Established 1841. 



No. 2502. 



No. 102.— Vol. IY. { s t e h e ™} SATUKDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1888. 



Newspaper. /PRICE 3d* 



I. Post-free, 3}cj. 



CONTENTS. 



Mexico, a naturalist's 



notes in 



National Chrysanthemum 



Society i 



Nepenthes rufesrens 

 November in the garden , 

 Orchids at Burford Lodge 

 at The Grange, 

 Hackbridge ... i 



Cape i 



| ,, proliferous i 



li'iri Pandanus fureatus .,. i 



664 j Pear, Knights Monarch < 



Pears i 



66-1 , Phillyrea decora I 



... 666 l Plant portraits I 



... 667 ' Planting Sandhills ... ( 

 675 Plants and their culture ( 

 ... 677 Potato?, flowering ... t 

 ... 667 Retinospora plnmosa ... ( 

 id 669 , Roses for walls and fences t 

 Gardening appointment? 6tS3 Royal Horticultural So- 



Hainan, plants in ... 678 ! ciety 669, t 



Hardy flowers in Decern- ; Scotland C 



ber 670 Society:— 



„ fruit garden ... 667 ! National Chrysanthe- 



Herbaceous border ... 677 | mum ( 



Kew, plants in flower at 661 Spmca japouica t 



Law Notes: — Stachys tuberifera ... t 



Clark v. Praschkauer : Trees and shrubs t 



&Co 



Lelia Amesiana ... 

 Lilium Henryi ... 

 Magnolia grandiflora 

 Mushroom bed ... 



£bculus turbinate ... 673 



Book- 

 Orchids of the Cape 



Peninsula 668 



Botanical Magazine ... 67o 



Bromeliacete 670 



Chrysanthemum culture 672 

 Chrysanthemums, influ- 

 ence of wood on buds... 671 

 Cultural memoranda ... 

 Daphne Me/ereou autum- 



Dendrubium Cu-logyn 

 Disa lacera and var. niul- 



tilida 



Florists' flowers ... 

 Flower garden, the 

 Foreign corresponds 

 Fruit tree borders 

 Fruits under glass 

 Gardeners' Orphan Fi 



6»;n Violas, bedding 



660 Weather in Wales 



6ti6 I ,, in Yorkshire 



676 Winchester, judging at 



Illustrations. 



Disa grandiflora 



,, lacera var. muititida 



Nepenthes rufescens 



Phillyrea decora i 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 

 IP* AMERICA. 



The Subscription to America, including Fostage, is S4.30 for 

 Twelve Months. 



Agent for America : — E. H. LIBBY, "The American Garden," 

 751, Broadway, New York, to whom American Orders mav 

 be sent. 



RICHMOND (Surrey) HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The COMMITTEE have fixed WEDNESDAY, June 26, as the 

 date Of the next SPMMF.R EXHIBITION. 



J. H. FORD, Hon. Sec. 



KINGSTON and SURBITON 

 CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 

 The THIRTEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION of the above 

 Society will be held on November 12 and 13, 1880. 



GEO. WOODGATE, Hon. Sec. 

 Warren House Gardens, Kingston Hill. 



LARGE LIST of CYPRIPEDIUM 



disposable for the Trade, U sent free on demand bv 

 ED. P Y N A E R T, Nurseryman, Ghent, Belgium. 



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Hyacinths, Tulips. Crocus, &c— Surplus Stock. 



HURST and SON offer the above on behalf 

 of Customers. Good Bulbs of best varieties. Prices and 

 particulars on application. 



152, Honndsditch, E. 



SEED TRADE, 1888-0.— 

 Before placing your Orders please write fur our SPECIAL 

 PRICES, which, owing to crops having proved better than 

 expected, are exceedingly low. 



HOWCROFT AND WATKINS, Seed Merchants. Covent 

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TO BE SOLD, cheap, about 11,000 large Stools 

 of RHUBARB, the remaining stock of I he late Mr. 

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T. YOUNG, New Villas Flodden Road, Camberwell, S.E. 



p L. BEGS TO INFORM his numerous 



VJ* Correspondents that HE HAS OBTAINED THE 

 VOLUMES he was in want of. 



U M.— 



in now be 

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 lexamined, 

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TILIUM AURAT 



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



Cape Bulbs— Cape Bulbs. 



THE CAPETOWN BOTANIC GARDENS re- 

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



well-grown Specimens, H to 36 inches, £1 to £10 per 100. 

 J. J. CLARK, 

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WANTED, the Names of Growers who can 

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pHOICE FLOWERS and FRUIT. 



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CQDELCH and B A R N H A M , 



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UT CHRYSANTHEMUMS. — WANTED, 



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WANTED, Special CUT FLOWERS, packed 

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THE GARDEN ANNUAL, ALMANACK, 

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 SUTTON and SONS, Royal Seed Establishment, Reading. 



EW ^BRUSSELS SPROUTS. 



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"OHN 



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JOHN ETHERINGTON DIXON, 

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 INES and VINE CULTURE. 



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 FRED HORS.MAN AND CO., Colchester. 



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