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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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he part of the shippers and some of ourprincipal local merchants. This enterprise, in allprobability, has resulted from the inconvenientyfluctuating state of the market, and for the fi.sttime it is to be recorded that Potatos have beenbrought direct by steamer from Ireland to the Tyne.The venture, which has been in the hands of theagents for the Antrim line of steamers, Messrs.Lisle & Co., Baltic Chambers, Newcastle, has bei-ncarried on with a gratifying success, and the newtrade will undoubtedly continue so long as thesupply in Ireland is good. On a rough calculation,about 4000 tons have been brought to Newcastle hythis line of steamers, which trades between BeHa-tand the Tyne via the North of Scotland. Toearrivals continued to increase in quantity after thefirst introduction, and it only need be mentionedto indicate the extent to which the Scotch Potatotrade of Newcastle was affected, that in one wetkalone as many as 680 tons were landed. (The Gardeners Chronicle, July 25, lSSl.
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J-lcj, J4._PH(EN1X SYLVEhTRIS, AS INDIAN TODDY PALJI : A TODHY-DBAWER AT WORK. (SEE P. 1(M.) 106 THE GAfibUNEfiS CHRONICLE. (July 25, 1891. The Fruiterers Company and FruitCulture.—Already, says the City Press, July 18,we are gratified to learn, a substantial amount hasbeen raised in connection with the fruit culturescheme that has been set on foot by the FruiterersCompany. The Company head the list of subscrip-tions with a donation of £500—a most munificentgrant, having regard to the comparative poverty ofthe Guild. Other donors include: — The Cor-poration, £250; the Duke of Westminster, K.G ,£150; Alderman Sir James Whithead, Bart., £100;the Duke of Bedford, £50; the Right Hon. W. H.Smith, M.P., £20; Colonel North, £25 ; the BaronessBurdett-Coutts, £100; Sir H. A. Isaacs, £10 10*.;Messrs. Crosse & Blackwell, £52 10s.; Mr. C. J.Leaf, £10; Sir W. A. Ogg, £25 ; Mr. II. R. Williams,£25 ; Mr. H. R. Williams (second donation), £46 ;Mr. H. Martin (Renter-warden of t

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