The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . Buyers should come and View the Stock. TWO CRAND NOVELTIES. A PURE WHITE BEDDING CLEMATIS, and the FERNwhich has lately received so many of the highestawards and proofs of admiration. CLEMATIS SMITHS SNOW-WHITE JACKMANII.—The flowers are paper-white, about thesame size as those of the old purple Jackmanii, but pro-duced in even greater profusion. It is unrivalled for beds,and also for climbing. Ready in August. 7s. 6d. each. PTERIS TREMTJLA SMITHIANA.—This is a very valuable and distinct Fern. No Coll
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . Buyers should come and View the Stock. TWO CRAND NOVELTIES. A PURE WHITE BEDDING CLEMATIS, and the FERNwhich has lately received so many of the highestawards and proofs of admiration. CLEMATIS SMITHS SNOW-WHITE JACKMANII.—The flowers are paper-white, about thesame size as those of the old purple Jackmanii, but pro-duced in even greater profusion. It is unrivalled for beds,and also for climbing. Ready in August. 7s. 6d. each. PTERIS TREMTJLA SMITHIANA.—This is a very valuable and distinct Fern. No CollectionBhould be without it. Illustration and description to 10s. 6d. each. BULBS.—The best procurable. STRAWBERRIES.—All leading kinds. De-scriptive LISTS all the best varieties of CLEMATIS ready forplanting out. RICHARD SMITH & CO., Nurserymen and Seed Merchants, THE (lardcncrs flJJtnmicle. SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1891. THE WINTER OF 1890-91,AND THE BIRDS. TNUSUAL movements of the European bird*-^ population took place daring the pastwinter, and many sportsmen and naturalistsin all parts of the country reported thevisitations of rare birds. The taxidermists, too,everywhere received for preservation speciesof birds which do not often reach them. Ataxidermist at Manchester, for example, stuffeda whooper, or whistling swan, from the Isle ofMan, and a bittern from Warrington. Swans of several kinds were exceedinglynumerous in many districts, and flocks of ten ora dozen, and even of a hundred, appearedin several parts of Ireland, especially in thenorth. In Pevensey Marsh, Sussex, birds of thisnoble species were seen, and shot during thewinter. Heron Court, Christchurch, Hants, theresidence of the >arl of Malmesbury, was alwaysnoted for wildfowl, but if we may judge fromthe past winters record compared with that of1838, wild swans were not so numero
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