September IS, 1886. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
35 
VEITGH’S BULBS 
FOR 
EARLY FORCING. 
JAMES YEITCH & SONS. 
ROYAL EXOTIC NURSERY, 
CH ELSEA, S .W. 
The following varieties are specially selected, and the 
best adapted for very early forcing :—- 
HYACINTHS. 
I )OYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
^ SOUTH KENSINGTON, S.W. 
NOTICE !—COMMITTEE MEETINGS, Fruit and Floral, at 11 
a.m., in the Conservatory, on Tuesday next, September 21st. 
N.B.—Open to Fellows at Twelve o’clock, and the Public at 
One o’clock. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, Sept. 20th.—Bulb Sales at Stevens’ and 
Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Tuesday, Sept. 21st.—Meeting of Floral and Fruit 
Committees at South Kensington.—Sale of Dr. 
Paterson’s collection of Orchids at Protheroe and 
Morris’s Rooms (two days). 
Wednesday, Sept. 22nd.—Bale of Dutch Bulbs and 
Azaleas, &c. at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Thursday, Sept. 2-3rd.—Sale of Dutch Bulbs at 
Protheroe and Morris’s Rooms. 
Friday, Sept. 24th.—Sale of Imported Orchids at 
Protheroe and Morris’s Rooms. 
Saturday, Sept. 2oth.—Bulb Sales at Protheroe and 
Morris’s and Stevens’ Rooms. 
EARLY WHITE ROMAN 15/- per 100 ; 2/- per doz. 
NAMED EXTRA EARLY VARIETIES 10/-per doz. 
NARCISSUS. 
EARLY PAPER WHITE .10/6 per 100 ; 1/6 per doz. 
EARLY D0TJ.BLE ROMAN ••• 10/6 per 100; 1/6 per doz. 
EARLY SINGLE TULIPS. 
DUC VAN THOL, Red and Yellow.4/6 per 100. 
DUC VAN THOL, Crimson.4/6 per 100, 
DUC VAN THOL, Scarlet.4/- per 100. 
EARLY DOUBLE TULIPS. 
DUC VAN THOL, Red and Yellow.3/6 per 100. 
TOURNESOL, Red and Yellow.7./- per 100. 
JONQUILS, SINGLE, SWEET-SCENTED ... 5/- per 100. 
SCILLA SIBIRICA.30/- per 1,000; 3/3 per 100. 
For other Bulls for Forcing, Pot Culture, or Planting 
sea Catalogue, forwarded gratis and post free on 
application. 
African double Tuberoses. 
Magnificent, large, solid bulbs. 
J. V. & Sons’ annual consignment has just arrived in 
splendid condition. Per dozen, 3s. 6 d. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Amateurs’ Garden . 39 
American Florists’ Society.. SO 
Anemone japonica alba .... 43 
Begonias, tuberous. 39 
Blackpool Winter Gardens.. 45 
Cottage Gardening . 38 
Crinum Powelli .. 44 
Currant, Black Champion.. 40 
CypripediumSanderianum.. 45 
Earwigs and Chrysanthe¬ 
mums .43 
Eupatoriums. 43 
Flowers in Funeral pieces.. 35 
Gardening, Mistakes in_ 40 
Grape, Duchess of Buccleuch 39 
Garden Walks . 39 
Hibiscus syriacus . 37 
Kentish Nursery, A . 37 
PAGE 
Matricaria inodora fl. pi. .. 44 
National Chrysanthemum 
Society . 40 
Odontoglossum Harryana.. 45 
Orchids at Home. 42 
Orchids, cool, on potting .. 44 
Peat or Moss Litter. 44 
Peaches, notes on. 43 
Plants from Egyptian Tombs 36 
Plum Crop, the. 35 
Roses, Pot, for market _ 31 
Sandhurst Flower Show.... 45 
Schizanthus pinnatus. 43 
Sulphide of Potassium .... 43 
The Grange, Stretford .... 40 
Totley Grange . 36 
Vegetables iu Stirlingshire.. 35 
Zephyranthes Candida .... 43 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures; and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
ROYAL EXOTIG NURSERY, GHELSEA, S.W. 
BULBS! BULBS!! 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1886. 
B. S. WILLIAMS 
Is now executing orders for HYACINTHS, TULIPS, 
CROCUS, SNOWDROPS, NARCISSI, LILIUMS, &c., 
at very reasonable prices. 
The Bulbs are very large and of exceptionally fine 
quality this year. 
Please send for copy of Illustrated Bulb Catalogue, which 
will be forwarded gratis and post f ree on application. 
VICTORIA MD PARADISE NURSERIES, 
UPFES HQLLQWAY, LONDON, If. 
Plums.— Those non-domesticated housewives 
who have failed this year to store their cup¬ 
boards with good, fresh, wdiolesome Plum pre¬ 
serve certainly have but themselves to blame. 
The crop has been universally so heavy that 
great quantities have fallen and rotted under 
the trees, simply because the price obtained 
in the markets was too low to repay the 
cost of gathering and transit to market. Of 
course, it is a grave misfortune that such should 
he the case; and although the fruit has been 
selling cheaply enough in our towns, yet it is 
evident that far more should have been con¬ 
sumed in the direction w r e have mentioned. 
Possibty, housekeepers prefer to purchase their 
preserves from the manufacturers now to making 
their own—a great and, in the end, costly 
mistake, no doubt; but when so many of our 
women grow up without the least knowdedge of 
the elements of domestic work and of economy, 
and are also too dainty or too affected to under^ 
take these household duties, it is not to be 
wondered at if jam-making is ignored in the 
home circle, and the most costly method of 
purchasing from the shopkeeper preferred. 
We may remind our readers, however, that 
having had a fair Plum crop last year and a 
very heavy one this year, that there is little 
hope we shall see any considerable quantity of 
this fine fruit for some three or four years. Ho 
doubt, in private gardens, wall trees, never too 
heavily laden if properly treated, will carry fair 
crops as usual, and in the market orchards there 
will be occasional sprinklings ; hut all past 
experience shows that heavy Plum crops come 
but once in about five years. Thus house¬ 
keepers have been very unwise in not fully 
utilising the cheap crop so freely given this 
year. Later, instead of being privileged to eat 
their own genuine preserve, they may he par¬ 
taking of material of which one-half is Plum 
and the other half something else not easily 
defined. 
It is unfortunate that in the case of Plums a 
certain and, perhaps, not altogether an exact 
prejudice should exist against eating them 
largely in a raw though ripe state. A good Plum 
is a rich, luscious, juicy fruit, and digestible; 
hut without doubt several will often have re¬ 
laxing effects, and this leads to alarm. "Were 
we more generally a fruit-eating people such 
results -would not happen; but it is an almost 
inevitable result wdien eaten but seldom. 
Children, and especially those resident in 
garden districts, who eat all kinds of fruits 
whenever com eatable, seldom suffer in the same 
-way that elder persons do. Our strong meat 
diet rarely inclines the body to fully enjoy 
fruits, and we rather contemn them than enjoy 
them. Ho doubt fruit carefully and moderately 
consumed answers useful dietatic and medicinal 
purposes in the human body; hut when ignored 
for the greater part of the year, and then some¬ 
what freely indulged in at one short season, 
unpleasant results are apt to follow. If the 
fruit-growers ever find better times, it will, 
probably, be at the expense of the graziers and 
butchers. Still, we heartily wish fruit eating 
■was far more popular, because it would prove 
at once healthful and desirable. 
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Syon House and Gardens, by tlie kind permission 
of the Duke of Northumberland, may be visited on 
Wednesdays and Thursdays up to tlie end of the month. 
Requests for cards of admission should be made to the 
Duke’s private secretary, at No. 2, Grosvenor Place, 
S.W. 
Mr. A. W. Harrison, for nearly twenty-six years 
secretary of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 
died at sea, on August 22nd, while returning to Hew 
York from Liverpool, on the steamship Queen. 
The date for holding the Sheffield and Hallamshire 
Gardeners’ Mutual Improvement Society’s annual 
Chrysanthemum, Primula, Flower, and Fruit Show 
has been altered to November 15tli and 16tli, in view 
of the change in the weather, which will probably 
bring on an earlier bloom. 
For stealing thirty-four panes of glass out of a 
nurseryman’s greenhouse at Wylde Green, one Daniel 
Tranter, a policeman, was on Tuesday sentenced to 
three months imprisonment at Sutton Coldfield. 
Mr. William H. Boomkaup, son of a Dutch bulb- 
grower in Holland, who had established a large 
business in New York, as a bulb importer, died 
suddenly in that city on Aug. 18th. 
A good portion of the plants in the flower beds, in 
the City Park, Cleveland, is stated by the American 
Florist, to have been taken up in the trees by the 
sparrows, who have utilised the Allysmn, Oxalis, and 
Lobelia for building their nests. 
Cornflower. —He had been at Harrow nearly a 
whole term, and on the match day, wishing for a 
button-hole of dark blue, he strolled into his favourite 
flower-shop. “ Look here, I want a button-hole of 
Revelenta Arabica.” “Rev-?” “ Yes, corn-flour, 
you know—botanical name.” He deals elsewhere now. 
It is supposed (remarks the American Gardeners' 
Monthly), that The English Sparrow has learnt to 
read, and has been perusing Prof. Riley’s statements 
that locusts are good to eat. Not being versed in 
entomology, however, they mistook cieades for locusts, 
and fell to work at them about London, as Prof. Ward 
says that they did about Washington. The cicada 
has thrived for centuries in spite of English sparrows, 
but now they ate becoming educated, the locust will 
have to go. 
A Philadelphia florist says 1 “ It is noticeable 
that popular taste is running more and more toward 
the use of Coloured Flowers in Funeral Pieces. 
A few years ago nothing but pure white flowers were 
tolerated. One day Pennock Bros, sent out a pillow with 
a few Safrano buds in it, only to have it returned by the 
indignant recipient. Since that time, however, not 
only Safranos, but the deeper yellow Perles and Sunsets 
