May 28, 1887. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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B. S. WILLIAMS' 
NEW PLANTS 
FOR 1887. 
Are now Beady for Distribution■ 
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ADIANTUI SCHIZOPHYLLUM ... 21 0 
ASPLEMM AMBOINENSE .... 21 0 
AMARYLLIS 11 G. FIRTH ” . . 42s. to 63 0 
AMARYLLIS “ JOSEPH BROOME ” . . 42 0 
BURLINGTONIA CALOPLECTRON, 31s. fid. to 42 0 
CALAETHE SAEDERIANA . . 147s. to 210 0 
CECROPIA DEALBATA.21 0 
CROTON “ KATHARINA ” .... 21 0 
CROTON “JUBILEE” ..... 21 0 
CYPRIPEDIUM AMESIANUI. . . . 147 0 
CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE MOOREANUM!. 147 0 
CYPRIPEDIUM MEASURESIANUM . “ »£& 
DENDROBIUM FYTCHIANUI ROSEUM . 63 0 
GLOXINIA “ALFRED OUTRAM” ..50 
NEPENTHES EXCELSIOR .... 63 0 
SANSEYIERA AUREA YARIEGATA . . 42 0 
For descriptions and illustrations see NEW AND 
GENERAL PLANT CATALOGUE for 1887, which 
is now published, and will be forwarded, gratis and 
post free, to all applicants. 
The GRAND JUBILEE EXHIBITION of ORCHIDS, &c., 
in these Nurseries is now on view. 
Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 
UPPER HOLLOWAY, LONDON, N. 
JUBILEE DAHLIAS 
Or CAmTSLL’3 TRIUMPH. 
W E sent out the first glorious CACTUS DAHLIA, 
consequently have derived the greatest ad¬ 
vantages of its progeny, from which our last year’s 
seedlings proved a surprise, sensation, and the ad¬ 
miration of all. So good and startling were their lovely 
new forms and colours, that, without exception, it was 
suggested by the numerous amateurs who regularly 
come to see “THE HOME OF FLOWERS” (many 
monthly) that our batch of 1887 should bear the above 
title. We are now sending out the following :— 
PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR, crimson. 10s. each 
PRINCE OF WALES, scarlet. 10s. ()d. each 
CHARMING BRIDE, white and rose. 10s. each 
WILLIAM T. ABERY, vivid red and white. 4s. each 
LADY KERRISON, yellow, edged with scarlet like a 
Picotee. 7s. 6d. each 
LADY E. DYKE, by far the best of all the yellows. 5s. 
LADY M. MARSHA3I, salmon. 7s. 6 d. each 
BLACK KNIGHT, black. 7s. 6 d. each. 
These certainly must become general favourites throughout 
the world ; m fact, they will give quite a new and charming 
feature to floriculture. 
For full part iculars and ill ustrations send for a Catalogue. 
BEDDING BEGONIAS. 
T HE blooms of our Begonias, fac similes of what we 
now offer, are very fine. Flowering tubers for 
bedding, planted at once, will make a grand display, for 
not only is their habit far superior to all others, but 
our flowers are larger, and much more intensely vivid 
and decided than any strain extant. 
SINGLES. 
ATRO - RUBRA NANA, WORTHIANA, MADAME O. 
LAMARCHE, MASSANGE DE LOUVREX, 6s. doz. 
SEEDLINGS, first quality, assorted to colour, crimson, 
scarlet and pink, in pots, 6s. per doz. 
MIXED SEEDLINGS, out of pots, 20s. per 100. 
„„„ DOUBLES. 
SEEDLINGS, suitable for bedding, 6s. per doz. 
NAMED KINDS, specially adapted for bedding, Louis 
Bouchet and Rosamonde, 9s. per doz. 
SEND FOR A CATALOGUE. 
RATING OF NURSERIES. 
A PUBLIC MEETING of Nurserymen will 
be held under the auspices of the Nursery and Seed 
Trade Association, Limited, on Tuesday, 28tli June, 1SS7, at the 
Horticultural Club, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London 
(by kind permission of the Committee), to take into considera¬ 
tion the excessive rating of Nurseries, and to agree on a combined 
course of action with a view to the reduction of assessments. 
The chair will be taken by J. WOOD INGRAM, Esq., of the 
Arm of Messrs. Wood & Ingrain, The Nurseries, Huntingdon, 
at 4 p.m. Nurserymen will oblige by early intimating to the 
Secretary their intention to be present and also by forwarding 
to him, in strict confidence (if the amount of the assessment is 
in excess of the rent), either'the amounts of their rents and 
assessments or the proportion which the difference between the 
rent and tlic assessment bears to the rent itself. 
Mr. F. G. GOODCHILD, Secretary, Nursery and Seed Trade 
Association, 25, Old Jewry, London, E.C. 
/CRYSTAL PALACE.—GREAT ROSE 
VA SHOW OF SEASON, Saturday, July 9th. For schedules 
and entry forms apply to Mr. W. G. Head, Garden Superin¬ 
tendent, Crystal Palace, S.E. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, May 30th.—Continuation of the Great National Horti¬ 
cultural Exhibition at Manchester. 
Wednesday', June 1st.—Sale of Bedding Plants at Child’s Hill 
Nursery by Protheroe & Morris. 
Thursday, June 2nd.—Sale of Established Orchids and Orchids 
in Flower at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Friday, June 3rd.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe & 
Morris’s Rooms. 
Saturday', June 4th.—Royal National Tulip Show at Manchester. 
CONTENTS 
PAGE 
Amateurs' Garden. 615 
Amateurs’ Orchid House.. 615 
Apples and Pears . 619 
Azalea blooms . 619 
Azaleas, hybrid . 614 
Berberis stenophylla .... 616 
Cabbages, notes on . 620 
Callander, notes from .... 616 
Cardamine pratensis flore 
pleno. 619 
Cherries, double-flowering. 616 
Clianthus puniceus . 619 
Coffee Plant, the . 619 
Earth Worms . 618 
Epidendrm.arachnoglossum 621 
Euphorbia palustris. 619 
Fruit prospects, our. 611 
Gardeners’ Calendar. 620 
PAGE 
Horticultural Societies.... 621 
Hyacinthus candicans .... 613 
Jerusalem Cherry Tree.... 620 
Leeks, forced . 015 
Magnolia conspicua Soulan- 
geana. 620 
Odontoglossum citrosmum 
album . 621 
Odontoglossum Pescatorei 621 
Oncidium Marshallianum.. 621 
Pansies in beds . 621 
Passiflora Constance Eliott 619 
Pear tree, an ornamental.. 620 
Plants, nerv, Certificated.. 614 
Rhododendron formosum.. 610 
Rhubarb, concerning .... 617 
Spiraea aruneus astilboides 617 
Tacsonia Van Yolxemii.... 619 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”—B acon. 
B@nrbffingl|Drft. 
SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1887. 
Our Fruit Prospects.— Notwithstanding the 
hurricanes of last week, which, in exposed 
places, terribly whipped and heat the fruit 
trees, literally denuding numbers of every 
vestige of bloom and materially injuring the 
foliage, there is every reason to believe that 
we shall have a good fruit season. In escaping 
frost, to be beaten by storms, we have hut 
illustrated an old classical proverb ; hut there 
is good reason to believe that the alternative 
realised has not been so great an evil as the 
other. Frost is insidious and far-reaching, it 
kills everywhere, whilst winds spare some, 
and especially ivhere favoured by breaks and 
shelter. Happily, too, our misfortune, such as 
it is, by no means reaches to that experienced 
a few years since, when a May hurricane did 
such infinite harm to our trees generally that 
it is as worthy of remembrance as is that 
terrible January snowstorm which we still 
remember with a shudder. 
An examination of exposed and now bloom- 
less Pear and Plum trees, shows that the fruit 
germs remain apparently unhurt; hut whether 
so or not must for the present remain pro¬ 
blematical. The probability is, that having 
regard to the comparatively unstable nature 
of£these fruits, and of Cherries also, there will 
be a crop sufficiently large to be remunerative 
and profitable. In sheltered places, it is quite 
probable that the crop will prove a large one. 
Bush fruits promise to yield heavy crops. 
Gooseberries certainly are so now, and Currants 
are full of bloom, whilst Strawberries also are 
blooming profusely; so that there is every 
reason to believe that we shall have of all 
the lesser fruits an abundant produce. The 
crop of the year, however, will he found in 
Apples if the grand bloom now seen on the 
trees, and which seems generally to have 
passed unscathed through the storms, is to he 
taken as indicative of the crop of fruit ; not 
only is the bloom abundant, indeed, marvel¬ 
lously abundant, but it is fine and exceptionally 
clean and healthy. There is no fruit crop so 
important to us as is that of the Apple ; none 
which we should more fully utilise, none so 
likely to render profit to those engaged in its 
production. But long before the time of in¬ 
gathering is reached, we shall learn of crowded 
markets, of low prices, of profits too small to 
render marketing desirable ; indeed, the almost 
inevitable result of a grand crop of fruit, which 
should he to us a blessing, will be that it has 
been productive of disappointment. 
Generally, we may say that a big fruit year 
is in prospect, and upon that fruit crop tens 
of thousands are depending for life and for 
solvency. A good season will put many 
growers—just now trembling hr the balance 
—on their legs, whilst it will find ample bread 
and renewed life to thousands of workers in 
every branch of the fruit trade. The pros¬ 
pects of the fruit crop, which we may regard 
now as fairly assured, trouble us less than its 
ultimate disposal, that being the chief element 
of interest to growers. In past years how 
many proposals have been made for the more 
profitable sale of our home fruit, how many 
suggestions have been offered which have 
never got beyond their appearance in print, 
how much good advice has been offered and 
never acted upon, and, to-day, find our market 
trade, and especially our home-fruit trade in 
a worse plight than it was years ago ! It is 
not only now that we have a fierce competi¬ 
tion witli other producers on the Continent 
and in America; railway and steamboat facili¬ 
ties having brought the products of other and 
very remote climes to our doors at wondrously 
low prices, we find now that either our enor¬ 
mous population is comparatively indifferent 
to our home fruit, or else that we are growing 
far too much, when a good season interposes, 
for our requirements. 
We may find fault, and properly so, with 
our limited system of public markets, with 
our costly methods of dispersion through 
dealers and shops ; we may cavil at railway 
and other carrying charges, at salesmen’s com¬ 
mission, &c., hut still it is a fact that fruit 
of all kinds, and good fruit too, finds its way 
to the people pretty cheap. The middle class 
section, perhaps, who patronise the greengrocer, 
and will have their goods delivered to them, 
pay the dearest; hut they must pay some¬ 
thing for their pride. Too probably, were 
local markets started for their benefit they 
would fail to make use of them for the reason 
given. Then we have little hope just now 
from the great jam makers, these being pretty 
full already, and the price of good jam is so 
low that the poorest can obtain it freely. It 
will not pay to make good fruit into jam 
which is afterwards disposed of at a little 
above cost price only; and when there is a 
good supply of fresh fruit, everywhere jam is 
in much less request. . 
It is to be feared that this year, at least, 
the jam manufacturers will not offer to growers 
any great hope. Then, the more fruit the 
