THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 247 
rarely get underway, or begin to make new growth until spring, if 
they do not wholly die out during the winter. Were I intending to 
fill a case for my own use I should certainly plant early. 
For the close case, I should only use such plants as are suitable. 
Disturb the shade only when water is required, or signs of mould are 
visible, or the plants damp off; then give air for a short time each 
day, wiping out the glass when it is removed; this will generally 
remedy the trouble when practised a few times. When the plants 
are in vigorous growth, and during the warm weather, give con- 
siderable water, but withhold it almost entirely during the winter, 
and give plenty of light at all times. 
MESSRS. ROLLISON & SON’S NURSERIES, TOOTING. 
EF. can very properly commence a notice of these fine old nurseries by saying 
that the proprietors publish the best catalogue extant of nursery stock in 
general, and whoever has a copy of the catalogue. has a most useful 
horticultural vade mecum, adapted for reference, and especially valuable 
to those who haye collections of plants of any kind, whether orchids, 
heaths, roses, or whatever else. This catalogue will show at a glance that it repre- 
sents a large establishment, and one in which nursery stock of every kind is culti- 
vated in a very extensivemanner. For example, the edition now before us extends 
to 176 pages, and contains, on an average, the names and descriptions of fifty species 
or varieties on a page, the total number being 8,800 by this reckoning, so we may 
safely say that Messrs. Rollison cultivate about 10,000 species and varieties 
of garden plants. When we look through the catalogue we find that it ranges over 
stove plants, greenhouse plants, ferns, roses, fruit trees, herbaceous plants,—in fact, 
everything. The establishment has always been famous for orchids, heaths, ferns, 
and miscellaneous stove plants, but is more comprehensive now than in the days 
when Mr. Don made it famous by his pen, or even when the late Mr. Buckley 
entered on his labours there—labours well performed, and with a single eye to the 
interests of the firm by whom he was through life much respected, and is remem- 
bered in the right way since death made the firm in some degree chargeable with the 
care of his family. 
In going through the place, the extent of the glass impresses one first, but 
the impression deepens as we note the value of the contents of the houses. There 
are not fewer than 1300 species and varieties of orchids grown here, and we see 
houses filled withsuch splendid things as Dendrobium Falconeri, D. Dalhousianum, 
D. Dayanun, D. crystallinum, and D. Pierardi. But if we begin to mention select 
orchids, we shall never have done, so we prefer to say that palms have an equal 
degree of attention here, and there is a splendid collection of the sorts best adapted 
for small plant-houses, and for table decoration. There is no class of plants in 
cultivation that has more rapidly risen in public favour, or become more important 
within the past few years as nursery stock, than these. In looking over Messrs. 
Rollison’s immense collection, we noted the following as particularly well adapted 
for amateurs who require but a few of the most elegant and easily managed :— 
Areca Baueri, A. sapida, Brahea dulcis, Calamus Verschaffelti, Chamedorea 
Ernesti Augusta, Chamerops excelsa, C. Fortunei, C. humilis (the three hardiest 
of all), Cocos Weddeliana, Corypha australis, Damonorops plumosus, Euterpe 
edulis, Jubsea spectabilis, Kentia Fosteriana, Latania Borbonica, Pritchardia 
filifera, Martinezia Lindeniana, Oreodoxa regia, Rhapis flabelliformis, Thrinax 
elegantissima, Welfia regia. 
In the way of ferns, this is most truly a “fern paradise,” and one of the features 
will quickly attract a visitor specially in love with these plants, and it is the way 
in which filmy ferns are grown here. They are planted in large cases, which 
stand in the centre of a warm fern-house, and form a kind of frontispiece to it on 
August. 
