THE 
DECEMBER. 4, 1875-] 
GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
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‘Choice Vegetable and Floral 
NOVELTIES for 1876. 
| Caution. —7/n future all Novelties sent out by JAMES CARTER 
& its Jor the first time will bear their Registered Trade 
ctos New aya Leaved Parsley. 
^ , “Origina d in America." 
E. 4 алле а 1n берту and Aanlanr бозу аа. decisa ht 
plant. Price, ;* yum 25. a ка 
Carter's Green Gage Tomato. 
(Awarded a First- ee ме by the Royal Horticultural 
Society, October 7, 1874 
From ће Gardene: does. icle, October 16, 1875 e Pad 
bii pored t p м сек with а ' distinct, piquant and hight y 
agreeable 
; ` Price, per packet, 
Carter’s Heartwell ly dead байрак, 
A oie E Meet varietv, indis le an Early 
arts are extremel. firm, wei Nr frc t 
pror ea particularly mild aka melting. XI Mae t 
ice, per packet, 15. 
» TS. 
| с мечи Gathering or Curled. 
. A distinct sort, intermediate between the wi and Cabbage 
media: 
er with delicate and crisp lghwgreen. leaves edged with 
Price, per packet, 1s. an ód, 
Hardy’s “ hd sig adi rade Bean. 
i 5 Pedigree Windsor Bean has been grownat Chiswick, 
ed to be h E etr Bean, interm iediate between the 
~ and the Lon ^ 
чм per quart, 2s. f 
i0 Pese ‹ 
Afine green wr ч arrow of exqui , With many 
реа ияр eas in a pod. ayy » ў n 
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| The finest and most delicious ms da Melon grown. 
: rea Price, per packet, 2s. 6d. 
n LAM. Potato. 
Porter, who has placed the entire stock of this fine 
in our iae ur distribution sends us the following 
tion :—'* The finest exhibition Potato which has appeared ; 
are large and even-sized, flattish-round in shape, and 
regular and иө, in outline ; pt mal is of a pale straw 
and possessin roughness f fine quality— 
{ ше and of fhe: favor The pue "Round Potato in 
| m lb., т, 6d.; per 7 5. 6d. ; per 14 lb., xos. 6d. 
Carter's American pare Potato. 
fee Main Crop. Тыз is a grand Potato in qur respect. 
ein shape ; h of "a texture and su quality. 
Tate keeper, e нешеу prolific, 
1 > peck ; per bushel, 21s. 
tional Prize As 
New Varieties of 1876 Offered for the First 
Mr, Retteridge h: as placed in our hands for Mabala the 
nd full. ite 
nit at the Alexandra Palace, Augusta 24, - 
РЕ E.— Extraordinary size; 
e. The finest quilled Aster introduced 
; OF NOVELTIES. This 
colour rich 
bstance, colour mson-rose, 
centre, 
yy packet (each pestis) 25. A The Collection of four 
: Mise of the above s 
9 ILLUSTRATRD VADE MECUM for 1876. 
Free, 15. 
MITHFIELD CLUB SHOW. 
Stand 78 (North Gallery 
JAMES CARTER E CO. 
G UAL EXHIBIT 
rand Collection of the Produce of their 
Priz е of Farm arm. Seeds, 
ARTER'S MAMMOTH МАКСЕТ, {тот а 
TERS ¢ CHAMPION INTERMEDIATE 
Dcum 'S WARDEN Y MANGEL, fiodueing 
TERS IMPE 
both of the TRIAL. d. winner of 
NEL. cris Ur tir 
кере. 
Queen's Seedsmen, 
HOLBORN; LONDON, W.C. 
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1875. 
——— 9 
THE TRAVELLER’S JOY. 
Ie are among our British plants some 
few which stand out from the rest in 
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smooth flat widespread leaves seem to convey 
an idea of tropical e a especially when 
we find i^ as is the case in e of the still 
backwa of the Thames, joco with 
the beautifal fringed Buckbean  (Villarsia 
nymphaeoides), and overshadowed with the 
branches of Alders and Willows and other 
riverside trees. The common Buckbean itself 
(Menyanthes trifoliata) is another strikingly dis- 
tinct plant, and so is the Vi aint Herb Paris 
(Paris зано р its * true lover's knot" 
but these are comparatively 
small,and form no aig in the landscape. 
But the Travell er’s Joy, as our old Elizabethan 
herbalist ;John Gerard, named the wild Clematis 
(C. Vitalba), is a far more striking object, and 
one as distinct in appearance and habit from 
the hedge plants which surround it as it is 
different from the other British members of 
the order Ranunculacez, to which it belongs, in 
the Water Lily enables 
degree, however eared the feelings of the 
traveller upon whom the Victoria regia 
first bursts in the fulness of its beauty, we may 
gain from the Clematis some notion 
of the “lianes " which form so characteristic 
ical coun 
imbs, 
of its petioles and stems, to a Жат лги 
height among the trees. These petioles, as 
Mr. Darwin remarks in his well-known paper 
upon climbing plants, which has lately been 
reprinted in book form, remain attached to the 
plant, and. clasping the branches or other sup- 
ports to which they have affixed themselves 
after the blades of the leaves have dropped off ; 
and this provision enables the Clematis to start 
upon its next year's growth without any of that 
delay іп attaining a considerable height which 
would be caused if it had to begin its upward 
course de novo with each succeeding spring. 
At all times of its growth, except perhaps in 
the very depth of winter, the Travellers Joy is 
a remarkably pretty or rather handsome plant. 
It isso when the pale young spring shoots begin 
to push themselves along the hedge, and to unfold 
the soft green leaves, which pass through many 
a shade of colour before they attain the dark 
rich green which characterises their matured 
w Hands omer still, and a real joy to 
lant when ме y Menem 
ere pe 
“ goodly shadowe of its 
“ thick pistiga an аар and the “ 
the pleasant savour or scent 
| perhaps of all 
flower-panicles have given 
the 
when earlier 
| place to the feathery-tailed c carpels, while 
later ones are just in their prime. And when at 
length, all the flowers being gone and the leaves 
fast manta their example, the snowy fleece- 
like s of fruit lie thickly along the hedge, 
conti" with the rich dark hue of the Black- 
and the various reds of the mealy 
"Guelder Rose (Viburnum Lantana), the woody 
umerous, al 
. the so uthern parts о 
IN ightshade, * Hips and Haws,” and other 
hedge fruits, the Clematis is almost as beautiful 
or woman to whom declining’ years 
have but imparted a fresh charm and sweetness 
of expression. But we are becoming somewhat 
sentimental, and must return to more practical 
considerations, _ 
e resemblance of the Clematis to the 
“lianes.” of tropical countries extends to the 
use to which it is applied. The lianes are 
largely employed in cordage, being extremely 
pliant and remarkably strong, and are used in 
tying up bales of cotton, as will be remembered 
by those who read the interesting paper * on the 
natural ropes used for packing cotton bales in 
t S" which was published five or six 
years pew by Mr. Charles Bailey, of Man- 
chester. The Clematis owes one of its ing? names 
—that of Bindwith—to its employment in tying 
up bundles, and as withs for жиде for which 
i some districts extensively 
French gardeners use its 
pliant stems in tying up plants, and use 
make bee-hives and baskets of them. In som 
parts of Central France the young shoots are 
cooked and eaten, or preserved in vinegar for 
domestic use ; abou ut Montpellier they are given 
to goats and donkeys, and in England the dried 
leaves have ,been recommended as fodder for 
cattle. The acrid principle of the plant pro- - 
bably disappears in drying, as in the case of 
that schoolboys use cane in smoking, for which 
purpose it is equally well adapted on account of 
its structure. That this use of the Clematis is 
generally known, and may lead to suspicion, is 
evidenced by a case which was reported last 
month in the Hertfordshire Mercury, where a 
boy was charged with having se E fire to a heap 
of straw, the main ground o against | 
him being that he had cbe seen “smoking a 
bit of Bullbine near the straw.” Some know- 
ledge of local names is required by those who 
would identify the plants referred to in cases 
list. of English plant names except that given in 
Ray's Catalogus plantarum circa Cantabrigiam 
nascentium, and it is not referred to by Dr. 
Prior. Similar names crop up more frequently 
in our newspapers than might be supposed 
a recent investigation of a case of supposed 
pou by the berries of Solanum Dulcamara 
which plant, by the way, is in popular parlance 
the fruit of the Hawthorn was. intended by this 
ame. | 
Apropos of Me ee for Tobacco, it 
was but lately that we learnt that the common 
from panne Re but the practice, doubtless, 
btains elsewhere. 
xf. Fnit are came. 
| to 
England, as the plant is. 
not found in a wild a north of Shropshire. 
In Cumberland, however, it is cultivated under 
ood's Fetter.” Robin 
Hood appears to have been very popular in 
these northern counties, and his name is con- 
nected with — i thus we heard the. 
common Clubm 
* Robin Hood's ыыр by a Cumberland i 
farmer. “ Old Man's Beard,” in reference to - \ 
