GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
483 
B. S. WILLIAMS 
to announce that he has received his 
imn. SUPPLY OF  HYACINTHS, 
ULIPS, NARCISSI, CROCUS, &c., 
in splendid condition. 
CATALOGUE Gratis on application; 
Бо of New Plants, Fruit Trees, Roses, Gc. 
(стока and PARADISE NURSERIES, 
E U PPER HOLLOWAY, LONDO 
НЕ | KNAP HILL. CYPRESS, 
Cupressus Lawsoniana erecta viridis. 
- ANTHONY. WATERER 
Will be happy to supply beautiful - speci- 
ns of this famous. hardy Evergreen, at the 
4 
p» 
mo 3 тэ high, 2} feet in circumference, 30s. per doz. 
h 
e 
6 and 7 feet high, 6to7 and 8 ft. do., ati, to 315. 6d. each. 
cuttings have been taken from the plants here referred to, 
hich are simply perfect in growth and splendidly rooted. 
NAP HILL NURSERY, WOKING, SURREY. 
NEW RHODODENDRONS. 
IANCHI.— Bright PAM DIES сааат to 
nearly white, = re: of bro the upper 
petals ; splendid truss ; foliage doge a 
WEBB. —Rich deep lake, ues 
petals ; truss large and good ; a real 
a detinet variety, que one of the best and darkest y& 
В DX WINIFRED HERBERT. — Bright 
osy crimson, lighter centre, finely marked with chocolate 
eee on ‘the upper — oer shaped йоне. with fim- 
briate d edge ез; compact ; good habit and foliage ; an 
KS. oo BROWN. —Bright rosy pink, 
osa: nearly mong with chocolate blotch o 
upper vic ian nted by a white spot ; stamens white ; 
болар and habit good; he very pleasing and tinct 
with Vae spots on upper petal, spots of same colour 
P larly disposed over the other part of the flower, which 
is large per well formed ; a fine free blooming variety, with 
handsome foliage and dwarf c compact habit. 
'ILLIAM .MILTON. .—Fine dark _ crimson, 
vg a fine A" -growing variety, petal dark green 
p foliage. 
+ TT | 
бкл seasons can be confident ајла to pur- 
ers as real таф distinct and hardy late-blooming varieties, 
mbining all Dow qualitigs most desirable in this attractive 
ss of plants, ur of тарни) good habit and 
ge, а А. бена ар, They are now offered in good 
zs size, nice oae 44 45. the set. 
. 2d size, bushy, ut 114! foot .. 76 Е the Ms 
- ad size, bushy 21 to 2 feet £8 8s. the 
The usual discount to the Pod. 
MAURICE YOUNG, 
ILFORD NURSERIES, near GODALMING, SURREY 
MR. TEE BULL 
NOW SENDING OUT THE 
EW REGAL PELARGONIUM 
“ BEAUTY OF OXTON,” 
Price One Guinea each, 
be had on application, price 25 
London, S. W. 
ATALOGUHES 
1 Trees, Shrubs, Roses and Fruit Trees, 
CLEMATIS, &c., for 1875-76, 
; Free by Post on application to 
EORGE JACKMAN AND SON, 
| WOKING NURSERY, SURREY. 
| lina, be 
А LVINI. —Purplish rose, shaded, well marked Am 
Drawing of the above, by MACFARLANE, ca can 
| to 
ABLISHMENT for NEW and RARE PLANTS, | 
King' 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1875. 
THE TRAVELS OF PLANTS. 
LANTS are among the blessings that were 
formerly distributed by the red hands of 
soldiers. Hercules—that classic warrior—used 
to fill his pockets with seeds during his expedi- 
tions. Lucullus brought a Cherry tree to Rome 
as a trophy of the conquest of Pontus. Alex- 
terranean, the Arabs conducted it to Egypt, the 
Moors carried it. to Spain, and the Spaniards 
bestowed it on their 
а, 
national beverage received its name from Jer, 
the Saxon word for Barley. ‘Tartary is said to 
be the native country of Barley, and according 
to that ancient geographical authority, Strabo, 
colonists, who found an equivalent in 
The bread grain of the New World arrived in 
English Mes within. fifty years of the dis- 
cove 
re ote of the Me diterranean, by way of 
UM at the end of the sixteenth century, and 
the Ve netians 
b 
their trade. It pas 
Danube to d i ars y, and gradually spread 
eastwards to Chin = Maize was thus 
invading the fucum formerly devoted to Rice, 
the latter grain was “loc — ” itself in Caro- 
ing one of the p ic 
erica is indebted to her conquest and 
colonisation by Europe. Rice an are 
00 accommodating in = habits to admit of 
our drawing a hard lin separation between 
their respective districts, Bit although they . 
ripen side by si rmer is a native of 
the tropics and ihe latter of a temperate zone, 
and their mutual companionship has its limits. 
North of the Alps, for example, the climate is 
unsuited to Rice in consequence of the insuffi- 
cient summer heat, and, on the han 
Alab and the Gulf m are unsuited to 
Maize on account of their excessive warmth. 
In the Cotton and Sugar diets, prices 
Maize does not yield the great r on 
in Ohio, Illinois, and Northern fes 50 
ar аз grain is concerned, though its foliage is 
magnificent in the warm districts, and the pro- 
duction of stem and leaf twice as great as in 
the true Maize countries further 
Having mentioned Sugar, which was carried 
o America with Cotton by the Spaniards, we 
shall notice Tea and Coffee before touching 
upon the Potato, which Europe obtained from 
return for 
5 
егіса іп those more numerous 
food plants which the western world derived 
the first Tea was broug| 
in the erre century 
ardian 
from China Assam, and & result of 
eii enterprise is t a very superior Tea is 
now grown within the British possessions. 
ef not so virulently as to destroy them 
"m is curious that the use of the Coffee berry 
beverage after acquiring a taste for it in Persia. 
d at Constantinople in 1554, forbidden 
afterwards, then tolerated, then taxed. In 1615 
the Venetians brought this berry westward, and 
the cafés of Paris were established in the same 
century, as well as the corresponding establish- 
ments in London. 
we now return in these notes to America, 
taking the Cocoa-nut with us from the Indian 
explorers of those countries, who soo 
it to Spain. We may report it as | "hah ng 
reached Burgundy in 1 #4 and Italy about the 
same time. 
Sir Walter Raleigh’s first importation of a 
few tubers of Potatos rginia to Youghal 
presented Gerard, the herbalist, with a few 
porton I he planted in his garden i in p 
rop vour, and in I 
т Royal. Bins plcished rules for its “= 
апа g the next 100 years it was 
ашу distributed. The Dutch carried it to 
nce spread over 
within "e limits of cool climates, and of hills in 
hot countri 
South "i the Potato, and in very different 
soils and aspects, we find the Date an indis- 
pensable food plant of гой deserts. 
aboriginal site is said to be on the banks of the 
Eup rates, and its travels have been limited to 
a comparatively narrow region, extending from 
the confines of Persia through Syria, and 
hs the northern part of Aírica. The 
“land of Dates" is a district on the confines 
of the веч but Dates and Bedouins 
everywhere the Cocoa-nut is 
life to the Poly sian, so is the Date to the 
Arab, who reckons his wealth in Date Palms, 
and lives on the fruit nine months іп the year, 
o 
РЯ feet in height. Тһе blossom, in the case of 
the cultivated variety, requires — by 
human ai erefore, in the 
districts the tree and man are mutually dioi 
ent. equence of neg in respect 
during the inyasion of Egypt by mé French in 
1800, the Date NT around Cairo proved quite 
sterile in that 
'The nines erwin Palm which we have 
noticed as having travelled originally from the 
travels are limited by its peculiar requirem 
me it is unable to quit the shores of a 
Sul more e teet food-producing pe 
the ` and Banana, which were j 
its millions on the 
Banana grows from a 
sucker to a fruit-bearing 
plant in ten months, and yields another crop 
within three months of the removal of the clus- 
of fruit. 
