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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



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jfrtertA* 





HOLLYHOCKS ^ND ROSPM. 



q^ CHAT Ell and SON can still supply most of 



|*- . a Dj f rarities of Hoihh >eks in cuittraii -.n «»nr«as<m. 

 ** m* Alio 12 fine *how R mcs, 2 fVet Standards, for 12*. 



^Tmer and air Perpetuals). Strong Cimoinff Ro$f*, 



^wTr doz-n; double major v?hue Rockets, 2s 64. p~r 

 ^ • iUP rb name-1 Hollyhock See<l, in pickets of 200 seeds, 



*' tJ' C»a ,0 S aes °^ the ahore mav bfi kid, OT application, 

 ^•fli^io^ s p'.w*ase stamp. 12 fine Show Pansies, 10$, 



EARLY ASH- 



6s p r bushel, deli- 



» rr*^" r eiutf : ' 3C; <xw ,uo "■*""" »»«»•■«■ 'u, on The Birmingham 



rjflioa e*ter Kailway. Four-bu*bel ba<«.2*. each.— Address 



**i ^ m-Hr8 s Tow. Bredo n. ne^r Te wkesbury. 



^~~~ ~YRVVS FOa HEHfilVG, <fcc. 



EDWARD SANG and SONS have for SALE a 

 large quantity of YEWS of a size sui ;*ble for makin 

 kafr*. The plan's are of tine quality, three years trans. 

 j R-fl a0t j ir >m 9 to 2L inches in height. Prices moderate. 



tirkaldy , Pec. 13. 



nlSOR^Tl^KER'S DESCRIPTIVE CAT A- 



IT LOflUE OP AMERICAN PLANTS, CONIF«RJ3 

 S03KS, OKN T AME.VTAL SFIRUBS, FRUIT AND FOREST 

 JgggS, &e., may be had on application, by enclosing cwo 

 LftAt* i ifiony.- Windlesham Nursery, Bagg hor.jSiirrey. 



ThVaVIEKICAN NURSERY, ftAGMHOT, SURREY" 



JOHN WATERER begs to announce that he has just 

 mblisb-da new CATALOGUE of Hardy Rhododendrons, 

 l^eas, Roses, Conifers, &c, and which mny bo obtained by 

 idoilng two postage stamps. 



• ♦ Tae Colours of all the Rhododendrons worthy of culti. 

 fh foo are described ; thus purchasers are afforded every facility 

 in ma king selections. 



H~~~~0SEA WATERER'S Descriptive Catalogue of 

 AMERICAN PLANTS, CONIFERS, ROSES, &c, for 

 the en*«iag Autumn, is just published, and may be had on 

 ©plication, enclosing two postage stamps, to Mr. Hosea 



Wmie*. Knap Hill tf»i»"»*rv. Wokine, surrey. 



NEW GARDEN SHEDS, 



SAVRD THh sEA>O.V. 



\Y ILLIAM E RENDLE and Co., Seed Mku- 



* ▼ chants, Plymouth, be* re-pectfully to state that the? 

 are no v receiving from some of the most careful growers a 

 choice assortment of 



NEW AND GENUINE SEF.D* t 

 Of first-rare quality; and as the season is fast approaching 

 when a fresh supply of *eed* will be required for the Kitchen 

 Garden, they fake the liber 5 of rcomm ndmf the p*-apne*nr» 



of every garden whether extensive or small, to procure with 

 out delay a copy of 



iS7 





BUNDLE'S PRICE CURRENT and GARDF^ DIRECTORY 



Which cost more than One Hundred Pound* in its pro- 

 duct ion, and has been most favourably iced by $ome 

 of t?te most eminent Horticulturists of the day, as well at 

 by the Editors of the leading Garden Publications. 



It contains 24 folio pages, and is the same size as fl* 

 Gardeners' Chronicle. 



Ic con' Aim a Descriptive Catalogue of the best Culinary 



VWetabies in cultivation, with the time of iowioir, bright, nn'd 

 o'her useful particular*, as well as the quantises furnished bv 



William E. Renole and Co. for their Collection*; ulso a 

 Descriptive Catalogue of all the ch«>i st and best varieties of 

 Agricultural *e ds ; ar.d an excellent Descriptive List of all the 

 newest and choicest Flower Seed*. 



1U lulatni cmree; at the bead ut i M tfav ot lieu**! 

 it is almost a aouth wind. It blows from the «m 

 nearly due north towards the Himalaya, striking 

 its course upon the low chain of th." Khasya lulls, 

 whose maximum elevation U scarcely 7(<K) feet 



" Upon this rnqge *h« first force of the nwuaoon it 

 expended, and the annual fall of 1 in at Churra Poon- 

 jee, elevated 4000 feet on its souOu r n k1 amount* 



to about 000 inches. This ran >, which has its 



origin among the mountain ranges of the south o 

 China and north of Burmah, lies to the south of the 

 Burrampooter, and, following the course of that 

 river, terminates in the cone vily of its great bend, 

 where it turns down towards the sea. The Khasya 

 mountains do not therefore entirely nin across the 

 IViy of Bengal, so as to in rcepl the force of the 

 monsoon from the whole of the Himalaya, a part of 

 which wind, laden to saturation with moisture at a 



Iciikewisecnt-ains aCOM PLETE CALENDAR OF OPERA 

 TIO 



a con 



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SANGSTKR\S NEW EAKJ.Y No. 1 PEA. 



AY, SAiNGSTER, and CO., in submitting the 



above valuable PEA to the public, can recommend it 

 frith the greate-t confidence, as the largest podded and best 

 Early Pea known, and of first-rate quality; height, 2 feet. 

 price 2s 6d. per quart. 



York Regent Potatoes, from prepared cuttings, 6s. per bush. 

 Cimbridge Radical do. (a first-rate second early) 6s. do. 

 American Native, 10s. 6d. do. Early Manley, los. 6d. do. 

 Btrly Ash-leaf Kidney, 10s. 6d. do. 



For T^HtimoniaU, see Gardeners* Chronicle, Nov. 8, p. 705. 



Post-office orders to be made payable ac the Borough Post- 

 office to Hay, Sanoster, and Co., Nursery and Seedsmen, 

 Heiringtcn Butts, London. One-bushel hampers an J booking, 

 U.td ; twn.husbpl '2s. 6d. Sachs, 2s. 6d, each 



■■ — ' i. ■ ■■ ■ ■■ — 1- ,- ■■ — ■ .. ■ 0mm — — ^— 1— 1 - . *i-,— ■■ ■— -. , i„ . - ■ ., ■ . ru -. . . 



GJACKMAN, Nurseryman, Woking, Surrey, 

 • (limile froth, WoktngScatioti, ^outh- Western Railvray), 

 begs to announce that he has pub'ish'd a new and complete 

 Catalogue of his American Plants, Ornamental Evergreeus. 

 Conifer*, Flowering Shrubs, Standard and Dwarf Roses, Fruit 

 sud Forest Trees, <fec, and may be had on application by 

 enclosing two postage stamps.-— Woking Nursery. Pec. 13 . 



BE3T LANCASHIRE GOOSEBERRIES, nar^cT, 

 at 15s. per lt»0. 

 AUo, APPLES, PEARS, CURRANTS. RHUBARB, <fcc , 

 in all the best varieties, and. at equally moderate prices* 

 Carefull v packed, to carry anv distance, or for exportation, 

 H. Bia&AND and Co., Manche^er. 



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temperature of nearly 00° F., Mown due north from 



■ i the IVty of Bengal upon the district of Sikkitu, which 



_. . v . hS _ . r ... " w ou that account the most rainv part of the \ihole 



^b in the Kite <en Garden for every month m the vesr, in ,.. nUT » n f *\ kA Of ;•»»!•• • r - ^. . 1 1 <l 



io»»e and useful form. 1 , ' in K e ot ihe Hi»nala\ - lor, on tlie < I h:ind ? the 



Copies can be obtained from any Boohdlcr in town or ' nwre «^»tern p.trts of the chain are protected by tin 



country, price Fircpencr, through Messrs. Bradbury and Khas j a range, and on tl>e other, the more welt erljf 



Evans, the London publishers. 



Copies will also be sent gratuitously on iv ipt of Six 



penny postage Stamps (to pay the postage), on application 



to Wiluam E. Rendlk & Co., Seed Merchants, PI nouth. 

 Our Stocks, Early Peas, Beans, Radish, and Carrot* 



arc already in, and can be supplied at once. 



VV. B. Rp.ndle and Co. hav« made arrnnRements to supply 

 al) the new description* of SEKDS that tn.iy be advei tis. d in 

 thii Paper during fhe en«nin^ season. 



SPARY begs to announce to his Floricultural 



Friends, b«»th English and Foreign, th it he intends 

 sending out, the first week in May, 1852, the below name-1 

 DAHLIAS which E. S. can confidently recommend a« 

 and desirable show fl w«r?. 



ABSOLAM (^part's>.— Clear amber, first-rate fo' 

 petais # v-ry cotisranf (an acquisition in its colour). Height 

 4 f«^t j p«an*s, in*. Qd. 



VICTORIA (Cook's).— Pale primrose, tipped with H ac ; 

 exquisite torm, and good centre. To eihibi ors will prove a 

 desirable li«hr flower, llpj^ht, 4 feet ; 105. 6J. 



JOHN DAVI&3 (Cook'h).— Crimson, «>cc«sior,ally ihsded 

 with puce; s\m metrical rineform; prtils high in centre. AJwajs 

 to be depended on. Height, 4 feet ; 7j. 6d. 



A Descriptive Catalogue of select new and old varieties of 

 Dahlias will be read? in January ; Camellias. Geraniums 

 Fuchsias, Cinerarias Verbena*, and a variety of other p»antt . 

 Hamburgh Vines, and other sorts (to po s), from E. S.'s cele- 

 brattd stock ; Bouquet, See<U. Ac. 



Queen's Graperiea and Nursery Ground, Park-itrcet, Brighton. 



E. 



])»rU are more distant from the moircc of mointur 

 nd therefore receive a leaa nhane of it. The inter- 

 ception of the moisture from the province of )too1 • 

 and the independent states north of Aittm, hy the 

 Khaeya range, has this curiow ct. that the lower 

 nnges of this portion of the Hi- iajra rue dry and 

 arid, while above 7<>00 feet, to which titration only 

 the hills to the south attain, the climate is very 

 much more humid. 



" The diminution in the amount of moiRure in 

 proceeding to the Westward along the Himalaya 

 constant J from Sikkifii is extremely gradual, but alio, so far 

 rm and M our present rather limited number of ol si i vationi 



go, very regular. The effects of the south-wilt or 

 rainy monsoon diminish step by »s we advnnre 



westward, till on arriving at the vail of the Indus 





SCARLET GERANIUM "THE AMAZON." 



TIUGH LOW axd Co. having purchased from Mr. 



-*--* Cari>enter, of Bath, the entire stock of toe above-named 

 pew SCARLET GERANIUM, have great pleasure in offering 

 i: to all admirers of showy ornamental plant*. It is of robust 

 habit, most brilliant colour, and a very free bloomer; and 

 from the encomiums wh'ch have already been passed upon it 

 fej competent judges, who had opporrunittes of seeing it in 

 perfection in the nursery of the successful raiser, IX. h. and Co. 

 ftel confident it will be considered as ornamental an addition 

 to our flower parpen plants as its prototype was to the Great 

 Exhibition, The following U the report of the Floricultural 

 Editor of the Gardeners' Chronicle, and B, L and Co. do not 

 hesitate to say, it is the best Scarlet Geranium ever offered to 

 the public : — 



"Pelargoniums : E Carpenter. An excellent scarlet, robust 

 inhabit, and a profuse bloomer ; tru^aes very Janre ; each pip 

 of excellent shape; petals substantial; together forming a 

 globular head, rarely deformed by seed vessels ; colour bril- 

 liant. A variety which is sure to become a favouiite." | 



Strong well-established plants 7j. (ML ! 



Extra ditto, with flowering buds 10 6 



Usual discount to the Trafa. 



^ Clapton Nurser y. London. Pec >3. 



tTNTER'S PROLIFIC CUCUMBER. — This 



handsome and delicious variety obtained, in June lag* 

 ^ar, with rruit upwards of SO inches in length, the Silver 

 Ke-dalatthe Botanic Gardens, Re^ot's-pa^k ; ami a Certifi- 

 cate of Merit at the Exhibition in July. It has also b^en 

 awarded Pour Prizes at the Highbury Exhibitions. It is white 

 •pined and an extraordinary bearer. To be had in packets 

 °f «- ven seeds, ax $s\ ; or three seed* at 2s, M., of Mr. Hurte*, 

 J, King-street, Islington-, and at J G. Rbhwici's Sead Ware- 

 house, 107, ?t John-street, Smithfield, London. ; 



lyriTCHELL'S MATCHLESS WINTER 



-*-"•*- PARS-LEY.— J. \t having saved a much larger quautity 

 of Seed this season than last, can offrr it to the public at a 

 fcucb reduced price. Wholesale, to seedsmen, Is. 34. per ib. ; 

 *ay quantity under 10 lbs. will be charged 2s. per lb. Can be 

 **nt to any part of the World, on receipt of a Post-office ord«r, 

 aade payable to John Mitchell, Fouder's-end, Enfield, 

 jlidnlesex. 



WILLMORE'S SURPRISE 



/tpn i VTfT \f 



JOHN and CHARLES LEE beg to announce that they 



^ have purchased the entire stock of tbis extraordinary 

 novelty of Mrs. Willmore, of Ed^baston, near Birminuham. 

 ^nd they intend offering it to the pub ic in the autumn of 18-W, 

 ^h^n they will have proved its qualities as a bedding plant, 

 which they believe to be first-rate ; and opportunities will have 

 b **a afforded at the various Ffevf er Shows of witnessfng what 

 ^ay be regarded as a floral wonder. 



Mrs. W mature has stated hex belief that its parentage lies 

 J^tween Geranium erubescena and a Hollyhock. Our great. 

 *orticuUuvat authority, Dr. Lindley, repudiates the idea, bu' 

 ^kno^tedge* in to be an extraordinary production. Messrs. 



ii&K hnna *~ j t_ r„^ ...>.;«U1« S ^ 



m 



, --...^^ .v i W ^ay tnat the ptrucrure ot me pi 

 "•fent to anything to be found in the Gwraoium ; the roots are 

 ^Ue unUke any ot the class, and the seed pods are formed 

 ^e like a ILuhboek than a Geranium, The flowers are 

 .^-double, and the whole trims of a monstrous form. Allow- 

 to be no more than a mere *pf>rt from the Geranium, its 

 oM\ ! a * ar excet?d anything hithert/> introduced as a gay border 

 neaams &***>. -Nursery, Uammer smith. 



Site ©attreuerg' ©hvoutcic. 



SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1851. 



MEETINGS FOB THE ENSUING VTEEK. 



I CbrmiCAl ..* *-*- 



M050AT, Dec. tt', statisiieal ■; a r.w, 



f Briri»h Architects 9 r u. 



JLinn^AQ ... ..........•-••»••«•• o r.M. 

 Civ' i EnKine*ri 8 r M . 

 Pathoi<»«icai i ^ r.af. 



—_ , - f So«*i«t y of Arts S r.m. 



WiDwaaoAv, — ^(GealojclrW fir.*. 



SNmt»i«in*ti<! ....§ r.M, 

 Ann^uHrian .....8 r m. 

 Ro^eL ..ii.f.....«..n»«».«.W''"» 



Saturday, — 20-Mrdiea) „ 8 r .*. 



The third and last part of Dr. Hooker's "Rhodo- 

 dendrons of the Sikkim-Himalaya" has just ap- 

 peared. Although, perhaps, it contains figures of 

 plants scarcely so grand as R. Dalhotisieanwn and 

 some others, it yields in nothing to its predece«ors 

 in point of beautiful execution. Whether we shall 

 ever see the species in our gardens in their native 

 beauty, it is premature to say; we can only ex- 

 press an ardent hope that gardeners will overcome 



t the western extremi of the Himalaya, if ceasei 

 to be observed at all. In fliese u >l vrtstern por- 

 tions of the chain, very little ram fait* at any season 

 of the year, and the little which doei occur falls in 

 the spring months, and is therefore quite independent 



of the regular monsoon. 



u It is also worthy of note, that in the more western 

 parts of the chain the climate is extremely (by at all 

 periods of the year, except during the monsoon or 

 rainy season, as" it is called in India, while to the 

 eastward the climate of the mounf s shares to a 

 considerable extent the more equable and always 

 moist climate of Bengal. 



" The most important point of all, however, re- 

 gajFdiag the climate in n spect of iU effects on vege- 

 tation, which requires to be born* in mind, is that a 

 very great portion of the rain which falls is depo* 

 sited on the first range of mountains upon which the 

 rain win! strikes. I have already pointed out that 

 this is the cade with the Khasya range, and it is there 

 highly strikingly illustrated by the fact, that it is 

 only on the very south side of the hills that the rain- 

 fall is so enormous, the fall 20 miles north of Churra 

 being probably less than half what it is there. 



u This tendency of the rain-fall to exhaust itself 

 very considerably on the first range of mountains to 

 which it has access, is peculiarly important in a 

 mountain chain 1.50 mile* in width, its effeot being 

 that the upper part of all the large valleys, and espe- 

 iallv the interior valleys and the^r ramifications, are 

 more dry than ttioae adjacent to the plains of 

 Even in the most humid part of the Hima- 

 laya, in Sikkim, this difference is extremely marked, 

 and in the more dry parts to the west (the extreme 

 east interior is not known), the inner valleys are so 





by the hundred, pretend that, after all, the specie 



are not so fine as is alleged, and that their death is 



no jrreat matter. But we can assure our readers 



that, after having in many cases compared kr^^Oiat ^jwnia ^^J^JJJ; 



Hooker's dried specimens with the published plates, m 



we find nothing to complain of, except, perhaps, a 

 tendency to diminish rather than exaggerate. Some 

 of the flowers and leaves which we have seen are 

 finer than anything which is to be found in the 

 pictorial representations themselves. 



- • * in our volume for 1849, p. £2S, 



To this excessive moisture it is, we presume, that 

 attention should be directed ; but the grand diffi- 





Having already 

 given such an idea of the Sikkim climate as could 

 then be gathered from published materials, we have 

 little to add on the present occasion, beyond the 

 following extract from Dr. Thomas Thomson's 

 valuable. sketch of the climate of the Himalaya, 

 republished in the last Number of the Horticultural 



Society's Journal. 



" The source of humidity in the Himalaya, says 

 this most intelligent traveller, " is almost entirely 

 the Bay of Bengal, which is situated about 5* to the 

 south of the eastern extremity of the chain; and the 

 wind which carries the humid atmosphere along the 

 chain is that which is known to nautical meteoro- 

 logists as the south-west monsoon, a wind which 

 begins to blow in the open sea about the month of 

 April, but whose effects are not felt in the far 

 interior before the month of June. This wind, 



cuky will be to combine it with a suitable tempe- 

 rature. Upon tiis, ami many similar poiate, the 

 public trusts that Dr. Hooker will favour them 

 with h'w suggestions. There can be no dowbt that 

 the species of Rhododendron require very different 

 treatment : fof instance, the R. EdywortMi, now 

 figured, a species with large pale lemon-coloured 

 flowers, hardly inferior to R. Dallxmmeanum, comes 

 from the valleys of the inner ranges of Sikkim, at an 

 elevation of 7000— 8000 feet, hanging from trees in 

 an atmosphere saturated with moisture ; on the other 

 hand, R. cerugimsum and fulgmu, two species with 

 the habit of R. campanulatum, are found at twice 

 the elevation, where the climate raftst be totally 

 different ; and as an extreme case, tfcs R. nwate, 

 « from the loftiest elevation on the surface of the 



epresentative *«l the most excessive 



of the joint influences of a scorching sun 

 by day, and the keenest frost by n ; cht— of the 

 greatest drought, followed in a few hours by a 

 saturated atmosphere— of ^ balmiest calm alter- 

 nating with the whirlwind of the Alps For eight 



globe, 



climate 



is a r 



interior before the month of June, ims wina, n<m,g *""»"• «» ' " r\ " ;; "f ' f t a of 

 thoosh constant in its direction at sea, is not so m I months of the year h n buried under many feet ot 



