June 11, 1887 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
645 
SUTTON’S 
FLORISTS’ FLOWER SEEDS. 
THE FINEST STRAINS IN CULTIVATION- 
VIDE TESTIMONIALS. 
SUTTON'SPERFECTION CALCEOLARIA 
B/-A2/6 
per packet 
Post Free 
From the Journal of Horticulture, May 26, 1887. 
“ Well-grown Herbaceous Calceolarias, —Mr. 
W. Iggulden writes : ‘ During the last six weeks there 
has been a beautiful display of herbaceous Calceolarias 
in the plant houses and conservatory at Hapsford 
House, Frome, the residence of A. G. Hayman, Esq. 
Some of the plants were about 2 feet through, and all 
were in a healthy, clean state, yielding a profusion of 
fine, handsome flowers. The strain is known as 
Sutton’s Perfection, and a more diversified or better 
selection could not well be made.' ” 
SUTTON’S SUPERB CINERARIA. 
B/-S2/8 
per packet 
Post Free 
11 The Cinerarias raised from seed I had from you 
last year have been the finest I have ever grown. 
Some of the flowers being not only perfect in shape 
and colour, but enormous in size, measuring just under 
2f ins. in diameter."—The Rev. Dr. OTLEY, St. John’s 
Vicarage. 
SUTTON’S PRIZE PRIMULA. 
2/6 to 5/- 
per packet 
Post Free 
Awarded the Highest Honours on Record, viz:— 
Silver Gilt Banksian Medal, Royal Horticultural Society, 
January 11, 18S7. Six First Class Certificates, Royal 
Horticultural Society, January 11, 1S87. Silver Bank¬ 
sian Medal, Royal Horticultural Society, January lk, 
1879. First Class Certificate, Royal Horticultural Society, 
January lk, 1879. Silver Medal, National Chrysanthe¬ 
mum Society, January 12, 13, 1887. Eight Certificates, 
National Chrysanthemum Society, January 12, 13, 1887. 
SUTTON 8s SONS, 
THE QUEEN’S 
SEEDSMEN, 
READING-. 
B. S. WILLIAMS’ 
Grand Jubilee Exhibition 
Ferns 1 Ferns I ! Rare Ferns ! ! ! 
SPLENDID ROOTS, 10 varieties, in- 
vJva eluding Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis), Maidenhair, 
Ceterach, Blechnum spicant., Trichomanes, Adiantum nigrum, 
Ruta-muraria, Scolopendrium, packed with moss, carriage paid, 
Is. i Id. —E. L. ANDREWS, Beaminster, Dorset. 
Ancient Society of York Florists. 
T HE YORK CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW 
will be held in the Fine Art Exhibition building on the 
16th, 17th, and 18th of November, 1887. For Schedules of 
Prizes, &c., apply to J. LAZENBY, Secretary, 8, Spurriergate, 
York. 
/CRYSTAL PALACE.—GREAT ROSE 
VN SHOW OF SEASON, Saturday, July 9th, postponed from 
July 2nd. For schedules and entry forms apply to Mr. W. 
G. Head, Garden Superintendent, Crystal Palace, S.E. 
R 
OYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
SOUTH KENSINGTON, S.W. 
NOTICE !—COMMITTEE MEETINGS : Scientific, at 1 p.m., 
in the Lindley Library, and Fruit and Floral, at 11 a.rn., in the 
Conservatory, on Tuesday next, June 14tli. 
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. 
Monday, June 13th.—Sale of Leasehold, Nursery Stock, &c., at 
Willow Vale Nursery, Uxbridge, by Protheroe & Morris. 
Tuesday, June 14th.—Fruit and Floral Committees of the Royal 
Horticultural Society meet at South Kensington. Sale of 
Imported and Established Orchids at Protheroe & Morris’s 
Rooms. 
Wednesday, June 15th. — Grand Yorkshire Gala at York 
(3 days). Royal Botanic Society's Second Summer Show. 
Sale of Orchids in Flower at Stevens' Rooms. Sale of 
Nursery, Stock in Trade, &c., at Loughborough Road, 
Brixton, by Protheroe & Morris. 
Thursday, June 16th. — Sale of Imported and Established 
Orchids at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Friday, June 17th.—Special Sale of Orchids in Flower at 
Protheroe & Morris's Rooms. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE . 
Adiantum pedatum . 650 i 
Amateurs’ Garden, the_ 047 
Androsace coronopifolia .. 046 
Auricula growers, small .. 646 
Brassavola Digbyana _ 651 
Broom, yellow Portugal .. 651 
Canna Ehemanni . 651 
Cereus, J. T. Peacock _ 650 
Charlock . 650 
Cheiranthus alpinus. 647 
Coleonema rubra . 650 
Fritillaria lusitanica. 646 
Gardeners’ Calendar. 651 
Horticultural Societies_652 
Horticulture at the Man¬ 
chester Exhibition. 650 
Holly, Sweet-scented .... 649 
Laburnum, an erratic .... 650 
PAGE 
Masdevallia muscosa. 651 
Maule’s Quince . 651 
Norton Pansy Club . 652 
Orchid Notes . 651 
Pansy, Magpie. 650 
Pavetta montana . 651 
Petasites vulgaris. 646 
Pliahenopsis Sumatrana .. 651 
Plants, hardy, in season .. 646 
Rainfall and the Crops.... 645 
Saxifraga Huetti. 647 
Scottish Horticultural 
Association . 647 
Scuticaria Hadweni. 651 
Strawberries for forcing .. 647 
Toxicoplihea spectabilis .. 650 
Viola pedunculate. 647 
York Gala, the . 64S 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.” —Bacon. 
of 
ORCHIDS, 
STOVE and GREENHOUSE-FLOWERING 
and FOLIAGE PLANTS. 
New Zealand Agency. 
O LIVER REVILL is desirous of acting as 
Agent for English Nurserymen, Horticultural Sundries- 
men. Engineers, &c., wishing to introduce good things and 
specialities into New Zealand, where an increasing demand for 
such exists.—Apply to OLIVER REVILL, Fairwood, Spring- 
field Road, Christchurch, New Zealand. 
SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1887. 
Open to tlie Public from MAY 11 to JUNE 25, 
FROM 9 A.SI. TO 6 P.M. DAILY. 
Admission Free to those who have received invitations, 
or upon presentation of card. 
This Exhibition was admitted to be by all who saw 
it the last two years the largest and most varied of its 
kind in London. 
The NEIV and GENERAL PLANT CATALOGUE for 1887 is now 
ready, and will he forwarded gratis and post free to all applicants. 
VICTORIA AND PARADISE NURSERIES, 
UPPER HOLLOWAY, LONDON, N. 
JUBIL EE PLAN TING 
Specially prepared trees, in boxes and 
baskets, all sure to live: 
Oaks, Limes, Planes, Cedars, 
Chestnuts, Wellingtonias, 
&c , 
Of various sizes and in great variety. 
PRICES, &c., ON APPLICATION. 
RICHARD SMITH & Co., 
NURSERYMEN, 
WORCESTER. 
G ILBERT’S SEEDLING TOMATOS.— 
Surpasse, in 60’s, 1 ft. high, and hardened, 2s. 6d. dozen. 
GILBERT S SELECTED SEEDLING CARNATIONS, real 
good stuff, Is. per dozen ; post paid for Is. 2 d. 
GILBERT’S HARBINGER PRIMROSE, very fine clumps 
that will part into from six to ten eyes, 4s. per dozen. 
LATE WHITE VICTORIA BROCCOLI, 2s. 6d. per packet 
of quarter of an ounce. 
R. GILBERT, High Park Gardens, Stamford. 
T ANNED NETTING, 2 yds. wide, 1 \d. per 
yd.; 25 yds., 2 yds. wide, 4s., post free ; 10s. per 100 yds. ; 
4 yds. wide, 3d per yd., 20s. per 100. NEW TWINE NETTING, 
1-in. mesh, 1 yd. wide, 2d. ■ 2 yds. wide, id .; 4 yds. wide, 8 d. per 
yd. COTTON NETTING, 54 ins. wide, 9 meshes to square in., 
7<I. per yd.—best article to protect fruit trees, &c. Hexagon 
Nets, 72 meshes to in., 4i d. per yd. CLAP NETS, for bird- 
catching, 30s.—W. CULLINGFORD, Forest Gate, London, E. 
~raTinc oTnursenesT 
A PUBLIC MEETING of Nurserymen will 
be held under the auspices of the Nursery and Seed 
Trade Association, Limited, on Tuesday, 2Sth 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 he taken by J. WOOD INGRAM, Esq., of the 
firm of Messrs. Wood & Ingram, 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 the assessment bears to the rent itself. 
Mr. F. G. GOODCHILD, Secretary, Nursery and Seed Trade 
Association, 25, Old Jewry, London, E.C. 
The Rainfall and the Crops. —The steady, 
persistent rainfall at the end of last week, 
doubtless unwelcome to pleasure-seekers, yet 
proved a veritable God-send for the land, and 
has done an incalculable amount of good. As 
the result we see hardy fruits swelling rapidly, 
although the bloom has, as it were, but just 
fallen; whilst all trees have had such a thorough 
washing that they get a start—helped above and 
at the roots below — such as early summer 
seldom affords. What the effect of this down¬ 
pour may he upon agricultural crops we will 
not stop to enquire; but it is certain that the 
grass crop of the country—a very important 
crop too—will he enormously added to, for let 
the weather prove never so warm, it will not 
be possible for sun-heat readily to abstract 
moisture from shaded soil ; whilst the sub¬ 
sequent growth of the grass will be rapid and 
abundant. 
So far, in spite of all previous gloomy fore¬ 
bodings, we may look for a large hay crop, 
assuming, of course, that the harvesting time 
be favoured with pleasant weather. Upon all 
other crops—Potatos, Peas, Beans, Cabbages, 
&c., besides Corn—the effect has been most 
marked, and, not least, weeds have made rapid 
