January 23, 1886. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
323 
SEE JDS! 
New List for 1886 is ready, and can be had free on 
application. 
THE EOYAL NUHSEEXE 3 , SLOUGH. 
NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
ri STEVENS, F.R.H.S , St. John’s Nur- 
• sery, Putney, is now booking orders for his new 
Chrysanthemums, which will be sent out in February next, 
good strong plants:— 
MAIDEN’S BLUSH.—Fine Japanese, with broad flat florets, 
forming a full, large, handsome bloom; fine for exhibition. 
First Class Certificate Royal Horticultural Society, November 
10th, and National Chrysanthemum Society, November 11th, 
1885. Price 2s. 6d. each, cash with order from unknown corre¬ 
spondents. See report in this paper November 21st. 
MARTHA HARDING, a fine Japanese variety. Golden 
yellow, shaded reddish brown; large, full, handsome flower; fine 
for exhibition. First Class Certificate National Chrysanthemum 
Society, 1S84. Price 2s. 6d. each. 
Chrysanthemum Catalogues of all the best exhibition varieties 
on application. 
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FERN SPORES. 
Stock limited. Special offer to the Trade and others of Fern 
Spores (Seeds); subject to being unsold on receipt of order. 
Per packet—s. d. 
Adiantum cuneatum .. 10 
„ gracillimum .. 10 
„ Capillus-Veneris. 1 0 
„ Williamsi (new). 1 3 
„ decorum .. ..10 
„ hispidum.. .. 10 
Per packet—s. d. 
Pteris cretica .. ..10 
„ „ albo-lineata 1 3 
,, serrulata .. ..10 
,, „ cristata.. 1 3 
Asplenium bulbiferum.. 10 
Dicksonia antartica .. 10 
Good packets of the above will be supplied. 
True British Maiden-hair.—Special offer of fine roots at 4s. 6 d. 
per doz. The best Fern for growing on porous pots, in the fern 
case, window, or back wall of greenhouse. Quite hardy, and 
grows all through the winter. 
Palms, as previously advertised, can still be had.—12, in 6 
varieties, 6s.; 6 varieties, 3s. 6 d., including Cocos Weddelliana 
and Phoenix rupicola. 
Telegraph Cucumber from our excellent market strain, 20seedsls. 
All the above, cash with order. P.O.O. payable at Cadishead. 
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TEAS .. .. 12s. „ .. £4 10s. „ 
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Mr. Barron says :— 
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Per pint. Post Free. 
CARTERS’ STRATAGEM .. 2s. 64 .. 3s. Od. 
CARTERS’ TELEPHONE .. 2s. Od. .. 2s, 6d. 
CARTERS’ PRIDE OF 
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SEEDSMEN BY ROYAL WARRANTS TO H.M. THE 
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Royal Horticultural Society. 
HE President, Council, and Pellows of 
the Royal Horticultural Society will hold their First 
ANNUAL DINNER on TUESDAY, February 9th, the day of 
the Annual General Meeting, the President, Sir TREVOR 
LAWRENCE, Bart., M.P., in the chair. The Dinner will be 
held at the Criterion, at 6.30 p.m. precisely. 
Tickets, 30s. each (including wine) must be applied for on or 
before Saturday, February 6th. Further information, and 
tickets, can be obtained from WM. LEE, Esq., Downside, 
Leatlierhead, or at the office of the Boyal Horticultural Society, 
South Kensington. 
N B.—Each Fellow can purchase one extra ticket for a friend. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Acliimenes . 333 
Amateurs’ Garden, the_327 
Begonias from seed .327 
Carnations and Picotees .. 324 
Chrysanthemum Culture.. 325 
Chrysanthemums, Late .. 323 
Clematises, On pruning .. 324 
Covent Garden Supplies .. 32S 
Gardening and Gardeners.. 327 
Gardeners’ Calendar. 330 
Gardeners’ Royal Benevo¬ 
lent Institution . 333 
Grape, Gros Colmar . 330 
Lye, Mr. J., {with portrait) 329 
Odontoglossum Alexandras 331 
PAGE 
Odontoglossum hybrids .. 331 
Orchids in Scotland.331 
Orchids, Syringing. 332 
Orchid Society, an. 325 
Peas for Exhibition . 330 
Pepinia aphelandraeflora .. 330 
Potatos for Exhibition.... 330 
Propagating House, the .. 329 
Reading Chrysanthemum 
Society. 324 
R. H. S. and its Committees 326 
Scottish Gardening . 326 
Strawberrries in pots .... 326 
Tea Rose, Sunset . 330 
Winter Work in Gardens .. 32S 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.” —Bacon. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1886. 
Late Chrysanthemums.— The importance of 
the Chrysanthemum Show held last week at 
at the Royal Aquarium, Westminster, cannot 
be over-estimated, for if so satisfactory a display 
could be obtained in a season that has been 
unfavourable to the late-keeping of such flowers, 
what may we not expect under less trying 
conditions. That the January exhibition will 
increase in beauty and in the number of con¬ 
tributors there can be no question, and we 
hopefully anticipate its establishment amongst 
the principal events of the horticultural year. 
It was a bold hut wise policy on the part of the 
Committee of the National Chrysanthemum 
Society to make such a wide departure from 
the beaten track, for until this year we do 
not know that any floral exhibition has been 
provided before March, or, at least, one at which 
prizes were offered for competition, as the 
Royal Horticultural Society’s monthly com¬ 
mittee meetings must be excepted. 
Many shook their heads dubiously at the 
announcement, and even up to the morning of 
the show the general feeling seemed to he that 
it would he practically a failure. This is a 
word, however, that is particularly obnoxious 
to Mr. W. Holmes, the honorary secretary of 
the Rational Chrysanthemum Society, and in 
consequence, no efforts were wanting on his 
part to render the gathering what it proved to 
he, an ample success. Exhibitors responded 
well to the invitations issued, and the collections 
staged, both in number of varieties and quality 
of bloom, far surpassed the expectations of all 
the growers who assembled at the exhibition. 
The number of varieties was especially 
astonishing, as will be seen from the list ap¬ 
pended, which contains the names of all those 
that were best represented, and gives a wide 
scope for selection. It is interesting to notice 
that some of those shown are also early varieties, 
such as L’Africaine and Jeanne d’Axc, and this 
point indicates a very valuable character—a 
long season of blooming—that can be easily 
taken advantage of in providing successional 
hatches of plants. The majority would fall 
under this head, for the naturally late varieties 
are as yet rather scarce; though with the in¬ 
creased attention directed to them we may soon 
expect important additions to their numbers, 
and there is no reason why we should not have 
a group of late-flowering varieties as distinct in 
character as the early-flowering forms that now 
commence the Chrysanthemum season some 
weeks in advance of the show-time. Such a 
group would be much more valuable, as though 
there is an abundance of forced flowers in 
January and February, we have nothing that 
could be obtained so cheaply and with such little 
trouble as these Chrysanthemums. 
It will not be necessary to depend upon 
essentially late varieties alone for the supplies, as 
by late propagation plants can he raised that will 
naturally flower considerably after the plants of 
the same varieties from earlier cuttings. One 
grower who has a good stock of these flowers now 
states that he strikes the cuttings in March, and 
as the plants when placed under glass are grown 
in a cool house with a north aspect, he has no 
difficulty in keeping them back until Christmas 
and the two following weeks. The principal 
object is to keep the plants cool without 
allowing them to suffer from too much moisture 
in the atmosphere, particularly as the flower- 
buds expand. 
The following is the list already mentioned, 
the varieties being arranged under the heads of 
incurved, Japanese, and miscellaneous, the 
latter including reflexed, Anemones, and 
Anemone Japanese :—Incurved : Miss Mar- 
cheux, Princess Teck, White Venus, Jardin 
des Plants, Jeanne d’Arc, and Golden Queen. 
Japanese :■—Belle Paule, Ethel, Sarnia, Madame 
Deveille, Etoile Eleuri, Dr. Macary, Colibri, 
Huit d’Automne M. Delaux, Lowe’s Late 
Bronze (which by the way, our correspondent 
Mr. G. S. Addison, considers identical with 
Mons. Lemoine), L’Africaine, Fulton, Triomphe 
de la Rue des Chalets, Sceptre Toulousaine, 
Bend Or, Mons. Comte, Japonaise, Boule d’Or, 
Grandiflorum, Comtesse de Beauregarde, Thun- 
berg, Meg Merrflies, Fanny Boucharlet, Madame 
C. Audiguier, Ceres, Kedive, golden sport from 
Kedive, Baron de Prailly, Madame C. de 
Reydellet, Madame Auguste Tegier, Elaine, 
Peter the Great, Souvenir de l’Ardeune, Mar¬ 
quis of Lome, Roseum superhum, Source d’Or, 
Mons. C. Hubert, Syringa, Mrs. Mahood, 
Agrements de la Nature, Ville de Toulouse, 
Mons. Astorg, and Dolores. Miscellaneous : 
Madame Cabral, Pink Christine, Golden Chris- 
