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T 1 1 E G A R 1 5 E N E US' (Mi R N I C L E . 



4!»9 









, VII \ H! I OlrtUH I VISE 



v [>]{;.; llfc, DE ON and Co. hav 



J J^r*^rin'« >« " ■Wrpttiiw ft ! friend, ih at t 



•* .to»e*i<luui this ver; exc new Q ape on 



&i?ehto *cbaractens lc« are as follows : -Tho foil e 

 JT2E «- r *t*d sod 'he mod iborter jointed than the 



MaBit»ur/h • the berries are oval, and rather i longated, 



iLr - tr>h ' !a f >r a rarv fane b!oo-u, not unlike tha f 



*f*uLm» u * m I wbl ripe ara * fiQe deep biack > h iv[n 



B «lT2 fl'TOur, end very juicy. 



tJSaar* nil! ten dajs earlier than the Black Hamburgh ; 

 » tei J^^ §t abiHi^aut bearer, and good setter, will prove a 

 Lsirable kind for pot-culture. One very remarkable 

 — -S TVhii Grape possesses, which much enhances its value, 

 CT^krt it so superior to The Black Hamburgh is, that it 

 ^odnces abortive, or, as they are termed, vinegar berries ; 

 Ctful observation, extending over three successive sea- 

 •Qtone conld be detected, although in each season the 

 was abundant and good. The usual allowance to the 

 SSfe _ P ine Apple P » ace, Ed gewar e - m ad, London. 



~ " HOLLYHOCKS. 



Lt >MBE, PINCE, and CO., respectfully inform 

 the Public that their superb collection of MOLLY II mCKS 

 — ' VLielT in BLOOM, ami is well worthy the inspection o 

 who admire this noble flower, which, owing to the vast 

 l^iiHITi— * »n i' 3 f° rrn and '.colour, is rapidly and justly 

 Swift public estimation. It consists of the finest varieties 

 I3ally siected from the collections of the most celebrated 

 JJJ5S tot ether with many very excellent ones of th?ir own 



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^Y and Co. have now ready to send out strong healthy 



^3Lg'plan*s, »Mch will flower finely next season, at 15*. 



ftflTlfeMiQMfe i eluded. These Hollyhocks are wan anted 



LTt p. apd Co. as having been i aised fr-m seed carefuMy 



«ibf them in'he au'umnof 1350 from the very finest named 



— Eiet«f Vursery, August 9. 



PHE BLACK PRINCE STRAWBERRY will be 



L ftsatonton II »day, 18th of August, at 6s. per 100, box 

 iaciaded' Ubas prev< 1 itself to be the earliest round London 



^</ 'jear-, f?uod in flavour, aftd a tremendou* bea/er, and 



aUbHtfor jrenrviTi,' ; has taken six pr'z s. The Keens and 

 British Queen 5*. per 1 ; same time, a pamphlet of 36 pages 

 oe •• Market Gardening iound London," explaining everything. 

 Prief ]#. W,, or by post, Is. 8d. ; al-o, a pamphlet »>f 56 page* 



UStaJTlhr thff "Belgian Prize Essay on the Potato and 12 

 ffter first-rate Fruits id Vegetables;" price 2s., or 'by post, 

 is* id, Posr-oftee orders on Camberwell— James Cdthill, 

 QMberwell. Lo ndon* 



/ 1 JTRNER has a few packets of choice CALCEO- 



V • LABIA. CINERARIA, PRIMULA, and PANSY SEED 

 tow rea i\ f delivery, which may be had, through the Post, 

 ail#. 6./. and 2*. 6<t each.— Royal Nursery, Sloug h, Bucks. 



"" SUPERB DOUBLE HOLLYHOCKS. " 



1\'ILLIAM CHATER begs to inform the public 



V f that his unrivaled collection of this magnificent Flower 

 ii now in boom, an* ree to the inspection of all Visitors on 



say day, Sunday* excepted; also W. G. is i * exhibiting tome 

 •fte ipecimens of this F ower in the Crystal Palace. 

 Saffron Waldon, E«sex, Aug. 9. 



PLENDID COLLECTION OF CAM L, LI AS. 



J HENRY, Seedsman, Florist, and Fruit i:rer, 

 • 6, Market-place, Guernsey, begs to inform the public, 

 that he has a beautiful collection of that sp'.endid flower, the 

 "CAMELLIA JAPONICA," from 3 to 8 feet in height, well 

 jrrofrn, and pron ing well for^.oom, and suitable for a noble- 

 man's conservatory Amongst the collecton will be found a 



fftadid 

 tionof Y 



— — — — __._.. . f _._ — _. _ -_ _, , - . -— .-.-, 



Kjt Lili'S, Hot and Greenhouse Grapes, Chaumontel Pears, 

 and trees. Orders promptly and honourably attended to. — 

 Aojmfrt 9. 



lite ©arfceunisr Cftromcle* 



SATURDAY, AUGUSTS, 1851. 



MJfeTIJfG FOR TnE ENSUING WEEK. 

 Tciidat, A«g. 12-LondoaFioricultural 6 r.M. 



The numerous accounts we have received from 

 various districts of England and Ireland, relative to 

 the destruction of the Turnip crop, by myriads of 

 the small green caterpillars of the Diamond-back 

 Turnip moth (which we also find is at present in 

 such profuoion round London, as to be a perfect 

 pert to the Entomological collector), induces us to 

 publish an excellent suggestion of one of our cor- 

 respondents, W.J. Bruce, of Castle Martyr, county 

 Cfttk. After trying applications of hot lime, soot, salt, 

 4c., without success, he finds the greatest benefit to 

 arise from the starvation system, namely, " by pulling 

 np every green blade left standing in fields, of which 

 the Turnips have been destroyed ; since, by leaving 

 a few straggling plants, the insects are kept alive, 

 till the second sowing makes its appearance above 

 pound ; whereas, the plants sown after this treat- 

 ment has been adopted are escaping with little 

 damage." He adds, moreover, that within the last 

 few days the insects are not so active, and many of 

 them are wrapping themselves up in their cocoons, 

 *nd pass into a chrysalis state. Now, as this is 

 effected either upon the ribs of the destroyed leaves, 

 °r upon the ground, it is evident that the treatment 

 of Mr. Bruce can only be rendered effectual by 

 ^moving and burning the withered remnants of the 

 r^troyed cro P, and then by ploughing up, or perhaps 

 *** by rolling the surface of the ground with a 



l»y heavy roller or crusher. 



Another correspondent, * J. H. C." has also just 

 *j&t us^ specimens of the caterpillars of this insect, 

 *roni Kempstone, Notts, where they have made 

 w havoc with the Turnips; they have also attacked 

 f f ent kinds of young Cabbage plants, Gilly- 

 nowe Wallflowers, and Mustard and Cress. Even 

 J* the transit of the box by post, one of the 

 T° was developed, so that we would again 

 ? ro: recommend the use of a pitched bag being 

 r *y n ov ' the fields, as soon as the moths appear 

 there will be but little chance for the second 



or 



►wing. 

 Z itung,' 

 Zeller has 



PL harpella, to which the name and economy is 

 applicable : the latter being the species which feed 

 on the Honeysuckle. TV. 



From a not ) iq tl»« itomol<>_;ische The first (No. 61 oi i Official Cata J )i ij ir 



of Stettin (18 >, p. 281), we find tl .: ofgreenbous i " by. Dknch. <ma >new construction 



prppow I the name of Pi la cruoife that is to jr, the iron sashes are gal ini I; gal- 

 rarum for this insect, in order to avoid the con- vanised iron, .corrugated, in emph ed outside 



fusion produced by the nime of Xyloetella, ai it under the cills, in id of brick-work, and plain gal- 

 appears that Linnaeus had confounded two distinct vanised iron inside ; some of the wood-work is 

 species togetlu namely, the present insect, to ! covered OV with galvanised iron, and some is left 

 which his description of Xylostella refers, and plain. We can find nothing peculiar in what can 



be c ed tl con ruction of these houses, so that 

 the novelty is limited to a combination of d- 

 vanised iron and wood, and to the use of the same 

 materi in lieu of brickwork. Until we iall have 

 It is a very common circumstance in Melons and the experience of a hot summer and a hard winter, 

 other Cucurbits, though the sexes are normally to guide us in forming a judgment of the value of 

 contained in di inct flowers, for more or less ini- galvanised iron thus applied, we must forbear ex- 

 perfect stamens to alternate with the stigmas. The pressing a positive opinion respecting it. But it is 

 pollen is sometimes perfected in such flowers, and, to t be feared that a house so constructed would be 

 very fortunately for the cultivator, impregnation difficult to manage, on account of the decree as well 



thus takes place, naturally, where all attempts at 

 artificial fecundation have been baffled. Thus, for 

 insance, in Melons, 

 after 



many a vain 

 attempt, when the 

 plants have been left 

 in despair to take 

 their chance, good 

 and abundant fruit is 

 set, mainly, as it - 

 should seem, by the 

 agency of such sta- 

 mens, lie this however as 

 it may, a very curious 













• c 



is now before 



in which a 



large white-seeded Gourd 

 pi entsa majority of flowers 

 in which the pollen is re- 

 placed by ovules, many of 

 which appear so perfect as 

 to make the possibility of 

 their impregnation far from 

 hopeless, though at present 

 we have failed in tracing 

 any pollen grains attached 

 to the micropyle. These 

 stamens vary very much in 

 number and position ; in 

 some flowers they are com- 

 pletely confluent with the 

 corolla or calyx, whichever 

 may be the more proper 

 term; in others they are 

 partly attached, and partly 

 altogether free, .except at 

 the very base, as being con- 

 tinued from the outer coat 

 of the ovary. 



In the snecimen selected 





difficult to manage, on account of the degree m 

 as rapidity with which the metal sides would cool 

 or heat under extreme temperatures— to say nothing 

 of other faults. 



A second is No. G2, provisionally re. tered,and re- 

 presents a new mode of glazing greenhouse-, invented 

 by Alfred Kent, Chichester. The inventor 6 : 



* The chief points of novelty are, — 1. That by tho 

 peculiar construction of the lights, and the s> ion 

 made in the materials to 1 used, putty and all otl r 



adhesive composts are entirely av ided. 



— ■ 



That the 





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dm 



V 





for 

 of 



our figure 

 which alternate 

 with the floral 



specimen 

 stamens are developed, three 

 with the stigmas, unconnected 

 envelope, and very much thickened at the base, and 

 two smaller opposite to them, closely combined 

 with it, and evidently belonging to another series. 

 All are irregularly excavated on the outer side 

 towards the top, and have ovules over the whole 

 of the cavity. There can be no doubt as to the 

 mode of placentation in these plants, and therefore 

 the argument which might be derived from this 

 circumstance, if an attempt were made to show 

 that the mode of placentation is in accordance 

 with the views of of Decandolle and Wight, 

 must be presumed to be fallacious, and that the 

 leaves, of which the stamens are a modification, 

 are so distorted as to present nothing like their 

 ordinary transformation into carpels. All the male 

 blossoms seem to be in their usual condition, except 

 some slight variation in the number of stamens. 

 M. J. B. 



glass can be put in or removed with such facility, that 

 the bars and frame can he painted, the glass r loaned, 

 and the whole effectually repaired at an immense sa ug 

 upon the old system. 3. That it will not requite Buch i'ne- 

 quontrepairsasordinarygreenl uses. 4. That intheevent 

 of a fracture, it will not .]>« l>solutely necessary to wait for 

 the assistance of a glazier to r< pair the same ; the sim- 

 plicity of the contrivance enabling any one to become 

 his own glazier. 5. That leakage, a universal complaint in 

 the old system, is here guarded against, by a peculiar 

 grooved bar, which likewise assists to carry offevaj ra- 

 tion, and renders ventilation more complete. 6. That the 

 glass boinix moveable, persons can erect greenhouses upon 

 the property of others, and r< love the same securely at 

 the expiration of lease or rental terms." 



In reality the novelty is limit 1 to the manner of 

 glazing; for the "peculiar grooved bar" spoken of 

 by the patentee, with its concave top and furrowed 

 sides is almost identical with that forming the 

 trussed troughs employed in> roofing the Crystal 

 Palace itself. The method of glazing, which is 

 alone new, may be thus described : — Suppose two 

 squares of glass, each 2 feet long, are laid flat, edge to 

 edge, on the grooved sash-bars; then about 3 inches 

 from each end of the square, a small copper bolt is 

 driven through the bar from the underside ; the edges 

 of the squares are brought up to the sides of the bolts, 

 and a strip of vulcanized India-rubber, about three- 

 quarters of an inch wide and the length of the square, 

 five is carried along the joint so as to cover it; on the 

 top of this India-rubber is placed a strip of thin iron 

 the same length as the square; and, finally, the 

 whole is secured by screwing a copper nut upon the 



It is to be observed that this nut is 



Few things in the Crystal Palace have excited 

 more surprise than the little evidence it affords of 

 improvement in garden structures. While the 

 columns of newspapers are crowded with advertise- 

 ments relating to all manner of horticultural con- 

 trivances recommended for their novelty, the Exhi- 

 bition in Hyde Park is nearly a blank, so far as they 

 are concerned. Mr. Fleming's salting machine 

 already noticed, and a few others, occupy a nook 

 among the agricultural implements ; there is also a 

 gaudy (should we not say tawdry ?) flower-stand in 

 the transept, intended, we presume, to decorate 

 some mediaeval hall, and fortunately half concealed 

 by Mr. Ferguson's flowers ; and after these some 

 Ward's cases, one of them a beautiful example, from 

 Mr. Cooke, a couple of models of greenhouses at the 

 west end, side by side with the magnificent coal 

 and granite exhibitions, and some others from Messrs. 

 Weeks, very nearly complete the list, with the ex- 

 ception of fountains and vases, concerning which we 

 may have something to say on another occasion. 



All the models in question have their own claims 

 to novelty, and demand some notice at our hands. 





copper bolt. 



necessarily made of copper, otherwise, being on the 

 outside, ill four or five years' time, when such a 

 house would want painting, there would be no get- 

 ting the nuts unscrewed, as must be done, it being 

 necessary to remove all the glass previous to paint- 

 ing the bars. The principal objection that we per- 

 ceive to this mode of glazing is its cost, which must 

 be higher at first than ordinary glazing. On the 

 other hand, it certainly possesses some advantages, 

 especially in repairs, the whole process of unputtying 

 and puttying being done away with. It will, how- 

 ever, be indispensable that due provision be made 

 for the expansion and contraction of the iron straps 

 which house in the glass joints; otherwise the 

 straps will cockle or the copper bolts break, -and the 

 roof become leaky, or be blown away. 



In addition to these, we must direct attention to 

 No. 248 a, in Class 9, where will be found an 

 ingenious and practicable method of ventilating, 

 exhibited by Messrs. Weeks and Co., of the 

 King's-road. This is effected by means of a 

 sloping roof- sash, worked upon the principle of a 

 parallel ruler, placed edgewise. Let the rafter 

 be represented by the lower half of such a ruler, and 

 the sash itself by the upper half ; it i& evident, that 

 if any movement of elevation is communicated to 

 the sash, the immediate result will be the with- 

 drawal of the sash from the top or wall-plate, and 

 the opening of a space all round, while at the 

 same time the sash itself remains pretty 

 nearly over its own bed. The elevating and 

 depressing movement is produced try a crank, 

 a wheel, and a horizontal bar, so that any 

 number of sashes can be- elevated or depressed at the 

 same instant. This has all the appearance of being 

 a contrivance of much practical value. Indeed it is 

 only just to Mess . Weeks to add, th; m< of what 

 they exhibit does them credit. They have, .among 

 other things, a pedestal formed of u] irht pipes, 

 and also a stack of pipes, both intended for warm- 



