Decbmbeb 29, 1888.] 



THE GARDENER S' CHR ONI CLE. 



751 



£0 fill ft CLEMATIS, in Pots, of all the 



Ol/^UVV finest Double and Single Varieties (some 

 of the flowers of which become 10 inches across, and are of 

 every shade, from pure white to the darkest purple), for 

 climbing and bedding, from 12s. to 24s. per dozen, strong 

 plants ; extra strong plants, repotted into 5^-inch pots, 25. 6a, 

 each; Beauty of Worcester, a magnificent purple, excellent for 

 bedding, recently sent out by us, reduced price 2s. 6d. each. 

 Descriptive LIST on application.— RICHARD SMITH AND CO., 

 Nurserymen and Seed Merchants, 'Worcester. 



OREST TREES.— Alder, 2 to 2i feet, 16s. 



per 1000 ; Ash, 1' to 2 feet, 12s. per 1000 ; 2 to 3 feet, 16s. 

 per 1000 ; 3 to 4 feet, 20s. per 1000 ; Beech, 1± to 2 feet, 15s. 

 per 1000; 2 to 24; feet, 18s. per 1000; 2' to 3£ feet, 22s. per 

 1000. Spanish Chestnut. 1' to 2$ feet, 20s. per 1000; Bourtree, 

 2 feet, 25s. per 1000 ; Elm. 3 to 4 feet. 18s. per 1000 ; 4 to 5 feet, 

 25s. per 1000. English Elm. 4 to 5 feet, 4m. per lono. Larch, 

 It to 2 feet, 16s. per 1000 ; 4 toSfeet, 28s. per 1000. Scotch Fir, 

 l£ to 2 feet, 12s. per 1000; 2 to 2± feet. 16s. per 1000 ; 3 feet, 20s. 

 per 1000. Spruce Fir, 1 to 1J feet, 10s. per 1000; 1' to 2 feet, 

 12s. per 1000 ; 2 to 2J feet, 16s. per 1000. Silver Fir, 10 to 

 15 inches, 18s. per 1000 ; 1 to li foot, 20s. per 1000. Pinus 

 austriaca, 1 tolif°°t. 15s. per 1000; 1£ to 2 feet, ISs. per lono. 

 Sloe or Blackthorn, 2 to 3 feet, 20s. per 1000 ; Sycamore. 

 1 to H foot, 12s. per 1000 ; 2 to 2£ feet, 16s. per 1000 ; 

 6 to 7 feet, 6s. per 100. 



GARLIES MITCHELL, Nurseryman, Stranraer. 



C^ARNATION "GLOIRE DE NANCY."— 

 We are sending out for the fourth season our true strain 

 of this the grandest White Carnation in cultivation, quite 

 nardy, and for pot culture for cut bloom it has no equal. 

 Robust and free bloomer. £l per 100, lis. for 50, 6s. for 25, good 

 rooted layers. We have a fine stock of GARDENIAS, the best 

 sorts in cultivation, from is. to 40s. each, Ca^h with Order. 



E. COLLINS AND SONS, Cumberland Park Nursery, 

 Willesden Junction. 



VERGREEN HEDGES. 



EVERGREEN HEDGES. 

 YEWS, English, 1J to 2 feet. 30s. per 100; 2 to 2\ feet, 45s. per 



100; 2£ to 3 feet, 65s. per 100. 

 HOLLIES, Green, 2 to 2' feet, 40s. per 100 ; i\ to 3 feet, 60s. 



per 100. 

 LAURELS, Common, 1' to 2 feet, 12s. per 100 ; 2 to 3 feet, 



15s. per 100; 24; to 3J feet, 20s. per 100. 

 THULA LOBBII, 2} to 3 feet, 30s. to 10s. per 100. 



We hold immense stocks of the above, ull bushy and well 



rooted Plants. 



Special offer for Covert Plants, &c, free on application. 



JOHN PERKINS AND SON, The Old Established Nursery 



and Seed Business. 52, Market Square, Northampton. 



TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS—" QUICK," NORTHAMPTON. 



Tfy'HOLESALE SEED CATALOGUE for 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS to and from all parts 

 of the Globe. By far the best collection of new and old 

 varieties in commerce. Descriptive Catalogue with Cultural 

 Directions by E. Molyneux and C. Orchard. Acknowledged in 

 Europe and America as the best Descriptive Catalogue. Price 

 6<f. ; free to customers. Awarded 3 Medals and 20 First-class 

 Certificates. I never exhibit for prizes in competition with 

 Gardeners or Amateurs. Open to purchase new vaiieties of 

 merit.- R. OWEN, F.N.C.S., Floral Nursery, Maidenhead. 



Begonia Scharffii. 



JOHN LAING and SUNS have great pleasure 

 in offering plants of this, the finest species of the genus. 

 (See Gardeners' Chronicle, page670.) Price 5s. and 7s. 6(/. each. 

 The Nurseries, Forest Hill, S.E. 



To the Trade. 



VEGETABLE and AGRICULTURAL SEEDS. 



Hand F. SHARPE are now prepared to give 

 • SPECIAL QUOTATIONS for all the best kinds of 

 VEGETABLE and FIELD SEEDS grown this season from care- 

 fully selected stocks. The quality is very good, and the prices 

 will be found advantageous to purchasers. 



Seed Growing Establishment, Wisbech. 



E W CHRYSANTHEMUM 



" STANSTEAJJ SURPRISE." 



We have pleasure in offering this fine Japanese Seedling of 

 our own raising. It is a rich rosy crimson, with silvery 

 reverse ; immense flower and good keeper. 



Figured in the Journal of Horticulture of November 8 last, 

 and received a First-class Certificate from the National Chry- 

 santhemum Society. Early orders solicited for February 

 iIpHy.tv ;is strung plants at 75. <od. each, 3 for 15s. 



JOHN LAING and SONS, Begonia Specialists and Nursery- 

 men, Forest Hill, S.E. 



100 Herbaceous and Alpine Plants for 26s. 



RICHARD SMITH and CO.'S Selection as 

 above contains a most interesting and valuable assort- 

 ment of beautiful and Hardy Plants for the Border or Rock- 

 work, which produce flowers and render the garden attractive 

 all through the year. Descriptive CATALOGUE post-free for 

 6 stamps.— RICHARD SMITH AND CO., Nurserymen and Seed 

 Merchants, Worcester. 



EACONSFIELD" YELLOW PRIMROSE. 



The large Irish Yellow variety. Trade price, 5s. per 

 ounce. Retail, 6d. and Is. per packet. 



WJ1. BAYLOR HARTLAND, F.R.H.S., Seedsman, Cork. 



RIMULA OBCONICA. — The best market, 



and " all the year round " blooming plant in cultivation. 

 Now is the time to sow. Seed Crop 1838. Per packet. 6d. and Is. 

 Large Market Growers Packet-, 2s. 6<(. Trade price on applica- 

 tion.— WM. BAYLOR HARTLAND, F.R.H.S., Seedsman, Cork. 



1 A A AAA HARDY HEATHS.— The present 



JLV/"7^ V/\/V/ is a most suitable time for planting these 



40 „ 22s. „ 



If less than ftftv plants are ordered, price 3s. per dozen. 



Special quotation per 1000, and Descriptive CATALOGUE may 



be had free on application to 

 JAMES SMITH AND SONS, Darley Dale Nurseries, near 



Matlock, 



1889.— We have now published c 

 Vegetable and Flower Seeds, containing also all the best 

 Novelties of the season. May be had on application. Any of 

 our customers not having received one by post will oblige by 

 letting us know, when another shall at once be posted. 



WATKINS and SIMPSON. Seed and Bulb Merchants, 

 Exeter Street, Strand, London, W.C. ; Seed and Trial Grounds, 

 Feltham and Twickenham, Middlesex. 



ORCHIDS AND PALMS 



SPECIALTIES. 



The Stock is of such magnitude that, without seeing it, it is not 

 easy to form an adequate conception of its unprecedented extent. 



FRUIT TREES, ROSES, AZALEAS, CAMELLIAS. 

 BOUVARDIAS, CYCLAMENS, ERICAS, EPAC'RIS, 



SOLANUMS, TREE CARNATIONS, and other 



WINTER and SPRING BLOOMING PLANTS, 



of fine quality and immense numbers. 



Inspection Invited. 



The Glass covers an area of upwards of 300,000 super, feet. 



HUGH LOW & CO., 



CLAPTON NURSERY, LONDON, N. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



Strong Roots, 4*. per 100. Plants in small pots, 165. per 100 ; 

 ditto in large pots, 25s. per 100. Descriptive LIST free. 



RICHARD SMITH and CO., Nurserymen and Seed Mer- 

 chants, Worcester. 



CHARLES SHARPE and CO., 



Seed Growers and Merchants, 

 SLEAFORD, 



Will /tare much pleasure in sending 

 on application, special quotations for 

 their home-saved stocks of Farm and 

 Garden Seeds. 



December, 1888. 



CUTBUSH'S MILL- 

 track MUSHROOM SPAWN. 

 — Too well known to require descrip- 

 tion. Price, 6s. per bushel (Is. extra 

 per bushel for package), or 6d. per 

 cake ; free by parcel post, Is. 



None genuine unless in sealed pack- 

 ages and printed cultural directions 

 enclosed, withoursignatureattached. 



WM. CUTBUSH ASD SON 

 (Limited"), Nurserymen and Seed 

 Merchants. Highgate Nurseries. N. 



KUITTR 



For Market and Private Growers. 



ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, ETC. 



Descriptive CATALOGUES Post-free. 



I PHEALQONS 



WaM Crawley, W Sussex. 





THE GARDENERS' 



ORPHAN FUND. 



DONATIONS and SUBSCRIPTIONS 



WILL BE THANKFULLY RECEIVED BT 



A. F. BARRON, Hon. Sec, 



Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens, 

 Chiswick, London, W. 



LARGE SHRUBS and CONIFERS.— 

 Aucuba japonica, 1} to 2 feet, 30s. per 100; do., 2 to 24, 

 feet, 40s. per 1U0. lierberis aquifolia, 1A to 2 feet, 12s. per 100 ; 

 Box tree, I J to 2 feet, 12s. per 100 ; 2 to 3 feet, 20s. per 100. 

 Cotoneaster Simonsii, 3 to 3J feet, 10s. per 100; Deutzia cre- 

 nata, rlore-pleno, strong, 4s. per dozen ; Escallonia ruacrantha 

 (pots), strong, 24s. per 100; Grislinia littoralis, 1± to 2 feet, 

 35s. per loo; Honeysuckle (strong), 8s. per 100; Irish Ivy, 



4 feet, 6s. per 10U; Laurel, common, lifoot. 6s. per 100; 2 fee't, 

 10s. per 100 ; 3 to 4 feet, 16s. per 100. Colonic Laurel, 1 to 14- 

 foot, 12s. per 100; 2 to 24; feet, 16s. per 100; 3 to 3^ feet, 

 bushy. 20s. per 100. Portugal Laurel, 1 to 1£ foot, 16s. per 

 100 ; \\ to 2 feet, 20s. per 100. Rhododendron ponticum, 1 to 

 li foot, 22s. per 100 ; 14; to 2 feet, 30s. per 100; 2 to 2£ feet, 

 35s. per 100 ; 3 feet, 50s. per 100 ; 4 to 4£ feet, bushy. 60s. per 

 100. Abies Douglasii, 3 to 4 feet, 35s. per 100 ; 4 to 5 feet, 50s. 

 per 100 ; do., 6 feet, 70s. per 100. Araucaria imbricata, 2 to 24; 

 feet, 30s. per dozen ; 3 to 34- feet, 48s. per dozen ; 3 to 4 feet, 

 60s per dozen. Cupressus Lawsoniana, 24 feet, 20s. per 100 ; 

 3 to 4 feet, 40s. per 100. C. stricta, 2 to 2J feet, 40s. per 100 ; 



5 to 6 feet, extra fine, 18s. per dozen. C. erecta viridis, 14; to 

 2 feet, 25s. per 100 ; do., 2 to 24 feet, 35s. per 100. Picea 

 Nordmanniana, 1J to 2 feet, 30s. per 100; do., 2 to 2J feet, 

 extra, 40s. per 100. Retinospora plumosa, 18 inches, 25s. per 

 100; 1J to 2 feet, 30s. per 100; 24 feet, extra, 40s. per 100. 

 R. squarrosa, 1} foot, bushy, 30s. per 100 ; Thuia Lobbii, 14; to 

 2 feet, 12s. per 100 ; 2 to 3 feet, 24s. per 100 ; 4 feet, 50s. per 

 100 ; 6 feet, 18s. per dozen. Thuiopsis borealis. 24 to 3 feet, 8s. 

 per dozen ; T. dolobrata. 1 foot, 30s. per 100 ; 1J to 2 feet, 12s. 

 per dozen ; 2}- to 3 feet (fine), 30s. per dozen. 



GARLIES MITCHELL, Nurseryman. Stranraer. 



CLEARANCE SALE (at sacrifice) of 

 PALMS, DRACJEN'AS, &c. 

 LATANIA BORBONICA and PH02NIX RECLINATA, 12 

 inches high, 4s. per dozen, 30s. per 100. Package aud 

 carriage free. 

 LATANIA BORBONICA, SEAFORTHIA ELEGANS, CORY- 

 PHA AUSTRALIS, and PHOZNIX RECLINATA, 20 to 

 24 inches high, Is. 6d. each, 16s. per dozen; same kinds, 

 2 feet 6 to 3 feet high, 3s. to 5s. each. 

 Handsome PALMS, 4 feet high. 18s. each. 

 ., ,, 6 feet high, 40s. each. 



Twelve assorted PALMS and DRACAENAS, averaging, with 

 pots, 24 inches high, in wood case, free, 18s. ; six do., 10s. 

 KENTIAS. 3s. to 21s. each. 



DRAC.ENAS, 24 inches to 5 feet high, 2s. to 40s. each. 

 Inspection invited. 

 GARDENER, Holly Lodge, Stamford Hill, N. 



OLD-FASHIONED HEDGES. — English 

 Yews, bushy, and with a profusion of fibrous roots, 

 1£ to 2 feet, 6s. per dozen, 35s. per 100 ; 2 to 2£ feet, 8s. per 

 dozen, 50s. per 100; 2£ to 3 feet, 9s. per dozen, 60s. per 100 ; 

 3 to 3£ feet, 12s. per dozen, 84.?. per 100. Prices of larger sizes 

 and other Evergreens, suitable for Hedges — e.g.. Tree Box, 

 Holly, Laurel, Privet Cypress, Juniper, Thuia, &c, on appli- 

 cation.— RICHARD SMITH and CO., Nurserymen and Seed 

 Merchants, Worcester. 



I. HARDY'S NEW PRIMROSE 



• NOVELTIES.— Choice varieties of about thirty beau- 

 tiful colours, from pure white to dark maroon. Strong plants, 

 6». per 100, 45s. per 1000. 



HARDY'S NEW " PRIMROSE POLYANTHUS " NOVEL- 

 TIES, in about eight splendid colours, mixed. — These are very 

 beautiful, forming magnificent trusses. Strong plants, 5s. 

 per 100. 45s. per 1000. 



POLYANTHUS.— Hardy's Finest Selected Gold-laced Show 

 Flowers. Strong plants. 5s. per 100. 45s. per 1000. 



STRAWBERRIES.— Vicorntesse H. de Thury, President, Sir 

 Joseph Paxton. Strong plants, 2s. per 100, 12s. per 1000 ; 

 ditto, out of pots, 8s. per 100. 



Cash. Extra plants for carriage. Package free. 

 H. I. HARDY*, F.R.H.S.. Stour Valley Nurseries. Bures, Suffolk. 



Fruit Trees. 

 KA AAA PLUMS and DAMSONS, all fine- 



*J V/ •) \J \J \J grown trees — For price apply to 

 FLETCHER BROS., Ottershaw Nurseries, Chertsey, Surrey. 



\\T GORDON, Immense stock of ORCHIDS ; 

 it • best value and cheapest house in the Trade. 

 The best cut of ORCHID PEAT in commerce; selected 

 turves, 1 bushel, 2s., 3 bushel sack, 5s.. carriage forward. 



LILIES, Enormous Importations, Silver Banksian Medal, 

 Silver Medal, National Chrysanthemum Society, 1888. 



LLLIUM AURATUM. Imported Bulbs. 6d., 9<z\, Is.. Is. 6rf. 

 each; 35s., 45s., 70s., 90s. per 100. Home-grown bulbs, 9d., 

 Is., Is. 6d., 2s. each. Special Trade quotation for quantities. 

 JAPANESE MAPLES. Silver Banksian Medal. 



„ TREE PEONIES, 7 First-class Certificates. 



,, IRIS, most gorgeous, 4 First-class Certificates. 



CATALOGUE of the above on application to 

 The Nurseries, Amyand Park Road, Twickenham. 



A LARGE LIST of CYPRIPEDIUM 

 disposable for the Trade, is sent free on demand by 

 ED. PYNAERT, Nurseryman, Ghent, Belgium. 



