December 3, 1887. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
211 
CH RYSANT HEMUMS. 
T HE £20 in FOUR PRIZES that we 
offered at the National Society's Show at the Royal 
Aquarium for the twelve best blooms of our new varieties sent 
out by us last year brought some grand flowers to the front, 
which were the centre of attraction. They have also been shown 
with the like result at Hull. To arrive at the correct judgment 
of the same, “ballot” was adopted, which proved a marvellous 
success; after the scrutiny the exact merits of each exhibit was ob¬ 
tained, as if weighed on the truest balancing contrivance ever made. 
Our SEEDLINGS we offer for next year are even of greater 
value. Mr. Molyneux, a well-known critic, says, in The Garden, 
the variety AVALANCHE (that he has been growing for us) is. 
in his opinion, the finest white Japanese in existence. It carried 
off the first prize easily at Portsmouth as the best bloom in the 
Show. The Editor of The Garden also says “ it is the perfection 
of beauty.” We shall distribute seveial distinct kinds next 
season, and to be similaily judged. 
COME AND SEE our wonderful collection of PLANTS and 
CUTTINGS for immediate sale. They are the picture of health 
and vigour, and the very foundation of success. 
SEND FOR A CATALOGUE. 
Mr. D. Lindsay, Otterspool Gardens. Aigburth, Liverpool. 
“ I must congratulate you in placing on a sound basis judging 
by ballot at shows. I should like to compete for your prize, but 
we are so late in these parts." 
Mr. W. RcssEll, 15, Gibson Street, Sittingbourne, Kent, 
18th November, 1887. 
“The Chrysanthemums I had from you carried me to victory 
at our Show. Three First Prizes for cut blooms, and two First 
Prizes for specimen plants. Had the weather been favourable, I 
should have run to the front in other classes." 
H. CANNELL & SONS, 
TTfeg Home of Flowers, 
SWANLEY, KENT. 
FRUIT TREES. 
Hugh Low & Co. 
Royal Horticultural Society, 
South Kensington, S.W. 
A SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of 
t A the Fellows will be held at Two o’clock, p.m., on 
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13 th, in the Conservatory, to receivo 
a report from the Council, and to consider the statements and 
proposals contained therein. 
N.B.—Entrances N.E. Orchard House, Exhibition Road, and 
east side of Royal Albert Hall. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, Dec. 5th.—Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Stevens’ and 
Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Wednesday, Dec. 7th.—Pomological Congress at Harpenden. 
Sale of Bulbs. Roses, Fruit Trees, &c., at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Sale of Liliuin auratum, Tuberoses and other Bulbs at 
Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. Sale of Dwarf Roses at Enfield 
Lock by Protheroe & Morris. 
Thursday, Dec. Sth—Sale of Lily Bulbs from Japan at Stevens, 
Rooms. Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Friday, Dee. 9tli.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe & 
Morris's Rooms. 
Saturday, Dec. 10th.—Sale of Dutch Bulbs at ^Protheroe & 
Morris's Rooms. Sale of Dutch Bulbs, Roses, Fruit Trees 
&c. at Stevens’ Rooms. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Acampe multiflora. 220 
Amateurs' Garden. 215 
Apprentice System . 219 
Aralia Sieboldii . 219 
Aster, Pyramidal Bouquet 
Rose . 216 
Beans, Runner . 219 
Bramble, Rose-leaved _ 212 
Cattleya tricolor. 220 
Cercle des Orcliidophiles 
Beiges . 212 
Chrysanthemum Shows .. 221 
Chrysanthemum Sports .. 212 
Endives. 214 
Eriostemon buxifolius .... 213 
Fruit Show at Wrexham .. 218 
Gardeners’ Calendar. 219 
Hapton House - 214 
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Heaths, Hardy . 216 
Loquat. 216 
Lycaste Skinneri alba .... 220 
Nerine undulata. 219 
Oncidium Jonesianum .... 220 
Orchid Growers’ Calendar. 220 
Pentas earnea. 219 
Pinus macrocarpa. 219 
Plants, new, Certificated.. 213 
Potatos, cooked. 212 
Rival Horticulturists _ 212 
Rose growing, hints on .. 213 
Royal Horticultural Society 216 
Scottish Notes . 215 
Spring gardening . 211 
Vines, pot. 215 
Window gardening . 218 
Woodside, Paisley. 214 
Invite inspection by intending purchasers of the very 
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•* Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.” —Bacon. 
SATURDAY, DECEMBER S, 1887. 
GEO. COOLING & SONS, Tha Nurseries, BATH. 
SPECIAL CULTURE OF 
FRUIT TREES AND ROSES. 
A Large and Select Stock is now offered for Sale. 
The Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of Fruits 
Post Free. 
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Spring Gardening. —Is the once-popular plan 
of decorating flower gardens with beds of 
hardy flowers in the spring passing out of 
fashion, or is it still largely existent? If it 
be the latter, there is little said about it now; 
and if the former, then it is hut following in 
the wake of ordinary summer bedding, which 
seems to be gradually dying out. And yet 
“bedding out” is a system of floral decoration 
which must of necessity die hard, for not only 
has it been with us for half-a-century, but has 
served to satisfy requirements which other 
methods of garden planting have left unsatisfied. 
In myriads of cases gardens have been made 
very gay and attractive through the instrumen¬ 
tality of bedding-out plants, and without their 
aid there seems no other alternative in gardens 
but to either fill beds with miscellaneous hardy 
plants, or else to turf over the beds and dispense 
with flowers. 
D. MAC DANIEL, 
Nurseryman and Bulb Merchant, 213, LEITH WALK. LEITH. 
PRIZE COB FILBER T TREES. 
MR. COOPER, F.R.H.S., 
OF 
CALCOT GARDENS, READING, BERKS, 
IS THE 
LARGEST GROWER OF NUT TREES FOR SALE 
IN THE KINGDOM. 
Price Lists and Pamphlets on application. 
BEGONIAS A SPECIALITY. 
AWARDE D FOUR GO LD MEDALS. 
LAING’S Double and Single collec¬ 
tion is the largest, finest, and the 
most complete in existence. New 
seed just harvested. 
Price Lists free on application. 
pm mm & sons, 
-Nurseries, FOREST HILL, LONDON, 3.E. 
In the earlier stages of the summer bedding 
out fashion, it was a strong point in antagonism 
to it that the beds and borders, so gay for 
a few months of the year, were left hare and 
mean for the greater period, and especially 
during the spring, when garden beds and 
borders should be so rich in floral beauty. 
The system of spring gardening, so called, 
however, came in to relieve the summer bedding 
from that stigma, and very popular it was for 
a time; indeed, some of the effects so produced 
vied in charm and beauty with anything which 
tender or summer plants could produce; and 
the two methods, in most good gardens, became 
admirably displayed. Out of many gardens 
which led the van in spring bedding decora¬ 
tion were Cliveden, in the hands of the late 
John Fleming, and Belvoir, under the charge 
of Mr. Ingram, both achieving world-wide 
reputation. These places, however, gave us 
diverse aspects of spring gardening, for whilst 
the Cliveden show was eminently one of the 
late spring—indeed, was at its best in the 
month of May, that at Belvoir is both earlier 
and more permanent, as in but few cases the 
hardy plants are displaced by summer flowers. 
The most pleasing form of spring flower 
gardening, undoubtedly, is that which renders 
the months of March and April beautiful, 
whilst it leaves less reason for regret that 
towards the end of May the beds have to 
undergo entire transformation. In myriads of 
smaller gardens the example of ducal Cliveden 
and Belvoir have been followed to good 
purpose; and in not a few cases very beautiful 
displays have been created from purely hardy 
plants, which have the merit also of rendering 
the beds, if not gay, at least pleasing during 
the winter months. In such material as Violas, 
Pansies in colours, double Daisies, Aubrietas, 
Arabis, single and double Primroses, Polyan¬ 
thuses, Wallflowers, and numerous other flower¬ 
ing plants, with Sedums, variegated Daisies, 
Golden Valerian, and various hardy ornamental 
foliage plants, there may be found the elements 
of effective bedding displays, all the stuff being 
cheap in the market, or readily propagated from 
small beginnings. 
The chief difficulty which has to be 
encountered, especially in the south, in keeping 
stocks of these hardy plants is the necessity 
which exists for transplanting them from beds 
in May into shady borders, where they can 
pull through the drought of summer. Such a 
season as the past proved difficult indeed for 
even established plants, and Avas all the 
more dangerous to neudy planted stuff; hence, 
not only Avas much lost during the summer, hut 
a check was given to spring bedding. Still, 
obstacles of that kind must be met and 
encountered, in the anticipation that they will 
not be of frequent occurrence ; and those who 
may venture once more this Avinter upon filling 
their beds with hardy plants, will probably 
find next year not only a beautiful show in the 
spring, but also a liberal season of groAvth for 
their stock. 
We must not cwerlook the A r ery important 
part which bulbs can be made to play in any 
good arrangement of spring gardening. Bulbs 
are uoav Avondrously cheap, and whilst of 
themselves effective, are very much more so 
when planted on carpets of Pansies, Daisies, 
Forget-me-nots, Aubrietias, &c.; and, not least, 
Avhen the bulb floAvers have decayed, the beds are 
still amply dressed Avith carpets of foliage and 
flowers. A special charm of spring gardening 
is that additional beauty is added to the 
garden at the mest enjoyable period of the 
year. Then, too, the enjoyment of the garden 
is greatly lengthened, the beds and borders 
being very gay Avith flowers from March instead 
of from May only, and, indeed, uoav often 
later. Whilst, as this year, the autumn frosts 
seem to clip our summer at one end, just 
so does the late spring frosts shorten them at 
the o ther. __ 
The Royal Horticultural Society.—The American 
Florist states that at the November meeting of the 
Gardeners’ and Florists’ Club, Boston, the members 
were entertained with an account of the work of the 
Royal Horticultural Society of London by Mr. James 
Farquhar. " He described the noted gardens and 
houses at Chiswick and South Kensington, and gave 
an idea of the valuable work that is being done for 
horticulture by this institution, in testing new plants, 
investigating new processes, training skilled gardeners, 
and its general influence for good, being always ready 
to see and acknowledge true merit, and as ready to 
condemn that which is inferior or unreliable. His 
account of the management of the exhibitions of 
the society and of the work which is carried on in its 
trial gardens was particularly instructive.” Our con¬ 
temporary thinks that everyone interested in remedying 
the confusion of names of plants will doubtless agree 
that a similar institution is one of the greatest needs 
in America. 
A special general meeting of the Fellows of the 
Royal Horticultural Society Avill be held at 2 p.m. on 
Tuesday, December 13th, in the Conservatory, to receivo 
a report from the council, and to consider the state¬ 
ments and proposals contained therein. 
