February 13, 1886. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
371 
Daniels’ Superb Onions. 
Packet—s. d. 
DANIELS’ White Elephant Tripoli ... O 9 
DANIELS’ Golden Rocca . 1 O 
DANIELS’ Crimson Rocca. O 6 
DANIELS’ Giant Rocca . O 6 
DANIELS’ Improved White Spanish ... 1 O 
DANIELS’ Giant Zittau Yellow . O 4 
DANIELS’ James’- Long Keeping. O 4 
DANIELS’ Early Queen . O 4 
DANIELS’ Blood Red.O 4 
DANIELS’ New White Globe . 1 0 
DANIELS’ Rousham Park Hero. 1 O 
Each and all post free at prices quoted. The entire 
collection post free for 6s. 
The above will be found unrivalled for EXHIBITION 
and general use all the year round. 
EVIDENCE OF QUALITY. 
From Mr. G- H. RICHARDS, Gardener to the Earl of 
Normanton, July 22nd. 
" liras much pleased with your White Elephant Tripoli 
Onion I had last year, and consider it the finest white selection 
I have yet tried or seen. I exhibited a dish at South Kensington, 
July 14th, in my First Prize collection of vegetables, and they 
were much admired.” 
From Mr. WILLIAM LLOYD. Lillingstone, Lorell, Sept. 5th. 
“ For Onions, I may say, we had nine First Prizes, and three 
Second.” 
From Mr. T. WELLS, Burnestone, Bedale, Yorks, Jan. 2Sth. 
“I took two First Prizes and one Second with your Golden 
Rocca Onion last year, against more than twenty competitors.” 
From Mr. G. BAKER, The Gardens, Marlingford Hall. 
“ I consider your Giant Rocca Onion the best ever intro¬ 
duced, very mild in flavour and an excellent cropper. I have 
not a single bulb under one pound in weight." 
From Mr. W. M. HEYHOE, Station Road, Swaffham, 
July 16th. 
“The Onions which I grew last year from seed supplied by 
you were a magnificent crop. An eightenpenny packet yielded 
upwards of one and a half cwt. of splendid round Onions, which 
have kept good tiU now.” 
TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS IN PRIZES 
offered, to all growers of above collection. Complete 
cultural directions will be found in 
DANIELS’ ILLUSTRATED GUIDE, 
containing a superb coloured plate of great artistic 
merit, representing above-named Onions, natural size 
and colours. GRATIS to purchasers of the 6s. Collection. 
Daniels Bros., Seed Growers, Norwich. 
GRAND NEW SEEDLING POTATO. 
^rpHE COLOrSTEL,” First Class Certificate 
1 Royal Horticultural Society, 1885. “THE DOCTOR,” 
First Class Certificate Royal Horticultural Society, 1884, and 
many Sterling Novelties in Seed Potatos. 
Send for Retail Priced Catalogue, which contains all the best 
sorts in cultivation. 
W. W. JOHNSON & SON, 
Seed Potato Growers and Merchants, BOSTON , LINCOLNSHIRE. 
W HOLESALE SEED CATALOGUE.— 
Our Catalogue of Garden and Flower Seeds, Novelties, 
and Bulbs for Spring Planting, is now ready, and may be had 
on application. All our customers should have already received 
one by post, and they will oblige by advising us if not to hand. 
The above also includes List of a few choice Lilies just to 
hand from Japan—L. auratum, L. longiflorum, L. Krameri, &c. 
WATKINS and SIMPSON, Seed and Bulb Merchants, 
Exeter Street, Strand, W.C. 
1ATE WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUM BOULE BE BEIGE 
R OWEIST is now Booking Orders for the 
• above—the best late White known. Splendid habit 
and free-flowering. A grand Market Plant. R. OWEN was 
awarded two First Class Certificates December, 1885. 10s. 6 d. 
per dozen. Plants ready in March. Cuttings, 6s. per dozen. 
Specimen blooms, 6 stamps. Orders executed in rotation. 
Trade Price on application.— Floral Nurseries, Maidenhead. 
SEEDS OF FINEST QUALITY. 
VEGETABLE, FLOWER, and FARM 
V SEEDS at most moderate prices direct from the growers. 
Descriptive, Illustrated, Priced, Spring Catalogue free to any 
address on application. 
W. w. JOHNSON & SON, 
Seed Growers & Merchants, BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE. 
FOR PRESENT SOWING. 
SUTTON’S 
“GUINEA” COLLECTION, 
Containing 56 packets of the best sorts of Peas, 
Beans, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrot, Celery, Cu¬ 
cumber, Lettuce, Onion, Radish, Turnip, Tomato, 
&e. This popular Collection—the best value yet 
offered—is specially arranged, for the Amateurs' 
Garden, and will be sent Carriage Free to any 
Railway Statical in England or Wales on receipt 
of a remittance for 21s. 
Priced Descriptive Catalogues of 
SUTTON’S PURE GARDEN SEEDS 
Gratis and Post Free. 
Seedsmen by Roval Warrants to H M. the Queen and 
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. 
READIN G 
/CRYSTAL PALACE FLOWER SHOWS 
\J AND FRUIT SHOWS DURING 1886.—Dates of all these 
Shows are fixed, and Schedules may be had from Mr. W. G, 
HEAD, Garden Superintendent, Crystal Palace, S.E. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Amateurs' Garden. 375 
Balsams . 378 
Clematis indivisa lobata .. 378 
Costus speciosus . 379 
Daffodil-, early . 373 
Fern, a new yellow . 372 
Fry, Mr. G. {with portrait ) 377 
Gardeners’ Society, Bir¬ 
mingham . 372 
Gloriosa superba . 374 
Gooseberries for Show .... 378 
Horticultural Societies .. 381 
Lapageria culture. 374 
Mus<enda frondosa. 374 
Narcissus Bulbocodiuin .. 376 
Orchids at Fernside. 3S0 
PAGE 
Orchid growers’ Calendar.. 389 
Parsley and Onions . 375 
Primulas, double blue .... 376 
Boses in pots .373 
Royal Horticultural Society 371 
Scottish Gardening . 375 
Seedsmen and their cus¬ 
tomers . 379 
Table and Window Plants. 380 
Tulips, Ancient and Modern 376 
Turner Memorial . 372 
United Horticultural Pro¬ 
vident Society. 3S0 
Vines Bleeding . 379 
Vines, Forcing . 375 
Warnham Court. 373 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1886. 
The Roy t al Horticultural Society. — The 
annual general meeting of this society, held on 
Tuesday last, demands more than a passing 
notice, by reason of the renewed interest which 
is being taken in its present condition by gentle¬ 
men outside the council, and the important 
acknowledgment made by the president when 
moving the adoption of the report, that as the 
coming Colonial Exhibition will be the last of 
the series, something must he done in the way 
of finding fresh quarters. So far so good, it is 
well to know that the council are alive to the 
gravity of the situation. Before proceeding 1 to 
discuss what took place at the meeting, we may 
he allowed to say a few words respecting the 
thoroughly unsatisfactory character of the 
annual report of the council. In the first place 
we learn that the Royal Commissioners have 
very greatly reduced the privileges enjoyed by 
the Fellows during the last few years as regards 
admission to the Gardens, and there will he no 
more transferable tickets. The result of this 
move will undoubtedly he a considerable 
falling off in the receipts from subscriptions; 
indeed, we know that some who had already 
paid when the report appeared, have sent for 
their money back. Well, these we presume 
belonged to what one of our correspondents 
lias dubbed the Lah-di-dah element, and from 
an horticultural point of view, their absence 
from the roll may he regarded as no great loss ; 
the society will out-live the loss of support of 
that kind. 
With regard to the proposed International 
exhibition, we are glad to know that the 
council did not receive sufficient financial en¬ 
couragement from the commissioners to warrant 
them in undertaking such a heavy responsibility 
for the pres ent. That we regard as eminently 
satisfactory, for certain it is that had any 
arrangement of the kind that was proposed 
been carried out, the horticulturists, in homely 
phrase, would have done the work, and the 
commissioners have received the pay. That 
the council have made arrangements for holding 
a provincial show at Liverpool during the en¬ 
suing summer, is a matter for sincere congratu¬ 
lation. We claim to know something of the 
feelings of both metropolitan and provincial 
horticulturists on this subject, and we are cer¬ 
tain, that With good management, the show will 
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