Established 



No. 99,-Yol. IY. { S T — } SATUEDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1888. fel'^SlSS 



CONTENTS. 



Apples, certificated at 



Chiswick 



Arachnanthe Clarkei ... 



Begonia Clarkei 



Botanical Magazine 

 Carnations atChiswick... 



Chiswick 574, 



Chrysant' emum cente- 



Chrysanthemums at Moor 

 Park 



Crocosma aurea var. ma- 

 culate 



Cultural memoranda ... 



Decaschistia ficifolia 



Dianthus Seguieri 



Douglas Fir in Scotland . 



Florists' flowers 



Fruits under glass 



Fruit farming 



Gardening appointments 



Hardy fruit garden 



Horticultural exhibition 

 at Berlin, 1890 



Insi-cticides 



Ker, R. P. & Son's nur- 



Kitchen garden 



Laelia Perrin var. alba... 



Lily disease 



Maxillaria fuscata 



National Carnation So- 

 ciety 



Odontoglossunis, group 

 of , 



STy 



Orchid notes 



Orchids at the Firs, 



Sydenham 



,, at Woolton Wood... 



IMiiilii'iiopsis antennifera 



Pink Lord Lyon 



Plant notes 



Plant portraits 



Plants and their culture. 



Potato disease ... 572, 



Royal Horticultural So- 

 ciety 



Rhynchospermum jasmi- 

 noides variegatum 



Bath 



Brighton 



British Fruit Growers' 

 Crystal Palace 



Devizes 



Hitchtn 



Linnean 



Molesey 



Portsmouth 



Royal Horticultural ... 



Teddington 



Twickenham 



Tradescantiaa 



Trees and shrubs 



Veitch, J., & Sons' nur- 



Vines in England, early 



history of 



Vri.'-ea VVittmackiana X 

 Wall tree borders 



IL LUSTRATIONS. 



Crocosma aurea var. maculata 565 



Maxillaria fuscata 577 



Udontoglossunw, a group of. (Supplement.; 



Advertisers are specially requested to note, that, 

 under no circumstances whatever, can any 

 particular position be guaranteed for ad- 

 vertisements occupying less space than an 

 entire column. 

 ONTEFRACT CHRYSANTHEMUM and 



BIRD SHOW, NOVEMBER 23 ami 24, 1888. £100 

 offered in Prizes. THOS. GLOVER, Sec. 



LILY OF THE VALLEY.— Finest Berlin 

 forcing Crowns. Consignment to hand in fine condition. 

 Samples aDd price on application to 

 WILLIAM DENMAN. 7. Catherine Street, Covent Garden.W.C. 



HRYSANTHEMUMS.— 600 best sorts, true 



to name, strong Cuttings now ready, ls.6d. per doz. ,10s. 

 per 100. Many ot the best Prizes and Silver Cups are talren by 

 my customers. For price of new sorts, see Catalogue (2 stamps), 

 of WM. ETHERINGTON, Chrysanthemum Grower, Swans- 

 combe, Kent 



SPECIAL OFFER OF FERNS.— Pteria 

 tremula, P. cretica, P. cretica cristata, P. serrulata 

 cristata compacta. in thumbs, fit for immediate potting. Also 

 the same varieties, good stuff, in 48's, to offer in quantity. 

 Prices per 100 or 1000 on application. 

 R. PENGELLY. Dyson's Lane, Upper Edmonton. 



Trie New Raspberry, 



LORD BEACONSFIELD. 

 (A Seedling.) 

 The finest Raspberry and best cropper ever known. First- 

 class Certificate. Royal Horticultural Society. Canes £2 per 

 100; 6s. per dozen. Trade supplied ; C;i-h with Order. 

 A. FAULKNOR. Inkpen, Hungerford. 



SEAKALE for Forcing. — Selected large 

 Crowns, none better in the Trade, 75s. per 1000; under 

 500, 8s. per 100. A remittance with all orders. 



ALFRED AT WOOD. Grower, 14, Lavender Terrace, Battersea, 

 S.W., late of 51, Shillington Street, Battersea, S.W. 



OR SALE, 5000 GOOSEBERRIES, Crown 



Bob, 3 years old. 

 .1. B. BUTTERFIELD. Freezy Water, Waltham Cross. 



T ILYof the VALLEY, SPIR.EA JAPONICA, 



J-i DIELYTRA SPECTABILIS, HELLEBORUS NIGER, &c. 

 Large extra selected clumps for forcing. Price LISTS free. 

 DICKSONS (Limited), The Royal Seed Warehouse, CHESTER. 



ENGLISH YEWS, 3, 4, 5, and 6 feet. 

 BOX, Green, 3. 4, 5, and 6 feet. 



„ Variegated, 3, 4, 5. and 6 feet. 



PIKDS AUSTRIACA, 3, 4, 5, and 6 feet. 



All well furnished, and finely rooted. Many thousands. 



ANTHONY WATERER. Knap Hill Nursery. Woking, Surrey. 



QPECIAL OFFER.— ENGLISH YEWS, fine 



O bushy plants, 2 to 3, 3 to 4, 4 to 5 feet, well furnished ; 

 CITKESSCS LAWSONIANA, 2 to 3, 3 to 4 feet; also 

 ERECT A VIRIDIS, li to 2, and 2 to 3 feet, fine. 



MATTHEWS ami SON, Milton, Stoke-on-Trent. 



E 



UONYMUS (Green).— 50,000, all nice bushy 

 ll-grown Specimens, 9 to 36 inches, £1 to £10 per 100. 

 J. J. CLARK, 

 Goldstone Farm, Brighton. 



SPECIAL OFFER. — RHODODENDRON 

 PONTICUM, very bushy, 12 to 18 inches, £9 per 1000; 

 do., 9 to 12 inches, very bushy, £6 per KliiO ; do. Stocks, strong, 

 75s. per 1000; Dwarf GLOIRE ROSES, strong. 3.V. 100; Dwarf 

 .MOSS HOSES of sorts, from 20s. 100.; do., LADY M. FITZ- 

 WILLIAM ROSES, 6s. doz. ; PORTUGAL LAUREL, very 

 bushy and stout. 12 to 21 inches, ISs. per 100. 



Apply, GRAY Axn SONS, Brox Nursery, Chertsey. 



FOR SALE, a few thousand Canes of the 

 celebrated SEMPER FIDELIS RASPBERRY, at 20s. 

 per 100. delivered in Covent Garden Market. 



Apply to C. NEWMAN', Bed well. Hurlington, Middlesex. 

 LANCASHIRE LAD GOOSEBFRRIES WANTED. 



To the Trade and Others. 



WS I M S, Grove Nursery, Tooting. 

 • ASPARAGUS (strong), 2-years, 5s. per 100; £2 is. 

 per 1000. SEAKALE, for Planting or Forcing. 6s. per loO. 



pHOICE FLOWERS and FRUIT. 



V_^ Highest Market Prices guaranteed. 



HENRY RIDES (late Wise & Rides), Fruit and Flower 

 Salesman, Covent Garden, W.C. 



Surplus Cut Flowers. 



HOOPER and CO. (Limited) RECEIVE and 

 DISPOSE of any quantity of above at best Market 

 Prices. Boxes. &c, supplied. — Address, Commission Depart- 

 ment, HOOPER AND CO. (Limited), Covent Garden, W.C. 



ESSRS. GREGORY and EVANS, 



Nubservmex, Sidcup, and 285, 286. 287, 288. Flower 



Market. Covent Garden. London, W.C are open to RECEIVE 



CONSIGNMENTS of Choice CUT FLOWERS in any quantity 



for their Commission Department. Boxes and LabcN supplied. 



Telegraph Address — •• COMMISSION, SIDCUP." 



INKERTON and CO., Glasgow, Fruit 



Salesmen and Auctioneers, have unlimited DEMAND 

 FOR fine FRUITS, FLOWERS, and VEGETABLES. Weekly 

 Sales of Plants and Shrubs during Season. 

 TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS.— " PINKERTON," GLASGOW. 



f-QUELCH and B A R N H A M , 



O North Row, Covent Garden.W.C, arc OPEN TO DIS- 

 POSE OF anv quantity of MUSCATS and BLACK GRAPES, 

 TOMATOS. CUCUMBERS. FRENCH BEANS, STRAW- 

 BERRIES. CHOICE FLOWERS. &c. Highest Market Prices 

 obtained. AccountSales daily ; cheques weekly, or as preferred 

 by Sender. Baskets and Labels supplie d. References given. 



r PO COUNTRY: GROWERS of all Classes, 



X having anything Good and Choice in the way of CUT 

 FLOWERS, should be glad of a communication with view to 

 future business. „ _ _ 



W. RAVENHILL. 157. Norwood Road. Heme Hill. S.E. 



WANTED, STEPHANOTIS, EUCHARIS, 

 ORCHIDS. ROSES, CHRYSANTHEMUMS, and other 

 Choice CUT FLOWERS. Best Market Prices returned. Address 

 S. HILL. Jun., 21. Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, W„ 

 and Covent Garden Flower Market. W.C. 



WANTED, Young Plants of ARAUCARIA 

 COOKI; any quantity up to 100.— State size, price 

 and quantity, to W. G. HEAD, Crystal Palace, S.E. 



L ILIUM AURATU M — 



THE GOLDEN-RAYED LILY OF JAPAN can now be 

 purchased in Cases containing 50 fine Bulbs, just as received 

 from the Japanese Bulb Farms, unopened and unexamined, 

 at 25s. per Case ; sent Free to anv Railway Station in England 

 and Wales on receipt of Postal Order for 23s. 9d. Cases con- 

 taining 100 tine Bulbs, price 40s. Fine and sound Bulbs per 

 dozen, 4s., 6s., 9s., 12s., and 18s. Mammoth Bulbs, 2s. 6d. and 

 3s. 6<j\ each. All sent packing and carriage free. 



CARTERS', Royal Seedsmen by Sealed Warrants, 237 and 

 238, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C. 



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EW BRUSSELS SPROUTS. 



" D R 



ESIDENT CARNO T." 



Fo: 



OHN ETHERINGTON DIXON, 



SEED MERCHANT, Lord Street, GAINSBOROUGH, 

 further particulars, see future Advertisements. 



DAFFODILS a SPECIALTY.— Barr's 

 Daffodils should now be potted for Indoor Flowering, or 

 planted out in beds, or naturalized in Orchards, Meadows, 

 and Woods. Illustrated CATALOGUE free on application. 

 BARR AND SON, 12, King Street, Covent Garden, W.C. 



V 

 H 



AN 



MEERBEEK and CO., 



ILLEGOM, near HAARLEM, HOLLAND, 



Gi ROWERS of DUTCH BULBS. Goods 

 I~ deliveredentirelyfreetodestination. Nopackingcharges. 



ENGLISH CATALOGUE gratis and post-free 

 on application. Cheap prices. 



PECIMEN CONIFERS.— Trees for Avenues, 



Evergreens, and Forest Trees in great variety. CATA- 

 LOGUE free on application.— RICHARD SMITH AMD CO., 

 Nurserymen and Seed Merchants, Worcester. 



IR WATKIN " is the best NARCISS. 



Price and all particulars post-free. 

 DICKSONS (Limited), The Nurseries, CHESTER. 



HRYSANTHEMUM CUTTINGS, strong and 



healthy, from Is. per dozen, over HiObest varieties. List free. 

 —The GARDENER, The Lodge, Porchester Square, London, W. 



FOR SALE, 10,000 GENISTAS, in 3-inch 

 pots, at 10s. per 100. Prices to the Trade on application. 

 20,000 well-rooted cuttings of Genistas, at 5s. per 100, sent on 

 by Parcel Post. Monev Orders payable at Leyton Green.— T. 

 BALDWIN* and SON, Edith Nursery, Burchall Road, Leyton. 



E E D TRADE, 1888-9.— 



Before placing your Orders please write for our SPECIAL 

 PRICES, which, owing to crops having proved better than 

 expected, are_exceedingly low. 



STRAWBERRY PLANTS, in small pots. 

 Splendid stuff of all best kinds, and true to name. Price 

 List on application. 



FRANclS R. KINGHORN, Nurseryman, Richmond, Surrey. 



SULPHIDE of POTASSIUM (Harris).— A 



lO certain cure for Mildew on Plants, Red Spider, Aphis, 

 &c. Enough to make 32 gallons of solution, free for Is. 3d. 

 The only kind to use ia "Harris's specially prepared Sulphide 

 of Potassium." Sole Manufacturers : — 

 PHILIP HARRIS AND CO.(Li mited), 9,Bull Ring, Birmingham. 



pHRYSANTHE M U H CULTURE.— 



\J Standee's Manure, admitted by growers to be unrivalled 

 for this purpose ; in tins. Is., 2s. 6rf., 5s. 6t"., and 10s. 6d. each. 

 Sold by all Seedsmen. 



HOMSON'S IMPROVED VINE and PLANT 



MANURE.— This valuable Manure is made only by us. 



Every bag and tin has our name on it. To be had of all Nursery 



and Seedsmen, and direct from us. 1 cwt. and over carnage 



paid London Agent— Mr. GEORGE. 10. Victoria Road, Putney. 



WM. THOMSON and SONS. Clovenfords, Galashiels, N.B. 



See Large Advertisement on Back Page. 



