Jory 6. 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 5 
ІАХТОМ З STRAWBERRIES. 
TWO GRAND NEW & DISTINCT VARIETIES FOR 1895. 
Both First-class Certificates Royal Horticultural Society. 
MONARCH. 
To E 7 SOVEREIGN. 
flavour very ric 
— gro cropper. Compact habit 
Brilliant scarlet 
enormous size, | 
LEADER. 
Handsome main crop, rich crimson colour, of 
the largest — fruit weighing 2 028. — true 
Pine-like flav 
Both equally as indispensable as ROYAL SOVEREIGN fo di Grower's, 
Price, open ground, £3 per 100, 12s. per dozen; in pots, £4 per 100, 15s. per dozen. 
These Varieties can on'y be obtained Direct from us. 
Also ROYAL SOVEREICN, price 20s. per 100; in pots, 27s. 6d. per 100. 
And every other variety worth growing. 
Lists ON APPLICATION, 
LAXTON BROTHERS, BEDFORD. 
LILY BULBS, 
PLANTS, SEEDS, &c. 
CATALOGUE on application. 
vincent NURSERIES 
omagomi, Tokio, Japan. 
Cable tie “t NURSERIES, Токто. 
. TAKAGHI, Proprietor. 
STRAWBERRIES, 
All the leading yere new or old, in small 
гё for RE, first yea 0 ir plants, very 
Special low сы ie. quantities for 
Market aioe ak 
FRUIT TR TREES 
OF ALL SORTS. SEND FOR LISTS. 
JOHN WATKINS, 
POMONA FARM NURSERIES, WITHINGTON, HEREFORD. 
“KENT, THE CARDEN OF ENCLAND.” 
GEORGE BUNYARD & 00. 
to ask Buyers to consult their 1895 
STRAWBERRY LIST 
Thur Pianta wil bo grana, both for Foretag tn 
little pots, and as Runners. 
SEND ORDERS AND ENQUIRIES DIRECT ТО— 
THE OLD NURSERIES, MAIDSTONE. 
STRAWBERRIES. 
.ROYAL SOVEREIGN, 
of INDIA, LORD SUFFIELD, газак apad РАВК, 
ALL THE BEST NOVELTIES, 
Descriptive ILLUSTRATED CATA Lav Now Ready, 
ree on application 
J. R. PEARSON & SONS, 
CHILWELL NURSERIES. NOTTS. 
E 1 R N 8 SPECIALITY. 
Collection is unri 400 species and varieties 
of Sto 44 — pt yore "Filmy, tardy} Exodo. and British Уели 
— aionsdan of these or specially cheap 
see our node talogue, free on application, 
Was & J. E BIREENHRAD, RJ; : 
FES, SALE, near MANCHESTER, 
“FOR PRESENT AND LATER SOWING, 
WALLFLOWERS, 
Per packet, 
ye ала 18., 
by Post. 
Choice Mixed DOUBLE WALULOWER, 3 MYOSOTIS, 
SILENES, &c. For Prices and all other —— culars, see our 
ILLUSTRATED P^ abd free on ded x cation. 
DIGKSONS, simos. CHESTER. 
THE NEW EARLY STRAWBERRY = 5 1895, 
The w — — in „ i very prolific. 
Solid ius dertisen flavour, high rfume. 
KSONS GOLDEN BEAUTY, 
DICKSONS SELECTED as RED, 
DICKSONS PRIMROSE DA 
. #5 рег 100 . 
T 100 Ds. per dozen 
Ready for de elivery early in "July. 
EARLY ORDERS REQUESTED, AS STOCK IS LIMITED. 
Further particulars upon application. 
Wm. CUTBUSH & SON, Highgate Nurseries, London; 
And BaRNET, HERTS, 
FERNS! —FERNS!! 
ell-grown Stuff, at Moderate Prices. 
A " pend in . Bagg pots, chiefiy ; 1 
aoa p E ineata, Adiantum fulvum and 
— 
Good od bushy mfi in 48' Oen Boe! — nobilis, 
A vens pum agg AE tp veniae dioi 
free. Allorders carefully and Шу and promptly executed. 
B. PRIMROSE, 
NURSERIES, ST. JOHN’S PARE, BLACKHEATH, 8.E. 
Packing 
ALMS, FICUS, FERNS, , in any 
quantity.—PAL P. Mixed 6s., 125., 18s, ee qve - 
FICUS ELASTICA..  . 5s., 
NHAIR FERNS 3s 
^» „ LI * 
2s., 63., 12s., 24s. 85 
2s., 63., 98. A 
25., 6s., Or., 12s, 15 
N., 12$, 183. s 
DULLEOPION et PLANTS ue AV 08., Dé, 1%, 
Carefully packed, free on rail. Cash with Order. —ALFRED 
MARTIN, Florist, Wiltshire Road, Brixton, a, London, S. W. 
SINGLE BEGONIA SHOW. 
ONES 
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es ape Invites all а ——.— (both 
and Trade), to аршы d — 
ән, which is admi any 
seen them to be the finest . in the omit 
RYECROFT NURSERY, HITHER GREEN, 
LEWISHAM. 
FERNS, in variety ... 295 
CYPERUS ALTERNIFOLIUS one 
oe fret ge rg «s 
LANTS, Mixed 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1895. 
PETER COLLINSON. 
P may be fairly questioned whether the 
annals of horticulture contain а more 
anomalous an individuality than that of Peter 
Collinson, who did more to eacourage the culti- 
vation of exotic plants during the earlier half 
of the last century than any other man, and who 
never wrote a book! It is more than passing 
strange that this restless and enthusiastic culti- 
vator should have fallen into the great obscurity 
which surrounds his name and his work; for 
even the memoir of him in the Dictionary of 
National Biography, by tbe late Robert Hunt, 
F. R. S. (vol. xi, pp. 382-3), is far from satis- 
than not the only species of gratitude vouchsafed 
to men who have done much on behalf of their 
country; but if the post-mortem eulogies of 
Peter Collinson have been few, faint, and far 
between, he enjoyed the much more substantial 
and satisfying advantages of an exoeedingly wide 
repute and appreciation during half a century of 
his long and busy life. 
eter Collinson was born at the paternal estate 
of Hugall Hall, or Height of Hugal, near Win- 
dermere Lake, in the parish of — 25 about 
ten miles from Kendal, Westm 
January 14, 1693-4. His parents were me 
of the Society of d and were ауа іп 
business as mercers, very early age Peter 
developed a passion for ана history, and when 
quite a young man had secured the friendship 
of the leading naturalists of the day—Doctors 
erham, Woodward, Dale, Lloyd, and Sir Hans 
Sloane. The Earl of Bute was another distin- 
guished naturalist who encouraged Collinson; 
and it was at the suggestion of the latter that 
Admiral Sir Charles Wager systematised his 
эса ch for 
during his voyages—a considerable, Portion of 
the collections thus formed to the pos- 
session of Sir Hans Sloane, now an jütegral part 
of the British Museum. Collinson naturally 
experienced no difficulty in becoming a Fellow of 
the Royal Society—in his time, as present, the 
most exolusive of the learned bodies in this 
country—and was elected December 12, 1728, at 
the unusually early age of thirty-four years. 
H 
of time are described as such that, 
= though he never appeared to be in a hurry, he 
ed an extensive correspondence with 
ком punctuality ; ; aequainting the learned and 
ious in different parts of the globe with 
the discoveries and improvements in natural 
