January 1, 1887. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
275 
NEW CATALOGUE OF 
FLOWER SEEDS, 
"DEING one of the most complete Catalogues 
of FLOWER SEEDS ever published, con¬ 
sisting of 88 PAGES of close matter, and including 
almost everything that can be readily raised from seed 
and can claim any real and general usefulness. The 
descriptions are original, having been prepared prin¬ 
cipally from PERSONAL OBSERVATION. 
Many of the subjects are ILLUSTRATED with 
beautifully-executed ENGRAVINGS. Several of 
these, like the flowers they illustrate, are to be found 
IN THIS CATALOGUE ONLY. 
Copies may be had gratuitously and post free upon 
application. 
Thomas 8, Ware, 
SALE FARM NURSERIES, 
TOTTENHAM, LONDON 
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. 6ci. to 10s. 6 d. ORCHARD- 
HOUSE TREES in POTS, Peaches, Apricots, Nectarines, &c., 
from 5s. Figs from 3s. 6<L 
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. 
RXCHABB SMITH & Go., 
_ W O R C- E’ S: T~ E R ._ 
ROSES. 
HER MAJESTY, W. P. BENNETT, 
SUNSET, W. A. RICHARDSON, 
AND 
Other Choice and leading Varieties 
AT MODERATE PRICES. 
PRICE LIST FREE. 
JOHN STAND1SH & CO., ROYAL NURSE RIES, ASCOT. 
ORCH IDS! ORCH IDS II 
The LIVERPOOL HORTICULTURAL CO. 
(JOHN COWAN), Limited, 
THE VINEYARD AND NURSERIES, 
umm, Hear LIVERPOOL, 
SEEDSMEN 
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HER 
MAJESTY 
ROYAL WARRANT £ 
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QUEEN. 
CARTERS’ 
VADE-MECUM 
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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. 
287 & 238, High Holborn, London 
SEEDSMEN 
BY 
TO 
H.R.H. THE 
ROYAL WARRANT PRINCE OF WALES, 
Price 1/- Post Free, Gratis 
to intending Customers. 
Have to state that a NEW EDITION 
of their 
ORCHID CATALOGUE 
Is now ready, and will be sent POST 
FREE on application. 
D escriptive catalogue. — Roses, 
Fruit Trees, Rhododendrons, Conifers, Deciduous and 
Evergreen Trees and Shrubs, Climbing Plants for Walls, eke., 
Forest Trees, Azaleas, Camellias, &c., free on application. ’ 
H. LANE & SON, Nurseries, Berkhamstead, Herts. 
The Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Institution. 
"jVTOTICE is hereby given that the Anna 
I' General Meeting of the Subscribers of this Institut 
will be held on Friday, the 14th January, 1SS7, at “ Simpson’ 
101, Strand, W.C., for receiving the Accounts and the Repc 
of the Committee for the present year, and for electing offic 
for the ensuing year. Also for the Election of Four Pension! 
on the Funds of the Institution. 
The chair will be taken at Thp.ee o’clock precisely. 
The Ballot will close at Five o'clock precisely. 
By Order, EDWARD W. CUTLER, Secretary, 50, Parliami 
Street, London, S.W. 23rd December. 
N.B.—The Voting Papers have all Been issued ; any subscri 
not having received one is requested to notify the same to i 
gecretary. 
The above is now ready, and will be 
fonuarded Gratis and Post Free to all 
applicants. 
6) A SPECIES of rare, large-rooted, hardy 
FkJ kit Irish Ferns for 3s. Gd. , free ; 50 for 5s. (id. 12 species 
of large-rooted Tevergreen Alpine-flowering Plants for 2s. (id., 
free. 12 single Trumpet Daffodil Bulbs for Is. 0 d., flowers 4 ins. 
long, free. Catalogue of 660 species and varieties of Irish Ferns 
and Perennial Plants for 2d. ; many of the Ferns are newly dis- 
covered. — O’KELL Y, Botanist, Glenarra House, Co. Clare. 
Lilimns and Lilies a Speciality. 
G RAND imported Lily of the Valley crowns 
for forcing, 3s. 6c?. and 4s. 6c?. 100; choice Dutch clumps, 
9s. to 15s. doz. ; Spiraea japonica, fine clumps, 3s. 6c?. to 6s. doz., 
according to size; Lilium auratum, good fair bulbs, 5s., large 
size, 9s., extra large, 12s. doz. ; line Lilium rubrum or roseum, 
5s., extra large, 6s. 6c?. ; Lilium album (true), pure white, 10s. ; 
album monstrosum, white, 5s. 6c?. ; longiflorum, 3s. ; Harrisii, 10s. 
to 16s., according to size; tigriuum, 2s. 6c?.; umbellatum 
erectum, 3s. ; pomponium (like scarlet Turk’s Cap), 6s. 6cl. All 
per dozen ; smaller quantities a little extra, as per List. African 
Tuberoses, Is. 0c?., extra large, 2s. 6c?. doz. ; American Pearl 
Tuberoses, 2s. 6c?., extra large, 3s. doz. ; scarlet Gladioli. 2s. 6c?., 
3s. 6c?. and 5s. 6cl. 100; choice Gandavensis hybrids, 2s. doz., 
12s. 100 ; Gladioli Col villi alba (The Bride), Is. 6c?. doz., 10 s. 100 ; 
Colvilli rubra., pink, Sc?, doz., 3s. 6c?. 100 ; choice Ranunculus, 
from Is. 6c?. 100 ; Anemones, single, Is. 9c?. 100. double, 3s. 100 ; 
choice Spanish Iris, Is. 6c?. 100,12s. 1,000. Special prices to large 
buyers. — ROBERT SYDENHAM, Tenby Street, Birmingham. 
Brazilian Orchids. 
r 1ARLOS TRAVASSOS will supply any of 
the above at very cheap prices. Address : P. O. Box No. 
91, Rio de Janeiro. Price lists on application to C. P. CLAYTON, 
Esq, Langdown Firs, Hytlie, Hants. 
National Chrysanthemum Society, Royal 
Aquarium. Westminster. 
T HE MID-WINTER EXHIBITION will 
he held on Wednesday and Thursday, January 12th and 
13th, 1S87. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS, CYCLAMENS, PRIMULAS, SOLA- 
NUMS, Ac., &c. 
Schedules and all particulars (free) of Mr. WILLIAM 
HOLMES, Hon. Sec., 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-Thaines. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, Jan. 3rd.—Sale of Lily Bulbs and other roots at Stevens' 
Rooms. 
Wednesday, Jan. 5th.—Sale of Lily Bulbs, Roses, &c., at 
Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms.—Sale of Hardy Plants and 
Bulbs at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Thuesday, Jan. 6th. — Sale of Orchids from the Roraima 
Mountain at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Friday, Jan. 7th.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Stevens' Rooms. 
Saturday, Jan. 8th. — Sale of Plants, Roses, Bulbs, &c., at 
Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
CONTENTS 
Achimenes coccinea . 
Aigburth Nursery . 
Begonia Frcebelii. 
Carnation Maggot . 
Christmas Roses. 
Cotoneaster frigida.... 
Crataegus pyracantlia. 
Dahlias, Selection of. 
Dahlia Show, National 
Dendrobium Macfarlanei .. 277 
Floriculture. 2S5 
Gardeners’ Calendar, the .. 2S4 
Heating Glasshouses. 279 
Horticultural Societies .... 2S5 
Kennedya Maryattae. 2S2 
Melon, Blenheim Orange .. 2S1 
Mistleto. 2S3 
page 
Morton Hall, Midlothian.. 280 
Obituary ... . 2S5 
Orchid-Growers' Calendar. 2S5 
Orchids, syringing. 2S4 
Peach trees, neglected_ 27S 
Pears, quality of. 283 
Peristrophe speciosa. 276 
Plants for Rooms . 2S0 
R. II. S. Committees _ 284 
Soot and Celery. 2S3 
Spring Gardening . 278 
Spring Cottage . 277 
Vines at Spring House_ 277 
Weather in Ireland . 2S3 
Xipliiums, The Tangier .. 280 
Year, the New. 275 
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‘ ‘ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1887. 
The New Year. —A wearied traveller along 
some great highway, as he passes the stones 
which, at regular intervals, mark the traversed 
miles, though finding each succeeding mile very 
much like the last, yet knows that each mile 
which is covered brings him nearer to his desti¬ 
nation. His material journey differs from the 
journey of life appreciably, because be is in 
haste to reach the end; whilst we rather linger 
on the road, anxious, as it were, to put off the 
end till the latest period. The end of one year 
and the commencement of another find apt 
illustrations in the mile-stones of the roadside, 
for in each case, were not these created marks 
furnished, nothing else tells us of a period 
passed — of a distance journeyed ; hut there is 
this peculiar identity in the simile also—that 
just as one mile is very like another, so also are 
the years that we pass in our life journey. 
The year of grace, 1887, now opening will 
probably, in its natural characteristics, differ in 
the most trifling degree from hundreds of others 
that have preceded it. If it he a pleasant one, 
we have had many such ; if a cold and cheerless 
one, we have had many such too, alas ! and 
