THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



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Dim US— The kig€8t Stock in the Kin loin, of 

 £i nn«t kinds, both Farcies and other varieties. 

 I. %*»«» can supply the above at 125., 18*., and 30*. 

 ^SSLSe constant kind,, and good plants, the flection 

 ^'•p Trtsu A list of those not desired should be for- 

 "*!* with the order. Parcels paid to London, and plants 

 Z* rn romrxnsate for any additional eipense. 

 ^VVrTaTISE^ON THE CULTURE OF THE DAHLIA 



Jn be presented wtth each order. 



^^alNuTs^ry^ Siougb. 



*EW SCARLET PBLAUGONIUMS, &c 



CONWAY'S "King of Nepaul," a briglit scarlet, 

 w\th large globe truss horse-shoe leaf, habit ef Tom 

 Tw„mh rood for either bedding or pot, 7*. Sd. each. 

 *SaWAT's "Pet Superb," a bright pink, distinct variety, very 

 jj£f snd pretty for bedding or pot, 5*. each. 

 JEiof the Day ... 5s. Od. Commander-in-Chief ... 25. 6d. 

 TWWT AUcecConway'r)-' 6 Cerise Unique 2 6 



Or the set of six for 1J. 15., basket included. 

 Tfce following have been selected as choice varieties, viz. : 

 Excellence Ibrahim Pacha 



Ofm of Scarlets 

 OsmtfsMaid 

 Trentbam bcarlet 

 Qoeenof Summer 

 princetf Royal 



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Mrs. Mayler 



Tom Thumb's Master 



Reed's Scarlet 

 Queen Improved 



Royalist 



Punch 



Tarn 'Shauter 

 at 1/ each the set of 14 for 125., or with the six first named 

 ' ' varieties for 305., basket included. 

 The following Pink vaiieties are also offered at Is, each, or 

 the set for 8i., basket included :— 



. 



Pink Nosegay 

 Cherry Cheek 

 Captain Darling 

 Pet * 



Jenny Lind 



Judy 

 tuA Rosea 



Princess Alice (Ingram's) 



Ropt Morn 



Prise Fighter improved, Tom Thumb improved, or Sym- 

 *y are recommended as very excellent sorts for bedding, 



* *• ^ d0X ' NF* FETUNIAS. 



CoWwat's "Lady Rokeby," white, with purple throat, a 

 hifhly desirable variety, 5s. each ; " Captivation," 15. 6d. each. 

 •■ Beauty Supreme '' is confidently recommended as one of the 

 best Petunias for bedding, at Gs. per doz. 



NEW CALCEOLARIAS. 



Co!fwii*s " Floribund-i,"adwarf, free, and constant bloomer, 

 Wight yellow, large trusses, recommended for bedding or pot 

 culture, 35. Qd. each . M Multiflora," I5. 6d. each, and numerous 



other sorts at 6s. to 95. per doz. 



VERBENAS. 



A large collection of Verbenas at 6s. to 95. per doz. 



Cow wax's "Corooata" Geranium, pink, with white centre, 

 an early, profuse, and constant bloomer, 25. Gd. each. 



N.B.— A large assortment of Fancy and other Geraniums, 

 Fuchsias, Heliotropes, Antirrhinums, Chrysanthemums, 

 Dahlias, <fcc. 



3[abt Conway, Earl's Court Nursery, Old Brompton, near 

 London.— A Catalogue may be had on application. 



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NEW DAHLIAS. 



HARLES TURiYER is now sending out strong 



plants of the following beautiful kinds : 



gay, because of the rich mixture of yellow and 

 purple and violet in its long tubular flower 

 Then appeared, among the Orchids, Colonel 

 Feilding's famous Fox's Brush, a most charming 

 new species of Aerides, with long gay festoons 

 of rosy blossoms. Hardly inferior in interest 

 was the true Deutzia gracilis, from M, Bau- 

 mann, of Ghent : a brilliant graceful hardy bush, 

 from Japan, with snow-white flowers like those of 

 the Syringa. We also noticed a new Billbergia, 

 from M. de Jonghe, of Brussels, not well enough 

 grown to show whether it will become, as it promises, 

 a valuable stove plant ; a new Lycaste, with pale 

 yellow flowers, from Messrs. Loddiges; and an 

 Arpophyl, in the collection of Orchids, from Mr. 

 Warner's gardener. 



Had this meeting taken place on the 1st or 2d of 

 May it would have been a charming scene beyond 

 the tents, for the tender foliage of the trees w T as far 

 enough advanced to produce the usual effect of 

 vernal beauty, and the entrances to the garden were 

 as gay with flowers as in July. But by noon 

 time, a soft May morning, succeeded by a smart 

 shower, had settled into a day of gloom and rain, 

 accompanied by a cold wind from the north-east ; 

 and the enjoyment of the day was gone. A large 

 part of the visitors stopped at the Crystal Palace on 

 the way down ; and not more than 1 549 persons 

 assembled to witness one of the most beautiful hor- 

 ticultural scenes w r hich even the Chiswick Gardens 

 have presented. These were, however, real enthu- 

 siasts, and neither rain nor cold could prevent their 

 lingering over the banks of Roses and Azaleas, or 

 wandering away to the remote parts of the Garden 

 where Mr. Hosea Waterer's unrivalled Rhododen- 

 drons are to be exhibited at the next meeting, on 

 the 7th of June. 



Some weeks since Mr. Fleming, of Trentham, 

 sent to the Horticultural Society a specimen of a 

 Hyacinth Glass, contrived by Mr. Tye, of Birming- 



which deserves a better notice than the 



ham, 



In form 



Barmaid 



California 



Duke of Roth e 8 ay 



Gem of the Grove 



Grandis 



Jullien 



Lady E. Cathcart 



Led a 



Model 



Wr. Palmer 



Napoleon 



Nepaulese Prince 



Nil Des'perandum 



Regina 

 Roundhead 

 Sulphurea pallida 

 Sir C. Napier 



FANCIES. 

 Kingfisher 

 Miss Weyland 

 Mrs. Hansard 

 Mrs. Willis 

 Nonsuch 



Pretty Polly 



C. Turner can supply plants of other raisers' new v arieties. 

 Royal Nursery, Slough. 



slight allusion made to it at page 119. 

 it is something like an old-fashioned Dutch bottle ; 

 but the neck is widened sufficiently to receive 

 the bulb of a Hyacinth at the mouth, and is 

 again swollen near the base, but less than before, 

 so as to destroy the ugly effect of a long narrow 

 column. The peculiar form of the lower part 

 causes the weight to be almost wholly thrown upon 

 the base, by which means the glass is made to 

 stand so firmly that no ordinary accident will upset 

 it. When used for bulbs a stout upright rod is 

 readily attached to the neck by means of a circular 



Cue ©attrtnerg' ©fmwtcte. 



SA TURD A Y, MAY 10, 1851. 



MEETINGS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 



Mowdat, May 12- Geographical ...,84p.m. 



( Syro Egyptian 7Jp.m. 



Tciidat — 13 J Civil Engineers 8 p.m. 



T| ia ) Medical and Chirurjrical 8*p.m. 



I Zoological .9 p.m. 



( Royal Botanic Gardens 2 p.m. 



Widxmdat, - M< y«5STJ Eand 3 p.m. 



i Graphic S p.m. 



i Geological 8$p.m. 



Thursday, — 15 J ^! i B q » uartan g*- M - 



* J Royal ....8£p.m. 



Pa id at, — 16 ) Royal Institution 8£p.m. 



■«*.»«. - "{&^?!:?™:?! ..":::::-.::S ££ 



CoxncTRT Snow*.— Wednesday, May 14: Forfar H optical tural.— Thurs- 

 day, May 15; Stamford Hill Horticultural, Highbury and North London 

 Horticultural, and Ipswich Horticultural.— Friday, May 16: Cornwall Hor- 

 ticultural. [ 



The Horticultural season has opened magni- 

 ficently, and it is already abundantly evident that 

 the tide of skilful gardening is still rising with 

 accumulated force. Accustomed as we are to the 

 Way glories of the Chiswiok Shows, we have never 

 witnessed anything like what the exhibitors pro- 

 duced on Saturday. Azaleas, Orchids, stove and 

 greenhouse plants, Roses, were all displayed in such 

 profusion, that nobody missed the Pelargoniums, of 

 which the growers did not venture to present one ; 

 bo "fickle is fashion, and so steadily is the race of fancy 

 vjerarnums— admirably represented by Mr. Ayiies 

 <pd Mr. Ambrose— supplanting the others in public 

 favour. In what profusion fine plants were sup- 

 plied, may be judged of from the fact that a new 

 -ent containing 400 feet of additional tables, was 

 P^ched, and nevertheless the whole space was filled. 



A large part of our columns of to-day is occupied 

 J? m a detailed account of this first Horticultural 



aow, which the foreigners present justly regarded 

 « an exhibition as unapproachable in any other 

 country than England as that within the Palace of 

 wass itself. To the extended remarks of our 

 reporter we have but a word or two to add. 

 ft* 1 no 7 elties the re was not much, but some of 



iWr, V ^ °l high illtereSt - FlrSt Came 



irS EITCH s Cantua ^pendens, the most 



K S F ec ! es that y et hu reached "s from the 

 wi > a shrub, as hardy as a Fuchsia, and far mora 





various colours and materials, so as to necoui late 



purchasers. One now before us has a charming 

 topaz yellow transparent pattern, cut upon an 

 opaque white ground, and is probably that which 

 best harmonises with the objects it is intended to 

 support. 



Few things in the Crystal Palace are, to our 

 minds, more interesting than the specimens of 

 Colonial produce. They tell us of the condition of 

 distant friends, and of the prospects of those from 

 whom we are about to separate ; they speak 

 unmistakeably of the relative value of regions con- 

 cerning which few can have any personal knowledge, 

 and of the future destiny of countries which may 

 one day become our rivals. They point, out, more- 

 over, where our merchants, our manufacturers, our 

 artisans are to look for those raw materials, in the 

 absence of which their intelligence and skill would 

 remain without application. Looking in this way at 

 Canada, and the other British North American 

 Colonies, we perceive signs of a prosperity which 

 nothing but fatuity can destroy ; and comparing 

 them with the United States, "we see no cause of 

 regret at having lost the one while we retain the 

 other. The corn of Canada is inferior indeed to 

 that of Adelaide, and its minerals may suffer by 

 comparison with those of the Buna Buna, as its 

 timber does with the beautiful cabinet woods of 

 British Guiana, the Bahamas, and Van Diemen's 

 Land ; nevertheless, its nearness to our own shores 

 counterbalances such disadvantages, and its richness 

 in all that constitutes the real strength of a country 

 is abundantly manifest 



Viewed in this manner, it is impossible not to see 

 that Van Diemen's Land itself, much as it has 

 suffered, and low as it seems to have sunk in public 

 estimation, is, nevertheless, a mine of inexhaustible 

 wealth. In its timber and fancy woods alone, it 

 yields to no region that is represented in the Exhi- 

 bition. The beauty of the Huon Pine, for example, 

 excels that of Satin-wood or Bird's-eye Maple ; the 

 Black-wood equals Rosewood ; what is called Dog- 

 wood, said to be a Bedfordia, is like the finest brown 

 gnarled Oak ; and the common Musk bush (Euryhia 

 araophvlla), which in Van Diemen's Land becomes 



think, without 



a tree, produces veneers that are, 



rival. There is a small work-table, No. 12, 

 made of this material, which is not excelled by any 

 similar piece of furniture in the building. 



Of these woods, Mr. Backhouse's account will just 



now be read with interest : 



" The timber from Macquarie Harbour is very fine. 

 Huon Pine, supposed to be a species of Dacrydium 

 (Franklinii), which is much valued for ship-building 

 andfgeneral purposes, abounds on the eastern side. 

 The wood is closer grained, and more durable than 

 White American Pine, and has an aromatic smell. 

 This tree attains to about 100 feet in height, and 25 

 in circumference, and is of a pyramidal form ; the 

 branches from the trunk are a little below horizon- 

 tal, and are clothed with numerous slender, pen- 

 dent, scaly branchlets of lively green, serving the 

 purpose of leaves, as in the Cypress and Arbor- vita. 

 Celery-topped Pine, Thalamia (Phyllocladus) aspU- 

 nifolia, so called from the resemblance of a branch 

 clothed with its dilated leaves to the leaf of Celery, 

 is well calculated for masts. Myrtle, allied to Beech, 

 but with leaves more like dwarf Birch, is suited 

 for keels. Light wood, Acacia mdanoxylon, clothed 

 with leaf-like spurious foliage, resembling the leaves 

 of a Willow, is also fine timber, and its roots make 



It derives this name from. 



spring acting within and below the rim ; and this 

 upright is furnished with loops which steady the 

 flower stems and render it impossible for them to 

 fall out of the perpendicular. When the season 

 for bulbs is over, the rod and its loops are readily 

 removed, and the glass becomes either an ornamental 

 object, or a jar in which cut flowers may be placed. 

 TJais is by far the most beautiful contrivance of the 

 kind we have yet seen, and will no doubt univer- 

 sally displace the ugly things now in use. 

 Tye's Hyacinth glasses are manufactured of 



beautiful veneering, 

 swimming in water y while the other woods of Van 

 Diemen's Land, except the Pines, generally sink ; 

 in some parts of the colony, it is called Black- wood, 

 on account of its dark colour. Other timber- trees 

 are known here by the names of Pink-wood, Carpo- 

 dontos lucida, Hard-wood, a species of Olea, Sassa- 

 fras, Athcrospcrma moschatum, Stink- wood, Zicria 

 arbor esmis, &c. Forest Tea-tree, a species of Zep- 

 tospermum, is valued for fuel ; some crooked portions 

 of its trunk are finely veined, and well adapted for 

 fancy work. The black substance forming part of 

 the stems of Tree Ferns, is used for reeding, in 

 inlaying, for which purpose it is superior to Ebony." 

 — Narrative, p. 48. 



A good many specimens have been sent of the 

 Tasmannian Beech, or, as the colonists call it, Myrtle 

 (the Fagiis Gunninghamii of botanists), and this tree 

 seems to be one of considerable merit, as well as enor- 

 mous size. Mr. Backhouse says (p.122), that, on the 

 Hampshire hills, " near the Guide River, he measured 

 two Myrtles, of 32 and 45 feet round ; these and 

 many others appeared to be about 150 feet high. 

 Few Myrtles exceed 30 feet in circumference, and 

 they often diminish suddenly at about 10 feet from 

 the ground, losing nearly as much in circumference. 



In thus mentioning the timber of Van Diemen's 

 Land we must not omit noticing the Blue Gum Tree 

 {Eucalyptus globulus), of which an ample account 

 was given by us last week. It is represented by 



