May 2,1896. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
a73 
DICKSONS’ 
IRISH ROSES. 
ALEX. DICKSON & SONS 
Have pleasure in announcing for distribution in May a further 
series of their 
CELEBRATED PEDIGREE RDSES, 
HELEN KELLER (H.P.), Rosy Cerise, superb .. 10, 6 each 
MAVOURNEEN (H.P.), Silvery Flesh, first rate 10,6 „ 
MARJORIE (H.T.), White, Pink centre, very pretty 7/6 „ 
ALSO 
The Best of the NEW FRENCH & BRITISH ROSES. 
Descriptive Catalogue Post Free on application, 
NEW (H.T,) ROSE 
BELLE SIEBRECHT (Mrs. W. J. Grant). 
Eaised by Alex. Dickson & Sons, distributed by Siebrecet 
and Wadley, New York. 
The most valuable introduction of the past ten years. This 
superb variety has gained the highest awards wherever exhibited 
in Great Britain and America, chief among these being the 
National Rose Society’s Gold Medal. 
Valuable alike for exhibition, decorative, and forcing purposes. 
No collection, however small, complete without it. 
PLANTS IN POTS IN MAY, 10/6 EACH. 
Full Descriptive Particulars Post Free on application to 
ALEX. DICKSON & SONS, 
ROYAL NURSERIES, 
NEWTOWNARDS, Co. DOWN, 
SOLE AGE JUTS FuR EUROPE. 
Special low 
quotations for 
- quantities for 
■ market grow¬ 
ing. In small pots for fruiting first jear. Open-air runners 
very cheap. All the leading varieties, new or old. 
FRUIT TREES 
OF ALL KINDS. SEND FOR LIST. 
JOHN ItV-ATHINS, 
_ Pomona Farm Nurseries, 
WITHING-TOi’T, HEREFORD. 
GATHER HONEY FROM YOUR FLOWERS. 
WHY NOT COMMENCE 3EE-KEEPING? 
Fruit treos to wliich Bees have access bear the most abundant crops 
GEO. NEIGHBOUR & SONS’ 
BEE-HIVES 
And APPX.XAN'CES. 
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE POST FREE. 
127, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C. 
(Corner of Southampton Street.) 
THE NEW EARDY 
STRAWBERRY n895, 
STEVENS’ WONDER. 
The earliest variety in cultivation and very prolific ; solid fruit, 
good fiavour, high perfume. 
Aicarded First-class Certificates, Royal Horticultural Society, and 
Royal Botanic Society, ISiio. ree Gardeners' Chronicle, March 2; 
journal of Horticulture, March 14 ; aud The Garden. March 16. 
Having purchased the who e of the stock of this grand new 
early Strawberry from the raiser, wo have pleasure in offering 
it as follows :— 
STRONG PLANTS, in Pots, £5 per 100,15/- per doz. 
RUNNKRS .. .. £3 ,, ,, 9/- ,, ,, 
Ready for de ivery ea’-ly in July. Early Orders requested as 
stock is limited. Further particulars upon application. 
WM. CUTBUSH & SON, 
HIGHGATE NURSERIES, LOADDN, N., AND BARNET, HEiTS. 
FORBES SPECIALITIES 
The undernoted low offer is made for Cash with Order. All are 
Selected from my WORLD-RENOWNED Collections. 
Correctly named and Carriage Paid; 12 vaiieties to the dozen, 
and from 25 to 50 varieties to the 100 ; all my selections. 
ANTIRRHINUMS- 6 s. per dozen; 80s. per ICO. 
BEGONIAS—Seedl’icgs, 4s. per dozen; iOs. per 100. 
CARNATIONS— 68 . per dozen; 863 . per 100. 
DAHLIAS—All sections, 6 s. per dozen; 80s. per 100. 
DELPHINIUMS- 6 s. per dozen; Sts. per loO. 
HARDY BORDER PLANTS— 6 s. per dozen; 80s. per ICO. 
PANSIES—Ss. 6 d. per dozen ; 20s. per 100. 
VIOLAS—2s. 6 d. per dozen; 17s. 6 d. per 100. 
PENTSTEMONS—Cs. per dozen ; 80s. per 100. 
PHLOXES- 6 s. per dozen; SOs. per 100 , 
CATALOGUE (\5D pages) Free on Application. 
JOHH FORBES , Nurseryman, HAWICK, H.B. 
BEGONIAS, 
DOUBLE AND SINGLE, FOR BEDDING. 
Extra superb in quality, and Large Tubers by the dozen, ICO, 
or 1000. Also for Conservatory or Exhibition. 
Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue Free. 
B. R. DAVIS, YEOVIL NURSERIES 
JSCK FROST 
Has caused many losses that can be made good iu an easy and 
cheap manner by purchasing the following Bulbs and Plants, 
which I can stiongly recommend as being first class : — 
BEGONIAS, SINGLE, 
20,000 Grand Bulbs, Mixed Colours, finest ever offered at the 
price. 3s. per dozen. 
PELARGONIUMS, SHOW & DECOBATIYB. 
Fine Plants in Best Kinds, 6s., 93., and 12s. per dozen. 
ZONAL PELARGGNIUMS, 
Best Kinds only. 6 for 2s. 6d., 12 for 4s. 
IVY-LEAF PELARGONIUMS. 
A very Choice Lot. 6 for 23. 6d., 12 for 4s. 
DOUBLE PETUNIAS, 
Extra fine New Kinds. 6 for 3s. 6d., 12 for 6s. 
Send for Catalogue, Free. 
HITHER GREEN, LEWISHAM. 
THUESDAY, MAY 2, 1895. 
SPRING PRUNING. 
■ 
“ nURELY this is all done," some readers may 
0 not unnaturally say to tbemselves, as 
thoughts are converted into words in an involun¬ 
tary sort of way (which is very much the way 
of the world) when they see the above short 
heading. No doubt the pruning of frnit trees 
in general ought to have been completed, as a 
rule, some time ago, and it is not very unlikely 
that a goodly number were too much pruned ; 
but then, again, there are probably many thou¬ 
sands which have not been touched with the 
knife that would have benefited by its use.; 
and, what is more to the point, may be benefited 
yet. This applies to trees that were planted last 
autumn or quite recently during the present 
spring. The writer planted some last week, and 
expects every one of them to make good growth 
during the ensuing season. 
These remarks have been incited by the con¬ 
dition of several trees in a garden, which may 
be, and almost certainly is, typical of other 
gardens in various parts of the country. This 
garden contains fruit trees of various ages, chiefly 
Apples, Pears, and Plums, as well as Currant 
and Gooseberry “bushes” between them. The 
owner of the garden must be a fruit enthusiast, 
or he would not continue planting trees year 
after year, seeing how little fruit he has obtained, 
or is likely to obtain, from them. He is not 
unlike many another — an enthusiast without 
knowledge, but perhaps has a larger share of 
the virtue of patience than is enjoyed by the 
majority, and makes his quiet life happy by 
living on hope. 
It is wonderful—no, perhaps only natural— 
to see in many an example how easy it is to do 
exactly what is wrong in the absence of guidance 
pointing out what is right. Were it not for 
the teaching of the young—training them in¬ 
tellectually and morally—one shudders to think 
what the result would be. Untaught and unre¬ 
strained the child would grow in years and in 
mischief, doing wrong by nature and right by 
accident. It seems to be very much the same 
on the part of a host of persons, who may be 
expected to have arrived at years of discretion, 
in the “ management ” of their fruit trees and 
bushes. Discreet the owners of them may be 
No. 2431.—VOL. xcn., Old Serik.s. 
NEW PLANT CATALOGUE on895 
WM. CLIBRAN & SON NEW CATALOGUE of 
STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS, HERBACEOUS PLANTS 
SOFTWOODED PLANTS, TEA R.SES, 
dahlias. hardy climbers, FLORISTS’ FLOWERS, &c., 
POST PRES FOR THREE STiklVlPS. 
152 Pages with full descriptions of all the FINEST NOVELTIES and the BESi OLD VARIETIES of 
the above-named plants. 
OLDFIELD NURSERIES, ALTRINCHAM, ^ 
No. 775.—Vol. XXX., Third Series. 
