March 5, 1887. 
THE GARDENING- WORLD 
421 
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I3 0YAL BOTANICAL and HORTICUL- 
It TURAL SOCIETY of MANCHESTER. 
The FIRST SPRING FLOWER SHOW of the present season 
will be held in the Town Hall, Manchester, on MARCH 15 and 10. 
BRUCE FINDLAY, Royal Botanic Gardens, Manchester. 
Shropshire Horticultural Society. 
QUMMER SHOW (open to all) August 17th 
kj and 18th. Twenty Plants, £25, £20, £15. Collection of 
Fruit, £10, £0, £3. For Grapes, £44. Collection of Vegetables, 
eight sorts, £5, £3, £2, £1. Schedules and full particulars from 
MESSRS. ADNITT & NAUNTOX, Shrewsbury, Hon. Secs. 
Sheffield and Hallamshire Gardeners’ Mutual 
Improvement Society. 
HE Tenth Annual Chrysanthemum and 
Primula Show will be held at the Skating Rink, Glossop 
Road, on November 14tli and l5tli. Open to all England—First 
Prize for 24 Cut Blooms, Incurved, Diss., £10; second do., £.0 ; 
third do., £2 10s. For 24 Japanese, Diss., first, £10; second, £5; 
third, £2 10s. — E. AUSTIN, Secretary. 
r >OYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
L SOUTH KENSINGTON, S.W. 
NOTICE !—COMMITTEE MEETINGS: Scientific, at 1 p.m., 
in the Lindley Libraiy ; Fruit and Floral, at 11 a.m., in the 
Conservatory, on Tuesday next, March 8th. 
N. B.—Entrances, N.E. Orchard House, Exhibition Road ; and 
Exhibitors’ Entrance, east side of Royal Albert Hall. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, March 7th. — Sale of Lily Bulbs, Ac. at Stevens' Rooms. 
Tuesday, March Sth. — Meeting of Fruit and Floral Committees 
of the R. H. S. at 11 a.m. 
Wednesday, March 9th.—Sale of Roses, Fruit Trees, Ac. at 
Stevens' Rooms.— Sale of Lilium auratum, Greenhouse 
Plants, &e., at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Thursday, March lOtli. — Sale of Orchids at Stevens' Rooms. 
Friday, March 11th.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe A- 
Morris’s Rooms. 
Saturday, March 12th.—Sale of Roses, Plants, Ac., at Protheroe 
& Morris’s Rooms. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE TAGE 
Altheuosmia macropliylla 427 Hippeastrum aulicum .... 427 
Amateurs’Garden. 423 Horticultural Societies .. -120 
Bean, Osborn’s forcing_ 427 Impatiens Hawkerii. 425 
Begonia gogoensis. 424 Lenten Roses. 427 
Cattleya Trianse Back- Lycaste grandis. 423 
housiana . 428 Odontoglossum crispum 
Cattleya Triana:, “ Lady Leopardinum . 425 
Tennant”. 428 Orchids at Oakbrook _42S 
Challenge Cups, &c. 425 Orchid Growers’ Calendar. 42S 
Chrysanthemum, the .... 424 Peonies, Herbaceous .... 424 
Cyclamens at Gunnersbury 426 Peach Culture. 427 
Cyclamen persicum, double 427 Propagating, Art of.422 
Fern wall tile. 424 Redlcaf.426 
Gardeners’ Calendar. 428 Scottish Notes. 423 
Gardeners’Orphanage 421, 426 Stock on Scion, effects of.. 427 
Gros Colmar v. Lady Yew trees, planting under. 424 
Downes. 425 Young Gardeners .427 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1887. 
The proposed Gardeners’ Orphanage. —The 
suggestion recently made in our columns by 
Mr. Udale, and elsewhere by Mr. Penny, re¬ 
specting the establishment of a Gardeners’ 
Orphanage, is one which naturally attracts the 
sympathy of generous natures, and therefore 
is all the more difficult to deal with as a 
public question. For ourselves, we may say 
at once, that if a hearty desire is evinced by 
gardeners generally to support such a scheme, 
it will have our assistance and warmest sup¬ 
port. We cannot, however, ignore the fact 
that up to the present time the promoters of 
the scheme have received hut a very limited 
amount of encouragement, and practically none 
from the class whose children the proposed 
orphanage is specially intended to benefit. 
The reason for this is not far to seek, and 
suggests some observations, which we think it 
right should he introduced for the earnest 
consideration of those who may interest them¬ 
selves in the subject. 
We cannot disguise from ourselves the fact, 
as we take it to he, that of all the demoralising 
influences of the day, none are more insidious 
than are appeals to good nature, and the pro- 
