Мо+кмвкн 30, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
үтен e FRENCH BEAN. 
First-class Certificate R.H.S. 
ADMITTEDLY FOR YEARS. 
Equally good for forcing, or r for open ground, 
Sealed Packets, 1s. Pint Packets, 1s. 6d. 
Trade Terms and Testimonials on application. 
ROBERT VEITCH & SON, 
EXETER. 
AN ist WATERER 
wn TRENS, having stout, peen, stems 
nished, ‘well -balan mene md d from 
wi 
freque r 
ACER —€——— 14 to 20 feet. 
LACINIATUM. 10 to 14 feet. 
tandards, 8 to 10 feet. 
etes cg 12 fee 
H, Purple | Byram, and Standards, 10 to 20 feet. 
BIRCH, "silver, 127 to 14 fee 
CERA SEROTINA (American Bird Cherry), 12 to 16 feet, 
All our Lim imes are t the best red-twi 
vpn e s 12 to 14 
— vende to 14 feet. 
тірей variety. 
SKOA MORE, 
Purple. 14 to 1 Tp 
THORNS. Double Pink, 8 to 10 feet. 
Paul's gute Scarlet, 8 z 10 feet, 
„Double White, 8 to 10 fee 
WEEPING TREES. 
ECH, Weeping, Pyramids, and Standards, 8 to 12 fee 
4 Weeping. Purple, Pyramids, and Standards, 7 “to + feet. 
BIRCH, You tet eeping, Pyramids, and Standards, 8 to 
t-lea! — d Standards, 10 to 12 ft. 
ELMS, Weeping, Geran d Standards 7 to 14 feet. 
LARCH, Weeping, а 8 Qo 10 foot 
KNAP HILL NURSERY, WOKING, SURREY. 
FRUIT TREES A SPECIALTY. 
STRAWBERRIES. 
berry for 
x Амо ай the Best of ie New and Old. Varieties. including 
Competitor, Sensati 1, Allan’s New Ones, &c. 
FRUIT TREES of all sors, in all forms, 
Send for Descriptive Catalog 
JOHN WATKINS, 
POMONA FARM NURSERIES, WITHINGTON, HEREFORD 
KENT: THE CARDEN OF ENGLAND, 
SUPERIOR KENT ROSES. 
George Bunyard & Oo., 
ROYAL NURSERIES, MAIDSTONE, 
Are offering well-grown and finely-rooted Roses 
at the following cash prices. Package free, 
Selection left to themselves. 
SUPERIOR Н.Р. STANDARDS, 21 to 34 feet stems, assorted, 
ce, per dozen, 18s. to 24s 
HALE-STANDARD H.P.s, 1 to 2 feet stems, choice, per 
dozen, 12s, to 18s. 
STANDARD о A? CU КАЗА TEAS and NOISETTES, 
D -8 , 
CHINA, MOSS, and PROVENCE ROSES, per dozen, 6s. to 9з. 
Copies of б. B. & Co.'s Fruit List, 6 stamps. 
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13. 
SANDER S 
GREAT XMAS. SALE 
PRELIMINARY NOTICE. 
10,000 ORCHIDS 
WITHOUT ANY RESERVE. 
For AMATEURS and THE TRADE. 
SWAINSON'S TRUE O LABIATA, 
ANDERS 
RED AND WHITE UNRIVALLED TYPE, 
100 NEW HYBRID ORCHIDS, 
NEW LZLIAS, WHITE LJELIAS, 
with PARENTAGES GUARANTEED. 
Cc 
NEW GUINEA ORCHIDS, 
EAST INDIAN ORCHIDS, 
VANDA CCERULEA, in grand order, 
MEXICAN ORCHIDS, 
LZELIA TENEBROSA, SANDER'S Type, 
found growing with 
CATTLEYA wee ait Gee, > papa pé 
These plants, without doubt, con ng th 
the rare and beautiful hybrid 
GOTTOIANA and ALBANENSE, 
All the plants offered are in wonderfal order, 
—1 a more varied and remarkable lot we have 
never seen. 
ALSO 
ODONTOGLOSSUM ROSSII MAJUS, 
ODONTOGLOSSUM — p and 
DECORUM VABIETIE 
ODONTOGLOSSUM VEXILLARIOM, 
SANDER’S RADIATUM TYPE, 
MILTONIA WARSCEWICZII (Oncidium 
fuscatum), 
CATTLEYA SCHOFIELDIANA AUREA ? 
ONCIDIUM PHYMATOCHILUM, 
BOTANICAL ORCHIDS, various, 10 in a lot. 
YPRIPEDES and DENDROBES FROM 
ANNAM. 
a 
BUY SANDER’S CATTLEYA LABIATA 
to have the grandest, brightest, and most 
beautiful of all types. 
IT IS SWAINSON’S GENUINE OLD LAE 
the best and only true unrivalled, у= 
hite and Red iege — в, indescribabl 
d of the most 
5 т. WM. HENRY PROTHEROR, the great Plant 
2 794 гереа stated from his 
rostrum in Chespside: —“ Sander's labiata is 
the best of all; of. this I am quite satisfi 
TO BE — ач AUCTION BY 
PROTHEROE & MORRIS, 
CHEAPSIDE, LOND 
ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13 “1895. 
Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1895, 
FERNS IN POTS. 
A ve enquiry was made by a correspondent, 
B. C.,” so long ago as last June, 
as to —.— any British species of Ferns 
are grown in pots, and a suggestion that 
a further description would be of in 
would, in the first place, refer him E the view 
of my fernery, whioh appeared in these pages 
(Aug. 27, ip together with some details 
which he find of value, As regards 
oulture or cnet most of the plants are in 
pots, an only a few actually in the soil, 
reaso 
induced by a covering of glass, speedily interfere 
with one another as they develop, and form a 
jangle in which the individual beauty of each 
plant is altogether marred or hidden. If in pots, 
shift and readjust from time to time as the need 
for greater space arises, Another advantage is 
in the deciduo 
evergreen ones can be 
ч, во as to maintaina good effect while, 
in the soil itself, sbifting at that time 
f various forms, and mix 
and all others, as far as possible, with burrs, 
fact, the plan of my fernery is all rockwork, 
and instead of planting the Ferns alone in the 
nooks and crannies created for them, I insert 
e pots as well, The fernery is somewhat 
oblong, 18 by 14, one end being formed by the 
wall of the dwelling-house containing the dining- 
room window, an opposite end by a very 
roughly - built burr wall, As an amusin 
instance of the British workman’s peculiarities, 
I may mention that, having provided so many 
loads of burrs for the bricklayers for this wall, 
I had occasion to be absent for a few days, an 
on my return, found a plain ordinary brick wall 
erected, it being, as I was told, “ impossible to 
build a wall with stuff like that supplied.” I 
made them pull it down, and called in an intel- 
ligent blacksmith, who undertook the job, and 
€ it t splendidly. Upon this wall there are 
sitem л 
aue curved pieces of cork wired strongly 
together with copper wire to the requisite size 
and shape, and then tied by same means to 
p and hooks driven into the w These 
eceptacles are filled with soil, and not only hold 
lathe as pots would do, but also acoommodate 
a number which were inserted as seedlings into 
holes made through the cork here, there, and 
that the wall is fairly covered with foliage, The 
roof at this end, being boarded over for about 
