September 3, 1887 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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BULB GUIDE 
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“POYAL JUBILEE EXHIBITION, 
Manchester. 
A GRAND EXHIBITION of FRUITS and FLOWERS will 
be held on SEPTEMBER 16th and 17th. For Schedules, apply 
to the undersigned. BRUCE FINDLAY. 
Royal Botanical Gardens, Manchester. 
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. 12tli and 26th, 
Nov. 9th and 23rd, and Dec. 7tli. Medals are offered for com¬ 
petition at each meeting for New Chrysanthemums. See 
Schedule. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, Sept. 5th.—Meeting of the General Committee of the 
National Chrysanthemum Society at 7 p.m. Bulb Sales at 
Stevens' and Protheroe and Morris’s Rooms. 
Wednesday, Sept. 7th.— Glasgow and the West of Scotland 
Horticultural Society’s Show. Bath Autumn Show. Bulb 
Sale at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Thursday, Sept. Sth.—Trade Sale at Swanley Junction by 
Messrs. Protheroe & Morris. Sale of Established Orchids 
at Stevens’ Rooms. Bulb Sale at Protheroe & Morris’s 
Rooms. 
Friday, Sept. 9th.—Trade Sale at Kew Nursery, Richmond ; 
and Sale of Orchids at the Rooms, by Protheroe & Morris. 
Saturday, Sept. 10th.—Bulb Sales at Protheroe & Morris’s 
and Stevens’ Rooms 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Amateurs’ Garden . 7 
Azolla Caroliniana . 10 
Cattleyas, notes on. 12 
Convolvulus mauritanicus.. 5 
Disa grancliflcra . 11 
Eucharis Disease.. 9 
Fruit Crops, the year’s _ 3 
Gardeners’ Calendar . 7 
Gardening in the Lake 
District . 8 
Hollyhocks . 6 
Hop, the Japan. 10 
Horticultural Societies .... 12 
Lilium polyphyllum . 4 
Magnolia, the large-flowered 11 
Mealy Bug. 10 
PAGL 
Oak, Evergreen. 4 
Old Hall, Southhorougli .. 9 
Orchid Growers’ Calendar.. 11 
Pea, American Wonder .... 10 
Peach, Early Admirable .. 11 
Pear, an early . 11 
Plants, hardy . 5 
Potato Starch . 4 
Primula obconica. 11 
Show, a remarkable. 8 
Spiranthes autumnalis .... 12 
Sunflowers at Hurst-side.... 8 
Sunflower,. Veitch’s Mini¬ 
ature. 10 
Tomatos. 10 
Wheat, Cross-breeding of .. 6 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1887. 
The Year’s Fruit Crops.— Several of our 
garden contemporaries have been at much pains 
to obtain from gardeners in diverse parts of 
the kingdom local reports as to tlie general 
condition of the fruit crop for the year. These 
returns are so far interesting that they relate 
chiefly to the products of our private gardens, 
and they are instructive as showing lion-, more 
or less, local surroundings, both of climate and 
soil, affect such produce. But to the mass of 
the people it is obvious that there is a serious 
flaw in these returns, and that is found in 
the absence of information as to the produce. 
in market orchards and gardens in which, not 
the fruits for the wealthy, but for the masses 
are grown. The great army of consumers 
have an interest in knowing what is the 
probable nature, of the supply for their 
purposes during the year, although, in relation 
to many fruits the public knew as much 
through the markets before the reports were 
obtained as after. 
Fresh fruits and Strawberries get into the 
market early, and prices soon tell to the 
housekeeper whether or no this or that kind 
is plentiful. Prices ranged rather higher 
than usual this season, hence it was soon 
found that supplies were moderate. It is 
obvious, therefore, that if any real forecast 
of the season’s fruit produce, which would 
he of value to the general public, is to he 
obtained, there should he two distinct reports, 
the first issued much earlier than is usual as 
to fruits ripening in the summer—bush fruits, 
Strawberries, Cherries, &c., and a second one 
of autumn - ripening fruits—Apples, Pears, 
Plums, &e. Reports as to the general crops 
of Peaches, Nectarines, Apricots and similar 
choice fruits have far less value, because these 
reports far more often in these days refer to 
house-grown crops than those grown outdoors, 
which are, perhaps, almost nil. 
It seems as if we might with as much 
reason invite returns of the products of 
vineries, Tomato houses, Melons and Cu¬ 
cumbers when dealing with glass - grown 
products, as restrict the encpiiries to Peaches, 
Nectarines, &c., and it must he obvious that 
if these returns are to have any practical 
value or possess natural interest, we ought to 
know as much about the prospects of fruits 
under glass as of those outside. "We have 
such vast areas of glass now devoted to the 
culture of Grapes, Tomatos and similar pro¬ 
ducts, not merely for the gratification of the 
wealthy few, hut literally of the masses of 
the people, that the market is controlled by 
these houses, and prices must range according 
to crop. 
It will thus he seen that a great reforma 
tion in the present stereotyped method of 
procedure in obtaining fruit-crop returns is 
needful, and instead of limiting them so 
largely, as now, to some gossiping notes from 
garrulous correspondents hi private gardens, 
which have little interest outside these gardens, 
a bond fide and united effort should he made 
to secure a real practical return of all the 
fruit products of the year which enter now 
so largely into the food of the people. 
Generally, the present season’s fruit crops 
have been fairly good, but in the market 
gardens and orchards greatly discounted hy 
the long continued drought, which affects both 
hulk and quality seriously. It is, however, 
now rather late to furnish reports, as the 
produce generally is rapidly being reduced to 
the tail-end. 
-- 
Messes. Peotheroe & Morris’s Annual Trade 
Sales of Greenhouse Plants are announced to take 
place as follows:—Mr. P. Ladds, Swanley Junction, 
Sep. 8th ; Mr. K. Drost, Richmond, Sep. 9th ; Mr. H. 
B. May, Dyson’s Lane, Upper Edmonton, Sep. 12th ; 
Messrs. B. Mailer & Sons, Lee, Sep. 13th ; Mr. John 
Fraser, Lea Bridge, Sep. 14th ; Executors of the late 
Mr. John Mailer, Tottenham, Sep. loth ; Messrs. 
Gregory & Evans, Sidcup, Sep. 16th ; and Mr. R. 
Bullen, Lewisham, Sep. 17th. 
Heavy showers of rain fell in London on Tuesday 
and Wednesday, and seems to have fallen generally in 
the south of England, accompanied by a heavy westerly 
gale, which did a serious amount of damage to the Hop 
crop in East Kent. The fruit plantations are strewn 
with Apples, Pears, Plums, and other fruit, which have 
been knocked off the trees hy the violence of the wind. 
We are asked hy Messrs. Wm. Wood & Sons, Wood 
Green, to announce to intending competitors forthe Silver 
Cup offered by them at the Crystal Palace and South 
Kensington Shows, in October, for Potatos and vege¬ 
tables, that they will undertake to stage exhibits for 
competitors at a distance who are unable to attend, if 
communicated with at an early date. 
