

THE 



GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



AND 



A 



AGRICULTURAL 



Stamped Newspaper of Rural Economy and General News 



GAZE 



Horticultural Part Edited 



No. 8 



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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 



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INDEX. 



Agricultural Society of En* land 



b-toou* foch»taldet 



Beech trees 



B.rds, Br-tish »onr _ 



Boataet tnde in New York >• 



Broccoli, Snow's ....... 



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Cyclamens 



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Sony. v*ri*i M*d, Wr«* 

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— report of meeting 

 Lrcaste Skinneri 



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Manure heap* and weds 



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Market fardening 



Mycold*v, contributions to. 



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Peache*. to f >rce 



Peara for espaliers 



Plants, effecta of putrefying 



matter on 



Poultry ., _ 



Rhubarb. 



St. Peteraburfh 



Seasoo, the 



Seeds, to germinate 

 Soil, man segment of the 



Spade husbandry 



Temperature, Chiswick *. 



Holkham .... 



Trade memoranda 



Trees Beech 



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SURPLUS STOCK of FOREST TREES, SHRUBS, 

 aud FRUIT TREES, now on Sa'e at kENDLE'S NUR- 

 SERY, Plymouth. See Advertisem nt, page 83, in this Paper. 

 Larch Fir-*, 3 feet. 18*. per 1000; very stout and fine Scotch 

 Fir§, 2 feet, 15$. per 1000. 



THE PLAVTING SEASON.— WOODLANDS NURSERY, 

 MARE<FIRLD, NEAR UCKFIELO. SUSSEX. 



WM. WOOD and SON having still on hand a very 

 extensive and superior stock of ROSES, will be happ\ to 

 ■apply collection* as under (the selection of sorts being: left 

 to themselves). The plants are remarkab.y strong and healthy, 

 and none but first-rate kinds will be sent. 



ROSES. Per dozen. 

 Extra tall Standards, budded with from 3 to 6 best 



yarieties on a stem ... 42s. to 605. 



Extra superior selected Standards 18s. to 24s. 



Fine Dwarfs and Dwarf Standards 10s. to 16s. 



Superb do. do. (for exhibition) ... 18s. 



Fine Dwarfs, on own roots, in 50 varieties, per 100 ... 50s. 

 Good do. do, without names, per 100 30s. 



N.B. A liberal quantity of plants will be given over with 

 esch order. Cata'incues free on application. 



Rose Nippers, of various size*, for pruning, 2s Gd. to 4s. each. 

 The Nippers are of an improved shape, being made bo as to 

 remove a shoot without bruising the part left ; they are highly 

 recommended as a useful addition to the implements of 

 Amateurs. Metallic Labels for pot Roses, 2s. per 100. 



AMERICAN PLANTS. 



JOHN WATERER'S CATALOGUE of Hardy Rho- 

 dodendrons, Azaleas, Roies, dec,, may be obtained gratis on 

 application. It describes the colour of every Rhododendron 

 worthy of cultivation, thus affording purchasers every facility 

 in making selections. He has many thousands of Rhododen- 

 dron ponticum in sizes very suitable for planting immediately 

 into Game Preserves, very healthy bushy stuff, price 5L t 71.10*., 

 and 101. per 1000. 



The American Nursery, Bagshot, Surrey, near Fxrnborough 

 Station, South- Western Railway, and three miles from black- 

 water, South- Eastern Railway. 



CUCUMBER— "PHENOMENA." 



EDWARD TILEY begs to offer to Cucumber 

 growers generally the above superb CUCUMBER, which 

 he feels confident will give the greatest satibfaction to them, 

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

 years, being Victory of Bath, Gordon's White Spine, and Lord 

 Keynon's Favourite. 



The above splendid Cucumber, M Phenomena," was a hjbrid 

 between Hamilton's Black Spine and Mills's Jewess, whicn it 

 Surpasses, b >th for its prolific qualities and length of fruit, 

 generally growing from 2* to 23 inches. It is a beautiful black 

 spine, of a dark green colour, and free from ribs or shrivels ; 

 it also grows quickly, carries its bloom well, and will be found 

 first-rate for exhibition. As a proof of its prolific qualities 

 and length, the following may be vouched for, viz. ;— There 

 were cut from two plants, grown in a one-light box, the size of 

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

 aging 22 inches long— total length of the whole amounting to 

 29 yard* 1 foot. It it eolid, and eats very crisp. Sold " 

 packets containing seven seeds, 5s. ; or three seeds, 2s. Sd. 



E. T. has also seed of his three other superb Cucumbers at 

 the following prices : 



Victory of Bath, per packet 2s. Qd. 



Gordon's White Spine, ditto ... 1 6 



Lord Keynon's Favourite, ditto 2 6 



This last is the best for winter cultivation. 

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

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

 postage stamps. 



Sold by Edward Tilet, Nurseryman, Seedsman, and 

 Florist, H f Abbey Church-yard, Bath. 



SPLENDID MULBERRIES.— FINEST PRIZE 



GOOSEBERRIES. 



AS the present is one of the best SEASONS FOR 

 PLANTING, WILLIAM DENNIS and Co., Florists, <fcc, 

 King'«-road, Chelsea, beg respectfully to call the attention of 

 the public to the fact, that the whole of their really useful and 

 Ornamental Stock must absolutely be cleared off this season ; 

 and in order to dispose cf it as expeditiously as possible, they 

 have called a SALE BY AUCTION, which takes place Feb. 25. ; 

 and as it is their intention not to place the slightest reserve on 

 any portion of the Stock, they consider for Gentlemen engaged 

 in Planting, it is an unusually good opportunity. The Stockcon- 

 si^ts of some extra fine large Fruiting Trees of the Black Mul- 

 berry. Pine Plants established in pots, and fine dwart plants 

 for training. A considerable quantity of Standards of the 

 best sorts of Prize Gooseberries, and above 300 kinds of good 

 bushy Plants, two to five years old ; also a large quantity of 

 Evergreens, Deciduous Shrub*, Ornamental Trees, ic. Stove 

 and Greenhouse Plans, comprising tine specimens of Orchidae, 

 Cacti, fine standard and dwarf bushy Geraniums, Greenhouse 

 and hardy Bulbs, dec. Catalogues may be had on the premises 

 and of the principal Seedsmen, or Bent by inclosing two postage 

 stamps. 



WOKING NURSERY, SURREY. 



GEORGE JACKMAN has to offer from his exten- 

 sive Stockof CONIFERS, EVERGREEN, and FLOWER- 

 ING SHRUBS, the following, which are all kept safe for 

 removal. Prices will be furnished on application, or priced 

 Catalogue, by enclosing two postage stamps. 



N.B. — Reference required from unknown Correspondents. 



Arbor- vitae American, 3 to 4 ft. ; Ditto, close Siberian, 2 to 4 

 ft. ; Aucuba japonica, 14 to 2 ft. ; Berberis aquifolium, 1 fc ; 

 Ditto, dulcis, 1 to 2 ft. ; Bays, Sweet, 1 to 2 ft. ; Box-tree, 

 variegated, 1£ to 2 fc. ; Chimonanthus fragrant, in pots ; Cle- 

 matis, in sorts ; Cedar, red, 2 to 3 ft, ; Cryp'omeria japonica, 

 24 ft., in pots, from seeds; Dirto, nana; Hollies, green and 

 variegated, 1 to 3 ft. ; Ilex latifolia ; Ditto, latispina ; Ditto, 

 dypirenna; Juniperus Bedfordiaoa, 1 ft ; Ditto, Chinese, 2 to 6 

 fc. ; Ditto, macrocarpa; Laurustinus, 1 to 2 fc. ; Laurels, com- 

 mon, 1 to 3 fc. ; Ditto, Portugal, 1 to 3 ft. ; Ditto, Portugal, 

 quartered, fine, 3$ to 4 ft. ; Magnolia, Exmoutb ; Ditto, soulan- 

 giana ; Privets, eversrreen, 14 to 2 tt. ; Ditto, Chinese ; Pinus 

 excelsa, 3 to 5 ft. ; Ditto, insignis, 2 ft. ; Ditto, Cembra, 1 to 

 2 ft. ; Cedrus Deodara, 2 to 4 f c. ; Ditto ditto, very fine, 5 to 6 ft. ; 

 Ditto, Lebanon, 2 to 3 fc. ; Abies Doujlasii, from seed, in pots, 



1 ft. ; Ditto, Smithiana, 2 to 3 ft. ; PhiUyrea, Ilex leaf, 1 to 



2 ft. ; Taxodium sempervirens, 1 to 3 ft. ; Taxus adpressa ; 

 Ditto, elegantissima ; Dovaston, 3| ft.; Tulip-tree, 2 to 4 ft. ; 

 Yews, common, I to 2 ft. ; Ditto, Irish, 1 to 5 ft. ; Limes, 6 to 

 10 ft.— Woking, Feb. 22, 1851. 



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GARDEN AND FARM SEEDS. 



J DRUMMOND and SONS, Seedsman, Stirling, 



tn -»I«* I ^ nd » ^ t0 announce, that they are now prepared 

 ■elected Sto^k ** thS ab ° VC tr ° m * large and carefttll J- 



free h bv nn, tal0g * e <* Stable and Flower Seeds may be had 

 the namL ^f° n a PP Ucati <>a. it will be found to contain only 

 and Z *l ** varieties as are really worth cultivating ; 

 Gardener and a^T* descri P tio » being 'affixed to each, the 



^TtaWe Llecdon Tn Ur , CaU haVe no ****** ™ making a 

 Of the S« ?W, ^ence to this Catalogue, the Editor 

 of the blrTl^ aa * s -" Ic is 8 * m P l *. short, and one 

 course wt h^« r ieen ' The y are Persuing the sensible 



on P ip!fca^on.° f FAm Seeds are also read *' and ma * be had 

 paid?" Parce[f of s eeds are in most cases delivered carriage 



J> AQeaItar«l Museum, Stirling, N.B. ; and 58, Dawson-street, 



fc/flTCHELL'S MATCHLESS WINTER PaRS- 



UA LEY, Extra Superior for Garnishing. —J. M. having a 

 quantity of new Seed to dispose of, can highly recommend it to 

 Market and Gentlemen's Gardeners as the hardiest and best 

 winter sort ever produced. Retail price, 2s. 6d. per lb. Also, 

 his superior dark-green Savoy, Is. &f. per lb. A liberal allow- 

 ance made to Seedsmen. — Pc#t- Office Orders made payable to 



John Mitchell Ponder's End. Enfield Middlesex. 



DOUHf,ti ITALIAN TUHERO.SE ROOTS, 3*. pek dozen. 



ROBERT HALL, G3, South Audley-street, Gros- 

 venor-square, facing the chapel. Postage Stamps taken 

 in payment. 



H. H. begs to remark that his TUBEROSE ROOTS have 

 been left in the srround a sufficient time to mature, instead of, 

 as is too generally the c*se, being hurried out to secure an 

 early market when only about one half of th*m will bloom. 

 Also small Yorkshire Breakfast Ham*. 1<M per pm»n«t, 



NEW EARLY POTATOES (Carna-e tree). 

 Per dusd. Per peck. 

 JACKSON'S GOLDEN DROP (dire* from 



Messrs. Jackson) *>s. 6d. ... Is. fxJ. 



JACKSON'S IMPROVED KIDNEY ... 7 6 ... 2 

 SUTTON'S RED ASH-LEAF KIDNEY ... 7 6 ... 2 



The above are three of (ho beit Potatoes in cultivation, being 

 exceedingly early, prolific, mealy, and good for keeping. 



Post-offi\-e order.-* are requested in payment, addressed John 

 Sctton and Sons, Seed Growers, Reading. Berks. 



Also the Readiog Giant Asparagus Plants, very strong, 



3s. 6d. p er 100. 



ESSRS. HAY, SANGSTER, and CO. will be 



ready to supuly their prepared Potato Cotttngs about 

 the middle of April next, the produce of which proved so highly 

 satisfactory last, as well as the eiperimental trial* of the three 

 former jears, as to Qoality, Qoantitt, and Size, being more 

 than double the crop this year of tho^e planted in the usual 

 way, and coo taming a much larger quantity of starch, which 

 is so essentially necessary to the preservation of that valuable 

 root. A report of the analysis will be found below. Oar own ex- 

 periments give about one-third more saccharine matter than 

 the best we could procure grown under the old sjstem. All 

 orders must be to hand on or before the end of the second week 

 in April, as H. S. and Co. are preparing to plant a large 

 breadth, and will only provide for what may be ordered up to 

 that time. Pose-office orders to be made payable to John 

 Sangsteb, at the Borough Post-office, Southwark. Priuted 

 instructions for planting and management will be sent with 



TO GENTLfivi&N ENGAGED IN PLANTING 



GEORGE JACKMAN has to offer a large and well- 

 grown Stock of the following at very low prices, which 

 can be had on application.— Beech, 4 to 5 fc. ; Chestnut. Spanish, 

 2 to 3 ft. ; Ditto ditto, 3 to 4 ft. j Elms, English, 4 to 5 fc ; Fir, 

 Larch, 2 to 3 fc. ; Di« to ditto, 3 to 4 tt. ; Ditto, Spruce, 2 to 3 fc. ; 

 Ditto ditto, quartered, 4 to 7 fc. - Ditto, Silver, 1 *o 3fc ; Hazel, 

 2 to 3 ft. ; Ditto, 4 to 5 ft. ; Hornbeam. 4 r o 5 ft. ; Oaks, English, 

 4 to 5 ft. ; Ditto, Scarlet, 2 r. ; Quick strong bedded. 



Woking Nursery, Feb. 22 1. 



the plants ordered. 



Per 1000— s 



d 



York Regents 

 American Native . • 



White . blossomed Kid- 



ney 

 Soden's Early Oxford 



Early Cockney 



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10 

 10 



10 

 15 

 15 



6 

 6 



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Per 1100 

 New Early Ebrington 



Kidney 

 Do. Ash-leaved .. 



Do. Frame Round 



Do. Radical 



Fox's Seedling 



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 15 

 10 

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ROSES. 



ADAM PAUL and SON beg to inform their friends 

 and the public in general that they have still a good stoek 

 of most of the leading kinds of ROSES, which, when the selec- 

 tion is left to them, they offer on the following advantageous 



terms : 



Standard Roses, in 12 superior rars., 18$. to 2is. per doz. 



Dwarf Standard do. do. 12s. to 18*. 



Climbing Roses do. 9s. to 12s. 



A priced descriptive Catalogue forwarded on receipt of one 



postage stamp. 



All packages delivered free of carriage to London. 

 Nurseries, Cheshunt, Herts, Feb. 22. 



SUPERB RANUNCULI.— The present being the 

 usual month for plantiug the Ranunculus, we beg to 

 recommend the following selections. 



The new varieties have been selected with great care, of 

 first-rate sorts, from immense quantities of seedlings, and 

 for vigorous growth and free flowering are far preferable 

 to the older varieties. Selections, in strong roots, at the 

 following reasonable charges, with printed instructions for 

 planting and treatment. 



RANUNCULUS.— Free by post. 

 50 Splendid new varieties, with names 



25 do. do. do. 



100 do. varieties from new and other best named 



sorts 



50 fine named varieties 

 100 finest mixed 

 109 fine do. 55., or free by post, 6s. 



ANEMONES ; by post, 3s. per 100 extra. 

 100 new and superb named double varieties ... 

 50 do. do. 18s. ; 25 do., 10s. ; or, by post 

 100 finest large mixed double 

 100 fine do. do. 



Fine new mixed single, per lb. w * v 



Fine double varieties, per dozen : Apenina, light blue, 3$. ; 

 Caelestina, blue, 3s 6d. ; Coieur de Sang, red, 3$. : Cramoise 

 Royale, scarlet, 3s ; Josephine, crimson, 3s.; Prince Albert, blue, 



3s. ; Rose Surpassante, 3s. ; Scarlet Superbe, 3s. ; True Blue, 

 3s. 64. 



GLADIOLUS— Autumn varieties of the Floribundus and 

 Gandavensis habit : — 



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Package and delivering to any Carriers' Office in Loudon, 

 10UQ to 5000, Is.— Newington Butts, Loudon, Feb. 22. 



%* We have exanvned a samp2" of Potatoes, called York 

 Regents, -own by A^CJvb. Bay, aA«GSTEa, aud Co., in com- 

 parison with two oth^pamples of Potatoes of the same deno- 

 mination, obtained by ourselves from a highly respectable 

 Potato Salesman, with a view to ascertain the amount of 

 starch contained in each, with the following results— viz., 



Starcn. 



Messrs. Hat, Sangsteb, and Co.'s York Regents 15| per cent. 



Salesman, No. 1 » » Hi »» 



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Maurice Scanlan, F.C.S., Chemical Works, George- street, 



Bermormsey; Alfked Anderson, F.C.S., Experimental Chemist, 



Great Suffolk-street, Sootnwark. 



U AMUEL FINNEY and CO.'S CATALOGUE OF 



O SEEDS, for 1851, is now ready, and maybe had postage 

 free, on application. It contains a Select List of all the inosfc 

 approved sorts of Culinary Vegetables in cultivation. Also an 

 extensive collection of Flower Seeds, including the imported 

 German kinds with descriptions, stating the proper time for 

 sowing, hardiness, duration, height, time of flowering, and the 

 colour of each, with much other useful information. The col- 

 lections of Seeds sent out last year bv S. F. and Co. having 

 given general satisfaction, they again offer them as under. 



VEGETABLE SEED^.— Carriage F*ee, 

 We prove the growth of each kind before we send them out. 

 No. 1. A full collection, suitable for a large establish- 



45i. Qd 



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Pscittacinus ls.6rf p.doz.0*. 2d. 

 „ Sanguineus, dark, 

 Is. 6d. per doz.... 

 Splendens, rich, scarlet 3 

 Vernalis Spicatus ... 1 



Copies of our Autumn Root Catalogue may still bs had. 

 Remittances required from unknown correspondents. 



BASS and BROWN, 

 ed and Horticultural Establishment, Sudbury, Suffolk. 



Each. 



Albus roaeus Is. 6<J. 



Autumnalis, orange ... 1 

 Brenchleyensis, scarlet 3 6 

 Floribundus, Is. 6d.p.doz. 3 

 Gandavensis, 5s. p. doz. 6 



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FLOWER SEEDS- 



100 of the most select hardy, half hardy, and green- 



house kinds, 1 packet of each 



50 Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. 



25 Ditto. Ditto. Ditto 



Hardy kinds separate, per dozen packets 



Half hardy Ditto. Ditto. 



Greenhouse Ditto. Ditto. 



The kinds and quantities contained in each collection are 



stated in the Catalogue.— We have constant communication by 



Railway and Steamboat with all parts of the kingdom.— A 



remittance or reference is required from unknown correspond- 



ents.— Nursery and Seed Kstabiishment, Gateshead, New- 



castle-up on-Tyne. 



CAMELLIA STOCKS r*IT FOR IMMEDIATE *<>«. 



RENE LANGELIER, Clarendon Nursery, St. Heher, 

 Jersey, begs to inform the Public that he ba* a very 

 extensive stock of the above, fit for immediate grafting, very- 

 clean and healthy, well rooted, so as to leave without the po., 

 consequently much less expense in conveying to any aist»D» 



place. Price 36s., 40s., and 50s. per 100. . 



The Stock is such as has never before been offered to toe 



Public by any grower. ,^ _. ^.^lifl. 



R. L. has a most extensive collection of Double CamelliAe 

 at a very moderate rate and reduced price, as will be seen oy 

 Catalogue recently published, to which it is V^^T ™* 

 can stind the climate out-of-doors without PJ^^J^ 



Catalogue can be had of R. U by *«^^^^^S&. 

 n a mu»ar.Aa .,*> i. M f«r.»nw from unknown cotTeejHf »»«***•• 



