OCTORER 24, 1874] HE 
GARDENERS CHRONICLE. — 
RANCIS & ARTHUR DICKSON & 
eg tate The * Upton” Nurseries, Chester, beg to offer 
to the Trade strong FARA Di oe of ERICA’ GRACILIS 
AUTUMNALIS, in n flower a nd c lower, suitable for 
market 
ppl 
L A U R E L Sa 
penn LAUREL, 2 to Le 16s. per 100, £7 per 
1000 ; 3 to 4 feet, 25s. per roo, £10 per tooo. 
CoLCHÍC LAUREL, 3to4 feet, ion per 100; 4 to 5 feet, 
a RTUGAL L LAUREL, 1 2 feet, 
3 ap Good, BE 336 to 5 Se, sge: par 1 
RICHARD SMITH, Nurseryman, Worcester. 
AURUSTINUS, 2 to 3 feet, 65. ; 3 to 4 feet, 
. per dozen, find, in bloom, planted last Spring. 
LAURELS, 2 to 3 feet, 125. 6¢.; 4 to 5 feet, 25s. per r 
H, 2 to 3 feet, 30s. Sa Geek, ace pe 
PINUS INSIGNIS, 3 to 4 feet, 9s. perdozen 
yr. 
DEODARA, 214 to 3 feet, 18s. per r doz 
eee ee IMBRICATA. 1% to ‘feat, 18s, per dozen. 
p WHITTE M, Her eford. 
ME: WILLIAM "BULL I bas received 4 large 
portation, in splendid condition. Price 
and 21s. ah. 
i «og Pog Six Guineas per doses By sending 
hose already rma different varieties can be 
~me ero good selection made for them. 
ESTAELISHMENT tas NEW aad rie REVET 
King’s Road, Chelsea, London, S.W. 
Nursery Stock. 
AMES ven prt AND SONS’ Stock of 
S IT TREES, posas aver 
their new po vate 
Bridge. no sre msn at information, on pe A Betton. 
‘ Newton Nur , Chester. 
GERCREEN HeD GE S 
AMERICAN ARBOR- VITA, 6 to An feet, 6os. per 100. 
n UNIPER, 5 t to 6 feet, 15 pes Da- y 
SEPO EA 3 to fo 3 fe t, 120s. per; tii 
R HARD S A Woeii 
eie 
O BE SOLD, cheng bargains, WELLIN G- 
re ad GIGANTEA, ro et PICEAS NORD- 
NOBILIS, feet ; a akdi > a 
NIPERUS SINENSIS, feet ; 
y 
s of Six Disti wan + 2s. per 
e ae a py Collection on of 10 Plans, ‘distinct sorts, 
cash, Baskets and Packin; 
Crown Hiner. ending. 
N. B.—HUNT’S gb SWEET 
per packet, post-free 
ILLIAM SEED, 
RANCIS & ARTHUR DICKSON & 
invite intending Planters to y their Nurseries a vi avisit. To prevent 
mistake, visitors should je the “ Upton ” eat dy which 
are ‘situate about a “mile and a half from Chest ~ pn aR 
Station, Priced CATALOGUES Post Free on ap plica 
e BOE a “Upton” Nurseries, Chester. 
ROBERT NEAL begs to offer to the notice 
are no -class s condition for 
TALOGUES may be had li 
“Wandsworth oe reheat Surrey, S 
Gentlemen and the Trade his extensive Stock of 
The Nurseries are wil a few min walk ean to wh 
l gives descriptive notes oles of ae 
a ce est of England. 
ase 10 oo Plane see . 
gratis, as are also the SEED and BULB fob CATALOGUES and 
SCOTT'S ‘S$ ORCHARDIST, at 55, 6d., free 
erriott, 
ay SCOTT'S FRUIT TREES cover many 
. ,, and form the most agg. pre Collection i in the 
World — f f Pea 
amoun! rei in the whole to over 
ma. cATKEBCUES, gratis, sent to all rg ag Sa or 
sid bag ST, post free, for 6d., the most 
it Trees in the English Language. 
foet Marseties , Some 
Eyl AND DCO. 
Liar 
rhe Re Royal Norfolk 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1874. 
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Memory seem to shake hands and keep festival. 
These two are always the factors of the most 
enjoyable kind of Present ; sincerely do I hope 
therefore, that we may yet see the poetic tale I 
speak of—the “Pleasures of the Living Moment,” 
as realised in the friendship of Old England’s 
trees and flora. 
A feature in wild Nature very airs i 
October, is the copious repetition o of much th 
ti especially to the spring and adits 
r, 
px 
OCTOBER: WILD FLOWERS or oe R she always lingers, like a 
ý o doorstep; perhap her 
ve 
AMPBELL wrote the Pleasures of Hope, pee ‘peautiful characteristics is as pape e 
and Rogers the Pleasures of Memory. | ness she shows, at every season, t 
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lover of flowers, bye.” How loth are the Blue Bells to ies 
appy the da 
gardens, and the fields, endowed with the sweet | their leave! At Disley, seven miles from Man- 
power of utterance in metre, hm complete the | chester, I have seen them in full bloom on 
beautiful triplet by giving us the “ Pleasures of | Midsummer Day. How loth, in turn, are the 
the Present”; for assuredly, of all mankind | Roses of autumn to desist. They always appear 
here are retina who abide more thoroughly in | to me a sort of picture of the English at 
the consciousness of present enjoyment than | Waterloo, never knowing when they are beaten. 
ri 
ship of books, it is not alone 
youth or for | at Clevedon, I found a bush of. the common 
age, for summer or winter, for east or west, or | Dog-Rose still in full flower! And quite 
for any special section of hu 
uman society. It | as singular as refreshing was the spectacle 
never wears out or becomes tedious, rather does of the sweet pink concave petals, since they 
immense at of a bloom of three months ago; 
< t the 
advantage, also, over the friendships formed | and the more particularly since alongside 
with people like ourselves, in 
the fact that we | were Sloe btished loaded with their miniature 
never have occasion to mourn either unfaithful- | Plums, while the foliage of the Hawthorn was 
ness or final departure. 
“ States fall, arts fade, but Nature doth not die.” purple. is interesting to observe that in 
I have just been visiting a neighbourhood 
consecrated as the early residence of Coleridge, 
and as the scene of much that belongs to Tenny- 
son’s 
“In Memoriam ”—the 
and while t 
which juts into’ the Channel as though it were 
the bastion of some magnificent natural fortress, 
and which is understood, I believe on authentic 
spot where the Laureate con- After the bright autumnal Furze, that always 
showing, to be the 
ceived those exquisite lines— 
tie wer the pont ships goon — 
healthful hes of Clevedon 
spring the Hawthorns unfold their leaves so 
irregularly, as to individuals, that the hedges 
are not covered uni ormly w with green, but 
dappled ; and that now in autumn the change of 
colour is confined, at first, to certain portions, 
picturesque and 
Somersetshire, 
"chief material of our autumn bouquets. I refer, 
of course, to bouquets of wild flowers. 
astens so quickly after the Heather, the innu- 
merable and honied Ivy bloom, and the purple 
flush among the grass of the Colchicum and the 
But” "tis oh! for the touch oes vanished hand, autumn Crocus, there is little produced at this 
SAUTE SUNT ONE ee ee season which can be strictly called original— 
The “ haven,” it is hardly necessary to 2: say, | always, of course, excepting the inestimable and 
is the port of Bristol, the water pe the grand | too aly neglected Cryptogams, the fungi in 
estuary of the Severn ; ; while t Goi ahid particular, which are now at the very acme of 
hand” and the voice never mor 
the poet’s dear friend, youn 
e a refer to | their quaint and deep-dyed beauty : would that 
am, whose | it were less frequently deceitful. There is plenty, 
remains lie in the graveyard on the inner decli- | nevertheless, for the diligent gleaner, especially 
vity. Sunset from this green hill is unspeakably | if he will take for his associates in the collecting 
varied and brilliant. I have myself watched | a party of zealous little maidens, when not even 
oe white pait times inn numerable, for a . distance, a dropped petal will be missed. The abundance 
Ai A : pea uite remarkable when, as in this- 
to fifteen mil 
also 
ün: asto {otha howeey over mi 
of it when in the su 
rdinately hot ; for after seasons such as those 
of pretty Clevedon, | we ‘ave recently experienced, just as in July 
and inhaling the fresh mis breeze that always people turn out for evening promenade, balanc- 
tome a sort of aériform champagne, | ing the losses of the sultry noontide, so do the 
, the wil 
flowers keep their places, Pi a a all the | imply that plants are conscious of enjoyment. 
ancient traditions, and losing not an atom of | Actual life is too abounding in romance for any 
n th 
of that which is bestowed “ without money and | degree improbable. Whe ae, nevertheless, shall 
without price.” Depend upon it the golden | we find a more lively picture of enjoyment 
thread k: all- sensible education, the filament 
that shall best hold together opii elac; 4 is 
f Nature; and 
interest in the common things 
does- 
is set forth by a plant which, aft 
| for thse or four and 
