

18W.1 



THE GARDENERS J CHRONICLE 



243 



"*"**• B /.Vn«r Plate and Description of the 



• LSmft*ir» i y^yj P !?t!^^n ibe-cultivation of 



^U py taint a 

 ■*■»• !i ^?L2lJ^7; V an"d inrera* Viburnum 





traduction* 



ina. qune now w »••&-■ 

 take tWs opportunity i 

 u— «it ew Grounds 



that 



they 



iMMETRY" (Kinghomt., 



y fc wirh«i|fuiiiuu,andtheeuloKiuimtniJ 



upon it, renaer it 



competent judges, tt 



t0 .,M that it i« superior 



■I 





MftriSt 



At 



tt, 



? V rt ^truduceS: and equal in colour and batt. 



'•«^i°indl InMAJ, 1350, a firs* cU*s certificate 



iffiFKu b^nVLon<lon FloricuUural Soucry and y 



■ f6 ^oed in the Gardener** and Parmer*' J oimml 



^ *iis)i»v U a magnificently formed flower, of 



JST*' colour salmonish.piuk, varjiD* to 



^E^petudin the toroatwith deep crimson; 



7v£ inna.h-oir. 1850, at Chiswick, it obtained 



* c«ii*^«bte improveaent on Lateral... 



^ ^ , -_..,,, I--, bavin* purchased the stock of ayro- 

 *"^.«V!^din-«it healthy Plants on the 1st of June, 



*' n 'I ,! i.lx^*er> and Seed Establishment, W ill P I 



London. -^jMwil-1 SI . • — _ _ , 



n-aiJA^Tir POSTER'S. Esq., CflOlCB PBLAR. 

 fb ? M»?%aT»BS f CAaNAXlUNS, HOLLYHOCKS, 



11 ** JRAGG, Star Nursery, Slough, begs to 



qTi-ivub ot the above Flowers is now ready, 

 . £»£iT*^*<*. His choice SEEDLING 

 ffinAll be lent ouT the first week, in May at 10*. Ud. 



^uiVaTL rich lilac, very constant, gained first Seedling 

 Jf 4^ anhe Borai south London Exhibition ; 21*. Shackle- 

 *^ inown, JWs , #*UTtee»flrst clae* certittcni « ; the- mot* 



goawrof tnay«nr. - 



fiARMINA rich carmine, constant show flower, gained six 

 Mclatt * tficates Ac shown in several winning stands. 



tie. Hon. Mm. ASHLEY, wnxy white, tipped with roan, 

 JSlldThnw rl >wer. Ac W. B thinks it tbo test Dahlia ot 



e wm awarded by. Dr. Linbuex a certificate ot merit 



the Ilaruculturrtl ciatg, &c. Gained nve first class certi- 



•IIE FI »WER OF THE DAY 



_ SCARLET GKUANIU.1.- 



vHmrmi* hnbit, the foliage bright jrroen, with a broad ml 

 i»ai*ni The flowers light tcirlet, in large truces, like 



Globe Compactum. John an 1 Charles Lee are . lUnp extra 

 -trorur plants *t lta. Gd each. Small plants fur bedding on 

 the l*t of JunevO^s. per d-zen.— Nursery and Seed Establish* 

 metvt, Hammers mith, near London. 



' WARRANT BD UNEQUALLED. 



ROBERT WHIBLEY is now supplying Selection* , 

 in Pots, and by Post, fmm his select Collection of 

 FUCHSIAS. Twelve Varieties, new and distinct, of last year, 

 lQs. Gd. cash. See Lis* containing a great variety of cho.ce 



n#>w Plants for one stamp. 



SELECTED NEW SCARLET GERANIUMS. 

 Fiower of the* Day* 3a. <W. each; the following, at 12i. per 

 -lozen, purchase rs selection ; if left to R. W , good sorts, 6« to 

 0s - Brompton Hero. Comet, Cottage Mai«t, Compacta, Cense 

 Unique, Eolsp», Bxquieite* Frogmore improved. Fireball, 

 Gh.be superb, Gem oi Scarlet*. Honeymoon, Uunumais, 

 H'\drargajflora, Ibrabam Pacha, Iverv's scarlet, Jtnny Liod 

 Lord Bacon, Lady Agnes Byng, Mrs. Maylor, Marti um Bonuin. 

 Prince of Wales, Pii^n K h er. Pink XottgajF, Phenomrnon, 

 Pink Pat Puneh, Perpetual, Queen, Queen of Summer, Royalist, 

 Stirubl»nd Superb, Symmetry, Smi-h's Scarlet, Tom Thumb, 

 Ditto Master, Ditto improve**, Tarn 0' ^haoter, Treothsm 

 Scar lat.^-Tho Trade supplied.— Nurtery, Kennington, London, 



VARIEGATED i at the same time remind our agricultural friends, 



This elegant plant is o# 





Ote (BatiJttttrjr Ciurotitrle 



r. 





LLI 





MBtlTlNGS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 



A1o!»dat, April 21— Chem caI Si 



C Syro Ksryptian ( Anmvenarj) .... 7-' 



M/CiTii Knicuieeri ." .« »• M. 



**S Mrdiral and Chimrjical Bfr.K. 



f Zoolcr^ipal * i* r.ML 



01 f AiiriijUHn^ti (Anniversary) 2 f.k. 



TusivAr, 



WKOJfatDATj 



Thomdai, 



SATtmrai, 



t K Smith Loriil«) 



1 r. 



I Hi", 111 r?«TUlll IvIliHI'iip. , .......... I * .^* 



*. I I- nJon Itvitmi' on(Annivertary)l'-A.n. 



*■ I Natiowa FloHculiural 2 r it. 



nR f Uoyal Bolaiiic 3Jr;a«. 



-*M Medical ffr.M. 



that to secure constant supplies of guano the price 

 must be sufficient to leave something as a present 

 revenue to the country which has the good fortune 

 to possess this invaluable manure. 



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The utmost editorial vigilance is insufficient to 

 prevent the circulation of misrepresentation; and 

 therefore, in calling attention to the following letter, 

 inserted in the Time* of April 10, we impute no 

 blame or want of caution to the conductors of that 



great newspaper. , 



A person signing himself " Kewensis, and dating 

 his letter from Kevr, obtained admission into the 

 columns of the Times* for the following letter. 



" For nine months of the year Kew (rardens are 

 not accessible to the public. At the present season, 

 when admission would be particularly acceptable, 

 it is denied, and if the garden be not opened prior 

 to 24th of June (this being the practice), many 

 foreigners will lose the opportunity of visiting one 

 of the most beautiful spots in the neighbourhood of 

 the metropolis. If the gardens \Pire opened thia 

 year simultaneously with the Great Exhibition, viz., 

 the 1st of May, and opened at 10 or 11 o'clock in 

 the morning every day in the week (not aft hitherto, 

 from 1 o'clock till sunset on Sunday* and Thurs- 

 days only), a great advantage would result to the 



public." 



If the signature to this letter means anything, it 



mmns that the writer lives at Kew ; and in that 



table : for he 



„„ JF PA IRI! . Dowoyer. W. Bragg has purchased 



\. ,' r . ,,. t J| fine ;wd toistajit fatu-> IhUjiio, from the 



• aouteur, who will irive 5£. in prizes the next season for 



glial urn it gained :\ 3- Uing- prize and rlret class certificate, 



rd*'s Mr*. Ha*sa*i>; at the Royal South London 

 * Exhibition nvo rirst. else ^ cert iHeotes. 



tloekof Pi r.«es, r Carnations, and LMuks are strong; 



aid food ; the beat Hollyhock Seed eveT sent out can be hard 

 • 2S-. W. and 55. pad »; posVpacid, for prepayment. 



AU'jISTJ&L VAN GEERT, Nuiueryman, Glient, 

 Balginm, begs to iu/orm the Amiteur, and Trade iu 

 r^ral. his now CATALOGUE OF LU^NTS Foil 1851, it 

 pit p«ta)iftked. and m*y be bad cm application of Mr. R. 



L Haro-Unt. Groat Tower- strf et, London. 



S Into the agricultural division of this Paper, at 

 p. 109 of the present year, an article found its way 

 from the pen of an ocearional contributor, to which 

 a moment's leisure enables us now to advert. 



The object of the writer was to show that the 



afford 



si 



\\ 9b CL and DAVIS respectfully announce that 



*'* ttHtr two tirst rate FANCY DAHLIAS, will be ready t 

 lend out, the first week in May. 



ADiHIUTIUN (Widaali and Davis-) rich purplibh crimson, 

 fl^ped wi'h pearly white, centre well up, very symmetrical a*id 

 •sos uo t ; 3 m, Is. 6d. 



APMOBAriON (WidimU and Davis*) rich mellow orange 

 edSftSfce, tvpp«d wih baou ul creamy buff, awery dehiraJbio 

 first clast n»wer, 4 ft , 7s. Gd.. 



tbtycan aiioerecute thefbllowing 1 in good plant.*: — 



pnrircT\ «;„.• „„- T Linden's two magnificent Pe<rnrvi*rn 

 FUCHSIA wgiMns.1 ^ z^Jto %tm Frored e. 



retmsta i s*rres, in De\, 1840, 3*» 6d. each. 



▼raONTCA AXDER>05II, a superb plant tor bedding or 

 flreefiboasecnlture, with lar^e* spikes* of white flowers* deli 

 H SK rj 1 tinned with bine. ¥igurei in raxtowSs» an i Lindley'S' 



iower Garden, for March, Is. W. eac-h, or 12s. per dozen. • 



Packets of Chater's superb Holly heck Seed, by post, at 

 U. Bd. each. 



the present is. the tima foe sowing 



WiDNALLand Davis's* general list of Dahlia?, Pelargoniums, 

 Ctayiautheoium?, and soft-woodod plantsr» can. be had on 

 igiiieotion .— Graqtchester Nur?eries, April 12, 



- ' " ■ ■ i ■ i ■ 1 i i ■ ■ ■ m i ■ ii ■ ■■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ i i 



FORftET-ME-NOT. 



UI'OSOTIS AZUREA GRA^DIFLORA.— Thia 



1 unique variety stands unrivalled for its colour aodJ 

 5AS*, beinjj very superior ta the older sorts of that lovely 

 fiSoer, the Forpet-oHMWe* ; it also possesses thefoUowincp-^ood 

 •fiaotie* oventbtm: The flaw era* act* much larger, perfectly 

 tordy, and will stand for many year 1 * in the same siiaatloa ; it 

 £s lively blue, and grows. ab*mA . !) inches Imh, prodaein^ 

 swdlWsof b!o ms on the plant a^: a time ; flow in from 



iD*r, it -.-»i!l hSS fltOSSfl very useSul tor plaotUig on 



rssfcsoik. maWing a bed, cpforrainft.edftiafts ; bain© a c o l wu r 

 W*n wiahed for, as there is a great deririency of dWarC blu* 



""fbraunimn blotminjf. The See 1 of the above is now 



> ts» seat outj a* i's. fi(i per packet: Ah o the fMTowtng 

 *of Flower ^oeda can still bo had: Hu%4ioc!t Sueod^, 

 -^64fer pacltet of loO seed*; German Aster ^eed, la. p«r 

 ffy- ^weeuw*i!iam Seed, Is. per packet; Antirrhinum 

 ***i Ui per paewet ; and a4so the other* varieties of Seeds 

 ^sstiD-Ow-fr^fMr A»*ft«iseroftnt in this P , r on the 5th of 

 ^n The whole or any part of the abuve sen^ postage and 

 Uaafe free, A^remitanco must ac^on>pany the order, either 



slumps, for the amount. 

 Tlt&V, Nurseryman. Seedsman, and' Florist. 



price of Guajto is higher than the public 

 to pay, and that this price is wholly owing to the 

 operations of the importers. In order to suppoi" 

 this view, the writer has fallen into some errors, 

 unintentional no doubt, but such as he might have 

 easily avoided. lie first asserts that the price 

 charged by the importers is VOL a ton ; but a gh 

 at the weekly advertisements in our columns would 

 have shown him that the importers' price is !)/. 5&, 

 subject to a discount of 2^ per cent, which brings 

 the real charge to 91. 0s. 6J. He then names Messrs. 

 Gibb& 7 Biught, and Go. as the importers, in which 

 he is wrong again ; the advertisements would have 

 informed him that the sole agents of the Peruvian 

 Government are Messrs. Antony Gibbs and So^s, 

 of London. 



•jjjfj 1 w jsismy postage stamps, 

 LWv^ r ^ BmiA9 The*, Nuraer 



1 ** -^ffifltg h ersfciHwl. Hath - 



VALUABLE VBGETA tt-LlTsj 



^ T { r? 111 ^**^ -~ Hyatt's improved ^nrly, nwjch 



siiirii^?*. oId var:eti «*> more contact and heavier, con^ 

 w ^.L 5T tPe r aiseras me desirable, quantity very limited ; 



The allegation that the price is higher than the 

 consumer can afford to pay is neither confirmed by 

 the sale, nor by a comparison of the value of 

 guano with that of other forms of manure. The 

 sale during the last year has, we understand, ex- 

 ceeded that of any previous year by about 18,000tons; 

 and Mr, Way ha& demonstrated in the Journal of the 

 Agricultural Society that the money value of a ton 

 :of good Peruvian guano was, in 1849, 121. 2& 5d. ; 

 the ammonia being worth 9/. 14s. ? the phosphate of 

 lime 1/. 13s. 9 J., and the potash 1 4s. Sd. Accord- 

 ing to this calculation, the buyer of a ton of Peruvian 

 guano at 01. 0s. Gd. actually pays 3/. Is. lid, less than 

 he would have to pay for the raw materials of which 



it is composed. 



Thai it would be much better for the consumer if 

 pure Peruvian guano could be sold cheaper, nobody 

 will. deny. So it would be better if ammonia were 

 cheaper, and phosphates and salts of potash, and 

 farm-yard manure, aud wine, sugar, tea, and broad 

 cloth. But the price at which the vendor can sell 

 these articles depends upon the price he pays for 

 them, adding a fair mercantile profit. If he add* 

 more 'his trade disappears. The guano trade would 

 disappear if the consumer could obtain the ingre- 

 dients of which the substance consols at a lower 

 price than that of guano ; and he undoubtedly would 

 procure them at a lower price if the manufacturers 

 could afford it; for all these articles are mad 



case, his statements are wholly 

 must have known that they are misrepr^sjettttstionsfroni 

 first to last. Kew Gardens inaccessible to the public 

 for nine months of the year ! why they are open 

 even lay, from 1 o'clock to dark in winter, and 

 nominally till <> in summer, but really to a later 

 hour, for visitors are not turned out. As to opening 

 the gardens-at 10 or 11 in the morning to crowds of 

 idlers, we should like to hear from this writer how, 

 or when, under such circumstances, he imagines the 

 bnsiness of the garden, and the indispensable atten- 

 tion to the plants, is to be secured ; tto say nothing of 

 the workmen obtaining their meals. 



But perhaps " Kewensis," not knowing what he 

 writes about, may not mean what he says ; and 

 under the name of Kew Gardens, he may possibly 

 intend to designate the old game cover and park, 

 commonly called the Pleasure-ground, adjoining 

 Kew Gardens, This place, consisting of 175 acres, 

 has just been converted into an arboretum planted 

 with young trees, and is- not, as yet, the kind of 

 place" where all the wanderers from London should 

 be permitted to spend their leisure. Some 21) years 

 hence, when the young plants have grown into 



trees, and are beyond the reach of mischief, the 

 space might be thrown open unreservedly ; but no 

 prudent man wonld recommend it to be done at 



present. ^. lt 



Lord SsYMOun has on no occasion shown 



unwilling to consult 



the public convenience ; and 



wo wu Mmm _ ,___'_' r without the 



assistance of " Kewensis," take whatever measure* 

 the peculiar circumstances- of the present year may- 

 render advisable. But officers of the Crown have 

 to consult something more than the grumbling or 

 caprice of gentlemen who think that free access of 

 the public" daily to the finest garden in Europe, 

 containing the best English Museum of its kind; and 

 occupying an area of 76 aores, is insufficient : they 

 have to resist ignorant impatience, and to see that 

 nublic interests are not sacrificed to the private 



extend 



And 



objects of those whose horizon does not 

 beyond the limits of their own convenience, 

 we shall be much surprised if either the Commis- 

 sioners of Woods- an 



Hook 



writer 



► v*, ** ^^ %. * v *■» ■- — - ■— ■ — — — — — — - 



of the letter in question; 



— , 



i 



e 



in a 





!> J U per 9z % 6cL p/ir pa* 





best 



BtL psr paeloee. 



r >*£*% : ie V ^^^^ C&LBW.0RT, «ccUent far Wi»tot however, tlu 



^*s£iuL a 8T * JAWm * one of the tost fhr small gardens, considerable 



free market, open to the utmost possible competition. 



The truth is, that the selling price of guano doea 



not. depend, as is, assumed, upon the will ofi the 



English importer^ but upon that of the Peruvian 



ulting 

 its own interest by fixing a still lower price, and 



^onoan^ed^ne 1 ^ thu» iacreasiif the consumption of the article and 



' i revenue. We must bear in mind, 



there can scarcely be mom fori any 



'eduction ; for if we deduct from the 



mpwmii Tariety, direct from Government 



&* pan 



^•-aifcT, VULE*' SUi'GH&.KBD, v*ry txien 



^a 3 < !n , uU pronounced first-rate; U. per ex., 64, i*r 



trteneiTol^ 



*^ 



6^., 3/. 10s. to 1/., which, we under 

 importers are now paying ffcir freijajhi;, and 1/. 10s., 

 which,, we suppose, may be calculated --for shipping 

 charg^s, oommisBaoa^, and other expense, on both 

 9id€&oi the water, tke.e will onlv remain to the 

 L*Tw!\ in J fferi "? tX \* » b0 »? station from his Peruvian Government a iM-t 



•w, o«jts tointgrinnia friends rhafcha wnrronta ^ om I «,.,... ■, , ., 



' ^^^^Waaap.Gaftjiafi Ore*** Lor 



^tlTCo vivrnwiIA CABBAGE, bert little 

 isrdii-- "• I, ^ f «* Il «* won** and whi ' 



Dt .- 8Q ttuId b« without. 



known, but 

 gentleman's 



H 



grants them i of w . hicllit j, un( i e rstood that they apply — — 



paymeot oi- their EnglUli boftdheddenh* We wottld 



That the Roots oi Plants have a, certain power: 

 of selection is now well known ; it was most dis- 

 tinctly proved by the old experiments of S*ussurb ; 

 he immersed the roots of growing plant» in water 

 containing an equal weight, of two different, saline 

 substances, and when the plaats had sucked up. and 

 absorbed. half- the water, he took them out, evapo- 

 rated the remaining water^ and ascertained how 

 much of the two salts remained.; tins, of course, 

 indicated the quantity which the plants had absorbed- 

 It was quite plain that, if the root* merely absorbed 

 the different line solutions thus presented to.thern 

 indifferently, an equal quantity of each salt would 

 be absorbed, when two were dissolved together; 

 and consequently an equal quantity of each wou.d 

 be left on evaporating the remaiiider of the solution, 

 fins, however, was not. the case, for* it was found 

 that the quantity of salt absorbed varied iu a most 

 remarkable manner; not onlv did similar plants 

 absorb very different quantities of various sal >i» 

 absorbing equal bulks of solution©* the sa*r^ strength ; 

 but, when a solution containinfr two different ,&* 

 were eisplo^d, the plant took up vejj vanaWt ^<>. 





