May 1, 1886. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
547 
Orchid Exhibition 
L ILIUM AURATUM.- TEN THOUSAND 
OF THE FINEST BULBS ever imported into this 
country of this charming hardy Lily. In splendid condition 
for immediate planting. Mammoth Bulbs, 8 to 12 inches in 
circumference, each, 9d. t Is., Is. 6 d., and 2s. each; 5s., 8s., 10s., 
15s., 20s., and 25s. per dozen ; sent packing and carriage free on 
receipt of remittance. Cases as imported, containing 50 fine 
bulbs, 25s. ; 100 fine bulbs, 40s. ; packing and carriage free.— 
CARTER'S, Direct Importers of Japanese Lilies, 237 and 238, 
High Holborn, London, W.C. 
One of the most beautiful sights 
in London. 
O RCHIDS.—Mr. William Bull’s ORCHID 
EXHIBITION will open on TUESDAY, May 4, and the 
Private View to Patrons of the Establishment be held every 
TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SATURDAY, 10 to 5 o’clock, 
throughout MAY, JUNE and JULY. 
Establishment for New and Rare Plants, 536, King's Road, 
Chelsea, London, S.W. 
O RCHIDS.—Mr. William Bull’s EXHI¬ 
BITION will OPEN to the Public WEDNESDAY, May 5, 
and FRIDAY, May 7, and every following MONDAY, WED¬ 
NESDAY and FRIDAY, 10 to 5 o’clock, throughout MAY, 
JUNE and JULY. Admission, each day, 2s. 6 d. 
Orchid Show, May 12 and 13. 
B irmingham botanical & horti¬ 
cultural SOCIETY. One Hundred and Fifty Pounds 
in Prizes., For Schedules apply to W. B. LATHAM, Curator, 
at the Gardens, Edgbaston. 
Entries close on May 6th. 
Hull, East Riding, and North Lincolnshire Horti¬ 
cultural Society. 
A Grand Horticultural Exhibition will be 
held in the 
HULL BOTANIC GARDENS, 
On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, July 14th, 15th and 
16th, 1886. 
Schedules and particulars of PHILIP MAC MAHON, Curator, 
Hull Botanic Gardens. 
/WRCHIDS.—A vision of loveliness unparal- 
V_/ leled in Europe. 
QRCHIDS.- 
; Must be seen to be realised.” 
O RCHIDS.—“A scene of the greatest Or- 
cliidic beauty, baffling description, and, we had almost 
aid, defying exaggeration.”— Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
O RCHIDS. — Specimens in Elower from 
Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Madagascar, Assam, 
Peru, Costa Rica, Venezuela, West Indies, Burmah, Borneo, and 
various other parts of the Eastern Archipelago. 
O RCHIDS.—Private View to Patrons of the 
Establishment will open Tuesday, May 4, and be held 
every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 10 to 5 o’clock, through¬ 
out May, June and July. 
O RCHIDS.—Public Exhibition will open 
Wednesday, May 5, Friday, May 7, and every Monday, 
Wednesday and Friday, 10 to 5 o’clock, throughout May, June 
and July." Admission, each day, 2s. 6d. 
O RCHIDS.—The Exhibition is worth going 
any distance to see at Mr. William Bull’s Establish¬ 
ment for New and Rare Plants, 536, King’s Road, Chelsea, 
London, S.W. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Amateurs’ Garden, the_551 
Auricula, a novel . 548 
Auricula, the Florist’s .... 553 
Daffodil, the. 554 
Fern World, the . 553 
Fumigating Orchid Houses 556 
Gardeners’ Calendar. 556 
Gladiolus Colvillii alba ... 555 
Holly, perpetual fruiting.. 555 
Hyacinths out of bloom .. 54S 
Lilacs in pots. 552 
Obituary . 557 
Orchids, Dr. Dukes . 548 
Orchid Growers’ Calendar 556 
Orchid Nomenclature .... 556 
Peas not Vegetating . 556 
Plants, on Potting. 555 
PAGE 
Plants, Summer Culture of 552 
Poinsettia, the. 555 
Polyanthuses, Gold-laced.. 549 
Primrose, Alice Wilson.... 555 
Primulas, best Hardy .... 550 
Primula, improvement of 550 
Provincial Shows . 549 
Pump, a new spray . 556 
Royal Horticultural 
Society. 557 
Season’s Prospects. 547 
Scottish Gardening . 551 
Soot and the Onion Maggot 555 
Spinach and its substitutes 552 
Spring Flowers, Choice.... 556 
Strawberry, Keen’s Seedling 555 
Tiger Flowers.555 
NEW PLANTS for 1886. 
Mr. WM. BULL’S 
NEW CATALOGUE for 1886 
JUST ISSUED, PRICE Is. 
Contains Names, Descriptions, and Prices of the 
following’ NEW PLANTS, which he is now 
sending out for the first time :—- 
ANTHURIUM CHELSEIENSE 
ARISTOLOCHIA ELEGANS 
BEGONIA COMPTA 
„ DECORA 
CLERODENDRON MINAHASS^l 
COTONEASTER FONTANESII 
DENDROBIUM PARTHENIUM 
ERANTHEMUM MACROPHYLLUM 
„ VELUTINUM 
GYMNADENIA MACRANTHA 
IXORA CONSPICUA 
„ SPECIOSA 
PALICOUREA JUGOSA 
PINANGA SPECTABILIS 
SELAGINELLA FLAGELLIFERA 
SMILAX DISCOLOR 
TECOMA AMBOINENSIS 
THUNIA MARSHALLIAN A IONOPHLEBIA 
ZALACCA NITIDA. 
Just published, price Is. 
EW PLANTS. — Mr. William Bull’s 
New Illustrated Plant Catalogue for 1886 is now ready. 
N EW 
PLANTS. —• Vide Illustrations in 
Mr. William Bull’s Catalogue for 1886. 
N EW PLANTS.—See Description in Mr. 
William Bull’s New Catalogue for 18S6 ; just issued. 
Establishment for New and Rare Plants, 536, King’s Road, 
Chelsea, London, S.W. 
MR. WILLIAM BULL, 
ESTABLISHMENT FOR NEW & RARE PLANTS, 
636, King’s Road, Chelsea, London, S.W. 
SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1886. 
The Season’s Prospects. —It merits special 
notice tbat tbe moveable feast of Easter, asso¬ 
ciated now more with volunteer reviews and 
general holidays in augurating the season of 
pleasure and play, notably fell unusually late 
this year, but also tbat nature seems unusually 
late with it; indeed, nature is relatively much 
tbe later of tbe two, for it is certain that as 
compared with tbe state of vegetation in many 
preceding years it is quite a month later than 
usual. We were, earlier in the spring, led to 
suppose tbat tbe long spell of hard weather 
which marked tbe winter would have been 
succeeded by a rebound, and tbat tbe diversion 
in tbe direction of growth would have been as 
rapid as previously the check bad been un¬ 
doubted. But tbat expectation has vanished, 
and the rebound has been of tbe slowest. The 
exceeding cold of the winter did not exhaust 
the winter’s stock of tbat perverse article, and 
we have been treated to an unlimited supply of 
low temperature for several weeks, even though 
tempered at times by sunny days and grateful 
showers. Still, tbe cold has predominated with 
the result that literally everything which 
constitutes the vegetable world outside—true 
barometer or index of tbe average temperature 
of tbe season—is in a condition of comparative 
nakedness. 
It was almost amusing to find tbat tbe tra¬ 
ditional Blackthorn winter displayed its usual 
and exceedingly ungracious aspect during the 
past month, even though not a Blackthorn bush 
or even earliest Plums bad bloomed. Who 
does not know tbat this ordinary interjection of 
a week of keen east winds and night frosts in¬ 
variably drops in just as tbe Plums are in bloom, 
and too often proves of deadly effect upon the 
floral germ and that of tbe fruit, so tbat beyond 
bloom little else is seen that season 1 As tbe 
Plums have by reason of tbe actual lateness of 
tbe season escaped tbe annual visitation of cold, 
indeed, are quite three weeks later, there is good 
reason to believe tbat should tbe Blackthorn 
winter not favour us with a second edition, we 
may have once more a really good general crop 
of Plums. All kinds are blooming very pro¬ 
fusely, and it seems certain that the bloom must 
be fertile, because we bad last year a season 
which in a marked degree showed ripening and 
maturing capacities. Very often we have bad 
great bloom promise which failed to fulfil tbat 
promise simply because tbe needful fertility 
was lacking. It seems impossible tbat any 
such lacking of fertility can exist this year. 
Should, however, such prove to be tbe case, we 
shall have to charge that mischance, not upon 
tbe previous year, nor upon lack of capacity 
on the part of the trees, but rather upon the 
deadening effects of a long, cold and ungenerous 
spring. 
One undoubted phenomenon in nature seems 
im m inent. We shall abnost certainly see all 
kinds of hardy fruit trees blooming simul¬ 
taneously ; indeed, there seems to be abnost a 
race between Pears and Apples not to see 
which shall bloom first but latest. Tbe country, 
and specially tbe fruit-growing districts, may be 
expected to show with unusual beauty during 
tbe next few weeks, and if such average lateness 
of tbe general bloom means productiveness, 
then we may well look with hope for a most 
fruitful season. Many Pear trees which bore 
heavily last year are, of course, resting ; but 
there are myriads of trees blooming abundantly 
all the same, and as for Apples—our standard 
and most valuable of hardy fruits—tbe bloom 
is nothing more than usually good, but many 
robust-growing kinds not usually fruitful are 
this spring showing unwonted evidences of 
bloom and prospective fruitfulness. But it is 
interesting to note tbat tbe hardy bush fruits 
have been less affected by tbe weather than 
tbe trees have been, and Gooseberries and Cur¬ 
rants have not only broken well, but are showing 
bloom in great abundance. Tbe exceptions are 
in those gardens where tbe birds, finding plenty 
of protection, repaid tbat care by pecking out 
the buds of the Gooseberry bushes. Still, that 
is not seen so much where there are large 
breadths; indeed, having regard to tbe long 
spell of cold and protracted snowfalls which 
prevailed during tbe winter, it is almost remark¬ 
able tbat more damage was not done. When 
bullfinches, chaffinches, and tom-tits are rabid 
with hunger it requires actual protection to tbe 
trees to prevent these feathered marauders from 
doing exceeding mischief. Some, happily, 
succeed in protecting their trees, whilst far 
more absolutely fail in tbe effort. 
Although stone fruits on walls hardly come 
under tbe common appellation of hardy fruits, 
yet to gardeners they have exceeding interest; 
indeed, tbe securing of crops of Peaches, Nec¬ 
tarines, Apricots, Plums, and Cherries on walls 
are often not only of vital moment, but not a 
whit less a real test of gardening capacity. 
Still, it is given to some to secure not merely 
good crops of wall fruits, but also good wall 
trees with little protection, and apparently with 
no exceeding amount of labour, whilst others 
protect and ooddle their trees with intense 
anxiety and yet have no great success. Per¬ 
haps there is too much of coddhng, perhaps 
soils and situations favour tbe stone fruits more 
or less, perhaps root cultivation has something 
to do with tbe results. In any case, generally, 
there seems to be a good prospect of a wall fruit 
crop, and so far the weather, beyond being 
colder than desirable, has not been inclement 
for tbe tender bloom, and if no worse influences 
