October 15, 1887. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
99 
SUTTON’S 
COLLECTIONS OF 
Butch Bulbs 
(Vide Testimonials Below.) 
SUTTON’S AMATEUR’S COLLECTIONS 
of Bulbs for Indoor and Outdoor Growth. 
Collection M 5 IQs. 6d. 
2Lj 5 21s. QcL 
“ The Collection of Bulbs 
we had from you has been 
very good. There has not 
been such a display any¬ 
where near as ours. The 
Hyacinths have been lovely; 
also the early Tulips.’'— 
Miss WARD, Romford. 
SUTTON’S BULBS FOR THE OPEN GROUND. 
Collection S, 10s. S&. 
J5 
5J 
I, 21s. OA. 
E, 42s. Od. 
“The Collection of Bulbs 
supplied last autumn was 
most satisfactory, and the 
flowers were very greatly 
admired.” — Mr. W. A. 
WALTER, Gardener to 
A. B. Loder, Esq., Lilling- 
stone, House. 
SUTTON’S BULBS FOR POTS & CLASSES. 
Collection E, 10s. 6A. 
„ D, 21s. oa. 
5, c, 42s. oa. 
“ The Hyacinths, Tulips, 
Narcissi, Jonquils, &c., are 
really grand. My lady 
says they are the finest lot 
she has seen.”—Mr. THOS. 
MILLER, Gardener to 
H F. Beaumont, Esq., 
Whitley Beaumont. 
20s. Value Carriage Free. 
SUTTONSBULBS 
GENUINE ONLY DIRECT FROM READING. 
FRUITTREESforthe NORTH 
and SCOTLAND. 
Purchasers cannot do better than consult 
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stamps, gratis to buyers), and purchase their TREES 
from Kent—“The Garden of England.” 
£?. B. cfc Co. have a stock of nearly half a million 
splendidly grown, finely-rooted and well-ripened stuff 
in 800 sorts, true to name. 
The Old Nurseries, MAIDSTONE. 
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AN IMMENSE STOCK. 
ALL IN FINE CONDITION. 
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New Catalogue free on application. 
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CARSTON, NEAR LIVERPOOL. 
Very long experience enables us to offer the BEST QUALITY 
at a moderate price, as proved by hundreds of testimonials. 
. ILLUSTRATED LIST, descriptive, select, and comprising 
important NOVELTIES, on application. 
RICHARD SMITH & Go., 
NURSERYMEN & SEED MERCHANTS, 
WORCESTER. 
WEBBS’ 
CHOICE FLOWERING 
BULBS. 
For prices and full particulars see 
WEBBS' BULB CATALOGUE, 
BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED. 
Price 6<L, Post Free, or Gratis to intending Purchasers. 
Seedsmen by Royal Warrants to H.M. the Queen and 
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. 
WQRDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
National Chrysanthemum Society, Royal 
Aquarium, Westminster. 
G 
RAND EXHIBITION of Chrysanthe¬ 
mums, Fruits, and Vegetables, Wednesday and Thursday 
November 9th and 10th. 
The Floral Committee will meet October 26th, November 9th 
and 23rd, and December 7th. See Schedules, forwarded on 
application to. Mr. WILLIAM HOLMES. 
Frampton Park Nurseries, Hackney. 
T HE BRISTOL CHRYSANTHEMUM and 
FRUIT SHOW will be held at the Drill Hall, Queen's 
Road, on WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, November 23rd 
and 24th. Schedules may be had by applying to 
W. H. BANNISTER, Secretary pro teni. 
The. Gardens, Cote House, Westbury-on-Trym. 
Birmingham and Midland Counties Chrysan¬ 
themum, Fruit and Floricultural Society. 
T he twenty - seventh annual 
EXHIBITION of CHRYSANTHEMUMS, FRUITS and 
FLOWERS will be held in the Town Hall, Birmingham, on 
November 16th and 17th. £1S2 in Prizes, including £52 for Cut 
Blooms and £28 for Grapes. Entries close November 9th. 
Schedules can be had free on application to 
J. HUGHES, Secretary. 
Northwood Villas, Metcliiey Lane, Harborne, Birmingham. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, October 17th.—Sale of Nursery Stock at the Wim¬ 
bledon Nursery by Protheroe & Morris (two days). Sale of 
Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe & Morris’s, and Stevens’ Rooms. 
Wednesday, October 19th.— Sale of well-grown and Establbhed 
Orchids and Greenhouse Plants at the Ca tie Nursery, 
Lower Norwood, by Prothf roe & Morris. Sale of Greenhouse 
Plants, Bulbs, and Lilies at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Thursday, October 20th.—Sale of Orchids and Bulbs at Stevens’ 
Rooms. Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe & Morris’s 
Rooms. Clearance Sale of Nursery Stock at Walham Green 
by Protheroe & Morris. 
Friday, October 21st.—Sale of Established Orchids at Protheroe 
& Morris’ Rooms. Sale of Nursery Stock at Knockholt, 
Sevenoaks, by Protheroe & Mor is. 
Saturday, October 22nd.—Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe & 
Morris’s, and Stevens Rooms. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Amateurs’ Garden. 103 
Anemones, Garden. 102 
Apple, Rood Ashton Seed¬ 
ling . 107 
Cuicus conspicuus . 107 
Gardeners’ Calendar . 108 
Gardeners’ Provident, the . 99 
Golden Acre Nursery. 101 
Gooseberries. 104 
Horticultural Societies.... 109 
Law Notes. 108 
PAGE 
New Plants Certificated .. 104 
Orchids, Hybrid. 104 
Pea, British Queen. 106 
R. H. S.IOC 
Salvia gesrierseflora. 107 
Sprout, a hybrid. 104 
Tomato, Pedigree . 106 
Tomato, Sensation. 106 
United Horticultural 
Benefit Society . 102 
Violas : autumn planting .. 107 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.” —Bacon. 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1887. 
The “ Gardeners’ Provident.”— We have so 
long possessed the Gardeners’ Benevolent that 
its title, even thus abridged, is not only familiar 
in our mouths as an household word, but 
conveys to all the fullest conception of its 
objects. We have, more recently, created a 
Gardeners’ Orphan Fund, which also, if less 
known, is certainly fast becoming of wide 
repute ; whilst, again, its objects—purely chari¬ 
table and benevolent—are also fully conveyed 
in its concise appellation. The “Gardeners’ 
Provident,” if less known, certainly has not 
less high and meritorious aims than have either 
of the above-named institutions ; hut its pro¬ 
moters seem, with that modesty so eminently 
characteristic of gardeners, to have kept those 
aims too much from publicity, with the result 
that a first-class society, based on principles 
which cannot but commend themselves to every 
right-thinking person, has its benefits yet con¬ 
fined to some 200 gardener members only; 
whilst it is certain that were the objects of the 
society fully understood in gardening circles, 
another cypher might be added to the above 
number, and some 2,000 members have their 
names on the books of the “ Provident.” 
Under a somewhat more lengthy appellation, 
in fact, as the “United Horticultural Benefit 
and Provident Society’’—most cumbrous and 
needless nomenclature—a really enjoyable and 
harmonious meeting of the members and friends 
was held in London on Tuesday evening last, 
a report of which we give elsewhere, and over 
which that distinguished and genial member of 
the nursery trade, Mr. Harry Yeitch, most ably 
and fittingly presided. That a society of this 
kind should have existed for twenty-one years 
and have thus attained its majority without 
ever having had a dinner is, indeed, a remark¬ 
able fact, and evidences not only the modesty 
which has ruled over the society’s operations, 
hut also the lack of vigour and push in its 
ranks so needful in these days of fierce com¬ 
petition in everything. To this lack of pub¬ 
licity, to an appreciable extent, is largely owing 
the fact that, for a society so long in existence, 
the membership is so limited. However, the 
ice has been fairly broken at last, and the 
excellent gathering of Tuesday evening—form¬ 
ing, perhaps, one of the most genuine gardeners’ 
gatherings held in the metropolis for some 
years—cannot fail to obtain for the society 
some of that notoriety which its excellent 
objects merit. 
We could wish that the admirable address 
delivered from the chair with such good taste 
by Mr. Yeitch, in proposing the toast of the 
evening, could have been printed and circulated 
throughout the whole of the gardens of Great 
Britain. We are but too conscious of the fact, 
that whilst most of what is printed in the 
horticultural press is read by gardeners, all 
which is thus written is not studied with that 
attention which is given to utterances from 
our most distinguished men ; and we venture 
to say that there is no member of the horticul¬ 
tural community, just now, whose observations 
would he received with greater respect or 
command more attention than those of Mr. 
Harry Yeitch. We are, as gardeners, proud of 
the firm of which he is now the head, and we, 
personally, hold that head in the highest 
esteem; a feeling which permeates the whole 
of our gardening fraternity, and is as existent 
in the bothy as it is in the head-gardener’s 
habitation. Therefore, we feel that such an 
admirable exposition of the objects of the 
society, enforced in Mr. Harry Yeitch’s prac¬ 
tical and telling words, would carry weight 
universally, beyond anything we or our con¬ 
temporaries can have. 
There were some notable additions to the 
list of honorary members on Tuesday evening, 
their subscriptions, as we understand, being 
solely applied to management expenses. That, 
so far, is well; but we should prefer to learn of 
a large accession of benefit members, and, still 
further, of a determination to make the society 
so entirely self-supporting as to he absolutely 
independent of outside help in any shape. As 
it is, the benefit contributions are supplemented 
by a trifling addition from the members of \d. 
per week for management purposes, and that 
sum is not sufficient. Were there three times 
the present number of members, the society 
would then be absolutely self-supporting. Most 
of the after dinner speakers paid warm 
tributes of praise to the singularly economical 
management of the society—a fact which stands 
out in striking contrast to the cost of dispensing 
some other charitable funds; hut the man- 
