



THE 



GARDENERS 



? 



CHRONICLE 



AND 



AGRICULTURAL 



GAZETTE 



A 



o-mped Newspaper of Rural Economy and General News.— The Horticultural Part Edited by Professor Lindley. 



1851.] 



SATURDAY, MAY 24. 



[Price 6d. 



INDEX. 



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^.Sddety of England 332 t 



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l^rftD^nt for ...... 



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Hortiewltural 



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££«, fertility 'from 332 



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jpftljft" T" "" ^ 



ax.r«l»mfeof ££ 



. * liir/n new • • '-'' 



*!*■ fining*, foreign .... 324 

 ■— --' Benevolent Iuati- 



326 



7 

 326 



323 



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to T«ntilate 



mxnt . Polmmite 



— Grant on •••••••• 



ktbury flort. Society 327 b 



Horticultural Society 

 Kunze (Dr ) death of. ....... . . 



Lime»tone». value of 



Mauure*, artificial ... 

 National Floricultural Soc. .. 



Orchids for the million 



Orchid shows 



Ploughs, ■ubsoil 330 



Polmaise heating 236 



Rho-touVndron arboreum 236 



iv jfteKt a ^** ■»••»•••••»•••*••••■ M**<) 



St. Pete sburgh 324 



Salamander, poisonous quali- 

 ties of 325 



ocann^rs. .....•■.•.■...••«.... •> 



Skylark, the 332 



Soot, adulterntioa of 327 a 



Susar in animals 323 6 



— Beet 329 6—332 a 



Toad, poisonous qualities of .. 326 b 



Trees, lores', to plant 236 a 



Tul p«, Mr. Groom's 327 c 



Ventilating, plan of 237 a 



Victoria Kegia at Messrs. 



Vine, by Sanders, rev 327 b 



Weather, the 333 c 



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INSTITUTION. 



^ ARDENERS' BENEVOLENT 



1* President i 



HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G. 



The EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY DINNER will be held at the 



ondon Ctffec House, Lud^ate Hill, on MONDAY, June 9, 1851. 



JOSEPH FAX TON, Esq., in the Chair. 



Stewards: 



"be Right Honourable Lord William Murray, Esq. 



Orerstone. 



homas Clarke, Efq. 

 e Cunningham, Esq. 



itrlcs I). Dandy, Esq. 



Iward Denver, Esq. 



illiam James Epps, Esq, 



-ederick M. Evans, Esq. 

 lines Garraway, Esq. 



>bert Glendinning, Esq, 

 obn Lee, E*»q, 

 Jeorge L) all, Esq , jun. 

 toberc Marnock, Esq. 



William Somerville Orr, Esq. 

 George Paul, Esq. 



William Haseld:nePepys,Esq., 



F.R.S. 

 Robert T. Pince, Esq. 

 Alexander Pontey, Egq. 

 I George Rollisson, Esq. 

 John Crace Stevens, Esq. 

 James Veitch, Esq., jun. 

 George Wood, Esq. 

 Edmund Tattersall, Esq. 



Charles Turner, Esq. 

 Dinner on Table at Half-past Five o'clock precisely. 

 Tickets, 21s. each, to be had of the Stewards, at the Tavern, 

 Jid of the Secretary, 97, Farringdon-street. 



Edward R. Cutler, Secretary. 



HARDENERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. 



U Notice is hereby given, that the Half-yearly Geueral 

 seeting of the Members of this Society will take place at the 

 London Coffee House, Ludgate Hill, on Wednesday, the 11th of 

 June next, lor the nurpose of Electing Two Pensioners on th 

 funds of the Institution. The Chair will be taken at 12 o'clock 



READ THIS! 



ROBERT WHIBLEY wishes to purchase some 

 Seed from choice kinds of PRIMULA SINENSIS FIM- 

 BRIATA.— I he first and second parts of his Catalogue are 

 ready, and cm be had on application. 

 Nursery, Kennington, Loudon. 



THE BEST EARLY TURNIP FOR FIELD CULTURE. 



UTTON'S EARLY SIX WEEKS. 



A field of these Turnips, grown by Mr. E. W. Moore, 

 Steward to Earl Radnor, on poor soil, at Colesh'll, gained the 

 20/. prize at the Farringdon Agricultural Sh«>w in 1849. 



John Sutton and Sons confidently recommend the above 

 for first sowing, to feed off for Wheat. 



Also, for succession, the New Lincolnshire Bed, and 

 Sutton's Purple-topped Hybrid yellow Turnip. 



The Lincolnshire Red Turnip (the stock of which was pre- 

 sented to Mes*r§ Sctt >N, in 1849, by Philip Pusey, Esq., M.P.), 

 should be fed off before Christmas; and Sutton's Purple- 

 topped Yellow Hybrid, which is equal to a fine Yellow Swede. 

 May be sown very late with certainty of success, and will keep 

 till spring either in the field or boused. 



Sold in quantities of not less than 10 pounds weight, at the 

 undermentioned prices, Carriage Free, to any Station on the 

 Great Western, South- Western, or *outh-Eastern Railways :— 



Perpound. pec gallon, per bush. 



Early Six Weeks' Turnip 

 Sutton's purple-topped Hybrid 

 Lincolnshire Red 

 Ashcroft Swede 



Skirving's Liverpool do. 

 Best Dwarf Rape 



Sutton and Sons, Seed Growers, Reading, Berks. 

 Agents for the sale of Rivera's Stubble Swede Seed. 



« HPHE FLOWER OF THE DAY" may now be seen 



-*- in bJoom at J. and C. LEE'S Nursery, Hammersmith. 

 Price, per dozen, according to size, on application. 



AZALEA INDICA •• SYMMETRY" (Kinghorn), will be 

 sent out on 1st June, price 21a. Discount to the trade. 



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TWENTY THOUSAND FLOWERING f 

 OF CRASSULA COCCINEA MAJOR FOR S\ T 

 set with spikes of Flowers, in pDts from 4 to IS in ^« in 

 diameter, and with flowering heads varying in numbf: fiom 

 one to one hundred on a plant. This is a very desirable lant 

 for bedding, and flowering plants can be supplied l oi 4a« per 

 dozen to four guineas per plant, on application « .» W. 

 Thomson, Nurseryman, Landscape Gardener, and nhouse 

 Builder, Exotic Nursery, Hammersmith, Middlesex. 



EDWARD GEORGE HENDERSO is now 

 ... . . _ T M prepared to forward his new SPRING CATALOGUE f.r 



precisely, when the Ballot will commence, and close at 2 1851, post free on application, and it will be f .nd to contain 



o'clock precisely. 

 May J*, 1851. 



By order, Edward R. Cutler, Secretary. 



97, Faningdon-street. 



cinerarias .. 

 Calceolarias 



I fANSIES 



THE LONDON FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



THE next MEETING under this SOCIETY, for the 



± EXHIBITION of SEEDLINGS and CLASS SHOWING, 

 will take place at EXETER HALL, Strand, on TUESDAY, 

 the 27th instant, at 12 o'clock, for the following Flowers :— 



TULIPS 3 Classes — Roses, By blcemens, and Bizarres; 



cut flowers. 



PELARGONIUMS, 3 Classes— Show varieties, Fancy and Scar- 

 lets ; in pots. 

 2 Classes — Selfs and tipped ; in pots. 



2 Classes— Light and Dark grounds ; in pots. 



3 Classes— Selfs, Yellow grounds, and Light 

 grounds; cut fl »wers. 



^^^.11 Flowers to be ready for the Censors by 1 o'clock. 



45, Lime-street. May 24. J. W. Jewitt, Hon. Sec. 



PELARGONIUMS. 



EDWARD BECK having withdrawn from exhibiting 

 publicly, begs to intimate that his Collection of this 

 kTourite flower is now in bloom, and open for inspection, 

 Mondays excepted. N.B.— The various articles in slate manu- 

 ictured by him, may be seen at the same time.— W or ton 

 -ottage. 



CHOICE AND CHEAP.— READ THE FOLLOWING! 



(Carriage paid ; see below.) 

 Now ready, and may be had gratis on application, 



\/T AY'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 



J -*■ PLANTS, for ornamenting the Flower Garden, 



tfeenhouse display. 



H.B.— All orders above 21. 10s. carriage paid to London, or 



J any Railway Station within 150 miles of the Nurseries, and 



pants given over on smaller orders to compensate for carriage. 



>ur central position and great facility ot railway communica- 



'on enables us to execute ail orders with punctuality and 

 *H>atch. 



The Catalogue comprises the following favourites, viz. :— 

 «oeolarias of the best sorts, Cinerarias, Fuchsias, Scarlet 

 -ramums (for bedding), Verbenas—the very choicest varieties, 

 hr^ la8 V fine Cbr > sanihe mums for autumn display, Liliputian 

 Jianihemums (these are little gems, growing about a foot 



im r' a a !I * flowerio £ Profusely), Salvias, Heliotropes, Phloxes, 

 Md 3 n ^J e v An tirrhinums, fine ; various Plants adapted for 



Rl" a ' V lai ^ rs ot Borts » and Roses in selection. «. 



KFpVriftJ" 10 bloomiQ g Plants, own selection, per doz., 12 

 JfcENHOUSE PLANTS, 12 miscellaneous 



i u K, our own fi»lo/>HAn ™»«. doz. 



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and 



sorts, bloom. 



in pots, purchaser's selection, 



12 



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"K, our own selection, per 

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Th* i;„\u 7 0- do, » our own Section, per 100, 50 



* W ■ thro : i g hou ' " divided into sections of the newest 



«ieWti n e? * ^ ,a?s ' and tbofie in more S eneral cultivation ; 

 r cu«£rl )n 1S eft to Purchasers or ourselves, in the latter case 



itUgf t may rely u P° tt our * nt *&«*ty »n furnishing good 

 •,ii»rwnich we have received many flattering testimonials. 



^hottaii l iw M « T ' H °i )e Nurseri « ? » nea J Bedale, Yorkshire, I general descriptive Catalog b can be had on application. 

 *u rosuoffice orders must be made payable. J Gilling, Richmond, Yorkshire, May 24. 



all the new Stove and Greenhouse Plants, uew Geraniums, 

 Fuchsias, Cinerarias, Verbenas, Chrysanthemums, soft-wooded 

 and other Plants, sent out in this country or on the Continent. 

 Much pains have been taken to render the descriptions full 

 and correct, so as to make it a guide to purchasers. 



E. G. H. also solicits attention to the new Plants he is now 

 send'ng out, as will be seen on referring to page 64 of the 

 Catalogue. 



Wellington-road Nursery, St. John*s Wood, London, May 24. 



CH R YSANTHE M UMsT* 7 W E E NOPBNGL ^AND," «« CLOTH 

 OF GOlD," "RABELAIS," "JENNY LIND," "POM- 

 PON D'OR," "THE WARDEN," «fcc. &c. 



CHANDLER and SONS, Nurserymen, Wands- 

 worth-road, are now sending out the finest Chrysanthe- 

 mums from 9«. to 12a. per dozen. The newest varieties Is. 6J. 

 each. Good sorts for planting in open borders, 6s, per dozen. 

 Poat-office orders payable at Kennington-cross. 



~~ SPLENDID NEW SEEDLING FUCHSIAS^ 



TTf ILLIAM RUMLEY and SONS are now sending 



V T out the under-mentioned superb SEEDLING FUCHSIAS, 

 which they can confidently recommend as first-rate varieties. 



VOLTIGEUR.— Tube and sepals pure waxy white, wich rich 

 deep rose corolla, large, and finely reflexed ; 5s. each. 



NORTHERN BEAUTY.— Tube and sepals white, slightly 

 tinged with rose, deep rosy carmine corolla, well expanded; 

 3a. 6d. each. 



New Rose-coloured GERANIUM "ROSEA PERFECTA."— 

 Deep rosy pink, with pure white centre, good shape, and very 

 distinct ; 2a. 6cJ. each. 



Having a splendid stock of the undermentioned in first-rate 

 varieties, we can supply them at the very low prices affixed. 



FUCHSIAS, all the best of 1850, 20 for 10a. : 12 for 7a. 6d. 

 or 6 for 4a. For the varieties, see our advertisement 

 April 19. 

 Dahlias, splendid show varieties 



Do. good show do. 



Do. choice fancy do. 



Geraniums, extra fine show do. 

 Do. scarlet, extra fine do. 

 Do. do. Tom Thumb 



Verbenas, extra fine varieties 

 Chrysanthemums, very choice 

 Petunias, extra fine varieties 

 Pansies, very choice do. 

 Cinerarias, extra fine do. 

 Calceolarias, shrubby, in 6 varieties 



Salvias, in 6 choice varieties 



Stove and Greenhouse Plants, choice 



Cuphea Donkelaarii, bright purple, very distinct, 

 and pretty 



Lobelia fulgens multiflora 



Cupheas, Heliotropes, Plumbago LarpentaB, Zauschneria 

 californica, Lobelia erinus, and Anemone japouica, 4a. per doz. 



Cantua bicolor, Browallia Jamesonii, and Mitraria coccinea, 

 6d. each. 



The above can be forwarded in pots, hamper included, and 

 those not too large can be sent free by post, if required, on 

 receipt of a Pos'-ofiice order, payable at Richmond. Our 



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O T I C E.- EXHIBITION OF AMERICAN 



PLANTS KNAP-HILL NURSERY. NEAR WOKING, 

 SURREY.— The American Plants, at this Nursery, will be in 

 bloom on and after the 30th lost, and may be seen daily 

 (gratis , Sundays excepted. The Knap-hill Nurserv is within 

 one hour's ride of London, being near the Woking Station, 

 South- Western Railway, where nearlv every train stops, and 

 from whence conveyances may at ail times be obtained. 



HosEA Waterer takes this opportunity of statin? that the 

 Exhibition of American Plants in the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden, Chi*wick, is entirely supplied from his Nursery, and 

 that he is not this year a contributor to that in the Botanic 

 Gardens, Reg-nt's-park.— Knap-hill, Woking, surrey, May 24. 



THE VICTORIA REGIA IS NOW FLOWERING 



GROWING IN THE OrEN AIR, AT 

 T WEEKS AND CO., KingVroad, Chelsea, Horti- 



t-J • cultural Architects, Hothouse Builders, and Hot-water 

 Apparatus Manufacturers. 



EAT CHARCOAL can be had of G. II. Foley 



Essex Wharf, Lea Bridge, Middlesex, 

 ment, to the Irish Amelioration Society. 



Agent, by appoint- 

 Price at the above 



address, of the unmixed Charcoal, 6"a. per ton, sacks included ; 

 mixed with night-soil, 45a. per ton, sacks included ; or delivered 

 at aoy of the Loudon Railway Stations or Wharfs, mixed, 50a. 

 per ton, and unmixed (frs. per ton, s icks included. 



PURVEYOR TO HER MAJESTY, H.R.H. PRINCE 

 ALBERT, AND THE KING OF THE NETHERLANDS. 



JOHN BAILY, 113, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, 

 London, Dealer in all sorts of USEFUL and ORNA- 

 MENTAL POULTRY; Domesticated Wild Fowl; Gold. 

 Silver, and common Pheasant Eggs for Hatching ; all sorts 

 of Fancy Fowls' Eggs, large Aylesbury Ducks. <fcc. 



Baily's registered PHEASANT and POULTRY FOUN- 

 TAINS, by which Birds are ensured a supply of clean and 

 wholesome water, and the lives of thousands of Chickens and 

 Pheasant Poults saved— 14 quarts, 17a. Gd. ; 7 quarts, 15a. 6d. ; 

 3 quarts, 13a. Gd. Drawings and particulars forwarded by F ost 

 on application. 



Bult's " Hints for the Management and Fatting of the 

 D^rkiug Fowls tor the Table," price la. Od. 



T^PPS'S IMPROVED REGISTERED SULPHU- 



J-^ RATOR, for destroying the Mildew and Mould in Grape* 

 Hops, Roses, Heaths, Pamief, Fruit Trees, and Agriculturs 

 and Horticltuural produce. 



The Inventor submits this Machine with great confidence, afi 

 being the most useful and perfect of its kind invented. T* 

 construction is simple, strong, and effective, and in I e u - 

 by the most inexperienced hand. It has been des ;ibf^ i ae. 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, aqd highh- commended by Dr id 

 Dr. Piomley (in his lectures or. ie Mould in V ,*). . editor 

 of the " Gardeners' Magazine of Botany," and many eminent 

 Gardeners and Agriculturists. 



Manufactured and sold wholesale by Bakbev and Groom, 

 Hoiborn, and to be had of all Seedsmen, Florists, Ironmongers, 

 and the Inventor. Price 20a. and upwards. 



Maidstone, May 24. 



SHADING CANVAS, id. per Square Yard. To be 

 had in any quantity from WILLIAM HAMILTON, Seeds- 

 man, &c. 156, Cheapside, London. 



Also BEDDING and HERBACEOUS PLANTS of every 

 description. 



FLOWER SEEDS for present sowing, in packages of 

 12 varieties, for 2a. 6d. ; or 25 varieties, 5a. 



Labels, Garden Knives, Flower-gatherers, Thermometers, 

 and every other article useful in gardening, his prices for 

 which are excessively moderate. 

 Address, 156, Cheapside, London. 



Nf.B. Agent for the Registered Rose Girdle. 



DEANE'S WARRANTED GARDEN TOOLS.. 

 Horticulturists, and all interested in Gardening pursuits, 

 are invited to examine G. and J. Deane's extensive Stock of 

 GARDENING AND PRUNING IMPLEMENTS, best London 

 made Garden Engines and Syringes, Coalbrookdale Garden 

 Seats and Chairs. 



Averuncators 

 Axes gg 



Bagging Hooks 



Bills 



Borders, various pat- 

 terns 



Botanical Boxes 



Cases of Pruning In- 

 struments 



Chaff Engines 



Chaff Knives 



Daisy Rakes 



Dibbles 



Dock Spuds 



Draining Tools 



Edging Irons and 



Shears 

 Flower Scissors 



Stands in Wires 

 and Iron 

 Fumigators 

 Galvanic Borders & 

 Plant Protectors 



Garden Chairs and 



Seats 

 Loops 



Garden Scrapers IPick Axes 

 Grape Gatherers and Potato Forks 



Scissors 

 Gravel Rakes and 



Sieves 



Greenhouse Doors 



and Frames 

 Hammers 



Hand-glass Frames 

 Hay Knives 

 Hoes of every pattern 

 Horticultural Ham- 

 mers and Hatchets 

 Hotbed Handles 

 Ladies' Set of Tools 

 Labels, various pat- 



if 



Pruning Bills 



Knives,various 

 Saws 



Scissors 



,, Shears [riety 



Rakes in great va- 



Reaping Hooks 



Scythes 



Scythe Stones 



Shears, various 



Sickles 



Sickle Saws 



Spade and ShoTels 

 Spuds 



terns, in zinc, por- Switch Hooks 



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Rollers 



ceiain, &c. 

 Line3 and Reels 

 Marking Ink 

 Mattocks 

 Menographs 

 Metallic Wire 



Milton Hatchets 

 Mole Traps 

 j Mowing Machine 



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Thistle Hooks 



Transplanting Tools 

 Trowels 

 Turfing Irons 

 Wall Nails 

 Watering Pots 

 Weed Extractors 



and Hooks 

 Wheelbarrows 

 Youths,' Set of Tools 



G. and J. Deane are sole Agents for LINGHAM'S PER- 

 MANENT LABELS, samples of which, with the Illustrated 

 List of Horticultural Toois, can be sent, post paid, to anv 

 pare of the United Kingdom. * 



Also, wholesale and retail Agents for Saynor's celebrated 

 I runtng Knives, used exclusively by the first gardeners in the 

 United Kingdom. Geokge and John Deane (opening to the 

 Monument) London Bridge. 



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