August 6, 1887. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
771 
DANIELS’ DEFIANCE CABBAGE. 
A magnificent early variety, growing from 10 to 20 lbs. each 
of the finest marrow flavour, invaluable for Market Gar¬ 
deners and private growers. 
Price, per packet, Is. ; per oz.. Is. 6 d. 
From Mr. J. WOOLLEN, Lodge Farm, Iron Acton. 
“I ham been growing your Defiance Cabbage for five years , 
and find none to equal them in shape, size, earliness or flavour." 
DANIELS’ LITTLE QUEEN CABBAGE. 
The finest early dwarf ever introduced. Where only small 
Cabbages are required, this variety will be found invaluable, 
as they can be planted closely on the ground, and will produce 
a most abundant crop. 
Price, per oz,, 1 s. 
DANIELS’ GOLDEN ROCGA ONION. 
A grand variety of fine globular shape, golden yeUow skin, 
and mild flavour ; equal to imported Onions. 
Price, per packet, Is.; per oz., Is. 6 d. 
DANIELS’ WHITE ELEPHANT TRIPOLI. 
This is the largest of the Tripoli sorts—the average diameter 
of the bulbs being from 6 to 7 inches—exceedingly mild in 
flavour, with a silvery white skin. 
„ Price, per oz ., 1 s. 6cl. 
From Mr. G. H. RICHARDS, Gardener to the 
Earl of Normanton. 
“ I was much pleased with your 1 White Elephant Tripoli * 
Onion I had last year , and consider it the largest White 
Selection I have yet tried or seen. I exhibited a dish at 
South Kensington, July lUth, in my collection of Vegetables , 
and they were much adm ired .” 
CA TALOGUES FREE ON APPL1CA TION. 
DANIELS BROS., 
Seed Growers and Merchants, 
NORWICH. 
KEX/WAY & SON. 
NOW IS THE TIME TO PLANT 
KELWAYS’ PYRETHRUMS 
KELWAYS’ GAILLARDIAS 
KELWAYS’ DELPHINIUMS. 
KELWAYS’ IRIS, 
LANGPORT, SOMERSET. 
NEW HOSES 
In Pots. List of the most select sorts now ready, gratis and 
post free. 
TEA ANB NOISETTE HOSES, 
Of best sorts only, in pots, in great quantity and of best quality. 
Sample dozen of really good plants in 5-in. pots, carefully packed 
for travelling, put on rail on receipt of 15s. Half dozen ditto on 
receipt of 8s. 
EWIXG & Co., Sea View Nurseries, Havant, Hants. 
CAiMNELL’S CINERARIAS 
200 ACRES' 
ccrf 
nC qje -sen or <r, jer rxr>ecv * $'• 
PRIMULAS— 
Is. 6d. per dozen, 11s. per 100 ; in pots, 16s. per 100. 
CINERARIAS- 
Is. per dozen, 7s. per 100; in pots, 12s, per 100. 
H. CANNELL & SONS, 
The Home of Flowers, SWANLEY, KENT. 
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. 
Shropshire Horticultural Society. 
S UMMER SHOW (open to all) August 17th 
and 18th. Twenty Plants, £25, £20. £15. Collection of 
Fruit, £10, £6, £3. For Grapes, £44. Collection of Vegetables, 
eight sorts, £5, £3, £2, £1. Schedules and full particulars from 
MESSRS. ADN1TT & NAUNTON, Shrewsbur y, Hon. Secs. 
W “TltS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY’S 
SHOW, SALISBURY. 
August 25t.h, 18S7. £150 in prizes. 
Schedules on application to 
W. H. WILLIAMS, Hon. Secretary. 
The Nurseries, Salisbury. __ 
National Co-operative Flower Show. 
-RRH ^ PRIZES, 8 Silver and Bronze 
ob v_l U Medals, Certificates, numerous Special Prizes, &c. 
Entries close August 20th. Show August 23rd, 18S7, under 
the auspices of the Royal Horticultural Society, South 
Kensington. 
Schedules and entry forms of all Co-operative Societies, and of 
WILLIAM BROOMHALL, Secretary. 
1, Norfolk Street, Strand, W.C. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, August 8th.—Newcastle (Staffs.) Rose and Horti¬ 
cultural Society’s Exhibition. 
Tuesday, August 9th.—Fruit and Floral Committees of the 
Royal Horticultural Society meet at 11 a. m. 
Wednesday, August 10th.—Luton Horticultural Society’s Show. 
Thursday, August 11th.—Taunton Deane and South Ayling 
Flower Shows. 
Friday, August 12th.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe 
& Morris’s Rooms. 
Saturday, August 13th.—Church Coppenhall (Crewe) Horti¬ 
cultural Exhibition. 
CONTENTS. 
Pace | 
Allotment Gardening .... 776 
Arboriculture .. - . 774 
Auriculas. 776 
Carnation and Picotee Union774 
Chrysanthemum Notes.... 775 
Cambridge Lodge . 778 
Dendrobium Seidelianum.. 7S0 
Dutch Bulb Culture.778 
Floriculture.: 775 
Fruit Notes. 77S 
Fuchsias, seedling. 7S0 
Gaillardia pulchella . 772 
Landscape Forestry . 775 
Law Notes . 782 
Leycesteria formosa. 773 
Lilium auratum poly- 
phyllum . 7S0 
Lilium japonicum Col- 
chesteri. 779 i 
Paqe 
Liverpool Horticultural 
Association . 781 
Northampton Show . 782 
Oncidium primulinum .... 780 
Onions at Chiswick . 778 
Orchid Growers’Calendar.. 780 
Phlox Drummondi. 779 
Plumbago capensis . 779 
Potato Crop, the. 779 
Roman Hyacinths. 777 
Rose Growing at Aberdeen 775 
Royal Horticultural Society 771 
Sanvitalia procumbens.... 772 
Scottish Horticultural As¬ 
sociation . 775 
Southampton Show . 7S2 
Strawberry, House’s Victory776 
Trees and Shrubs, Flowering 779 
Woodhatch, Reigate. 773 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
Ip @ ar^aniiig^urft, 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1887. 
The Royal Horticultural Society. —Tlie 
publication of Professor Michael Foster’s letter 
to the president of the Royal Horticultural 
Society, which we gave our readers in extenso 
last week, may he regarded as an important 
incident in the history of the society; and 
amply excuses our renewed reference to the 
affairs of this somewhat unfortunate body. 
The letter referred to is important because it 
emanates from one of the most distinguished 
members of the Council; also because it 
attracts, necessarily, more attention than can 
he looked for from outside criticisms ; and, not 
least, because it exhibits on the part of an 
intelligent and enlightened member of the 
Council, not only entire appreciation of the 
need of doing something to save the society 
from dissolution, hut also makes suggestions 
which, it is hoped, may prevent that deplorable 
ultimatum. But it must be admitted, that in 
spite of the eminence of the writer and the 
interest which attaches to the proposals con¬ 
tained in the letter, yet they seem peculiarly 
open to criticism, and, not least, to the objection 
that they are not sufficiently practical. 
The Royal Horticultural Society is in such 
a condition that it may he said to be almost at 
its last gasp, unless remedies of a very drastic 
and life-restoring kind are introduced speedily ; 
indeed, the society may be said to he dying 
through loss of popularity, and only an entire 
restoration of the needful popularity can bring 
back life and energy. The learned Professor 
opens his communication with the assumption 
that the Fellows at the recent special meeting 
did express their intention that the society 
should devote itself to the advancement of 
horticulture, and undertake nothing that was 
not distinctly calculated to advance that interest. 
That stray expressions in that direction were 
given utterance to we cheerfully admit, but 
we still hold that the resolution carried and 
the words used which led to its acceptance, 
seemed rather to favour, as the first considera¬ 
tion, the providing of a home for the society 
in the City of London, and specially of a place 
in which Orchid-growers could display to the 
gaze of their admiring rich fellow-citizens the 
products of their Orchid-houses. There was 
also a suggestion that the Royal Horticultural 
Society should, in common with other learned 
and scientific bodies, have its habitation in the 
metropolis. Professor Poster may hold that 
objects of this sort were really calculated to 
promote the advancement of horticulture ; 
we believe that such a movement would be 
eminently calculated to make the society a 
mere City appanage, and to withdraw it from 
broad and genuine horticulture, whilst it would 
repel the hulk of the horticulturalists of the 
provinces. Here we may say at once, that any 
movement calculated to render the society 
purely metropolitan will destroy its national 
character and usefulness absolutely, whilst 
without the support of the provincial horti¬ 
culturalists, not only would the society not 
exist, but its raison d’etre for existence would 
be removed also. 
The mistake made by Professor Foster, and 
of those who think with him, is in assuming 
that the Royal Horticultural Society occupies 
the same relationship to horticulture that the 
Royal Society or the British Association does 
to science. The fact is, horticulture is a prac¬ 
tical avocation and not a theoretical science; 
horticulture, divested of all fanciful habili¬ 
ments, is gardening pure and simple, and the 
gardening profession of the country must con¬ 
stitute the constituency of any horticultural 
society, royal or otherwise. The members 
of scientific bodies form a very diverse con¬ 
stituency from that which forms the basis of 
horticulture. The gardening profession is of 
the clubbist kind only in a limited degree, 
evidence of which is afforded in the fact that 
the London Horticultural Club now more than 
satisfies their club requirements. It is not 
a wealthy constituency, and cannot afford—- 
any more than it needs—the luxuries of club 
life. It is not a scientific body, and, therefore, 
has more diverse aims than scientists have; 
it is, in fact, a hard-working and practical- 
minded constituency, which lives upon horti¬ 
culture, and which, in all its associations, will 
ever put the advancement of practical horti¬ 
culture in the foreground. It will thus be 
seen, that to the mass of the horticultural 
community, the somewhat ambitious proposals 
of Professor Foster, in relation to the society’s 
future accommodation, offer nothing that is 
attractive, and presents much that is uselessly 
costly and indefensible. 
The Professor in the important—indeed, just 
now we may say, the all-important subject 
of income or pecuniary means, has no better 
suggestion to make than that one guinea sub- 
scriberships should he established in association 
with existing ones for two guineas and four 
guineas. That is neither financially a very 
drastic or democratic suggestion, and seems to 
he based on the assumption that the gardeners 
of the United Kingdom have ample means, 
and will be certain to take up these guinea 
fellowships. If the guineas are not sug¬ 
gested as a sop to the gardeners, what class 
of persons, we ask, are they intended to fetch ’? 
