December 31, 1887. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
275 
SPECIAL CULTURE OP 
FRUIT TREES AND ROSES. 
A Largo and Select Stock is now offered for Sale. 
The Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of Fruits 
Post Free. 
The Descriptive Catalogue of Roses Post Free. 
THOMAS RIVERS & SOR, 
NURSERIES, SAWBRIDGEWORTH, HERTS. 
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, Y/inter & Spring-blooming Plants 
Of fine quality and immense numbers. 
Inspection Invited. 
The Glass Structures cover an area of 282,600 super, feet. 
HUGH LOW & Co., 
CLAPTON NURSERY, LONDON, N. 
prize" co b filbert - trees. 
MR, COOPER, F.R.H.S., 
OF 
CALCOT GARDENS, READING, BERKS, 
IS THE 
LARCEST GROWER OF RUT TREES FOR SALE 
IN TRE KINGDOM. 
Price Lists and Pamphlets on application. 
To those about to Plant Roses, &c. 
E WIXG’S CATALOGUE contains short 
and plain cultural not.'S, besides descriptions and prices 
of the best Roses, and, in addition, 2S pages are devoted to 
Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Fruit Trees, Climbing Plants, Horti¬ 
cultural Requisites, &c. It is forwarded, post free, to applicants 
on receipt of three penny stamps, or gratis to customers. 
Abridged List of low-priced, carriage and package free Collec¬ 
tions of high-class Roses gratis and post free. 
EWING & Co., 
SEA YIEW NURSERIES, HAVANT, HAMPSHIRE. 
W GORDOH, Importer of Orchids from 
o all parts of the world. An immense Stock of 
recently imported plants compels a Sale of the Established 
Plants to make room. These have not yet flowered, but are 
all flowering plants, and must be sold at a great sacrifice. 
Very valuable varieties are certainly to be obtained, and great 
bargains. See Public Journals for high prizes recently obtained. 
The special offer affords a paying investment to anyone with 
glass at command which should not be overlooked. Such 
plants may never again be offered to the Public and the Trade. 
LILTUM AURATUM for Christmas presents. Fourth arrival 
of 6,000 bulbs, the best that money can buy, id., 6 d., 9 cl., Is., 
Is. 6 d Specially imported ne plus ultra bulbs, 2s. Scl. each. 
Very liberal allowance to the Trade. 
LILIUM ALBUM KRAEZERI, the most lovely white Lily 
grown—throws seven to ten flowers, which sell in market at 2s. 
per dozen ; beautiful and rare, Is. each, 10s. per dozen. 
LILIUM SPECIOSUM RUBRUM CRUENTUM, the dark 
form of this lovely Lily, most exquisitely maiked, Is. each, 
10 s. per dozen. 
LILIUM AURATUM PLATYPHYLLUM EUBRO-VITTA- 
TUM, crimson, striped with gold: YIRGINALE, pure white, 
and spotted, with gold band. All these lovely new and distinct 
forms of Auratum, suitable for show purposes, very fine bulbs, 
5s. each. 
LILIUM HARRISII, 10s per dozen ; and all other LILIES 
equally cheap. Banlrsian Silver Medal awarded August, 1SS7. 
JAPANESE NOVELTIES, SO varieties; IRIS, TREE 
PiEONIES, MAPLES, CAMELLIAS, AZALEAS. Please apply 
for special offer to 
W. GORDON, The Nurseries, Amyand Park Road, Twicken¬ 
ham, Middlesex. 
Write for Dr. Yoelcker’s Report, Pamphlet, Testimonials, and 
Instruct ious how to apply 
JENSEN’S 
Every grain fertilises because the Guano is perfectly pure. It is 
a most economical Manure, 1 part to 100 parts of soil being ample 
for any plant. 
FISH-POTASH 
FISH-POTASH contains Ammonia, Phosphates, and Potash in 
large proportions, which are the principal elements of fertili¬ 
sation. 
GUANO. 
PRICES 2-lb. Tin, Is. ; 7 lba, 2s. ; 14 lbs., 4s.; 
28 lbs., 6s. 63. ; 56 lbs., 10s 6d.; 1 cwt., 16s. ; 
2 cwt., 30s. ; Bags free. Special Terms for 
large quantities. 
CHEAPEST AND BEST. ANALYSIS GUARANTEED. 
J. JENSEN & CO., Limited, 
109, Fenchurch Street, London, E.C. 
National Chrysanthemum Society, Royal 
Aquarium, Westminster. 
T he mid-winter exhibition will 
he held on WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, JANUARY 
11th and 12tli. Chrysanthemums, Cyclamens, Primulas, 
Solanums, &e., &c. Miscellaneous exhibits specially invited. 
Schedules and all particulars of WILLIAM nOLMES, Hon. 
Sec., Frampton Park Nurseries, Hackney. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Tuesday, January 3rd.—Sale of Odoutoglossum Alexandra; and 
other Orchids at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Wednesday, January 4th.—Sale of Lilium auratum and other 
Bulbs at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Thursday, January 5th.—Sale of Lilium and other Bulbs, &c., 
at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Friday, January 6th.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe 
& Morris’s Rooms. 
Saturday.— January 7th.—Sale of Plants, Roses, &c., at 
Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Aberdeen Seed and Nursery 
Trade. 279 
Amateurs’ Garden. 279 
Apples and Pear Trees, 
training. 27S 
Azalea Deutsche Perle .... 276 
Boronia megastigma. 276 
Bowling Greens . 2S0 
Cherry House. 2S5 
Cherry Pie . 276 
Christmas Island . 276 
Chrysanthemum Classifi¬ 
cation . 2S3 
Chrysanthemums at Christ¬ 
mas . 276 
Coco-nut, the . 2S3 
Conifers, the best . 2S0 
Cyclamens . 284 
PAGE 
Dobbie, James. 2S1 
Education, Horticultural.. 27S 
Floriculture. 586 
Forcing Plants . 2S5 
Fruit tree nomenclature . 285 
Gardeners’ Calendar. 285 
Habrothanmus elegans.... 2S4 
Novelties of the season .. 282 
Obituary . 2S6 
Orchid Notes . 2S6 
Peach buds dropping .... 2S4 
Pears, ripening of. 280 
Rhododendrons, hardy_ 2S3 
Richardia sethiopica. 2S5 
Salisbury Green. 277 
Vegetables . 279 
Y T ear, the new. 275 
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”—B acon. 
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1887. 
The Hew Year, 1888.—Whilst, as with 
Christmas, there still clusters much of sentiment 
about the incoming of the new year, it must be 
obvious to all that the recurring new years 
simply mark time by the roll of years, and that 
with each season we do but set out once more 
to perform that which we have done so many 
years before, onl} r having perhaps other chances 
or opportunities, or, it may be, the lack of them, 
with A r arying anticipations of success. Some¬ 
how we treat the old or passing year usually 
with scant courtesy, always seeming to be in a 
1 lurry to be off with the old love and on with 
the new, whether the old one has been a true 
love or otherwise, so ready are we to fly from 
the ills. which now beset us, recking little of 
those we yet wot not of. However, we seem, in 
welcoming the incoming of the new year, rather 
to be buoyed by hope that it will prove a real 
friend, than he depressed with doubt as to its 
ultimate issue; and it is well it should be so, 
for sad indeed must be the condition of those 
who regard the new year with sadness and 
dismay. 
This, Saturday, night large numbers of religious 
people will watch the old year out and the 
new one in. It is a very prosaic proceeding at 
the best, even from a religious view, because 
there will be no “ wreck of nature, or crush of 
worlds,” or other natural catastrophe or dis¬ 
ruption to mark the death of ’87 and the 
birth of ’88. The clock will in its monotonous 
way strike the hour of midnight—and then ’87 
will have passed into oblivion, and ’88 will 
have started upon its annual course in the most 
unostentatious way. Some of our northern 
compatriots, in their exuberance that a new 
year lias been born from out of the prolific 
womb of time, will christen it in bumpers of 
whiskey. That is their fashion and their 
sentiment. After all these years, boisterous 
sentiment is a limited quantity in the Anglo- 
Saxon race, and it is just as well it should be so, 
for life is a serious business, and every mile 7 
stone passed on the journey may well make us 
reflect that the inevitable end of that journey 
is all the nearer. That the road may be 
rendered the more pleasant and prosperous to 
all as they traverse life’s rough way is our 
earnest and seasonable wish. 
Some of our readers, numerically curious, 
will note the interesting fact that three out of 
the four figures which mark the year’s date 
are identical. It is 111 years since such 
previously was the case, and it will he 111 
years ere the coincidence again occurs, but 
curiously enough it will then he immediately 
followed by the same feature, as 1999 jumps at 
once into 2000. However, none now alive 
will exist then, and the oddity of the coinci¬ 
dence has little present interest. If we were 
disposed to moralise, we might invite contrasts 
between the close of the nineteenth century, 
now so near, and its beginning. Specially full 
of interest would the comparison be in a horti¬ 
cultural sense ; a comparison difficult to make, 
and yet would show such marvellous strides as 
to make us wonder what our loved science will 
be like and how represented when the twentieth 
century closes. We have still twelve years to 
elapse ere we shall reach the commencement of 
that century, and so rapidly do tilings move, 
that even in that comparatively short interval, 
much maji lie done of which now we have 
little anticipation. 
Perhaps the Victorian Era, and especially 
its earlier portion, arising from the introduction 
of steam, telegraphs, cheap printing, cheap 
glass, &c., did more for horticulture than any 
similar period can ever hope to accomplish, but 
the resources of nature on the one hand, and 
of civilisation on the other, seem to be illimit¬ 
able, whilst knowledge and science are spreading 
in a marvellous degree. It is true that an 
anticipated revolution in horticulture, arising 
from the use of the electric light, so far has not 
been created ; indeed, the anticipation seems to 
have resulted in a complete failure. That was 
perhaps, the product of science untempered by 
practical knowledge — science, in fact, run 
mad. Still, we do not despair but that it is in 
the power of science to do much yet for 
gardening, but it must be science of a very 
matter-of-fact kind, and such as can be prac¬ 
tically utilised. We might here, in relation to 
this element in our horticultural life, refer to 
the avowed determination of the scientific 
committee of the Royal Horticultural Society 
to patriotically continue to exist and labour 
even though the unfortunate society may utterly 
collapse. Should such an event happen, we shall 
lie then able to paraphrase a famous aphorism, 
and exclaim, “All is lost, save science!” 
Unhappily we have never found this scientific 
committee to be of much service to horticulture, 
but possibly, like some other derided things, it 
lias never yet had its opportunities. 
Years may come and years may go, but still 
horticulture rolls on ; sometimes prosperously, 
sometimes languidly. As long as man exists 
however, gardening, whilst doubtless changing 
with the necessities of the age, will never die. 
That is one glorious comfort amidst troubles, 
as it rejoices in prosperity. It is that reflection 
which compels us to look on with some sort of 
assurance, even when so old and respected a 
horticultural body as the Royal Horticultural 
Society is gasping for existence. We have of 
late so often referred to this body, that present 
mention may seem superfluous, and would have 
been so but for the fact that in contemplating 
the year which is before us, we know that it is 
big with fate for the “R. H. S.,” and that it 
must result in kill or cure. If the former, 
then the sooner fate holds sway the better : if 
the latter, then may we hope to record, at the 
end of 18S8, that to it the Royal Horticultural 
Society owes renewed life, popularity, and 
usefulness. It is very satisfactory to find, in 
spite of some late gloomy forebodings, that the 
nation’s trade is reviving, for with it must come 
some considerable stimulus to horticulture. So 
