August 20, 1887. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
803 
3NOW 
Gratis and post free to intending purchasers of Bulbs. 
SUTTON’S 
BULB 
CATALOGUE, 
CONTAINING DESCRIPTIVE LISTS OF 
HYACINTHS, —All the finest varieties for cul¬ 
ture in pots and glasses, and 
Sutton's Inimitable Bedding 
Hyacinths in distinct shades of 
v colour. “Truly magnificent: not 
a single failure.” — Vide unso¬ 
licited testimony. 
TULIPS. —The best varieties for Bedding and for 
Early Spring Flowering. 
NARCISSI. — A. very full and accurate descrip¬ 
tion of all the best varieties, together with 
several beautiful Illustrations ; also a 
HANDSOME COLOURED PLATE, 
Illustrative of HYACINTHS, TULIPS, NARCISSI, 
and ANEMONES. 
Early Roman Hyacinths 
and 
EARLY NARCISSI 
SHOULD BE ORDERED AT ONCE FOR IMMEDIATE 
PLANTING. 
PRICES VERY MODERATE, 
CANNELL & SONS’ 
New Plants, Seedlings, Sports, Sc. 
W E felt certain from the superiority of both 
our seeds and plants, and the near perfection of our 
strains, they would manifest their value, and it appears that 
numerous First Prizes are being awarded to them all over tlie 
world. Our “ Real Manure ” is also doing wonderful work and 
carrying many to victory. Naturally we are exceedingly anxious 
to have a complete record of such honours, and should be 
extremely obliged if all winners would kindly send us full 
particulars of the same. 
We should be glad to receive specimen blooms of any really 
good new varieties, with a view of purchasing the same. 
IT lie Sam© of Floweirs* 
SWAN LEY, KENT. 
KEI/WAY & SON. 
NOW IS THE TIME TO PLANT 
KELWAYS’ PYRETHRUMS 
KELWAYS’ GAILLARDIAS 
KELWAYS’ DELPHINIUMS, 
KELWAYS’ IRIS. 
LAHGPORT, SOMERSET. 
15,000 TEA ROSES, 
In all the leading varieties, fine plants, in 5J-in. and 6-in. pots, 
12 /-, 15 /- and 18 /- per dozen, according to size. 
THE COMPANY believe their TEA ROSES to be unsur¬ 
passed by any in the country. List, with full particulars, post 
free on application. 
Price to the trade on application. 
The LIVERPOOL HORTICULTURAL Co. 
(JOHN COWAN), LIMITED. 
THE VINEYARD AND NURSERIES, 
GARSTON, near LIVERPOOL. 
National Chrysanthemum Society, Royal 
Aquarium, Westminster. 
E ARLY CHRYSANTHEMUMS, dah¬ 
lias AND GLADIOLI EXHIBITION, September 
14th and 15th. 
Schedules free on application to Mr. WILLIAM HOLMES, 
Frampton Park Nurseries, Hackney. 
The Floral Committee will meet Sept. 14th, Oct. 12th and 26th, 
Nov. 9th and 23rd, and Dec. 7th. Medals are offered for com¬ 
petition at each meeting for New Chrysanthemums. See 
Schedule. _____ 
National Co-operative Flower Show. 
IN PRIZES, 8 Silver and Bronze 
o& vj V/ Medals, Certificates, numerous Special Prizes, &c. 
Entries close August 20th. Show August 23rd, 1SS7, 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 22nd.—Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Special Trade Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe & Morris's 
Rooms. 
Tuesday, August 23rd.—Royal Horticultural Society : Meeting 
of Fruit and Floral Committees at 11 a.m. Second National 
Co-operative Flower Show at South Kensington. 
Wednesday, August 24th.—Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Stevens' 
Rooms. 
Thursday, August 25th.—Wilts Horticultural Society's Show at 
Salisbury.—Ludlow Horticultural Society’s Exhibition. Sale 
of Imported Orchids at Stevens' Rooms. Special Trade Sale 
of Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Friday-, August 26th.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe 
& Morris’s Rooms. 
Saturday-, August 27th.—Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Amateurs' Garden. 807 
American Exhibt.,plants at SOS 
Artillery Plants, British .. S10 
Asters, early floweriDg .. 812 
Camellia, a double white .. S10 
Carnations and Hollyhocks 
at Tottenham . S06 
Chinese Bellflower. S08 
Convolvulus tricolor .... S05 
Gaillardia pulehella Loren- 
ziana . Sll 
Gardeners’ Calendar. Sll 
Herbaceous and Alpine 
Plants in Flower. SOS 
Honey Locusts at Devon- 
hurst. S06 
Page 
Horticultural Societies.... 812 
Ipomiea purpurea . 805 
Isotoma axillaris . Sll 
Lycaste tetragona. 811 
Miltonia spectabilis. 811 
Mimicry in Plants. 809 
Muscat of Alexandria .... 811 
Orchid Growers’Calendar.. 811 
Plumbago capensis . 810 
Scottish Notes. 807 
Seedling Fuchsias . 810 
Swanley, a visit to. S04 
Tomatos, more about .... 803 
Viola, Countess of Kintore 807 
Weather, the ....810 
Wild FloYvers . S05 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1887. 
More About Tomatos. —Reverting again to 
the subject of Tomatos, we may remark that 
that indefatigable fungologist, Mr. Worthington 
G. Smith, has discovered for us a new fungus, 
the peculiar business of which seems to be 
to prey upon and destroy the Tomato plant. 
Somehow, although the name of various 
vegetable fungoid parasites is legion, we give 
them scanty consideration. Their hark seems 
to he worse than their bite, and although 
through the microscope these parasites are 
painted to us in terrible colours, the world 
of gardening moves on heedlessly. The 
func;olo"ist, with his illustrations and warn- 
ings, is but another John crying in the 
Wilderness — few, perhaps none, heeding. 
Of course, in the natural order of things, 
and to make prophecies come true, races of 
plants ought to he swept from off the face 
of the earth, whilst parasitic bands of music 
should render, in mimic harmony over the 
destroying agencies, “ See the Conquering 
Hero Comes ” ; but the agencies, destructive 
as they may be painted, fail in their mission, 
and man and nature presently come out of 
the strife triumphant. 
We had a long and tough battle with that 
fungoid army — Peronospora infestans, and, 
judging by the terribly destructive powers 
given to this enemy, the Potato plant should 
have been exterminated. The Potato plant 
lives — indeed, thrives — healthily in greater 
abundance than ever, and the Peronospora 
seems to have given up the ghost. The 
fungus used also to attack the Tomato ; hat 
after a few years battling it seems to have 
been worsted, and Tomatos are now as robust 
and as healthy as at any time since they 
were introduced to us. The new fungus is 
doubtless, from a microscopical aspect, very 
interesting, but growers regard it with in¬ 
finite unconcern ; indeed, the present season 
seems peculiarly favourable to Tomato culture, 
and warmth, whilst encouraging robust 
healthy growth, is driving pests and parasites 
into premature graves. 
Eew fruits have come into popularity so 
rapidly as have Tomatos. It seems hut a 
few years since they were regarded with 
doubt and distrust; now they are held to he 
almost as essential to our dinner tables as 
Potatos. We used to grow Tomatos in the 
open air, and against such patches of a south 
wall or fence as fruit trees left unoccupied; 
hut we seldom grew them well, because it is 
only during such seasons as the present that 
really well-ripened fruits can be obtained 
from plants in the open air. Then came 
the era of cheap glasshouses, and under their 
shelter Tomatos suddenly leaped up to the 
position of a most important article of trade 
and consumption. Now we have literally 
acres of glasshouses devoted to their culture, 
and tons upon tons are sent into the markets 
weekly—not of half-ripe imperfect fruit, hut 
of capital thoroughly-ripened and well-coloured 
samples, which are as pleasing to see as to 
taste. Happy is the man who has plenty 
of good home-grown Tomatos; hut happier 
still is he who, having such, is also endowed 
with a love for the fruits in their natural 
state, for he has a new pleasure added to 
life—not the pleasure of the wine-bibber or 
the gourmand, hut a healthy natural pleasure, 
which the possession of plenty of growing 
Tomatos enables him to gratify. 
In the matter of variety or, at all events, 
nomenclature, as we remarked last week, 
Tomatos almost rival Potatos; and that there 
is great dissimilarity among them, as regards 
form, colour and productiveness, there can be 
no doubt, hut there is very little difference 
in the matter of flavour. Indeed, it is just 
here that we find the weak spot in Tomatos— 
not a fungoid spot, hut a defect in taste. 
We want Tomatos which possess a brisker 
flavour, and are naturally palatable and 
pleasant eating in a ripe state. Now and 
then some new kind is put forth as being 
especially high flavoured, and if the taster is 
blessed with boundless faith, that special 
flavour can he found. Unfortunately, faith 
of that character is usually lacking, hence 
we look still further for the ne plus ultra of 
our aspirations. Possibly that specially 
piquant and pleasant flavour, which shall 
render a ripe Tomato as acceptable as a Bon 
Chretien Pear or a Royal George Peach, will 
come some day, and it cannot arrive too 
soon for the present generation of Tomato 
consumers. 
At a meeting of the Belgian Chamber of Horti¬ 
culture held at Ghent on the 10th inst., Certificates 
of Merit were awarded to Mr. Auguste Van Geert for 
Stanhopea Legeriana ; to Mr. Jules Hye for Cattleya 
Eldorado splendens (by acclamation); and to Messrs. 
Yervaet & Co. for Cirrhopetalum species. 
A heavy rain passed over a considerable part of 
London on Saturday night last, varying in duration 
from half an hour to two hours. As might naturally 
he expected, little or no visible effect was apparent on 
vegetation. Next morning was clear and very warm 
from an early hour, and no trace of the previous 
night’s rain was to be seen, owing to the parched and 
dusty condition of the soil. 
