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choice Seeds of Prize Flowers (Post free). 
R. WILLIAM BULL sit agar arong the 
‘PRIZE RIMULA SINENSIS, Red an d Whi te.. 
a. oo SINENSIS, Fern-leaved, a and 
š each K 
PRIZE "PELARGONIUM, ( ‘Gold and Bronze .. 
PRIZE CINERARIA í ae 
PRIZE ream = 
IZE GLO ay sy 
PRIZE E BECO fl | ss 
PRIZE ECTCULA. Alpine a a = 
PRIZE CARNATION Je en 
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Establishment for Choice Sieds sid Ner and Rare nias 
King’s Road, Chelsea, London, S.W. 
e) here WALLER Sr to call the attention 
f the — to en see assed stock of winter-flowerin 
HEAT in the fants possible condition 
OLANUM C PSICAST RUM, unusually well berried; a 
fine lot of nea white PRIMULA, BOUVARDIA of sorts 
ACACIAS, CYC NS, ADIANTUM CUNEATUM 
FARL > th a quantity of other popular 
ts; w l SOLD by AUCT by Messrs. 
HE i MBER, 
e 
fifteen minutes from an i e to White Hart Lane. 
Station adjoins the Nurs 
DR. DENNY’S GERANIUMS., 
SECOND SET. 
JOHN COPELIN 
Begs to announce that the Price of the above is 
now reduced to ros. 6d. 
TYSSEN STREET NURSERIES, WEST HACKNEY, 
LONDON, N. 
JOHN BESTER, Manager. 
NEW PLANT CATALOGUE 1874, 
Gratis and Post Free. 
Be ae WILLIAMS’ 
NEW PLANT AND GENERAL 
CATALOGUE OF NURSERY STOCK 
Is now ready, and will be forwarded to all applicants. 
It contains many splendid 
season, in addition to a oe 
Exotic Plants in Cultivatio 
Novelties for the present 
ice selection of all the best 
VICTORIA and PARADISE NURSERIES, 
UPPER HOLLOWAY, LONDON, N. 
i HEATHERSIDE NURSERIES, 
Nurseries (270 Acres in extent) near Bagshot, Surrey. 
_ SEED ESTABLISHMENT AND LONDON DEPOT; 
QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, 
CLOSE TO THE MANSION HOUSE STATION. 
A LONDON BRANCH 
Has just been opened, as above, where a succession of 
Sample Plants will be on view, and where also the 
a Flower, Vegetable, and Agricultural Seed 
Business 
will be carried on and made a special object. 
: The very extensive Stock is, this season, in splendid 
boiia It iciatis every species of 
MENTAL TREES and SHRUBS, Evergreen and 
ciduous (of all sizes), 
FRUIT TREES, ROSES, RHODODENDRONS, &c. 
Br are invited to visit the Nurseries, at TE 
inspect, and personally select what they require to 
Sn to them when removal is safe. 
__ Descriptive Catalogues obtainable on application. 
we —— to 
ae Enae penn IPs 
: Nurseries, 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1874. 
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TOWN WINDOW GARDENING. 
\ E are so thoroughly conyineed of the 
value of encouraging the dwellers in 
towns to do their utmost in the way of plant 
rereichgatt d pata humble their endeavours 
may be, t e gladly transfer to our columns 
the icing pia on the subject, from our 
contemporary, the Midland Counties Herala, 
published at Birmingham, the more pàrticu- 
larly as the suggestions and pira 
it contains are equally adapted to most of our 
large raS: and probably to not a few of the 
smaller 
P: every human being has an iubora 
love of flowers. No one familiar with the 
habits of “the people ” can fail to be aware that 
even in our most crowded and closest streets 
there is a constant struggle to gratify this. love, 
and efforts are always came rege to grow some 
lant or other. A Ger a Fuchsia, a 
Musk plant ora Myrtle r3 , perhaps, the object 
of the lovi ese cultivators 
‘ 
societies have been formed to encourage such 
efforts, and wherever the beneficial influence of 
such societies has been exerted mey have done 
much good. Many a’ me has been 
made all the brighter by the p fai grown in 
them, under the fostering faflvetiee n 
couragement of such en 
essential to the happine he ers that a 
high standard of plant ihivation shall ave 
been set up. If only a plant will live, preserve 
its leaves green, and occasionally gladden its 
owner’s eyes with a flower, then the causes for 
supreme satisfaction i te ample. Nowand 
again it is possi ible to meet with really well- 
grown plants in the —- of the very poor, and 
we well remem one occasion to have seen 
in the window of E a small house in one of our 
back streets nearly a dozen healthy vigorous 
trees which would not have been discreditable 
in any cottage window in the country, This by 
way of encouragement. 
dph E it sa 
“There are many plants which will thrive 
Le in the smoke of 
owns, owns, provided ey receive a few extra’ ‘atten- 
es For instan 
are planted ‘doula? be fresh and sweet, and 
should be renewed at least annually ; the dust 
and dirt which will be certain to accumulate on 
the leaves day by day should be occasionally 
removed—the oftener the better—by sponging 
or the rougher and readier method of sprink- 
ling, or the more simple one of exposure to 
gentle rains when they fall. Then, again, plants 
should, on the one hand, never be over-watered, 
so as to convert the soil into mud, nor kept 
without water too long, so as to convert the soil 
into dust. With such means most of the more 
robust plants which commonly adorn cottage 
windows will grow and do well in those of 
wns. Evergreens of many varieties are well | C 
occupancy of such 
adapted permanent 
Snes ore owing to 
times ssy 
: the soil in which they | selves in 
lents, will for a long time bear up against rough 
usage and neglect, and the other adverse 
pearance, in- 
variably produce unflagging interest. Bulbs o 
many sorts, too, are particularly suitable to fill 
creditably a prominent place in a town window. 
pia 
be readily understood by all w d; 
and to this might be appended a list of such 
ro oh as are most likely to flourish in town 
win 
g We itive like to know that window garden- 
ing societies were din all our populous 
towns. They would accomplish a really good 
work, and would encourage many who are now 
inert to become cultivators. The duties of the 
a g 333 3 A 
They might well undertake the printing and 
distribution of such a code of instructions as we 
have referred to, and which we shall have plea- 
sure in grig pre pared by a competent so: 
if such a society is started in Birmingham. 
They figh purchase and distribute, at the è 
lowest possible price, suitable plants, bulbs, &c., 
e 
holding of two exhibitions every year 
the other some time in the summer, for plants 
have to collect funds, in order to cover neces- 
sary expenses and provide a which might 
pe in money, plants, books, or useful domestic 
rticles. As a start, we ca promise 
dite subscriptions from several friends in- 
terested in the movement. 
“ To make the society as powerful as possible, 
it would, perhaps, be advisable to arrange fi 
the organisation of two bodies—the one central, 
the other local. The local sub-committees 
should, perhaps, be as numerous as the eccle- 
siastical parishes or the municipal wards. They 
should . be chosen by the in their 
respective districts. The central committee 
might consi: resentative members ‘of the * 
local ones, one or two selected from each, with 
ese 
work of the central committee would be to raise 
the necessary funds, to settle the rules, to fix 
the exhibition days, and to award the prizes ; 
while the local committees would have to work 
up their several districts, di iffuse information 
the 
amount of work might be done, while no one 
person’s share need be overwhelming. The 
connection between the localities, each being 
its ar din 
“ Here, then, we venture to submit, is a = 
capable of yielding admirab ee a 
which all classes of the community can 
