Novemdeb 10, 1888.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



531 



TREES, FLOWERS, AND SEEDS 



PAUL'S NURSERIES, WALTHAM CROSS, 



For the Best ROSES. 



PAUL'S NURSERIES, WALTHAM CROSS, 



For the Best SEEDS. BULBS, Sec. 



PAUL'S NURSERIES, WALTHAM CROSS, 



For the Best FKl'IT TREES and GRAl'E VINES. 



PAULS NURSERIES, WALTHAM CROSS, 



For the Best EVERGREENS, Park and Roadside TREES. 



PAUL'S NURSERIES, WALTHAM CROSS, 



For the Best CAMELLIAS, AZALEAS, LAPAGERIAS, &c. 



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. 



Goods Packed by experienced hands for all parts of the World. 

 Observe the Christian name. 



WM. PAUL & SON, 



Rose Growers by Appointment to Her 



Majesty the Queen, 



Tree, Plant, Bulb, and Seed Merchants. 



FRUIT TREES, 



SEVENTY-FOUR, ACRES. 



APPLES, PEARS, PLUMS, CHERRIES. PEACHES, 

 NECTARINES, APRICOTS, and other FRUIT TREES, as 

 Standards. Dwarfs, Pyramids, Bushes, Cordon, and Trained 

 Trees in great variety. 



VINES, excellent Canes, Ss. 6<f.. 5s.. 7s. 6d., 10s. 6rf. 



Orchard House Trees in pots, PEACHES, APRICOTS, NEC- 

 TARINES, &c. from 5s. FIGS from 3s. 64. 



DESCRIPTIVE LIST, containing a sketch of the various 

 forms of Trees, with Directions for Cultivation, Soil, Drainage, 

 Manure, Pruning, Lifting, Cropping, Treatment under Glass ; 

 also their Synonyms, Quality, Size, Form, Skin, Colour, Flesh, 

 Flavour, Use, Growth, Duration, Season. Price, &c .free by post. 



RICHARD SMITH & CO., 



WORCESTER 



SPECIAL CULTURE OF 



FRUIT TREES AND ROSES. 



A Large and Select Stock is now offered for Sale. 

 The Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of 



Fruits post-free. 

 The Descriptive Catalogue of Roses post-free. 



THOMAS RIVERS & SON, 



THE NURSERIES, SAWBRIDGEWORTH, HERTS. 



WINTER-FLOWERING PLANTS 



HEATHS, CAMELLIAS and other Plants, 



beautifully set with Flower-buds. 



Prices on application. 



DICKSONS 



(ETJirrED). Nurseries, CHESTER. 



CRANSTON'S NURSERIES, 



KINGS ACRE, near HEREFORD. 



Specialties, 



ROSES AND FRUIT TREES. 



FIFTY AORES UNDER CULTIVATION. 



CRYSTAL PALACE CREAT FRUIT SHOW 



FIRST PRIZE 



awarded us for the finest Collection of Apples 

 (150 dishes). List of sorts, also Descriptive 

 Catalogues, on application to 

 JOHN CRANSTON & CO. 



HELLEBORUS NIGER. 



I can offer a magnificent lot of Christmas Roses, probably 

 the finest lot in the Trade, especially of the H. niger major va- 

 riety, which is the great favourite among market growers. These 

 now offered are home-grown clumps full of flower-buds, and 

 will be ready to lift in October ; and I would advise early orders 

 to secure them, as the stock of fine clumps is very limited. 



MAXIMUS. 



A robust variety, th« largest of the group, and very orna- 

 mental as a foliage plant. It flowers in October and November, 

 the blossoms are large and white, shaded with rose on the 

 exterior, and generally produced in twos, but if shaded or a 

 glass placed over the plants, the flowers are then pure white. 

 Hy shading the flowers can be retarded even to December. It is 

 the most vigorous of the section, and succeeds where many of the 

 others fail to grow. 



MAJOR. 



Although this plant is frequently offered, it is seldom to be 

 obtained true to name, owing to its great value for cutting 

 purposes. The flowers are pure white under glass, but have a 

 slight rosy tinge in the open; it is the greatest favourite among 

 market growers, producing flowers from December to January. 



RUBRA. 



One of the most distinct and novel of this group. The flowers 

 are large, produced about the end of January, and of a lovely 

 colour. It is a robust grower, free blooming, and a decided 

 acquisition for cutting. 



CAUCASICUS. 



A really serviceable variety, producing large, conspicuous 

 flowers, pure white, under glass. One of the most vigorous of 

 all the Christmas Roses, and one which will succeed in almost 

 any soil or position, flowering freely in the open ground in 

 January. Home-grown Clumps, Is., Is. Qd., and 2s. 6af. each. 



MADAME FOURCADE 



is a Gem, certainly one of the b&st flowers of medium size ; snow 

 white, and produced in thegreate^t possible profusion, even the 

 very smallest possible flowering ; of a good strong vigorous habit. 

 Fine strong Clamps for forcing. Is. Gd. and 2s. tkf. each. 



COLLECTED PLANTS. 



These are far superior to th' 1 ordinary stuff generally offered, 

 which are usually dried up and half dead before received, 

 being collected by inexperienced men; those now offered are 

 fine healthy plants, and usually are as fresh as when first 

 lifted, and always do well. 



Prices on application. 



THOMAST WARE, 



HALE FARM NURSERIES, ' 



TOTTENHAM. 



BULBS. 



A FEW REASONS FOR GETTING THEM FROM 



RICHAKD SMITH & CO.:— 



We have dealt in them for more than eighty years. 



We have visited the best Bulb Farms and have selected the 

 best roots and the best varieties. 



The Bulbs we have supplied have practically always given 

 satisfaction, and our prices are moderate. 

 Illustrated descriptive List of Dutch and Home-grown Bulbs free. 



RICHARD SMITH & CO., 



SEED MERCHANTS and NURSERYMEN, 

 WORCESTER. 



ANTHONY WATERER 



INVITES AX INSPECTION FROM INTENDING 

 PLANTERS TO 



THE FOLLOWING TREES, 



Having stmrt straight stems, fine heads, and splendid roots. 

 All have been transplanted within tico years: — 



ACACIA BESSONIANA. 12 to 14 feet; A. SEMPERFLO- 

 RENS. 12 to 14 feet. ACER DASYCARPUM, 12 to 16 feet; 

 A. DASYCARPUM WIERII LACINIATA. 10 to 14 feet; A. 

 NEGUNDO VAKIEGATA. Standards. 8 to 10 feet ; A. LEO- 

 POLDII, 12 to 14 feet ; A. REITENBACHII. 12 to 14 feet ; A. 

 SCHWEDLERII, 12 to 18 feet; A. WORLEYII. Standards, 12 

 to 14 feet. ASH, Mountain. 10 to 14 feet. BEECH. Common, 

 10 to 12 feet; Purple. Pyramids and Standards, 10 to 16 feet. 

 BIRCH. Silver. 12 to 16 feet. CHESTNUT, Horse. 14 to 16 feet. 

 Double White. 10 to 16 feet; Starlet, 12 to 16 f et; Spanish, 

 12 feet. ELMS, English, 10 to 12 feet; Guernsey. 12 feet. 

 LIMES. 12 to 16 and 20 feet ; Silver-leaved, 10 to 14 feet. 

 LIQl'IDAMBAR. 6 to 10 feet. MAPLE. Norway. 14 to 16 feet. 

 OAK. English, 10 to 14 feet ; Scarlet American, 12 to 14 feet ; 

 PLANES. 12 to 16 feet. POPLAR BOLLEANA. 10 to 16 feet ; 

 P. CANADENSIS NOVA (the true variety), 12 to 16 feet; 

 SYCAMOP.E, Common. 14 to 16 feet ; Purple. 14 to 16 feet. 

 THORN*. Double Scarlet. 8 to 10 feet; Whit*?, 8 to 10 feet. 

 WAI.NUTS, Common, 10 to 12 feet. 



Weeping Trees. 



BEECH, Weeping, PyramidB aud Standards, 8 to 12 feet ; 

 Weeping. Purple, Pyramids and Standards, 7 to 12 ft. BIRCH, 

 Young's Weeping, Pyramids and Standards. 8 to 14 ft. ELMS. 

 Weeping. Pyramids and Standards. 7 to 14 feet. LAB.CH, 

 Weeping. Pyramids. 8 to 10 feet. OAK. Weeping, English. 

 Standards, lb to 12 feet. POPLAR. Weeping. Pyramids, and 

 Standards. 10 to' 12 feet. SOPHORA JAPONICA PENDULA, 

 Standards. 8 to 9 feet. 



KNAP HILL NURSERY, 



WOKING. SURREY. 



As a Supplement 



TO THE 



GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



FOB 



Next Week, November 17, 



WELL BE 



Published an Ink Photograph 



OF A 



GROUP of ORCHIDS. 



THE 



SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 18S8. 



THE DOUGLAS FIR IN SCOT- 

 LAND. 

 A MONGST the exotic timber trees which have 

 -'-*- been introduced into Europe during the 

 present century, the Douglas Fir has attracted 

 more notice than any other species, owing to its 

 remarkably quick growth during early youth. 

 Specimens growing in free positions are believed 

 to have laid on a mean annual increment of as 

 much as 3 cubic feet, while only 1 cubic foot, at 

 the outside, could be expected of a Larch tree ; and 

 even in a few fully stocked woods the increment 

 appeared exceeedingly great. 



In the Gardeners' Chronicle of October 8, 

 1887, p. 427, an extract from the Perthshire 

 Constitutional was published, which drew atten- 

 tion to the oldest pure wood of Douglas Fir, 

 situated at Taymount in Perthshire, on the estate 

 of the Earl of Mansfield. The plantation in 

 question is spoken of in glowing terms, but only 

 a few scanty measurements are given, so that it is 

 difficult for the reader to arrive at any definite 

 idea on the progress of the plantation, whereby 

 he can compare it with that of our indigenous 

 timber trees. Besides being of very rapid growth, 

 it has been claimed for the Douglas Fir that it is 

 not liable to disease — an advantage, which, if it 

 really did exist, would be of great weight. 



Such general statements are often misleading, 

 and I determined to take the first opportunity to 

 inquire somewhat more fully into this matter. 

 Accordingly during a short tour in Scotland in 

 July last, I measured a sample plot in the Tay- 

 mount Douglas Fir plantation, and I also mea- 

 sured, by way of comparison, a sample plot in an 

 adjoining Scotch Pine plantation. The results 

 of these measurements seem to me of sufficient 

 interest to deserve publication. 



The plantation of Taymount is situated about 

 7 miles to the north of Perth, in 56J" northern 

 latitude, and at an elevation of about 200 feet 

 above the level of the sea. The ground slopes 

 very gently towards the south-east and the 

 soil consists of so-called "stiff till," which in this 

 case, may bo described as a loamy clay, retainii : 



