THE 
DECEMBER 19, 1874.] 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
THE MOST IMPORTANT PRIZE 
GARDENERS, 
AMATEURS, and OTHERS, 
During the year 1875, is 
THE CARTER CUP, 
VALUE FIFTY GUINEAS, 
becom tis absolute Property of of 
"GENTLEMEN, 
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1874. 
pa AE AE ES. 
AT GHENT. 
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ST PRIZE—The “CARTER CUP,” Value 
GUINEAS, to become the absolute property pe the 
warded, 
Carter’s ee -in-Chief 
Carter’s New ene Long Pod B 
*Carter’s New Fern-leaved Parsley, and d Little Heath 
Melon. 
oops oii y, thet wouid be eee es 
E i variety would be eligible. 
etables to be grown b Sip aad 
ace nin re and ti Oe 
or Cucumbers 1 brace; Beet, 3; Pi 
; Celery, 3; Broad Beans, 18 
Beans, 
amy luable prizes will ‘is be offered at the cog tee rer 
ef the al =e erica ‘Society during the year by JAM 
CARTER 
Pretty F. ows in Winter and Spring 
s Popular Guinea Collection of Bulbs 
he OPEN UND, contains :— 
Named Striped Cro 
Hj ee. so TET eit 
is Extra Fine Spanish Iris 
so Winter footie 
25 on Fine Persian Ranun- 
25 Extra "Fine / Ane 
ean Fritillarias, 
‘32 Blue Ses 
- -PACKING AND CARRIAGE 
ormer COLLECTIONS, Sete = TO, dat, 635, and Ba. 
eaha Deedes S SAT CAME HRE 
SARTRE *s, 
Seedsmen, High, H 
Royal sige teak wie. 
m P. .) 
is ORE taking leave of the Messieurs 
Gazelle, the great courtesy and obliging 
reception met with from them and all the other 
horticulturists of Ghent, whether major or minor. 
must not be passed over without thankful ac- 
The 
sional or social airs, doing 
working ume, 
the damps of the soil by those excellent non- 
conductors, en shoes ; which their wives 
also do not disdain to wear upon occasion. 
They manifest no wish to keep secret, processes 
which many people might endeavour to conceal. 
Such details of their art as can be conveyed by 
telling and showing, they seem perfectly willing 
to communicate. The real secret of success 
lies, in fact, not in knowing the way in which a 
thing is done, but in the practical skill, e; 
perfect manipulation, and the completed ex 
rience, acquired by doing it long and eers 
The visitor desirous of seeing how Camellias or 
Azaleas are propagated ; how long they, or 
other cuttings or grafts are kept éfou fées, stifled 
close unger double, sometimes triple glass ; the 
of these 
their work in rough 
instance, Merbicesus Calecolartas maintain fer 
parti-coloured flowers—such knowledge as this, 
and more, the visitor to Ghent can acquire 
without difficulty, through the amiable desire of 
its horticulturists to oblige inquiring strangers. 
nq takes 
wed moet: it, and is not a mere idle lounger, or 
ner for Sac anaa sake. Pretty things 
and nice specimens are to be found up 
amongst them. Their picts ermar are mod 
as most of the trade are well aware ; and, like 
other weak creatures here below, w, they have no 
objection to ready money. Probably, they may 
often act as propagators and providers to the 
horticultural grandees of the place; but about 
those business matters a casual y visitor has no 
as we have always been, With an affable and 
ready welcome. 
Through M. Gazelle’s back-garden gate we 
step into grounds occupied by Monsieur F. 
Vandriessche- Leys — which combination of 
proper names means that Mr. Vandriessche 
married s Leys. Here we have a different 
culture, Witt’ a different object. The plants are 
anything but show plants, being stuck about 
the houses anyhow, run up o’ legs, grown into 
shapeless masses — vide the double scarlet 
wig, rem ian in ae like ill-pruned Goose- 
berry bushes e even shoved away into 
may be. M. Vandriessche shares wi 
inner darkness, = bet allin as flowering trim as 
ith M, 
Gazelle the cellars of the iia Hopia rae 
is, M. Vandriessche 
so many prizes for bouquets and so forth that 
his walls are hung with medals, framed and 
glazed, the bouquets wae gained 114 of re 
rewards, the “ so forth” Last year he 
sold 14,000 francs’ (or E £660) worth of bouquets, 
dispersing them, like the picture on the Mul- 
exact point on the compass would be hard to 
indicate. The above-mentioned sum is easy to 
reach when bouquets are sent off at 206 francs 
a-piece. is a rumour that certain 
y, th 
brides refuse to be ma 
driessche-Leys bouquet. i f they would hold out 
in their resolution I cannot tell. T who 
want one must apply, not to the back gate, by 
which we je admittance, but to No. 87, Rue 
d’Akke 
et just fin finished off ; oe but a centre 
of Orange flower buds oe October), with an 
outer border of their natural the whole 
trimmed, not too startet, with white satin and 
real lace. In our su t the 
price, as well as the name of the fair destinataire. 
The circular box was ready to receive it, and to 
prevent all evaporation on the way. No doubt 
she got eA still laden with its overpowering 
ragrance. By this time her honeymoon i is over, 
vulgar say, tied a knot with her tongue which 
she can’t untie with her teeth. 
The bouquet, before completion, passes 
through several hands, and is composed of 
several elements. First, the master takes a 
basket and gathers the flowers which he judges 
"7 e for its composition. These he hands to 
1g them to t ried Ru oe 
slender and light support. As each flower is 
mounted, he sticks the lower end of each arti- 
ficial flower-stilt be a box of sand, which thus 
serves as a pin ushion. The arrangement of 
the bouquet is sis his business—though in case 
of need he might acquit himself fairly—but 
Madame’s, whose taste is supposed to be supe- 
rior. She has ons of moss 
made and kept in stock ; a baiio of Box from 
an edging is sometimes used for small and low- 
whole is then slipped into a cardboard c 
holder fringed with real or imitation paper lace, 
and the thing is done. No engraving, without 
colour, would give an idea of the beauty of 
effect. gg ie EE » UE 3 
is to si s surface with water, — 
sa it cape covers Byres wo 
the night. Sticking a mounted into a 
jar of water, to preserve it, has been compared 
o a Chelsea pensioner’s es his two wooden 
pe into a hot foot-bath to 
_ Since the invention of caller , bouquets, 
ve penetrated into regions where 
ose Counteies 
ners to, and useless ig a nosegay, 
for whose reception a basher" vase, a 
eal or a „button -hole, are t 
