“paceman 12, 1874 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE 
“THE -MOST IMPORTANT PRIZE 
GARDENERS, "GENTLEMEN, 
- AMATEURS, and OTHERS, 
During the year 1875, is 
THE amet ge CUP, 
or one o'clock. If that hour does not suit, you 
must take your c chance and trust to your host's 
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1874 
a cen 
a la “carte in the evening. Some impertinen 
person has said that nobody el children ca 
savages s dine at 1 o’clock ; with whom must be 
included the active working gardeners, and 
probably all the business ets of Ghent. It” 
is useless to go to gardens between twelve and 
two, if you wish to see them leisurely and with- 
out a sense of inconveniencing their owners. 
If, therefore, you don’t dine when they dine at 
Ghent, you must fill up the small noontide 
hours with a biscuit, a native cigar, a nap, or 
oer pastime which unstrings your intellectual 
AT GHENT. 
FE! RST, as to the orthography of the name of 
this celebrated factory of plants, whether 
o i 
gesting to Charles V. his punning boast that he 
could put all Paris into his gand (gañż, or 
glove). The town, however, who ought to 
know best, calls herself Stad Gent, the Town 
Gent, which might be — auban did 
not the word geny with suggest to | summer the stranger is struck, at with 
1 variety of the hunai species the immense number of swifts that people the 
differentiated from the normal type by rather | air (and which eat the gnats, which are bred in 
vulgar peculiarities. By the insertion, there- | the canals), the young birds wheeling amongst 
fore, of an e the g hard, — the | themselves in throngs, and screaming in delight 
native pronunciation, and write it Ghen at their new existen nce. = habit wr 
On leaving the station of the Chemin os Fer 
E VEtat, Stad Gent lies all before you where | both bo 
o choose that rement of the traveller, 
ly 
Perhaps you will doaa to wander about, to 
e your remarks observations. In 
a. comfort hotel. Novels 
little of ene eating, drinking, and sleeping of 
their personages; but a narrative of facts, 
which may perhaps induce others to verify them 
personally, cannot utterly omit points of such’ 
primary necessity. A satisfactory inn, the 
Hôtel de l'Etoile, known to the writer, has been 
closed more than twelvemonth, though the 
popular manners, is E forming themselves into 
nds and societies. Small corporations or 
as for the Eataa of some special ven 
archery, music, or gardening, are common, ir 
quently under the protection of some rae 
Saint. Chen 5 iteall i is fecia iei with societies, 
o 
fs] 
VALUE FIFTY GUINEAS, 
the absolute Property pi 
modestly lodged, besides, fy, com “several no 
lodged at all. During your lounge you fancy ng 
ance to enter a mealli oe” ae “expect to 
for 
the town, notwithstanding its large population. 
PRIZE—The “CARTER CUP,” Value FIFTY 
make yourself at home a while, and 
become we ome aged tp of the 
mployer to whom warded, | to find that it no longer entertains serie to 
Ten vn fo: wd Ginteecien is a Serious inconvenience to give and its trade, must be half asleep without the 
PRIZE—Seven Guineas rendezvous in a: foreign town to as chance of ever waking. Business may be tran- 
Piro IRD PRIZE—Five Guin intending to join you in a tour, at a sacted there, but it is done in the quietest possible 
FOURTH pa Sh et which no longer exists. One or two | way. That the repose of the place is more 
from this mischance suggest pret than real, and that active life is going 
within, is plain from the Belgian’ wo 
incid looking-glasses outside the windows, at- 
; nates to catch a 
: ' w escapes 
Collection of Vegetables, 24 Dishes, | the mention that the Hôtel de l'Etoile is no 
: the tu 
which allow the i 
Carter’s pay Premium tiin Pea. 
angles 
James’ Prolific 
Sais Windsor d’Artevelde, at 1 clean, cain fortiki; glimpse of passers-by wi without being seen them- 
Carter's White Advan cer French Bean. and reasonable hotel may be found, and it is selves. To enter, say a lace and embroidery 
ae ee 2 Runner convenient on many accounts Jose | warehouse, you may have to ring at the door, as 
er’s Commander-in-Chief Pe roximity to your railway station, especially if it were a private house. After waiting awhile, 
here, if only for the reason that you can at 
od Bean. 
ote “be Fern-leaved Paley, and Little Heath 
once step into a tramway Car, or take one of the 
you will be duly admitted to make your pur- 
chase, much in the sile, of a morning call. I 
the ) Exe 
ving tot the aly that would be Lin in getting 
i — for = cKney Carri 
bee = In Belgian h 
nib to own by oná fide ‘ ¢ article, is 
á Amati rene pg in thic opal an imported ? 
a Melons. The following to wine-p : 
extra; that is, it is 
and is considered as 
rarely included in the price of a repast. 
generally bad, is not permitted to a 
table, especially at dinn Beer-drinkers must 
gratify their longing by imbibing it at the café 
or the estaminet. as once told by 
eper that, asa v Ae Pi favour, 
bottle of beer taken up to his 
- 
es: ise stated) ; 
i Melons- C Cucumbers, x brace ; Beet, 3 ; Potatos, 
ps, 6; Celery, 3; Broad Beans, 18 
at 
there, is to step into the tram 
pati rough the leading thoroughfares to ‘he oR 
important localities 4 the town, the cost being 
two and three sous the ride: the front i =n 
cony, I think, only u which will carry him 
o his destination. 
also be offered at the London Shows 
ey during the year by JAMES 
ae Ý Flor’ in Winter and Spring. 
$ tuons Guinea Collection c of Bulbs 
aisee | e Seed : cr bedroom. In one vestaurant-estaminet in 
ze Ea) oN ge a Ghent (clean bedrooms) you may drink beer 
35 — Fine Persian Ranun- | (not bad) in the restaurant dining-room (good 
cookery) at supper only, and all day long in the 
contiguous café-estaminet of the same establish- 
ment. Lovers of the peculiar aroma of Rhine 
é in Bel and less 
_ wines will get the 
ive than 
35 Extra Fine Anemon 
“per Fine Frinillarias, 
be 12 Bine eee 
PACKING AND CARRIAG 
COLLECTIONS, price ros. d. "a> 638, and 84s. 
= CARTERS, 
Seedsmen, High Holborn, A then POO ss 
