November 19, 1887. 
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Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, Nov. 21st.—Sales of Bulbs at Stevens’, and Protheroe 
& Morris’s Rooms. 
Tuesday, Nov. 22 nd.—Chrysanthemum Shows at Oxford and 
Hanley (1 day), and Manchester (2 days). Sales of Green¬ 
houses, &c., at Willesden Green ; of Orchids at the Central 
Rooms, Cheapside; and of Plants, Roses, &c., at the City 
Auction Rooms, Graeechurch Street, by Protheroe & Morris. 
Wednesday, Nov. 23rd.—National Chrysanthemum Society: 
Meeting of Floral Committee. Chrysanthemum Shows at 
Bristol and Bedford (2 days). Sales of Bulbs at Protheroe 
& Morris's, and Stevens’ Rooms. 
Thursday, Nov. 24th.—Sales of Orchids, Tree and other Ferns, 
Bulbs, &c., at Stevens’ Rooms. Sale of Dutch Bulbs at 
Stevens' Rooms. 
Friday, Nov. 25tli.— Chrysanthemum Shows at Pontefract and 
Eccles (2 days). Sale of imported Orchids at Protheroe & 
Morris’s Rooms. 
Saturday, Nov. 26 th.—Chrysanthemum Show at Crewe. Sales 
of Bulbs at Stevens’, and Protheroe & Morris's Rooms. 
CONTENTS. 
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PAGE 
Amateurs’ Garden. 
1S3 
Guelder Rose Berries .. 
. 186 
Apples, Giant. 
180 
Hollyhock, the . 
. 185 
Bee Management . 
182 
Lapageria rosea . 
. 184 
Boronia megastigma. 
1S4 
National Hort. Society, 
a 179 
Cauliflowers, Early . 
186 
Orchid Notes . 
. 1S7 
Cherries, Morello . 
187 
Pansies in November .. 
. 1S6 
Chrysanthemum Notes" .. 
181 
Pelargoniums in Winter 
. 186 
Chrysanthemum Shows .. 
187 
Rose growing, Hints on 
. 180 
Exhibition Morality. 
180 
Schinus Molle. 
. 186 
Fatsia japoniea . 
1S1 
The Dell . 
. 184 
Gardeners’ Calendar. 
187 
Tree Planting . 
. 185 
Gardeners' Educational 
Tulip, the Florists’. 
. 190 
Societies . 
ISO 
Westmount . 
. 184 
Granadilla, the . 
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“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.” —Bacon. 
SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 19, 1887. 
shows contribute the most potent of factors in 
the promotion of success in gardening efforts. 
But whilst men looked at the—for London 
—too unwonted spectacle of superb exhibits 
and crowds of admirers, they naturally asked, 
“ Why all this glory and admiration for the 
Chrysanthemum alone 2 Not that we have 
for that grand flower any feeling of jealousy— 
heaven forfend ! All humanity which loves 
flowers must rejoice in the wonderful progress 
the Chrysanthemum is making amongst us, hut 
we rather wish to see some of that progress 
shown on the part of other flowers ; nay, v r e 
may say, of everything useful or beautiful in 
our gardens ; and, in such case ask, whether it 
be not possible either to expand the National 
Chrysanthemum Society into a National Horti¬ 
cultural Society, or else to establish on a 
similar but wider basis a truly National Horti¬ 
cultural Society, which shall also have its 
headquarters at the Royal Aquarium, with that 
eclat which marks the progress of the National 
Chrysanthemum Society.” 
That such thoughts passed through the minds 
of many gardeners at the show and since, 
there can he little doubt; indeed, we unhesi¬ 
tatingly adopt them because they are just now 
so natural, not only as arising from the brilliant 
success of the Chrysanthemum Society on the 
one hand, but because of the unhappy position 
of the Royal Horticultural Society on the other. 
Whilst not unwilling to take much that is said 
cum grano salts, yet we cannot close our ears 
absolutely to the reports abroad of differences 
in the governing body of the Royal Horticul¬ 
tural Society, and which indicate as clear as 
can be, that a house divided against itself 
cannot stand. Stripped of all its old charm, 
devoid of self-respect, almost bankrupt, practi¬ 
cally •without habitation, it realises in its 
deplorable condition, Gay’s famous metaphor, 
“I’m like a ship on the sea tost. Now high, now 
low, by each billow borne. With the anchor 
broke, and rudder lost, Deserted, and all 
forlorn.” What wonder, then, if men’s minds 
are directed to the launching of some new and 
more popularly founded horticultural ship, 
which duly ballasted, and ably manned, shall 
carry the fortunes of British Horticulture into 
a safe and prosperous port. 
We cannot afford to allow the time to pass 
too easily; although not yet off with the old 
love or on with the new, there is danger that 
the old love of itself will disappear ere any 
new love has been found. As to whether the 
National Chrysanthemum Society may he 
disposed to widen its borders, and make broader 
its foundations and aims, so far as to become 
the national centre of horticulture generally, 
we are at present in no position to say one way 
or the other. The matter' is of too grave and 
important a kind to he lightly viewed; whilst, 
on the other hand, it is possible that the 
executive of that body yet retains too much of 
localisation in sentiment, and too little that is 
cosmopolitan, to render it likely to view pro¬ 
posals of this nature with respect. More now, 
than at any previous time, has it been felt by 
many who visited the Royal Aquarium last 
week, and especially St. Stephen’s Hall —- 
really a splendid area, most centrally situated, 
and easy of access—that a better place for the 
London home of a National Horticultural 
Society could not easily he found, and to know 
so much is to admit that one-half the objections 
to the formation of such a society are at once met. 
We believe that a proposal of this nature 
would meet with great favour amongst gardeners 
of all classes, and that periodical exhibitions 
held at the hall, of Spring Flowers, Orchids, 
Roses, Carnations, Dahlias, Gladioli, indeed, all 
kinds of exhibition flowers and plants, with 
fruits and vegetables, would soon become not 
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A National Horticultural Society.— The 
truly grand show of Chrysanthemums, and of 
fruits and vegetables, held under the auspices 
of the National Chrysanthemum Society last 
week, must have proved a veritable surprise to 
many of our country readers who, for the first 
time, visited that annual exhibition. To those 
especially—and they were few of course—who 
attended the meeting of the Royal Horticul¬ 
tural Society at South Kensington on the 
previous day, the contrast between the two 
gatherings must have been impressively 
painful. The old Society apparently dying of 
inanition, dissension, and utter incapacity; 
and, in its decay, deserted and contemned by 
its former friends ; the younger one full of life 
and energy, free from all the trammels which 
crush its elder sister, and courted and caressed, 
because it realises and strives to satisfy the 
requirements of the age. Whilst at South 
Kensington rarely has a meeting been more 
thinly attended, at the Royal Aquarium 
never has a show been more crowded, and 
that, too, not by mere sightseers, hut by 
hundreds of gardeners who flocked in from 
various parts of the kingdom, as ivell as from 
the metropolis, to see the grand display of 
garden produce set before them. "Whilst we 
very cordially sympathise with and regret the 
fallen fortunes of the once famous Royal 
Horticultural Society, we cannot but rejoice 
that the National Chrysanthemum Society has 
received such a splendid meed of patronage, 
and exhibits such promise of future success. 
Never at any time has there been seen a finer 
display of our grand autumn and winter flower; 
never has there been deeper or more practical 
interest shown in its culture and increase than 
was displayed at the Royal Aquarium last 
week. The gathering, with its allied exhibits 
of superb fruits and vegetables, made many 
an.old and jaded horticulturist feel renewed 
life, and to realise that after all derided flower 
