THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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a ri ‘SONS 
Will have the pleasure of offering through 
the medium of the Royal Horticultural Society 
, SILVER, and BRONZE MEDALS, 
ain VALUABLE MONEY PRIZES, 
; FOR THE BEST 
ections of Vegetables, Flowers, 
FRUITS, AND PASA h 
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edal and £1 1 
yst Prize, ii 
Gold Moin, g £3 3 0 
Silver Medal u £2 
À wise Prize, 
and £1 
, Giant Emera 2d Prize, 
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re secede st Prize, 
Edinburgh: Silver Medaland £2 2 0 
rald | Bronze Medal and £1 1 0 
Bronze Medaland £1 1 0 
rst Prize, 
Silver = and £2 2 0 
rize, 
ist Prize, 
c = Medaland £2 2 0 
in 2d Prize, 
Pie neoion and £1 1 0 
Bronze Medal aid £1 10 
$ aa Prize, 
j "LOWE siz | Silver Modal and £2 20 
at peters 
PONS OF COMPETITION. 
5e rrizes are confined to N merih s 
Gentlemen’s Gardeners and Gentlem 
5 and (excepting Fruits) “must = 
Without forc forcing and in the open ground. 
AAS 
SPRING” CATALOGUE 
ed AMATE = GUIDE for 1875, 
Fe ie em fe) orticultura’ 
3° intending competitors for the above prizes. 
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1874. 
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em D FOR BELALUM; 
Nothing can convey an idea of its reality and 
its extent except inspection, and that rather a 
minute one, which those who can wil: be well 
repaid for making 
Belgium can be reached either directly from 
Dover and Ostend, or through the corner of 
To 
frontier. 
prefer to see as little of the 
much of the dry land in a foreign country, as 
possible, will probably choose the latter aa 
in which case they are advised to make a ha 
at Lille. The journey thither from Calais is 
only a pleasant trip, occupying about three 
hours by omnibus trains ; not long enough to 
tire the tourist, but enough to give him a taste 
of French country air. The railway, keeping 
to the lowest level, runs at first through PN 
lands and extensive tracts of reclaime 
estuary of the sea, but now of 
It takes you through a land 
rode with milk, though probably with not 
oney. At times it skirts the Belgian 
frontier, as at pene and, stil Closet a at Ar- 
| flies off uate neing, you pend 
(at the close of October) The Hop-poles 
stacked in the fields, and thatched with straw, 
to pass the winter unrotted by weather ; fields 
with their velvet carpets m 
by rows of tall Elms with anisd stems ; 
multitudinous baanip pertly flitting about in 
search of vermin, now that chickens, ducklings, 
and game are grown iaa big to swallow ; ; Haricot 
Beans (for consumption, dry) stacked in the 
open field—that is, tied in bunches round 
upright stakes, and exposed, without any cover- 
ing or protection, to sun, wind, and rain ; heaps 
of Beetroot, pulled and carted for sugar-making 
ereabou Lucky 
—an important industry hereabouts. Luck 
abourers, i autumn iş so fine, instead 
freezing gers or soaking your backs ! 
In the railway carriage (third class, for 
‘economy, -and use unaccompanied 
ladies, to whom bad tobacco and worse lucifers 
has hitherto been 
at stations with 
and Steen- 
werck), country people get up who either speak 
se mish, ho chatter French 
might be offensive) French 
with such a 
Rue N: BA 
childish folly of peleni ihe nam 
while neither language is totally eclipsed by 
he other. -At present wèarein the penumbra 
between French and Flemish. Along the limi- 
street and market, who speak only one language 
or the other. You cross no mountain range nor 
=e strait to get out of France into Flanders 
we t 
t 
ee and who are equally unintelligible 
o you 
Lille eis a busy and a wealthy town, which 
thinks a well-kept garden an allowable indul- 
gence. It also widens its streets as much as it 
can, adoras its open spaces, and sets a good 
example to the Drapers Company. The good 
thereby done isseen in the persons who frequent 
those pleasant breathing places, swept, trimmed 
and garnished at the town’s expense. It is not 
so much the troops of merry chil n—the 
nurses with thei , the 
little boys and girls in blouses or in costume 
dresses with high-heeled boots—who manifest 
the benevolence of the institution; it is the 
imerietes leaning on a friendly arm, who 
mbibe increasing health from -A tempered 
reeze, rest on the backed and easy benches, and 
are thankful for the privilege; it is the aged 
who, nearing the end of srs career, crawl 
down from their iati o gaze on bright 
flowers and soft ayn foliage once more before 
they die. No one can guess the amount of un- 
avoidable papal suffering which is softened 
and soothed by such gardens as those in Lille. 
To reach them start from the Grande Place, 
which might peo Sake! be bigger, but 
which cannot easily be e enlarged. Follow the 
et leading ou 
t of it, the Rue 
to Se mire BS 5 
after every revolution or change of covert 
as if they could thereby annihilate the history 
of their country during the last hundred years. 
U squaw) is radika in France, 
ike coal-tar, coke, waggon, and several others 
of English birth, without being disguised under 
such perverted forms as have befallen biftik, 
boulingrin, bouledogue, redingote, and the like 
orthographical sufferers. This square comprises 
mainly grass, benches, and trees, with a flower- 
bed or two, and a specimen shrub or two, which 
suffice to attract a considerable concourse of 
inden is die a ‘entintatiea of the 
the same aie 
Queen Hortense’s Conk. 
os be! a canal, makes an at 
few hardy Pe a Cie ‘of 
Scolopendrium poly- 
