October 1, 1887. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
67 
SUTTON’S 
INIMITABLE 
BEDDING 
HYACINTHS 
la distinct shades of colour, to 
Sower simultaneously. 
“My show of Inimitable Hyacinths 
this spring from bulbs bought from you 
was truly magnificent. Their flowering 
was simultaneous; not a single failure. 
Few who saw them would believe that 
they were really grown out of doors, 
and many insisted that they had been 
removed from the greenhouse for the' 
occasion, whereas they were planted out I 
of doors on the 9th of October six inches 
deep, and never had the slightest shelter 
all through the severe winter.” — W. 
WORMALD, Esq., Hassocks. 
PRICES .—Sutton’s Inimitable Scarlet, Dark Rose, 
Light Rose, Blue, Light Blue, and Dark Blue, 
per dozen, 5s. 6&. ; per 100, 40s. 
Sutton’s Inimitable Pure "White, per doz., Ts. 64. ; 
per 100, 55s. Sutton’s Inimitable Tinted White, 
per dozen, 5s. ; per 100, 44,S. 
SUTTON'S BULBS 
GENUINE ONLY DIRECT FROM READING. 
ORCHIDS A SPECIALITY. 
The Stock at the Clapton Nursery is of such magnitude that 
without seeing it it is not easy to form an adequate conception 
of its unprecedented extent. 
FRUIT TREES, ROSES, AZALEAS, CAMELLIAS, 
BOUVARDIAS, CYCLAMENS, ERICAS, EPACRIS, PRIMU¬ 
LAS, SOLANUMS, TREE CARNATIONS, 
And other WINTER and SPRING-BLOOMING PLANTS, 
Of fine quality and immense numbers. 
Inspection Invited. 
The Glass Structures cover an area of 274,600 super, feet. 
HUGH LOW & CO., 
CLAPTON NURSERY, LONDON, N, 
CHEAP OFFER ! !! 
AZALEA MOLLIS, Seedlings, fine busliy plants, 10 to 25 
buds, 8s. to 9s. per doz.; 50s. to 60s. per 100. 
RHODODENDRONS, Seedlings from the very best scar¬ 
lets, 9 to 12 inches, bushy, 20s. per 100. 
The above are fine stuff, and are offered at a low rate, being 
on ground that must be cleared for building purposes. 
Our new GENERAL CATALOGUE for the present season is 
now ready and will be sent to any address on application. 
ISAAC DAVIES X, SON, 
Nurserymen, OR MS KIRK, near LIVERPOOL. 
YICCARS COLLYER & Co.’S 
AUTUMN CATALOGUE now ready, gratis £ post free. 
Bulbs for Present Planting. All Carriage Paid. 
WHITE ROMAN HYACINTHS, for Forcing. Selected first 
size Bulbs, Is. 9 d. per doz. ; 12s. per 100. 
PAPER WHITE and DOUBLE ROMAN NARCISSUS for 
Forcing. Fine selected Bulbs, Is. 6 d. doz.; 10s. 6(i. 100. 
HYACINTHS, choicest mixed, all colours. Is. 9d. and 2s. per 
doz. ; 12s. 6 d. and 14s. 6 d. per 100. 
TULIPS in splendid mixture, all colours. 6d. doz.; 3s. 100. 
NARCISSUS OBVALLARIS (the True Tenby Daffodil), 
monster home-grown Bulbs, most valuable for cutting 
and early forcing. Is. 3d. and Is. 6d. per doz. ; 9s. and 
10s. 6d. per 100. 
HYACINTHS, choice exhibition vars. 4s. 6 d., 5s. 6 d. and 
7s. 6 d. per doz. 
CROCUS, super mixed, all colours. Is. per 100 ; 9s. per 1000. 
NARCISS POETICUS, pure white, red crown, very fragrant, 
excellent for cutting. Large home-grown bulbs, 9 d. per 
doz.; 5s. per 100. 
IRIS PSEUDO ACORIS (Yellow Flag). Good strong plants, 
4 d. each ; 3s. per doz. 
DAFFODILS, Single-flowering. 6 d. per doz.; 3s. per 100. 
DAFFODILS, the old Double Yellow. 9 d. doz. ; 4s. 6 d. 100. 
STRAWBERRIES. 
LEADING SORTS (as Catalogued) at 3s. per 100 ; or a col¬ 
lection of 100 ordinary sorts, with one each Monstrosity and 
Curiosity, 4s. Both Carriage Free. Cash with order. 
CENTRAL HALL, SILVER $T„ LEICESTER. 
Telegrams —“ Central, Leicester." 
WEBBS’ 
CHOICE FLOWERING 
BULBS. 
For prices and full particulars see 
WEBBS’ BULB CATALOGUE, 
BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED. 
Price 6 d., Post Free, or Gratis to intending Purchasers. 
Seedsmen by Royal Warrants to H.M. the Queen and 
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. 
WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
Just Published, Price 2s. ; per post, 2s. 3d. 
R eport op the apple and pear 
CONGRESS held by the Royal Caledonian Horticultural 
Society at Edinburgh, 1S85. Edited by Malcolm Ddnn.— 
Edinburgh: MACLACHLAN & STEWART. London: SIMP- 
KIN, MARSHALL & Co. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, Oet. 3rd.—Bulb Sales at Stevens’ and Protheroe & 
Morris’s Rooms. 
Wednesday, Oct. 5th.—Sale of Indian Azaleas from Ghent at 
Stevens' Rooms ; and Sale of Greenhouse Plants, Bulbs, &c. 
at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Thursday, Oct. 6th.—Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe & 
Morris's Rooms. 
Friday', Oct. 7th.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe & 
Morris’s Rooms. 
Saturday, Oct. Sth.—Sales of Bulbs at SteY-ens’ and Protheroe 
& Morris’s Rooms. 
CONTENTS. 
page 
Amaryllis, autumn-flowering 72 
American Blight . 74 
Beechhill Nursery . 70 
Carnations and Picotees .. 77 
Chrysanthemum season .... 67 
Cypripedium Measuresianum 7 2 
Dahlia, Paragon . 69 
Eceremocarpus seaber .... 74 
Gardeners’ Calendar . 76 
Gardeners, Unity among .. 74 
Horticultural Societies .... 77 
Kim^er Seed Farms. 69 
Mimicry in Florvers. 72 
Orchid Notes... 76 
Orchids, Yvatering . 77 
Parsley in Pots. 75 
page 
Pea, Downe’s Amateur _ 74 
Pink, Lord Lyon. 75 
Potato, Roseberry . 75 
Prunus Pissardii . 74 
Redlands, Kelvinside. 73 
Sambueus racemosus. 76 
Scottish notes . 71 
Shrubs for seaside planting 6S 
Sweet William . 72 
Tomato trials, Chiswick.... 70 
Tomato, Pedigree. 74 
Tomato, Webb’s Sensation.. 74 
Tropaeolum speciosum .... 74 
Vanda Sanderiana . 76 
Witsenia corymbosa. 75 
Zinnias . 74 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the grea est 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1887. 
♦ 
The Chrysanthemum Season.— In one more 
short month. Yve shall be right into the thick 
of the Chrysanthemum shows. The flowers 
which they encourage have been classed as 
autumn bloomers, hut the skill of growers, 
allied to that of the raisers, has now made 
the Chrysanthemum more a whiter than an 
autumn bloomer; and as a winter flower 
it is specially valuable to us. The season of 
this grand flower, however, begins early, as 
we saw hut the other day, when the National 
Society threw out, as it were, an advanced 
outpost in the campaign that is so near. 
The exposition ivas not a very serious one, 
and seems rather, intended to conciliate some 
who specially favour the earlier and really 
autumn bloomers; but no great interest is 
created by them, and, indeed, it is not at all 
certain whether the real points of attraction 
at the show were not rather found in Dahlias 
than in early-blooming Chrysanthemums. 
Practically the season of this popular 
flower does not begin until the winter 
months are upon us, and then, -when all the 
grand show flowers are at their best, we 
have literally a floral feast to partake of 
such as no other garden flower affords. 
There is a danger, so enthusiastically hos¬ 
pitable are the Chrysanthemum growers, of 
our being satiated with this floral feeding. 
Shows crop up so fast, and in such numbers, 
that to share in all these festivities is beyond 
human power and endurance; therefore, we 
are compelled to leave many otherwise 
doubtless pleasing and attractive displays 
somewhat obscured by lack of publicity. 
The larger shows or feasts, if we may con¬ 
tinue to use that simile, give all which the 
most hungry after such floral diet can 
desire, and the very best of its kind also. 
Practically, after the menu of the National 
and some few other shows have been par¬ 
taken of, the bread and cheese of the smaller 
ones is hardly attractive fare. Still, rve 
recognise to the full the importance of the 
work each little shoYV may he doing in its 
own restricted locality—a work which may 
in time lead some of its supporters to higher 
flights, and to strive for the good things 
found at the more pretentious Chrysanthemum 
banquets. 
This year the country growers, who wish 
to see the best the kingdom can produce, 
will find a visit to the National in its home 
at the Royal Aquarium—on the whole, not 
quite the most appropriate place in the world 
for a gathering of this kind — very much 
strengthened by the fact that for once the 
first day of the show will fall on Lord 
Mayor’s day, and those who have not seen 
the glorious display of City gorgeousness, as 
embodied in a Lord Mayor’s procession, will 
find ample amusement in the latter, and 
elevated enjoyment in seeing the former. 
Then if enough of floral food is not to be found 
at the Royal Aquarium, there is the pretty 
and ever high-class show at Kingston also 
ready to attract visitors; whilst during the 
same week shows here and there are thick 
enough, and several days may be devoted to 
Chrysanthemums, until the visitor is more 
than satisfied. 
Probably, the most prominent feature 
which will strike the observer is the same¬ 
ness that rules, not only in present shows, hut 
from year to year. Only in the occasional 
production of some genuine good thing in 
floYvers is there any variation; hut in groups, 
in trained plants, in array of cut flowers, 
and in general style throughout there will 
lie found invariably the same stereotyped 
characters which have marked shows and 
exhibits for years past. It discounts pleasure 
or the anticipation of it so much when it 
is known exactly beforehand what sort of 
arrangements will be set up; hut that is 
inevitable, because there is no effort made to 
introduce novelty in any form. Why can 
we not have classes for hunches of, say, six 
of a kind, with foliage, whether in Mr. 
Cannell’s approved form, or, more elegantly, 
in real hunches not too stiffly arranged % 
Too much—indeed, almost everything—seems 
sacrificed to securing fine individual blooms, 
and to that end all skill seems devoted. A 
distressingly dreary sight, however, is that of 
a perspective glance down long lines of show 
flowers set up in their mathematically precise 
boxes, without a variation or break of any kind. 
Groups also show neither change or advance. 
They may include flowers of the finest quality, 
produced as usual singly on tall and possibly 
well-foliaged stems; but such elements are 
the reverse of pleasing, and naturally resrdt 
in groups as full of stiffness and formality 
as are the individual plants themselves. For 
the production of really artistic effects we 
need fewer colour's, especially of incurved 
flowers; and we also require the addition 
