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IB idditioi to tba Pri.et red Dv the 



•1 TlSr B»q- offer* a Small *i!w Linniean Med.il 

 >i Jrt^ iff SO cut specimen* of Indtyttious t'lanti. 



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value of the ammonia it contains. 



A ton of guano 

 contaias. on an average, as much ammonia as can be 

 bought for !)/. 14$. The wholesale price of guano 



therefore the Peruvian Govern- 



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not he able to preserve the Crystal Pal e, w hat- 

 er his wishes may be, or whatever the resolutions 

 of the Houses of Lords and Com 







*■*' ZL* Comb, tlie Linre ou^r »u-»»n« "V"** 1 * . AUo » 

 »^ **^JJToriaa* f «*r Seeder Annminnms. Calceolarias, 



STJrLs god Petuniat, in addition to Certificate* 

 STSSetj.-LUli of Prizef and the Rules for 



obtained from John Taylor Neville, 

 Booi#> p«ckbam t Surr ey. s ecretary. 



^~""~" BOSKS. 



r>* ARD DENVER, Nurseryman, Loughborough 



*J*7 Br t x t(- 3 mile* from Loudon, inform* hit kind 

 *^7 " eral'that his unrivalled collection of Roses 



• ia f c 1000 ---*«***— ■ *• •»»»» *" hlnnm and 



is tff. 0$. ^». , 



ment makes its customers a pr< sent of 13*. W. 

 per ton, in the form of ammonia, and throws 

 into the bargain all the phosphoric and 

 alkaline matters, worth, on an average, 2/. 8s. 6d 

 more. For this, we submit, that Kuropeans should 

 be grateful. It is much the same as if gold, if worth 

 3/. 15s. 6d. the ounce, were to be sold to us by the 



Peruvians at 3/. 3s. 



We own that we look with alarm upon the attempt s 

 that are made from time to time to interfere with 



— ■Tforcti-" of all visitor*, Sundays excepted. Ord- 



•"^nTtta* aud executed in November nexr. Fruit* 



** Tw **' &c., may also be seen in preat varieties. 



, bis* friends that he has no Sped Shop in Londi 



Peru in this matter, 

 of the first class : ci 

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7k vrtSBRTMEK AND GENTLRMEV PURCI 

 f ° ' pUSTS IS WHOLESALE NUMBERS. 



rPMOAUS JACKSON and SON respectfully invite 



T^mrtta to their very lar*e .took of PLANTS IN POTS, 

 * ■rTJL Ar#t ellifl|r in wholesale nnfliber* at extremely low 

 Itaan^Uts of a antral collectiuu of Stove, Orehi- 

 Ofaanhousa, and Hardy Plants, and include* fine 

 ir plants of Erica ventricosa supcrba, do. carnea, do. 

 ^^* do. breriflor*, do. coccinea minor, da. Both- 



|o alobera; propendans ibiflora, hyemalis, Will- 

 I^^a C*rendi#hi, sulphnrea, depressa, hybrHa, perspicua 

 *°Y M'5*Wan* £as*oni*na purpurea, vestita coccinea, 

 SahiiU te Epi^ris. *trone bushy plants of most of the 

 2 - jNa-n.iwtrin i r torts; Camellias of the finest kinds, well 

 M with ri>w*r bods; Axalea indiea, in fine variety ; AchU 

 Zm» and Gloxinias now showing full of bloom ; large- 

 mtrti ani Liliputian Chrysanthemums, of fine sorts, in 

 Sajias+qiitotirv ; large *pecimena and good flowering plants 

 rf £■ J*|iMMii"l :i: " Amongst the Hardy Plants (in pots), 



* ft** to am her, ar* Cedrus Deodara from 1 to 6 feet high ; 

 Arurtria imbrkata, 1 to 4 feet; Juniperus chinenhi9, do. 

 nrarva- Oryptnmerla japonica ; Picea Douiflasf, do. Bru- 

 ftoftana,' do. piodr^w, do. Webbiann ; Pinus cembroides, do. 

 inrdia&a, do. intignis, do. excelsa, 1 to 6 feet, do. Lam. 



aa ; Tsiodium nenipervirens, 1 to 7 feet; Taxun ad- 



*, *do p.tvastoni, do. gold striped ; Escallonia ma- 



Ceanothus deatatus, do. rigidus ; Ilex latitolia, 1 to 



♦ ttst, *c.— Kamries, Kingston, Surrey, July. 



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SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1851. 



ITEKTIIfOS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 



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tiraiD»T — 51 — Koynl Soti'h Iiondon 1 r.M. 



C*r-»?», .<i B «,»«.^W>dne««lay t July 23: Stamford Hill Horticultural. 

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Mr. Alcock has given notice of his intention to 

 awre oa Tuesday next for a Select •Committee to 

 inquire into and report on the state and prospects of 

 fhe trade in Guano. What purpose the hon. gentle- 

 Ma expects to gain by his move it is difficult to 



)njecture. There is nothing secret in this branch 

 cf commerce, except the frauds that it gives rise to ; 

 there is nothing to learn, except what every well- 

 inrormed person already knows ; so that a committee 

 of inquiry seems at first sight to be as useless a 

 Heasure as it is possible to conceive. There may, 

 powever, be reasons which do not occur to us, and 

 therefore we shall await with patience the state- 

 nent with which the member for East Surrey is 



■oat to favour the House of Commons. In the 



amvhile, it may prevent misconception if we 

 teticipate the Parliamentary discussion by drawing 

 wention to a fewfacts which may assist Mr. Alcock's 

 wers to arrive at a just conclusion. 



The guano trade may be stated to consist at pre- 

 •tttof - he annual sale, by the Peruvian Government, 

 «f i certain number of thousand tons of this sub- 

 <mce, through their agents in this and other 

 Gantries. As for African, Australian, and other 

 Ptoos, they are too inconsiderable in quantity to 

 « of mercantile importance. On the arid western 

 •out of South America, where rain rarely falls, 

 **t banks of this substance have collected in the 

 course of centuries, and its sale now forms an im- 

 portant part of the revenue of Peru, which virtually 



a Joys a monopoly of it. The merchants in this 

 ^try sell a large quantity, on account of the 



is no getting np a 

 because no other country yields guano in quantities 

 worth speaking of. Gentlemen must take care that 

 in their eagerness to lower the price of the article, 

 which we imagine to be the true meaning of Mr. 

 Alcock's motion, they do not cause it to advance. 

 It is a dangerous game to tell a monopolist, how- 

 ever liberal-minded he may be, that you cannot pos- 

 sibly dispense with his commodities, and in the same 

 breath to urge him to reduce his price. What if his 

 answer is " No— I have sold it you at a fair rate, and 

 you are discontented ; therefore I shall advance the 

 price, which I trust will suit you better." Mr. 

 Alcock's Surrey constituents would not thank him 

 if he should be the means of raising the price of 

 guano from M. to 10/. a ton. 



It may be thought that this is ifnlikelv to happen, 

 and that the Peruvian Government would not venture 

 upon a measure that might seriously affect one of 

 their most important branches of revenue. Don't 

 let us be too sure of that No doubt the guano 

 sales are of great importance to that Government. 

 In the Times of July 12th is an official statement 

 of the net receipts for guano on account of the 

 Peruvian Government, from which it appears that 

 the average return per ton, after deducting expenses, 

 is 41. 4s. 7£c/., which is paid over to the Peruvian 

 Government or its agents. The total accounted for 

 in this document is 87,894 tons, yielding a net 

 return of about 371,891)/., one half of which, viz., 

 185,949/. went to the Peruvian agency in London 

 in payment of dividends and redemption of stock, 

 and the other half to the Peruvian Government 

 itself as part of its ordinary revenue. But that very 

 circumstance should teach gentlemen the impolicy 

 of drawing attention to the present price of the 

 article. The addition of 10s. a ton to what is nov. 

 charged would immediately add 44,000/. a year 

 from England alone to the revenue of a poor Govern- 

 ment, and that is a contingency which we at least 

 can have no hand in producing. It would be more 

 popular, no doubt, to assist in raising a clamour 

 against what is called monopoly, to abuse foreign 

 Governments, and to join in an idle outcry for 

 reduction of prices. But on this, as on. other 

 occasions, we feel it our duty to guard the public 

 against the consequences of its own acts, without 

 being over-curious as to the manner in which our 

 advice is taken ; and therefore, instead of encouraging 

 the hon. member for East Surrey to persevere in his 

 motion, whatever that may mean, we are bound to 

 declare that, to the best of our judgment, it would 

 be much better to let well alone. 



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unlets those resolutions assume the tangible form of 

 n Act of Parliament. If such an Act is not pawed 

 before Parliament separates, down the Palace must 

 come at its appointed time. The only point to which 

 we would Idreas ourselves is the possibility of 

 converting the area on which the Palace stands to 

 the purpose of i promenade, agreeable and healthy at 

 all seasons. This, indeed, has become the more 

 necessary, in consequence of the opinion expressed 

 by a very clever writer in the last number of the 

 Quarterly Review. 



" It is the open air" says our lively friend, whom 

 is cannot ao wiinoui u ; we quote at j engt i lf " that must stimulate the lan- 

 competition with Peru, gruid appetite, raise the depressed spirits, and 



co | our ^ e f a( j e( j cheek with 



blood. 



necessary 



ygenised 



Were the Crystal Palace to be kept up in 

 spite of rather strong pledges, and, as some pro- 

 phesy, to present us by-and-bve with a wilderness 

 of walks meandering through bowers of exotic 

 bloom, it would be the most insalubrious prome- 

 nade in London ; the rarer and choicer the Flora 

 the less entitled to rivet your admii 

 ladies ! On a sultry summer's day, i 

 between heavy showers and scorching sunshine, you 

 have seen a bottle of claret — or the decanter t 

 which it ought not to have been transferred 

 r.araffe of water from the deep well- 

 your dear papa's comfortable dining-room; before 

 it stood Ion . on the table, the bright glass was dim. 

 and soon down trickled the dew drops, running 



which should reach the bottom first ; well, 



brought 



or a 

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permit us, paternal reviewers, to whisper that, after 

 half an hour's walk through the frosty air, you are 

 the cool claret bottle, or the carafe of spring watei 

 when you enter the seductive Orchid-house. The 

 dew does not run off your encasing integument 

 but it saturates them. You might almost as wisely 

 take a walk on the floor of the aqiarium as here. 

 If you doubt our word, go and stand before the 

 nearest kitchen-fire, and see how you will reek and 



-what would 



steam. 



Sir 



What would vc 



Dr. 



or 



say- 



) has taken 



^h vuvciiimcui , auu uwier countries are lis 



^tamers, though in a less degree. This year 

 peat Britain has taken about 118,000 tons, the 

 }■?*•* ^tes from 25,000 to 30,000, Belgium 



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The great importance of this substance to culti- 



^ors of the soil is shown better by the increasing 



*jnd for it, than by the actual amount of sales. 



•««rr?/x countr y> for instance, the sales have risen 

 2? 80,000 tons in 1850 to 118,000 in 1851 

 r^ar increase is observable elsewhere ; and tl 

 ■no doubt that it will go on increasing annual 

 tinwise attempts are made to fetter the trade 

 gating about it. The great progress of guano 

 fln»^ 1Sen m the consumer having discovered that 



The Peruvian 

 ban the market 



The discussions respecting the Crystal Palace 

 •re increasing in warmth and interest. Lord 

 Brougham, in the House of Lords, pleads in its 

 favour; Lord Campbell objects. The Economist 

 would regard its destruction as an act of Vandalism. 

 " Pull down the Crystal Palace ! " exclaims its 

 editor — a pull down Saint Paul's, pull down West- 

 minster Hall." " Away with it,*' cry the clergy of 

 Belgravia — " the place is immoral." " Down with 

 it," shout Mr. Justice Cresswell and his neigh- 

 bours, "the building is a nuisance — or causes a 

 nuisance — which is the same thing." "No, 

 says Lord Listowel, "pray preserve it; it 

 be a charming place, and I shall 

 to find it at my door." 



no 



the Times; 



it 



will 



be delighted 



"Let it alone," says 



chance of 



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by 



^ no manure so cheap as it is. 



give it a cnance or becoming 

 what the public expect it to be, and if it be other- 

 wise let it stand self condemned " — ruat mole sud. 

 " We will have it," exclaims Mr. Bull, w T ho we 

 learn, on the high authority of Lord Brougham, 

 is absolutely enamoured of it — and no wonder. He 



has constructed it himself — vicariously — and he is 

 proud of it. 



We shall leave it to others to urge on the one 

 hand the maintenance, on the other the removal, 

 of this remarkable building. There is zeal in 

 abundance on both sides, and we have no doubt that 

 the issue between the public and the Government, 

 or between Mr. Paxton and Lord Campbell, will 

 be fairly tried. We would only observe, what we 

 hinted at a fortnight since, that Lord Seymour will 



pains with you, think, if you were to spend two or 

 three hours in the laundry during the height of the 

 engagement on a washing-day ? As you happen to 

 have lungs and a skin, it matters not what you are 

 looking at, as long as the atmosphere is the same— 

 whether at the brightest of flowers or the most pris- 

 matic of soap-bubbles. No in-door promenade 

 should tell more forcibly on the hygrometer, or indi- 

 cate the dew-point with greater suddenness, than a 

 common sitting-room. But in this arid climate, 

 even the Camellia casts off its blossom-bud-. It 

 disinherits its own lovely offspring, and rejects 

 them with as decided a scorn as if it had discovered 

 that it was producing a crop of Hygeian pills instead 

 of pure ornaments for innocent beauties. The 

 climate of the Orange, not that of the Camellia, may 

 lo for a winter-garden. If ever our admirable 

 Palace of Glass becomes a showy, steamy, suffo- 

 cating Jardin d'Hiver, it will be a capital thing for 

 the apothecaries; such a vigorous crop of colds, 

 coughs, and consumptions will be raised that it will 

 be the Walk, if not the Dance of Death, to frequent 

 it. If all tales be true, we may anticipate the Canter ; 

 but, seriouslv, we hope never to see a comparative 

 bill of mortality of those who take the Hyde-park 

 exercise in whatever shape within doors, and those 

 w T ho take it without." 



This is clever writing ; but it does not touch the 

 question which is before the public. No one proposes, 

 that we know of, to make the Crystal Palace a hot- 

 house. Of all men, Mr. Paxton would be the last 

 to suggest such an absurdity. We ei4irely a^ree 

 with the reviewer that a hothouse in the form of a 

 winter garden would be a death-house ; but a hot- 

 house is not thought of, and if it were, mi it not, 

 with such a surface of glass, be capable of realisation. 

 That being so, all that is said in the Quarterly 

 about water condensing on young ladies' clothes, 

 claret bottles, laundries, and prismatic soap-bubbles, 



is a waste of words. 



What Mr. Paxton proposes, as we understand 

 him, is a cold house, not ayW-house ; and this makes 

 the whole difference between the salubrity and 

 insalubrity of a winter garden. The utmost that 

 would be permitted in it during winter would 

 be the temperature of a fine London day in 

 February — no heat— no cold — the earth dry, the 

 east wind excluded. In other words, it would be, 

 in winter, a winter minus frost, and snov* . and rain ; 

 the earth, unchilled by melted ice, would conti- 

 nually bring forth its vernal treasures ; flowers, un- 

 ntpped by nocturnal congelation, would expn I as 

 in their own mild climate. The Camellia, the 

 Chinese Azalea, eastern Hyacinths, Me* amian 

 Ranunculuses, Italian Tulips, and the thousand gay 

 products of milder climates, extricated from the 



