582 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
for the table. Now, although none of us may 
o 
live to see that attainable, I do hope to hear that we 
should not in vain the fifth continent) wi 
producing fruits or vegetables 3 useful for 
and comfo 
the su rt of civilised man, w 
never have taken any trouble to — that end. I ask 
heat, Oats, or Barley be, &c., fit for 
? And then I say, ‘wh 1y ' might 
not the — — — oe m: ot 
growing se by cultivation, as 
„ be so 
2 them “ft objects tor — a artislo x mon rt from * 
land to of petent t 
York, 
TPossible ; but not probable 1 
Fairy Rin ngs.—Mos aa on this subject, — a 
all, have been imitators of Mr. Howitt, a favo 
author of mine, but who is wrong in his ry ae 
the cause of these uiian at least according to my e 
rience of them in this county. A great number of 
those which I a seen. have only: continued for on 
— i 
8 
7 
Space wi of 
some — 3 or 4 ee a arty from 10 t 
ed for four or five se 
e feet. "thoes 
ons in succes- 
ion. 
s i 
isa ood * loam 2 feet Psy 
which I have see as 
ct seeing one on any but old 
Grass land. W. Rothwell, Winwick. 
The Nec of the Dead oar hey — owing is an ex 
tract from Curzon, He made g 
ins of Ammon, 
no 
pa — 
e Dis 
her Gr 112 his list 
a | thrown away on Cherries. 
to — as the result of careful observation, that the 
— of Paris enjoys a far greater . of solar 
— rans than the — idian of Lon `B, C. H., 
ept. 11. 
asters in Gardening. Some * ago I walled in 
an acre of ground for a garden. I got the interior 
borders ready fat planting fruit trees, and taking 
Loudon’s, “ Encyclopædia of Gardening.“ I chose from 
is li he names of the be rees of different 
sorts. These 8 a 
possi — 
crops, except Cherries 
e ripe fru 
do with the inside — 
ears are against the north wall, Crassane, 
d Glout Moreeau; and my south is 
They have been eight years 
there, aud would be troublesome to transplant. Will 
they å do rag good on the north? [No.] SS 
This. Limonia stood 1 ter 
eases | in Mr, —.— nursery, near * N e quitos ex posed 
in a pot; not a leaf was injure t last April, 
after weathering 1 
a thing. How 
ai wn. Thos, 1 Haigh-hait 
Gardens, Wigan 
Sotieties. 
TARDEBIGG® HORTICULTURAL Suow AND- COTTAGERS 
Soctety.—The first 
g them. bli * — Clive f for — 
hot and sultry day; we were seram — up — — purpose of encou musing: bits of industry among the 
tain, through a thick jungle of bushes and low trees, | — 2 28 8, 8 by fostering a taste for 
which rises above the east "sah when hortieultu crease those home-ple 2 are 
I saw before Plum - | the green pe brooks the way in the poor 
me a with 
blooming Plame. 1 cried to my en ee Now, 
then, who will arrive first at the Plum- tree; and as he 
caught 7 —— of so — ate an we both 
rses into a gallop to see who would get 
the first * — from the branches. 
* — bitter € dust, 
ree u ae — s 
his strange fruit: en per- 
ceived, and to my great — that we 124 — 
the famous Apple of the d Sea, the existence — 2 
which has been doubt 8 sinee t 
eseribed 
duetions, w 
by Pliny ; $ 
thing itself 2 * * spot m 9 
ancient authors or elsewhere. 
where it it 
could to — elena of 
th 
—The he r daughters 
of this fruit is the Cantaloup, and is is * an A 
—— ion in the envi rons pof Par welco 
man’s — of life; and it is only one of — many 
ich are o that lady’s constant thought 
and —— for around 
by Providenee with but a 
r neighbou 
Mr. C 
the crowd first en 
ot bles 
| — — oo of 1 owers and fru t from the gardens 
of some tie. e e gentlemen, but principally ee 
e hothouses ervatories of Hewell 
d small 
vidently sharing in 
out three o’clock the chi — 
he 
ers and boughs, — aed n it a “little to Toe life life of 
thes scene. 3 —.— m forms round about 
the tents, and ed to enjoy i Alieke — mightily. 
After looking. — the tents, the com strolled off 
to the gardens, and distributed: rth oy ae 
pany see med full 
irati bly E artes The g gardens 
in a high state — —— nd kept with a care 
ch 
nasa t Gem, Non 
Philippe, Queen of te Isles, Shylock, Duches 
and 
e| Ther 
among “the caster, — j 
2 om sts 
[ SEPT. 14, 
Clive noticed were truly beautiful specimanā of that 
favourite root; the idee pienas and Apples were also 
—— fine. The esmen — sapar clase of 
workpeople did not exit s so o freely as my t haveibeen 
wished, owing, we belie — eg Want of 
perspicuity in some c if the — eee will . — ess be 
Ot 
set right before another m 
ho 
— and 3 — 
eral company gra 
— “Abridged from ‘the Worcester Herald, Sept. 7. 
Royat Sourn LONDON FLORICULTURAL, Sept 
last exhibition of the season, was well — 9 Ry Poor 
was Dani LIAS, of which there w were s va 
admirable specimens, were produced i in great seep es Fane 
8 n advancing to —— in shape; 
t nique 
priz 
24 gag cage 
with Duke ard, on 
of Lilacs, Whores tne nthe A | Nogrier, Mrs, C. B 
3 Lady St. Maur, Standard of Petfection, Tas 
ard, Toe Cob boden, Poasties) War Eagle, 
— areil, Beaut, 1 reme, 
at 
Oakley 2d, ack, gr. . ' 
agor. aind Windsor, with Earl of — Fearless, 
— Cobden, Mr. Seldon, ioness of G 
El dorado, Sir F. Bathurst, Ch Nanis — Seraph, 
Queen of 7 Duke of 1 Bleek Prince, Princess 
ouisa, — Triu — Pri iwill, Mynn, 
Purpl Sta ard, Du — eee Cambridge 
He ies (Farner * 12 4 
» Coo Nottin: hill’; 570 „Mr. Weedon, 
Hi 10 „ Mr. wden, Adbury 8 
eur ere with, Barl of Clarendon, Mrs. 
— hioness of Corawallis, Black Pri ace, in Sed 
Gasparine ; 2a, Mr. Robinson, with C e Flandre, Emperor 
e Maroc, Madame Bas 9 8 Plora Bea y, Lady ‘Gr reny 
fadame Wachy; 3d, C. Loe ae ae 4th, 
owden, Nur A ad 24 Bloo $ Er. C. Turner, 
Nursery, Siough, with Grandis (Turner's), aie. F. Bat 
ies aidon; r Hero, Earl of Clarendon, Negros 
wflake, Mr, Seldon, Queen of Lilacs, A 
orn walli, — Cobden, Andromeda, Blac 
awtr Esse zum uke of Welling ton 
{ Porkan —— riel, Duke of Cambridge, Vilis, meree a Fredes 
ck Jerome, Yellow Standard, Fearlesss Equal Ist, Mr, J. 
] 4 OT 3 feet Cleopatra, Bier Louisa, 
wflake, Essex Tri Richard 2 mays —— 7 — 
churst, Mr, 
wallis, 
n dÔ Mis s Vyse, Fea STe, Dulcet,, Shylock, 
res Piece, Buffalo Girl, Sarah ; 3d, Bragg, 
ney; 0 unt, ‘Padaiugion, 
7 
Ar. r * Striata 
ogent, Mrs. H: nad alae, Miss Com i 
‘ost-secretaire, Hane, Bulce's a Grenville, Tenny È ind, Mr, 
Labouchere, Comte de Fian dre; 2d, Mr. Keynes Miss 
Jompton, Elizabeth, Highland viel f, Comte de Plandre, Bell 
Bouguet, Rap pom, Candidate, Striata perfecta, Miss Black- 
e, Lad za 
villè, Forge et-m e-Not, SPACE 5 Mr. Bragg. 
8 ital condition, 
by Mr. ream, 0 of H —— — — 1 
Suffro den; ther mbers of ee 
which i in this state looked —— — They should be shown in 
spikes, or not at 
VERBENAS iria 5 Some pretty seedlings were sent by 
* G. Smith. 
8 — These were more numerous 
sthan an good, 
Bern a seful Towers staged, el few en ties; 
eau 
Ln 
t white, wi 
of ache 
y: 
form = its its petal a outline are good, s Admir 
lac, and appeared to be er? Saane 
eynes’s — t of Perfec 
— 
shaded. r e 
; Stein’s Nil Despirandam, ‘good Peary phe 
ner’s Grandis, much the same colour; H ? Barm aid, y 
promising r Do,, Roundhead, dul buff Di fine form; 
Sodeu's a aa of the Gro = neat, an darkest 
flower seen. Hans — 
iwosi . — with — aon 
ery fine form, decidedly the best * me con 
n were put "r a al but bes 
ascertain which 2 titicates, 
crowd which had a mbled — — cards were pub on. 
e number 
A ‘i unable to 
account of the 
Rebiew. 
The British Flora, compris ing the P W. 4 
Flowering pee, and the Ferns. By Sir . 
Hooker. 3 d G. A. W. Arnott; The 6th edition. 
12mo. Pp. 60 ngmans, 
Tuis is = ec nice edition of a well-known | and 
by some 
and attention whi the interest — h Mr. ¥ aided by some lithographic drawing 
Clive takes in them, and — infinite — t to the skill —4 as 12 š Fitch, with his usual ble 
and — his gardener s the close admirable taste. To some it w ages f 
of the day, Mr. Chve d distributed Panes his own hands than & Babington’s Manual,“ because of its ine — 
prizes, i ied: i rom 58. to 36. more de of various e should, however 
The judges were Mr. Ro naan me a 1 advise all students of British plants to 
Mr. Smith, gr. to in Galton; and Mr. Dytch, gr. in that way they will be to to 
tain Taylor. ith re to itself, we opinions con ng ies and gen 5 and p how- 
ana — — testimony to the very superior quality of draw t n conclusio: . — ae —— : 
uetions shown from the cottagers’ | ever, we T, Ae quote in 
ns; they were, indeed; CES my — wets: ©: oat at ie a species, isa 
obtained: wit a good deal of practical. know- point upon a two botanists are 
ledge and much attention. Potatoes whieh Mr. — * staat to the former, 
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