October 8, 1887. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
83 
bEmuSe 
In Two Parts, Illustrated, 
This very comprehensive catalogue of every HAUDY 
and FORCING- BULB in cultivation is now ready, 
and may be had gratuitously and postage free upon 
application. A large space is devoted to 
DAFFODILS AND NARCISSUS, 
The Collection comprising every known variety of 
merit, my stock being, probably, the largest in the 
world, ranging from the popular old garden varieties 
to the newest and rarest forms. 
LILIES. 
Since the establishment of my business, these have 
been leading specialities with me. The portion of the 
Catalogue allotted to them will be found brimful of 
interest; many pages are devoted to this family alone, 
and include several new and well-executed engravings. 
IRIS, 
In endless variety ; these are grown on a very extensive 
scale at Tottenham, comprising the Japanese, Siberian, 
German, English, Spanish, and other sections. 
DUTCH AND FORCING BULBS, 
Including HYACINTHS, TULIBS, CROCUS, 
LILY OF THE VALLFY, ROMAN HYA¬ 
CINTHS, SPIRAEAS, &c., at competitive prices. 
Copies of this Catatogue may be had GRATIS and 
POST FREE upon application. 
THOMAS S. WARE, 
Mai© Farm Nurseries, 
TOTTENHAM, LONDON. 
YICCARS COLIYER & Co.’S 
AUTUMN CATALOG-UE 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. Cxi. 100. 
HYACINTHS, choicest mixed, all colours. Is. 9<i and 2s. per 
doz. ; 12s. 6 cl. and 14s. 6 d. per 100. 
TULIPS in splendid mixture, all colours. 6 d. 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. 6 cl. per 100. 
HYACINTHS, choice exhibition vars. 4s. 6d., 5s. 6d. and 
7s. 6d. 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, 9d. per 
doz. ; 5s. per 100. 
IRIS PSEUDO ACORIS (Yellow Flag). Good strong plants, 
4d. each ; 3s. per doz. 
DAFFODILS, Single-flowering. 6d. per doz.; 3s. per 100. 
DAFFODILS, the old Double Yellow. 9d. doz.; 4s. 6d. 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 ST., LEICESTER. 
Telegrams— “Central, Leicester.” 
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. 
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. 
CHOICE FLOWERING 
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. 
Eccles, Patricroft, Pendleton and District 
Chrysanthemum Show. 
T HE first Exhibition of Chrysanthemums 
will be held at the Eecles Town Hall, on November 25th 
and 26th next. Prizes amounting to over £30 will he offered. 
Schedules may be obtained of the Secretary, H. HUBER, 183, 
Worsley Road, Winton, Patricroft. 
F or miss joliffe carnations 
(specimens); for Marie Louise and Comte de Brazza 
Violets, and the Cream of all the Strawberries, including Mr. 
Laxton's new varieties, apply to R. GILBERT, .High Park, 
Stamford. _ 
D evonshire gardeners and 
BAILIFFS.—Ladies and gentlemen requiring the above 
are invited to apply to LUCOMBE, PINCE & Co., the Exeter 
Nursery, Exeter. Established 1720. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, Oct. 10th.—Sales of Bulbs at Protheroe & Morris’s, 
and Stevens’ Rooms. 
Tuesday, Oct. 11th.—Royal Horticultural Society: Meeting 
of Fruit and Floral Committees at 11 a.m. 
United Horticultural Benefit and Provident Society : Dinner 
to Commemorate the 21st Anniversary, at the Caledonian 
Hotel, Adelphi Terrace, W.C., 7.45 p.m. 
Birmingham and Midland Counties Gardeners’ Mutual Im¬ 
provement Association, at 8 p.m. 
Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Wednesday, Oct. 12th. — National Chrysanthemum Society : 
Meeting of Floral Committee at Royal Aquarium. 
Special Sale of Orchids in Flower at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Thursday, Oct. 13th.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Stevens’ 
Rooms. 
Sale of Azaleas, Bulbs, &e. at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Friday, Oct. 14tli.—Fruit Show at Royal Jubilee Exhibition, 
Manchester. 
Sale of New Orchids at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Saturday, Oct. 15th.—Sales of Bulbs at Stevens’, and Protheroe 
& Morris’s Rooms. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Apple, Graham’s Royal 
Jubilee.85 
Aster, Harlequin. 88 
Asters, select . 84 
Birds and their enemies.... 85 
Carbrook, notes from. 86 
Carnation and Picotees .... 93 
Cattleya Dowiana aurea.... 93 
Chrysanthemums. 88 
Cliff Castle. 88 
Gardeners Orphan Fund .. 94 
Gardener's Union, a . 90 
Gomezia planifolia . 93 
Horticultural Societies .... 94 
Lilium auratum . 91 
PAGE 
Lily, Japanese Toad . 91 
Nymphsea Kewensis. 91 
Parsley in pots . 91 
Pink Hill Nurseries . 84 
Potato trial at Chiswick .. 93 
R. H. S., the . 83 
Sedum spectabile . 91 
Spathogl ottis angustorum 93 
Sweet William, the. 93 
Tacsonia insignis . 90 
Tomatos at Chiswick .... 90 
Tree of Heaven . 88 
Tropseolum, Mrs. Ellis_ 90 
Violas, Bedding . 86 
Violet culture in Frames .. 90 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.” —Bacon. 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1887. 
The Royal Horticultural Society.— Through 
the courtesy of Mr. George E. 'Wilson, F.R.S., 
the estimable chairman of the Floral Com¬ 
mittee of the society, and a warm-hearted 
horticulturist, as well as a member of the 
Council of the society, we are enabled to 
publish, in another column, a copiy of a letter 
addressed to Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P., 
early last month, and in which lie appeals—if 
the term may be so applied—to the Council in 
favour of his suggestions as to the adoption of 
Guinea Fellowships. Mr. Wilson is a thorough 
enthusiast and just the sort of man to he 
actuated by good intentions, and that he regards 
this suggested panacea for the ills under which 
the Royal Horticultural Society now labours as 
eminently practical and valuable there can he 
no doubt. Unfortunately, something more 
tangible than good intentions seems needful to 
meet the exigencies of the case, and we may 
well doubt whether the proposal, however well 
meant, is likely to stem the flow of the current 
which seems just now to he driving the society 
to destruction. 
The suggestion that 5,000 persons Avoidd, 
Avere Mr. Wilson’s proposal adopted, become 
guinea subscribers, seems to us to he the 
anticipation of a sanguine temperament; Avliilst 
it seems also most probable that, in the event 
of the proposal being adopted, the larger 
portion of the higher-priced Fellows—if we 
may so term them—would soon come down to 
the loAver level and become contributors of one 
guinea only. That would, however, hut hear 
out our previous contention, which, is that the 
Avhole basis of the society needs broadening, 
and that such result can only follow upon the 
creation of half-guinea fellowships or member¬ 
ships—for there is little in a name—for bond 
fide gardeners or working horticulturists; and 
if Avith that proposal be joined guinea subscrip¬ 
tions for all ranking as employers, amateurs, 
nurserymen, seedsmen, &c., then a really wide 
and acceptable basis for a genuine National 
Horticultural Society Avould he found. Failing 
some such scheme, it is obvious that the 
present society must hopelessly drift shortly 
to an ignominious end. 
It is a matter of surprise to us that a horti¬ 
culturist having such broad sympathies as Mr. 
Wilson, should, in his communication to the 
president of the society, and in his letters on 
the same subject Avritten eleven years ago, 
entirely ignore the gardeners of England in 
looking for a neAV constitution for the Royal 
Horticultural Society. It seems to us to he a 
tremendous mistake, thus so completely to 
ignore the democracy of gardening. Since 
Mr. Wilson Avrote his letter to The Times in 
1876, many things have happened. Am ongst 
these, Ave iioav see the Kensington Gardens 
forming but a moderate charge upon the 
society’s funds, whilst the society’s existence 
there much longer seems highly problematical. 
With the dissociation of the gardens, there came 
also a corresponding dissociation of the South 
Kensington element in the Fellows, so that in 
this respect -alone the position of the society 
has immensely changed. 
It is specially noteworthy that these guinea 
subscribers are to be invited to join the society 
only Avhen it is out of debt—an event, as 
matters now proceed, which seems likely to be 
deferred to the Greek Kalends. The fact that 
the society is in such pecuniary straits is, 
unhappily, more likely to prevent new sub¬ 
scribers of any amount from joining it, than is 
the proposed Committee likely to be influential 
in the other direction. Mr. Wilson seems to 
think that by breaking up the existing society, 
and thus losing the charter, the gardens at 
ChisAvick would he lost also. We by no means 
take this view of the situation, because we 
knoAV that Aidiilst the horticultural com¬ 
munity generally is absolutely indifferent to 
the future of the South Kensington gardens, 
or the fate of the charter, while the 
management of the society rests Avitli the 
present Council, there exists a warm regard 
for Chiswick, and a general desire, come what 
may, that the famous old garden shall he 
retained for its present practical uses. We 
regret that we cannot look hopefully for any 
great benefit to accrue from the adoption of 
Mr. Wilson’s proposal. Only some great 
change, some splendid effort can free the 
society from its existing trammels and lift it 
up to a position worthy of British horticulture. 
At present Ave see no reason to hope that 
such a change Avill he worked — that such 
effort Avill he made, and Mr. Wilson’s proposal, 
