Octobeb 13, 1888.) 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



405 



CARTERS' 



CH EAP BUL BS. 



Why Send to Holland for Bulbs 



When Better Quality can be obtained in England at 



Less Prices? Note the Contents, and compare 



Carters' Box with others. 



Carters' Guinea Box 



Contains 1250 Bulbs, 



Andissent.PACKINGandCARRIAGE FREE to any station 

 in England and Wales on receipt of cheque or postal order 

 for 20s. It comprises the pick of the World, as follows :— 



50 Hyacinths, named 



colours 

 50 Tulips, double, early 

 50 Tulips, single, early 

 100 Narcissus poetieus 

 50 Narcissus biflorus 

 25 Scilla siberica 

 25 Scilla campanulata 

 100 Crocus white 

 100 Crocus, purple 

 100 Crocus, striped 



Half the Box. Us., Carriage Free 

 Quarter, 75., Carriage Free. 



100 Crocus, yellow 



50 Anemones 



100 Daffodils 



50 Itanunculu 



50 Spanish Iri 



50 Triteleia un 



50 Snowdrops 



100 Winter Aconites 



36 Star of Bethlehem 



14 Muscaxi botryoides 



, Persir 

 flora 



For full particulars of other Boxes, from 5s. upwards, see 



CARTERS' ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE Of BULBS, 



Gratis and Post-free. 



237 & 238, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON. 



"EVERGREENS." 



Stock quite unequalled for superior quality. 



Immense variety and great extent. 



Inspection earnestly invited. 



DICKSONS Nurseries, Chester. 



TCA DflCCO I A grand stock, in 5-in. pots. 12*. & 18s. doz. 

 I LA nUOLO f A grand stock, in 7-in. pots, 21s. & 30s. doz. 



/"Black Hamburgh and other varieties. 

 PD ADC UIUCC J Suitibleiorfruitinginpots.lOj.ed.each 

 UnArC iIIIlO) Suitable for planting vineries, 5s. and 



(. 7s. 6rf. each. 



Fr p U Q I A fine stock, in 5-inch pots, 12s. per dozen, 

 t H 11 U ' A fine stock, in small pots, 4s. per dozen. 



Catalogues on application. 



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application. 



WATKINS & SIMPSON, 



RHODODENDRONS. 



An immense Stock. 200 Named Sorts, from 1 foot to 5 feet 

 high, including many varieties of our own raising, in addition 

 to the best varieties of other raisers. 



AZ ALE AS. 



Sllver-varlegated, Hodgins' and other Hollies. 



Of these we have a surplus stock, aDd can offer them at low prices. 



Priced Descri/itwe CATALOGUE of the above and. General 

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ISAAC DAVIES & BON, Nurserymen, ORMSKIRK. 



SUTTON'S 



INIMITABLE 



BEDDING HYACINTHS 



In distinct shades of colour, and to flower 

 simultaneously. 



Scarlet, Dark Rose, Light Rose, Blue, 

 Light Blue, Dark Blue, Pure White, Tinted White. 



SUTTON'S 



INIMITABLE 



BEDDING TULIPS. 



For simultaneous flowering. 



Wnlte, Yellow, Scarlet, Rose and White, Crimson, 

 Purple, Lilac, Bright Rose, Crimson and Gold. 



Amateurs frequently experience difficulty in 

 choosing exact colours of Hyacinths and Tulips 

 for Redding. This difficulty ia removed by using 

 SUTTON'S INIMITABLE HYACINTHS and 

 TULIPS, from which have resulted some of the 

 most brilliant displays of these charming flowers 

 ever seen in the open ground. 



For full part culars see 



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SUTTON'S BULBS 



CENUINE ONLY DIRECT FROM READING. 



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AND 



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PAUL'S NURSERIES, WALTHAM GROSS, 



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PAUL'S NURSERIES, WALTHAM CROSS, 



close to the Waltham Cross Station, Great Eastern Railway 



(half an hour from London). 



INSPECTION INVITED. 



Prices low as possible. Priced Catalogues free. 



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Rose Growers by Appointment to Her 



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As a Supplement 



TO THE 



Gardeners 1 Chronicle 



iron 



Next Week, October 20, 



WILL BE 



Published an Ink Photograph 



OF 



DRAGON-TREES, 



in the Garden of W. P. Hinton, Esq., Madeira. 



THE 



(HariUwrs' (iptnmirlt 



SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1888. 



A HERTFORDSHIRE FRUIT 



NURSERY. 



THE goal of the day's excursion was the world- 

 famous nursery of Messrs. Rivers & Son, at 

 Sawbridgeworth — a name which always conjures 

 up pleasant pictures in fruit-growing — an agree- 

 able day, spent, if you are fortunate in the day, 

 with a most genial, and, in fruit-lore, most 

 learned of our nurserymen. 



Nowhere in these islands are so many object- 

 lessons in practical fruit-growing to be found as 

 here, for you are not only shown the young trees 

 in every stage of youthful development, as 

 maidens and trained in almost every fashion, but 

 as fully grown, and in quantity from a few rods 

 to several roods. This nursery, it may be stated, 

 is best reached — from London, at least — from the 

 Great Eastern Railway, Cambridge line, at 

 Harlow. 



On the present occasion the first visit paid was 

 to a nursery of quite young stuff at the farm — 

 for Mr. Rivers is a farmer as well as nurseryman. 

 Here were found on ten acres of really stiff clay 

 soil Apples, one and two-year old plants, budded on 

 Paradise and Crab, smooth in the skin, and straight 

 as could be wished — precisely the kind to plant 

 before the head is formed — that can come after- 

 wards. By planting young vigorous Apples 

 before the roots have rambled far from home, 

 there is little mutilation of roots in digging out, 

 as is so often, and perforce must be, the case 

 with trees more than two years in the lines after 

 being budded or grafted. From such kind of 

 trees the planter can form whatever form of tree 

 or bush he may wish, as these are in all cases the 

 foundation on which the superstructure — be it 

 round-headed orchard tree with a 6 or 7 foot 

 stem, a bush with lesser-sized head and stem of 

 2 feet or nothing at all, pyramids, cordons of 

 all kinds, vase, espalier, or fan-trained — is raised. 

 Peavs and Plum! were likewise found in vettr 



