





















THE GARDENERS 











CHRONICLE 



gSclTiTURSERY. BAGSHOT 



SURREY. 



announ 



J*. 



Conifers, <fcc, and which may be obtained by 



iwMitafre stamps. 

 w — .***, of all the Rhododendrons worthy of culti- 

 f M Co 1G ^ bed ^Qg purchasers are afforded every facility 



flection 





Hosea 



^T^VVATERER'S Descriptive Catalogue of 



H-MICA* PLANTS, CONIFERS, HOSES, &c, for 

 ^ZT Anfnmn. is jnfet published, and may be had on 



•** £n clo9ing two postage stamps, to Mr. TT 



V~"\ Knan Hill Nurser y, Woking, Surrey. 



ATI* 1 *' 



rsSRS J- M1AJL-L Aisu ^1.0 imvc a ^tuuiv ui 



VICTORIA or RABY CASTLE CURE AN L\ andean 



— m LV«trone Plants at255. per 100 ; extra strong, 2 years 

 #V£i d"«n. Also, a good Stock of 2 year planted 



•^TT'i'l-Ixy-EUS 105. per dozen. 



JrriTTS VICTORIA 105. „ ,, 



RrHELI/* ROYAL ALBERT 



Smaller 1 year planted Roots, at 50*. per 100. 

 ifcnor g«.rm. jept ford, Not. 8th. 



— JACKMAN, Nurseryman, Woking, Surrey, 



fUoiilefrom Woking Station, South- Western Railway), 

 L-tAnoounoethathe has published a new and complete 

 fifarne of bis American Plants, Ornamental Evergreens, 

 fSSm Flooring Shrubs, Standard and Dwarf Roses, Fruit 

 ??ELt Treea, «fcc, and may be had on application by 

 *^|g»-njigita ^ Nui-s ery, Nov. 8. 



rvUTCH HYACINTHS for Forcing, 3s. 6d. per dozen ; 



1J BAfldo. for Glasses. 6d. to 1j. each. Double Roman and 

 JlJVhite Nareis>u , 45. per dozen ; Single and Double Due 

 fSfhul Tulips, 25. per dozen. Also Crocus, Iris, Jonquils, 

 tail Aoemones, and Ranunculus, of which a priced List 

 to had free, per post, from A. Cobbett, Italian and 

 ?*4gn Warehous e^, Pall Mall, London. 



ifESSRS. PLATZ and SON, Seedsmen, Erfurt, 



jjl Ptwia. inform the Trade that their CATALOGU 

 *rl851 and 1852 is now ready, and to be had only of their 

 taut, Robert Kennedy, Bedford Conservatory, Covent 



firden. Lon don.— Nov 8. - 



CPERB HOLLYHOCK SEED. — Well ripened 



J Seed, warranted to be saved exclusively from Rosea grandi- 

 liri, Delicata, Comet, Model of Perfection, Elegans, Formosa, 

 git, Belladonna, Bicolor, Queen, Fireball, Aurantia, Rosea 

 ■fo Md Su'phurea perfects, A good mixture of the above, in 

 picket*, containing 200 Seeds, will be forwarded, post free, 

 «o& the receipt of 2s. 6d. worth of postage stamps, by R. B. 

 •acsAX, Hedenham Rosary, Bungay, Suffolk. 



PLANTING- SEASON. 



WH. ROGERS, Nurseryman and Landscape 

 • Gardener, 130, High street, Southampton, begs to 

 4&r any quantity and description of finely grown and well- 

 sooted NUHSERY STOCK, including Forest and Ornamental 

 Trwj, Evergreen and Flowering Shrubs, American Plants, 

 Friit Trees, Roses, Herbaceous Plants, &c, <fcc, at a very 

 taaced price. Planting contracted for to any extent, engaging 

 ■••place failures. Gardens and Pleasure Grounds laid out and 

 Anted in the best taste.— All communications addressed to 

 ?. H. Rogers, as above, will meet with immediate attention. 



TO RULROAD CONTRACTORS, NURSERYMEN, «fec. 



TMCHARD HARTLAND a*d SON, Nurserymen, 



1* Cork, will deliver, free in London, Bristol, Liverpool, or 

 HWin, any qaantity (over a hundred thousand), of Thorn 

 tyrieks, at the following prices, for cash :— 



S year-old, in beds (stout plants), per 1000 ... 2s. 6d. 



t d °'i n * » (transplanted), per 1000 ... 35. 6d. 

 5 and 6 do „ >f per 1000 ... 5s. 



Aft orders addressed as above shall be promptly attended to. 



ACER YILLOSUM. 



SBORN and SONS, Nurserymen and Seedsmen, 

 Fulham, near London, respectfully inform the public that 

 jry harefor sale the above fine and distinct species of Maple 



information as to the previous state of the 

 Vines. It is a Grape extremely liable to decay 

 where the roots are not well drained ; we have no 

 reason, however, to suppose any fault of this kind 

 though the fact of plants being grown in the same 

 house with the Vines is one not likely to lead to 

 the best results ; and the probability is, so far as we 

 can judge from such imperfect data, that the cause 

 was similar to that which was clearly at work in 

 the second case in which the Black Hamburgh and 

 Muscat were attacked, both evidently of first-rate 

 quality, as appears from the specimens forwarded 

 to us* In this case the houses, which during the 

 summer had been greatly damaged by hail, though 

 promptly repaired, were infested with mildew soon 

 after the Hamburgh Grapes were ripe, and under 

 the use of lime and sulpRur the mould had, to a great 

 extent, disappeared, but not entirely, as is manifest 

 from the leaves which accompanied the specimens, on 

 which there are still unquestionable traces of the para- 

 site. It is most probable that the mildew had really 

 existed at an early period of the year, at which time 

 alone the remedies are certain in their operation, for 

 it is well ascertained that at that period the delay 

 even of a day or two may be fatal. It cannot, 

 therefore, be too strongly impressed upon all Grape 

 growers, to watch narrowly the appearances pre- 

 sented by the leaves, even before the blossoms are 

 expanded, and on the slightest suspicion to apply 

 the proper remedies. One circumstance in the 

 matter, viz., the locality in which the latter 

 occurred, is a cause of much regret, as it show 

 that the disease is travelling northwards, for which 

 our previous information had not quite prepared us. 

 All the Grapes alike when received were covered 

 with a strong coat of mould, but one to which the 

 malady was in no respect due. Indeed, it is a 

 species which at this season of the year may be 

 found in every garden on a variety of vegetable 

 substances. We subjoin a figure, as the object is 

 pretty in itself, and it is very desirable that it 

 should be properly distinguished from the true 

 Grape mildew, of which we have already given an 

 illustration. 



JOHN and CHARLES LEE beg to offer fine plants, 



CBdIr" infS ^\?°* warrftttted . of the Allowing : * 



4?2 S IES ' 5 10 fl feet > clean and strai ^ * 



fciSh * w n w 0LLIES > 8 *et, clean and straight, 



-ain.-:N U r S ery, Hammersmith, London. 





She ©arimmrsr ® hrmtfrle* 



MTl/RDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1851. 



'mum**^*?! P ? R JH-B ItNSUina WEEK. 



•«*». — 13-Na«oiialFl<mc«ltural !m, 



owi ate i r tic T Ies ~^ Gra^e" Mildew, and the 



iS?* 7 h± ****** of which we liave 8 iven 



tie kt T n 't aCC0IUpaaied ^ D0tes extracted from 

 ^UMimber of the Journal of the Horticultural 



*ck eS ♦ ' afford alm8st ^ the information 



^e J* i poa tIlls noison »e but not unmanage- 

 q,^ 1 - lu cases where a depravation of the 



iaifettt ^ pr T B . ced b y the presence of some internal 

 *fc*nt K. n S Bg ?\ mical cha "ges in the con- 



* a time to • ° U - gh the vital ener Sies may be able 



* ^ed Pff 6 ? l ts a S encv wnen once the balance 

 H aona^ ^ e most su <iden and unexpected, 



Our figure represents Polyactis fasciculaxis 



-j, «„„ Ui rtU proportion to tne exci 

 sometimes occur; a fact of which 



various stag' 



7 



granules 



and 



ory 



^e am; 



*fceh 



^"dTsLTfp Ponced, in 1845 * 

 ^ U ^ny S ^ otatoes , ^d of which 

 '« nio?5 ?pks lu succeeding years. 



of 



ially 



^CTJ^ t 



us t Gra P es » h ave just been sub- 

 ^ ifatnKi* i. ^ one case > in wnicn the 



^ was attacked there is no 



8* 



to their perfect state ; and the spores germinating 

 and producing the fruit-bearing hyphasma. M. J. B. 



Onb of the singular circumstances connected with 

 the Crystal Palace is the well-known fact, that not 

 even one of the anticipations of failure, in which its 

 enemies were so ready to indulge, has been justified 

 in the smallest degree by the result. It was to have 

 been expected that, among so many prophecies of 

 evil, mere accident would have brought about the 

 confirmation of one— one little one. But no ; the 

 Fates were remorseless, and would not permit an 

 accident— even to gratify the Astronomer Royal 



On the other hand, eveiy favourable view has 

 become more and more brilliant a» the great event 



; as an illustration of which we may 

 rooo iTi tho. transent. These old Elms 



duat, and the confinement, and so 



the contrary, 

 asserted 



tli. 



mere 

 the 



theoris! 



707 



W r e 



ailed, 



a 



OB. 



, M we are c 



trees would grow " witk 

 vigour they had never kn 



Chronicle, 1851, p, 99.) 



at that time standiag, 



dangerous in consequence of the aamoal weight 

 which their brittle limbs would have to hmr 



d that some of them, 



rotten, v aid become 



have to 



Htaw far we were righ may be learned from the 

 following report accompanying some branches from 

 Mr. Taylor, the intelligent gardener, to whose care 

 the trees in the Crystal Palace have been entrusted 

 during the season. 



" These shoots exhibit the average seasonal growth 

 made by the trees in question, n compared with the 

 annual increase of a young and vigo us nee, stand- 

 ing betwixt the Crystal Palace and the mtine, 

 in an open part of H y de-park. U n U >i t u ,-, some 

 shoo that would have more correctly ind ed th 

 extreme growth of theae 



progressed 

 take the 



to 



were pronounced by "practical 77 gentlemen woe 

 irrecoverably doomed. It was impossible they 



could bear the dryness, and the heat, and the 



•\:Aly 



at the south end of the transept, could not, \ out 

 much difficulty and danger, be go ng to their 



being at the top of the tree, and principally upon 

 central branches. 



"Among a cpuntfty of shoots from th<*e treat! 

 which were recently left at De\ House for 



the examination of Sir Joseph Pa w re several 



that measured full G ft. in length, i Litter were 

 seen by many officers of the Executive C umittee 



before they were taken from the build < >r 



was the greatest amount of growth e ei even 



in the instance just all ad. i to, the longest *1 

 being yet upon the tree in the south trans* i and 

 which the Sappers and Miners who assisted m obtain- 

 ing those left at Devonshire House, althc h first- 

 rate climbers, coul! not succeed in reaching without 

 considerable risk. However, from an examination 

 of the tree at the soutli end of the transej from a 

 position outside the roof-arch of the latter, we are 

 quite sure that some of the longest shooU of this 

 season at present upon this tree, cannot measure 

 much lesB than 7 f t . ; and this not ai ng f as might 

 at first sight appear, from the unusual rour gene- 

 rally induced by the breaking oif of a branch or 

 limb ; for some of the longest shoots exist upon 

 branches that have not been broken in the erection 



of the building. 



" The extraordinary vigour of the annual growth 



especially of one of the trees in the transept, may 

 be attributed to an increased temperature (the tran- 

 sept not having been artificially sha* I like other 

 portions of the roof), and to copious root- waterings, 

 to which may be added the syringing of leaves 

 and branches likewise, for the foliap 

 green 

 Elm* 





and it has continued so, Iwger than upon 



Sir Joskph Paxton. witk 



the open air. 



parental regard to the welfare of the trees, wisely 



; what has not been 

 til* i 



receivin 



aptly 



Elms in the 



not 



transept and western carriage court, though 

 performed without difficulty, was happily accom- 

 plished without injury to the valuable property 

 beneath and in their vicinity ; and thus the ieshness 

 and vigour of the trees were preserved, to confer to 

 the last the graceful charm of XatuFe's contrast 

 with so much that pertained to art. 



" In supplying these trees regularly with water, the 

 services of the fire-brigade men, the Sappers and 

 Miners, and of more than one fire engine stationed 

 in the building, have been called into requisition. 



"Generally the trees were watered at the root thrice 

 a week, but this occurred oftener, when they first 

 came into kaf, and the operation was always per- 

 formed in the evening, after the departure of the 

 public. The ringing overhead also performed in 

 the evening, to refresh the trees and preserve the 

 foliage green and fresh, was, as has been hinted, a 

 weekly operation— in order to accomplish which, 

 everything beneath, and in the immediate vicinity 

 of the trees, within fire-engine range, had, for safety 

 from wet and drip, to be securely encased with 



The a 





..., , drip, 



waterproof material, termed oiled calico 

 of some of the superintendents, as well as of the exhi- 

 bitors and their assistants, respecting the safety el 

 their goods, was great, but, notwithstanding this, bir 

 Joseph Paxxon iawted, for the welfare of the trem, 

 upon having the ' ablution performed at all risks, 

 and although no serious injury to any one s goods 

 was to our knowledge, reported, never before, per- 

 haps, were full-grown church organs, electric clocks, 

 groups of marble sculpture, and plaster statuary, 

 valuable cases of stuffed birds and other animals 

 hidily-finished bronze gates, and other beautiful 

 castings, hosiery, shawls, silk goods, and Highland 

 plaids, \weeds, and tartans-cam multu ah 

 exposed to so much apparent, yet happily so littl 



Hence it appears that while the dirty, half-starved 

 Elms, growing as if wild in the open park, made 

 shoots at the most a foot long on an average, the 





