July 16, 1887. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
723 
ROSES 
IN POTS; all the best New and Old English 
and Foreign sorts, from 18s. to 36s. per doz. 
Descriptive List free on application. 
RICHARD SMITH & Co., 
WORCESTER. 
EELWAY & SON. 
NOW IS THE TIME TO PLANT 
KEIWAYS’ DAHLIAS 
KEIWAYS’ PYRETHRUMS 
KEIWAYS’ GAILLARDIAS 
KELWAYS’ DELPHINIUMS. 
LANGPORT, SOMERSET, 
TO THE TRADE ONLY. 
SPECIAL OFFERof PALMS and FERNS. 
ADIANTUM CITNEATUM, strong, in 4-in. pots, well furnished, 
5s. per doz. ; 35s. per 100. A. PUBESCENS, fine stuff in 2-in. 
pots, ready for 4t-in. pots, 2s. (id. per doz. A. MACRO- 
PHYLLUM, strong, out of boxes, 2s. 6 d. per doz. 
PTERIS SERRULATA CRISTATA, fine stuff in 3-in. pots, with 
crests on, 3s. (id. per doz. P. SERRULATA, strong, 3-in. pots, 
3s. per doz.; ditto, strong, out of boxes, 6s. per 100. P. IIAS- 
TATA, strong, out of 4-in. pots, 3s. 6 d. per doz. P. CRETICA 
ALBO-LINEATA, strong, out of boxes, 6s. per 100. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE PROLIFERUM, nice stuff of 
this splendid decorative Fern, 3-in. pots, 3s. 6 d. per doz. ; 
ditto, strong, out of boxes, 2s. per dozen. P. A. P. FOOTI, 
out of boxes, 3s. 6cl. per doz. 
PAT, MR.—COCOS WEDDELIANA, strong, well established in 
3-iu. pots, 6s. per doz. LATANIA BORBONICA, very 
strong, in 3-in. pots, 12 to 18 ins. high, 3s. 6d. per doz. SEA- 
FORTHIA ELEGANS, strong, in 3-in. pots, 6s. per doz. 
CHAMiEROPS FORTUNE!.—I have a large stock in 4-in. 
pots, which will do well for decoration next winter; low 
offer, 6s. per doz.; 40s. per 100. 
All the above Package Free. Terms strictly CASH WITH 
ORDER. 
J. J. UPTON, Florist, Irlam, nr. Manchester. 
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receipt of 8s. 
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For every lover of Flowers, Pot-Plants, Botany, Fine 
Lawns, Trees, Shrubs, Good Fruit and Vegetables. 
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LIMITED. 
RATI NG OF NURS ERIES. 
AT A MEETING of Nurserymen and 
Market Gardeners, held on 2Sth of June, 1SS7, at the 
Horticultural Club, London, it was decided to take such steps 
as might he necessary for the purpose of obtaining a reduction 
in the amounts at -which Nurseries and Market Gardens are 
assessed, and also of obtaining a basis on which such assess¬ 
ments should he made. A Committee was formed for the 
purpose of carrying this into effect, and a guarantee fund was 
started to meet the necessai’y expenses. The Committee at 
present consists of Mr. Beer (Worthing), Mr. Bennett (Sliep- 
perton), Mr. Bunyard (Maidstone), Mr. Daniels (Daniels Bros., 
Norwich) Mr. Haynes (Penge), Mr. Horsman (Bradford), Mr. 
Low (Uxbridge), Mr. Pearson (ChiTwell), Mr. Sharman (Carter & 
Co.. London), Mr. Veitch (Veitch & Sous, Chelsea), and Mr. 
J. Wood Ingram (Huntington). Gentlemen who are willing to 
join the Committee, or to subscribe to the guarantee fund (such 
guarantee not to exceed £10), will please communicate with the 
Secretary, Mr. F. C. GOODCHILD, 25, Old Jewry, London, E.C. 
The Liverpool Horticultural Association. 
npHE EIGHTH GRAND SUMMER EXHI- 
X BITION of PLANTS, FLOWERS, FRUIT and VEGE¬ 
TABLES will be held in SEFTON PARK, on Saturday, July 
30tli, and Bank Holiday, August 1st. Entries close July 23rd. 
Schedules of prizes can be had on application to the Secretary, 
EDWARD BRIDGE, 3, Cedar Teriace, Tarbock Road, Huyton. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, July ISth.—Christleton Rose Show. 
Tuesday, July 19th.—St. Peter’s, Hammersmith, Horticultural 
Society’s Show. Leek Rose Show. Sale of Imported Orchids 
at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Wednesday, July 20th.—Lewisham and District Horticultural 
Society’s Show (2 days). Birkenhead Rose Show. 
Thursday, July 21st.- Lichfield Horticultural Society’s Show. 
Southwell Horticultural Society's Show. Rose Shows at 
Salterhebble and Carlton-in-Lindricks. Sale of Imported 
Orchids at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Friday, July 22ud.—North Lonsdale Rose Show. Manchester 
Rose Show. Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe & 
Morris’s Rooms. 
Saturday, July 23rd.—Ulverstone Rose Show. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Allamanda, a prolific _ 730 
Antirrhinum, White Swan. 730 
Apple Pest, a new. 730 
Auricula growers, small .. 727 
Austrian Briar . 730 
Carnation, Souvenir de la 
Malmaison . 730 
Chrysanthemums, Annual 731 
Cypripedium Pearcei .... 732 
Flower Show Judging .... 729 
Gaillardias . 72S 
Gardening. 723 
Gardeners' Calendar. 732 
Gardeners’ Orphan Fund.. 724 
Glazing, new system of.... 730 
PAGE 
Hay Fever . 723 
Horticultural Societies .. 732 
Market Gardening. 728 
Mikado Flower Holders .. 730 
Orchid Growers’ Calendar. 732 
Pansies, Fancy . 728 
Paeonies, Herbaceous .... 730 
Plants, IIerbaceous,inflower729 
Plants, New, Certificated .. 726 
Rhubarb, concerning _ 728 
Seakale and Rhubarb .... 727 
Tropseolum polyphyllum.. 727 
Tulip Tree, the . 730 
Usan, Notes from . 727 
Van Houtte Memorial Prizes 724 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1887. 
Gardening. — When Bacon delivered his 
celebrated dictum with respect to the pleasures 
of gardening, he doubtless thought only of 
the purely romantic side of the matter. 
Those who have good gardens, and nothing 
to do in them but to enjoy the beauties 
surrounding them, may, of course, do so in 
a very philosophic spirit, drinking in all that 
is enjoyable, and troubling about nothing. 
Bacon, as a philosopher, doubtless regarded 
gardening as a philosopher would, and when 
he wrote of its pleasures, knew little of the 
worries, cares, anxieties, and troubles which 
vex and oppress the minds of modern 
gardeners. To myriads, now, a close shaven 
lawn is beautiful, only because it affords good 
tennis play; whilst the gardener, who has 
the beauty of his lawns deep at heart, is 
troubled because drought burns the grass to a 
dingy brown, and only bents, Plantain and 
Daisies grow. But lawns, after all, are small 
matters when such seasons of excessive heat 
and drought as we have just passed through 
prevail. 
Probably, Bacon gave vent to his poetic 
soul some time in the spring, when gardens, 
putting on their first dress of summer beauty, 
are, as a rule, delightfully enjoyable. A long 
spell of drought, or, on the other hand, one 
of unusual coldness and moisture, soon 
destroys poetic illusions, and brings the soaring 
mind back to mother earth with distressing 
rapidity. Gardening can have little of pleasure 
if its pursuit he not associated with successful 
issues; for failures, whether the result of 
want of knowledge or suitable weather, can 
only bring pain and disappointment. For 
several weeks past gardening has been asso¬ 
ciated with hard labour, and very much of 
pain, because plants of all kinds have suffered 
from drought and heat, and man has been 
unable to give relief. Watering can do 
something to alleviate the sufferings of plants, 
but, still, very little after all; whilst watering, 
even with an abundant supply of the limpid 
element, is very laborious and painful. We 
cannot tell whether plants really feel. We 
believe they do not in any way; hut it is 
hard to dispel the illusion, when we see them 
flagging from intense heat and drought, that 
they do not feel pain. 
But the gardener, who sees day after day 
the burning heat withering up his crops 
which he has in the past laboured so hard 
and so patiently to plant or to sow and to 
cherish, feels real .pain, and his disappoint¬ 
ment merits sympathy. The cultivator of 
the soil is peculiarly the sport of circum¬ 
stances, and specially of circumstances over 
which he has no control. He may find, 
though it rarely happens, a season which is 
peculiarly favourable; hut, in the majority 
of cases, he finds conditions of weather 
which baffle his best endeavours. Just such 
conditions has the unwonted heat this season 
furnished, and for all early crops have proved 
exceedingly disastrous. The gardener specially 
merits sympathy when he has to provide his 
employer with all sorts of garden products 
which weather prevents maturing. 
Little enough of allowance is made for 
conditions which prove the gardener’s master. 
Abundant rains now may serve to bless that 
which is to follow where not too late, but 
of that which is past no help can he given. 
Who can tell what may happen yeti We 
may see this drought extended all the summer, 
creating loss upon loss. We may see it 
followed by unusual rainfall to provide the 
needful meteorological balance, and that 
would he disastrous also if coming during 
the summer. Fine dry weather is delightful 
for the butterflies of the human family, but 
to the gardener, if too long extended, it means 
pain and disappointment. 
-- 
Admirers of Canon Hole will be glad to know 
that he has not accepted the offer of the vacant 
bishopric of Nova Scotia, and, consequently, is not 
going to banish himself to that colony. 
The Annual Exhibition of the Crewe Horticul¬ 
tural Society will be held on Saturday, August 6th. 
The Annual Summer Exhibition of the Church 
Coppenhall Horticultural Society will he held 
on August 13th, and the Annual Chrysanthemum 
Show, in the Town Hall, Crewe, on November 26th. 
Messrs. James Carter & Co. were awarded a 
Silver Medal at the Royal Botanic Society’s Evening 
Fete last week, for a very striking group of annuals 
and ornamental grasses. 
The title of Canadian Fruit King is considered to 
belong to Mr. A. McDonald Allan, of Goderich, 
Ontario, who is the president of the Ontario Fruit 
Growers’ Association, and the largest exporter of 
Canadian fruit. 
At the fifth annual meeting of the American Seed 
Trade Association held last month at Philadelphia, 
Mr. James H. Gregory delivered an address on 
“Experimental Stations”—and proposed a uniform 
method of testing, to place all parties on a like basis. 
A committee was appointed to carry out the resolution. 
At the meeting of the Scientific Committee on Tues¬ 
day, Mr. James O’Brien made some comments on a 
paragraph lately published in the columns of the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, on the subject of Hay Fever, 
and detailed his own experience with reference to the 
flowers of Golden Feather, Pyretlirum, insect-powder, 
Ilibbertia volubilis,- Patchouli, Lilium auratum and 
other plants, by the perfume of which he was to a 
greater or less degree affected. Other cases of a similar 
kind were mentioned by members of the committee— 
the general inference, from the varied nature of the 
plants, being that the real causes of the symptoms 
must also be varied, and that the pollen alone cannot 
be credited with the mischief. 
