October 9, 1886. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
83 
Veetce’s Bulbs 
FOR PRESENT PLANTING. 
JAMES VEITCH & SONS, 
Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, S.W. 
VEITCH’S 
HYACINTHS FOB BEDDING. 
In distinct and decided shades of colour. 
Specially selected varieties to flower at the same time , producing 
large trusses of bloom. 
DARK BLUE 
.. 15s. Od. per 100 
2s. Od. per doz. 
BRIGHT BLUE .. 
.. 15s. Od. ,, 
2s. 0d. 
>> 
CRIMSON .. 
.. 20s. Od. ,, 
2s. Od. 
) J 
BRIGHT RED .. 
.. 20s. Od. „ ; 
2s. Od. 
J J 
PURE WHITE .. 
.. 27s. Od. ,, 
3s. 9 d. 
1) 
WHITE, tiDgcd rose 
.. 25s. Od. ,, 
3s. Od. 
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VEITCH’S SVI1XED~HYAGINTHS. 
BLUE, all shades .. .. 12s. 6d. per 100; Is. 6d. per doz. 
KED, all shades \. .. 15s. Od. „ ; 2s. Od. ,, 
WHITE, all shades.. .. 22s. 6 d. „ ; 3s. Od. „ 
MIXED, ail colours .. 13s. 6d. „ ; 2s. Od. „ 
VESTOH’S IVliXED TULIPS. 
SINGLE, finest mixed.3s. Od. per 100. 
DOUBLE, finest mixed.3s. 6d. ,, 
VEITCH’S DUTCH CROCUS. 
LARGE GOLDEN YELLOW, 11s. Od. per 1000; Is. Od. 100. 
LARGE BLUE .13s. 6 d. ,, ; Is. Od. ,, 
LARGE STRIPED .. .. 13s. 0d. ,, ; Is. Od. ,, 
LARGE WHITE .. .. 14s. 6d. ,, ; Is. Od. ,, 
MIXED, all colours .. .. 12s. Od. „ ; Is. Od. ,, 
SNOWDROPS. 
DOUBLE or SINGLE • • 21s. per 1000 ; 2s. 6d. per 100. 
SCILLA SIBSRICA. 
30s. per 1000 ; 3s. 6d. per 100. 
(g£T For other bulbs for Planting or Pot Culture , see CATALOGUE, 
forwarded Gratis and Post Free on application. 
Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, S.W. 
NEW CLEMATIS, 
“BEAUTY OF WORCESTER.” 
"JDICHARD SMITH & Co. are now book- 
ing orders for this charming novelty for delivery 
in September. For description and figure see Garden¬ 
ing Would, July 3rd. Price, 5s. each. 
Special quotation to the Trade on application. 
m. John's 'Wtieigfii, 
KENT: The Garden of England. 
Fruit Trees for the M illion? 
GEORGE BUNYARD & CO.’S 
Sew (Copyright) Illustrated and Descriptive 
CATALOGUE 
OF 
FRUIT TREES, 
Which contains “ a mine of usef ul informa¬ 
tionf and specially written Articles for 
VILLA GARDENERS. 
Mat be had post free for six stamps from 
The Old Nurse ries, MAIDSTONE. 
FRUIT TREES! 
JERSEY 
Carriage Paid for cash with order. 
„ __ Write for Illustrated Catalogue to 
JOSHUA LE CORNU & SON, High View Nurseries, who will 
send, carriage'paid for cash with order, 
40 JERSEY ROSES S 21/- 
Op.dep. at Once to Secure the Strongest Plants. 
Liverpool Horticultural Association. 
T he seventh grand fruit and 
CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW will be held in St. George’s 
Hall, on the 23rd and 24th November. The Silver Cup given by 
J. Williams & Co. for forty-eight blooms of Chrysanthemums 
will he competed for. 
Entries close November lfith. Schedules on application to 
the Secretary, EDWARD BRIDGE, Tarbock Road, Huyton. 
R oyal horticultural society, 
SOUTH KENSINGTON, S.W. 
NOTICE!—COMMITTEE MEETINGS, Fruit anil Floral, at 11 
a.m., in the Conservatory, on Tuesday next, October 12th, and 
Wednesday, October 13th. 
SHOW of HARDY FRUITS. 
N.B.—Open to Fellows at Twelve o’clock on Tuesday, and the 
Public at One o’clock ;-on Wednesday at Ten o’clock, a.m. 
/CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW. YORK, 
\J 1SS6. Held in the FINE ART EXHIBITION BUILDING, 
on November 17th, ISth, and 19th. 
Liberal Prizes for PLANTS, FLOWERS, FRUITS, and 
VEGETABLES. Schedules, Ac., to be obtained of 
J. LAZENBY, SPURRIERGATE, YORK. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, Oct. 11th.—General Meeting of the National 
Chrysanthemum Society at 7 p.m.—Bulb Sale at 
Stevens’ Booms. Sale of Orchids at the Castle 
Nursery, Lower Norwood ; and continuation of Sale 
at Cranston’s Nursery, Hereford, by Protlieroe and 
Morris. 
Tuesday, Oct. 12th.—Fruit and Floral Committees of 
the Boyal Horticultural Society, meet at 11 a.m. 
Show of Hardy Fruits (two days). —Sale of Imported 
and Established Orchids at Protheroe and Morris’s 
Booms.—Extra Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Stevens’ 
Booms. 
Wednesday, Oct. 13tli.—Meeting of the Floral 
Committee of the National Chrysanthemum Society 
at the Boyal Aquarium at 1.30 p.m.—Bulb Sales at 
Stevens’ and Protheroe and Morris’s Booms.—Sale of 
Nursery Stock (two days) at Elvaston Nursery, 
Borrowash, by Protheroe and Morris. 
Thursday, Oct. 14th. — Sale of Orchids at Stevens’ 
. Booms ; and Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe and Morris’s. 
Friday, Oct. 15tli. — Sale of Nursery Stock at the Wood 
Lane Nursery, Isleworth ; and Established Orchids 
at the Booms, Clieapside, by Protheroe and Morris. 
Saturday, Oct. 16th.—Bulb Sales at Protheroe and 
Morris’s and Stevens’ Booms. 
CONT 
PAGE 
Amateurs’ Garden . S7 
Bean, Ne Plus Ultra . 92 
Begonias at Maidenhead .. S5 
Calantlie Williamsii. S4 
Carnations and Picotees.... 93 
Chrysanthemums,judging.. 90 
Crystal Palace Fruit Show.. 93 
Cucumber culture . 91 
Ferns, Mr. Swan on. 90 
Floriculture . 93 
Fruit culture, the future of S3 
Fruit storing. S7 
Fruit-tree culture in pots .. S6 
Gardeners’ Calendar . 92 
Grasmere, Byfleet . SS 
Gooseberries, Late ..92 
NTS. 
PAGE 
Haekwood Park . 89 
Lilium Auratum . 92 
Liliums, notes on. S7 
Madrestield Court Grape .. 92 
Maidstone Gardeners’ Society 94 
Orchid Growers’ Calendar.. 93 
Orchids, Seedling. 93 
Orchids at The Woodlands.. 93 
Our Garden . SS 
Parsley . 92 
Pelargonium Yolunte Na¬ 
tional alba . 92 
Scottish Cry ptogamic Society 94 
Scottish Hort. Association.. 87 
Woodside, Farnham Royal.. S4 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”—B acon. 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1886. 
The Future of Fruit Culture.— We recently 
referred to one of those large nurseries in which, 
by tens of thousands, fruit trees of all kinds— 
and specially those suited for market orchard 
culture—are annually raised. What we saw at 
Mr. Bunyard’s Maidstone establishment may he 
seen almost identically in many other large 
nurseries, and the tens of thousands of trees 
.annually prepared for sale at Maidstone develops 
into hundreds of thousands—really, we might, 
with truth, almost say millions—over the entire 
kingdom. It is obvious, therefore, that a market 
upon a large scale must be found for these 
myriads of living trees and bushes, the fruit 
producers of the future, and that market is con¬ 
siderably contingent upon the encouragement or 
otherwise found by fruit growers for the sale of 
their produce. 
To stop in any way the production of this 
vast army of trees would be a misfortune, and 
very probably would result in almost complete 
paralysis of our nursery trade. On the other 
hand, we seem approaching to a condition of 
things when it is needful to check production 
and give time for the development of that 
balance between demand and supply which will 
result in profit and a means of living on both, 
sides. If it will not pay to grow fruit in hulk, 
the motive for purchasing and planting of young 
trees seems removed. As long as it will pay, 
even if the margin of profits be hut small, so 
long will growers of fruit purchase trees and 
plant them. It is distressingly obvious that at 
present the prospect is far from being hopeful, 
for we seem to have created supplies far in 
excess of the demand, and with the result that 
returns are absolutely profitless, and in many 
cases even worse will follow if this depression 
in prices continues. 
We may this year, for instance, say that de¬ 
pression is due to the excessive crops of fruit 
found on every hand, and that prices Avill rise 
when crops are lighter. That sort of reasoning, 
however, brings poor consolation, because light 
crops mean, in many cases, little or nothing to 
sell. Were it in the power of man to distribute 
fruit production over the seasons in such fashion 
that each one should produce its fair average 
crop of some sort, all might be well ; hut of all 
things impossible any such arrangement is one. 
We have seen during the past season enormous 
crops of bush fruits. Those, it is true, seldom 
fail us, but they can hardly he so heavy next 
year. Pears, too, are plentiful, and with two 
seasons’ abundance, a fair crop even of these 
fruits seems impossible next year also. It is 
certain that the coming season’s Plum crop will 
he a light one, for two successive heavy crops 
never happen. We may say the same of 
Cherries, seldom at any time of any great im 
portance. 
Our chief hope for next year lies on the 
Apple crop, which, comparatively light this 
year, may he expected to prove a heavy one in 
the ensuing season, and, with other fruits short, 
may possibly be a profitable one. Still, it is too 
evident that a large crop of any one kind of fruit, 
even if other fruit be scarce, cannot prove so 
profitable as would he a moderate crop of fruit 
in variety. We have this season seen Plums 
bearing a big crop, also a disastrously unpro¬ 
fitable one. We may expect almost the same 
state of things next year with Apples should 
anticipations be realised as to produce. Cer¬ 
tainly Apples are far less perishable than are 
Plums, and the market need not be glutted as 
we have seen it this year. Still, it is the case 
that large growers plant most extensively of 
fairly early, because the most productive kinds, 
and these must he forced on the market in their 
short season or spoil. Few, too, care to risk 
the storing of Apples in hulk, because of the 
expense involved, and the possible loss from 
decay. For these reasons it is to be feared 
that a big Apple crop will not bring to growers 
the profits they have a right to look for from 
the possession of a wealth of this popular fruit. 
Some blame for this depression of prices 
may be found in the difficulty experienced in 
bringing producer and consumer into close and 
profitable contact. A big crop of fruit on the 
trees may, in the estimation of the grower, seem 
worth a large sum of money, and he estimates 
his returns accordingly ; but, in reality, whilst 
on the trees, the fruit is not worth to him one 
single halfpenny. It must be gathered, packed, 
“transitted”—if we may coin a word—and pass 
through, perhaps, two or three other interested 
hands before it finally gives up its profits. Of 
these the grower usually gets the smallest 
portion, whilst the lion’s share is divided 
