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GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
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The Best Lottuces for Present Sowing 
PAU GIANT HARDY GREEN COS 
UE A stas COS, ce Fog, largest, hardiest, and 
most crisp varieties. Each rs. 
B. R. DAVIS, Seedsman, "Yeovil 
Apple, Lady Henniker 
orwi g 
spend N Novelty, which obtained a First-class psc from 
Society a 
t South nsington, on 
phone >g pna irculars with full P EE i» will be 
forwarded gratis and post-free a applicants. Pa price for 
r Nov mber S. 6d. eac 
ong m: t . each, 
pens o Th +h Tode. s 
or three for 20s. 
B. 
oots. 
S. WILLIAMS 1 begs to hg cy ee his 
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ICK LADOMEPAY AND rror 
ILLUSTRATED 
AUTUMN CATALOGUE 
© i Laan ee bad a ed oat out wee &c., 
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"FN High “Holborn, London, W.C. 
—Erfurt, Prussia. 
EAN "VERSCHAFFELT. Savile a large 
clum 
stock of forcing ’ 
begs to haga o iaa san '= ia iam, a 
pr — too clumps ; £10 per 1000 do. 
Orders are being booked, and will be executed in the 
Coulee OF Novemb 
mber. 
The Nurseries, ee Ghent, Belgium. 
sik SWEET-SCENTED RHODODEN- 
ZALEA MOLLIS. AD P 
List forwarded to any address on application to moan ee 
ISAAC DAVIES, Nurseryman, Or 
AST INDIAN and SOUTH np ees ae et 
cn — a ee: yd sing e three hundred of 
the al o dispos 
Prize goad of Phe Species ‘SACCOLABIUS 
VANDA Jobe ge emery OPSIS, C. 
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Specimen and 
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W. L. BANKES, Oxford Chambers, 71, Lord Street, Ran er 
New Double Dwarf Sweet 
(DIANTHUS BARBATUS MAGNIFICUS). 
VHOMAS | iari is now pri 
"En te so highly poken of tty tet Horticul aire 
earl prä figure of a —— novelty see S NEW 
CATALOGUE, which can be be kad free on pr s 
e Farm Nurseries, Tottenham, London, N. 
o Gentlemen, M: 
TITCHELUS CHAMPION ¢ Of ED ENGLAND 
BROCCOLI.—Joun MITCHELL, retirin m the Busi- 
ness, has a small „guan tity of New v Seed to = eb 
Best L ATE W Will be sold in % Ib., H tb. 
and r lb. pa at One Guinea pound. 
of the word A rear of Post ie Orders made de payable peent 
JOHN MITCHELL, Sai End, Middl 
ursery Stock. 
AMES DICKSON” AND SONS’ Stock of 
C FOREST ond. FRUIT TREES, „ROSES; EVER- 
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Station, 
E oroad from oot of Flookersb: ridge Railway 
iced LISTS, ands “i Information, on application. 
Newton Nurseries, Chester. 
Poo Te ANE S45 
ean Rares 
DIPLADENTÀ BREARLEY. : 
Price, 2 and 3 Guineas each. 
Mr. WILLIAM BULL'S Wasilateedt hie Ror aul TON 
Plants, King’s Road Road, Chelsea, London, S.W. 
(HEAP LAURUSTINUS, AUCUBAS, oa 
2 NUS, Common, 15 to 20 in., 7s. 6¢. per 
LAURUSTINUS, Black Leaved, 18 to 24 in., 75. ‘6d. vert ‘oo 
AUCUBA JAPONICA, t-yr. cuttings, fine, 7 S. 6d. per 100. 
eon Ss to 3 feet, bushy, 8s. per 
OAKS EV en, 3 to 
_. CUPRES: M LAWS Mia At fet, 305. P per 100. 
ee erms, 
. _WILLIAM ABRAHAM, 1 nena rt Prospect Nursery, Limerick. 
. ger PALMS.—The following are now 
Ki E in large quantities, viz. :— 
 TATANIA BORWONICA, tho to thie divided leaves, £6 
7PHA AUSTRALIS, £6 per roo. 
ROP EXCELSA, 1 foot high strong, £5 per roo. 
E NEI, x foot ng, £5 per 100. 
aes ee foot, ah A aed abe: 
Sidiusa moe Te in store pots, 48s. per too, 
aan a piace. 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 
— em 
1874. 
GARDENS FOR COTTON-MILL 
OPERATIVES, 
— so much is being done to promote 
“window gardening” by the poorer 
inhabitants of our large manufacturing towns, 
the metropolis, ca is pleasant to 
find that here and there 
and profitable, though not more e pleasant and 
refreshing idea of kitchen gardening is receiving 
stimulus. No community that pretends to oe 
e substantial 
other than floricultural. Two things we are 
always content to receive, on entering a house 
for the first time, as indicative of the moral and 
intellectual preferences, the anners and 
customs and spirit of the o hese are, in 
the first place, a shelf of well-selected books 
that show signs of use ; seco a fair display 
of flowers, no matter of what description, so 
that they are genuine. “Genuine,” we say, 
because there are people in the world who seem 
to think it an evidence of good taste to deck 
their parlours with the mockeries called wax 
fl shell flowers, and the 
these efforts of art 
like. No doubt 
art are ingenious, in their way ; 
imitations a the living and 
instance, immediately over the fire-grate, where 
Nature’s flowers would speedily be dried to 
death ; and in corners where it is needful to 
rnamental 
who paint their faces, and wear rings in their 
noses. Genuine flowers are in these presen 
fortunate days so purchased, and so 
ly renewed, that is positively no excuse 
left fo superseding bright reality with dreary 
right 
effigies. The latter belong to that period in 
the history of people’s development, as regards 
Taste, which corresponds in the history of our 
country to e time of the ancient aon who, 
es of modest 
d at 
places, where a littie careful observation may 
detect it in connection not only with chignons 
and curls, but with cheeks and lower eyelids. 
What a pity that some of these self-tinting 
majesty, and been welcome to paint themselves, 
had they so pleased, from head to foot. Perhaps 
the most charitable and historically-correct 
who in 
England practise skin-painting is the ethnologi- 
their genealogy 
ground upon which to regard those 
cal one—z.2., to suppose 
| would take them 
partici 
t they may 
On the Eon for 
-in Somersetshire (the traditional scene of the 
visit of Joseph of Arimathza) derives its name 
the former culture there of the Woad- 
plant, in Latin originally called Glastum? 
Let me get on, however, with my y proper su 
ject. Flower-gardening, with all its charms, 
must still give way, with people who have to 
earn their daily bread by means of daily toil, to 
a still stronger relish for what will enrich and 
enlarge the dinner, and at the same time, per- 
mi help to pay the rent. I always look with 
respect, pleasure, and interest on a man who 
cultivates flowers for the sake of their own sweet 
there abides a kind and manly heart. 
look with even more respect on a man who 
cultivates his flowers, as it were, in his holiday 
speaking of men with whom gardening is a 
business, or an auxiliary to means of livelihood, 
not of merchants and y amateurs 
have no occasion for kfikiëtý á to “ what they 
shall eat or what they shall drink, or where- 
withal they shall be clothed, ” and who can con- 
centrate their personal attention on the simply 
beautiful. It is a fine thing to render the world 
more lovely than we found it ; it is an immense 
honour to a man to be able to say at the close 
of the year, earth has become more sear 
because of what I have done for it. Perhaps it 
is still more honouring that he should be able 
to remember that the result of his activities has 
been a greater abundance of fruit and a more 
plentiful supply of nourishing esculents. Not 
that work done for the sake of increasing beauty — 
objects 
as its sole purpose, diffusing beautiful o 
oe galerie wider mat bes a love 
intrinsic mente “work on chait of Deasty 
ergy exactly on a par with most of what is 
conventionally called iah. Tn its results 
it really and truly is education, for the masses 
of mankind learn more through their eyes than 
through their ears, be their Se geo ever so 
skilful in communicating. ; 
Listening to lectures and did ebinee ts tibet = 
contributes a Ligeti but the best of our 
wealth consists in power, and this, like love, 
feeds tally irit the eyes, and finds no 
better aliment than the beautiful—the beautiful, 
Even gentlemen’s gardeners, large and 
ant as are their duties and prerogatives in 
regard to flowers and the ornamental at every 
season, still do their work best when it shows 
pide hy and better Caulifower, and Re 
the Pear y tte = as anxious on be alf « 
thet useful. 
How pleasant to find a man, employing m 
many 
hundreds of workpeople, disposed to give them 
open reading-rooms for their operatives, but it 
is a rarity to find one who prr them not only 
these, but gardens . An example came 
under my notice the other day at “Guide wren 
a place which is a sort of suburb o the cele- 
brated, but not very attractive, town of Ashton- 
thereabouts from 
prepa say 5 i 
Manchester, on the line of rañ that 
The wealthy and libera 
