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THE GARDENERS’ 
[Остовкв 26, 1895, 
casting of their skins become detached, and poison 
such cases as these in this country are not amon 
the probabilities, and we may safely ec ae є8 
to easy and i — measures of preventing, o 
rather alleviating, the more severe at 8 whi ч 
occasionally occur, хае to climate and natural 
laws to do the rest. 4. C. Forbes. 
OLD-TIME ADVERTISEMENTS. 
A COLLECTION of last-cent rea newspapers lately 
came into my possession, and it astonished me to 
find numbers e eg “pean reference to 
the seed and nursery trade in their pages. I have 
culled she fo sti АЛАА announcements, which 
cannot fail to inte many in the present 
enlightened days, as ped serve to m мге 
desire of traders to use А алац as а mea 
pushing their wareg, even when re 
bad but а very limited ee Seedsm 
From the London Journal, July 15, 1721 :— 
Holland, a pe d 
n trees, both p and 
variegated, with the koik 2 cream and еб pac m 
of the best sorts, full of fruit and flowers, of all 
- 
— 
е sold very cheap, by James Letley, 
at Mr. Frasier’s, next to Beaufort House, near the 
waterside at Chelsea; where all gentlemen and 
ladies may be farnished with the most curious forms 
of bulbous roots from Holland, and other parts of 
Europe, at the lowest prices. 
From the Country Journal, November 15, 1729 :— 
“To be sold, a parcel of standard Elms, of about 
т 
who is empowered to treat with any permis for 
аа ^ 
Grass—sweeter than other 
grass, and makes with seedings as beautiful lawns 
as the closest shaven banks. To be had in papers 
done up at 5s. each at Greggs Coffee House, York 
99 Covent Garden 
lso American Cabbage seed egg comes to 
80 Е weight and near to £40 acre value, 
price 10s. per pound. AA Cone exceeding 
Lucerne, price 75 6d. per 
Here is an announcement of quite another cha- 
German Dogetail 
pod It is taken from the Kentish Gazette, April 13, 
7 
“To the florists, On Tuesday тро the 23rd 
inst, there will be a Polianthus feast at Mr. Richard 
Pain's at Waldeshare, The best flower produced 
will be entitled to a prize of 10s, 6d., the second beat 
мехе 6d., and the third to 5s, о person will be 
to shew a flower, unless he has subscribed 
A 
panies this notice, 
From the Evening Post, March 29, 1787.:— 
* FrowERs,—John Allport, seedsman and n 
ursery- 
man, Hackne у Road, begs leave to inform fe 
ladies and е and the public that he has 
now in fall bloom fine Roser, Pinks, and other 
a - d Flowers in Pots and for Nosegays 
continue а auccessi е 
оп all the season, Like- 
_ tons, Flower Roots, Ke. also all kin 
ds of Seeds for 
à — arden warranted of the beat 
ue castle Advertiser, October 30, 1790, con 
c) erro, aic 
— an 
of a plant in Pot ассощ- 
: 
series, Edinburgh. Standard Apples are figured at 
6d. each, D varfe, 4d.“ 
The Leeds Mercury, November 30, 1793. 
„Thomas Barnes, Nursery and Seedsman, Brig- 
gate, Leeds, begs to announce that 
а fresh vea = Gar "a са Bird See 
sery Stock is young and healthful, tei ннн ай 
what some evil- viue ae may have said to 
the contrary.” 
The Middlesex Journal for February 15 to 
Febru 17 1716, 3 the поно curious 
ien en- abou ies of grass that is 
w handled by the Ma :— 
„American Cock's-foot grass yields larger than 
any other, lasts for ever on the land, and smothers 
all weeds, 
THE HERBACEOUS BORDER. 
TROPAOLUM SPECIOSUM. 
e few finer hardy climbing plants than 
the brilliant. flowered Tropzolum speciosum, where 
t n LE] t e . 
does well, any one desiring to give i 
trial, the pr season offers a good time to make 
preparations by securing fresh and plump roots, 
t 
which are usually to be obtained in pots, and planting 
them without delay. One of the chief points to be 
observed is, to plant the roots 8 or 9 inches deep; 
there is no necessity to disturb much ground, and it 
need not be dug deeper than 1 foot. Place a little 
decayed manure in the oe of the hole, covering 
this with soil, and meke it firm. Then plant the 
roots at the depth stated, pde make ~ soil quite 
firm over them. The plant appears to r & firm 
soil comparative dryness, — "that it more 
eeds hedge-ro 
dislikes ven disturbance, Where it can 
is an "— t plant — covering 
blished, i 
dark-leaved Ten bs, and in such positions its pro- 
fusion of brilliant Bowers tolay чыны Ж to great 
advantage, J, 
CHELONE ВАВВАТА, 
This is a beautiful hardy herbaceous т 
plant, an abundant bloomer, with spikes * 25 
всаг1еб- coloured flowers, which grow 2 feet shat ts 
is, in fact, a Pentstemon in miniature, plant of 
this species has been in flower at Basing Park ‘tie four 
— and still keeps up a brilliant show by throwing 
up constantly new flower-spikes, Ordinary garden 
mould suits its requirements, and it is so hardy, 
that without any protection it withstood the rigours 
of last winter unharmed, Propagation is by division, 
and seeds sown in the month of April. These 
seedlings flower at the end of the first summer, Wm, 
Smythe, The Gardens, Basing Park, Alton. 
PRUNING FRUIT TREES. 
Arter reading this paper а week ago, I thought 
the description * most interesting paper," should be 
altered to extraordinary,” coming, as it does, 
from a fruit-grower shall say nothing more about 
Мг, Pearson's description of the different schools o 
pruners than it is impossible to identify 
them by it; but when he descends to practice one 
can deal with him. He says the first object of 
pruning fruit trees is to obtain fruit, and further 
adds speaking standard — that all 
© 
B 
- noted. garden 
were all of that shape inside the 
walls, but where the chief epp of чач — from 
an orchard outside, wher ees were 
= and of the ies of prese more 
CHRONICLE 
or less, in which no light or air in the se 
at 
the outside of which fruit-spurs and -— 
abundant," and this is the kind of tr 
f Mr. Pearson 2. that every ad o 
familiar with, but in which, according to 
ў Thi 
„ though in what way this secures ures any- 
a smaller tree and less fruit, under equal 
oe nta is a puzzle, Cutting two-thirds of a 
healthy tree away for the rubbish-heap is an extr 
ordinary idea, but in his cordons the leading shoo 
are, we are told, “left as long as possible, bearing in 
mind the fact that the more one pruned away the 
stronger would the growth be from the remaining 
buds, let them err rather on the side of cutting away 
too little than too tly! and it is the 
aame with the vidual shoots of standards, prac- 
tically cordons, no n being need 
to secure balance and prevent too 
e 
of the impossible fertility" 
shape, but marvels of f fruitfulneas all the same, But 
individual e кеге аге superfluous, for no one can | 
help seeing such as I If te 
“little band ” il 
alludes to atill өөү: ч sooner it follows the ten 
little nigger boys etter for fruit grower, 
should say, I am iy one eer the Rev. W. Wilks of 
the Royal Horticultural Society, in his paper real 
at last year’s conference, and published in the trans- 
actions, in which he * ів strongly of opinion” tha! 
young standards, half standards, and bush trees 
* need very little pruning at all, and that you will 
do less harm to your trees by leaving them all hare 
unpruned, than to eae ignorant ex to be 
made upon them d Mr. Wilks, like Mr. e 
is writing for the “ ves amateur.” J. Simpson ; 
A FIRE - TREE. 
From the Foreign Office Report for July, 1895, ; 
the ray: 
grasses, intermixed with scrub or — 
aticall burned ms T year, 
1 orching em 
of the rainy season, forthwith биш е 
aurface,... This persistent 
savannahs and hills for crops 58 en pasturag® 
plays desperate havoc with all other Veg n their 
and brushwood, alm trees, with Sf 
m 
flames, There is, h d 
tion to this subversive power of the ches, 
tree, with contorted and rugged wak 0 si 
