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hey arc re- 

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Jnjr of Peren- 

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Hie price of 

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sTrroV^d Sons harina mined 



UEEN OF DAHLIAS, whit.*, distinctly 



^-^ with rosy purple, large, fine form, ani constant, bu 

 fak>n first prizes in its class where shown (was named by 

 Mr Glen nt, and he pronounce! it the very test of all our 

 cupped edged Dahlias), will be let out in May, 1851, as far as 

 ■to.-k will go, at 105. Gd. p**r plant. 



KING OF DA.HL1AS (Morgan's), and others at catalogue 

 price —Ad Iress to W. Kelsall, Wilmsiow, near Manchester. 



jJ4md I J l0m lime t0 time - an ' 1 :i,)0Ul *hich a groat deal is said, 



though nothing is done; one of these, certainly, is 

 the supply or water to London. ~ * 



7,1/ </«* application of 6 or 8 to*, per acre 



^tf«iosTdail> receiving unsc 

 *•*"««■ customers, in praise 



frem 

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Eftt eutntnttg Chronicle 



SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1851. 



MEETINGS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK, 



itiifacuon 



"./"« Council o/O" Royal A S^ t iral Society. 



Kottoh -I «U pari icularly pleased with jour 



«u-L {JS* I Woyed by itself, for laying down ►cine 



— ^2i« ™ LmS It became a close fine sward by August. 



*!* ^ aZtSO acre* of land to sow immediately, &c, Ac, 



1 h !!iT»T; elad of your ad»ice for the purpose." 



— d « h * J1 'Pf-^M. an emmaa Agriculturist, and Manber of the 



Frm**;*™" fo^ j gricuUural Society. . , - ... 



*,k.«, bad the pleasure of praising your Seeds in many 



^beside Xt to which you refer. This I hare done 



CTaaMM of justice only." 



<tm * "■" ^«otf.«r Cfcwman «r*M»- _ 4 . ,__ 





Mob dat, April 



TUBSDAT. — 



\V*D«BBDAT, — 



last 



vears, a number of Parliamentary commi ons have 

 sat and inquired into the alleged impurity of the 

 water with which we are supplied ; they have lis- 

 tened patiently to a great amount of so-called ^ evi- 

 dence have made reports, and published voluminous 

 blue books ; all of which, as far as the public are 

 concerned, have, in fact, led to nothing. The evils, 

 inconveniences, and defects, of the existing state of 



stand unaltered, just as they did before the 

 ™*r.f r.f t Vip first, commission : the only dif- 



thing 



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Thursday, May 



^Horticultural (Anniversary) — 1 p.m. 

 { Royal Institution (Anniversary) 2 p.m. 

 J Royal Soc.of Literature (ditto) 3 p.m. 



1 j Zoo ojfical 3 



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•Royal ••.••••• 8f P.M. 



rt rBotanical 8 p.m. 



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! Horticultural Gardens 2 r 

 Asiatic 2 p.m. 

 Medical 8 *•*• 



Cotititet Snows.-W^dnesday. April 30: N«wca«tle-on-Tyne Botanical 

 and Horticultural, and Handswortb and Loielli Horticultural. 



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Jain^-uperiorityinmycr 



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w B —Instructions for sc 

 Grass Seed. ; and any othei 

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MuSelitomd free of carnage to any Op 

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Reading Berks, April 26. _^___ 



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the following New Plants : - 

 FaflOY GERANIUM, Delicatum (Ambrose's) 

 fiCAttUET GfittAKIUM, Beauty of the Parterre 

 Ditto Ditto reach Blossom 



IMttO Ditto Bridal Bouquet 



"Ditto Ditto Gulden Admiration 



POTMTILLA ANTWEUPBNSI3 



Ditto blcolor grandinora 



FUCHSIA, Prime Minister (Henderson's) 



Ditto Resplendent Do. 



Ditto Lord Of the Isles Do. 



Ditto Madame Sontag Do. 



CALCEOLAKIA MONARCH Do. 



Ditto Queen of England, Do. 



Ditto Flora M' Ivor Do 



Ditto Golden Knight Do. 



Ditto^ Marchioness of Do 

 Ditto* Conspicuum Do. 

 For descriptions of the above, see Sprinjr Catalogues tor 1851, 

 which will be ready for delivery early in May, and will be Bent 

 pott free on application. 



E. G. H. also calls attention to the fallowing new Strawberries : 

 rUEUItyifS DE BAGNOLET, very late, good plants in s. d 



pots ••• ... each 1 



CREMONT'3 PERPETUAL, a double bearing variety 



of superior quality, good «l»nt« in nots each 2 



TVeUinaton RoadNurser 



A correspondent expresses his surprise at a very 

 common occurrence. " I have sent," he says, " a 

 small piece of a Morello Cherry, with fruit as large 

 as a bird's egg. This was produced on a branch 11 

 feet from the stem. The flowers opened in 

 February. Nine inches, near the extremity of the 

 branch where the fruit grew, were nailed across a 

 chimney, where there is always a little warmth. 

 Now, it has often been stated that there must be a 

 circulation between root and branch before the 

 latter can produce fruit. When this was in bloom, 

 and setting the fruit, the tree appeared to be quite 

 dormant in every part, except the 1) inches in ques- 

 tion. The situation faces North, an I is quite 



exposed. m m m leA& when a p^ of mittee? depends on the knowledg 



increased during the last 30 years, so the evil has 

 become one of greater magnitude. The last report 

 on the subject was published only a few months 

 since, and though it no longer appears in the dreary 

 and formidable shape of an old-fashioned Parlia- 

 mentary blue book, yet it is, nevertheless, a suffi- 

 ciently heavy affair, consisting of five octavo volumes ; 

 the first containing the report itself, and the remain- 

 ing volumes constituting appendixes, including a 

 most miscellaneous mass of evidence, facts, conjec- 

 tures, suggestions, and absurdities, to wade through 

 which is, in truth, a very serious and unprofitable 

 labour. It is melancholy to see how much trouble 

 is often taken to prove what no one for a moment 

 doubts ; and, on the other hand, how much ingenuity 

 is expended in trying to establish self-evident false- 

 hoods ! Getting up evidence for a Parliamentary 

 committee is, in fact, a peculiar art, and the general 

 tendency of the evidence depends mainly on the 

 cleverness of the persons who get it up. Every one 

 knows that a shrewd lawyer will often extract from 

 a witness evidence which seems to prove the very 

 opposite of what he knows to be true, and in the 

 same way the evidence brought out before a com- 



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SELECT PLANTS. 



T)ASS and BROWN'S Descriptive Prtced Cata- 



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 ■applied on application. The following selections are now 



ctady to send out :— 



GERANIUMS. 



12 splendid n°w varieties sent out last season 



25 superb show varieties, 405.» 1*2 for 



25 fine ditto ditto 22*., 12 for 



12 splendid fancy varieties, 15s., 6 for 



Scarlet and good bidding varieties, per dos., 6s. to 



FUCHSIAS.* 

 12 .fplendid new varieties sent out last season (Storj's, 



Maylo't, Smith's, Rumley'a, and oth 

 25 superb show varieties, lis. Gd., 12 for 

 25 fine older ditto 10s. 6<J., 12 for 



50 varieties in choice assortment 



GREENHOUSE PLANIS 



12 select.showy varieties 

 25 ditto ditto 

 50 fine varieties 



12 new and choice ditto 



12 vars. GREENHOUSE CLIMBING PLANTS, select 12 



12 do. STOVE PLANTS, new and choice 18 



ACHIMENES 65., 6 beautiful new vars. ... 5 

 GLOXINIAS. 12*., 6 beautiful new vars. ... 7 



ttrong blooming plants 



a plant is exposed to a high temperature, while all 

 6 the rest of it is in a low temperature, is familiar to 

 6 gardeners. If you leave the branch of a Vine out of 

 doors, while the other branches are warmed in a 

 forcing house, the latter will be in leaf and flower 

 before the former moves ; or, if there is a warm 

 passage through which the branch of a Vine is made 

 to pass in the winter, the roots and branches being 

 otherwise unprotected, the branch in the warm 

 passage will be in leaf and flower long before the 



other parts move. 



The reason is, that in trees each bud grows by 

 itself, and for itself, possessing an independent 

 vitality, and feeding upon what the branch contains 

 as long as there is anything in the branch capable 

 of being consumed, that is to say, as long " as the 

 internal circulation of the remainder of the tree 

 can replace what disappears where the parts are 

 growing. Thus let the following diagram repre- 



who may chance to be on it ; sometimes the evidence 

 to be received is all ready " cut and dry,* before 

 any questions are asked ; and often the committee 

 are wholly incompetent to decide whether the wit- 

 ness speaks sober truth, or talks absolute nonsense! 



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The report on water, of which we? _ 



though it is not a parliamentary one, but is, in fact, 

 one emanating from the General Board of Health ; 

 nevertheless, in many respects, partakes of the 

 nature and defects of the old blue book. ^ 



The question of supplying London with water is 

 theoretically simple enough, but it is practically one 

 of the most difficult problems any one can investigate. 

 Practically, the question resolves itself into two 

 great heads, namely, is the present supply satisfac- 

 tory either as regards quantity or quality "i ! and, 

 secondly, how can it be extended and improved ? la 

 carrying out any such extension, however, we are 

 met on all sides by difficulties ; rival water com- 



izontal branch, the letters standing for panies are up in arms, vest 

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AZALEA INDICA, choice, 15s., 6. for 

 ERICAS, free bloomers, 125., 6 for 



HARDY PLANTS. 

 HERBACEOUS PLANTS, 30s. t 50 for 

 ditto, superior and new, 50s., 50 for ... 



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by any local action, they will feed upon the matter 

 included in the branch e h, and as that matter dis- 

 appears, its place will be gradually taken by similar 

 matter supplied by a e and h k. When that supply 

 ceases F G perishes, but not till then. In our cor- 

 respondent's case F G was warmed 'by the chimney. 

 One of the commonest of all accidents in forcing 

 belongs to this class of facts. A gardener forces 

 his Vines early, they grow vigorously and promise 

 an abundant crop : suddenly the bunches u shank 

 off." In such a case the roots are in a very low, 

 while the branches are in a very high temperature, 

 and the action is of this 



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PHLOX, ehowy, 10s. 6<f., 12 for ... 

 lido. PENTSTEMONS, new and choice, 7s. 6d., 6for » v x V *vxxa g aw**** , «*»^- "- 

 ^TChose marked thus • can be sent hy post it desired, withou' \ Qn „ ^ th e branch F G 

 «ttra charge. Goods sent carriage free to London; and tor *? . ., . * , i • -i 



long carriage of goods of 40s. and upwards extra plants sent 

 gratis. Particular attention is paid to secure packing, and 

 •trong packages provided for plants sent to long distances. — 

 Past-omce orders are payable either to Bass and Brown, or to 

 •Stipreh Brown. Remittances requested from unknown cor- 

 respondents. 



Seed and Horticultural Establishment, Sudbury, Suffolk. 



SKIRVINO'S IMPROVED TURNIP SEEDS. 



TTfM. SKIRVING begs to announce to his friends 



* ' and the public that he has fixed the price of his IM- 

 PROVED SWLD % and also the PURPLE-TOP YELLOW- 

 BULLOCK, at 9d. per lb. 



In consequence of W. S. having extended the growth, and 

 having had a very abundant crop of the Seed of his Improved 

 Turnip- he is this season enabled to offer it at the above 

 reduced price > and he is also induced to take this step to pre- 

 vent Agricukuriats being imposed upon by the sale of spurious 

 Seed*, offered at a low rate, under his name. 



W. S. can, with perfect confidence, recommend these Turnips 

 a* being the best now in cultivation, in every respect, whether 

 lor the greatest crop, the best quality, or for keeping, according 

 to the time of sowing. 



All other Agricultural Seeds, of the best quality, at very 

 moderate prices. A remittance or reference is requested from 

 " *ia e w n Correspondents. 



B. W. Srirvinq has no Agent in town o» country. I 



Hueen-square, Liverpool, April, 1851. 



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contains the food which 



the young leaves and fruit 



require all goes well ; but - 



at last F G is exhausted, 



and a e, surrounded with 



cold wet earth, torpid and powerless, is** unable 



to replace, or replaces very imperfectly, what F G 



has lost The supply of food is thus cut off, and 



F G is literally starved ; but if a e is warmed, it 



pours upwards the food it contains, continually'sucks 



more from the earth, and thus maintains F^G in 



health and vigour. 



If all gardeners would, as many do, always look 

 for these analogies, and trace thejn to their first 

 cause, they would find themselves wonderfully 

 relieved from the embarrassments into which they 

 are thrown by the sudden occurrence of an event 



might, have fore-known must occur. 



and of course the result is, nothing is done, 

 as the more scientific part of the subject ~ -— 

 cerned, there are several fundamental points which 

 no one questions, excepting, perhaps, those whose 

 private interests are concerned ; and in such cases 

 it unfortunately often happens, that the arguments 

 of the pocket far outweigh the convictions of the 

 mind. It certainly ought to be quite unnecessary 

 to write books and take evidence to prove that an 

 abundant supply of fresh and pure water is con- 

 ducive to health. Those who require printed 

 evidence on this point are hardly likely to be con- 

 vinced by the results collected by any committee, 

 however learned its members may be. 



As the enormous quantity of water at present 

 collected for the daily supply of London, and which 

 is evidently not sufficient for the increasing wants of 

 the inhabitants, is, in fact, the drainage w^ater from 

 a large surface of land, all plans for increasing the 

 supply are, to a certain extent, interesting to those 

 whose land is thu^ drained, as well as to those for 

 whose especial benefit the water is to be collected. 

 The valuable inquiries into the absorbent power of 

 soils, to which we have on several occasions lately 

 drawn attention, show that though there is little feat 

 that the drainage water which has passed through 

 even a thin layer of soil, can possibly carry off any 

 ammonia, phosphoric acid, or other valuable com- 

 ponent of manure, yet that it is pretty certain to 

 hold more or less lime in solution. In comparing 

 together the respective merits of different sources 

 of water, much is said as to the proportion of 

 lime which they contain, and as to the effects due 

 to the presence of that substance. Now common 

 sense tells us that hard w r ater, which contains much 

 chalk or gypsum in. solution, is not so fit for domestic 

 use as that which contains only a little. Every one 

 knows the difference between the two in washing, 

 the cook finds the difference of hard and soft water 





£t There are some important 



gardener 



be brought before the attention of Government, disadvanta 



