AUGUST 28, 1875.] IHB S GAIN Ei LHRONIULE. 257 
Fruit. 
M. PAUL invites an inspection of his Mitcham to the growth of Camomiles, the yield 
Three Huudred Pio: е ө» = ands of Preis ed "ok pim seid degen gh e er dr bem 
than 3 feet high, now Set with frui x flowers of English-grown Camomile fetch a 
ntrance +e ca rom e e platform, Waltham i i i i 
Station, к Eastern Railw Frequen T from Bishops- e PER E uas. their usual value 
тод eing about /9 per hundredweight, which is 
gate, in about half an hour, and l socasianal train 
PAUL'S Nurseries, Waltham Cro 
Special Offer to the Trade. grown heads. This doubl 
e form, whic 
NEW GREENHOUSE PALM- BRAHEA FILA- SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1875. pretty, was in general cultivation in Чык. 
R. WILLIAM BULL has i introduced t this етра teenth century. In the work already quoted it 
сек IS per dozen, S pr оре CUR Young seedling CA M 0 M I GE: is stated that the Camomile flowers found in 
T1. nare оя HR ,| commerce are never those of the wild plant ; 
PTYCHOSPE RMA RANA eer dors дег per dozen, pa ae PM CHER wi um we have, however, seen the latter collected for 
LIVISTONA ROTUNDIFOLIA Mm : use in domestic rustic practice. 
атади ROPS ir gps 425. p "dozen. 1 ии элеу е the ico ARE As to the real usefulness of Camomile some 
j spicuously than doubt : : 
ICHR à E oubt may reasonably exist. A 
SEAFORTHIA ELE BEANS. D. yum of Shakspeare, we shall find indications hi / 4 B cues 
; : , » | stomachic it probably possesses a certain mid 
аа GRANATENSI рее те пенса ài neither few nor uncertain, of the views which | of importance, but its virtues do not m h 
Chelsea, London, S.W. mgs Soad | were popular at the time they were written— | the same amount of reco hor. 1 a di stg 
, Bedding Roses. views upon almost every subject, sacred or | was extended to them peram or D NAA. 
RANSTON'S CRIMSON, BEDDER: | profane. So notably is this the case with him | Langham, in his Garden of nik 2E n 
TE s plants, in IN роз, зое раг бово - à HYBRID- whom it was at one time fashionable to call | fewer м sixt hi Aa s 
PERPETUAL ROSES, in 4 and 5-inch pots, 95. to 155. per doz. *the Bard of Avon" that volumes have been ——— че вна — 
tats oe йыш the Уелзен eni may be advantageously employed—usually, it 
China reu. and Hy brid P etuals, on their own r written upon the incidental references to one | must be admitted, in conjunction with so many 
Address, CRANSTON D MAY j i i i 
deis AND OS, King's Acre Dads, vo of — or another w ich occur in his | other ingredients that it must be somewhat un- 
ee : x cete history alone we have | certain to which the merit of the cure wrought 
CH ARLES NOBLE E bees om say his ROSES already The Birds of Shakspeare, Skakspeare’s | should be attributed. Some of the sixty-one 
are unusually robust, clean, and bushy. They consist = Garden, and The Folklore of Shak. Speare ; and examples are also decidedly vague—e.g. "i 56 
the pe fore kin Finis, oad paso Peronces. Rothschild, 1000 Madame | specialists are familiar with other volumes of a | There is no medici 1 al i 
гта Nb ades sis nial B охе now ready to gam м Mos similar stamp and origin. It is only from such | than Е ens vdd pacer ane а 
Purchasers — do d ке € mg Nursery before arranging | sources that we 1 g lik cara #508; and : 
their Rose Gas ср can gain anythin ea true | man can tell all the virtues thereof.” More 
picture of the tone of thought whieh prevailed | recent writers have stated that an infusion of 
THE L AWSON NURSERIES at a time when newspapers were not invented | Camomile flowers, taken just before going to 
J| and books were scarce; and the observant | bed, is a preventive of nightmare. 
EDINBURGH. mind will gather from the casual remarks in an The folklore of the Camomile, beyond that 
Seana cn Tun RRL old play many details regarding the lives of | which formed the text of this little paper, is not 
Evergreen Shrubs for Present Planting. those for whom it was originally written and | extensive. The virtues of Camomile tea are 
Rhododendrons, Ivies in | Pots, &o., &c enacted, esteemed in some parts of Europe as well as 
The line which stands at the head of this | among ourselves; in certain German districts 
Hothouse, xi age ча Bedding-out Plants | paper is one o those in which Shakspeare | the flowers are used like those of the Daisy in 
n great variety. avails penc of a ates age regarding a | love-divinations ; and in East Prussia wreaths 
———————— common plant as an illustration of, or rather in | of it are made upon Midsummer Day, and hung 
TODEA  SUPERBA — several hundreds, apposition to, a fact which he wishes to express. | up in houses as a protection against storms. 
ета which po specimens, perhaps “ Though the Camomile,” he says, “ the more it | 4. M. 
nest ever mnporte is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youd, the 
„more it is wasted the sooner it wears.” Thi 
CLEMATISES in POTS—a large Collection of [нү | Serer oy eng a P= New Garden P 
all the leading varieties, including the — flowers idea that Camomiteis C — ae 
raised by 1. Anderson Каш. acm enryi, | upon was evidently general in Shakspeare's MASDEVALLIA REICHENBACHIANA, v ' 
Lawsoniana, and Symeiana ; тоз. 6d. the ie di plants. | time, and is alluded to by many writers of the is in ting Masdevallia one might introduce as 
ame period. Lily, in his Euphues, Aur cie ke P > the Co k d up, P oned 
| CATALOGUES ON APPLICATION. the notion in almost the same wor € ак pe Bd à ii Mp daa p aig е 
d IECUR LOT vergit the more it = trodden and pressed tails, and thin — Its tube D tails 9s whitish, 
down the more it spreadet e author of | with a blood-red hinder-part in the typi acm 
The Lawson Seed, and Nursery Company The More the wav (1608), writes :— 'There are others with Palatine tants x 
others which are nearly black. At least no Cone 
106, SOUTHWARK STREET, LONDON, *' The Camomile shall teach thee ion Rica species is so rich in variety, as my materials 
DINBUR Which thriveth best when trodden most upon ;" prove. The flower is up to 2 inches long. It will 
= and Greene, in his play of € adopts 
V AND F P BROWN ar are e now sending out | the belief in a somewhat altered form, when he diaenosis **a mistake," as M. Andre 
plants of Mr. Laxton’s firm-fleshed and fine- | Savs, « The :Camomill, the more it is trodden may r qp my 7 TOME rd meu 
ield : р 
ЧАЧЫ strong, Pe TRAWBE RRI ES—Traveller (First-class 
Certifema, Б Royal Horticultural үз, ), SUM d wid Ке the sweeter smell it е last quota- | ful plant now before me was disco: in К 
uisite, : ; 
GO TUMS P Eny d mily Laxton. (Firs t-class ‘Certificate, Royal tion expresses the real facts of the case far more | > en T S CÓ - "i ag Norman 
t А . , 
ME fade tors pues ca ion. pince accurately than those preceding it; any o Whitchurch Rectory, Edgware, London. H. G. 
W. AND J. BROWN, " Nurserymen, Stamford. who has "that the т ross a Jem ч heath vit Rehb. f. 
remember that the меки of the Camomue RESTREPIA DAYAN ^ lt. 
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and Other Bulbs. is first “ borne in^ upon him by the pleasant This is a lovely Бем gem, pon dense 
n Ee aromatic odour which has been elicited from it | tufts. The stems are equal to ion Se a little longer 
ILLIAM PAUL be б T [NTS TUI us, by his passihg footsteps. thantheleaves. I think itis w en у= 
his New САТАТ, uA. alue in the case 
2 and other BULBS, С CAMELLI AZALEAS, Ёс. As а garden plant of the Elizabethan period, ль dim nont Hector oct ue eb 
ready, and wi n pplication Camomile was well known. The walks in the пери. — 
COLLECTIONS of nt post eon from 105. 6d. to 845. kitch а Herb Gard ft eted depressed, triangular; the others 
| A choice COLLECTION of CAMELLIAS, 3os. per dozen aE en an 1i 5 Mtt d dd carp a mostly six) | w 
and upwards it: and in old-fashioned gardens su very numerous b 
: SPECIMEN CAMELLIAS, from т to 3o guineas each. His à 
| PAUL'S Nurseries and Seed Seed Warehouse, Waltham Cros, | walks may still be seen having remained, it | very strong textur 
Mau s у лайы aci n lE may be, through two or three centu н 
Hyacinths, Tulips, Crocuses, &c. ; Roses, of it were used as seats, 
lus ce sors | cameos ne eb | 
[ T lace in domestic medicine; a zichentachiana C Dens 
мый Dut Flowering Roots are unusually fine this season wen are among the herbs cultivated, though foliis a К tene stis spatulatis еы spice t 
i The Dwarf Hy eid Pe tual Roses cannot be surpassed iud for g tatis, orsu i caribalis pedun — M spren 
quality. Prices of all extremely m: moder: E in no very large quantity, in the herb-grounds superantibus neque rifloris (hetero chrom : i Ji b ibus: эе oblongis 
1 = dfeld Mice T the UEM at Mitcham. It is usually what is called the some L ge missed emn in undi ularibus sepalo 
[A^ double ” variety that is grown for the chemists triangulis, mul ti A revius caudatis ; tepalis ja. cione 
| 1 $ u usan- 
г A MALER Nor R E 25,000 flowering | iat is, a variety in which, as is usual in so- | uii ube Tentato tine, ts, т тике аа 
” d 1 is ; columna 
| Мснин» Sn ree of a of the ve will take called “ double Composites, ti Se <a genera ae aah ы allia E ебаси » emi dei in litt. : 
| a in "either, included prota will be pur — florets are all or nearly all converted into ligu- Folia obscure viridia. Pedunculi nat (quomodo non 
| ‚ and others, in small and large 6o pots, all in late florets. In PAarmacographia we read that ds EC Lordi се Unas =» 
| | An inspection is h Lane, Lon, Кем. ‚ їп 1864 about 55 acres of land were devoted at | tudinem. 
