Jory 20, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 61 
EARLY BULBS. 
Our Special Offer 
post-free on — есу Prices very Ser: 
DAFFODILS, 
and can — —— in July for Early Planting. The 
Bulbs are endid, and thoroughly ripened. 
J. R. PEARSON & SONS, 
CHILWELL NURSERIES. NOTTS 
FERNS!—FERNS!! 
grown Stuff, at Moderate Prices. 
A ые quantity in 23-inch pots, co Ё е 
Albe lin 
neata, Adiantum fulvum an 
dy, and will be sent 
— * Med per 
Good bushy stuff i in 48's, —Pteris — nobilis, 
and tremula; also Aralias, at 4s, 6d. per d 
The above prices are for Cash 
with Order ies Packing 
free. All orders carefully and promptly executed. 
PRIMROSE, 
NURSERIES, ST. JOHN’S PARK, BLA TH, 8.Е. 
DAFFODILS. 
HOME-GROWN BULBS. 
We are now lifting our Home-grown NAR- 
CISSUS. We hold immense та of the 
following, amongst other kinds: 
h PRIN CEPS 
EMPRESS SIR WATKIN 
POETICUS. 
cial Prices on Applicat 
DICKSONS NURSERIES, CHESTER. 
JOHNSON’S IMPROVED MUSHROOM 
SPA 
WN. 
RING one of the nu 
Manufactu:ers ushr 
of pure virgin spawn, 
position be offer the best obtainable 
, per bushel. 
Special Prices for for — Quantities 
' — HANGER HILL, EALING. 
А ing varieties, new or old, in small 
pots for fruiting first year. n-air р 
cheap. Special low quotations for pice A "e 
Market Growing. 
FRUIT TREES 
OF ALL SORTS. SEND FOR LISTS. 
JOHN WATKINS, 
POMONA FARM NURSERIES, WITHINGTON, HEREFORD. 
STRAWBERRIES. 
ШЕШ 
ALL. THE BEST NOVELTIES. 
AND 
Descriptive — CATALOGUE Now Жеб. 
free on application, 
J. В PEARSON & SONS, 
CHILWELL NURSERIES, NOTTS. 
LILY BULBS, 
PLANTS, SEEDS, &c. 
CATALOGUE on application. 
TOKIO NURSERIES 
On FRIDAY, JULY 26. 
HIGHLY IMPORTANT 
Sale of Orchids 
BY ORDER OF 
Е. SANDER au» CO., 
St. Albans, 
WITHOUT THE LEAST RESERVE. 
CATTLEYA GIGAS, 
SANDER, 
SANDERIANUM. 
A FINE IMPORTATION OF PLANTS, IN 
ERFECT CONDITION. 
We are pleased to be able to offer such 
grand plants. It is absolutely impossible to 
have a finer Cattleya than the one now offered. 
Although the major portion will probably turn 
out Sanderx and Sanderianum, yet our Collector 
net us t ч ardyanas and aureas are among 
t eas our man collected in flower 
are T diei i "this Sale. (See Catalogue). 
We fully expeot plants will зе from 
amongst them similar to Countess of Derby, 
Нагдуапа, — — А, Vochellensis, Hamar 
s, Clarke's variety, 
MEssrs. 
Also a consignment of — 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM 
(SANDER’S TRUE PACHO TYPE). 
Simply unapproachable for beauty, 
These чеш collected from Mountains we have 
rented for the past eleven years, and from which 
all the very best varieties have been imported. 
DENI ROBIUM 3 
A new introduction will be included, besides 
QBBEDROBIUM NOBILE, 
Our FINEST LANG TANG variety. 
CATTLEYA CITRINA, 
LYCASTE SKINNERI, &c., &c. 
MESSRS. 
PROTHEROE & MORRIS 
Have been instructed to Sell the above, 
ENTIRELY WirHovuT RESERVE, 
In their CENTRAL AUCTION ROOMS, 
67 & 68, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON, Е.С. 
THE 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1895. 
A PRIMITIVE TOBACCO 
FACTORY. 
6 is nothing unless she is primitive, 
and although the faotory which forms the 
subject of these remarks is not exactly situated 
premises comprise 
several large sheds with earthen floors, and one 
or two better built rooms, used as storehouses, 
The factory gives employment to severa 
hundred Chinese men and women, I was 
accompanied on my visit by Mr. A. A. Petti- 
grew, a son of Mr. Pettigrew, of Cardiff Castle, 
who is at — (May) on a tour in the East, 
The tobacco is not grown at Macao, but at a 
pla oe called Hokshan, about forty or ‘fifty miles 
to the north-west of the former town, on one of 
the numerous mouths of the Sikiang, or Canton 
River, When the plants are properly dry, they 
are done up into bales about 21 feet long, 2 feet 
wide, and 1 foot deep, and. sent down to Macao 
іп junks. On arrival at Macao, these bales are 
stored in the premises of the factory until such 
time as they are required for the mannfacture 
of tobacco, 
The first room we entered was devoted to 
stripping the leaves from the stalks, these being 
discarded in the manufacture. Women, sitting 
on the floor on their haunches, were busily 
engaged in this operation when we entered. The 
sight of us did not distract the women’s attention, 
but several young children who were present 
on our arrival, scampered away to distant 
corners like mice into a hole, The dust from 
the tobacco leaves got into our noses and throats, 
and caused us to sneeze and cough, much to 
the delight of our celestial onlookers, as evidenced 
by the loud outburst of laughter whi h еф 
our discomfiture. Strange to say, we did п 
hear a sneeze or a cough from any of the — 
whilst we were in the factory. 
have been stripped from the stalks, they are 
carried into one of the sheds in large bamboo 
baskets by men, then spread on a wooden floor 
and damped with water. When sufficiently 
made. layers 
eet long, 2 feet wide, and 23 
and placed on boards. Т 
ext process is to make each layer into a 
solid cake, This is done in the following way: 
About a dozen layers, with a board 1} inch 
thick between each layer, are placed on the top of 
one another, and then pressure is brought to 
bear upon the whole lot by means of a lever of 
the second order, in the shape of a thick pole. 
One end of the lever i is fixed firmly with strong 
ropes,and t ; the weight 
or. the resisting substance is the tobacco, and the 
power is applied at the other end of the lever by 
means of stout ropes, which pass round a wooden 
axle that is securely fastened to the ground. 
