January 29, 1887. 
THE GAKDENING WORLD. 
389 
SEEDS 
FOR THE GARDEN, 
Delivered Free by 
POST OR RAIL. 
For prices and particulars, see 
WEBBS’ SPRING CATALOGUE, 
Post Free, Is,; Gratis to Customers. 
KiT Abridged Edition Post Free to all 
applicants. 
WEBB & SONS, 
llypf 
WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
SEEDSMEN BY ROYAL WARRANTS 
To H.M. the 
Queen. 
And H.R.H. the 
Prince of Wales. 
WEBBS’ 
Liliums and Lilies a Speciality. 
G RAND imported Lily of the Valley crowns 
for forcing, 3s. 6r(. and 4s. 6 cl. 100; choice Dutch clumps, 
9s. to las. doz.; Spinea japonica, fine clumps, 3s. 6 d. to 6s. doz., 
according to size; Lilium auratum, good fair hulhs, 5s., large 
size, 9s., extra large, 12s. doz. ; fine Lilium rubrurn or roseum, 
5s., extra large, Os. 6 d. ; Lilium album (true), pure white, 10s. ; 
album monstrosum, white, 5s. 6d.; longiflorum, 3s.; Harrisii, 10s. 
to 16s., according to size; tigrinum, 2s. 6d. ; umhellatum 
crectum, 3s. ; pnmponium (like scarlet Turk’s Cap), 6s. 6 d. All 
per dozen ; smaller quantities a little extra, as per List. African 
Tuberoses, Is. 6<i, extra large, 2s. 6 d. doz.; American Pearl 
Tuberoses, 2s. 6ct., extra large, 3s. doz.; scarlet Gladioli, 2s. 6 d., 
3s. 6 d. and 5s. 6 d. 100; choice Gandavensis hybrids, 2s. doz., 
12s. 100 ; Gladioli Colvilli alba (The Bride), Is. 6 cl. doz., 10s. 100 ; 
Colvilli rubra, pink, Sd. doz., 3s. 6rf. 100; choice Ranunculus, 
from Is. 6 d. 100 : Anemones, single, Is. 9 d. 100. double, 3s. 100 ; 
choice Spanish Iris, Is. 6 d. 100,12s. 1,000. Special prices to large 
buyers.—ROBERT SYDENHAM, Tenby Street, Birmingham. 
*SE E D S* 
CHARLES TURNER’S 
D escriptive catalogue of New 
and Select varieties of every Class of SEEDS FOR THE 
GARDEN is now ready. 
THE ROYAL NURSERIES, SLOUGH. 
SEEDS. 
YECETABLE,FLOWER & FARM, 
Carefully Selected, 
AND FROM WHICH MAY BE EXPECTED 
THE BEST RESULTS 
EVER YET ATTAINED. 
ILLUSTRATED LIST, 
Containing Copious, Interesting, and Reliable 
Information, Free. 
RICHARD SMITH & GO., 
SEED MERCHANTS and NURSERYMEN, 
WORCESTER. 
GENUINE SEEDS. 
Jas. Veitch & Sons, 
Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, S.W. 
VEITCH’S NEW PEA, PRODIGY. 
First Class Certificate Royal Horticultural Society, 1885. 
Enormously productive, bearing an abundance of 
extra long, massive, handsome broad pods, closely 
filled with peas of delicious flavour. 
Per pint, 2s, 6d. 
Runner Bean, Veitch s Mammoth. 
A magnificent variety, abundantly prolific, bearing 
in clusters enormous long thick fleshy pods. 
Per quart, 3s. %d. ; per pint, 2s. 
Cabbage, Veitch’s Earliest of All. 
The earliest summer variety, of dwarf sturdy growth, 
with medium-sized, good-shaped, firm and compact 
hearts. 
Per packet, Is. 
New Carrot, Veitch s Matchless. 
A splendid variety of the Intermediate type, and the 
finest for exhibition or general use. 
Per ounce, Is. 
Tomato, Hackwqod Park Prolific. 
Two First Class Certificates, Eoyal Horticultural 
Society. 
The handsomest and heaviest cropping Tomato. 
Quality and flavour unsurpassed. 
Per packet, Is. 6d. 
For full Descriptions of above omcl other Choice Novel¬ 
ties and Specialities, see SEED CATALOGUE for 
1887, forwarded gratis and post free on application. 
ROYAL EXOTIC NURSERY, CHELSEA, S.W. 
HERBACEOUS 
AND ALPINE PLANTS. 
CATALOGUE of fifty pages, containing full information as 
to colour, height, situation, time of flowering, <fcc., 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, 
WO R C E ST E R ._ 
NEW CATALOGUE OF 
FLOWER SEEDS, 
T3EIKG one of the most complete Catalogues 
of PLOWER^SBBDS ever published, con¬ 
sisting of 88 PAG-ES 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 S. Ware, 
HALE FARM JVTJRSERIES, 
TOTTENHAM, LONDON 
PHOICE POTATOS, VEGETABLES and 
Vj FLOWER SEEDS FOR EXHIBITION and GARDEN 
DECORATION. Write for the above Select List to RICHARD 
DEAN, Seed Grower, Ranelagh Road, Ealing, London, W., who 
will forward the same postage free. 
Brazilian Orchids. 
U 1ARLOS TRAVASSOS will supply any of 
Vh 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. 
A “ YEAR BOOK ” of SELECT GARDEN 
MX. SEEDS FOR 1887.—HARTLAND, CORK.— Most rare in 
selection, original in design and compilation. Combining every¬ 
thing in Garden Seeds worth growing ; the book may be had 
post free. Win. Baylor Hartland’s Old-establsihed Garden Seed 
Warehouse, Cork, Ireland. Both in price and quality, advan¬ 
tages are offered equal to any house in this country, and surpassed 
by none in the United Kingdom. Some of the very “ Rare Seeds” 
are of my own special harvesting. 
■pOYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
11 SOUTH KENSINGTON, S. W. 
The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society will be held in the East Crush Room, Royal 
Albert Hall, (entrance N.E. Orchard House, Exhibition Road), 
on TUESDAY', February Stli, at 3 p.m. 
To receive the Report of the Council and of the Auditors. 
To retire from the Society certain Fellows, under the provisions 
of Bye-Law 22. To elect candidates for Fellowship, and other 
business. 
N.B.—As this is an important meeting, Fellows are earnestly 
requested to attend. 
Next Week s Engagements. 
Monday, Jan. 31st.—Annual Meeting of the National Chrysan¬ 
themum Society. — Sale of Japanese Lily Bulbs at Stevens’ 
Rooms. 
Tuesday, Fell. 1st. — Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe & 
Morris’s Rooms; and Clearance Sale of Nursery Stock at 
Springfield Nursery, Sunbury. 
Wednesday, Feb. 2nd. — Sale of Plants and Shrubs at Stevens' 
Rooms.- Sale of Lily Bulbs, Plants, &c., at Protheroe & 
Morris's Rooms. 
Thursday, Feb. 3rd.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Stevens’ 
Rooms.—Sale of Plants, &c., at The Chestnuts, Lavender 
Hill, by Protheroe & Morris. 
Friday, Feb.. 4th. — Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe & 
Morris's Rooms. 
Saturday, Feb. 4th.—Sale of Plants and Shrubs at Protheroe & 
Morris’s and Stevens’ Rooms. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Abutilons. 340 
Apples, late. 343 
Asparagus Kale. 346 
Australian Cress. 347 
Azalea balsaminaeflora .... 347 
Catasetum tridentatum .. 34S 
Crocuses and Croakers_ 347 
Dendrobium Fytchianum 
roseum . 34S 
Deutzia gracilis . 342 
Floriculture. 349 
Flowers and Gardens .... 345 
Fruits, Market . 339 
Garden Plants Illustrated.. 346 
Grape Culture. 341 
PAGE 
Grape, Gros Colmar. 344 
Gooseberry bushes. 347 
Halesia tetraptera. 344 
Helleborus maximus. 340 
Orchids and Manure. 348 
Orchids, syringing. 347 
Royal Horticultural Society 344 
Ruellia macrantha. 344 
Snowstorm, effects of the.. 346 
Sparmannia Africana .... 346 
Thanatophore, the. 341 
Top-heating glasshouses .. 344 
Y'iolets and Iris . 347 
Woodhatch Lodge. 342 
| Y'orlc Florists, Ancient.... 341 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man." —Bacon. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1887. 
Market Fruits.— Out of what crude materials 
can a sensational leader in a daily paper be 
manufactured ! A few lines go the round of 
the press to the effect that in Kent some of the 
fruit-growers are grubbing up their orchards, 
because of the unprofitable prices of fruit; and 
forthwith a leader is concocted, which, accept¬ 
ing the purport of this paragraph as gospel, 
proceeds to discourse upon what bids fair, in 
the estimation of the writer, to be a national 
calamity. But even worse follows, for the 
thousand and one persons, Yvho ha\ r e more of 
courage if less discretion than angels, forthwith 
rush into print, each one having his own pan¬ 
acea for the ills ivliich beset fruit growing, hut 
all leave us little the wiser. 
That there should he some grubbing up of 
old orchards even in Kent is probable, and so 
far is hopeful; but we may take it for granted, 
in spite of the apparent depression which exists 
in the fruit-growing trade, that those who grub 
