February 27, 1886. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 27, 1886. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
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. 
Campanula Calycanthema Rosea. 
A new bright rose-pink variety; a most attractive and de¬ 
sirable addition to our hardy border plants. 
Per packet, Is. 6d. 
YEITOH’S SUPERB PRIMULAS. 
THE FINEST IN CULTIVATION. 
Awarded a First Class Certificate by the Royal Horticultural 
Society for superior quality. 
SUTTON’S 
HALF-GUINEA COLLECTION OF 
FLOWER SEEDS, 
Contains 46 varieties of the most beautiful 
Asters, Stocks, Hardy, Half-hardy, and Tender 
Annuals, Hardy Perennials and Biennials, &c., 
specially suitable for the Amateur’s or Villa 
Garden; and -will he delivered free to any 
address in the United Kingdom, on receipt of 
a remittance for 10s. 6d. 
Other Collections, 2/6, 5/-, 7/6, 15/-, 21/-, and 
upwards. 
Particulars on application. 
BEAUTIFUL LAWNS 
VEITGH’S CHELSEA SCARLET. 
The brightest and richest of all the high-coloured Primulas. 
Flowers of a most brilliant and intense rich scarlet-crimson. 
VEITCH’S CHELSEA CRIMSON. 
Flowers of a rich velvety violet-crimson shade. 
VESTCK’S CHELSEA BLUE. 
Flowers of a beautiful rich blue colour. 
VESTCH’S CHELSEA ROSE. 
Flowers of a charming bright rose-pink shade. 
FINEST FRINGED RED, WHITE, AND MIXED. 
Per packet, 2s. 6d. to Ss. 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. 6d. 
For full descriptions of the above and other Choice 
Novelties and Specialities see CATALOGUE for 1886, 
forwarded gratis and post free on application. 
Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, S.W. 
BY SOWING 
Sutton’s Prize Lawn Grass Seeds. 
For Garden Lawns and 
Croquet Grounds 
For Tennis Lawns and 
Bowling Greens 
Per Bushel, 25/- 
,, Gallon, 3/6 
,, Bushel, 22/6 
,, Gallon, 3/- 
Plant Stimulants. —An interesting 
was the other day propounded: 
plant stimulants 1” Probably. 
6 question 
“ What are 
not a few will 
Sutton & Sons, Reading, Berks. 
once say, “ Oh ! there are plenty of such, 
as, for instance, artificial manures—salts, soot, 
guano, &c.” If we judge of these by their 
active results, we may say—perhaps not without 
truth—that they are stimulants, or, perhaps 
better still, that they stimulate. But, then, if 
so much be admitted, we must also materially 
change or modify our estimate of stimulants 
or their effects upon men and animals. Practi¬ 
cally, with the latter we associate few stimulants.. 
Perhaps, when we give poultry certain condi¬ 
ments to promote bodily heat, and thus assist or 
promote egg-production, or when we give to 
horses and other cattle certain condiments to 
produce sleekness of coat or promote extra 
appetite, we may be said to employ stimulants; 
but their use is not to be regarded in the same 
sense as the use of stimulants to plants, because 
we employ these so called at all times and under 
all sorts of conditions. 
Again, with man—who is, perhaps, the 
greatest employer of stimulants—we find the 
use to be diverse, as fancy shall instigate or 
custom exact. We do not term ordinary food 
stimulants; the term is never fitly applied to 
anything which is really food and assimilates 
with the blood of the human body. With man 
a true stimulant is something which creates a 
certain effect for a certain purpose ; hut if that 
effect is not created, the stimulant is more 
harmful than otherwise. Man needs no kind 
of stimulants in health ; indeed, their use may 
be the instrument of deranging health. It is 
when health is deranged, and the system is low 
or impoverished, that some kind of stimulus is 
needful and desirable; but only then that it 
may promote such action on the part of the 
assimilative organs of the body that real food 
shall be converted into nutriment, and thus 
help to create health, strength, and the consti¬ 
tuents of the body. Thus, with the human 
family, stimulants are not food, but may be 
wisely employed to promote good digestion. 
Even in that case, however, the ordinary human 
being is far from being his best prescribe!', or 
shalf we say gardener, and it is very likely will 
imbibe stimulants not only when undesirable, 
but possibly of a kind that is rather harmful 
than healthful, 
Choice Flower Seeds 
JAMES VEITCH&SONS 
Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, S.W. 
BY ROYAL WARRANTS, 
SEEDSMEN fQv SEEDSMEN 
TO H.M. 
THE QUEEN. 
TO H.R.H. THE 
PRINCE OF WALES. 
SUTTON’S 
GHOSGE 
seeds of BEAUT IFUL 
FLOWERS 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Aberdeen Horticultural As¬ 
sociation . 413 
Adiantura cuneatnm. 411 
Amateurs’ Garden. 407 
Beans, Broad . 407 > 
Blackberries . 408 
Carnations, three good_ 410 
Carnivorous plants . 412 
Celery culture. 405 
Celery, Matchless White .. 411 
Chimonantlnis fragrans .. 411 
Chrysanthemum names .. 400 
Eueharis Mite, the. 408 
Euphorbia Jacquinneflora.. 406 
Ficus elastica . 404 
Fuchsia, specimen, how to 
grow . 409 | 
Gardeners’ Calendar, the .. 411 
Gardens, notes from. 410 
Gardenias, cutting down .. 404 
Grape, Duke of Buccleuch. 409 j 
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Horticultural Societies_ 413 
Manchester Horticultural 
Association.413 
Melon, Blenheim Orange.. 410 
Narcissus Committee, the. 404 
Nursery, Mr. Williams’.... 404 
Oncidium Brunleesianum.. 412 
Phaiaenopsis Stuartiana 
Lendyana. 412 
Plant Stimulants .403 
Poinsettia pulcherrima.... 411 
Potatos, Purple . 408 
Primula floribunda . 408 
Primula, Gipsy Queen .... 410 
Rose, Marechal Niel. 411 
Royal Aquarium Shows .. 404 
Scottish Gardening . 407 
Strawberries, setting the 
fruits of. 410 
Strawberry plants, win¬ 
tering . 410 
