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THE GARDENERS 1 CHRONICLE. 



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readily 



^Zle-fellow stems, and sweet scent. The conclusion 

 5j L>. Stock paper, " On the Botany of Bungay, 



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flatters nf Books. 



jrjjj tXnW we hare for Dinner? By Lady Maria 

 Clutterbuck. Bradbury and Evans. 12mo. 



White, &c, quietly rest with matters as they art { \\ e 

 want a cri rion of every shade known in Pinks j one 

 tier more petals would leave little to desire. This 

 improved criterion of all shades, of purple, of red, of 

 maroon, and of rose, will no doubt be obtaine in time. 



Jenny Lind is too small for general exhibition purposes : 

 llarkforwardis of intolerably bad habits ; Lady Mildmay, 

 Harriet, and some others, although they must be grown, 

 are rough. Narborough Buck ranks with the full varieties, 

 and thus may we dissect x ' L ~" — * '" 



The best account we can give of this useful trifle is existing sorts. These remarks must not be construed 



tfot which the authoress lierselt lias iurni*ned in ner 



preface. 



* The late Sir Jonas Clutterbuck had, in addition to 



. beet of other virtues, a very good appetite and an 

 excellent digestion ; to those endowments 1 was indebted 

 (though some years the junior of ray revered husband) 

 for many hours of connubial happiness. 



* Sir Jonas was not a gourmand, although a man of 

 met gastronomical experience. Richmond never saw 

 him more than once a month, and he was as rare a 

 fjgitor to Black wall and Greenwich. Of course lie 

 attended most of the corporation dinners as a matter of 

 doty (having been elected alderman in lo7>9),and now and 

 then partook of a turtle feast at some celebrated place in 

 tfcecit ; but these were only exceptions, his general 



etice being to dine at home ; and I am consoled in 

 ving that my attention to the requirements of his 

 Setite secured me the possession of his esteem until 

 last. 



e.My experience in the confidences of many of my 

 female friends tells me, alas ! that others are not so 

 happy in their domestic relations as I was. That their 

 daily life is embittered by the consciousness that a 

 delicacy forgotten or misapplied ; a surplusage of cold 

 mutton or a redundancy of chops ; are gradually making 

 the Club more attractive than the Home, and rendering 

 1 business in the city ' of more frequent occurrence than 

 it, used to be in the earlier days of their connubial 

 experience ; while the ever- recurring inquiry of* What 

 shall we have for Dinner ? ' makes the matutinal meal a 

 time to dread, only exceeded in its terrors by the more 

 awful hour of dinner ! 



" It is to rescue many fair friends from such domestic 

 suffering, that I have consented to give the world the 

 bills of fare which met with the approval of Sir Jonas 

 Clutterbuck, believing that by a constant reference to 

 them, an easy solution may be obtained to that most 

 difficult of questions — 'what shall we have for 



DINNER \ ' * 



Kossuth (Read) 



• Lola MontM fCostar) 



• Laura ( Willmer) 



• J. Russell (Young) 

 Lady Teazle (Smith) 

 Lord Vulentia (Kirtland) 



•Morning Stat i Turner) 

 Mre. Fry (Walter*) 

 Mre. Judd (Turner) 

 Mr. Edwards (Turner) 



•If ai borough hock (Maclean) 

 •Optima (Tumi i 

 ••Pinder (Coleut) 



Queen « i t-'ngland (Hals) 



•Rubens (Henbrey) 

 ••Suiarmah (Mead) 

 ••Surj.riser (Costht) 



•Sappho (Colcutt) 

 ••Tom Long (Hasting*) 

 eaTwjfotd Rival O mg) 

 ••Winchester Ri?al (White) 



•Whipper-in (Smith) 

 X X (Young) 



Railway Literature. Mu way's Reading for the Rail. 



Longman's Traveller'* Library. 

 When we consider how much time is now necessarily 

 consumed in railway carriages, and the tedium of jour- 

 neys repealed over and over again — where there are no 

 views to amuse the imagination, and no refreshing 

 breezes to invigorate the frame — the necessity of pro- 

 viding some occupation for the mind becomes self- 

 evident. The piles of books, pamphlets, and newspapers, 

 heaped up at every great railway station, testify to the 

 fact that what travellers find the best occupation is 

 reading. It becomes then a point of great public 

 importance that the works furnished for this particular 

 purpose should be of a high class as regards intelligence, 

 tone, and social tendency ; qualities of which, it mu6t 

 be owned, we find very little in some of the works 

 currently sold on railway platforms. Messrs. Long- 

 man and Mr. Murray have therefore performed a 

 great public service in providing works like those 

 which have hitherto appeared, as substitutes for the 

 rubbish to which we have alluded ; and we sincerely 

 trust that they will long continue to do so. Macaulay's 

 ys and Laing's " Norway M are what the former 

 have commenced with ; while Mr. Murray has selected 

 those* admirable essays in the Times, upon men and 

 things, which every reader of that great journal has 

 grieved to see confined to the fleeting columns of a 

 daily paper. Both are clearly printed ; but we are 

 obliged to add that the " Travellers' Library" bears no 

 comparison with Murray's " Reading for the Rail," as 

 regards printing and paper, matters of no small import- 

 ance to those whose eyes begin to lose their power. 

 ■The last is a beautiful example of typographical skill. 



Pinks. 



FLORICULTURE. 



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tion the Pink requires at our hands. By another 

 season let us have reason to give a list, ■ to avoid" even 

 from those now set down as the few good sorts of 

 1851. We have at some trouble, and no little anxiety, 

 appended a list of those Pinks most suitable for pot 

 culture ; those marked thus * may be depended on as 

 possessing the followin^qualifications, viz., free growth, 

 early, and plenty of colour ; these are all necessary 

 requisites for this kind of cultivation, for exhibition. 

 Those varieties with ** afiixed to them are expressly 

 introduced for pot-culture. 



Antagonist (Looker) | 



••Achilles (Looker) 



•* Alfred Mormon (Carter) 



Bob Tickler (Cruiggy) 



**Renjamiu Hell) 

 ••Brilliant (Ellis) 



Clio (Smi h) 

 •Criterion (Maclean) 



Countess Rossi (Head) 



DUmhus (Smith) 



Duchess <>f Kent (Harris) 

 ••Diana (Smith) 

 •Goliath (Hillyer) 



George Glenny (Brag?) ~\ 



Great Britain (Ward) 



Hark Forward (Smith) 



• Harriet Kcr) 

 Huntbrnan (Smith) 



• II n. Mrs. Herbert (Keynes) 

 Julia (Keynes) 

 Jenny Lind Oiiddy) 



• .lenny Lind (ltca»i) 



King of Purples (Harris) 



• Kate (Read) 



Glasgow.— A Pansy competition took place on the 27th ult., 



upen to all Scotland, tor the best one, the best two, and the 

 best three fttodiing Tansies of 18.01, wl en the whole of the 

 prizes were gained by the Messrs. Dicksons and Co., not Ml J - 

 men, Edinburgh. The best one was a yellow-ground flower, 

 with rich mamon beltimr and top petals -the under and side 

 petals beautifully laced with gold, blotch larte acd dark, form 

 pe.fr ct, style of You* I I'i Supreme, named M Victory." The best 

 two: 1st, a pure golden yellow self, with a beauti'ul large and 

 dark blotch, outline perfectly smooth, of good substance and 

 form, named N Golden Fugle;" Id, a beautiful pnmroM 

 ground, with rich lively bluish purple belt, and top petals. 

 The belling being narrow, and blotch large and very dark, 

 gives it an impo ing nppearance ; fine *how flower, named 

 " British Queen." The best three : 1st, a yellow ground, with 

 dark maroon belt and top petals, st>le of ToaelPe i prams, 

 but quite distinct, an improvement on that fine old flower, and 

 named " P* ac- ck ;" 2d, a pure white ground, with rich purple 

 belt and top petals— the ground colour meeting in the under 

 and side petals so very exactly, together with ;i large dark 

 blotch, produces an admirable effect in a stand, and was con- 

 sidered the line*t flower of any class brought forward on the 

 occasion, named " Royal Standard ;" 3d, a yellow ground with 

 dark bronze purple belt and top petals, of great substance, 

 very large and circular; a striking show flower, ntmed "Gliff." 

 IIsNLtT.— -A flower *how wm held here on the 19th ult. ; but 

 we have only been furnished with a list of the rewards, without 

 the names of the subject- for which »hcy were given. 



Catalogues received from Mr. 15. Itendie, Mr. C. Turner, of 

 Slough, and Mr. W. P. Ajres, of Fiviuklands, Blackbeath. 



Pinks : Dia kus. In ihe preparation of y oar beds you can 

 hardly use too much marmre ; but we n< ver apply it till the 

 last time of digging over, when, being thoroughly buried a 

 full spit deep, it only cornea in contact with the fibres at the 

 proper sea* on. You need not entertain the least fear of 

 making the colour run. One thing attend to— and do it 

 well— raise your bed 3 or 4 inches above your ground level, 

 by adding sound and sweet loam, two-year-old hotbed 

 manure, and some sharp sand, and make the surface well 

 rounded, in order that heavy rains may be more quickly 

 throwu off. Our system U to make the beds 4 feet wide, and 

 to plant six plants in each row, 6 incnes apart, beginning at 

 9 inches from the edge of the bed. Tbe second row should 

 be 6 inches from the fin»t, and so continue to the end. 

 We would recommend you to plant the two adjoining rows 

 with the same variety— making six pairs ; and being thus 

 brought together, each ?ort is more readilv operated on, 

 according to its particular requirements. The plants will 

 then stand 6 inches apart every way, and at blooming time 

 the buds of four plants may be easily protected with a small, 

 say 6-irch >quare hand-light. Top dressings, an abund- 

 ance of liquid manure in the blooming season, and refresh- 

 ing* with copious waterings in day time, together with 

 disbuddinga, earning, and shading, are the routine of Pink 

 growing tor exhibition. We have a few spare plants, which 

 are at your service, if you choose. Norman was a tirst-ra'e 

 grower, but he ha* been compelled to relinquish bis favourite 

 pastime on account of more important duties. You can get 

 supplied from Woolwich, but we never recommend dealers. 

 For choice of varieti es, wee sborn. J. E. 



SEEDLING FLOWEKS. 



in colour; they tagm u> ^jftuu *r t ouo u ui am 



stem first, and continue « ng upwards by alcov 

 degrees till they reach the top The plant has been 

 crown in a moist store, v hov *er. little fin -heat 



is applied, except in winter, and it has received no 

 treatment different from that given to Uui otliar occu- 

 pants of the house, « wpt, that while it has beei in 

 hlooni it has been more liberally su; ied with water. 

 The stately flower-stcra, issuin > from a comparatively 

 small tuft of gracefully weeping rush-like foliaj . has** 

 truly imposing effect, rendering the plant, in its 

 state, a worthy companion of the handsome Paiui trees 

 with which it is associated. Among the Utter, Caryota 

 urens has lately flowered here. Plumbago capa&sL 

 every winter adorns the pillars of the house just alluded 

 to, with multitudes of its charming sky-blue flowers. If 

 pruned " hard in n after it has done blossoming, it is 

 found to be not only an exceedingly ornamental pillar, 

 or wall plant, but to afford a lasting supply of flowtai 

 for cut bloom. Beaumontia grandiflora planted out 

 in the bed, also blossoms satisfactorily here during the 

 months of Juno and July. ltis,howc\ difficult to leap 

 clear of the nnoaly-bug, which s» ems to have an < ^\» J 

 affection for it. Bignonia grand i flora flowers beautifully 

 inacoolglassporcHattheeutrancrof'thisslove. Although 

 it is stated to be one of th« i>est " Vines * for coti 



draperyin the middle States of America, it is not found to 

 flow «r well in tha open air near London, while H. radicana 

 blossoms in the greatest p on. A plant of the latter 



trained against Mr. John Waterer's house at llagshot, 

 was (when we saw it in 1849), quite a mass of deep 

 orange cup -shaped flowers. A » :»1 tr< (Ervtlirina 

 Crista-Galli) is now in flower at Claremont, in front of 

 the Itove we have just been mentioning. The stems are 



cut down every winter to the roots, which receive such 



given to Fuchsias, and hue the 

 latter it pushes in spring and floweia every autumn as 

 well as if it w« re in a greenhouse. Close to the front 

 walls of the different glass- hous<s were Bomber* of 

 Belladonna Lilies, which were in lowly cond on, aa 

 were also plantations of Japan Anemone, than which 

 there arc few gayer border plants in autumn. The 

 Californian Zauschneria has proved sufficiently hardy to 

 withstand the last t' » winters out of doors here unpro- 

 tected, and we b< lie ve Plumbago Larj>< ntse has done the 

 same ; but the latter certainly occupies a sheltered 

 situation. The different flower- 1 Is and borders have 

 b n very gay : but their beauty is now very much cut 

 off by the cold weather we have lately experienced. 

 llollissoirsUni4ur:iii(lI)iadematumnfl>«ieeni6eraniumB 



had made most effective beds; and a group, consisting of 

 Tom Thumb Geranium and Mignonettr in the centre. 

 with lilac Oak-leaf Geranium round the mm n, had 

 been much admired. Ageratum Mexicanum was still 

 a good blue bed, and a large mass of the better kinds of 

 Gladioli had been wonderfully fiur. Tl ire planted 

 every spring, taken up w hen the l.diaga has died off in 

 autumn, and wintered in a loft al ve the fruit room. 

 Some have, however, been planted al ut three weeks 

 mo, in order that they may come into flower <..rly. 

 They receive a alight covering of leaf-mould to keep 

 them safe during severe weather. The Cloth of Gold 

 Rose has flowered here this summer on a south aspect : 

 all the blossoms it produced, however, w« upon the 

 very strongest shoots, which would seem to indicate what 

 we believe is now pretty generally known, that rich soil 

 and close pruning are the means by which this desidera- 

 tum is most likely to be effected. The different borders 

 were still tolerably gay, the plants, Pine-apples, and 

 other subjects under glass wen in excellent order, and 

 the establishment generally was in good keeping. 





made about 



this season ; and the sooner the better, in order that they 

 Eiaybe well established to withstand the vicissitudes of 

 the coming winter. Mv present object is not, however, 



to write a treatise on thp Piiltivation of this favourite Fuchsias: W J E. All stout anci well contrasted ; we fail to 

 . iite a treatise on tne cultivation 01 tms iavouiuej ^ la , e lhe aouble corollas : the variety not so favoured 



has but one drawback, viz., the want of greater obtuteness 



of its sepals ; tube short, surface smooth ; colour coral red; 



corolla dense royal purple, stout, smooth, and well formed.* 



Pelabgunidms : R F. Rich crimson, with dark blotch on top 



florist's flower, but rather to endeavour to bring it more 

 generally into notice than it seems to be at the present 

 tone. Few will be disposed to question the lively in- 

 terest which Pink growers took in this flower in days of 

 yore ; but this has somehow much abated, and the flower 

 "^ all but stood still ; for the past two or three seasons 

 v «7 few new varieties have been offered to the public ; 

 w *. look in vain for those annual novelties which, as 

 re g*rds almost every other florist's flower, are on the in- 

 crease ; all exhibit an onward movement, the Pink alone 

 13 st ^tionary. I have jotf returned from planting Pinks, 

 *"<* in choosing my pets from a somewhat large col- 

 lection, I find that I am constantly in difficulties, having 

 *> contend against treachery, over- fulness, roughness, 



**d sundry other characteristics, which at present seem 

 hkel; • 



adop 



be 

 ries 



petal*, u.argined with a narrow band of bright crimson; 

 botiom petals painted in the style of *' Centurion." The 

 bottom petals are too small to be proportionate with the top 

 petals, hence not of good form. At this late season it is 

 impossible to say what the fljwer mav become. Admirably 



packed.* 



Garden Memoranda. 



Royal Gardens, Claremont. — Bonapartea juncea. 

 now called Lit tea geminiflora, has been flowering here 

 for these three weeks past, and it promises to continue 

 in that condition for some time yet to come, lhe 

 stem, which is at least 15 feet high, is clothed three- 

 parts of its length with flower buds and flowers, which, 

 although wanting in say colours, are nevertheless far 



They are produced in pairs, 



of the Piak to decline V Will such long-tried patrons I from being uninteresting. jmMnM| 



■ Messrs. Smith. Maclean. Youne. Looker, Hale, Creed, \ all round the flower spike, and are pale greemsn 



Miscellaneous. 



Chinese Horticultural Exhibit****- It is perhaps too 

 well known to require mention,th*t the various merchant*, 

 traders, and mechanics in Shanghae, as in most other 

 Chinese cities, are formed into assoc ns or guilds, 

 similar in many respects to the mercantile associations 

 and trades' unions in civilized countries, and for like 

 purposes. These guilds each have their hall or place of 

 meeting, where they assemble to consult on matters 

 affecting their mutual interests, whenever occasion 

 requires; also to celebrate certain 1 iidays,and occa- 

 ionally to have dinners. The halls of 1 n guilds are .situated 

 in and about the Ching-wong-miau— more familiar to the 

 foreign community as the " Tea gardens." From their 

 general resemblance to temples in outward appearance, 

 they are quite liable to be mistaken for these edifices. 

 Seeing one open some days ago, and crowds of people 

 passing in and out, 1 was informed upon inquiring what 

 was going on,that it was the hall belongingto the money 

 brokers' association, and that the occasion was a floral 

 fair of rather a singular character, from the fact, that 

 but one kind of flower was brought for exhibition, and 

 this was a rare and highly prized species of the Epiden- 

 drum called bv the Chinese, Hwui-lan-hwi. From its 

 costliness it is possessed only by the wealthy, *h£ v »™ 

 it at tens and sometimes hundreds of dollars, liiouga 

 very fragrant, it is not particularly remarkable for 

 beauty, and it is somewhat difficult for us "barbarians, 

 to discover why the mere fact, that the petals of the 

 flower approximate, in their light green, to the colour of 

 the leaves of the plant, should impart to it such an 

 extraordinary value. More common varieties of the 

 same plant, nearly, if not quite as fragrant, and to our 

 dull perception, fully as beautiful as their more highly 

 esteemed sisters, are abundant, and may be purchased 

 at any time for a few cash. The display on this occa- 

 sion seemed to ark from a sort of pride on the part of 

 the exhibitors, in being the owners oi a plant so rare and 



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