June 9, 1888. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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One of the Most Beautiful Sights in London. 
O RCHIDS.—The Orchid Exhibition at Mr. 
WILLIAM BULL’S Establishment for New and Hare 
Plants, 536, King’s Road, Chelsea, London, S.W., is now open 
daily from 10 to 6 o'clock. Admission 2s. 6d. 
O RCHIDS—A vision of loveliness unpa¬ 
ralleled in Europe. 
O RCHIDS. — “A scene of the 
Orchidic beauty, baffling description and defying ex- 
greatest 
O RCHIDS.—The Exhibition is worth going 
any distance to see at Mr. WILLIAM BULL’S Establish¬ 
ment for New and Rare Plants, 536, King’s Road, Chelsea, 
London, S.W. 
NEW PLANTS FOR 1888. 
MR. WILLIAM BULL’S 
NEW CATALOGUE FOR TOS 
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, KINO’S ROAD, CHELSEA, S.W. 
BOBBIE 8s Co.’s 
SPECIAL OFFER. 
Eine plants ready for planting out, all care¬ 
fully packed in boxes and sent Carriage Free 
at undernoted prices. 
CARNATIONS and PICOTEES— 
2s. 9 cl ., 4s. 3 d. and 6s. 6 d. per dozen. 
CALCEOLARIAS, Yellow and Brown— 
2s. 6 d. per dozen; 16s. per 100. 
DAHLIAS, Double, Single and Cactus— 
4s. per dozen. * 
GERANIUMS, best for Bedding-— 
3s. 6 d. pergdozen; 21s. per 100. 
HOLLYHOCKS, fine Seedlings— 
4s. per dozen. 
PANSIES, Show and Fancy— 
2s. to 6s. per dozen. 
PHLOXES, Early and Late— 
2s. 3 d. and 3s. 6 d. per dozen. 
PELARGONIUMS, Decorative— 
6s. to 12s. per dozen. 
VIOLAS, the very finest vars.— 
2s. and 3s. per dozen; 15s. per 100. 
Dobbie’s Quilled Globe Asters ,.. s 
New Victoria Asters . 
Dwarf Chrysanthemum Asters ... 
Dobbie’s Selected Antirrhinums... 
Dobbie’s French Marigolds 
Dobbie's African Marigolds— 
Lemon Queen and Prince of 
Orange (new) . 
Large-Flowering Ten-Week Stocks/ 
SPECIAL .—Leek plants for present planting, over 
a foot long, 2s. per 100, carriage free. 
Full descriptive Catalogue on application. 
DOBBIE & Co., 
SEED GROWERS AND FLORISTS, 
ROTHESAY, N.B. 
REDUCED 
PRICES. 
1 doz.,post free, 8 d. 
|3 ,, ,, Is. 6d. 
6 ,, ,, 2s. 9d. 
12,, ,, 5s. Od. 
All carefully trans¬ 
planted plants. 
THE GARDENERS’ ROYAL BENEVOLENT 
INSTITUTION. 
T HF EORTY-EIFTH anniversary 
DINNER in aid of the Funds of this Institution, will 
take place at the Albion, Aldersgate Street, on Wednesday, 
the 4th July, when 
The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., will preside. 
Tickets 21s. each. In order to provide for the comfort and 
convenience of the Guests, no Tickets wiU be issued after 
Friday, the 29th June. 
By order, EDWARD R. CUTLER, Secretary, 
50, Parliament Street, S.W, 
30(7i May, 188S. 
GARDENERS’ ORPHAN FUND. 
N OTICE.—The Annual General Meeting of 
the Subscribers, and first election of Candidates will take 
place at the Cannon Street Hotel, on FRIDAY, July 13th. 
A. F. BARRON, Hon. Sec. 
Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens, Chiswick , London, S.W. 
A LEXANDRA PALACE GRAND ROSE 
JT . JL. SHOW, June 25th and 26th. 
The series of Shows promoted by the ALEXANDRA PALACE 
and PARK COMPANY, Ltd., for 18SS will be inaugurated by 
a grand display of Roses on the above dates. 
Liberal Prizes in all classes of Roses for professional and 
amateur growers are offered. All prize-money will be paid on 
the first day of the Show. 
Excellent facilities are offered for trade exhibits, specialities 
and appliances, and suitable honours and certificates will be 
awarded. Full particulars and schedule of prizes may be 
obtained on application to the Secretary of Rose Show, Mr. R. 
BEALE, Alexandra Palace, London, N.’ 
Next Week's Engagements. 
Tuesday, June 12th.—Royal Horticultural Society: Meeting 
of Fruit and Floral Committees at 11 a.m. Sale of Imported and 
Established Orchids at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Wednedsay, June 13th.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Stevens 
Rooms. 
Friday, June 15th.—Sale of Imported and Established Orchids 
at Protheroe & Morris's Rooms. 
FOR INDEX TO CONTENTS, SEE P. 655. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1888. 
The Mixed Flower Border.— A border in 
which, something is in bloom all the year 
round, from the Snowdrop in February until 
the Chrysanthemum in November, is one of 
the pleasantest features in a flower garden. 
In the ordinary flower garden a display is often 
made in the beds, lasting from April until 
September, hut it is made with a few subjects 
only, and there is, in consequence, an absence 
of that breadth of variety one finds in such a 
border as that we are referring to. When 
tender plants are mainly used in the summer 
flower garden, they are subject to be cut off 
early in the autumn by frost, or their floral 
service is destroyed by heavy autumnal rains. 
It is different with the mixed border—there is 
alway^gomething in it to interest. In spring, 
the Snowdrop, Scilla, Chionodoxa, Daffodil, 
Wallflower, Tulip, Arabis, Honesty, Anemone, 
Alyssum, Myosotis, and others, are pictures of 
vernal beauty. Some of these are still in their 
glory, while others have passed the season of 
bloom, but the succession of floral service is 
at once taken up by something else, and so it 
goes on in an unbroken line. Here let us 
remark, in reference to bulbous plants that are 
going and have gone out of bloom, never cut 
away the foliage, but allow it to mature and 
decay in the usual way; it may look a little 
unsightly, hut this is a matter that can be 
borne with, for the decay is quick. Some 
people cut away the foliage of Crocuses directly 
they have gone out of flower, but it is a 
mistake to do so. The old custom of plaiting 
the leaves together is one of the best that can 
be followed, and it is certainly one of the 
neatest. ‘ The proper development and matu¬ 
ration of the leaves of a bulbous plant lias its 
effect upon the proper ripening of the bulb. 
For early summer display there are Lilies, 
Campanulas of various types, including the 
Canterbury Bell, perennial Pinks, Pseonies, 
Carnations, Aquilegias, Pansies, Violas, &c., 
so there is no lack of subjects -for that 
season of the year—while some are decaying 
others are coming up with all the freshness 
of a new and quickened life, and then there 
are always spaces in the mixed border that 
can be utilised for plants that are raised 
from seeds, such as Asters, Stocks, Phlox 
Drummondi, annual Dianthuses, Zinnias, 
Larkspurs, annual and perennial Carnations 
and Picotees, and such-like. A few of the 
hardier bedding plants can also be accommo¬ 
dated with advantage. We do not pretend 
to give an exhaustive list, hut simply to 
indicate a few representative subjects. There 
are also double and single Pyrethrums, 
Phloxes, Delphiniums, Dahlias, Pentstemons, 
and many other valuable perennials, with 
Chrysanthemums to follow; and with these 
there are the Colchicums, autumn Crocuses, 
and the Christmas Roses in a favourable 
early winter. Why, here is a wonderful 
Avealth of subjects affording great variety, 
and an unfailing interest; while the ordinary 
bedding plants are comparatively few in 
number, and somewhat monotonous in charac¬ 
ter in consequence. 
But permanent plants, as well as those 
planted only for a season, must have their 
requisite share of attention. Not a few of 
these subjects require staking as their flower 
stems rise in height, and some such protection 
is necessary against gales; the stakes should 
he neat, and suited to the dimensions of the 
plants. Then there are plants of a spreading 
growth, the branches of which fall about and 
cover up other dwarfer and equally valuable 
floral helps. These should he kept carefully 
tied up within proper bounds, not, however, 
doing it to a degree that will impair their 
effectiveness. We have sometimes gone into 
the gardens of amateurs during the summer 
and seen plants tied to thick stakes that 
seemed to almost hide the plants from view, 
and which showed about as much taste on the 
part of the gardener as one would expect to 
find in a Hottentot had he been set to do the 
work. Two men, one a painstaking tasteful 
gardener, the other a careless slipshod one, will 
put an altogether different face on a flower 
garden; it is a delight to enter one, but a 
relief to get away from the other. 
Neatness is another essential characteristic 
of a garden. The plants may he grown with 
the greatest care, and in the ’most successful 
manner, hut if the paths are slovenly kept, as 
is sometimes the case, there is an incongruity 
about the thing that has a depreciating effect. 
Edgings are sometimes permitted to run riot, 
weeds are found in places that should he free 
from them, and dead foliage that should he 
removed is allowed to he about the border. 
These things may be seen in association with 
well-grown plants; they are like blots upon 
the face of a fair picture, preventing its chief 
qualities from being perceived to the best 
advantage. 
-- 
Gardening Engagement.—Mr. George Smith, who 
has been principal foreman to Mr. J. Smith, at 
Mentmore, for the last five years, has been engaged as 
gardener to E. L. Roweliffe, Esq., Hall Place, Cranleigli, 
Surrey. 
Messrs. E. H. Krelage & Son, of Haarlem, inform 
us that they have received from His Majesty the King 
of the Netherlands, the warrant of appointment to carry 
the King’s arms, as His Majesty’s nurserymen and 
seedsmen. 
Clieirantlms alpinus.—In a communication received 
from Mr. James Percival, Smithy Bridge, Rochdale, he 
states: “In an article in The Gardening 'World 
of last week on herbaceous plants Cheiranthus alpinus 
is mentioned. The plant referred to is, I expect, 
Cheiranthus oehroleucus, and not C. alpinus. The 
last-mentioned is a plant very similar indeed to 
.Erysimum cheiranthoides, but the latter is only an 
annual, while C. alpinus is perennial. I never saw 
