August 4. 1888.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



121 



CARTERS' 



"TESTED" SEEDS 



(Registered Trade Mark) 



FOR PRESENT SOWING. 



CABBAGE. 



CASTERS' EARLY HEARTWELL ... 

 Achtowl dged to be the finest Early 

 Cabbage in cult ■■■ 



CARTERS' MAMMOTH BEEF- HE ART 

 The Best Main-crop Garden Cabbage 



LETTUCE. 



CARTERS' GIANT WHITE Oris . 

 Dl NNKTT'S GIANT WINTER COS . 



CARTERS' LONGSTAXDER ... 

 ALL THE YEAR RUl'.NU ... 



ONION. 



GIANT ROCCA 



GIANT WHITE TRIPOLI 

 Gl \NT .MADEIRA 



per pi t. 

 d. s. d. 



c; & l o 



ROYAL SEEDSMEN BY SEALED WARRANTS. 



237 & 238, HICH HOLBORN, LONDON 



ORCHIDS A SPECIALTY. 



Quantity immense — Quality fine — Price Moderate. 

 Inspection invited. 297,300 feet of glass in the Nurseries. 



HUGH LOW & CO., 



CLAPTON NURSERY, LONDON, N. 



SEASONABLE GOODS. 



See the best Catalogue out. 

 STEPHANOTIS, the freest variety in cultivation, Is., Is, 6<*\, 



2s. 6rf., and fine specimens to 6'As. each. 

 ALLAMANDAS, Clerodendrous, Bougainvilleas, Crotons. Gar- 

 denias, Ixoras, Pa->sifloras— these and many others, 9d., Is., 



and Is, 6rf. each ; larger plants if wanted. 

 EUPHORBIA JACQUINLEFLORA and POINSETTIAS. 9d. 



each, 6s. per dozen. 

 CALADIUMS in great variety, very cheap, 6s., 9s., and I2s. 



per dozen. GLOXINIAS, 6s. per dozen. 

 GREENHOUSE PLANTS in great variety, 6s, 9s., and 12s. doz. 

 TUBEROUS BEGONIAS, coming in bloom, good plants. Is. 



each, 10s. tjd. per dozen. 

 GERANIUMS, single, double, and Ivy-leaf, extra fine large 



plants, of lovely varieties, 12s. and 18s. per dozen ; smaller 



plants, equally good sorts, for winter bloom. 4s. per dozen. 

 FUCHSIAS, Coleus, Heliotropes, Salvias. Abutilons, and other 



soft- wooded plants, in small pots, 2s. 6rf. per dozen ; in 



large pots, 6s. per dozen. 

 FERNS, best kinds for planting in Ferneries or for decoration, 



in small pots, is. doz. ; in lar-i-i- [ml., 6s. and its. perdoz. 

 ADIANTUM CUNEATUM, best for cutting, in small plants, 3s. 



per doz., 21s. per 100 ; in good plants, 6s. aud 9s. per doz. 

 TEA-SCENTED and other choice ROSES, in pots, grand plants 



and finest sorts, either for house decoration or planting in 



beds, 15s. per dozen. 

 PRIMULAS, CINERARIAS, CALCEOLARIAS, finest strains, 



young plants for growing on. from stores, Is. 6rf. per dozen, 



9s. per 100. 

 CYCLAMEN, young plants. 2s. Gd. per dozen. 

 ORCHIDS in Variety, for either cool or warm house, 30s. and 



42s. per dozen. 

 TABLE PLANTS in variety, 13s., 24s., 30s. per dozen. 

 BOU VARDIAS. young plants to grow for winter, 4s. per dozen. 

 PRIMULA ALBA PLENA, the finest for cutting, 9s. per doz. 

 HERBACEOUS PLANTS, planted now in corner of garden, 



and moved in autumn, seldom die, 3s. per doz., 25s. per 100. 

 ROMAN HYACINTHS, will soon arrive, many thousands 



already sold, 14s. per 100. 

 PAPER-WHITE NARCISSUS, 8s. per 100. 

 CLEMATIS. 10s. Gd. perdoz. ; HONEYSUCKLES. JASMINES. 



9s. per doz. ; IVIES, 6s. per doz. The best of all times 



now to plant these. 



SEEDS FOR PRESENT SOWING. 

 See SEED CATALOGUE, 

 Wallflower, Silene, Myosotis, Canterbury Bells, Sweet Wil- 

 liams, Arabis, Aubrietia, 3d. and 6d. perpacket. Lettuce. 

 Onion. Cabbage, Cauliflower, &c, 6d. to Is. per ounce. 



PLANT LIST Post-free. BULB LIST ready shortly. 



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Select List Free 

 Sample of Plants 3 

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121, BUNHILL ROW, 



LONDON, E.G. 



CONSERVATORIES, 

 GREENHOUSES, 



VINERIES, 

 PEACH HOUSES, 



ORCHID HOUSES, 



ERECTED with HEATING APPARATUS, 



&c, complete. 



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will when desired visit Gardens 



and prepare 



SPECIAL DRAWINGS and ESTIMATES, 



from instructions taken on the spot, 

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CUCUMBER FRAMES. 



Prices Post-free on application. 



w.h. LASCELLES & co., 



121, BUNHILL ROW, E.C. 



As a Supplement 



TO THE 



Gardeners' Chronicle 



FOB 



Next Week, August 11, 



WILL BE 



Published an Ink Photograph 



OF 



DAHLIA IJIPERIALIS, 



from the Garden of Consul Crawford, Oporto ,* 



AND 



rhododendron 



aegenteum, 



from the Garden of Mr. Newalt. 



THE 



SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1888. 



EARLY ENGLISH GARDENING. 

 II. 



TT may not be uninteresting, at this point, to 

 -*- consider the laws and enactments that have 

 been framed and passed in this country with 

 reference to gardening. In this respect it has 

 enjoyed the most perfect immunity, and presents 

 a very remarkable contrast to an equally vital 

 phase of life, viz., literature. Widely differing 

 as they do, at a superficial glance, these two 

 attributes of life and progress had a common 

 origin, and the growth of the one found its 

 reflection in the advancement of the other. But 

 whilst one has been subjected to the "slings and 

 arrows " of every worthless person who held 

 office by virtue of his unscrupulous disposition, 

 the other — that of gardening — has evolved from 

 a primitive state, and developed into a science 

 without the superfluous intermeddling of regal 

 licensers and biassed partisans. From the time 

 of the Magna Charta down to the death of Queen 

 Anne no more than two or three regulations 

 were passed which have any bearing upon our 

 present subject. In 37 Henry YIIL, c. 6, sect. 3, 

 for example, an Act called forth " by men of evil 

 and perverse disposition," it is enacted that if 

 any person " barke any Aple trees, Peare trees, 

 or other frute trees," a fine of £10 sterling 

 should be inflicted. This sum would to-day be 

 equivalent to about £50, so that such and col- 

 lateral offences were neither few nor trivial. In 

 the second example the much-abused middleman 

 plays a prominent part. In the Act relative to 

 victuallers and handicraftsmen, ''not content 

 with moderate and reasonable gayne," and who 

 conspired to sell their " vittells at unreasonable 

 prices" (2 & .". Edward VI., o. 15), the first sec- 

 tion ordained that the " costerdmongers or 

 frewterers " should not sell their commodities but 

 at certain prices. For the first offence the fine 

 was placed at £10, or twenty day's imprisonment, 

 with the luxury of a bread and water diet : for 



