THE 



GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



AND 





AGRICULTURAL 



GAZETTE 



Newspaper of Rural Economy and General News.— The Horticultural Part 



\o. 41 



SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11. 



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(Mianltfr. Alcock 



Hfrticjliural Society 



Jiiat tree, to remove ........ 



Ldianrrn ucrieuitural 



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Ouions. winter , 



Ofl'on /u-tgus 



Orchids for the million 



— sal»» of ... 

 Pansy Society, Scottish 



Parsnips, culture of ... 



Pears for f spaltera 



Peas, to keep from mice 

 Plants, flower tfard-n , 

 Rhododendrons, Himalayan 



Salisburia satautifolia 



Science, be eflt <>C 



8<*eda Meaars. Wrench's 



St. Q'jirox Club at Myremill 

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MATEUR TULIP SOCIETY.— At 



Special 



\ MAILUil lULir fcU^JLEj'JL'X. — At a 



IX General Meeting of the above Society, held at the 'Horns 



Tsrera, Kenningtoo, on Monday, 6th October, 1851, S. Sanders, 



Im., of Staines, in the Chair, it was unanimously resolved— 



•'That the sincere thanks of the Society are eminently due, 



and are hereby tendered, to the under-mentioned gentlemen, 



for i be judgment, patience, and scientific knowledge exercised 



by them as Censors at the several Exhibitions of the Society ; 



and also for the generous and effective support the Society has 



on all occasions received at their hands." 



Mr. IV. Smith, of Albauy-road. 



„ ir. GoHhara, of Islington. 



„ Jas. Dick-ioo, of Acre-lane. 



%ned on behalf of tjie meeting, 



Mr. Willmer of Sunbury. 

 „ R. J. Lawrence, of Hamp- 



ton. 

 S. Sanders. Chairman. 



AS. — Fine healthy Plants of 



AMELL 



CAMELLIAS, well set with flower buds, may be had at 

 CasNDLBR and Son's Nursery, Wandsworth Road* Surrey, at 

 90s. ptr dozen ; larger size, 425. per doz. 



The beat sons of CHRYSANTHEMUMS, buthy plants, for 

 flowering thi-, autumn, 12s. per dozen. 



Post-offic^orders payable at Kennington Cross. 



OTANDARD 



KJ fir«Jf.rarA CAri 



ROSES. -An Amateur has about 500 



», which must be taken off thu g r oom! before 

 Christmas. They have been selected with more than ordinary 

 care, are all tallied with zinc and numbered, and vary from 

 J to 5 feet high. They would be sold at about half their cost to 

 any gentleman taking the whole, and less than 5o in a lot would 

 not be disposed of.— Address, by letter, S. S. W., 33, Fieet- 

 itreet, Loudon. 



SREDLING PELARGONIUMS, .fee, 



GAINES begs to announce that his Descriptive 



• Catalogue of Seedling Pelargoniums, bhow varieties ; 

 alio Fancy Pelargoniums, Calceolarias, Cinerarias, Fuchsias, 

 Aialeas, Rhododendrons, <fcc, including a miscellaneous collec- 

 tion of Stove and Greenhouse Plants, is now published, and 

 may ba had by applying at the Nursery, Surrey Lane, Battersea, 

 ■ear London. 



WILLIAM WOOD and SON will be happy to 



* " forward Copies of their New ROSE CATALOGUE gratis 

 on application. 



Woodlands Nu rsery, Maresfield, near Uckfield, Sussex. 



SEED TRADE. 



T G. WAITE begs to inform the Trade generally 



^ • hat he has the largest and best STOCK of SEEDS in 



toe kingdom, which will enable him to supply his friends on 



better terms than any other house in the trade. Prices to be 



had on application at the Seed Establishment, 181. High 

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O UPERIOR SORTS OF CUCUMBERS, which can 

 k) be confidently recommended for Winter and 



Spring Forcing ; _ Per packet _,. 



Lord iWyon's Favourite, black spine 

 \\ ard s Great Western, white spine 

 Conqueror of the West, white spine 

 Mill* s Improved, black spine 

 * Weedon's, black spine 



mnii » A *P Ienaid collection of PICOTEES for sale, at very 

 wuerate prices. A List of the sorts and prices mav be had, 



Darna c Als ,°» freflh Sported DUTCH HYACINTHS, by 

 AXPunvS" . 0zeD ' or ml "d, 3«. per dozen, CROCUSES, 

 Jon* i ' * fec, » &c » as P er priced Catalogue.— Address, 



^?J^TToji_a p_d Sons, Reading Nurseries, Re idirj g, Berks. 



AD^°r, MARKET GARDENERS AND OTHERS. 



vK R00T * OF SCARLET ADMIRABLE, 



TervlV^ R 4 ,L . A ^. GE KEI) » a no GOLIATH RHUBARB, 

 the vToSfiA f? ° dard G,out Morceau Pear Trees for Sale, part of 

 GJaa?« t ei S? taken for building ; also iron-bouud Hand 



Saw ^t t Plo V^ rhs » nearJ y new » aat I li ^se Harrow. 

 London 1ooe:e > L amb Farm Garden, Grange Road, Dahton, 



C^REY TYSO, Florist, &c, 



the foiiow mmeD, J 9 t0 the notice of hi * 



TULTP^^^^ons of FLORISTS' 

 H Urrvpf rr SV' a fine na ^ed sorts 



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Wallingford, Berks, 



Fritnds and the Public 

 FLOWERS: 



£3 05. Cd. to £4 0s. OcJ. 



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12 



10 



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to 1 



to 15 



to 18 



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1 15 to 3 



15 to 1 10 



12 6 to 1 



et William, and Pansy 



on the RANUNCULUS, 



id. General Catalogue, 



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RHUBARB ROOTS. 



MIIC-IELL'S EARLY PRINCE ALBERT, 60*. per 100. 



MYATT'S LINNjEUS 605. 



VICTORIA 455. 



At J. G. Waite's Seed Establishment, 181, Hi g h Holborn, 



DUTCH FLOWER ROOTS. 



JG. WAITE has yet on hand a large quantity, 

 • which he will supply on better terms than any house in 

 the Trade. 



Catalogues to be had on application — 181, High Holborn. 



TWENTY GERANIUM 5 * FOR ONE POUND. 



TWENTY CHOICE NAMED GERANIUMS FOR 

 TWENTY ^HILLINGS, can be selected by the purchaser 

 from the following list : — Foquett's Magnificent, Topping's 

 Brilliant, Hoyle's Cru? tder, Arnold's Vhrfta Queen, FalitafT, 

 Lyne's Forget-me-not, DelieatisMma, Rosy Circle, Nourmahal, 

 Desdemona, Sir. Robert Sale, Hebe's Lip, Centurion, Negress, 

 Cassandra, Pluto, Symmetry, Oustavus, Gulielma, Sunrise, 

 Duke of Cornwall, Grandiflora, Orion Black Prince, Mercury, 

 Star of the West, Lady Ebrington,|JennyLind, Scarlet Defiance, 

 Flora's Flag, and Emilia. 



SCARLET GERANIUMS. 



Flower of the Hay, Excellence, Glendinning's Perpetual, 

 Magnum Bonum, (2aeen of Summer, Fire Queen, Royalist, 

 Commander-in-Chief, Resilium, Ilendersonii, Monarch, 

 Britannia, and General Tonv Thumb. 



All Orders abo< 21. will he delivered Carriag Free to 

 any Station on tfie Great Wester n, Bristol and r, or 



South Devon Rtilways, or to Cork, Dublin, or Bdfast. 



Apply to William E. Rendle, Union-road, Plymouth, 

 adjoining the terminus of the South Devon Railway. 



GJACKMAN, Nursertma.v, Woking, Surrey, 

 a (1a mile from Woking Station, South- Western Railway), 

 begs to announce that he has published a new and complete 

 Catalogue of his American Plants, Ornamental Evergreens, 

 Conifers, Flowering Shrubs, Standard and Dwarf Rosea, Fruit 

 and Forest Treea, «fcc, and may be had on application by 

 enclosing two postage stamps. — Woking Nursery, O.-f. 11. 



BASS and BROWN'S Autumn Catalogue is now 

 ready, containing — 



Part I. The New Geraniums, Fuchsias, Petunias, Verbenas, 

 and other new and select Plants, at reduced prices. 



Part II. Roses, select Evergreen and Flowering Shrubs, 

 Climbers, Hardy Herbaceous Plants, £c. 



Part III. Flower Roota, embracing splendid collections of 

 Ranunculi, Gladioli, Early and Late Tulips, Iris, Lilies, im- 

 ported Dutch Hyacinths, &c, «fcc. 



Copies supplied on application, published complete with the 

 newspaper stamp, to go free. 



Seed and H ornrnlrnrnj^taldfohm ent. Sudbury, Suffolk. 



PL AN TIN *-• ON. 



WH. ROGERS, 

 • Gardener, 130, High-street, Southampton, begs to J neTr liondou. 

 offer any quantity and description of finely grown and wen- 

 rooted NURSERY STOCK, including Forest and Ornamental 

 Trees, Evergreen and Flowering Shrubs, American Plants, 

 Fruit Trees, Roses, Herbaceous Plants, <fcc, <bc, at a very 

 reduced price. 



Planting contracted for to any extent, engaging to replace 

 failures. Gardens and Pleasure Grounds laid out and planted 

 in the best taste. — All communications addressed to W. II. 

 Rogers, as above, will meet wi'.h immediate attention. 



AMBROlSi; VERSCHAFFELT, Nurseryman* 

 Ghent (Belgium), has just published his new List o- 

 Plants, and may be had fret at Mr. R. -ilberrad's, 5, Harp 

 lane, Great Tower-Street, London. A. V. begs to offer to ihe 



trade tine Camellias and Azalea indica, full of flower buds, and 



at a very moderate price. 



NEWSTIUWHhkiUl -Triomphode Gand, 55. per d- z. 

 Merveille de Flandre, 5*. ditto; Hmmeur do la Belgiquo, 25. 

 each ; Due «le Kratnnt, *ij each ; Conve <1e Flandre, 2s. each. 



AURICULAS, ALPINES, 



POLYANTHUS, 



CARNATIONS, PICOTEI . PlfTvS, 



> . bt *;VMAN 



PRIMROSES, 

 PANSIES. LANCA- 

 SHIRK SHOW GOO-»:i*ERUY TREES fcO. 



IOHN HOLLAND'S CATALOGUES of exb sivo 



" ColJccti ons of t).e abors arc now renU. and frill be sent on 

 application enclosing 1 postoge stamp. Priced hats are glvoo 

 of every variety worthy of beta* added to a collection, and hit 



stock wag never in more robust health. 

 Bradshaw Garden.", Middleton, near Manchester. 



H( ' LLYIIDCKS, fine, warrant all double varietur 

 55. per doz« n, 3Us. per 100. Ditto Seedlings, iron named 

 flowers, '20.*. j • r lu •, As. per doz- n. 



LARbE MAJOR WHITE ROCKET, 155. per 100, If. €d. per 



dozen. 



HKRHACEOUS PLANTS, finest collection, 305. per 100, it. 

 per dozen. 



Catalogues of Roses, «fcc, can bo had for one stamp. Excellent 



assortment of Fruit Trees, Shrubs, <kc. * 



Dillistonb and Co , Stunner Nurseries, Halsted, Essex. 



TO PLORIST8, AMATEURS, AND OARDENER&. 



VT WOOIiLA 1> begs raost respectfully to an- 



*.▼ * a noonoo her int. Btion to dispose of the entire St k of 

 FLORIST FLOWERS bolot lag to her late husband, consist- 

 iiiK of a large collection of fine healthy plants of Auriculas ; a 

 very valuable collection of Ranunculuses; and all the new 

 and best vari< •* ' >f Carnations, r >tets, and Pinks. 

 Royal WillLun Inn, Ipswich, uffolk, 



GOLIATH STRAWBERRY. -A Post-office order 

 for 5#, will secure (package free) 100 strong plants of this 

 celebrated Strawberry, or 12 plaota, free by post, on n « ipt of 



18 postage stamps. Also Trollop's Victoeia^L per 10 >, and 

 any of ihe old varieties at very Lou prices. The usual allow- 

 ance to the trade.— J as. Kiilet, Lyncombe Vale Nursery, Rath. 



UTCll HYACINTUSfor Forcing, :is.6d. per dozen ; 



Beat do., for Glasses. 04, to If. each. Double Roman and 

 Paper-white Nar • u% U. per dozen ; Sir»gte and Double Due 

 Van Thol Tullpa, 25. per dosen. Also Crocus, Iris, Jonquils, 

 Narcissus, Anemones, and Ranunculus, of wi h a pr Lfst 

 may be had free, par post, from A. Cobi.ktt, Italian and 

 Foreign Wareho us e, 18. I'ali Mall, London, 



FINE FLA NW Foil SA1 Hie diffi nnt rarie- 



^ B , ties of BLACK •• and >iin. i, Warranted dean and well 



and LANDSCAPE j roo ted .-Apply to W, Da., a. Starch Green, lit . h, 





PELARGONIUMS. 



The beat flower 



EDWARD GEORGE HENDERSON is now ready 

 to send out his new CINERARIAS and FAN'CY GERA- 

 NIUMS, for which he solicits early orders, as the btock of tome 

 of the varieties is verv limited. 



NEW CINERARIAS. 



PRIMA DONNA (Henderson's).— Large dark blue, fine 

 broad petal, good form, and very dwarf habit, 1« 5. €d. 



MRS. SIDNEY HERBERT (Henderson's).— White, with 

 narrow carmine margin and carmine disc. A new and distinct 

 colour, of f?ood habit, and a handsome variety. 10s. Cd. 



MARIANNE (Henderson's).— Clear white, with a regular 

 margin of rosy crims >n, and black disc ; first-rate form ; a 

 very handsome and striking- variety. First class Certificates 

 have been awarded to this flower. 105. (fci, 



ROSY MORN (HENDERsoN'e).— Rosy crimson, with a white 



ring round a dark cisc ; good habit. 7s. Gd. 

 St. CLAIR OF THE ISLES (Henderson's).— White, with 



medium rosy lilac margin, and of dwarf habit; exquisite 



form. 7s. Gd. 



MRS. CHARLES KE AN (Henderson's).— White and bright 

 deep rose, light disc ; fine form and good habit. 75. 6d* 



MR. SIDNEY HERBERT (Henderson's.)— Shaded purple, 



ofHneform. 7s. Gd. 



NONSUCH (Henderson's).— Crimson plum; fine largeflower; 

 good broad petal. It. Gd. 



CATHERINE SEATON (Henderson's).— Bright rosy car- 

 miue, with a circle of white round a carmine disc. Gratis to 

 purchasers of the set. 



Price of the set, 31. 35.— The u-ual discount to the Trade. 



NEW FANCY GERANIUMS. 



BRIDE (Henderson's).— Brilliant rose, with small white 

 margin, and pure white centre ; very free bloomer. 105. Gd. 



BEAUTY OF ST. JOHN'S- WOOD (Henderson's).- Upper 

 petals bright vio'et carmine, with a regular clear white 

 margin ; a regular belting of carmine runs through the under 

 petals ; good truss, and an excellent grower. 105. Gd. 



OTHELLO (Henderson's). — Rich dark maroon upper 

 petals, with smooth light margin; light blush under petals, 

 with a belting ot rich crimson in the centre of each ; fine form. 

 105. Gd. , ; ^ A 



PRINCESS ROYAL (Henderson's). — Upper petals bright 

 rosy carmine, with clear white margin; under petals clear 

 white, with regular carmine markings, and clear white centre ; 

 good truss, and a very free bloomer. 10s. Gd. 



AMBASSADOR (Henderson's). — Large bright rose self, 

 with a white margin ; fine tru^s, good form and habit. 10s ert. 



ANNETTE (Henderson's).— An improvement on " Alboni ; 

 very large tru^s, and an abundant bloomer. 10s. Gd. 



The set, Zl. 35.— The usual discount to the trade. 



Wellington-road Nursery, St, Jokn's-wood, London, Oct, 11, 



IjMRST CLASS PELAJ3, 

 ROSA (Beck).— The beat flower Wits class. Strong and 

 healthy ; per p^ant, 15s. 



Or, Rosa (Beck', Hajor Domo (do ), Silk Mercer (do.), Ajax 

 (Hoyle), May Queen (Hoile), and Flavio (do.), for 42s. 



Also Emily, LoveUtus^ R< saind (Beck), Constance, Magni- 

 ficent, Field Marshal, Virgin Queen, Alonzo, Brilliant, Mont 

 Blanc, (No. 2, Gipsy Bride), and Prince of Orange, for 21s. 



Gcod old varieties, 9s. and 12s. per dozen. 



Choice PANSIES, Us. per dozen. 



Superb Border PICOTEES, fine Double CLOVES, Ac, 

 5s. per dozen. 



The above are strong and healthy, and will be packed in a 

 basket (gratis), and carriage j d to London, or any station of 

 the South Western or South j item Railways. 



Hart and Nicklin, Flo rists, :d ford, Surrey. __^ 



CHOICE PELARGONIUMS, &c. 



THOMAS DAV1 ES and CO. b .ffer the follow- 



ing new and first-rate Pelargonium*, which are now ready 



for sending out in strong plants : 

 Ajax (Hoyle's) 7s Gd Isis 



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Cardinal 



Corinne 



Flavia .. 

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Heartsease... 

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Ifaj Queen ... 

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Any 6 of the above for 35s , 12 for 685., or the set for 845. 

 Twelve of the following older varieties for 24s. :— Alonzo, 

 Is. Gd ; Brilliant, Is. Gd. ; Christabe), 2s. Gd. ; Crusader, Is. Gd. ; 

 Cuvp, 2s. Gd . ; Delicatissima, Is. *d. ; Emily, '2s. Gd. ; Gipsey 

 Bride, 2s. fot, ; Lalla Roofch, Is. Gi. ; Lovelinesp, 2s. fid ; Mag- 

 nificent, Vs. Cd. j Nonsuch, 2s. t'd. ; Mont Blanc, is. C<f.; Prince 

 of Orange, 2s. Gd. ; Rosalind, 2s. €d. ; Salamander, 2s. Gd. ; 

 Star, Is. 6tJ ; Virgin Queen, Is. Gd. ; Victory, 2s. Gd. 



FANCY VARIETIES 



Albonii, Is. Gd. ; Anais, Is 64. ; Beauty, 2s. Cd. ; Black 

 Prince, 2s. Gd. ; Defiance, 2s. Gd, ; Exquisite, Ss. Gd. ; Jenny 

 Lind, Is.Gd.: Marion, Is. 6d. ; PHma Donna, U.G4.; I rmce 

 Albeit, 2s. Gd ; Queen Victoria, Is. Gd. ; Queen of the Gipsey.% 

 2s 6d ' Heine de Frances, Is. Gd. ; Heine de Fleurcs. .Gd. ; 

 Hero of Surrey, 2s. Gd. ; Bouquet tout fait, Is. G,L ; La Belle 

 Africana, Is. ; Jehu Superb, I5. A ny 6 of the abov* for 15s., or 



12 for 21s. „ n , 



An cxtensire collection of Erica*, Us. to ISs. per dozen ; 

 KpacrU, strong blooming plauts, 18s. per dozen ; Azalea Indica, 

 ditto, choice varieties, 20s. perdoz. ; and every other article in 

 the Nursery ani Seed business at equally low prices. 



A choice collection of Dutch Buihons Roots, of which sepa- 

 rate Catalogues may bo had. , , 



Remittances are requested from unknown correspondents, 

 for which a discount ot 5 per cent, will be allowed, 



Wavcrtree Nursery, near Liverpool, Oct, 1L 





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