May 23.1895. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
443 
DICKSONS’ 
IRISH ROSES. 
ALEX. DICKSON & SONS 
Have pleasure in announcing for distribution in May a further 
series of their 
CELEBRATED PEDIGREE ROSES, 
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 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 AGENTS FOR EUROPE. 
TIIK HERODLES.—Derfgn Registered. 
\ TENANT’S FIXTURE PORTABLE SPAN-RODF 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 stase is fixed on each side and one end, and 
slatted path up centre. 
Cash price. Carriage Paid to nearest Station in England <£• 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 . £1100 
2 „ „ 8 ft. by 6 ft. 2 10 0 
Violet Frame, 4 ft. by 6 ft. 17 6 
Carriage Paid on Orders amounting to fs. and upwards to any 
Goods Station in England and Wales. [ 
No. 778.—YOL. XXX., Third Series, 
FLORISTS’ FLOWERS 
AND 
HARDY BORDER PLANTS. 
FORBES’ NEW catalogue for 1895 is enlarged to about 150 
pages,and very materially improved,embracing everything—new 
and old—worth cultivating in the way of FLORISTS’ FLOWERS 
and HARDY PLANTS, with accurate de-criptlons and price.'. 
Copious notes as to their origin, how and where best to grow, a 
full index of the common or popu ar numes of HARDY ftORDEH 
PLANTS, and a vast mass of other valuable information that 
cannot be had elsewhere, which renders this the BEST, MOST 
RELIABLE, ana COMPi..ETE CATALOGUE ever issued on thU 
popular class of plants. Free on Applieation. 
JOHN FORBES, Nurseryman, 
HAWICK, SCOTLAND. 
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 TRESS 
OF ALL KINDS. SEND FOR LIST. 
Pomona Farm Nurseries, 
WITHINGTON, 
GATHER HONEY FROM YOUR FLOWERS. 
WHY NOT COMMENCE BEE-KEEPING? 
Fruit trees to which Bees have access hear the most abundant crops 
GEO. NEIGHBOUR & SONS’ 
And APPIiIAN-CES. 
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE POST FREE. 
127, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C. 
(Corner of Southampton Street.) 
THOUSANDS OF 
Pteris Mcijor^ Pteris Cristata, and Cyrtomia. 
23s. 6d. 1000, Packed Free. Sample 100, Carriage 
Free, 33. 6d. 
SAVAGE & SON, PLASHLT NURSERY. EAST HAM, ESSEX. 
CHEAP GLASS FOR GREENHOOSES, &c. 
In Sizes, 14 by 10. i6 by 9, 18 by 8, &c., at 7/9 PER 100 SQUARES. 
Glass Cuttings, 7 in., 8 in., and 9 in. wide, including Laps, at 
• 6/3 PER lOd Run Feet. 
LAMBERT & SONS, MIDDLESBROUGH. 
DICKSONS EVERGREEN 
Iiawn G-rasses 
Delivered Free by Rail or Parcel Post. 
The Selections we offer are composed ex¬ 
clusively of tbe dwarfest growing and finest 
leaved grasses, and form in a very short space 
of time a beautiful velvety turf of the finest 
texture and colour. 
“The Bowling Green here which was prepared last 
October and sown with your Lawn Seed last April, was 
opened on Saturday, July 7th, and it gives me much 
pleasure to inform you that the turf ■ nd growth of seed 
far exceeded the expectations of the members of the 
Bowling Club. I have no hesitation in stating that 
sowing seed is far preferable to turfing new ground.”— 
P. 'Wilson Jones. Esq., Newtown. 
“ I never saw any Lawn Grass Seeds do so well as the 
mixture I had from you without Bye-Grass. '1 he result 
from this was most satisfactory.”—Mr. GEORGE DE.\N, 
Ilderocks. 
Extra Select Mixed Dtvarf Evergreen Laivn Grass, 
entirely omitting Lye-Grass. 
Per lb., Is. 6d. Per cwt., 160?. 
Extra Select Mixed Dtvarf Evergreen Lawn Grass, 
including a small pr<'po tion of Dwarf 
Perennial Rye-Orass. 
Per lb., Is. 3d. Per cwt., 1358. 
DicksonT Nurserymen, &c. CHESTER 
THE CHECK IN MAY. 
-K>«- 
HEN the “ Promise of May ” was being 
written last week the sun was shining its 
hottest for the season, and pedestrians were 
seeking the grateful shade of trees and buildings. 
Many were the rejoicings and mutual con¬ 
gratulations that summer had come, and not a 
few of the comparatively young and sanguine 
were confident it had come to stay. Older heads 
were shaken in remembrance of more than one 
rude check having been given to their plants 
and trees by the sudden rising of the wave 
of cold which wrought disaster, and they felt, 
but scarcely liked to say so, that it would 
be sure to come before the month was out 
this year. Wise were those who were not 
tempted to remove their tender plants from 
where they could be protected, but the gentle 
note of warning sounded was not quite in time 
for all to consider whether they should halt or 
not. Here is a case in point which arrived with 
the above heading from the “ The Missus.” 
“When I took up your Journal yesterday 
morning to enjoy with my breakfast coffee, I 
was forcibly reminded of ‘Punch’ some years 
ago—a little punning effort when ‘F. May’s’ 
signature made Bank of England notes of value. 
Alas ! that signature is of no such promise now, 
and alas! too, what of 1895 and this promise 
of May ? 
“Wednesday, just as we finished planting four 
crescent beds with Tropasolums, a cold dull 
change in the atmosphere made us shiver after 
the days of ‘ cloudless beauty ’ and summer 
glow , the air felt decidedly nipping. By late 
evening the north wind rose, Thursday broke 
with dull skies and the wind still higher. All 
day it increased, and at times was accompanied 
with sharp, sleety showers! Oh, how bitter! 
How pinching the gale felt, and what fearful 
wreckage of our handsome Beech trees just in 
their early summer dress ! The garden that had 
looked so trim and neat was strewn from end 
to end with leaves and small branches. The 
Sue old Sycamore in the village street on the 
north side looked like some of the flags that 
adorn St. George’s Chapel, Windsor ; looked 
as though it bad braved the battle as well as 
the breeze. 
No. 2434.—Yol. XCII., OLD SERIES. 
