a&y 16, 18^6. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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DICKSONS’ 
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IRISH ROSES. 
ALEX. DICKSON & SONS 
Have pleasure in announcing for distribution in May a further 
series of their 
CELEBRATED PEDIGREE RDSES, 
HELEN EELLEE (H.P.), Rosy Cerise, superb .. 10/6 each 
MAVOUENEEN (H.P.), Silvery Flesh, first rate 10/6 „ 
MAEJOEIE (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). 
Raised by Alex. Dickson & Sons, distributed by Siebrecht 
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 AGEFTS FOR EUROPE. 
A NOTE ABOUT 
VIDLAS# PANSIES 
Reduced Prices for May. 
A VERY SPECIAL HALF-CROWN LOT. 
While Stock holds out during May we offer 13 strong plants 
of grand named VIOLAS for 28. 6d. Customers may 
select the sorts they would like from the undernoted list, or we 
shall be happy to do so for them. The names are given just to 
show the value and genu'neness of this offer 
Archibald Grant 
Ardwell Gem 
Annie King 
Blue Cloud 
Bullion 
Colleen Bawn 
Columbine 
Countess of Hopetoun 
Countess of Kintore 
Dorothy Tennant 
Duchess of Sutherland 
Edina 
Favourite 
Goldfinch 
Holyrood 
Iona 
James Cocker 
J. B. Riding 
Laverock 
Lord Elcho 
Mrs. H. Bellamy 
Mrs. Kinnaird 
Mrs. 0. Turner 
Mary Gilbert 
Marchioness of Tweed- 
dale 
Sweetheart 
Sylvia 
True Blue 
White Duchess 
White Flag 
Wm. Neil 
York and Lancaster 
Picotee 
Violetta 
100 Plants in at least 25 varieties, post free for 15s. 
FANCY PANSIES. 
Grand named varieties, producing flowers 2 to 3 inches in 
diameter. Colours as varied as the rainbow. 3s. 6d. per doz. 
Just coming into bloom. 
100 Fancy Pansies in at least 25 varieties, post free for 20s. 
SHOW PANSIES. 
This is the class which embraces the dense purple and black 
seifs so much admired. Prices same as for Fancy Pansies. 
1 dozen Show and 1 dozen Fancy for 6s. 
HAIiF-DOZEirS AT SAME RATES. 
BOBBIE CO., 
FLORISTS TO THE QUEEN, 
R O 07 XX £3 S ..A. Y. 
Special low 
quotations for 
- quantities for 
■ market grow¬ 
ing. In small pots for fruiting first year. Open-air runners 
very cheap. All the leading varieties, new or old. 
FRUIT TREES 
OF ALL KINDS. SEND FOR LIST. 
Pomona Farm Nurseries, 
WITHINaTON, HBHEFOHH. 
FLORISTS’ FLOWERS 
AND 
HARDY BORDER PLANTS. 
FORBES’ NEW CATALOGUE for 1895 is enlarged to abont 150 
pages.and very materially improved,embracing everything—new 
and old—worth cultivating in the way of FLORISTS’ FLOWERS 
and HARDY PLANTS, with accurate descriptions and prices. 
Copious notes as to their origin, how and where best to grow, a 
full Index of the common orpopu'ar names of HARDY BORDER 
PLANTS, and a vast mass of other valuable information that 
cannot be had elsewhere, which renders this the BEST, MOST 
KELIABLE, and COMPLETE CATALOGUE ever issued on this 
popular class of plants. Free on Application. 
JOHN FORBES, Nurseryman, 
HAWICK, SCOTLAND. 
GATHER HONEY FROM YOUR FLOWERS. 
WHY NOT COMMENCE BEE-KEEPING? 
Fruit trees to which Bees have access hr ar the most abundant crops 
GEO. NEIGHBOUR & SONS’ 
BEE-HIVES 
And AFPIiIAUrCES. 
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE POST FREE. 
127, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C. 
(Corner of Southampton Street.) 
No. 777.-VOL. XXX., Third Series. 
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. 38. per dozen. 
PELARGONIUMS, SHOW & decorative. 
Fine Plants in Best Kinds, 68., 98., and 128, per dozen. 
ZONAL PELARGONIUMS, 
Best Kinds only. 6 for 2S. 6d., 12 for 4 s. 
IVY-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. 
THE NEW EAEEY 
STRAWBERRY 11895, 
STEVENS’ WONDER. 
The earliest variety in cultivation and very prolific ; solid fruit, 
good flavour, high perfume. 
Awarded First-class Certificates, Royal Horticultural Society, attd 
Royal Botanic Society, 1895. See Gardeners' Chronicle, March 2; 
Journal of Horticulture, March 14; and The Garden, March 16. 
Having purchased the who’e of the stock of this grand new 
early Strawberry from the raiser, we have pleasure in offering 
it as follows :— 
STRONG PLANTS, in Pots, £5 per 100,15/- per doz. 
„ RUNNERS .. .. £3 „ „ 9/- ,, „ 
Ready for de ivery ea'ly in July. Eai-ly Orders ?-e(/nested as 
stock is limited. Fuilher particulars upon application. 
WM. CUTBUSH & SON, 
KI6H6ATE NURSERIES, LOADON, N., AND BARNcT, HERTS. 
THURSDAY, MAY 16, 189S. 
THE PROMISE OF MAY. 
-K>»- 
B eautiful indeed is our country, now in 
its freshest dress of tender green. s.ih1 
wreaths of sparkling blossom. Blossom ! Wac 
ever finer seen than that which the present 
month has brought in such lavish profusion on 
trees, in gardens, and orchards? Almost every¬ 
where where fruit trees are grown and .have 
arrived at the stage of productiveness, they 
have been or are enrobed in loveliness, especially 
the Apples. Just a week ago a call was made 
at Chiswick, and though the Plums had cast 
their silvery mantle and the splendid pyramid 
Pears were being studded with setting fruits, 
yet did the garden seem to be full of beauty, 
so bountifully were the Apple trees laden with 
their delicately tinted flowers. Not in their 
abundance alone were these myriads of blosBomg 
imposing ; but in their size, substance, . and 
splendid development they commanded equa! 
admiration. No finer display—no brighter pro¬ 
mise—has ever been seen, and one shudders 
at the thought that a cruel frost should come 
and in one fatal night turn present hopes into 
grievous disappointment. 
The blossoming time is a fortnight (more oc 
less) later than was the case last year, ,But 
does this afford assurance that a harvest of 
fruit will follow ? Not necessarily ; for if the 
cold wave, that seems bound to come in May, 
should be of an intensity equal to that on the 
memorable 20th of the month last year,, the 
lateness of the blossom and the consequent 
youthfulness of the tender fruit cannot prevent 
destruction. If security rested in lateness, 
then would the Apple crop of last season have 
exceeded in abundance that of the Pears, the 
fruits of which were more firmly set, older, and 
more hardy at the time the frost swept through 
the land. Therefore, the early blossoming Pears 
largely escaped, while the later blossoming Apples 
generally succumbed. Not until we have s 
race of Apples that flower after the 20th of 
May and onwards for a week can crops of fruit 
be regarded as absolutely certain any more than 
Heliotropes, Dahlias, and other tender plants 
can be held to be safe which are “ bedded out’ 
before that time. It is true that summer-like 
days and balmy nights have tempted the 
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