The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . s other new Roses (English andForeign) for 1839. and all the beat new Rosea of 1688. WM. PAUL AND SON have also a fine stock of the leadingolder varieties of Roses in pots, for planting out for gardendecoration and cutting, lOs. <od. to 155. per dozen, £4 to £bper 100. Rose Growers by appointment to Her Majesty the Queen, ? WALTHAM CROSS, HERTS. B E R M UDA LILI E S. LILIUM HARRISSII (TVARHAXTED TRUE). SEND FOR TRA-DE PlilCE LIST. SIEBRECHT & WADLEY, 409. FIFTH AV-ENtlE. NEW YORK, ROSES IN


The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . s other new Roses (English andForeign) for 1839. and all the beat new Rosea of 1688. WM. PAUL AND SON have also a fine stock of the leadingolder varieties of Roses in pots, for planting out for gardendecoration and cutting, lOs. <od. to 155. per dozen, £4 to £bper 100. Rose Growers by appointment to Her Majesty the Queen, ? WALTHAM CROSS, HERTS. B E R M UDA LILI E S. LILIUM HARRISSII (TVARHAXTED TRUE). SEND FOR TRA-DE PlilCE LIST. SIEBRECHT & WADLEY, 409. FIFTH AV-ENtlE. NEW YORK, ROSES IN POTS; all the best New and Old English and Foreign sorts, from 18«, to 36». per dozen. Detcriptive List free on application. RICHARD SMITH & CO., Nurserymen and Seed Merchants, WORCESTER. New Edition, THE COTTAGERS CALENDAR of GARDEN OPERATIONS. Price 3f/., Post-free S^d. W. RICIIAIIDS, 41, Wellington Street, Strand, London, Now ready, In cloth, lis. GARDENERS CHRONICLE, J- Vol. Third Series, JULY to DEC, 1888. W. RICHAHDS. 41, WelUneUin Street. Strand. THE SATURDAY, MAT U, 1889. FEUIT CULTURE IN 1757. ^INHERE has of late been in the pages of the-*- Gardeners Chronicle much conjecture andsurmise respecting the early use of the Paradisestock for the Apple. Mr. Bunyard, in a recentpaper, ventured to call the working of the Appleupon the Paradise stock a modern idea. R. note in the Gardeners Chronicle for February 9,and Mr. A. Feenys of March 2ii, do not ad-vance anything towards elucidating the have, however, in my possession a valuable oldbook, which throws much and undeniable proofof the use of the Paradise stock in the miadle ofthe last century. The author of this book is— One THOMAS HITT, Gardener to the Ripht Honble. Lord Robert Manners, At Bloxholme, in Lincolnshire. Printed for the Author by T. Oseobne and J. Shipton, in Grays Inn; and J. Richardson, in Paternoster Row. This is the Second Edition, and published in 1767. The book is


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