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OCTOBER 17, 1874.) 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
483 
ars —Fine aren: © Dwarfs on Manetti, 
om 12 ros. ; Standards, 80s. per 100; 
Kotledard 
HalTAURICE Os, Bat as Milford Nurseries, Godalming. 
UAS, — strong | lng ote to hee pes 
090,000 ; © per 
3 to Zes per 3 
~ ge TERA YOUNG: Milford Nurseries, Godalming 
ARCISSUS er HORSFIELDII. 
Strong Bulbs by the yr ms or hundred. 
A STANSFIELD, Ju x, Kersal Moor Nurseries, Manchester. 
pandi intron 
clum A 
ory ET ap against Bank Post Bill, 
BSON, Haarlem, Holla 
gree Standerd, fiae heads =i oe pring 
T 100. SCOTCH, SPRUCE, OAK 
ASH, so po F — oo ‘all sizes, at v very low prices. 
H. JACKSON, Blakedown, Kidderminster. 
OSES, Lye ERRY” and Cabbage, 25s. per 
~~ STRA ra AEN, of RELS he the pie 
urnished LA 
feet high, 
ICA, pee sapere ong amps, 
dim fate to Po r r00. The Tr: vb Tapes 
ALKLING, gp Park Nursery, Teinahani, S.E. 
PRING Aye he PLANT Sree 
Golden-netted, Aucubefolia Red Daisy, s 
plants, from Price on a 
1 HOMAS: TÉWIN. Gardener, Woolsthorpe, 
Oha tham, 
YRANCIS & ARTHUR. DICKSON & 
SON Nie “ Upton” CS ag to offer 
“the T PLANTS © ERICA’ seine ay 
AUTUMNALIS, in to flower, suitable for 
market purposes. Price on Fr rr E aia 
n SALE, eleven CAMELLIA PLANTS, 
ar :—Allba. pleno, Lady Hume’s Blush, Charles 
Valtevaredo, &c., 5 to 8 feet high ne 
ORANGE. th high. 
DANIEL WOOD, Norwood Nursery, Beulah Hill, S.E. 
SALE, about 200 FRUITING and 
“SUCCESSION PINES. Warranted clean and healthy 
RW KINS, Gardener, Friars Place, Acton, N. 
Camellias. 
NANETS & ARTHUR eee & 
ty The “‘ Upton” Nurseries, Chester, offer 
a large s te of English-grown CAMELLIAS ; = Soe iAy, 
ps S fron 1 foot An? to 5 feet in height, well set with flower- 
URSERY STOCK for SALE. — Elm, 
, austriaca, maritima, Scotch, and Laricio; 
1-yr. Soar 2 to 3-yr. transplanted. Further particulars 
a ete 
E ALLIX, Estate one ‘Rend dieshar 
V coed SEEDLING BLACK “MUSCAT. 
lanting Canes, ‘Two Guineas each, delivered 
order on receipt of Cheque or Post-office Order on Horfield, 
Brist tol, payable to 
WIL LIAM DODDS, Gladstone Villa, rper aca Bristol. 
PECI OFFER to the TR ADE, 
ng LARCH, SCOTCH, SPRUCE, and 3yr 
SILVER FIR FIRS, a) mye oo ALDER, and BEECH ; 
QUICK, SCOTCH, twice- transplanted, 
JOAN $ Pass ped SONS, Dai Nurseries, Summerhill, 
ABBAGES. ar hor far fase ant Lambs, =, Sheep 
and Cows, or for A pera dars no’ 
GEE Seed Grow of the da 
» seed Grower, &c., Pokie Beds. 
cia ste 
extra fine 
To AMATEURS and the T r 
Man- 
BOOTH, KLORIST, o Pailsw arih. 
chester, „is now w offering the above in all the choice named 
exhibition varieties. 
CATALOGUES and price on application. 
Peat, 
IBROUS PEAT. —Brown Fibrous 
Plan 
quality, for Orchid ve and Potting, £6 6s. 
per 6-ton truck load. Hho Peat, for | Potting, £6 6s 
“he , New some n Plants, &c., £5 5s. per 6-ton 
on rail at 
Ramay, Farnborough South-Western Railwa 
ants. 
WALKER anD CO., erama Station, Hants. 
ee or Dea MOSS. — Fresh 
tos. 6d. ee Saal 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1874. 
—__ o§ 
THE DIVINING ROD. 
HE mace conservative tendency of men 
ing the word in no political sense— 
has tire been remarked upon as affording 
the principal reason why ideas and super- 
stitions, which have long since been oe 
ae i 
rapidly we are still adv areca a word, we 
are so constantly reminded. that we live in 
wonderful age, and are wonderful ehi 
we would gladly i ignore altogether the notion 
that su d u 
et an observant eye will detect evidences of 
superstition lurking in the midst of our civili- 
sation w clearly enough t we ar 
o persuade our- 
selves from the weaknesses of our forefathers. 
It is not so very many years ago that in Essex, 
at Sible Hedingham—not a great distance from 
our metropolis —an old man was dragged 
through a ar on a suspicion of piei ~ 
and, not to mention other instances of this gros 
description, fortune-tlling i is still a accents 
a ssi unprincipled fae 
mong those even who 
are above this sort of thing, a notion Ea a is 
unlucky or lucky has an influence which is none 
the less felt It because unacknowled It is no 
who 
= oO 
un 
m 
= 
the number present at the Last Supper) I have 
had an illustration during the last twelvemonths; 
that others look on it as “unlucky” to spill 
salt—an idea embodied by Leonardo da Vinci 
has overturned the 
would never begin any new undertaking upon a 
Friday ; 
Superstition having in these as 
countless other instances sireeni its hold 
upon us Aene to the present day, it is not sur- 
prising to | that its power in the middl 
ages—or, some call them, the “ dark ages,” 
forgetting eee in the opinion of any existing 
race bye-gone times are arse. and re 
too that the time ma when this 
they are 
are at 
find Sack T a agencies as sé divin 
exercising a power and an ce ae we 
at the present day can but partially enter into, 
and which, it may be, we but partially com- 
prehend. 
This wonderful rod was usually ma Hazel, and 
a Hazel wand has long been associated with 
divers and sundry mysterious peices and 
achievements. Mr, M. D. Conway sums up 
these as follows :— 
"A y of of Easel] was rs a ote time hung up in 
Bavarian court s as of resi and 
from it ataanade the pr Pral seme Groves of Hazel 
Se  Hiaerl neingrenmeat die 
mpina Fiter| being-one: ooecet Thor's 
—of which superstition (founded doubtless on 
well as in 
e Saxons for th their | 
trees. So 
corn may thus be kept for many years. In Bohemia 5 
cure of fever is as follows: Ae Hazel stick must 
bought without bargaining, o may also be a 
from the woods before sunrise ; Fin it must be laid in 
ree 
enables the possessor to strike an absent perso’ 
To these many ot ther TME s might be 
added. Surflet, in the Countrey 
a branch, staffe, or rod, of the Hasell tree.” 
Parkinson has a similar but seems 
inclined to attribute the fatal results of the blow 
n 
than with any other S becaus 
pliant that it will winde closer about it, so that, 
being deprived of their motion, they must 
needs dye with paine and want.” And it t is no 
hard matter in like manner, saith. Tragus, “to 
killa mad dog that shall be strooke with an 
Hazell sticke, such as men use to walke or ride 
withall.” that a blow 
a 
m Mannhar 
of Franee the peo 
the bonfires on St. John’s Day with branches of 
Hazel in their hands, and peasant proprietors 
wave a Hazel branch through the flame, añd 
aan are placed in the windows during a 
erie it is time to turn our attention more espe- 
e the divin vining rod itself. Two or three 
with i 
ances apaa with gathering it t, and the nen 
stitutes which have been employed instead of 
the Hazel, which i is certainly the most orthodox 
wood for such purposes. In connection with 
a am hese, the use of the diving rod in Gre 
the most interest to us, an 
mainly limit our” 
rom a long notice in the Gentleman's Maga- 
zine for November, 1751, it would. appear that 
the use of the divining rod in England had then 
been “revived with great success by an ingeni- 
ous gentleman o, num exp 
gather that - and Hazel rods will 
with all persons in good health, “if they are 
used with moderation, and at some distance of 
time, and after meals, when the operator is in 
good spirits.” But this power is intermittent 
with some, who will possess it one half hour and 
lose it the next. Willow, Elm, and Hazel rods. 
are all seen by se and the last named 
will indicate all metals, coals, amber, and lime- 
stone, “iy ees different degrees of strength. 
The best eres are ae from the Hazel, 
should be cu wint 
always easy i fnd s 
fork, 
