May 26, 1888. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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ORCHID 
EXHIBITION 
One of the Most Beautiful Sights in London. 
O RCHIDS.—The Orchid Exhibition at Mr. 
WILLIAM BULL’S Establishment for New and Rare 
Plants, 536, King’s Road, Chelsea, London, S.W., is now open 
daily from 10 to 6 o’clock. 
RCHIDS—A vision of loveliness unpa¬ 
ralleled in Europe. 
greatest 
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0 any distance to see at Mr. WILLIAM BULL'S Establish¬ 
ment for New and Rare Plants, 536, King’s Road, Chelsea, 
London, S.W. 
RCHIDS. — “A scene of the 
Orchidic beauty, baffling description and defying ex- 
RCHIDS.—The Exhibition is worth going 
NEW PLANTS FOR 1888 
MR. WILLIAM BULL’S 
NEW CATALOGUE FOR 1888 
Is now ready. Price, Is. 
Contains names, description and prices of many beau¬ 
tiful New Plants offered for the first time. 
WILLIAM BULL, f.l.s., 
Establishment for New and Rare Plants, 
536, KING’S ROAD, CHELSEA, S.W. 
SPECIAL OFFER. 
BEGONIAS.—Tuberous rooted, last year’s seedlings, finest 
strains, 4s. per dozen. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS.—The best varieties, established, in 
small pots, can be turned out for travelling, 15s. per 100. 
DAHLIAS.—Best Show, Cactus, and Single varieties, in small 
pots, 3-. 6ci. per dozen. 
GERANIUMS.—The best Zonal, single and double, 4s. per dozen. 
PELARGONIUMS.—The best Show and Decorative varieties, 
in 5-inch pots ; will flower well in May and June. 10s. per 
dozen. 
PHLOX.—Herbaceous varieties; one of the best plants for 
cutting from. 4s. per dozen. 
ROSES.—Tea, Gloire de Dijon, Marechal Niel, Niphetos, and 
other best varieties. Our selection, in 4S-pots, 10s. per doz. 
PACKED UPRIGHT IN OPEN BOXES. CASH WITH ORDER. 
GARAWAY & €o . 3 
DURDHAM DOWN, CLIFTON, BRISTOL. 
ORCHIDS A SPECIALTY. 
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. General Nursery Stock of fine 
quality and immense extent. . Inspection invited. The Glass 
Structures cover an area of 297,300 ft. 
HUGH |Of & Co., 
CLAPTON NURSERY, LONDON, E. 
TEA AND NOISETTE ROSES. 
OF BEST SORTS ONLY. 
N OW ready, fine plants, in 5-incli pots, Is. 6 d. each, 12s. per 
dozen, 80s. per 100. On PREPAID orders packing is not 
charged; and if of 20s. and upwards, Carriage Free to any station 
on the Brighton and South Coast or South W r estern Railways; 
and if of 60s. and upwards, Carriage Free to any Railway Station 
in England or Wales. 
Prices of new vanities quoted upon application. 
EWING & Co., Sea View Nurseries, Havant, Hampshire. 
Bedding Plants 
Established, and so sure to give satisfaction. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS. — The very choicest 
sorts, in good plants. 
DAHLIAS. —An unsurpassed collection. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST FREE. 
RICHARD SMITH & Co.. 
Nurserymen end Seed Merchants, 
"W OECESTER, 
Bath and West of England, and S. C. A. 
NEWPORT, MON., JUNE 6, 7, 8, 9, and 11. 
OPEN. 
A CUP or money value, £10, will be given 
for the best group of Orchids. Ditto £5 for the best 
specimen. 
TEA AND NOISETTE CUT ROSES.— Amateurs. 
A Cup or money value, £5, for IS varieties (single blooms). 
Nurserymen. 
Ditto, £5 for 18 varieties (three blooms). 
Orchids must be in the yard by 9 a.m,, June 6th. Roses, 
9 a m., June 7th. 
J. TOWNSHEND BOSCAWEN, 
Steward of the Horticultural Department. 
W ILTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
SALISBURY. 
Show on August 23rd, 18SS. Schedules maybe had on ap¬ 
plication to W. H. WILLIAMS, Hon. Secretary, the Nurseries, 
Salisbury. 
R oyal horticultural society.— 
Fellows requiring a list of the plants for distribution 
from the Chiswick Gardens, can have a copy by applying to Mr. 
A. F. BARRON, Superintendent. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, May 2S.—Unreserved Sale of Imported and Established 
Orchids at Protheroe & Morris's Rooms.—Sale of Bedding 
and Greenhouse Plants, at the Priory Nursery, Chaucer 
Road, Acton, by Protheroe & Morris. 
Tuesday, May 29th.—Special Sale of Orchids in Flower at 
Stevens’ Rooms. 
Thursday, May 31st.-Sale of Imported and Established Orchids 
at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Friday, Jime 1st.—Sale of the Second Portion of the Bloomfield 
Collection of Orchids, &c., at Protheroe & Morris's Rooms. 
FOR INDEX TO CONTENTS, SEE P. 623. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY , MAY 26, 1888. 
+ 
Pea Crop Prospects. —Some seven or eight 
years ago, so late as the 28th of May, a very 
sharp frost did infinite damage to the early 
Pea crop, destroying the bloom wholesale, 
even killing the “slats” which had already 
formed, and in many cases rendering the 
breadths of Peas so useless that they had to 
be ploughed in. That was an undoubted 
calamity to growers, and one which we hope 
may not again be repeated. This year our 
Peas universally look remarkably well; the 
growth was late it is true, hut because the 
early sowing season was dry, and all the 
rain which fell later served only to agreeably 
moisten the soil without saturating it. The 
result, however, is a capital Pea plant, the 
row’s from end to end looking perfect, and 
in a few days will be, when in bloom, 
almost beautiful. 
If the Peas are a trifle thinner than is 
sometimes the case, no evil v T ill ensue, as 
having regard to the growing nature of the 
weather for the last week or two, there is 
not only reason to believe that the plants 
will fill out, but also that they will carry 
their produce out fully to the last. It will 
probably he the third v'eek in June ere w t c 
shall see the markets stocked with the 
earliest English Peas, and as it seems almost 
impossible to secure crops earlier, except in 
some specially warm yet remote districts, 
there is little room to grumble if the 
enterprising foreigner does send us fairly 
good samples of Peas a few weeks prior to 
the incoming of home-grown produce. Whilst 
no imported Peas can hope -to excel our owni 
in freshness and flavour, they do appreciably 
check the demand for home-raised Peas later, 
because when the same kind of vegetable 
has been fairly plentiful for several weeks 
previously, there is not that strong desire to 
possess and enjoy them in the same way 
as is found in those districts cut off from 
such trading facilities. 
However, there can he no doubt hut that 
Peas of our own growth will this year he 
both plentiful and cheap, as the crops look 
so well, especially within the London area, 
and that comprises a circle of some twenty 
miles round, within which thousands of acres 
of Peas are grown, and literally millions of 
bushels are gathered for the vast metropolitan 
population. There is some room for belief 
that the securing of these enormous supplies 
to the consumer in a fresher state would 
appreciably help to the increased consumption 
of Peas. As it is, their gathering usually 
commences in the early part of the day, they 
are exposed to the air in bushel baskets during 
the day, loaded on to slow travelling waggons, 
and sent through to the market at night-—get 
dispersed to all parts of the metropolis next 
morning, and again are considerably exposed 
to the air twenty-four hours after being 
gathered. Any arrangement which would 
serve to place our big and home-raised Pea 
supplies at the consumers’ doors within twelve 
hours of the gathering would he a great boon. 
It is hard work, however, striving to improve 
market services, and perhaps the sharpest 
stimulus is to be found in that form of 
competition which railway and foreign trade 
supplies. 
Our market growers are very cautious in 
the introduction of novelties in their Pea 
crops. Lirstly, novelties are as a rule rather 
more costly than are the older sorts, which, 
having established reputations, are grown by 
the seed trade in large quantities for the market 
growers. Thus we still see them standing by 
Sangsters No. 1, indifferent a kind as it is, for 
first early production, because it is cheap, 
early and hardy. Sunrise and William the 
Lirst are being favoured gradually, hut Sang- 
ster’s seems, still to he the most largely sown. 
Among blues, that very poor but hardy kind, 
Harrison’s Glory, a most worthless form in 
quality though fairly early and productive, 
still finds high favour. We ought to have 
got rid of such rubbish long since, and it is 
easy to understand how soon the price in 
the market of such inferior samples must 
come down. Then naturally the growers of ten, 
twelve, or twenty acres of any one kind of Pea 
is cautious as to what he sows, as a failure 
is almost ruinous; on the other hand, success 
with some first-rate kind would he more than 
compensating. Yery large peas do not seem 
to he highly flavoured, and no doubt there 
the public are right. Large peas are neither 
good favoured nor refined, and no one who 
appreciates high-class peas would care to see 
them served up as big as hoys’ marbles. The 
smaller, sweeter and higher-flavoured samples 
are what all true lovers of Peas delight to 
partake of. 
Perhaps our Pea raisers have, in their efforts 
(and they have been remarkable), failed to 
consider the requirements of the market 
growers sufficiently. The rage for show 
samples, large pods with big peas inside, 
seems to have actuated too many raisers in 
their efforts. If they would break away 
from that lead and give us a race which, 
whilst of varying heights (for all have their 
fancies about heights), yet producing in great 
abundance long narrow pods, each containing 
from 10 to 12 peas, small, green and of rich 
sugary flavour, good hardy kinds too, which 
would satisfy the market growers’ requirements, 
they would render a public service. Seed of 
big Peas must he dearer, because the risk of 
harvesting and difficulty of ripening is much 
greater than is the case with the smaller 
Peas, which harden rapidly and are double 
the number in the bushel measure. A ery 
large Peas also absorb from the soil so much 
of moisture, that when they swell up prior 
