December 25, 1886, 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
259 
H.CANNELL AND SONS 
HOME OF FLOWERS 
LARGEST. BEST. CHEAPEST ANO MO ST COMPLETE 
INEUROPE-SE.ND FORR CATALOGUE 
SWAN LEY- KENT 
FRUIT TREES, 
SEVENTY-FOUR ACRES. 
Apples, Pears, Plums, Cherries, Peaches, Nectarines, Apricots, 
and other Fruit Trees, as Standards, Dwarfs, Pyramids, Bushes, 
Cordon, and Tiained Trees in great variety. 
VINES, excellent canes, 3s. 6 d. to 10s. 6 d. ORCHARD- 
HOUSE TREES in POTS, Peaches, Apricots, Nectarines, &c., 
from 5s. Figs from 3s. 6d. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST, containing a sketch of the various 
forms of Trees, with Directions for Cultivation, Soil, Drainage, 
Manure, Pruning, Lifting, Cropping, Treatment under Glass ; 
also their Synonyms, Quality, Size, Form, Skin, Colour, Flesh, 
Flavour, Use, Growth, Duration, Season. Price, &c.,free by post. 
RICHARD SMITH & Co., 
WORCESTER. 
ROSES. 
Magnificent Plants, all budded on Dog Brier. 
CATALOGUE, containing valuable information on Rose Growing, 
post free for two penny stamps. 
FRANK CANT, 
Rose Grower & Nurseryman, Colchester. 
Upwards of sixty First and Second Prizes for Cut Roses this year 
including First for 72 distinct varieties at Wirral and Manchester 
FERNS A SPECIALITY. 
AN IMMENSE STOCK IN SPLENDID CONDITION. 
CATALOGUE of over 1,300 Species and Varieties, including 
Descriptive “List of New, Rare axd Choice Ferns” and 
“ Hardy North American Ferns,” free on application. 
W. & J. BIRKENHEAD, 
PERN NURSERY, 
SALE, MANCHESTER. 
“HOW TO GROW ROSES.” 
Post free, 7d. Fifth Edition. 
Every Amateur and Gardener before doing anything at Rose 
beds should get this book. It deals with everything about 
Roses—growing, budding, grafting, pruning, exhibiting, plant¬ 
ing, varieties, Rose gardens, &c,, &c. Three editions sold in a 
few months. Very favourably reviewed in the gardening papers. 
“ The instructions and directions .... are just those 
we should expect from one who is thoroughly at home with 
his subject.”— Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
TO BE OBTAINED ONLY FROM 
R VUElli & S Q IV, Sa 1 e. IYI .1 nchrsfer, 
SPECIAL CULTURE OF 
FRUI T TREES and ROSES. 
A large and Select Stock is now offered for Sale. 
The Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of Fruits 
post free. 
The Descriptive Catalogue of Roses post free. 
THOMAS RIVERS & SON, 
THE NURSERIES, SAWBRIDGEWORTH, HERTS. 
The Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Institution. 
is hereby given that the Annual 
Meeting of the Subscribers of this Institution 
will he held on Friday, tile 14th January, 1887, at “Simpson’s,” 
101, Strand, W.C., for receiving the Accounts and the Report 
of the Committee for the present year, and for electing officers 
for the ensuing year. Also for the Election of Four Pensioners 
on the Funds of the Institution. 
The chair will he taken at Three o’clock precisely. 
The Ballot will close at Five o’clock precisely. 
By Order, EDWARD W. CUTLER, Secretary, 50, Parliament 
Street, London, S.W. 23rd December. 
N.B.—The Voting Papers have all been issued ; any subscriber 
not having received one is requested to notify the same to the 
Secretary. 
ATOTICE 
i. i General 
SEEDSMEN T0 
BY '€$ 0 $ HER MAJESTY 
ROYAL WARRANTTHE QUEEN. 
VADE-MECUM 
FOR 1887. 
The Best Catalogue. 
It contains several Coloured 
Plates and hundreds of Illus¬ 
trations of Choice Vegetables 
and Pretty Flowers, and also 
gives concise instructions to 
ensure successful cultivation. 
: Price 1/- Post Free, Gratis 
to intending Customers. 
237 & 238, High Holborn, London. 
SEEDSMEN 
BY 
ROYAL WARRANT 
TO 
H.R.H. THE 
is* PRINCE OF WALES. 
HERBACEOUS 
AMD ALPINE PLANTS. 
CATALOGUE of fifty pages, containing full information as 
to colour, height, situation, time of flowering, &c., free on 
application. 
A CAPITAL COLLECTION for Rocks, Stumps and Borders, 
from 25s. per 100, or 4s. per dozen. 
Most of the plants being in pots, may be dispatched at any 
time, or by Parcels Post when fit. 
RICHARD SMITH & Co., 
NURSERYMEN & SEED MERCHANTS, 
W O F^C E S TE R . 
R OSES. 
HER MAJESTY, W. F. BENNETT, 
SUNSET, W. A. RICHARDSON, 
AND 
Other Choice and leading Varieties 
AT MODERATE PRICES. 
PRICE LIST FREE. 
JOHN STAN DISH & CO., ROYAL NURSERIES, ASCOT. 
JERSEY FRUIT TREES. 
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, 
FORTY JERSEY ROSES FOR 21s. 
TTIOLAS — ARDWELL GEM, primrose 
V yellow, extra fine; COUNTESS OF HOPETOUN, a 
splendid white ; ELEGANS, QUEEN OF LILACS, extra fine; 
MRS. GRAY, white, very sweet-scented, and a first-rate bedder; 
yellow and other varieties, Is. 6 d. to 2s. 6 d. per dozen ; 10s. Od. 
to 14s. per 100. Twelve fine varieties, one plant of each, post 
free, 3s.; twenty-four fine varieties, one plant of each, post free, 
5s. NOTE. — A Descriptive Catalogue, with prices, on appli¬ 
cation. Many thousand plants in stock.—WILLIAM DEAN, 
Florist, Walsall, Staffordshire. 
GET YOUR SEEDS FRO M SCOTLAND. 
Our PRICE LIST for 1887 is now issued, and includes all IMPROVEMENTS in 
the Vegetable and Floral World. Free on application to 
B. B. LBIBB & SOBS, 
NURSERYMEN, SEEDSMEN AND FLORISTS, 
17, FREDERICK STREET, EDINBURGH. 
National Chrysanthemum Society, Royal 
Aquarium. Westminster. 
npiIE MID-WINTER EXHIBITION will 
be held on Wednesday and Thursday, January 12th and 
13th, 18S7. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS, CYCLAMENS, PRIMULAS, SOLA- 
NUMS, Ac., &c. 
Schedules and all particulars (free) of Mr. WILLIAM 
HOLMES, Hon. See., Frampton Park Nurseries, Hackney. 
Miscellaneous Exhibits invited for Special Awards. 
Shepperton & Thames Valley Horticultural 
Society. 
T HE FOURTH ANNUAL SHOW will be 
held at Sunbury Court, on Thursday, June 30th, 1887. 
Open prizes for Roses and Orchids. Schedules and particulars 
to be obtained of EDWARD RUTTER, Hon. Secretary and 
Treasurer, Shepperton-on-Tharnes. 
Birmingham & Midland Counties Chrysanthemum 
Fruit and Floricultural Society. 
rnHE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL 
JL EXHIBITION OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS will be held 
in the Town Hall, on Wednesday and Thursday, November 16th 
and I7tli, 1887. Schedules are in course of preparation, and 
will be forwarded, when ready, on application to J. HUGHES, 
Secretary, Metchley Lane, Harborne, Birmingham. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Wednesday, Dec. 29th.—Sale of Hardy Plants and Bulbs at 
Stevens’ Rooms. 
Thursday, Dec. 30th.—Sale of Lily Bulbs from Japan at 
Stevens' Rooms. 
Friday, Dec. 31st.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe & 
Morris’s Rooms. 
Saturday-, Jan. 1st, 1SS7.—Sale of Hardy Plants and Bulbs at 
Stevens’ Rooms. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Adiantum Farleyense .... 26G 
Amateurs’ Garden. 263 
Ash Grove, Sheffield. 266 
Begonia, the Tuberous .... 265 
Catalogues, the New. 260 
Celery, Clayworth Pride .. 267 
Celery show, an English .. 266 
Christmas Flowers. 261 
Dahlia, the Globe . 267 
Dendrobium Deari . 26S 
Dendrobium rhodostoma.. 26S 
Elseodendron orientale.... 267 
Exeunt 1886 . 259 
Gardeners’ Calendar. 267 
Gentiana acaulis.. 267 
Grape, Gros Maroc. 263 
PAGE 
Green Fruit Trade. 262 
Heating Glasshouses. 264 
Ipomcea Horsfallia; var. .. 267 
Iris tingitanum . 261 
Libonia penrhosiensis .... 267 
Obituary .269 
Onciilium Jonesianum .... 268 
Orchids, syringing. 268 
Peat and sand. 269 
Pine, Lady B. Lambton .. 261 
Poinsettias . 267 
Primulas, Chinese. 267 
Scottish notes. 263 
Veronica ligustrifolia. 267 
Vine borders. 266 
‘‘ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
^GnriYBmitglljarftr, 
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1886. 
Exeunt 1886.—With the present number of 
The Gardening World we bid adieu to the 
year 1886, for when our next issue is put before 
our readers we shall have entered into another— 
the Jubilee year of Her Majesty’s reign. We 
need not now pause to anticipate the nature or 
prospects of that year, as far as gardening is 
concerned; but being hopeful that the dis¬ 
turbing influence which so seriously affects 
trade, and especially Agriculture, may have 
passed away, we may at least anticipate that 
under its auspices gardening may still continue 
to increase and flourish. 
During the past year, in spite of some adverse 
circumstances, it cannot be said that gardening 
has suffered in any appreciable way; though as 
regards the introduction of new plants, new 
fruits or new vegetables, the number of sterling 
novelties which have been brought forward has 
been considerably below the average ; and this 
is a matter of some importance, because novelties 
the great mass of garden lovers are always on 
the look-out for, and will have if they are 
attainable. Perhaps the most important 
feature of horticultural interest during the year 
was the endeavour, on the part of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, to re-establish its once 
admirable series of provincial exhibitions, by 
promoting one on an unusually extensive scale 
