, likewise the Bridgnorth 
District Cup, with your Cham; Pn 
NES En "vm e, Dre 
“The Champion de TI gutting is triv] Ung here 
The above Wer a few of the numerous Letters received 1 in testi- 
mony of the excellence of Soho s Champion Swede. 
This celebrated variety still maintains its high character for hardi- 
ness, S; mera Aas of form, and great weight per acre. 
New Seed fr lected Roots now ready, 10d. per poun 
m Se 
Cube pA ne ‘bushel, prices of which may be had on MEDIA UM. 
e, except small par: cels. 
irons Royal Berk: Reading. 
nal e 
and not so liable to crack as 
bearer, the bunches those of Ro; 
e bervies as. a at T. 
The Stock having by Jons STANDISH, pec Plants 
vill be sont out in thom week ee Por dur 6d. each. 
Strong We of all vend ipod ads rapes. LISTS and 
had on applicat 
Royal Ni e in ee Berks. 
po a variety is. 
of 
usands of 
quarter and half specimens down to small plants, all properly sha 
to form symmetrical specimens, am and finely set with ioomaAny pei oen 
ming. a ool a collection oi eir present one will do well to 
visit, this Nursery, eid every variety up to the A cig 4 Ll worth 
sum vating wi Iu z Sand, ihe "s dps ook that 
or p pn Arkey Aer oss 
PRICED LIST will be forwarded upon application post free. 
Camden N , Camberwell, d 28. 
FLERBACEOUS CAL CEOLARIA, &c., SEED. | 
CHOICE CALCEOLARIA (James’).—This unrivalled strain has in 
every instance received First Prizes wherever exhibited—can be 
seen in bloom here. Sealed Packets, 1s. 6d., 2s. 6d., and 5s. 
CHOICE PRIMU IÁTA.— 
strain, Sealed Packets, 2s. 
fate ayes’ superb 
Fw n. CINERARIA.—Saved ft S pest named P aS and can- 
Hun ot be su Sealed 
<r She Gardeners’ Chronicle. |; 
SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1864. 
ners. make it bear its fruit abund- 
antly a at any s they choose. 
hether the knowledge which enables them to do 
ts 
as t “toss d e Vine are, we may expect similar 
"ian results, 
we may return to this is subject, as we 
belive 10 19 be ob the greatest im ce to all 
who "take an interest in the sueeessal pr prato of 
horticulture. 
"AL de Sera! ue GREAT — T long EM DE respecting the 
po Wn a} finierat South Kensington. 1 ra NCTIONS OF 8 SELS, and allied vascular 
EMT tissues, While pra have tained that they 
are the main ducts of the sa pete ave asse 
f an abundant as strongly that their ape is simply to convey air 
Fenn of a Me favourable kind. We have not to different parts of the 
~~ m on our trees for seve se much at least is - wein, that as they are 
yea aoa d f the country near London | m pie perme og of wur tissue, they are, in 
Thick we haved Pus an Mu of visiting, the arly emn m containin 
orchards have been aquel lo v with flowers ; t i tit and 
vede loom confined 
matter, 
that t in some later stage les gro sti her ai contain air. 
This deg gree of : information however by no means 
o their proper function. 
Monsieur ‘Gus and Monsieur DELIMIER there fore 
Packets, ls. 0d., 28, 0d., an what mmo tpe ed frait trees, Se ^ ed 
SCARLET WEET WILLIAM. Soal sealei Packs 0d: and 1e Kia bis inn "€ acil V hieh ar v. dre ies g 
Pinme 1s and 260d. qos. Sealed Packets, te. and oe, ea, | Ment "hd ui have been most gay with oser examinatio ion of the role; ne 
And every other lass Seeds. See CATALOGUE, post free. i oca which p «tomm ~ Mitos © we have is more satisfactory than those which have 
M TEN x ESO ux» BON S SPRING eed are well wort! rth the study of all who are | hitherto been published, though their conclusions, 
E. G. HENDERSON AND SON'S da ui d G | interested 1 in i Hort iculture, and i causes | which differ from each other, are not decisive. 
Amongst n many beautiful plants oa the. Flower Qe Garden and Conser-| to which we would direct the attention of the| Th hod which M. Gris l i 
XY descri DO DON NA ^ ntl ga an iT xr of bun Jou "P The amount of secretion E jec vessels ha which by i 
ich are formed and stored up annually by plants | chemical reaction may i di vx vhat all the 
ACH E * L R agit Sra iu e 
tie n: doen “She most distinct, for the production of their flow fruit | nature i ents. on 
BEES uL oria doublofowers mon depends upon certain naturallaws. For example, hover to do b PS means of : Ly cto first pro- 
BOUVARDIA GRANDIFLORA, and other new ones. if we take our annual crops, such as Wheat, Barley, | pose a by Mon FEHLING to indicate the pre- 
SERE CN EM m S (Lanuiginosa B o ie | eme mes Meleuinim d that i mH moe o: ] ulis. ae E M o inm ate of 
ERANTHEN ORA | season be favourable—that is, if we have a sufficient | copper, soluti caustic 
M OMNE ETE style of growth ana | Quantity of moisture to y their wants duri: due t ‘tion: 
| of blooming ha abi it, see Tllustrati don HOO: the period of growth, a a perfectly clear when boiling, and » 
PAMPA rich deep rose-coloured, 3s. 6d. autumn, we are sure of having an abundant | addition of a —— a a red 
FUG MES now varieties, a arvest, hod the secretions of the | precipitate of oxydule of copper, which, — 
& ted tricolor-leaved varieties. plants are forme pen in one n. | under the is found to consist of little 
aiia WHINE TOM THUMB and BEAUTY, with other With d plait; however, such as our |clots of a deep brown or almost black. A small 
Asta Ne N ay varieties n beautiful bedders, and other Conti- | common trees, this is not so. In the latter | quantity of "s TE ee the liquid exhibits the 
XINA PUNCTULATA, te talogue. the secretions are formed and laid up in s same appearan: 
M EE cuban ord MEE n4 gold and silver margined during one year in the following one. | Now, if thick Hhasentact the wood of Chestnut, 
AGERIA 6d., 2s. 6d. Vida 38: ôd Ge. id Take the Apple or the an example of this Dire Poplar, or Laburnum, are steeped for a fi 
PHLOX Lo s Gi beautinuliy pu ëd., 25. €d. class, and let us see what happens in so far as in this fluid thin mieroscopie slice 
ERIT A TACHYS URTI rs URTI LIE are — - T vag be a wet and | cwm ws t that there ya : depo ydule of copper 
EAR New 1864, stro viia 3 feet in growth, old one, the leav umerous and as | on the walls of the large vessels, a fact which is 
VERBENAS A VELVET E rents: RA UTY 54 MADAME | green iod healthy “aking as fe are in better | even observable with a c on lens. 
LEFEVRE: N NOBILE E y : 
DA CAROLINA NU HEN. de , but they do not perform their functions} As this precipitate is generally very abundant on 
dieit PE "i a; a ers amit o f the proper juiees of the|the walls of the cells of the medullary rays, M. 
Wellington Nursery, St. John's Blooming varieties. plat e laid up in bre. and, as We sey in!Gmrs concludes naturally that the ly mphatic 
