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tor ' D n e II reo. ■' .«* I * t a limited numb, r of be.ltbj 



TonnTlr VT. **fU&l* prices, and „..!, u .he favour „, 

 JarKorier. «hich *Ul ea.ure good trees and meet with im. 



mediate atte..;,....: SL.Od.) 



SI 6 > package included. 



A few twlVerf'oldTrotaed. chiefly half standards and stand. 



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One Dlaiit over to the Trade when three are taken. 



Tn offering the above valuable ne^ early Apricot tor sale, 



lli" r- V £ iTCH and Son beg to refer to the description Riven *>? 



i?r iiiiDLET in the "Jou nal of the Loudon Horticultural 



Society" for July, 1849, from which the following extract is 



^The fruit Femi-'ransparent, roundish 5* inches, in circum- 

 ference, -kin il-pcti'ly downy, pale citron-coloured where shaded, 

 tinzed nnd marked with red next the sun. Flesh tender, juicy, 

 of a cl-ar eitr .n colour, parting freely from the stone, sugary 

 and delicious, like well re6ned lump sugar combined with 

 Aoricoc flavour ; stone small, roundi-b ; kernel sweet like a nut. 

 A valuable early variety lor the dessert, and probably excellent 

 for preserving: if it be employed for this purpose, the trans- 

 pirency of its flesh will exhibit a new feature amongst Apricot 

 preserve.. Some ot the fruits have ripened as early as the 12th 

 of July, and on the same wall at the lime were Moorpark and 

 Turkey Apricots perfectly green and hard." 

 Exeter. Jan. 1851. 



CUCUMBER—" PHENOMENA." 



EDWARD TILEY begs to offer to Cucumber- 

 growers generally the above superb CtJCUMBEK, which 

 he feels confident will give the greatest sati*faciot. to th. m, 

 as did the former kinda sent out by him during the last seven 

 years, be ng Victory of Bath, Gordon's White Spiue, and L-jrd 

 Keynou'ft Favourite. 



The above splendid Cucumber, " Phenomena," was a n>bnd 

 between Hamilton's Black Spiue and Mills's Jewess, which it 

 surpasses, b »th tor its prolific qualities and length of fruit, 

 generally growing from 21 to 28 inches. It i- a beautiful black 

 #pine, of a dark « re-en colour, and free from ribs or shrivels ; 

 it als *b quickly, carries its 1 oin well, and will be found 



firs -i for exhibition. As a proof of its prolific qualities 

 and kngth, the f (owing may be vouched for, viz. :- There 

 were « from two plants, grown iu a one-light box, the size ot 

 which was 4 feet by 6, 24 brace of Cucumbers, each fruit aver, 

 aging 11 inches long-total length of the whole amounting to 

 2? yardi 1 foot. It is solid, and eats very crisp. Sold in 

 pack- ts containing seven seeds. 5j. ; or three seed*, 25. Gd. 



E. T. has alt-0 a td of his three other superb Cucumbers at 



the fjl lowing prices : 



Victory ot Hath, per packet 2* Od. 



Gordon's * hire Spine, ditto 1 6 



Lord Keynon's Favourite, ditto ... ...2 6 



This last is the best for winter cultivation, 



MF LONS 

 BROMHAM HALL GREEN-FLESH MELONS— This has 

 again this season surpassed all others for its superior flavour ; 

 It was placed first and second for flavour at the Chiswick Ex- 

 hibition last season, and obtained a great number of first 

 prizes ihromrhout the country where exhibited. Sold in 

 packets at Is. Gd. each. 



E, T. has also seeds of the following superb Melons, which 

 he can with confidence recommend 

 Camerton Court Green-flesh 



Queen Melon 



Blackall's Green-flesh 

 Bailey's Greeo-flesh... 

 Bowood Green-flesh... 



Beechwood Green -flesh 



Windsor Prise ditto... 



Emperor 



Fleming's Trentham Hybrid 



Duncan's Green-flesh <io. Improved 



Hampton Court Gree --flesh 



Egyptian do. do. Improved 

 Any quantity of the above will be sent postage free to any 

 part on receipt ot a Post-office order, or the amount in penny 

 postage s ramps. 



Sold by Kdwaid Tiley, Nurseryman, Seedsman, and 



Florist, 14, Abbey Church-yard, Bath. 



FOR CHEAPNESS, QUALITY, DfsPLAY, and 

 Ul'»M IV, the following are strongly recommended. 



HOLLYHOCKS, No. 1, fine double named kinds, 



all ehadeg of colour, per doz., 9s., or per 100, 21 10s. HOLLY. 

 HOCKS, No. 2, for border display, very ^ood, per doz , 6s., or 

 per 100, 11. 10s. These are selected from some hundreds ot 

 seedlings, and mav be confident!? relied on. 



HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 



from List, per 100, U. 3s. 



W. Mat's selection, extra fine, No. 1, 21 2s. per 100 j 



,, ,, really g »od, No. 2, \l 10s. „ 



Having an immense stock they can be furnished at these low 

 prices. The collection extends over 700 species and varieties 

 selected from the choicest stocks in the country (regardless of 

 expense) for display, and warranted second to none. To meet 

 our customers in every way, we hope to be favoured with lists 

 of such plants as are already in toeir collections, that dupli- 

 cates of any article may not be sent where the selections are 

 left to ourselves. 



FLOWERING SHRUBS AND ORNAMENTAL 



TREES. — The finest vars., purchaser's selection, from the list, 

 per 100, U. 3s. 



W. May's selection, No. 1, extra fine, per 100, 21. 2s. 

 m „ No. 2, good kind-*, „ K. 5s. 



This Nursery has long held high celebrity for possessing a 

 most splendid stock of flowering shrubs, expending over up- 

 wards of 600 species and varieties of the choicest kinds. Some 

 hundreds were selected by Mr. E. Kemp for the Park at 

 Birkenh ad ; and for correctness of naming, quality, and 

 health, not excelled by any. 



To gentlemen forming Arboretums, or making extensive 



r?rvSt?A al ^ nrUDber *es, this is an opportunity seldom offered. 



in « ? X LAURELS, li to 2 feet, per li»00 f it. ; or per lOo, 



« 2 ,eM^o al 15 y 8tU * ; 2 t0 3 feet ' buBb J» extra fine ' per 100U ' 



GOOSEBERRIES, all the finest Lancashire show 



?u. <\v? r ! 00 ?' il ' in lu0 varieties, or per loo, Ins., in 50 varie- 

 r-TTT>n ?xTr^ teD 1:, o1rer300( >", and is very fine and h a»thy. 



tu*7 v , A * TS ~ w hite, Red, and Black, including 



Black .Nap'es, per 100, l 0l ., fi Qe . ' 6 



m^LEfl* 1 * Trees < fioe > and «qnally low, and of the 

 oat approved kind*, warranted trn*. 



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Purchaser's Selection, 



mv \KF PEAR. 



HAIRS'S Dwarf Green MAMMOTH KNIGHT'S 

 MaRROW PEA La p > dintintt from any «>lorin 



stem ws 2\ feet, is »hi weeks earlier than the old 



■rarf Green Knight's, and th I'eas and pods are twice the 



ize. f>s. per quart. 



BISHOP'S LON 4 POD.— Grows 9 feet hi.b, early as Early 

 Frame, pods u large as ^c\met:irs, and '20 to 24 per stem. 

 Is. p**r quart. 



BURBIGE'S ECLIPSE. — Grows 1 fojt high, pods larger 



than Imperial, grtfatef bearer, and alto.tther sup- rior to that 



varie' v . Is. per quart. 



The above are Uiree of th^ best Dv\arf Peas ever introduced. 



FuU particular* e%n be had of Duncan Hairs, Seedsman, 1 e 



Wholesale and Ketail, 109, i5t. .wartin's-laue, Cbaring-cross. 



London. 



Catalogues can be 'urnished on npp'ication. 



HOICE FRUITS, &c.— Planters are respectfully 



informed that YOU ELL and Co. possess an extensive 

 stock of strong and he* tnf planrs of the undtr-roenti oned : 

 FASlOLFF RASPBERRY (true), as originally sent out by 

 Y uel and Co., 15s. per 100. 



Large White do , 2fj per K»0. 



Cornwall's Victoria, 8s. per 100. 

 CCR S < ANTS. — Improved 'ar^e Whi'e Dutch, 5s. per dozen. 



Large Black Naple* 6s. per d<izen. 



Raby Castle, or Victo ia (red), 6s per dozen. 



Kniiht's sweet Red, 6s per dozen. 



Kn»ght*8 Large Red 6s. per dozen. 



Red GrHpe, 4s. per doz-n. 

 GOOSE MEUU IKs of the finest sorts, by name, 

 ^ize, combined with flavour, 5s. per dozen. 

 RHUBAllrL — Mya't's Linnaeus Mitchell's Koyal Albert, and 

 M>att's Victoria, 12$. per dozf n. 



Youe l's Tobobk, fine, for forcing, 6*. to 9s. per dozen. 

 ASPARAGUS.— Giant, btrong, 4 years old, for forcing, hs. 



per 100. 

 Do. do. 2 and 3 years old, 2s. Gd. and 3$. 6<2. per 100. 



8EAK*LE, strong:, Is. Gd. per dozen. 



Apples, Pears, Cherries, Plums, Peaches, Nectarines, an<1 

 Apricots, of the newest and most approved kinds, selected from 

 the Garden of the London Horticultural Societ., and warranted 

 true to name, can be supplied in maiden and trained trees ot 

 the finest quality, and forward f >r bearing. 



TO PLANTERS AND CONTRACTORS.— 

 WHITETHORN, twice transplanted (very strong), 7s. Gd. 



per 100'>. 

 Do. i and 2 years transplanted, 4s. Gd. and 5s ?d. per 10 >fl. 

 Do. 4 years, htrong and fine, whh an abundance of fibrous 



roots, as good as transplanted, 3s. per 1000, or I'll. 10s. 



per 100,000. 



YorF.rx and Co. can also supply 

 CAMELLIAS, of the newest and best kinds, with flower-buds, 



30s per dozen. 

 ROSES standard, half-standard, and dwarfs, of the veTy best 



kinds in cultivation, 12s to 15s. per dozen. 

 ESCALLONIA MaCRANTHA, 5s each. 



Rojal Nursery, Great Yarmouth. 



ing we hi \\v i in Lend a upon a pet plant 

 as upon a laj g, the one would remain in as 



the otl 



good condition ,\s the other. The 



obvious. Plants breathe by their 



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 leaves : 



are 



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chSp! beQaUd Fiower -S arden Seed*, of the best quality, very 



C&VS^ a fl n d nl St ? Phmt ?' a 8 P leDdid ii*. at low prices. 

 A II - application gratis. 



carTh/eMtp ^ ^ F T" r Tre ! 8) ' above 5J - wi l' be delivered 

 S ' rtCl . *' r S 1 tt l ™ta « with,,, '50 miles of the 



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JANUAR 



MEETINGS KOH THE ENSUING WEEK. 



- r _ »» «n f Chemical 8 r.M, 



Mokdat, Jan, 20| « tHt1snca] 8 Ptlf . 



Lit»np«n 8 p.m. 



Civil Engineers 8 p M. 



Pathological •• 8 P.M. 



Zoological 9 p.m. 



20 J Society ot Arts 8 p.m. 



) GfolOirical 8iP.M. 



Tuesday, 



Wbdnbbdat, 



THCaSDAT, 



Fkidat, 

 Satubdat, 



S Hoy at Soc of Literature 4 p.m. 

 Antiguariab H P M. 

 Royal - ..8£p.M. 



a. f Philological • 8 p.m. 



"* I Royal Institufoa 8*p m. 



2b— Medical 8 p.m. 



Payable on Bedale, to John Mat. 



ire. Post-office ordera should be made 



Cleanliness, says some old writer, is the charm of 

 animated beings ; but we suspect that plants were not 

 included in the maxim. People, indeed, seem to 

 have no notion that because they must clean their 

 own skin, if they would preserve their good looks, 

 therefore they must clean the skin of the creatures 

 that surround them. It must be confessed, indeed, 

 that cleanliness would seem, from the practice of | 

 many persons, to be looked upon as the peculiar 

 attribute of man. The state of their cows and their 

 pigs and their oxen plainly enough declares a con- 

 viction that dirt is the heritage of all living things, 

 man excepted. To introduce the sponge and the 

 curry-comb into the pigstye and cowshed is a degree 

 of rural dandyism of which, they think, no rational 

 being would be guilty. How much stronger then 

 must be the belief that to plants, the peculiar children 

 of the soil, dirt must be natural, if not necessary. 



And yet we find, in the condition of the plants in 

 some good gardens, a degree of neatness observable 

 which our forefathers thought, with many of thei 

 descendants, to be wholly uncalled-for. But we fear 

 that, even here it is not uncommonly supposed that 

 the chief ground for keeping plants clean is that 

 their colours are brighter, and that they harmonise 

 better with the woodwork and floors, in which neat- 

 ness is required by common consent. It may be 

 too that in greenhouses the fair hands that gather 

 flowers are not to be soiled with impunity because 

 of a gardener's neglect. 



If these reasons were the only ones for keeping 

 plants scrupulously clean, they would be weighty 

 enough to demand attention ; but they are among 

 the weakest. It is notorious to those, who under- 

 stand the nature of vegetable life, that a freedom 

 from impurities upon the skin is of even greater 

 vital importance to a plant than to a man. It is 

 nearly ten years since we showed, in these columns, 

 that the main reason why green leaves and gay 

 flowers are banished from the squares and balconies 

 of London, is the filthy atmosphere that is inces- 

 santly defiling them ; and we then asserted, what 

 few believed to be true, that if as much wash- 



if their surface is clogged by dirt of whatever kind, 

 their hi ihing is impeded or prevented. Plants 

 perspire by their haves; and dirt p vents their 

 perspiration. Plants feed by their lea v , and dirt 

 prevents their feeding. So that breathing, perspira- 

 tion, and food, are fatally interrupted by the accu- 

 mulation of foreign matters upon leaves. Let any 

 •ne, after leading this, cast an eye upon the state of 

 plants in sitting-rooms, or ill-kept greenhouses ; let 

 them draw a white handkerchief over the surface of 

 -uch plants, or a piece of smooth white leather, if 

 they desire to know how far they are from being as 

 clean as their nature requires. 



There is so little novelty in all this, although but 

 seldom thought of, that we should have scarcely in- 

 troduced the subject, if it were not for some new 

 and curious experiments just published by M. Gxa- 

 reau. This experimentalist has for some time de- 

 voted himself to inquiring into the functions of the 

 skin of plants, and his observations entirely con- 

 firm all that had been slated upon the subject by 

 others. Among other things he found that soap and 

 water had great merit ; plants well washed acquiring 

 a power of absorption much beyond what they 

 possessed in their unwashed condition. Thus the 

 rate of absorption in the Tangiers Ferula was as 

 4 to after ablution ; and in the yellow Gentian as 

 30 to 20. In like manner, the petals of the Paeony 

 took up five and six times as much after as before 

 being cleaned ; and the leaves of the Lilac, Lily of 

 the Valley, Ivy, and Clematis when washed took up 

 about twice as much as before. 



It is not a little curious, however, that soap and 

 water Jiad a far greater cleaning effect than mere 

 water ; thus, a Fig-leaf, which had been lathered, 

 absorbed 90 parts, while after a mere water-bath it 

 took up only half the quantity ; and a bramble, 

 which soap and water provided with 130 parts of 

 water absorbed, could only consume 10 parts when 

 cleaned with water alone. Can there be a more 

 conclusive argument in favour of the repeal of the 

 soap duty 1 VVe respectfully submit this to the 

 consideration of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. 

 I On a future occasion we shall lay before our 

 readers, in a more formal manner, the results to 

 which M. Garreau's experiments have led him. 

 In the meanwhile enough has been said to show 

 that a dirty gardener is necessarily a very bad one, 

 as well as a particularly disa .reeable person. 



The Orchard Houses, to which we alluded last 

 week, have been proposed by Mr. Rivers as a 

 certain and unexpensive means of securing a crop 

 of common fruit. Considering the fickleness of our 

 springs, the universal loss of a considerable portion 

 of all orchard crops by late frosts, especially in low 

 warm situations, and the slight amount of protection, 

 by which such consequences are to be averted, it 

 must be owned that an intelligent " enterprising 

 nation like this has been untrue to itself in not 

 having sooner thought upon some simple means of 

 security. No doubt the evils have been borne 

 under the idea that they can only be averted by an 

 expenditure which the value of the article to be 

 preserved would not justify. **^ 



It must be admitted that there was much truth 

 in this so long as timber and glass and iron- 

 castings were dear, and more especially so long as 

 no other mode of obtaining protection was known 

 than that of building costly hot-houses and green- 

 houses. But all this has ceased. Glass is among 

 the cheapest of materials. Timber is sunk to its 

 lowest in price ; saw-mills have reduced the labour 

 of its conversion to a comparatively inconsiderable 

 sum ; and iron-castings may be had at five or six 

 pounds a ton. With these materials skilfully ap- 

 plied the expense of covering large areas becomes 

 in many cases a prudent outlay ; for markets must 

 be bad indeed if they will not yield a profit to the 

 producer of crops under such glass roofs as we are 

 alluding to, after allowing an ample margin for 

 interest upon the expense of constructing them. 



Mr. Rivers points out in what manner he would 

 set about this in a very useful pamphlet,* which 

 we advise everybody to purchase. Having been 

 published for the purpose of aiding in the repairs 

 of his dilapidated parish church, his little treatise 

 has a claim upon the public, independent of its 

 intrinsic horticultural worth, which is great. After 

 pointing out the important fact, that the mere 



covering a space of ground with a glass roof is 

 sufficient, without fire heat, to produce in England 

 the climate of central France, Mr. Rivers explains 

 in what way he constructs— for he teaches what he 



* The Orchard House ; or, the Cubivaion of Fruit Trees iu 

 Pots uud<r 61a»d. By Thomas Hiyers, of the Nurseries, 

 Sawbridgeworth, Herts. Longman & Co. 



