November 14, 1885. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
168 
CARTERS’ 
CHEAP BULBS 
FOR PLANTING IN LARGE MASSES IN 
SHRUBBERIES, BEOS AND BORDERS. 
Per Per Per 
i.ooo. ioo. doe. 
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, 
vivid scarlet, extra large .. .. 60/- 7/6 1/3 
GLADIOLUS BRENCHLEYENSIS, 
Good Bulbs. 45 /. 
Per ioo. 
Narcissus, Poeticus 
Daffodils, single 
Crocus, mixed 
Crocus, yellow 
Crocus, blue .. 
Crocus, white 
Crocus, striped 
Jonquil, Campernel 
31- 
31- 
1/6 
1/6 
1/6 
1/9 
1/6 
6/6 
5/6 1/- 
Per ioo. 
Iris, mixed Spanish 2/6 
Anemones, double .. 4 /- 
Anemones, single .. 3/6 
Star of Bethlehem .. 3/6 
Ranunculus, Persian 2/6 
Scilla, pale blue .. 3/6 
Scilla Siberica .. 4/6 
Snowdrops .. .. 2/6 
AH Parcels Carriage Free. 
Seedsmen by Royal Warrant to H.R.H, The 
Prince of Wales, 
237 & 238, HIGH HOLBORN, 
LONDON. 
ROSES. 
20 ACRES of grand plants in best varieties. 
Bushes, H. P., 8s. doz., 60s. 100. | Packing arid Carriage 
Standards, H. P., 15s. doz., 105s. / FPiEE 
100. I for cash with order. 
CLEMATIS (80,000), 12s. to 24s. doz. 
ROSES Iisr POTS (80,000), 15s. to 30s. doz. 
FRUIT TREES (74 ACRES). 
VINES (6,000), 3s. 6 d. to 10s. 3d. 
ORCHARD HOUSE TREES, “fruiting,” IN POTS. 
STRAWBERRIES, 4s. 100; FORCING, 15s. to 
25s. 100. 
ASPARAGUS, 2s. 6 d. 100 ; FORCING, 12s. 6 cl. 100. 
SEA KALE, strong forcing, 16s. 100. 
EVERGREENS, CONIFERS, ORNAMENTAL 
TREES (91 ACRES). 
FLOWERING SHRUBS, 8s, doz. 
FOREST TREES, HEDGE PLANTS, UNDER¬ 
WOOD, &c. 
BULBS 
OF FINEST QUALITY. 
DESCRIPTIVE LISTS of above and SEEDS free. 
RICHARD SMITH & CO., 
WORCESTER. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS 
AT SWANLEY. 
W E extract a small portion of a report given in 
the last issue of Journal of Horticulture : — 
“ As is well known. Chrysanthemums form a special depart¬ 
ment in the ‘Home of Flowers,’ and are in charge of an expert 
who devotes his whole thought and time to their propagation 
and culture. Every section is represented, all established 
varieties grown, and new ones added from American, French, 
Chinese, Japanese, and English raisers. 
The collection embraces 900 varieties, represented in about 
5,000 plants. These are arranged in five new span-roofed struc¬ 
tures, each 100 ft. long; a walk passing down the centre and 
the soil excavated on each side, so that the pots are 2 ft. or so 
below the floor level, and the blooms are consequently brought 
literally ‘under the eyes’ of the spectators.” 
Send for our Catalogue—the most complete and 
descriptive—of the best kept collection in England. 
A greatly reduced Price List of 86 New Varieties, 
collected from all parts of the world, also sent post free. 
Mr. Adam Forsyth, Kakanui, via Oamaru, 
New Zealand,, July ith, 1SS5. 
‘‘I received all the Chrysanthemums (but two) in tine con¬ 
dition ; one happened to be the Hero of Stoke Newington (one 
of my children), so you can guess my vexation ; Primulas and 
Cyclamen came up splendid ; the former are immensely showy; 
such colours I never expected to see.” 
H. CAN NELL & SONS, 
The Home of Flowers, 
SWANLEY, KENT. 
SHOW. 
Liverpool Horticultural Association. 
rriHE SIXTH GRAND EXHIBITION of 
_L CHRYSANTHEMUMS, FRUIT, &c., will he held in 
St. GEORGES HALL, LIVERPOOL, on Tuesday and Wednes¬ 
day, November 24th and 25th. 
£200 IN PRIZES. 
A TEN GUINEA SILVER VASE, given by J. Williams & 
Co., Manure Manufacturers, 62, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, for 
36 Blooms of Chrysanthemums. 
Entries close Tuesday, November 17th. For Schedules apply 
to the Secretary, EDWARD BRIDGE, ITuyton, Liverpool. 
Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Institution. 
Change of Address. 
T he committee of management 
beg to give notice that they have secured permanent 
offices at 50, Parliament Street, Westminster, S. W., and request 
that on and after November 16tli, all communications may be 
sent to that address. 
By order. E. R. CUTLER, Secretary. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Amateurs’Garden, the_ 167 
American Exhibition, the.. 163 
Apples, old . 170 
Barkerias. 171 
Chrysanthemum Shows .. 172 
Clibran & Sons' Nursery .. 169 
Dahlias, New, of 18S5 .... 171 
Deodars, The . 16S 
Dukeries, The. 16S 
Floriculture. 171 
Fruits, New, Production of 166 
Fruit Trees, Winter Dress¬ 
ing . 165 
Gardeners’ Calendar. 170 
Gardeners, old and young.. 166 
Gishurstine . 164 
Grape, Alnwick Seedling.. 170 
Grape, Duke of Buccleuch 170 
Grffinia Hyacinthina max¬ 
ima . 170 
Holmes, W. (with portrait) 169 
PAGE 
International Exhibition, 
The proposed . 164 
Leaves . 164 
Leucanthemum major .... 170 
Matricaria inodora flore- 
pleno. 170 
Oreliids at The Woodlands 171 
Orchids, collecting and 
packing. 171 
Peaches, Notes on. 165 
Plant cultivation . 170 
Rhododendrons, Green¬ 
house . 170 
Rose, a new white. 164 
Scottish Gardening. 166 
Shallot, the. 165 
Sterling Gardeners’ Associ¬ 
ation . 167 
Vanda Sanderiana (illustra¬ 
ted) . 165 
Violets, Marie Louise .... 165 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.” —Bacon. 
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER H, 1885. 
The American Exhibition. — Allegorically 
there may be seen hovering over West Ken¬ 
sington, though yet very indistinctly, the 
outline of that ambitious bird, the great 
American Eagle. As the winter wanes, and 
the spring of 1886 advances, the outlines of 
our feathered visitant will become more clearly 
defined ; and, about the 1st of May, so near will 
the soarer have approached terra firma, that it 
will then be distinctly seen to settle down and 
nestle on a spot in the locality referred to. 
This sovereign of air, and omnipotent bird in 
the land of the stars and stripes, comes to us 
with no warlike or foul intent. He comes the 
emblem of peace and of cousinly affection; 
indeed, though an eagle in name, yet he will 
present the form and embody the spirit of a 
dove, bearing in his beak the olive branch of 
good feeling and kindly regard. 
Whilst thus assuming so pleasing a form and 
so genial an aspect, we must not, however, 
assume that our visitor comes for no other 
purpose than to display good feeling ; with the 
quietness of the dove there will he found allied 
in him the wisdom of the serpent—not wisdom 
which is trickery and deceit, but wisdom which 
is allied to honourable trade and business 
integrity. So that when, next autumn, de¬ 
parting for his home far across the broad 
Atlantic, this American Eagle shall return, not 
in the fashion of the bold and cruel marauder 
of the mountains, but leaving behind some 
sense of good results and hopeful prosperity; 
taking in exchange better aspirations for inter¬ 
national trade and commerce between Anglo- 
Saxon cousin and cousin than now prevails. 
To drop to plain prose, we have amongst us 
now forming an American colony, which is busy 
preparing for the ensuing summer season a truly 
remarkable display of the productions which 
Uncle Sam, Brother Jonathan, and all the 
family of the children of Washington are 
creating from day to day in the vast territory 
which—once an English colony—is now geo¬ 
graphically and physically one of the greatest 
nations of the earth. Whilst at South Ken¬ 
sington, in the extensive area of buildings— 
during the passing year the home of the in¬ 
ventions—there will, in the coming year, be 
seen one of the most remarkable collections of 
colonial productions ever brought together, and 
to which immense British as well as continental 
interest must attach, it was hut natural that 
our old colonists of the American States—once 
our children, now our cousins of the third and 
fourth generations—should also be anxious to 
display, right in the lap of Old England, and 
almost side by side with the true colonial 
productions, evidences of their genius, fertility 
of invention, prosperity, and business pursuits ; 
that we, of the mother country, might be able 
thus, at the same time, to measure the nature 
of the progress made by attached and Imperially 
governed colonies, with those of ancient colonies, 
which, a hundred years since, threw off the 
Imperial yoke, and became a great and a free 
people. 
To that end the promoters of this display 
have acquired possession of a large and admirably 
situated area of land at West Kensington, with 
the Midland and District Railways abutting 
upon one of its largest sides, and it will have 
easy access from all parts of the kingdom, 
because in this way connected with all the cheap 
lines of railway. The well-known station of 
Earl’s Court abuts upon one end of the site, and 
that of "West Kensington upon another, whilst 
the West London Railway runs through 
the grounds, so that easy access is assured. 
Then it is easily connected Avith the Great 
Colonial Exhibition at South Kensington, both 
by rail and omnibus route, so that in getting 
from one to the other little time need he Avasted. 
Thus Ave shall have in London next year, 
exhibitions Avhich will he so imique as never to 
have been previously paralleled in any country 
in the world, for they Avill be displays in Avhich 
our people take no share or part, beyond acting 
as observers, and it is hoped eventually as 
liberal customers, with the further result that 
our visitors Avill in return trade liberally Avith us. 
Earthly, and especially international millen¬ 
niums are too remote for present consideration; 
but it is obvious that most exhibitions of this 
kind, pro Added that no trade jealousies are 
provoked, Avill do much to smooth away those 
ruffling thoughts and fears, Avhich uoav and then 
agitate the bosoms of nations, and lead to warlike 
outbreaks of prejudice and passion, Avhich are as 
injurious as they are hateful and deplorable. 
"Whilst the American Exhibition Avill thus 
appeal to the sight-seeing public for patronage, 
it Avill not omit many features Avith which we, 
as horticulturists, are essentially interested. A 
gentleman Avell known to many of our readers, 
Dir. W. Goldring, holds, in connection with this 
American gathering, the post of Horticultural 
Director, and Are believe lie is sparing nothing 
to obtain such a display of American horti¬ 
cultural productions as shall render that de¬ 
partment specially interesting. The States are 
famous for their grand trees, and our gardens 
already have reaped a rich harvest of denizens 
from the vast continent over which the 
American Eagle so proudly soars. It is pur- 
posed to congregate Avithin the extensive grounds 
apppropriated to the Exhibition at West 
Kensington—an area of some ten or tAvelve acres 
