April 9, 1887. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
499 
BARR’S 
f LOWER SEEDS 
SAVED from; the 
Finest Strains. 
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DESCRIPTIVE 
SPRING CATALOGUE 
OF 
CHOICE SEEDS 
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Greenhouse, Flower Garden, Wild Garden, 
Grass Garden, Subtropical Garden, Rock 
Garden, and Kitchen Garden. 
The Most Complete List Issued. Fully Described. 
BARR’S LARGE-FLOWERED TEN-WEEK 
STOCK. 
Splendid varieties in mixture. Per pkt., Is. and 2s. 6d. 
BARR’S COVENT GARDEN INTERMEDIATE 
STOCK. 
Splendid varieties in mixture. Per pkt., Is. and 2s. 6d, 
BARR’S BR0MPTQN OR WINTER STOCK. 
Splendid varieties in mixture. Per pkt., Is, and 2s, 6d. 
BARR’S P/E0NY PERFECTION ASTER. 
Splendid varieties in mixture. Per pkt., Is, and 2s, 6d. 
BARR’S LARGE-FLOWERED VICTORIA ASTER 
Splendid varieties in mixture. Per pkt., Is. and 2s. 6d, 
BARR’S DOUBLE GERMAN WALLFLOWER. 
Splendid Rocket varieties in mixture. Per pkt-., Is. & 2s, 6d, 
Splendid branching varieties mixed. Perpkt.,ls. &2s. 6d, 
BARR’S BEAUTIFUL DOUBLE ZINNIAS. 
Magnificent colours in mixture. Per pkt., 6d, and Is. 
BARR’S CHOICE BORDER CARNATIONS. 
Saved from the finest Selfs, Flakes, Bizarres, and Fancy 
varieties, in mixture. Per pkt., 3s, 6d, 
BARR’S CHOICE YELLOW CARNATIONS. 
Saved from the finest Selfs, Flakes, Bizarres, 'and Fancy 
varieties, in mixture. Per pkt.. 3s. 6d, 
BARR’S CHOICE PICOTEES. 
Saved from -the finest White and Yellow Grounds. 
Per pkt., 3s. 6d. 
BARR’S ENGLISH “CRITERION” BALSAM. 
Remarkable for their large and handsome flowers and brilliant 
hues—beautiful mixture. Per pkt., 2s. 6d, 
BARR’S BEAUTIFUL HOLLYHOCKS. 
Saved from the finest strain—beautiful mixture. Per pkt., Is, 
BARR’S LARGE-FLOWERED PETUNIA. 
Beautiful varieties in mixture. Per pkt., Is. and 2s, 6d- 
BARR’S PHLOX DRUMMONDIi. 
Handsome varieties, mixed. Per pkt., Is, and 2s. 6d. 
Barr's Descriptive Catalogue of over 2,000 Varieties 
of Flower Seeds free on application. 
BARR & SON, 
12 k 13, King St,, Corat Garden, W.C. 
s, 
Florist and Seedsman, 
PROSPECT HOUSE, 
II 
I, 
Begs to inform the readers of this Paper that he is pre¬ 
pared to execute orders for the following Plants, all of 
which are of the very finest possible strains that money 
can buy. They have all been grown on the Derbyshire 
Hills, and are, therefore, very hardy, strong, and 
warranted to succeed and bloom well, 
for cash with order. 
All carriage free 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST of Florists 
Flowers Ifd. stamps, or free to customers. 
PANSY SEED ! PANSY SEED! !—From Grand International 
Prize Beauties and all the very latest new sorts; must pro¬ 
duce something very extra. Packets, Is., 2s. 62. and 5s., free. 
HOLLYHOCKS.—Chater’s very finest and most select strains. 
Twelve varieties for 2s. 62., six for Is. 62. ; six extra strong 
for 2s. Postal order free. 
CANTERBURY BELLS.—Unrivalled collection, grand new 
colours; double and single telescopes, candelabrum and 
other new forms. Twelve good plants, to bloom well, for Is. 
Postal order free. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS—A speciality. The best and most 
distinct varieties, large-flowered, incurved, reflexed, Japanese, 
early and late bloomers, Pompons, &c., including the grand 
new and distinct forms by Lemoine and other raisers. 
Twelve distinct varieties, named, well-rooted plants, 2s. ; 
twenty-six for 4s., free. 
CARNATIONS.—Grenadin, the new German scarlet; a fine 
decorative and distinct variety. Early and free bloomer. 
Twelve for Is. 62., six for Is., free. 
CARNATIONS, PICOTEES, and CLOVES.—Strong 2-yr. old_ 
plants, from finest Show’ flowers only; will give a mass of 
bloom. Twelve beautiful varieties for 2s. 6 d., six for Is. 62., 
free. 
POLYANTHUS.—The finest strain grown ; fine large trusses and 
blooms, and splendid colours. Tv'elve for Is., twenty-six 
for 2s., free. 
PINKS.—Beautiful pure white garden, deliciously scented. 
Good strong plants, to bloom well, six for Is., twelve foi¬ 
ls. 6 d. Free. 
GEUM.—The new double scarlet, equal to a double Geranium, 
quite hardy, free bloomer. Twelve for Is., twenty-five for 
2s., free. 
AURICULA.—Pure snow-white, one of the most beautiful 
hardy spring-flowering plants in cultivation. Two for Is., 
free. 
SWEET WILLIAMS. — Auricula-eyed; Hunt’s Improved, 
Barlow’s strain, double varieties, extra dark and other 
fine strains. Good blooming plants, Is. per dozen, free. 
FOXGLOVES.— Gloxinia-flowered; Dean's grand new large 
spotted varieties; very fine. Twelve for Is. 62., six for Is., 
free. 
DELPHINIUMS.—Distinct hardy border flow’ers. Six good 
blooming plants for Is. 6 d., tw-elve for 2s. 6cl., free. 
JACKANAPES.—Jack-in-the-Green, Hose-in-Hose, and other 
very rare and curious Polyanthus and Primroses; a grand 
collection. Two distinct sorts, Is., six for 2s. 6<2., twelve 
for 4s., all free. 
POLYANTHUS, Novelty ; beautiful new white. Strong plants, 
full of bloom-buds. Twelve for Is. 62., six for Is., free. 
COLLECTION of twelve HARDY BORDER PLANTS, distinct 
and very fine varieties, 2s., free. 
WALLFLOWERS.—Double German, Cannell’s Bright Maroon, 
Ware’s Brilliant Red, Crawford Beauty, Carter’s Old Gold, 
Belvoir Castle, Harbinger, and Covent Garden Dark. 
Is. per dozen, free. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS. — Selected crowns, transplanted, 
Black Prince, Improved Brown's Wonder, Alpha, Pauline, 
Sabreur, Viscomtesse H. de Thury, Duke of Edinburgh, 
and other extra sorts. 3s. per 100, free. 
STRAWBERRY, King of the Earlies, Mr. Laxton, grand new 
early variety, 5s. per 100, free. Also the Captain (Laxton), 
Is. per dozen, free. 
S. SHEPPERSON 
Florist and Seedsman, 
PROSPECT HOUSE, BELPER, 
DERBYSHIRE. 
New Picotee. 
M RS. SHARP (Sharp). — Heavy-edged 
rosy scarlet, a grand addition to the class. First Class 
C ertificate at Oxford, August 4th, 1885 ; and at Manchester, 
August 14th, 1886. Send for Catalogue, with full description 
and price.—ROBT. LORD, Florist, Todinorden. 
Begonias a Speciality. 
T AING’S BEGONIA TUBERS. Awarded. 
JL J Two Gold Medals. Free by post. Unequalled quality. 
Named singles from 12s. to 42s. per dozen ; unnamed seedlings, 
selected to colour, for pots, from 12s. per dozen; bedding, 
selected to colour, 9s. per dozen; bedding, choicest mixed 
colours, 6s. per dozen. Choicest named doubles from 42s. per 
dozen ; unnamed, very choice selected, 24s. and 30s. per dozen ; 
choicest mixed, ISs. per dozen. Catalogue gratis—JOHN 
LAING & Co., The Nurseries, Forest Hill, S.E. 
R oyal horticultural society 
SOUTH KENSINGTON, S.W. 
NOTICE !—COMMITTEE MEETINGS: Scientific, at lp.ra,, 
in the Lindley Library; Fruit and Floral, at 11 a.m., and 
Narcissus, at 12 noon, in the Conservatory, on Tuesday next, 
April 12th. 
Admission free to Fellows at 12 o’clock ; and to the Public at 
1 o’clock, upon payment of One Shilling. 
N.B.—Entrances, N.E. Orchard House, Exhibition Road ; and 
Exhibitors’ Entrance, east side of Royal Albert Hall. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Tuesday, April 12th.—Meeting of Fruit and Floral Committees 
of the Royal Horticultural Society, at 11 a.m. 
Wednesday, April 13th.—Sale of Orchids in flower, Imported 
Orchids and Lily Bulbs at Stevens’ Rooms. Sale of Lilies, 
Roses, Plants, &c., at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Thursday, April 14th.—Sale of a new Utricularia, and an 
importation of white Laelia anceps at Stevens' Rooms. 
Friday, April loth.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe & 
Morris’s Rooms. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Amateurs’ Garden. 503 
Apple, Winter Quoining .. 507 
Basket Plants. 504 
Calanthe culture. 505 
Cantua buxifolia . 500 
Centropogon Lucyanus .. 50S 
Chou de Burghley. 507 
Cordon Pears . 505 
“ Curl ” in Potatos . 507 
Devonhurst. 504 
Floriculture. 509 
Flowers, Easter. 499 
Gardeners’ Calendar. 509 
Gladiolus. 502 
Grapes, Gros Colmar v. 
Lady Downes. 506 
Handsworth Nurseries.... 502 
Horticultural Societies.... 509 
PAGE 
Hydrangeas. 501 
Kitchen Gardening . 507 
Lycaste mesochlaena. 50S 
Odontoglossumtriumphans 508 
Orchid notes . 508 
Pansies, fancy. 50S 
Pear, Beurre Ranee . 507 
Pelargoniums . 504 
Plants, Illustrated. 502 
Rhododendrons, good _ 501 
Scottish notes. 503 
Semele androgyne. 508 
Spiraea japonica . 500 
Stephanotis floribunda.... 507 
Tenerium frnticans . 507 
Toxilophliea spectabilis .. 506 
Weliham Hall. 504 
“Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1887. 
Easter Flowers.— Whilst the season of Easter 
will find an ample supply of all kinds of forced 
flowers wherewith to beautify festivals or 
religious ceremonials, with some, it is hoped, 
to spare for common decorative purposes, there 
will be no great wealtli of hardy flowers to 
greet the season; indeed, we may say that 
there will be scarcity of a rather unusual kind. 
Easter comes somewhat early ; the spring time, 
as far as nature is concerned, is late, and in all 
directions there is a singular lack of develop¬ 
ment in every form of natural production. It 
would be a grave misfortune were ample 
supplies of forced flowers to render us negligent 
of the hardier, but not less beautiful, flowers 
which adorn our gardens some time in the 
spring. Probably, we may be content on that 
bead, for whilst all the perfume of Araby 
failed to wash clean the bloody band of the 
Shakesperian murderess, so also will all the 
glory of forced floivers fail to obliterate the 
native charms of our early hardy flowers. 
But in regarding what seems the special 
coyness on the part of floral nature to put forth 
her spring charms, we may, perchance, too 
hastily conclude that spring is a fixed quantity 
in time or season rather than an uncertain one. 
