June 25, 1887. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
675 
ROSES IN P OTS 
HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSES. 1 \o/6 per dozen. 
Good plants in pots of all leading kinds, f inn 
for turning out to fill up vacancies, &c. J ' per IUUm 
CLIjnBIRG POSES. | 
All best kinds, strong plants in pots, witli f 1 6/7 per dozen. 
long shoots, for immediate effect. ] 
TEA-SCENTED ROSES. j 
For growing on for the conservatory or [ 16/- per dozen. 
planting out of doors. 
REV/ ROSES. 
Her Majesty, Clara Cochet, The Bride, 
W. F. Bennett, Ye Primrose Dame, and all 
b«t new varieties of 1S86-T. 
fuU particulars in new Catalogue of Boses in Pots, Clematis, 
Bedding Plants, &c., post free. 
GEO. COOLING & SONS, 
THE NURSERIES, BATH. 
KELWAY 8s SON. 
) 24 - to 36/* 
| per dozen. 
NOW K THE TIME TO PLANT 
KELWAYS’ DAHLIAS 
KELWAYS’ PYRETHRUMS 
KELWAYS’ GAILLARDIAS 
KELWAYS’ DELPHINIUMS. 
LANGPORT, SOMERSET. 
OUR 
Begonias, Pelargoniums, Verbenas, Gloxinias, 
Ixias, Pansies, and numerous other Plants, 
Which is now a grand sight. All are astonished at their near 
perfection, and the extent and completeness of our stock. 
THE GARDEN. 
I T is positively indispensable, particularly 
where the garden is always desired to be seen in the 
highest possible order, with beauty and attractiveness at the 
least expense, that both employers and gardeners should visit 
and thoroughly examine our establishment and stock, and see 
that our CATALOGUE, ADVERTISEMENTS and ANNOUNCE¬ 
MENTS are accurate, so that economy, success and less failures 
would be the result, and the utmost pleasure and encouragement 
afforded ; further, that they should know where all wants for 
the garden can be best supplied. 
SEND FOR A CATALOGUE. 
H. CANNELL & SONS, 
THE ROJKE OF FLOWERS, 
mmm . 
15,000 TEA ROSES. 
Gonsisting of the following and numerous other varieties, all 
fine plants, in 5J-in. and 6 -in. pots :— 
Mareehal Niel 
Perle des Jardines 
Safrano 
Reine Marie Henriette 
Comtesse de Nadaillac 
Souvenir d’un Ami 
Catherine Mermet 
Homere 
Waltham Climber, No. 1 
Lady Mary Fitzwilliam 
W. A. Richardson 
Perle de Lyon 
Etoile de Lyon 
Madame Lambard 
Devoniensis 
12s., 15s., and 18s. 
Souvenir de Paul Neron 
Isabella Sprunt 
Madame Bravy 
Waltham Climber, No. 2 
Sunset 
Niphetos 
Gloire de Dijon 
Madame Cusine 
The Pet 
Duke of Connaught 
Adam 
Alba rosea 
Goubault 
Waltham Climber, No. 3 
Climbing Devoniensis 
dozen, according to size. 
The Company believe their Tea Roses to be unsurpassed by 
any in the country ; they are clean, healthy, and vigorous, and 
should any purchaser be dissatisfied with them, they may be at 
once returned. 
Prices to the Trade on application. 
Lists, with full particulars, post free on application to 
The LIVERPOOL HORTICULTURAL Co. 
(JOHE® COW4S), WMI^ED, 
The VINEYARD and NURSERIES, 
CARSTON , NEAR LIVERPOOL 
RARE ORCHIDS! 
SPECIMEN ORCHIDS!! 
CHEAP ORCHIDS!!! 
PRICE LIST ON APPLICATION. 
JAMES CYPHER, Cheltenham, 
RATING OF NURSERIES. 
A PUBLIC MEETING of Nurserymen will 
be held under the auspices of the Nursery and Seed 
Trade Association, Limited, on Tuesday, 2 Sth June, 1S8T, 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 6 p.m. Nurserymen will oblige by early intimating to the 
Secretary their intention to he 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. 
/CRYSTAL PALACE.—GREAT ROSE 
V _ l 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. 
A SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the Fellows will be 
held at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, June 2Sth, in the Conservatory, to 
consider the results of the negotiations and inquiries which have 
been made by the Council as to the future maintenance and 
housing of the Society. 
N.B.—Entrances, N.E. Orchard House, Exhibition Road ; and 
east side of Royal Albert Hall. 
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.m., in the 
Conservatory, on Tuesday next, June 2Sth. 
SPECIAL PRIZES offered by Messrs. James Carter & Co., 
Sutton & Sons, and Webb & Sons. See Schedule). 
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. 
Nest Week’s Engagements. 
Tuesday, June 2Sth.- Meeting of Fruit and Floral Committees 
at South Kensington. Meeting of Fellows of the Royal 
Horticultural Society at 3 p.m. Special Sale of Orchids in 
Flower at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Wednesday, June 29th.—Anniversary Festival of The Gardener’s 
Royal Benevolent Institution, at “The Albion,” Alders- 
gate Street, 6 p.m. Richmond Horticultural Society’s 
Summer Show. Croydon Horticultural Society’s Show. 
Sale of Imported and Established Orchids at Stevens' 
Rooms. 
Thursday, June 30th.—Shepperton and Thames Valley Horti¬ 
cultural Society’s Exhibition at Sunbury Court. East 
Gloucestershire Horticultural Society’s Show. 
Friday, July 1st.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe and 
Morris’s Rooms. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Amateurs’ Garden. 679 
American Blight. 6S4 
Azaleas, Indian . 682 
Begonias, Jubilee . 6S1 
Bouquet, a Jubilee. 680 
Campanula calycanthema.. 677 
Cattleya Mossise. 685 
Charlock . 678 
Cherry Tree, prostrate_ 684 
Earth-worms and their work 676 
Hoya imperialis. 683 
Hydrangea, the climbing.. 6S4 
Iberis Gibraltarica. 6S3 
Insecticide, a good. 6S4 
Judging. 6 S 2 
PAGE 
Orchid Growers’ Calendar 6S5 
Passifiora Constance Eliott 680 
Pictorial Trees, Hardy.... 676 
Pruning, Summer. 6S0 
Plants, Herbaceous . 6S2 
Plants, New. 67S 
Rhododendron Countess of 
Haddington. 6S0 
Roses, Scotch. 6 S 6 
Royal Horticultural Society 675 
Scottish Gardening . 679 
Sea Holly, the. 6S0 
Stanhopea Wardii. 685 
Strawberries for forcing .. 677 
Stocks for bunching. 6S2 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and tho greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1887. 
The Roy'al Horticultural Society. —With¬ 
out doubt this society has passed through many 
periods of danger and difficulty, although, 
generally, in a haphazard way, and with no 
very grave results. Still, we doubt whether 
at any time it has had to encounter more 
formidable difficulties than just now present 
themselves, or has been called upon to grapple 
witli a graver crisis. It may he using strong 
language to assert that the meeting of the 
Fellows of the society, called for Tuesday next, 
will have to determine a question of life or 
death, hut it looks very much like it, as it 
is quite impossible that the society can 
continue to exist under its present methods 
and courses, and only a drastic change can 
save it from utter collapse. 
In spite of all the efforts put forth to give 
some life and colour to the society’s position, 
it is painfully obvious that, in the divided 
counsels at the head, there is little hope for 
strong or united action on the part of the 
tail. Were the present Council fully capable 
of grappling with the difficulties into which 
the society has so unhappily been brought, 
and as fully determined to do so, then it 
■would command at once our entire sympathy 
and support; but we cannot close our ears to 
the common report Avhich declares that very 
strong divisions exist in the Council, and that 
there have been threats of resignations, in 
part and altogether, all of which afford evidence 
of weakness such as no body of Fellows, 
how r ever so well inclined, can well hope to 
overcome. 
Even if the Council would adopt such a 
drastic course as to resign in a body, we fail at 
present to discern from whence other and more 
favourable business elements are to he drawn. 
The gentlemen who have so far endeavoured 
to conduct the affairs of the society, personally 
are estimable, and for the most part are 
enthusiastic horticrdtnrists, hut as business men 
very few command respect or, indeed, in any 
way possess the needful attributes. But then 
we have no great hope that the Fellows now 
outside of the Council can furnish better men, 
although there may be such whose qualifica¬ 
tions remain unknown. Probably the most 
able amongst the Fellows, being members of 
the trade, "would feel themselves precluded 
from accepting office if urged to take it, and 
a trade Council would but promote inevitable 
trade jealousies. Really we seem to have no 
other resource just now than to fall back upon 
a chairman or president who should play the 
part of a dictator, if such an one can be 
found. 
In convening the meeting of the Fellows for 
Tuesday next the Council, so far, does not seem 
to have very clearly defined the objects in 
view, or to have frankly taken the Fellows 
into their confidence. Had that been the case 
it is obvious that the Fellows would approach 
the meeting in a much better state of prepa¬ 
ration for the discussion which must follow, 
than they are at present. But in any case we 
would again deprecate as strongly as possible 
the offering of wild or impracticable suggestions, 
or expressions of anxiety to retain any hold of 
South Kensington. It is absolutely certain 
that the society must clear out of that location, 
and it would be much better to quit with 
dignity than to be expelled with ignominy. 
TVe should rejoice, in common with the great 
body of horticulturists in the country, if the 
Fellows could be induced to feel that the 
proper home of the Society is at Chiswick, and 
to take early and energetic steps to have its 
headquarters removed there, even inclusive of 
the Lindley Library. True, it may be urged, 
that there is no accommodation in the garden 
for the clerical staff and the library, hut a suit¬ 
able temporary habitation can he found near at 
hand, if there is only the will to do it. Chis¬ 
wick—or we should rather say Turnham Green 
•—is not now a suburb of London, it is really as 
much a part of the metropolis as South Ken¬ 
sington ; whilst railway, tramcar and omnibus 
services render it readily accessible from all 
parts. The Council must have seen that 
Londoners, and South Kensingtonians in par¬ 
ticular, have “ cut ” the society dead, and now 
absolutely refrain from attending its shows. 
On the other hand, there is in the district 
round Chiswick a constituency that, with pro¬ 
per inducements to become subscribers, would 
