- 



* JKYKS and CO 3 Collection of CINE- 



• during rhe last spring: was acknowledged b> 



*** ««w it to be the finest they had ever seen. 



fcf****?^ the above will be sent by p»*t f secured in tin 



""^^riL of 2*. Cii. per dozen. Payments can. be madv 



HS^^^Jmpf -Nurseries Northampton. 



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■ sscM LOW and Co. have pleasure m offering 



jtG*\ r ;. n , in eutal Friend-, an I the Public in gOMftl, 



1 »*-*j fi n « new CAMELLIA. They are of opinion 



known, and generally acknowledged, merits of 

 thfij have already introduced to the notice of 

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(fared. *» d - 



riD e stout plants 42 



Extra strong do. ... ... w u 



Without discount. 



ffarsery. Augustja 



r* w rtilu ."^J «"■»»« i Airican desert* ihd | diligently , u,,a, r w„ 



Indian jungles. A\ as anything so wild ei heard 



f ? or rather, so thoroughly i aieyfied ? 

 But supposing Mr. N 



w ied. and they tttn 





• •• 



OS FOR AUTUMN SOWING. 



f \TTELL has again to offer in packets at 



annexed, post free, CALCEOLARIA, GERA- 



.pARIA, <fcc, as under, saved from his very 



lions. The satisfaction they have hitherto given, 



iojr demand for them, has induced J. C. to take, 



re care in the impregnation, so as to ensure a 



•he esteem they have so justly merited. |. <2. 



"~i^f,A&IA. mixed, from fir6t-rate sorts, carefully 



^ T' .fl&t^ -t , ••• •■• ••• ••• ••« 



**>*d from a most superb rich golden yellow, beau- 



2 6 



•pitted with ricn oronzy maoogany, ov seen s ... 2 6 

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 cfliXlU VI Florist varieties, from newest sorts ... 2 6 



ftaef isvieties, from newest sorts 2 6 



up)!*) varieties, saved from a collection .., ... 1 



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SATURDAY, AUGUST ZQ, 1851. 



MEETINGS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 



Tciib*t, Sept. 2— Horticultural , 3 p.m. 



JtBDiiMBAi, — 3— Royal South London ,.,...1 p.m. 



TicinniT — 4— National Floricultural 2 p.m. 



Imhh Saows.- Tuesday, Snpt. 2: Roiherville Gardens.— Thursday, 

 w i: Lisecpool.— Fridsy, Sept. 5 : Durham, Newbury, and SoutUainpton. 



From the extracts published in last week's 

 Cknmkle, it will be seen that Mr. Newman pro- 

 poses to place Smithfield under a Ward's Case, 

 within which are to be found live plants of all 

 ^tions classified geographically, dead animals of 

 many kinds stuffed so as to look like life, together with 

 utives of all regions to tend them. An area of 



ree acres is not much for an operation like this, 

 mi, after what we have seen in Hyde-park, the 

 execution of it demands no superhuman exertion. 

 Mum Fox and Henderson would make it a week's 

 fror k ; so that the corporation might afford to carry 

 «ut a plan which is so largely to contribute to the 

 health, and comfort, and instruction of the citizens 

 cf London. Only imagine Ruffian's Hall, as Smith- 

 told used to be called, converted into a paradise, 

 wherein the perfumes of the Orange and Myrtle 

 would replace the odours heretofore peculiar to it, 

 aad whence carbonic-acid-breathing beasts 

 expelled to make room for oxygen-forming P 

 torn (see Mr. Newman's paper, p. 243). And 

 Om under a Ward's case. 



ewuans notion of con- 

 verting Smithfield into a Surrey Z-xriogical Garden 

 in a glass box on a grand scale, were practicable, can 

 any one believe for a moment that planti would grow 

 in his gi iptic Wardian case ? U it credible tha 

 plants which cannot remain in health without an 

 abundant supply of air. and of air in motion, would 

 live in a prison the very first .condition of which 

 is, to keep the atmosphere at rest ? Can anv one 

 who ever saw a hothouse imagine that, absurdity 

 apart, such a project as this could be realised ? 

 Why, in six months the contents of the place 

 would consist of Mosses, Ferns, mouldiness, and 

 wretched spindling ghosts hardly to be known a 

 plants, except by their green colour ; as to flowers, there 

 would not be one ; for it is notorious that flowers are 

 rarely produced in Ward's cases, unl«« the plants have 

 been prepared before-hand. Or, supposing that the 

 plants would thrive, and that these anticipations were 

 not realised, who, let us ask, would goto such a place ? 

 It is very well to talk learnedly about plants giving 

 off oxygen gas, and so purifying the atmosphere ; 

 but it must never be forgotten that plants when out 

 of health lose this power, more or less, and part 

 with carbonic acid instead ; so that, what with the 

 plants, and the " students, clerks, schoolboys, wives, 

 and children," to say nothing of nursery-maids 

 and men from Bartholomew's, we should dare as 

 clever a contrivance for slow suffocation as the 

 ingenuity of man could suggest. 



To convert Smithfield into a Ward's case is a 

 chimeera, then. Would it be impossible to make it 

 a great conservatory, on the plan of Mr. Paxton's 

 Winter Garden 1 Perhaps not. There is nothing 

 in London unfavourable to vegetation, except its 

 soot ; that removed, plants will grow as well in 

 Cheapside as at Hampstead ; but the removal is an 

 affair of extreme difficulty, or rather involves a 

 very heavy outlay for labour ; and it may be rea- 

 sonably questioned whether a Smithfield greenhouse 

 would be attractive enough to pay its expenses. 

 Gardening, such as would there be necessary, is 

 very costly, and we fear that after the first novelty 

 was over a conservatory would have few visitors 

 except from among the race of enthusiasts whose 

 purses are more generally empty than full. 



Tn one respect we quite agree with Mr. Newman. 

 It would be a public misfortune if so great a venti- 

 lator as Smithfield is, were closed by blocks of 

 houses. But why not convert it into a great square, in 

 which plants may be cultivated in a manner worthy 



L 



com}. 



the 



eijr 



er- 



! pert ly i 



day before, after the 'OiJiw* had 

 washed away. Indeed we searched rvmy 

 cimenin vain, with a flew, if possi 

 tain the presence of the mould. The tisssss pre- 

 sented the ordinary appearance of braised spots, 

 with a greater or leee quantity of m «Kstn. dee, 

 probably, to < er m^uld as 11 .. ft*^ 



and, if we mistake not, eome of the % a*. 

 hib 1 abundant >bules, the whole fnrft 



yielding a highly Vinous odour. We do not dodbt 



bat the decay, th Ji - -me what anomalous 

 effected by thr <HMmm, which, though \ 



externally . mWit be carrying on its work of 4* 



ion out off gig and is sometimes so pow. as 

 cause decern pot^ on ewsn in the tissues of mod 



rately thick branches, and occasional] v we 



informed 



ai 



controversy 



partially a th 



I? exists in Pnmna. \ 



\ 



ith. 



ranoe, with respect 

 part the fungns perform u this raals>> 



vailed respecting the age*c\ I Hrtrpti* , 

 The highest aut ties th*-:. ha* ed 

 the m lium to the inner 1 



the origin of tl mould within M 

 fertile branches bin rng throu 

 out a shadow of donht . n tin 



e same 



t 



ths 



ti 



h 



tl 



ha 



tissue, and the 



let. M ./ //. 



I eaders have been so frequently warned 



Ua ost the fraud > in the a "4M 



will have heard without surprise of a man na *d 



PicKi inu, d< I as a wealthy n ^h&i 



been sen need to 10 years' 1 in*portati< i l>eiy 



connected with SUCil plot mtgft W, ha\- 



peatedly reported how la loam, gas lime, ochre, 

 plastei f V is,andrubl h of all soiti4r|i pi ed 



by what are called n He i*qpU in ge 



guano; a i although 



are 





of modern gardening; not as squares usually 

 in a manner that would have been disgraceful to 

 our great grandfathers. Possibly money might be | 

 found for such an operation as that, and poeaibly 

 also there might be funds to defray its annual cost 

 It will, however, be time enough to discuss this 

 question when the intentions of the corporation of 

 London shall have been made known. 



know that these warni e bad I Ptluta 



and have cfa had couswNtbly Ihe pm es alluded 

 to. yet we are also aware that hundred* of simple- 

 minded honest pesple thought our staternenfe <<\er- 

 charged. They seuU not (relieve thst London \.n r- 

 chants would be concerned in the f ariose t 



actions. Evidence produced in court has new, 

 however, shown conclusively that what we announced 

 was within rather than be 1 the truth. 



The main difficulty which the rogues in iiuano 

 have to contend with is to procure ths |enuins 

 article for the purpose of mixing, and wiling ofl the 

 adult » ration. Buy it they cajmat; for y are 

 known, and the precautions taken by Mesew unm 

 and Co. are such as to stop effectually all under- 

 hand manoeuvres to procure it throng* agenla. Tb«y 

 have, theicfoee, no resource eseept to eteal it. 



It appeared upon the trial that io the early part 



of May Meesw. Gibrs received from Mr. h d, 



large agriculturist at Howden, ii i re. an 



,?,,.. fa* <>en K«^rg of guano 5 to be sent down by a 



At that time the Invermore, laden 





diseaai 



W 



Do our readers know what a Ward 



A 



spreading far and wide. 



«*rthin wt 

 Hintained 



a glass 

 air-tiel 



no escape 



_ . »..,, ^aac 1S> ^^ n snall De k t 

 to-tight as possible, so that there shall be 

 ^wards of the air and moisture it ma, „,..„ 



iZc 1 ll ^S^ally included, when raised in the 

 «n of vapour, condenses on the sides of this glass 



£?\fV Un8 back ' ag™ ^d again to be raised 

 «»U»e atmosphere in the form of vapour. This con- 



onP^f f ap . plled to ^ conveyance of plants from 

 uc country to another during long vwtgu. to the 



P^i n f ?f Pknts in 8itt **« rooms, and to the 

 Sti«. . ° °1 them anywhere against the dirt of sooty 

 P»mea % m excellent contrivance it is for such 

 Plaits n*r a l .?*' . niore especially, and damp-loving 

 S% W qUl ^ e at home in {t - You may see several 

 «Mt e*A i A !? S Cases in the Cr y st al Palace, at the 



It£ nn *l.g aller y, near the great organ! 

 poses tnT n th i. S P^ciple that Mr. Newman pro- 

 fc av^khl Ver area of Smithfield. We believe 

 from W hi!i e Space am <>unts to about 3 or 4 acres ; 

 Hib 2 °? e - h *lf must be deducted for roads, 



is committing great ravages . 

 which are I lately received from M. De Notaris, of Genoa, it 



appears that scarcely a Vine is free from it in that 

 neighbourhood. The malady has not, however, 

 arrested its progress even there, but has spread with 

 great virulence as far as Naples. It is said to attack 

 principally the white Grapes, but it is by no means 

 confined to them. Happily, in our own country, 



t parts oi r ranee n i me bags being sown up and marked . 



and from a report dock officers before Uiey leave their chaiga. 



able; it holds 

 an atmosphere 





coasting vewel. 



with guano, was lying in either 

 I ndia Docks. The guano, we need not tay, reacnei 

 this country in bulk, and -when sold U sent away ia 

 h a <™ urhirh are filled in &•*«»• i from the balk, 



of th« 



The 



officers also take a >amj>k from each m»l of 

 euano when she k half unloaded, which they «M»- 

 fully keep, with the name of the ve«el attached to 

 it, for the sake of reference, should 

 as to its respective property and v»lue Om 



^ • bargemaster (included with P s- 



EaiKO in the prosecution, and eventually sen iced 



^ imprisonment), was employed^* 



,.„ „ months 



jjyjl „^ tu a m,anA fmm the Invernwre 



the 



a 



a 



timely application 



state or in the 



It 



crude 



of sulphur, 

 form of 



either in 



is 



vapour, 

 complete remedy. It is pretty certain that 

 the same means, with the help of some such appara- 

 tus as we recommended two years since in the case 

 of Hops, and which would be far more easily em- 

 ployed where" the Vines are low and distinct, would 

 prove quite as effectual. The Italians, however, do 

 not seem to have heard of the experience gained bv 



uo- 



A 



guano arrived in Yorkshire, ihe badaf to ii • 

 f,eld found it to be of a very infenor qnalny . 

 bag was therefore sent up ^ I^^« d a-mple 

 wu analysed, when it was *M»d that it lad be« 

 JnH«*tid above half with marl, ■JJ*^ n<i ^ 



8ift the 3K ^Jfs -gittt -- 



obtained fully established the gmlt of botii ^ker 

 ISG and Lon- It. appeared iUX }**l}f ™ 



other compound. 



^ cultivators, and therefore are going through Dock ^^^L barge as far as Freeing 

 'same round of experiments with lime, potash, , then ^J™*™* wafi &, unladed, and ti 



wnari. hk »\,.„„ M1 „ _.. nr «miiOi. Mltere tt 



a 



*>**, and 



trod: 



\ or two acres, it is 



to in- 



^"exan,- y / U Bntlsn P la nts, which 

 textile \rS lne ' ^ ssect » and compare,' » all alimentary, 

 38 *el'l m med ! cmal Plants * in a manufactured, 

 dnctions of « r p Wlng state " an <I the vegetable pro- 

 0tl th Amor; £ ' uro P fc ' ^ia, Africa, North America, 

 Station u" C f a ;u and New Holland," but also an 

 ^ttielves " th f • catural conditions of ihe plants 

 **&*, monnf • W to sa y' rivei 'S, torrents, oceans ; 

 fcr «*s and »1 BS ' m00r8 ' and corn-fields ; primaeval 



ai Pme meadows : arctic, antarctic, tem- 



and ashes, which proved whoUy ineffectual without 

 the admixture of sulphur in multitudes of cases in 

 which these and other chemical agents w-ere tried 

 in England. Water, in which sulphur has been 

 steepea, unless the sulphur is in the form of powder, 

 so as to render the fluid turbid, is perfectly useless, 

 the sulphur being quite insoluble either in hot or 

 cold water. , 



Our attention has lately been called to what we 

 suppose to be a very virulent case which occurred 

 to one of our correspondents, whose Grapes present 

 the appearance of having been lashed with rods, so 

 as to bruise them in every direction, though be liad 

 no reason to believe that any such foul play Had 

 been practised. What makes the matter more ex- 

 traordinary is, that the proper remedies had been 





They were then 



uallu B „ u PlCEEUIKO's pWB«i«*, 



r were opened, emp^d of their .ontonto, 



filled with the fraudulen* 



sewed up and marked again oy me two p,»— .-, 



%£*J, and thence nipped for Howden. 



The defendants endeavoured to maEe an«W«*r, 

 wii the assistance of hard swearing wi ukM . tJJ 

 ^V" 1 . ... . ,.^i,, Q ll tf nrrtprpd into custoly lor 



of whom 



9 * , 



wag 



[ t will have been seen, that while J m 



what principle tit 



sentence. 1 e jury 



mmended Long to mercy. 



we cannot understand upon 



