50—1850. | THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 787 
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GREAT — SOUTH-WESTERN, AND SOUTH-EASTERN SEED, ESTABLISHMENT, — | me 94 permeability at, all seasons, are perfectly 
Seeds Carriage Free. bs 
Supplying i That the raising the border on a vaulted bottom 
= deg anp SONS, Seep Growers, Reading, Berks, m ladom, many — in — Southern, Mid- is of very great value, concrete or no sem a 
and W e Counties of England, and in South Wales, hav — —— — Railw 3 5 itted by the best Gra e growers. Mr. Hur 
AB oa tg which will enable — to delive goods (excepting —. 1 00 F P CABRIAGE, to SoN’ bordee rs at Cas — 
Station on the N. estern, 8 Western, South-Eastern, or Berks and Hanis aes N Foti 8 rge at Reading), s rå algwyn o hits 5 
or to any Railway or Packet fice 15 3 ee — —— TE the early houses at Trentham, built under Mr. 
n hed patron e! owin; superior ?, 1 
quality of their HOMEG 48 SEEDS, N — — best kinds i in aanst s Fiemine’s direction, have the same kind, 
—Desoriptive Catalogues, with Prices of every. Article required for the Kitcheu-Garden, Flower-Garden, and Farm, and we n ave the declarati on y Mr. Spen- 
may be had on nice add eae cER, that oo finds their great utility. We would 
JOHN SUTTON ano SONS, SEED GROWERS, READING, BERKS, not, however, be understood to say hat these con- 
En Two Penny Stamps for Pos trivances are at all 0 L ne in ode to 
secure fine Grapes. ontrary, ge: 
RISTMAS HOLIDAY sit 
NS or tae ZOOLOG Wenk SOCIETY fa, 
Regent’s Park, will be open to VISITORS, on pay. 
J G. WAITE’S Ce oat * ee 0 
ön behed o on $ pplication?” ataire A hA 4 tes s without i. suc 
obtaine 
portant E nani is, hoe to deal with this valu- 
in 
ment — SIXPENCE each, EVERY DAY except Sunday, 
G. WAI TES — — or F — SEEDS Christ 
S ˙w . — 
Pron sal er ae hee SWEDISH TURNIP SEEDS 
„ pure, and of excellent Stock, 
raised b; ae the fh hg Agriculturists ts of 3 who 
has fo pr hing y sars pno gra grea Pinan, pAr raising of Turnip 
—Apply to N, Dun 
188 8700 SERY Eg haat CHELSEA. 
A STOCK oF db reba APPLES, 
cage eek aa — arf-trai Peaches, TT and 
all e Green 
ubas, Laa <7 ig T to bes 8 
priom for cash, the gro rr uired P for 
uilding.— Apply to Mr. Tren, Nane 
Chelsea, Florist to her Majesty. 
n f. - N EARS- 
, Extra nets a 
his 5 v 1 green Savoy, ia oo span gri one 
ance made to Seedsmen, —Port-Office Orders 2 payable to 
win — . — Ponder's End, Enfield, Middlesex 
ORISTS’ FLOWERS, 1851 
carer 11808 NEW CATALOGUE, for 1851, 
is now ready for delivery | to 25 wr enclosing two post. 
— e New Treatise on EMONE Gunes or 
sent post free for four 8 ia. Disto on ATHE RA 
eee any Booksell sent post feo, fr eght Tabe 
nunculuses, 100 2 namen 82 40s, to £ N 
*Double Anemo: 1 Ae 0 1 
ations and Pic ow towers, 335. to 3 0 0 
Pinks and Pansies, 25 . 1 
n Seed, from best 2 per paper, 
0 10 0 
These articles can be safely forwarded b y Post. 
Wallingford, Berk 
ULUS,” arien 
vi 
FOR „SALE, THREE | MILLION THORN n 
will deliver freein London | 
QUICKS, &c. 2 the Su 
England which 
or an * a t steam communication 
ee 
— io | Thorns, 4 years 0 58. Od. per 1000 
i Twice transplanted do., 6 * oi,” 
very strong T S 
Two years seedling do j % 18 50 
Three years seedling š s over eel 11 
Irish Yews, 15 to 18 inches „ . 20 Oper 100 
A 2 feet . , 40 0 „ 
53, street, Belfast, CHARLES H 52 
ec, 14, Nursery and Seedsman. 
. Battersea mages È a or 
RDEN, EN, with Gardene 
Hothous 3 Pit, Frames, So aad Water "laid 1 bag 3 
places; Pigstye, and Poultry-ya so extensive —ů— 
adjoining for orses, HR t box, — 
atter — 
—.— NN room, and loft. The I d, de l 
ely, or the Whole for 50l, a year, rates a 
r rang fog o Mr, Lloyd, o 
King’s-road, chi ae ott 
5 HE BEST MOST PROLIFIC EARLY 
KIDNEY POTATO GROWN. 
* astle — aren Age hit, 0 
“DEAR Sins Tove 
ig ae 8 Potato fay and — Pitfour Castle, Perthshire, have 
sfu 2 r flavo 
į 1 * ange T know. ts dw. es it a most 
Ri jer any ot F „ whieh T prored here last 
the a a well-known a 
1 raty mar "Improved } K y Potato, and a they — happy to 
-say they hav — . ane 1. 
17. — ae to offer, at 5s. ‘a. a. per b 
-heal 
2 be obrained of T. J, and Son, and 1 most of 
irms in London. 
nted | ce, according to quantity 
es in- 
n the spot, Ne | 
baset: | $r 
stream, where a fall can be 
—— — oa ; less 
ery rily in ortable 8 
Hot- 
“Town — plied with Gas or Water. Drawiags 
ANSON, aulic and 
INVENTED = 
and fixed by 
N, ia inopia "Sevenoaks. Also all kinds of Hot Ivete 
tus. For 8 and sae *— ngs, Mr, Nec 
aie 
g built, — — 
low scale of — paas, Roofs, 
8, 151; 20 by 10, 200. ; 20 by 12, 24l. ; 2457 12, — 
. Greenhouse Garden Lights, and Window 
painted three times, at 9d. — foot. 
built, for sale, 16 feet by 9.— Plans and par- 
dressing a letter to Mr. TH, 85, White 
L 
7 
. Sl W. 
for Hot- Water Apparatus. 
ntl ie. ST de + aed Te 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1850. 
MEETINGS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
Monnan, Dee. 
solv 
Turspay, — 
Wrpnespar, — 
THURSDAY, 
SATURDAY, 
Tne remarks in our last Number on concreting: 
VINE BORDERS, Spencer, gardener to Lor 
NSDOWNE, e be “i read by some with 
entire a EH > others with doubt or incre- 
ulity, o be feared K the latter will 
—— the greta number, w 
entire con 
that we . re, expres 
T 
os haber! ty had not 
pec 
0 
of Vine ee 
able frost tree when, as so often ppp in Great 
Britain, the soil and situation ar 
and bs submit that that problem is aon ee 
VIioronIA Park ass found a champion. A man has 
an attempt at 3 what 
notice such 
rese 
ae of 6 
ar manner in fe tbh the onl yr whom we 
nade conducts an argument, 
said—1, * this park consists of 290 a 
cost 44,000 J.; 3, that 
2 aut it has 44, 3. Oy the manner Sy ta 
ich the pobre been ded is a national 
disgrace; 4, that pe beh pak shrubs and trees 
wuh whieh thas b n planted were evidently the 
sweepings o f somemeglectod ı W eu 5, that 
it is furnished with a W * arrying a 
frightful gh eae and ace a — rotten 
hat of ‘the ayes MR 3 as the 
jects contained within the park ; 7, that one of 
= overgrown with 
nished an 
that this is what the 
it n frequently used to rass ; country had 
ent the roots coming in contact with dense, — paid 44,000 000“ for. 
„or to keep down the damp which in low he manner in which we are corrected is amus- 
situations will find its way to the surface during ing. In the first * the advocate says that Mr. 
nt spring. Such a contrivance has great Mason, of Leeds, was formerly criticised in our 
value; it answers the purpose far bette ny | columns for whe he did in the Manchester Park ; 
permeable substratum, if well uted, places 4 that a } ste Curtis, who i 2 it ge answerable 
he Vi ts in the same condition were for some part of the char, 
a huge basin, or shallow It has, with 
ods m 
It is also — to becoming injuriously 
summers. As a perfect contrivance it cannot then 
; all that can be said about it is, that 
be ree 
it is infinitely better than to leave the soil in its 
he 
natural ill 
it. therefore appears that there are so 
ot points in the plan; not that we een to cast 
the contri law of this op j e now trea ted 
harshness, everything being omitted except the 
points upon which ridicule can be heaped, It 
me ridiculous 
meré ridicale on wen they de a much more 
men 
condition 
he use of pars fr the surface b 
nd, a very recent 1 con- 
is, on the other han 
cerning which el is little experience, It must be 
owned that to co a Vine border with a “or 
impenetrable po ai of “eave, lime, coal ashes, and 
s to be so opposed to all known prin- 
— ‘that en first sight the mind absolutely — 
e proposition. It prevents rain reaching the Vin 
a it euts off all access of — it — be poste cold 
unders that — 
borders ma a and below, and all roma” 75 No, good 
folks, not quite that; what w is, that — — 
judicious to concrete the erde a Vine 
maintains a congenial temperature at other seas 
-| and its hardness prevents the earth below it from 
„becoming — 3 in consequence of persons 
walking ov 
Gas Engi-| Bu 
t in 1 — Me secure ee 4t. surface 
concrete, without any disadvantages, it see 
essential that the border B est upon 3 
mati so put together that air can readily fin 
its way upward through them into the border 
Mr. — NcER’s border — on rough — stones 
raised on rough walls, and is 3 connected with 
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the external air or with that of the Vinery itself, 
which we imagine to be — Under such cir 
cumstances, air Wi 
will find its te — the roots more 
readily than by any other known d; and thus 
the conditions demanded in a perfect Vine horde, 
viz., warmth, dryness in winter, and damp 
seque a visit st be), he cooll 
that he is no apologist “for anything which may 
have been rig ne aa re!!” But he thinks he ean 
rely upon espondent who undertakes to 
grapple with the N facts. 
This co pone says—1. That 5 park con- 
sists of 240, not 290, acres; but the Act of 4 and 
er, an g 5 Vic, cap. 27, declares that it pa PMA about 
the first objections that would rb talent to it. Naver 290 acres ;” and we prefer rie vidence of an Act 
theless, we quite agree with Mr. Spencer in arene of Parliament. 2, He says that the cost of making 
all os bos d | this park amounted to less than a quarter of 44,0007. ; 
the method itself—with proper accompani —to | but the ain Parliamentary evidence is agai 
be of the greatest advantage in our cold. damp him; for t tement we as taken, as we 
. “ What!” it may —— we to | explained, official reports of the Commis- 
you advise aon r. . wide in — 
Woods and Fores 
‘Cyclopedia of agers ays the 
more than 50,000 4 H. mits that i in a of 
nd triumph 
pd eastern “ Paradise 
** 
i [antiy expresses vhs 8 at 8 that * 
of seg ha ve expressed their “nisl alg how 
!!” could hay 3 — of 
l brick fields. "We ae ‘that 44,0002. 
J 
with — care, and he is quite eer re there are 
— —— where so healthy and vigorous 
. wn. Surely Sag writer must 
piece of Gases i i d every scrubby 
bush a picture. Only look at the wretched things! 
ey are; and there w re- 
main, till after the meeting of Parliament. And 
w A at l n unprejudiced 
observer, say, “ The shrubs — have been plan 
o not in some parts seem to be at all settled in their 
new habitation. . — = London 
threatens to be v very injurious to_the Pine, many 
which have been planted.” 5. A8 
island ring frightful pagoda we are ys onan there 
e three islands, 88 goa er, zaas all 
Goit age t that a and bridge, 155 even 
the water itself, are eal unfinished, alter spend- 
of 
to the frightful 
