June 6,1896. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
489 
THE NEW EAREY 
STRAWBERRY 11895, 
STEVENS’ WONDER. 
The earliest variety in cultivation and very prolific; solid fruit, 
good fiavour, high perfume. 
Awarded First-class Certificates, Royal HoHicuUural Society, and 
Royal Botanic Society, 1895. see Gardeners' Chronicle, March 2; 
Jourruil of Horticulture, March 14; and The Garden, March 16. 
Having purchased the whole of the stock of this grand new 
early Strawberry from the raiser, wa have pleasure in offering 
it as follows :— 
STRONG PLANTS, in Pots, £5 per 100,15/- per doz. 
,. RUNNERS .... £3 „ „ 9/- „ „ 
Ready for delivery early in July. Early Orders requested as 
stock IS limited. Further particulars upon application. 
WM. CUTBUSH & SON, 
HI6H6ATE NURSERIES, LONDON, N., AND BARNET, HERTS. 
JACK FROST 
Has caused many losses that can be made good in an easy and 
cheap manner by purchasing the following Bulbs and Plants, 
which I can strongly recommend as being first class 
BEGONIAS, SINGLE, 
20,000 Grand Bulbs, Mixed Colours, finest ever offered at the 
price. 3s. per dozen. 
PELARGONIUMS, SHOW & decoratite. 
Pine Plants in Best Kinds, 6s., 98., and 12s. per dozen. 
ZONAL PELARGONIUMS, 
Best Kinds only. 6 for 2s. 6d., 12 for 4s. 
IVr-LEAF PELARGONIUMS. 
A Very Choice Lot. 6 for 2s. 6d., 12 for 4s. 
DOUBLE PETUNIAS, 
Extra fine New Kinds. 6 for 3s. 6d., 12 for 6S. 
Send for Catalogue, Free, 
HITHER GREEN, LEWISHAM. 
PAUL & SON’S 
OIIESISIXT7N7, 
OFFER FOR DELIVERY 
THREE NEW ROSES for 1895. 
PAULS’ CARMINE PILLAR, 
The New Single Pillar Rose, with fiowers 4 in. across, produced 
in immense abundance, plants 8 to 9 ft. high, uninjured by 
frost. Award of Merit, R.H.S.; Floral Certificate, R.B.S. 
Plants in Pots, 7/6 each. 
H.P. T. B. HAYWOOD, 
A large, perfectly formed. Dark Crimson Scarlet A. Oolomb. 
H.P. BACCHUS, 
The New Violet Crimson. 
Both grand additions to the Crimson H.P.’s. In Pots, 10/6 each 
The New Orange Yellow Climbing Rose, 
ALISTER STELLA GRAY, 
A free continuous-fiowering companion to Turner’s Crimson 
Rambler. In Pots, 3/6 each. 
TURNER’S CRIMSON RAMBLER, 
Plants in Pots, 1/6, 2/6, and 3/6 each. 
Lord Penzance’s SWEET BRIARS, 
5/- each ; the Set of 9 for 42/-. 
NEW FRENCH & BRITISH ROSES of 1894-95. 
WUW TDTQTI POflFC belle siebrecht, &c., 
iiriM lulOll IIUOLO, Raiser’s Plants, 10,6 each. 
NEW ROSES of 1892-4, 
A selection of the best, 30/- per doz.; Extra-sized Roses in Pots, 
30/- per doz. 
New Catalogue of Roses, Florists' Flowers, do., Now 
Ready, Free on Application to —THE 
OLD NURSERIES, CHESHUNT, N. 
the HERCULES.— Registered. 
TENANT’S FIXTURE PORTABLE SPAN-ROOF CURVILINEAR 
CONSERVATORY or GREENHOUSE 
No brickwork required. These houses are made of the best 
materials, painted four coats, and glazed with 21oz. clear sheet 
glass, a flat painted stage is fixed on each side and one end, and 
slatted path up centre. 
Cash prick, Carriage Paid to nearest Station in England A: Wales, 
within 100 miles of Tunbridge Wells—fixed free 
Length 9 ft.. Width, 6 ft., £15 0 0 —Width 8 ft., £19 0 0 
» 12 ft., „ „ 19 0 0— „ „ 24 0 0 
« 15 ft.„ „ 29 0 0 
CUCUMBER & MELON FRAMES, 
Painted three coats, and Glazed with 21oz. Glass. 
1 Light Frame, 4 ft. by 6 ft.£110 0 
» 8 ft. by 6 ft. 2 10 0 
Violet Frame, 4 ft. by 6 ft. 17 6 
Carnage Paid on Orders amounting to iOs. and upwards to any 
Goods Station in England and Wales. 
No. 780.—ToL. XXX,, Third Skribs, 
GATHER HONEY FROM YOUR FLOWERS. 
WHY NOT COMMENCE BEE-KEEPING? 
Fruit trees to which Bees have access bear the most abundant crops 
GEO. NEIGHBOUR & SONS’ 
BEE-HIVES 
And APPUATTCES. 
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE POST FREE. 
127, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C. 
(Comer of Southampton Street.) 
FEED’S CALADIUMS. 
Awarded a Silver-Gilt Flora Medal at tlie 
R.H.S. Temple Show, May, 1895. 
Eeports from the Horticultural Press, May 25, 1895. 
Gardeners’ Chronicle: —“Messrs. John Peed & Sons staged a 
collection remarkable for the perfect colour of many of the 
varieties included.The collection was extremely 
praiseworthy.” 
The Garden: —“The best group of Oaladiums was that from 
Messrs. J. Peed & Sons, the plants being noteworthy for their 
bright colours, and many most charming varieties were shown.” 
The Gardeners' Magazine :—*' Messrs. J. Peed & Sons surpassed 
themselves with Oaladiums; the specimens were of good size, 
splendidly coloured, and nicely set up.” 
CALADIUM CATALOGUE free on application. 
JOHN PEED & SONS, 
Roupell Park Nurseries, LONDON, S.E. 
FERNS SPEcfALITY. 
We have an immense stock of all kinds of Ferns, Stove, Green¬ 
house, Filmy, Hardy Exotic, and British, including many very 
beautiful varieties, rarely seen but which ought to be more 
generally grown. Catalogue free on application. 
W. & J. BIRKENHEAD, F.R.H.S., 
FERN NVRSERJES, SALE, near MANCHESTER. 
I 
THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1895. 
HOW GARDENERS ARE MADE. 
F rom a cursory review of the swelling ranks 
of the great army of gardeners, conclusions 
may be drawn that the noticeable congestion 
is a natural result of the increase of population, 
a cause which by analogous reasoning should 
produce the same effect in all the various trades 
and professions. With some, indeed, it may to 
an extent do so, but not in any does it appear 
to be more acutely felt than in gardening. With¬ 
out ignoring the waves of depression which 
periodically affect other classes of the com¬ 
munity, they are more of the spasmodic kind 
than those which immediately concern us, which 
by their persistence may now be regarded as 
chronic. 
The rising generation of our large industrial 
centres have to-day many new channels opened 
to absorb their energy, and, I think, the City 
boy bred and born under the more exciting 
conditions of life is apt to look on gardening 
as “ rather slow.” Hence, recruiting from this 
quarter is not a prominent feature in the ques¬ 
tion. Obviously, there are many reared under 
the same conditions who cannot be included in 
this category, yet are precluded by want of 
opportunity, or from absence of those hereditary 
intuitive influences pertaining to the more natural 
conditions of country life. 
Setting aside this large portion of the popu¬ 
lation, which does not appear to materially affect 
this important question, whence comes the 
supply, which so much exceeds the demand, and 
from what cause proceeds the effect ? To the 
first query, which is simple, the answer is plain 
—From the country districts. To the second, 
which is more subtle than simple, the reply 
may be—I think is found—in ambition. The 
ambition of the boy to be a little better than 
his father, and the unselfish parental desire that 
he should be so — a thesis applicable to and 
obtaining with all sorts and conditions of the 
human race. 
From this one need not go far to seek, nor is 
it difiicult to find the class from which this 
influx is derived—viz., the agricultural; nor is 
it needful to point to that depression, which 
furnishes an additional incentive for young 
Britain to escape from it. Any port in a storm, 
No. 2436 .—VOL. XOII., Old Series. 
