January 8, 1887. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
291 
CANNELL’S 
NEW FLORAL GUIDE 
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H CANNELL & SONS’ UNRIVALLED 
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to Orchids. We have received more First Class Certificates from 
the Royal Horticultural Society for these than all other firms 
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NOTICE. 
O UR PRIMULAS and ZONALS are now 
grand, and heyond all question the finest ever seen. We 
should be pleased to send a box of blooms to any Society’s 
Meeting. 
“ Harpenden Horticultural Society. 
“(Mr. J. J. Willis, Secretary), 
“ Dec. 22nd, i8S6. 
“ The committee of this society desire me to thank you most 
heartily for the Primula blooms. They proved of great interest, 
and were much admired.” 
H. CANNELL & SONS, 
SPECIAL CULTURE OF 
FRUIT TR EES 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, SAWBRIDCEWORTH, HERTS. 
B. S. WILLIAMS’ 
NOVELTIES AND SPECIALITIES 
IN 
FLOWER SEE D S 
FOR 1887, Post Free. 
BEGOXIA HYBRIOA, Williams’ Superb. 
This seed lias been saved from prize plants which produced 
blooms that, for size and substance, are not to be surpassed in 
this country. Collection of six varieties, 5s. 
BEGONIA HYBRIBA, Williams’ Superb Jiixed. 
Per packet, large, Is. 6d. and 2s. 6d. 
GLOXINIA, Williams’ Finest Spotted, Erect. 
Per packet, 2s. 6d. 
GLOXINIA, Williams’ Superb, Erect. 
Per packet, 2s. 6d. 
LATHYRUS CtERULEUS (Novelty, 1887.) 
A new blue Pea which requires the same treatment as the 
Sweet Pea, and is of the same habit. It is a charming annual, 
and is sure to become a popular favourite. It was the admira¬ 
tion and delight of everyone who saw it growing this summer. 
In growth it is very vigorous and of branching habit, and 
attains to a height of 5 ft. The seeds should be planted 
3 ins. apart; the plants will then begin to bloom when they 
are 9 ins. high, and will continue flowering throughout the 
season. The rows present a very pleasing effect, being liter¬ 
ally covered with a mass of flowers of a bright sky-blue colour. 
Per packet, Is. 6d. 
PRIMULA SINENSIS FIMBRIATA AVALANCHE 
(Novelty, 1887.) 
This is a fine variety, which produces plants resembling a 
pyramid in shape. It is a robust grower, the leaves are of a 
beautiful dark green colour, with red foot-stalks. The flowers 
are of a pure white colour, with a yellow eye in the centre ; 
they are very large, of good substance, and exquisitely fringed.’ 
Per packet, 2s. 6d. and 5s. 
Illustrated Seed Catalogue for 1887 is now ready, 
a'lid will be fonvarded gratis and post free to all ap¬ 
plicants. 
yicloria jj? ^aradi^e ]^ur§erie$, 
UPPER HOLLO WAY J 
LONDON, N. 
Brazilian Orchids. 
f 1ARLOS TRAVASSOS will supply any of 
V_^ the above at very cheap prices. Address : P. O. Box No. 
91, Riode Janeiro. Pricelists on application to C. P.CLAYTON, 
Esq, Langdown Firs, Hythe, Hants. 
N EW CHRYSANTHEMUMS.—The best 
new Continental and American varieties for 1886-7. 
T. B. MORTON will send 12 plants of the above, post free, on 
receipt of P.O. for 6s. ; cuttings half price, T. B. M.'s selection. 
For list of varieties see Catalogue, post free on application.— 
Address : Mowden Bridge Nursery, Darlington. 
JUBILEE FLOWER CUR, for setting up 
ft Chrysanthemum Blooms, &c.; also Tubes, Boards, 
Tweezers, Boxes and all Requisites. 
BENJAMIN FIELD, F.R.H.S., Swan Place, Old Kent Road, 
London, S.E. 
National Chrysanthemum Society, Royal 
Aquarium. Westminster. 
T he mid-winter exhibition win 
be held on Wednesday and Thursday next, January 12th 
and 13tli, 1887. 
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. 
)OYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
V SOUTH KENSINGTON, S.W. 
NOTICE !—COMMITTEE MEETINGS : Scientific, at 1 p.m., 
in the Lindley Library ; Fruit and Floral, at 11 a.m., in the 
Conservatory, on Tuesday next, January 11th. 
N. B.—Entrances, N.E. Orchard House, Exhibition Road ; and 
Exhibitors’ Entrance, east side of Royal Albert Hall, 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Tuesday, Jan. 11th. — Meeting of Fruit and Floral Committees 
of the Royal Horticultural Society at 11 a.m. 
Wednesday, Jan. 12th.—Midwinter Show of Chrysanthemums 
at the Royal Aquarium, Westminster (two days).—Sale of 
Hardy Plants and Bulbs at Stevens' Rooms.—Sale of Lilies, 
Roses, Plants, &c. at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Thursday, Jan. 13th. — Sale of Orchids in Flower, Lily Bulbs. 
&c. at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Friday, Jan. 14th—Annual Meeting of The Gardeners’ Royal 
Benevolent Institution at “Simpson's,” Strand, at 3 p.m.— 
Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Saturday, Jan. lath.—Sale of Plants and Bulbs at Protheroe & 
Morris's and at Stevens’ Rooms. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE I 
Adiantum Farleyense .... 296 
Amasonia punicea.. 294 
Amateur’s Garden. 295 
Belvedere House Gardens.. 299 
Berberis Jamesoni. 29S 
Carnation Maggot. 29S 
Centropogon Lucyanus. 299 
Oestrum aurantiacum .... 295 
Chimonanthus fragrans 
grandiflorus. 299 
Chrysanthemum. 298 
Floriculture. 301 
Fuchsias, new . 292 
Gardeners’ Calendar, the .. 300 
Garden Plants, illustrated. 294 
Grape Gros Maroc. 29S 
Heating and Ventilating .. 293 
Landscape Garden in Portu¬ 
gal . 300 
PAGE 
Leaf, the fall of the . 299 
Lily culture at the Cape .. 292 
Lissochilus speciosus .... 301 
Moore, Thos., the late _296 
Orchids at Heaton House 301 
Orchid Notes . 301 
Peas, Mr. Rivers on. 296 
Peas, staking . 299 
Phalaenopsis amabilis .... 301 
Plumbago coccinea superba 299 
Roses, late-flowering. 301 
Saudersonia aurantiaea .. 293 
Satyrium, a crimson. 301 
Scottish Gardening . 295 
Storm, the late . 291 
Trees and Shrubs . 293 
Vine borders . 296 
Vine borders and planting 299 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1887. 
The Late Storm. — If the old year ended 
badly—and certainly its dying agony was 
fierce and terrible in its force and destructive¬ 
ness—the new one began hardly less so; and 
if its birth struggles were apparently quiet, they 
were, indeed, powerful for evil. Those whose 
memories retain the impression formed on them 
of the weather of Christmas, 1860, will not 
have forgotten the intensely cold rimy frost 
which ushered in the festal morning of that 
year, and will have readily found its duplicate 
in the very hitter and piercing frost of Sunday 
morning last, with its accompaniments of fog 
and rimy whiteness, which clustered in such 
fantastic and fairy-like forms overall vegetation. 
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