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GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



October r f 1898. 



E.C.K., Douglas, Isle of Man: I, Stoke Edith Pippin ; 2, not recognised. 

 If you can send us another specimen when the season is a little more advanced, 

 we will again endeavour to identify it, 



G.L. and S., Malton : The variety is probably a local seedling, and seems to 

 be intermediate between Calville St. Saviour and Catshead. 



L.W., Hitchen: I, Lord Derby; 2, Kerry Pippin; 3, Queen Caroline; 4, 

 Loddington ; 5, M£re de Manage. 



S.S.J., Merton : 1, Beurre Bosc ; 2, Ecklinville ; 3, Gravenstein. 



D.F., Derby: 1, Court Pendu Plat ; 2, Adams' Pearmain ; 3, Alfriston ; 4, 

 New Hawthornden. 



MJ.C , Abergele : 1, Catshead ; 2, Mere de Menage ; 3, Warner's King, 4, 

 Lane's Prince Albert. 



G. T., Guildford: 1, Keswick Codlin ; 2, Lord Grosvenor ; 3, not recog- 

 nised ; 4, Allen's Everlasting. 



Markets. 



Covent Garden, 



re fairly good supplies of fruit and vegetables, and these sell 

 There is a slight improvement in trade general* ? as ; SdS 

 cr. The cut flower trade is also hricrV»t^ J ' uuuuays 



at moderate 



Fruit.— English apples, 3s. to 7s. 6d. per bushel : Enelish mnw ^ ♦ 

 *y, 6d. to 5* per lb.; Denia, 5s. to 7 s. 6d. 



case : Victoria 



3S. per half- 



NATIONAL CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



A Floral Committee meeting of the above society was held at the Royal 

 Aquarium on September 26, the meeting was a small one. Among the most 

 notable exhibits was the early flowering chrysanthemum, Norbet Puvrez, a rich 

 coppery-red flower, rather small, but very pretty and extremely free and very 

 dwarf ; it was shown by Mr. J. H. Witty, Nunhead Cemetery. Yellow Queen, 

 a sport from Queen of the Earlies, was sent by Mr. G. Thurssell, GofPs Oak', 

 Cheshunt, and this the committee desired to see again. Crimson Pride a rich 

 crimson variety, with fairly large flowers, was certificated for its earliness and 

 value for cutting ; it is in the way of Mons. Menier, but evidently earlier, and 

 with less gold on the reverse of the florets; this was shown by Mr. Wells 

 Earlswood, who also sent a bunch of Henri Yvon, a pretty buff and rose variety* 

 a sport from M. Gustave Grunerwald. Soliel d'October, a good early exhibition 

 Japanese variety, shown by Mr. H. J. Jones, Ryecroft Nursery, Lewisham, 

 occasioned a good deal of comment, and only lost a certificate by one vote • the 

 petals are long and drooping, soft yellow, with pale straw yellow reverse. 



Some new tubes for cut blooms were shown by Mr. J. Pinches, Haymarket 

 but they did not meet the approval of the committee, neither did the tube shown 

 by Mr. Burgin, St. Neot's, which was a rather complicated article. By means of 

 additional extension tubes, Mr. Pinche's arrangement could be used so as to raise 

 a flower fully eighteen inches all over the show board, and thus display to the full 

 those forms with long drooping segments. 



bunch ; Spanish melons, 5s. to >s. p^r case. ° ~ ' 5S ' 10 I0S * I» 



FLOWERS.-Arums, 3s. to 4s. ; carnations, is. to 2s. ; chrysanthemums, white 

 and yellow, is. to 3s. ; euchans, 3s to 4s. ; gardenias, is. to 2s. 6d. ; Lilium HarrJ qs 

 to 4 s. ; tea roses, 6d. to is. ; pink roses, is. to 3 s. ; red roses, 6d. to is. ; cattle^ 

 Ss. to 9s. ; Odontoglossum cnspum, 2s. to 4s. ; and tuberoses. 3d. to is ™- 

 dozen blooms ; Adiantum cuneatum, 4s. to 8s. ; marguerites, 2s. to 4s. : mimonettP 

 as. to 4s. ; Sweet Sultan, is. to 2s. ; pelargoniums (scarlet), 3 s. to qs. per dozen 

 bunches ; stephanotis, is. to is. 6d. ; lily of the valley, is. to 2s. ; white gladiolus 8d 

 to is. ; and pelargoniums, 4d. to 6d. per dozen sprays. 



j ^3 • j cucumbers > 2S. to 4s. : cauliflower* 



is. 3d. to 2s. per dozen ; tdrnips, 2s. 6& to 3s. 6d. ; carrots, 2s. to 3 s. : parsley 2s' 

 to 2s. 6d. ; mint, 2s. to 2s. 6d. ; leeks, 2s. per dozen ; vegetable marrows qs 6d to 

 6s. 6d. ; cabbages, 3s. to 5s. ; beetroots, 2s. to 3s. per tally ; Valencia onions, 5s. to 

 6s. 6d.; Ports, 5s. 6d. to 6s. 6d. per case; mushrooms, 5s. to 8s.; eschallots 

 is. 3d. to is. 9d. per 12 lb.; celery, 10s. to 15s. per dozen rolls; scarlet beans' 

 2s. 6d.to 4s. per bushel ; potatos, 50s. to 90s. per ton. 1 



Borough Potato Market. 



There is a good average demand for the season, and a fair supply to meet it 

 Prices are practically the same as last advised. Beauty of Hebron and Snowdrops' 

 3s. 6d. ito 4s. ; White Hebrons, Early Puritan, Sutton's Early Regents, Reading 

 Giants, and Imperators, 3s. to 3s. 6d. ; Black La nds, 2s. 6d. to 2s. 9d. 



THE WEATHER during the Week 



Stations. 



Temperature of the Air. 



Rainfall. 



Highest. J Lowest 

 Fahrenheit. 



Mean. 



In Centi 

 metres. 



Mr. James Mitchell, for the past four years general foreman at Castle Bar 

 ™ been appointed gardener to Sir Charles Barrington, Bart., Glenstal Castle 

 Muroe, Co. Limerick. 



Contents. 



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A Curious Primula 

 A Morning Mixture 

 Answers to Correspoi 

 Daffodil Plan iing 



Engagements for the Ensuing Weel 



Exhibitions and Meetings : — 

 Cheltenham Flower Show 

 Ormskirk Horticultural Society 

 Shirley Gardeners' Mutual I: 

 ment Association 



Fibrous-rooted Begonias 



Hibiscus Manihot 



Homology of Plants 



Markets » 



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National Chrysanthemum Society , 

 Polyantha Rose, Perle des Rouges'... 

 Remarkable Changes in Butterflies 



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Notes of the Week :- 



Plant Surgery 



Taking Notes 



The Chrysanthemum Rust 

 Royal Horticultural Society's Great 



e Show 



Summer Bedding at Hampton Court 

 The Apple Crop 



Two New Strawberries 



Weather 



Work for the Week 



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London 



Croydon 



Brighton 



Bristol 



Wolverhampton 



Norwich 



Nottingham 



Liverpool 



Huddersfield .. 



Bradford 



Hull 



74'6 

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79"2 

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c Tri! an readm S 0I " tn e Barometer during the week at Greenwich was 29*94 inches, and that 

 of the Thermometer 57°*2, the latter being i°*4 above the week's average in the 50 years 

 1841—90. The direction of the wind was variable, the horizontal movement of the air being 

 16 per cent, below the week's average in the 16 years 1860—75. The duration of registered brigh I 

 sunshine in the week was 33*8 hours. The measured rainfall amounted to 0*12 of an inch. 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



A Curious Chinese Primula, Bouquet 

 Polyantha Rose, Perle des Rouges 

 Strawberry Exquisite ... .„ „, 

 Strawberry Veitch's Prolific , 



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grand™ ^ESl cu^SmSnr^^r lhc 2? im P° rta nt P eriods b th « life of the &™er. and 

 ^U^^SSIS^^ '^curable, he naturally, during the latter period, hopes to 



fndusiy hai been exe^i^^hA ^ ' * h * ^ he expcCtS t0 rea P' and unIess co ™*** 

 we ^ noT^rc^ !? S^erally a poor one. So it is with regard to health, if 



the bodXcome™ watch and destroy the germs of disease as soon as they are discerned, 



noSf^^^SS^l^, at if "? Unable to the attacks of the enemy! 



^SS^^^^^^. f* minute trac " of disease, by purifying the blood and 



ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 



MEETINGS. 



I uesday, October 4.— Scottish Horticultural Association. 



Wednesday, October 5.— United Horticultural Benefit and Provident Society : Annual Dinner 

 at the Holborn Restaurant at 6.30 p.m. ; chair to be taken by Mr. George Bunyard, V.M.H. 



^ AUCTIONS. 

 Monday^ Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, October 3, 4> Si *> A ** D Jf7 



Hyacinths, Tulips, Crocus, Narcissus, Dutch Bulbs, &c, Messrs. Protheroe and Morris s 

 Rooms, Cheapside, E.C. 

 Wednesday, October 5.— Azalea Indica, Azalea Mollis, Rhododendrons, Camellias, Stove and 



Greenhouse Ferns, &c., Messrs. Protheroe and Morris's Rooms, Cheapside, E.C. 

 Wednesday and Thursday, October 5 and 6.— Nursery Stock, Messrs. Protheroe and 

 Morris, Tunbridge Wells Nurseries. „ . . 



*rii>ay, October 7.— Imported and Established Orchids, Messrs. Protheroe and Morns s 



Rooms, Cheapside, E.C. 

 Nearly Every DAY-Dutch Bulbs, Mr. J. C. Stevens, King Street, Covent Garden. 



THE L0U8HB0R0U8H BOILER. 



Pioneer of Cheap, simple, and Effeotlve 



Heating 



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Or©enhou*e» 



17,000 



im 



mense 

 ■ale of thif 

 Boiler and 

 the Homer* 



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THREE GOLD MEDALS FOR ROSES IN 1898 



WM 



PAUL 



AND 



SON 



Appointment to Her Majesty The Q 



5 



Merchants, 



WALT 



AM CROSS 



ERTS 



Respectfully solicit orders for their unrivalled stock of 



IN 



5? \ 40 ** iS *** ot a inoh pipe - * a «^ od. 



" SL^i * « - *5 10«, Od. 

 AJeo made in larger aiaeii 



Oomplate Apparatus from MA lea. 



Brtimatea and Illutrated Listi free, 



MESSENGER A.D JO.. U WTED, LOUGHBOROUBH, 



London Ofltoe 



™*m* roar iiiii mmin 



STANDARDS 

 HALF STANDARDS 

 DWARF STAND ARE 



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• ■ § 



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from 18b. dozen, 

 from 15 a. 

 from 10m. 



ALL 



FORMS 



1J 



DWARFS or BUSHES 



CLIMBERS 



ROSES IN POTS ... 



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They also beg to call attention to their extensive collections of 



from 6«. dozen 

 from 6S. 

 from 10/6 



Trees 



mbing Plants, Camellias and Azalea 



the 



best 



ON APPLICATION. 



NOTE 



(CHRYSANTHEMUM 



Now is the time 



a. Post free u. Cftn be seen at Wineries 



^ 1° ?*? b7 WM - PAUl SO* i. partioularly nn. tti. 



IMPORTANT ! OBSERVE CHRISTIAN NAME AND ADDRESS; 



WM. PAUL and SON, WALT HA Art CROSS, HERTS 



