February 6, 188G. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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Choice Flower Seeds 
JAMES VEITCH&SONS, 
Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, S. W. 
SINGLE POPPIES. 
Extremely floriferous, elegant, and graceful, of most brilliant 
colours, and continue a long time in bloom. 
Per packet—s. d. 
ALPINUM, clear yellow.0 6 
ALPINUM ALBUM, white.10 
DANEBROG, scarlet and white .. ..06 
NUDICAULE, yellow' and orange .. .. 0 6 
UMBROSUM, crimson and black .. ..03 
AQUILEGIA, VEITGH’S NEWHYBRSDS 
Comprising many new, beautiful, distinct, and pretty sorts of 
various shades. Per packet, Is. 6d. 
Campanula Calycanthema Rosea. 
A new bright rose-pink variety; a most attractive and de¬ 
sirable addition to our hardy border plants. 
Per packet, Is. 6rf. 
GLOXINIA, VEITCH’S STRAIN. 
Saved from the magnificent collection grown at our Chelsea 
Nursery. Per packet, 2s. 6<i. 
IMPATIENS SULTANI. 
First Class Certificates Royal Horticultural and Royal Botanic 
Societies. 
Remarkable for its profuse and continuous flowering, and the 
orgeousness of its flowers, which are of a brilliant rosy scarlet 
colour. Per packet, Is. 6d. 
MIGNONETTE, CRIMSON KING. 
A new, distinct, and most desirable variety for pot culture, 
throwing up numerous stout flower stalks, terminated by ex¬ 
tremely broad spikes of delightfully scented bright red flowers. 
Per packet, Is. 6 d. 
VEITGH’S SUPERB PRIMULAS. 
THE FITTEST ITT CULTIVATION. 
Awarded a First Class Certificate by the Royal Horticultural 
Society for superior quality. 
VEITCH’S CHELSEA SCARLET. 
Flowers of a most brilliant and intense rich scarlet-crimson. 
VEITCH’S CHELSEA CRIMSON. 
Flowers of a rich velvety violet-crimson shade. 
VEITCH’S CHELSEA BLUE. 
Flowers of a beautiful rich blue colour. 
VEITCH’S CHELSEA ROSE. 
Flowers of a charming bright rose-pink shade. 
THE QUEEN. 
Much the largest and finest White Primula in cultivation. 
FINEST FRINGED RED, WHITE, & MIXED. 
Per packet, 2s. 6 d. to 3s. 6 d, 
SUNFLOWER, NEW MINIATURE. 
Exceedingly free flowering, producing an abundance of small, 
elegant, bright golden yellow single flowers, with a dark centre; 
very decorative, and highly useful for cutting. 
Per packet, Is. 
For full descriptions of the above and other Choice 
Novelties and Specialities sec CATALOGUE for 1886, 
forwarded gratis and post free on application. 
Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, S.W, 
BY ROYAE WARRANTS 
Seedsmen to H.M. the 
QUEEN and H.R.H. the 
PRINCE of WALES. 
ECONOMY 
IN T HE GARD EN. 
ALLSEEDS POST FREE 
(except peas and beans.) 
ALL GOODS CARRIAGE FREE 
Carriage Free 
T o any Railway Station in England. 
5 per cent, discount for cash. 
SUTTON’S AMATEUR’S GUIDE 
“One of the most useful Gardening Books” 
containing Well-Written and Practical Articles 
entitled : 
“ A Year's Work in the 
Vegetable Garden.” 
“ The Culture of Flowers from Seeds.” 
Beautifully Illustrated. 
Post free for 12 stamps, or gratis to customers to 
the value of 20s. and upwards. 
SUTTON’S POCKET GARDEN CALENDAR 
“ A useful little work.” 
Post free for One Stamp. 
Seedsmen by Royal Warrant to H.M. The Queen, and 
also the First Seedsmen by Special Warrant to 
H.R.H. thd Prince ofWales, 
READINGi 
I )OYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
\j SOUTH KENSINGTON, S.W. 
NOTICE !—COMMITTEE MEETINGS, Fruit and Floral, at 
11 a.m., in the Conservatory; Scientificat 1 p.in., in the Lindley 
Library, on Tuesday next, February 9th. 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING at 3 p.m. in the Con¬ 
servatory. 
At this Meeting Candidates for Fellowship will be elected. 
The President, Council, and Fellows, will dine together at the 
Criterion, at 6.30 p.m. the same evening. 
N.B.—Exhibitors’ Entrance, East side of Royal Albert Hall. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
PAGE 
Abutilon Boule de Neige .. 
362 
Lattice-leaf plants. 
.. 362 
Amateurs’Garden, the .. 
359 
Libonias, the culture of 
.. 363 
Auriculas in February .... 
364 
Orchids on dead trees .. 
.. 364 
Bomarea frondea . 
356 
Orchids from Scotland.. 
.. 365 
Bulbs, grafting .... 
356 
Orchid Society . 
.. 357 
Carnation, a new . 
356 
Pansies in beds.. 
Chrysanthemum culture .. 
357 
Parsley and Onions .... 
.. 358 
Chrysanthemums, late.... 
363 
Peaches, out-door. 
.. 361 
Conservatory at Chalfont.. 
362 
Phalaenopsis at Oldfield 
.. 364 
Cucumbers, Tomatos, &e. 
362 
Phloxes, Herbaceous .. 
.. 363 
Erica melanthera . 
362 
Poinsettias at Seaharn .. 
.. 362 
Ferns, antipodial . 
356 
Redleaf Gardens. 
.. 360 
Ferns for baskets . 
360 
R. H. S., the . 
.. 358 
Gardeners’ Calender. 
364 
Scottish Gardening .... 
.. 359 
Garden training. 
355 
Shrubs in Towns . 
.. 360 
Geranium, scented-leaved 
360 
Spirsea japonica. 
.. 363 
Grapes, seedling. 
357 
Thvrsacanthus rutilans 
.. 363 
Horticultural Societies .. 
365 
Violet, the African .... 
.. 360 
11 Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.” —Bacon. 
Ip ©nrWiitp^nrlA. 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1886. 
Garden Training. —Tlie winter, which so far 
has been even more marked by rough and 
unsettled weather, and by dirt, damp, and dis¬ 
comfort rather than by exceeding severity, is 
at last rapidly passing to its end, and in a very 
few weeks we shall have ample evidence that 
nature is not dead, but has only been sleeping. 
We hardly know, in our uncertain climate, 
whether to hail with satisfaction the compara¬ 
tive rest which the winter brings, or not. 
Certainly winter always creates enforced rest 
for nature, and as gardening is absolutely 
dependent upon the operations of nature, 
whether we appreciate the rest or not, we must 
endure it. 
But there is found for us ample compensa¬ 
tion for any unpleasant winter features, when 
in the spring the face of nature once more 
assumes a verdant aspect, and the earth is 
clothed in green. Gardening then comes to us 
with renewed freshness and delight. All the 
discomforts of the past winter, or the failures 
of the preceding summer are forgotten in the 
renewed hopes and aspirations which fill our 
minds as the spring developes. We rarely 
despond in the spring, because the season itself 
is so full of hope and promise that the mind 
naturally follows the course of the season, and 
almost certainly, that whatever may have been 
previous misfortunes, the spring season is sure 
to he full of success and prosperity. Gardening 
is not always the highest development of human 
pleasure, because it often ends in comparative 
failure; but Lord Bacon’s apothegm is fully 
applicable to the art in the months of spring, 
as then failure is not only remote, but to san¬ 
guine minds is not held possible. 
Hone the less, gardening will he successful, 
more or less, just as the labourer in it brings to 
his work skill and knowledge or otherwise. 
Too many persons assume, perhaps, because 
Adam was a born gardener, that all humanity 
are such also. It is true they may be, as far 
as mind and flesh are concerned, hut if both 
are untaught, they make as poor gardeners as 
they would engineers or architects. True gar- 
