October 31, 1885. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
131 
CARTERS’ 
©HEAP E3PELBS 
FOR PLANTING IN LARGE MASSES IN 
SHRUBBERIES, BEDS AND BORDERS. 
Per Per Per 
i,ooo. loo. do z. 
HYACINTHS, Red, White and Blue 160/- 18/- 3/- 
TULIPS, Double or Single, Mixed 40/- 4/6 8d. 
NARCISSUS, mixed border varieties 25/- 3/* 6d. 
GLADIOLUS BRENCHLEYENSIS, j 
vivid scarlet, extra large .. .. 60/- 7/6 1/3 
GLADIOLUS BRENCHLEYENSIS, 
Good Bulbs. 45/- 5/6 1/- 
Narcissus, Poeticus 
Daffodils, single 
Crocus, mixed 
Crocus, yellow 
Crocus, blue .. 
Crocus, white 
Crocus, striped 
Jonquil, Campernel 
Per ioo. 
31 - 
31 - 
1/6 
1/6 
1/6 
1/9 
1/6 
6/6 
Iris, mixed Spanish 
Anemones, double .. 
Anemones, single .. 
Star of Bethlehem .. 
Ranunculus, Persian 
Scilla, pale blue 
Scilia Siberica 
Snowdrops .. 
Per ioo. 
2/6 
41 - 
3/6 
3/6 
2/6 
3/6 
4/6 
2/6 
All Parcels Carriage Free. 
Seedsmen by Royal Warrant to H.R.H. The 
Prince of Wales, 
237 & 238, HIGH HOLBORN, 
LONDON. 
KEMT: TH E GARDEN OF ENGLAND. 
Every buyer (large or small) wanting 
FRUIT TREES 
Should consult our Catalogue, which contains 
700 KINDS, 
And represents the largest, best grown, and healthiest 
stock iii the kingdom. 
Reference List free. Illustrated List, 3 stamps. 
GEORGE BUNYARG & CO., 
THE 0£B> NUHSIRIES, 
MAIDSTONE. 
P.S.—The Grand New Apples, Lady Sudeley, High 
CanonS, and Gaspatrie, will he sent out for the first time 
this November. Particulars f ree. 
DANIELS’ 
CHOICE FLOWER ROOTS. 
"TTTE offer an immense assortment of Choice 
V V Flower Roots, including all the finest and 
best varieties of Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissi, Lilies, 
Gladioli, Crocus, Irises, Anemones, &c., all at the 
most moderate prices. 
DANIELS’ FLOWER ROOTS. 
In Collections—Carriage Free. 
FOR OUT-DOOR DECORATION. 
No. 
1 
Containing 1573 selected roots 
.. £2 
2 
6 
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3 
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6 
4 
.. 42 6 i, 
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FOR GREENHOUSE OR CONSERVATORY. 
No. 
5 
Containing 96S selected roots 
.. £4 
4 
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FOR POTS, WINDOW BOXES, 
&C. 
No. 
10 
Containing 771 selected roots 
.. £2 
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These collections are carefully arranged, and are made up 
from sound picked roots only; will be found the cheapest and 
best assortments ever offered. 
Beautifully Illustrated Catalogue of Choice Flower Roots, 
Roses, Fruit Trees, Strawberry Plants, &c., &c., free on 
application. 
Dwarf Roses, hybrid perpetual, in splendid variety, fine 
plants, per doz., 10s. 6</. ; per 100, 63s. Carriage Free. 
DA.ISF;m&S BEOSe, 
^3vtC£> T&Tex-cBcmfs & '*2Tm*serDmm, 
N O RW I C H . 
SHOWS. 
Birmingham and Midland Counties Chrysan¬ 
themum Society. 
T HE 25th ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS, FRUIT, &c., will be held in the 
TOWN HALL, BIRMINGHAM, on Wednesday and Thursday, 
November 18th and 19tli, when the following Prizes for Cut 
blooms will be offered :— 
11—48 blooms of Chrysanthemums, 24 incurved and 24 Japanese, 
distinct. 1st Prize, £10 ; 2nd, £7 ; 3rd, £4 ; 4th, £2. 
12—24 blooms of Chrysanthemums, 12 incurved and 12 Japanese, 
distinct.. 1st Prize, £4 ; 2nd, £2; 3rd, £1. 
13—,1S blooms of Chrysanthemums, incurved, distinct. 1st 
Prize, £3 ; 2nd, £2 ; 3rd, £1. 
14—12 blooms of Chrysanthemums, Japanese, distinct. 1st 
Prize, £2 ; 2nd, £1 ; 3rd, 10s. 
15—12 blooms of Chrysanthemums, Anemone, not less than six 
varieties. 1st Prize, £1 ; 2nd, 15s.; 3rd, 10s. 
16—12 blooms of Clirysanthemuns, 6 incurved and 6 Japanese, 
distinct, to be grown within three miles of Stephenson Place. 
1st Prize, £1 10s. ; 2nd, £1 ; 3rd, 10s. 
17—24 blooms of Chrysanthemums, 12 incurved and 12 Japanese, 
distinct varieties, to be grown within twelve miles of Stephen¬ 
son Place. 1st Prize, £3 ; 2nd, £2; 3rd, £1. 
18—6 blooms of Chrysanthemums, reflexed varieties, distinct, to 
be grown within twelve miles of Stephenson Place. 1st Prize, 
10s.; 2nd, 7s. 6d. ; 3rd, 5s. 
Entries close November 11th. Schedules and forms of entry 
may be had on application to J. HUGHES, Secretary, North- 
wood Villas, Metchley Lane, Harborne, Birmingham. 
C CRYSTAL PALACE.—GREAT ANNUAL 
VA CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW, Friday and Saturday, 
November 6th and 7th. 
For Schedules apply to Mr. W. G. HEAD, Garden Superin¬ 
tendent, Crystal Palace. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE j PAGE 
Allotment System, the_ 136 Parkhall, fruit growing at. 134 
Arundina Barubusaefolia .. 139 Pea, Invincible Carmine, 
Berried plants for winter Sweet. 13S 
decoration . 133 Peach Blister (illustrated). 133 
Bladder Plum Disease Pear Blister (illustrated) .. 133 
(illustrated). 133 Pear Show, the.140 
Bulbs and Tubers, Winter- Pears, Stewed. 13S 
ing . 134 Peas, notes on. 132 
Bullace, the Black. 139 Pelargonium Henry Jacoby 13S 
Chrysanthemums, Early PelargoniumVolunteNatio- 
(iilustrated). 137 nale alba . 138 
Chrysanthemums, Notes on 136 Potato, Welford Park Kid- 
Chrysanthemum Shows .. 132 ney. 139 
Grape, Duke of Buccleuch. 139 Royal Horticultural 
International Horticultural Society . 141 
Show, the proposed _131 Scottish Gardening . 134 
Lavatera arborea variegata 13S Senecio Jacobaea fl. pi. ... 13S 
National Chrysanthemum Single-handed Gardeners.. 132 
Society . 142 Tropaeolum Ball of Fire . .13S 
Oncidium macranthum .. 140 Walnuts, Thrashing. 13S 
Orchids, Mr.E. II. Adcock’s 139 Winter Aconite, the. 13S 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.” —Bacon. 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1885. 
The Proposed International Horticultural 
Show.— It will not be long ere tlie date fixed 
for the resumption of the consideration as to 
the advisability of holding an International 
Horticultural Exhibition in London in 1887, 
is here, and very little has been publicly 
added to the discussion. There is too much 
fear that when the adjourned meeting takes 
place at South Kensington, on December 
the 10th, there will be an anxious desire 
on the part of the promoters of the discus¬ 
sion to learn what the trade and gardeners 
may have to say; whilst these latter will be 
equally waiting to learn what the Council of 
the Royal Horticultural Society and the repre¬ 
sentatives of the Commissioners may have to 
state; and thus silence may he more eloquent 
than words. It is somewhat unfortunate that 
in this matter the Council of the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society, a body no doubt very well 
affected to the proposed exhibition, is not 
master of the situation. The Society is a sort 
of tenant on sufferance at South Kensington, 
and must in every case obey the behests of that 
more potent body, the Commissioners of the 
Exhibition of 1851; and, therefore, in con¬ 
sidering a matter which is hound up with 
several diverse interests, there are too many 
powers and influences to deal with to make 
that consideration simple and easy. 
If the Commissioners were prepared to state 
that they would furnish, say, £10,000 for the 
purpose of covering all ordinary expenses and 
a prize list, no doubt the Council of the Royal 
Horticultural Society,assisted by an independent 
committee of the chief exhibitors, would organise 
and carry out a grand international display; 
hut all depends upon the means, and no body 
of men, let the prospects he ever so pleasing, 
will rush headlong into the production of an 
undertaking of this kind without some satis¬ 
factory financial guarantee. Naturally an in¬ 
ternational exhibition of horticulture, that shall 
compare favourably with, similar exhibitions of 
manufactures, &c., must be organised on a 
gigantic scale. 'With all the prestige which 
attaches to South Kensington just now, and 
with all the powers held by the Commissioners, 
such an exhibition might not be impracticable; 
but, at least, in many of its phases it could 
hardly be attractive. The chief elements of 
interest and beauty found in horticulture are 
plants and flowers, and these are living, animated 
objects, which cannot be disposed in corridors 
or vast ranges of sheds, hut must, for their 
existence in health and beauty, he kept in 
suitable habitations. Certainly South Kensing¬ 
ton at present affords no such habitation; whilst 
exposure in these vast sheds and corridors for 
one week would almost, if not quite kill, so 
many of the most beautiful of the plants 
shown. 
Then, whilst, as seen during the past year or 
two, some growers may he able to maintain a 
constant succession of cut flowers in wondrous 
variety, yet that power is limited to but very 
few; and still farther, that there are many 
verj r beautiful flowers which could not be so 
employed with advantage. Fruits and vege¬ 
tables, again, form very indispensable, perhaps 
to many, the most important constituents of a 
flower show, and these may be exposed only for 
a very few days at any time; whilst there are 
many of our leading growers who will not 
permit their choice fruits to remain exposed 
longer than two or three days at any show, lest 
they be utterly spoiled, and that would mean 
loss, which no fair value in prizes could 
compensate for. All these matters present 
difficulties for consideration, and to he sur¬ 
mounted. Assuming that South Kensington 
were to he the locale of the exhibition, and 
that it were to be arranged for a season’s 
duration, it follows that, with few exceptions, 
and those chiefly of a hardy kind, the hulk of 
the exhibits must consist of inanimate objects, 
of which there may be found, with the world to 
select from, a vast deal that is instructive and 
interesting, though, perhaps, not exceedingly 
attractive. 
Of course there would be, in such a show, no 
lack of those objects which come under the name 
of horticultural appliances, for the term governs 
a marvellously wide field. We might see many 
departments of horticulture illustrated by work¬ 
ing models and similar objects, and, if it were 
possible, to illustrate in that way gardening in 
other countries, especially as shown in the 
cultivation of the Tea, Coffee, and Sugar plants ; 
the cultivation of economic plants, the products 
of which are employed as perfumes and medicines, 
and, not least, of various kinds of fruit producing 
plants in foreign countries, much that would 
prove singularly educational would he found. 
Colonial horticulture it is anticipated will be 
largely shown next year, and, therefore, we shall 
find that section of gardening already illustrated. 
But even granted that all these remarkable 
features could be produced, we should still need 
