September 5, 1885. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
3 
BARR'S BULBS 
FOR 
EARLY FORCING 
SHOULD BE POTTED EARLY. 
Full descriptive catalogue, free on application. 
SWEET-SCENTED WHITE ROMAN HYACINTHS, 
First quality, per 100, 15s. ; per doz., 2s. 6 d. 
Second quality, per 100, 12s. 6 cl., per doz., 2s. 
BLUE ROMAN HYACINTHS, 
Finest quality, per 100, 11s. 6 cl. ; per doz., Is. 9<7. 
ROSY WHITE ROMAN HYACINTHS. 
Finest quality, per 100, 11s. 6 d. ; per doz., Is. 9 d. 
SWEET-SCENTED PAPER WHITE NARCISSUS. 
Finest quality, per 100, 12s. 6 d. ; per doz., 2s. 
DOUBLE ROMAN EARLY NARCISSUS. 
Finest quality, per 100, 11s. 6c?. ; per doz., Is. 9 d. 
CHI0N0D0XA LUCILI/E OR THE GLORY OF THE SNOW. 
Intense blue, snow-white centre, 6 in. high. 
Strong home-grown roots, per 100, 12s. 6c?. ; 
per doz., 2s. 6c?. 
ELWES’ GIANT SINGLE SNOWDROP. 
The largest and most handsome of all Snowdrops. 
Strong home-grown roots, per 100, 10s. 6c?. ; 
per doz., Is. 6c?. 
SGILLA SIBIRICA, 
Very large roots, per 100, 6s. 6c?. ; per doz., Is. 
VIOLET-SCENTED IRIS RETICULATA, 
Violet-blue, blotched golden. 
Strong roots for forcing, per doz., 7s. 6c?. 
VIOLET-SCENTED IRIS PERSICA, 
Pearl-blue, inlaid purple and gold. 
Strong roots for forcing, per doz., 5s. 6c?. 
DUC VAN THOL TULIPS. 
Scarlet, edged yellow, per 100, 5s. 6c?. ; per doz., 10c?. 
Intense scarlet, per 100, 5s. 6c?. ; per doz., 10c?. 
Rose, per 100, 12s. 6c?. ; per doz., 2s. 
Yellow, per 100, 12s. 6c?. ; per doz., 2s. 
Pure white, per 100, 21s. ; per doz., 3s. 
BARR’S NAMED HYACINTHS. 
Selected from the finest Bulb Grounds in Holland. 
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50 „ ,, 50 0 
IONS FOR EXHIBITION. 
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25 choicest vars.... 25 0 
12 „ „ 15 0 
CHOIGE COLLECTIONS FOR GLASSES OR POTS, 
100 choice vars. . 
.. 84 
0 1 
25 choice vars. ... 
21 
0 
50 ,, ,, 
.. 42 
oj 
12 ,, 10s. 6(7. & 
12 
0 
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BOXES, OR POTS, 
3 each, 30 very fine 
sorts. 63 0 
3 ,, 20 ,, 42 0 
3 each, 15 very fine 
sorts. 30 0 
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BARR’S BEAUTIFUL RAINBOW MIXTURE OF 
HYACINTHS, 
For Beds and Borders. 
Roots of extra fine quality, per 100, 21s.; per doz., 3s. 
BARR’SBEDDINGHYACJNTHS, IN COLOURS, 
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BARR'S NEW DAFFODILS. 
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BARR & SON, 
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FLOWER SHOW. 
I ) OYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.— 
V Show of GRAPES, DAHLIAS, &c., on TUESDAY, 
September 8th, and WEDNESDAY, September 9th, in the 
Conservatory. 
Visitors to the INTERNATIONAL INVENTIONS EXHIBI¬ 
TION admitted FREE at 1 p.m. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE | PAGE 
“Alpine Point” (illus- 
Maidstone Flower Show .. 
11 
trated) . 
8 
Mushrooms, eatable or pois- 
Amateur’s Garden, the _ 
7 
onous . 
11 
Amherstia at Home. 
4 
ManchesterChrysanthemum 
Bees and Flowers. 
12 
Show . 
4 
Boxes, Transplanting. 
4 
Mushroom Beds in the Open 
Cucumber Culture . 
8 
Air . 
11 
Cycnoches, the genus (illus- 
Nicotiana aflinis . 
12 
trated) . 
12 
Nigella Damascena. 
11 
Dahlias, Notes on. 
12 
Orchid Notes. 
12 
Day Lilies . 
9 
Potatos in Ireland . 
4 
Decorative Fuchsias . 
5 
Potatos, Notes on. 
6 
Exhibitions, Industrial .... 
3 
Renanthera coccinea . 
13 
Fruit Tree Borders . 
11 
Roses, Select. 
8 
Frost in Scotland. 
4 
Ryde Flower Show. 
6 
Fuchsias, decorative . 
5 
Sandy Floral and Horticul- 
Gardener’s Calendar . 
10 
tural Society. 
13 
Gardening Miscellany. 
4 
Scottish Gardening. 
6 
Glazing, dry . 
4 
Seed Adulteration . 
4 
Gloxinias, spotted . 
s 
Strawberries, Notes on.... 
5 
Goddard’s Patent Glass 
Transplanting boxes . 
4 
Clip . 
4 
Turner Memorial, the. 
4 
Greenhouses (Illustrated) .. 
5 
Vallota purpurea. 
6 
Herbaceous plants, select.. 
9 
West Grinstead Horticultu- 
Hollyhocks . 
9 
lal Society. 
14 
Horticultural Societies .... 
15 
Wood, consumption of .... 
Lilium auratum . 
11 
Woods, durability of. 
4 
The INDEX to VOL. I. of tiie Gardening World 
WILL BE PUBLISHED IN OUR NEXT NUMBER. 
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Booksellers. No extra charge. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man." —Bacon. 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1885. 
Industrial Exhibitions in connexion with 
Flower Shows. —We are pleased to note that 
these are on the increase about the country. 
As a matter of course, they are held only in 
connexion with exhibitions in which the cot¬ 
tager is largely represented by the products of 
his garden. In addition to encouraging, on the 
part of the cottager and allotment-holder, a 
desire to excel in the cultivation of fruits, 
flowers, and vegetables, his wife and children 
are stimulated to use their needles in various 
ways: in bread, jam, and cake making, &c., 
while the men are encouraged to fill up their 
leisure hours, on long evenings, by manufactur¬ 
ing specimens of industry and ingenuity. In 
some cases prizes are offered only for needle¬ 
work, in others, the larger circle of subjects is 
invited; but, whether in its wider or narrower 
sense, it is certain that these exhibitions, if 
wisely managed, are capable of bearing .good 
fruit. 
We find that, as a general rule, those country 
exhibitions are the most successful whose 
managers seek to draw the widest possible 
amount of interest within their annual venture. 
Thus it is that some well-to-do people in country 
districts, who may not care much for the culture 
of plants and flowers, will be likely to take a 
warm interest in an industrial department, or 
in a competition with honey and bees. It is 
one of the assuring signs of the times that 
county bee associations are springing up in 
many districts, and these render substantial 
assistance in particular to cottagers and allot¬ 
ment-holders, giving them instruction in the 
matter of bee-keeping, and assisting them to 
harvest the honey the bees have made. Thus 
it is that bees and honey shows are being formed 
in connexion with many county horticultural 
societies. 
In the case of an industrial exhibition it is a 
matter in which ladies can interest themselves, 
and materially help to make them successful. 
They should be women of broad and generous 
sympathies, knowing something of the defects 
and disadvantages of country life in rural 
districts, manifesting sympathy and kindly help, 
rather than mere charity and patronage. It 
can be noted, with satisfaction, that patronage is 
giving place to kindly interest in villages, and 
sympathy is taking the place of an exhibition 
of mere social superiority. The schoolmaster 
and mistress should he asked to assist, and they 
can, by reason of their educational positions, 
render valuable aid. In awarding prizes to 
needlework, schoolmistresses should form part 
of the jury; the judges of industrial exhibitions 
should include among their number two or three 
local tradesmen, possessing useful technical 
knowledge. 
Articles of cookery, such as cakes, tarts, jams, 
&c., should find a place in every industrial ex¬ 
hibition. We are credibly informed, by those 
capable of forming a sound judgment, that in 
not a few cases the result of awarding prizes for 
such articles of cookery as can he produced, is 
to improve the domestic economy of the' house - 
hold, to lead to the meals of the family being 
produced in a better manner, and with more of 
style. While the industrial exhibition, in so 
far as it relates to little refinements in needle¬ 
work, leads to improvements in taste in the 
furnishing and keeping of living rooms, &c. 
The cottager is encouraged to keep his garden 
in the best possible manner, and this reacts in 
a beneficial manner upon the home life. 
Let industrial exhibitions he encouraged. 
Uow that the cottager is becoming an important 
factor in matters political, let ns do all we can 
to give a higher tone to his social life; and by 
means of exhibitions of this character, the work 
may he commenced with promise of beneficial 
results. 
To our Readers. —Twelve months ago when 
the first number of The Gardening World was 
issued from the press, we scarcely anticipated, 
even in our most sanguine moments, that 
it would have been received with so much 
favour, much less that in such a comparatively 
brief space of time, whatever merits it may 
possess, would have become so widely recognised 
and appreciated. It affords us the greatest 
pleasure to be able to assure the many good 
friends who have assisted us with their advice, 
with contributions from their pens and pencils, 
and by bringing the paper under the notice of 
their friends and neighbours, that The Garden¬ 
ing World is now read by hosts of subscribers 
both in this country, on the continent, and in 
the colonies. We are deeply gratified to know 
that our efforts to diffuse sound practical infor¬ 
mation on all subjects bearing on the pursuits 
of Horticulture, are so well appreciated, and we 
desire at the commencement of our second 
volume, to tender our hearty thanks to all who 
have helped us to attain such a gratifying 
position. In the future, our aim will be to still 
further enlarge its sphere of usefulness ; to 
maintain the high character it has already 
gained for the quality of its illustrations and 
typography; and in every way to make it 
worthy of the noble profession of Gardening— 
“ the purest of human pleasures.” 
Mr. John Alexander, who had charge of the 
Ceylon collection at the late Forestry Exhibition in 
Edinburgh, has, we hear, been appointed Conservator 
of the Forests in the North Central Province of Ceylon, 
which extend over an area of 4,000 square miles. 
