July 7, 1888. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
707 
Orchid Exhibition. 
One of th e 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 open daily 
from 10 to 6 o’clock. Admission 2s. G(L 
O RCHIDS—A vision of loveliness unpa¬ 
ralleled in Europe. 
O RCHIDS. — “A scene of the greatest 
Orchidic beauty, baffling description and defying ex¬ 
aggeration." 
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 for1888. 
MR. WILLIAM BULL’S 
HEW CATALOGUE FOR 1888 
Price, Is. 
Containing names, descriptions and prices of many beau¬ 
tiful New Plants offered for the first time. 
WlLLIAM BULL, f.l.s., 
Establishment for New and Rare Plants, 
636, KING'S ROAD, CHELSEA, S.W. 
SPECIAL CULTURE OF 
FRUIT TREES AND R OSES. 
A Large and Select Stock is now offered for Sale. 
The Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of Fruits 
Post Free. 
The Descriptive Catalogue of Roses Post Free. 
R oyal horticultural society. 
Patron : Her Majesty, The Queen. 
President: Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P. 
Offices : 111, Victoria Street, S.W. 
]YTOTICE ! The next meeting of the Fruit 
L\ and Floral Committees will be held in the Drill Hall of 
the London Scottish Rifle Volunteers, James Street S.W on 
Tuesday. July 10th, when the special subjects invited for exhibi¬ 
tion will be Roses, Lilies, and Strawberries, &c. A competi- 
tion will also take jjlace f° r s P ec ial prizes, oflered by Messrs. 
John Laing & Sons, for Begonias. 
Open to Fellows at 12 o’clock, and to the public at 1 p.m. 
For particulars respecting the election of Fellows apply to the 
Secretary, 111, Victoria Street, S.W. 
National Co-operative Flower Show, Crystal 
Palace, August 18th, 1888. 
CpfAA AND MEDALS in Prizes for 
ob G G Flowers, Fruit, Vegetables, and Honey, open 
to members of Co-operative Societies throughout the Kingdom ; 
also for SkiU of Workmen in all Trades for Amateur Work 
and Entomological and other specimens. 
Schedules of Prizes on application to 
WM. BROOMHALL, Secretary. 
1, Norfolk St., Strand, W.C. 
Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society. 
A ROSE SHOW will be held in the Gardens, 
Edgbaston, on Thursday and Friday, the 12th and 13th of 
July, 1SSS. Entries close on July Ttli. 
For Schedules apply to 
W. B. LATHAM, Curator. 
H ELDER BRIDGE FLORAL AND 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—This Society will hold 
its Annual Show on Saturday, August 4tli. For Schedules of 
Prizes apply to the Secretary, JAMES CRABTREE, Balmoral 
Street, Hebden Bridge. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, July 9th.—Sale of Established Orchids at Protheroe & 
Morris’s Rooms. 
Tuesday, July 10th.—Royal Horticultural Society: Meeting 
of Fruit and Floral Committees, at 11 a.m. Rose Shows at 
Oxford, Ipswich, and Gloucester. First day’s Sale of Mr. 
Lee’s Orchids at Downside, Leatherhead, by Protluroe & 
Morris (continued on three following days). 
Wednesday, July 11th.—Flower Shows at Ealing, Y T ork, Tun¬ 
bridge Wells, and Glasgow (two days). 
Thursday, July 12th.—Chiswick Horticultural Society’s Show. 
Rose Shows at Birmingham (two days), Winchester, and 
Carlton-in-Worksop. 
Friday, July 13th.—First Annual Meeting of the Gardeners’ 
Orphan Fund, at the Cannon Street Hotel, at two p.m. 
Dinner at five p.m. 
Saturday, July 14th. — Rose Shows at Manchester, New 
Brighton, and Eltham. 
FOR INDEX TO CONTENTS, SEE P. 719. 
THOMAS RIYERS & SON, 
NURSERIES, SAWBRIDGEWORTH, HERTS. 
NEW PELARGONIUM, 
“ &VG&B8S OF fl€«’ 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
Awarded a First Class Certificate at the Manchester Royal 
Botanical and Horticultural Society’s Summer Exhibition of 1SS7. 
It is a white Regal decorative variety, semi-double, immense 
trusses. The flowers are erect, petals undulated, distinguishing 
it from the ordinary Pelargoniums. It is novel and conspicuous, 
has a strong compact habit, and is one of the best Pelargoniums 
in cultivation. 
It is invaluable for cut flowers where white is in demand. 
3s. 6 d. each, 30s. for 12 plants, 50s. for 25 plants. Cut 
flowers sent on application. 
Sent out by 
FISHSE, soar, & BIBEAT, 
HANDSW0RTH NURSERIES, SHEFFIELD. 
For Present Sowing. 
ANIELS’ DEFIANCE CABBAGE 
(Giant Early Marrow). 
The earliest, largest, and best Cabbage for all purposes. 
Post free. Per pkt., C4.; per oz., Is. 6<Z. 
D ANIELS’ LITTLE QUEEN CABBAGE. 
Very early, dwarf and compact. Post free. Per pkt., 6cl.; 
per oz., Is. 6 d. 
DANIELS BROS., Seed Growers, Norwich. 
D ANIELS’ GIANT ROCCA ONION. 
Large globular bulbs of mild flavour, 2 lbs. to 3 lbs. 
weight. Seed post free, per oz., Is. 
D ANIELS’ WHITE ELEPHANT TRI¬ 
POLI ONION.—Seed post free, per pkt,, 6 d .; per oz., 
Is. 6 d. The largest and best white Onion. 
DANIELS BROS., Seed Growers, Norwich. 
TEA ROSES. 
GARAWAY & Co. offer 12 best varieties of Tea Roses, in¬ 
cluding MARECHAL NIEL and NIPHETOS, in 5-inch pots, 
packed upright in open boxes, for 10s. Cash with order. 
GARAWAY & Co., 
Durdham Down, Clifton, Bristol. 
Ip ® aritutingli^nrfe, 
SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1888. 
The Tuberous-rooted Begonia.— Though for 
several years subsequent to its introduction into 
this country the tuberous Begonia was hut little 
esteemed, except perhaps to some extent as a 
curiosity, it has of late years developed, under 
cultivation, so many valuable qualities, has 
proved itself to be possessed of so extraordinary 
a capability for improvement in almost every 
respect, and consequently is annually gaining in 
popularity by such long and rapid strides, that 
little doubt can he entertained that in the 
immediate future it will he cultivated by 
gardeners and amateurs in numbers approaching, 
if not absolutely equalling, those to which the 
Zonal Pelargonium has already attained. A 
duration of flowering extending continuously 
over a period of five or six months, and a range 
of colour embracing every imaginable shade of 
white, rose, pink, red, scarlet, crimson, lake, 
orange, and yellow, combined with the richest 
and most delicate tints, are no mean advantages 
to start with. And when to these are added a 
nearly perfect adaptability to almost any kind 
of culture—whether planted out-of-doors, or 
grown in pots, boxes or baskets, in the open air 
or under glass, with artificial heat or without— 
the power of withstanding apparently uninjured 
the extremes of wet and stormy weather, or of 
tropical heat and drought—a hardiness enabling 
the roots to endure uninjured in the open 
ground the severity of ordinary English winters, 
except perhaps in cold or wet soils—an un¬ 
equalled capacity for being stored in large 
numbers without the aid of glass, and in 
a very small space—and, above all, the ca¬ 
pability of being improved in every point 
that constitutes a first-class decorative subject 
to an extent up to the present time almost 
incredible, and still far from being fathomed 
or determined, as well as an extraordinary 
profuseness and persistence of bloom, the 
flowers in most cases being also remarkable 
for size and showiness—who can say what 
future may he in s.tore for such a plant, or 
what other denizen of our gardens and 
greenhouses can lay or substantiate a claim 
to so many advantages 1 
With the single exception of the Zonal 
Pelargonium there is no other plant, in the 
entire range of exotics, that can compare 
with the Begonia, either in regard to its 
capability for producing a gorgeous display 
of rich and varied colour, when grown in 
masses, or as a thoroughly useful and easily- 
cultivated decorative subject. Anyone who 
has visited the show houses of Messrs. John 
Laing & Sons, at Forest Hill, or of Messrs. 
Cannell & Sons, at Swanley, when in the 
height of perfection, as they now soon will 
he again, will readily admit the former 
proposition; and those who attempt the 
culture of this plant, under conditions at all 
suitable, whether indoors or out, will very 
shortly agree with the latter, if they have 
not already done so. 
In our opinion, nothing in the entire floral 
treasury can possibly surpass in effect a mass 
or lame houseful of the choicest varieties of 
O 
Zonal Pelargoniums, both single and double, 
when skilfully grown in pure air, and just 
in perfection; hut a collection of modern 
Begonias, under similar circumstances, will 
run them very close indeed, even as regards 
the production of large and dense masses of 
rich colour ; while in quaintness and variety 
of form, habit and colour, the Begonia might 
fairly be awarded the palm. Undeniably the 
Zonal Pelargonium is possessed of a few 
advantages that the Begonia lacks. For 
instance, the former will, under favourable 
conditions, continue to bloom throughout the 
winter, or, indeed, at any season of the year, 
and is therefore valuable as affording bright¬ 
ness, or a supply of flowers for cutting, at a 
time when bloom of any kind is scarce and 
welcome; while, though the tuberous Begonia 
may, by starting the tubers early in the 
year, and growing them in a genial warmth, 
be got into flower by the month of May, or 
even April, and by the use of late-potted 
seedlings, or plants taken up from the open 
ground, be induced to prolong their season of 
beauty up to about Christmastide, yet, during 
the three or four months between these times, 
the roots demand a season of rest, and we 
must for the time be content to dispense 
with their presence. The new race of winter¬ 
flowering Begonias, however, which have been 
obtained by crossing Begonia socotrana with 
some of the summer - flowering varieties, 
promises ere long to give us a number of 
varieties that will carry on the flowering 
season right through the winter. 
Again, the blooms of the Zonal Pelargonium 
—especially of the double-flowering forms— 
are undeniably much better adapted for 
cutting, and more particularly when the 
flowers have to he packed or travel any 
distance, and therefore become a more sale¬ 
able commodity. At the same time, Begonia 
blooms, either single or double, are consider¬ 
ably more suitable for cutting, and useful 
when cut, than is generally imagined, and if 
they can be used on the spot, or very 
carefully carried, are really very valuable and 
' effective for this purpose, and last a consider¬ 
able time in water; but the delicate waxy 
