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PE GARDENERS “CHRONICLE. 
[DECEMPER 10, 1874, 
profession i in America — Hia still much advertised for 
rest oring 
muscular r power, cr reating appetite, &c, Inan adver- 
isement of somebody’s celebrated ‘‘ Sarracenia Life 
Bitters,” which comes to us from Alabama, is the 
following :— 
“ JULIUS CÆSAR SAID 
“Let me have men about me that are Āe 
E iiei men, nights. 
Yon Cassius has a i and replete look ; 
He thinks too much.’ 
“ Now, if Cassius had only used the 
SARRACENIA LIFE sae bone 
he would have suited JULIUS toa T. Hungry he might 
have , but LUCULLUS, the ook. would have 
appeased his appetite. With a good digestion, a con- 
tented mind, and ‘ sleep o’ 2 CASSIUS would have 
might have lived, and 
been jolly and rotund, Casa 
Rome continued mistress of the SwA" 
One is tempted to regret that these wonderful bitters 
were not waty ae ar -those days ; the world would no 
doubt hav very eee from what it is now, 
and Amiria infinitely great 
—— Mr. Cowan writes to usto take TERN to 
a statement in our advertising columns to the effect 
that Mr. COLLIS was the original inventor of the 
system of LIME-KILN HEA ae ent, 
we neces it, requi qualification, and Mr, 
asserts positively that Mr. COLLIs is not the 
in our advertising co umns, so we cannot here enter 
issue, 
ungary it appears that even the oe 
CuEw TOBACCO, and thrive well on it, at least so 
f series of 
oyal Agricultural Society of 
rofessor Waa GHT speaking of the 
Hdlatrict; says :— 
cultivated on a tarpo scale here, 
sheep do very a upon Tobacco 
Segir crop. Itis sown in the middle 
very 
at from o rod. to 
tt are 
ag the By 
: 
learn that for some 
wine from plums apod pen going on at 
arburg, 
the Drave. The fi is crushed, but the ides 
_ should not be Shine id pressed in the ordinary way. 
_ ticulars respecting ts are 
Promised for a future à 
= _Listanrius RUSSELLIANUS is one of the 
difficulty i 
exhausted and down, a tem- 
TENN the glass with a few 
ears ast pe t Pa oe In 
X P 
ye past experiments in making L collecting the mud of Paris was onl 
bricks and eal of boards, and on this the plants = 
that 
now placed in saucers, the reason being that the 
ena watered on the surface of the but tepid 
s always supplied in the sauce 
wate the 
Mit ‘of the soil late in autumn and onai the 
winter is watered, the plants sE very liable to shank 
or canker at the surface, and that, too, ver 
a good g 
, no in go readiness with its fermenting 
materials. the time most of the cuttings, &c., 
re removed, the ng plants are ready for their 
final shift, and get more room till they begin to sho 
bl uds, when they are again paaa on the set 
greenhouse shelf to b clean pots used a: 
ana ie ee on Pe res of their depth ith broken 
sher nd the so ealthy, we Reta pulverised, 
rich, being c 
leaf- mould, he ath-soil, o 
o 
ported, In thelr cae Foa season the plants Siy 
ith clear Hao id ma ae never 
the surface of the soil. The plants may 3 grown 
to any desired size, with the convenience of heat and 
room and large shifts. Mr. WEBBER’s are fini 
nished 
ff in 10-inch and 12-inch pots, and are noble, healthy 
plants, with from three to four score or more open 
flowers on each plan t. 
—— We learn sa the eae hs caer er 
CHIMRA is in bloom in Mr. tablish- 
ment at Chelsea, and kopi shortly a ive 4 an k eka 
tion of the flower, 
very useful kayet DIRECTORY has just 
E published by the P ree in the ae ‘ional 
School of Horticulture ie | ed to the University of 
itle i e de r. Aien. Belge, 
t contains, in addition to the usual calendar matter, a 
ice Valen. the readen 
ure and Hort 
o presided in ‘aa PR on the 
of the last a a A exhibition at Ghent, 
courtesy, a 
splendid hospitality: a follows a list of oe 
gian nurserymen an other tradesmen con- 
nected tens horticulture ; sod a list of botanic paya 
and horticultural societies, with their officers. 
An iooi rincipal new plants, fruits, 
&e., is then added, and a series of practical 
Gl : es 
on various subjects. 
pie k ends with a lent of operations for 
onth. Aso ur horticulturists are so mich interested 
in all th Pasian cerns Belgi ening, we commend 
this = sates aat their special attention as a very 
useful publicati It is pu 5 ished at the office, 
4, Boulevard du C n ies, Ghen 
culars respectin the value of the 
Mup oF PARIS “ts which for its removal it states 
that the contractors pay , r fea 
hat ors 
the Municipality. 
francs to 5 francs per cubic metre, or thus as yields 
a revenue of about 3,000,000 fr rancs ; but out of 
this amount the expenses of sweeping the streets and 
hl A the must be deducted. The 
€ employe of the cea at are 
pi npo of Several l 
ot the amount paid for = Aht of 
nly rancs, 
in 1831 it bid let for 166, see ee sik ia in 1845 it 
reach m of half a m of francs. 
-—— Mr. CANNELL, finding it impracticable to 
Stii a lease of a NURSERY GROUNDS at- Woolwich, 
” has 
an ‘‘ill-shaped railway emb: „Succeeded 
in obtaining on lease ia ninety-nin 7 
suitable fiend, very conveniently situated, adjoining 
the Swanley Junction Station of the London , Chat- | 
ham, and Dover Railway, t o which his business will 
shortly be removed. consists of three dif- 
ferent kinds of soil ; one-fourth of the most elevated | 
part abounds with chalk, which will be utilised in 
heating thousands of feet of pi The grounds 
will eis out to the best advantage a , 
orted, Site Ae Goat that | 
e CABBAGES IN COLo One : 
RSs path sp OE ree 
m of the 
aap head: It is accra! 
on f: e fortieth head was 
put on, but could not be made to stay. He drove ian 
load to the nearest town, and proposed to sell it t 
ee me eg He, however, wanted onl 
a 
mb urious spectators, and in fif 
the load was disposed of, at a 
ound over the 
average ky fe he nine heads r Kag ib. Ae, 
este r Mg peman Mr. T. RO INES, late : 
— . MICHOLs, of Southgate, and one of 
e most ped) plant growers of the day, proposes , 
* 
on gardening | 
requires all Paz solar pa pos: 
the dull se: of the Py 
eft canc 
— Mr. PHILLIPS, Canonbury, King 
Shrewsbury, iphones AS to pobieh gee of di 
— amed, of Brit — . 
p of fungi containing the ‘Mor eL 
species of of -= , &c. As the number Gii will g Bs 
cation should be made as above 
thos leron. or pikaa aan 
abin the ja known Americ 
pisciculturist, propo ses t e enterprising pers 
should tur RE ; 
the 
the frogs feed ; ill also eat the 
decayed meat, and even the meat i 
says Nature, that the demand for fro 
increasing, and in 
a good investmen 
ogs in A 
B a frog-farm might d bem 
OF eoni tor the: year ending fune 30, 1874, has bi 
published. Though not primarily intended to be. 
itis in reality a modest, yet dignified protest 
ernment Botan 
the treatment to Te e Govi 
been subj It is difficult 
versity, an lack of f appreciation which 
towards a publi 
founder of his department a one wh 
his whole energies and i vate noe el 
to it. In Europe we ca onli ju 
before us, and, tried by that. test, the abou of 
to science and to economic botany, that no 
of actual misdemeanour should have expose 
useful to humanity. 
ade b on VON MÜLLER, pani is n 
the lists of Hiena trees PTE ther 
up an The sopia pera the 
closure of his abor ratory, wherein he made 
e tars and other products ay PE from the 
pecial a 
| height, g wong? in re ern tree cee "tis 
