August i5, i89i. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
791 
TWO GRAND NOVELTIES. 
A PURE WHITE BEDDING CLEMATIS, and the FERN 
which has lately received so many of the highest 
awards and proofs of admiration. 
CLES^ATS8,‘sisms“8^0W WHITE 
JACKMANII. 
The flowers are paper-white, about the same size as those of 
the old purple Jackmanii, but produced in even greater pro¬ 
fusion. It is unrivalled for beds, and also for climbing. Ready 
in August, ys. 6 d. each. 
PTERSS TREiULA SMITHIANA. 
This is a very valuable and distinct Fern. No collection 
should be without it. Illustration and description free. 
5s. to 10s. 6 d. each. 
We now have a very fine lot of the best 
varieties of CLEMATIS ready for planting 
out, also BEDDING PLANTS, and shall 
be pleased to send particulars. 
RICHARD SMITH & Co., 
Nurserymen & Seed Merchants, 
22nd YEAR OP DISTRIBUTION. 
Williams’ Superb Strain is. 6 d. per dozen ; ios. per ioo. 
CINERARIAS same price, also DOUBLE WHITE 
PRIMULAS, 6 d. each. Carriage free for cash with order. 
JOHN STEVENS, The Nurseries, COVENTRY. 
ARTERS’ TESTED SEEDS for 
Present Sowing. 
C ABBAGE.—CARTERS’ EARLY 
HEARTWELL.— Pronounced to be the finest early 
Cab bage incultivation. Very distinct. The heads are extremely 
firm, weighing from 4 to 6 lbs. In sealed packets only—price 
per pacnet, is. and 6 d.\ per ounce, is. 6 d. Pest free. 
ETTUCE.—Carters’ Giant White Cos, 
price 2s. 6 d. per ounce, is. per packet; Dunnett’s Giant 
Winter Cos, price 2s. 6 d. per ounce, is. per packet; Carters' 
Longstander Cabbage Lettuce, price 2s. 6 d. per ounce, is. per 
packet; All the Year Round Cabbage Lettuce, price is. 6 d. per 
ounce, 6 d. per packet. All post Iree. 
found in gardens. Whatever may become 
of the plants they will never again form 
one great private collection as at Pendell 
Court, and we shall, in horticulture, be all 
the poorer for the loss of that place in our 
plant collections. 
Did we find that there were no real 
falling off in good plant gardens—the loss 
of one being replaced by another—there 
would be no harm done; but that is not 
the case, tor as one after another of old 
O NION.—Carters’ Golden Globe Tri¬ 
poli, price 2S. 6 d. per ounce, is. 6 d. per packet; Giant 
Rocca, price is. per ounce, 6 d. per packet; Giant White Tripoli, 
price is. per ounce, 6 d. per packet; Early White Naples, price 
gd. per ounce ; Giant Madeira, price is. per ounce. All post tree. 
ARTERS’, Seedsmen by Royal War¬ 
rants to H. M. the Queen and H. R. H. the Prince of 
Wales.—237 & 238, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON. 
~Tjohw roskTw” stbaw berryT 
THE EARLIEST STRAWBERRY OF THE CENTURY. 
high gardening reputation passes away, 
others fail to take their places. At Pendell 
Court a pure love of plants predominated, 
At the newer places plants and flowers 
seem to be chiefly grown to gratify pride, 
display human frailties, or fancies, in fact, 
but not human love, knowledge, or refine* 
ments. Would that all the treasures of 
Pendell Court could be transferred to Kew, 
to Glasneven, to Manchester, to Edin* 
Trials North and South prove it extraordinary 
for earliness, productiveness, flavour, size, and 
worthy to be classed with “ Sir Joseph Paxton,” 
"Garibaldi,” “ President,” &c. 
Order now. Extra strong Runners, 4s. per 
dozen, 20s. per 100, delivered in August. 
TRUE FROM THE INTRODUCERS, 
LITTLE & BALLANTYNE, 
THE ROYAL SEED & NURSERY ESTABLISHMENT, 
burgh, or to some other of our popular public 
gardens where they could be kept fof 
public instruction and enjoyment. Why 
beautiful plants should not be thus 
preserved for the good of the nation, a9 
well as beautiful pictures, it is difficult to 
understand. 
Mr. DODWELL’S 
GRAND CARNATIONS. 
THE FINEST GROWN, 
O 0 Q 0 UNBLOOMED SEEDLINGS, warranted of 
the highest parentage, unrivalled whether for 
bedding or forcing for Spring flowering. 
3s. 6d. per doz.; 25s. per 100. 
Special Terms for Quantities. Particulars on Application. 
THE COTTAGE, STANLEY ROAD, OXFORD. 
THE BEST STRAWBERRIES^ 
iiOR.II BUNYARO & Ce. 
Beg to say their NEW DESCRIPTIVE CULTURAL and 
COMPLETE LIST of SUMMER FRUITS is now ready. 
Strawberries for forcing, for fruiting next year, &c., can be 
supplied in grand plants on liberal terms, true to name. 
THE OLD NURSERIES, MAIDSTONE. 
FERNS A SPECIALITY. 
Awarded R.H.S. Gold Medal, Fern Conference, July, 1890; 
Silver Cup, R.H.S. Show, May, 1890; Silver Medal, Shrews¬ 
bury, August, 1890; Silver Medal, Edinburgh, September, 1890. 
The finest collection in the Trade. Partially Descriptive 
Catalogue of 1400 species and varieties free on application. 
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE (No. 21 ), 
Containing 120 Illustrations and much valuable information on 
the cultivation of Ferns, ONE SHILLING and SIXPENCE. 
W. & J. BIRKENHEAD, 
FERN NURSERY, 
SALE, MANCHESTER. 
CUTBUSH’S MILLTRACK MUSHROOM SPAWN. 
Too well known to require descrip¬ 
tion. Price 6s. per bushel (is. extra 
per bushel for package), or 6 d. per 
cake ; free by Parcel Post, is. 
None genuine unless in sealed pack¬ 
ages, and printed cultural directions 
enclosed with our signatures attached. 
New publication, “ Mushrooms, and 
How to Grow Them,” by Luke Ellis, 
should be read by everyone interested 
in the growth of Mushrooms. Price 6rf., 
free by post, yd. 
'yirivr. cutbush son, 
Nurserymen and Seed Merchants. 
HIGHGATE NURSERIES, N.; & BARNET, HERTS 
THE TWO BEST CABBAGES 
ARE 
DICKSONS’ FIRST & BEST, 
And DICKSONS’ PERFECTION, 
Per packet, 6d.f Per ounoe, Is.; post free. 
Mr. A. J. Long, writing on June 1st, says: “ I am very 
pleased with your ‘ First and Best ' Cabbage, which I sowed 
last summer for the first time. We have been cutting for the 
past three weeks, and I cannot hear of anyone else cutting so 
early. The plants withstood the severe winter remarkably 
Well.” __ 
For other Cabbages, Lettuces, Onions, &c., for present 
Sowing, see Catalogue, sent post free on application : 
DICKSONS, -“SJSKSfiSr 4 CHESTER. 
LIMITED, 
CARLISLE. 
For Index to Contents & Advertisements, see p. 802 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.” —Bacon. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, Aug. 17th.—Trade Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe 
& Morris’ Rooms. National Chrysanthemum Society : Meet¬ 
ing of General Committee at 7 p.m. 
Tuesday, Aug. iSth—Caine Flower Show. 
Wednesday, Aug. 19th.—Shropshire Horticultural Societys’ 
Show (2 days). Flower Shows at Abingdon and Swindon. 
Thursday, Aug. 20th.—Trade Sale of Dutch Bulbs at 
Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. Leighton Buzzard Flower Show. 
Friday, Aug. 21st.—Sale of Orchids at Protheroe & Morris’ 
Rooms. 
4% li'Ofid. 
Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY , AUGUST 1 5 th, 1891. 
I^rivate Plant Collections.— The death 
3 ” of the venerable Sir George Macleay, a 
few weeks since, has led, as we then thought 
would be the case, to the early dispersal 
of the fine collection of plants at Pendell 
Court. During the time the gardens there 
were under the control of the late Mr. 
Charles Green, and since under the admir¬ 
able supervision of Mr. Frank Ross, ample 
evidence of the wealth of good things 
grown in them has often been seen at 
the meetings of the Royal Horticultural 
Society. Mr. Ross has for some time, for 
special reasons, ceased to bring to London 
specimens of the beautiful plants grown at 
Pendell Court, and now that we learn the 
entire collection is speedily to be dispersed, 
it is certain that Pendell Court will pour 
out its treasures for the gratification of 
others no longer. 
It is not possible to regard the intended 
break-up of one of our fine gardens with 
other than exceeding regret. It may be 
that the plants will be dispersed to help to 
swell other plant collections. That is not 
at all certain, all the same, and too often 
it happens that many go abroad or into 
nurseries to be cut up for stock, or in other 
ways pass out of sight and are no more 
||ursery Fruit Trees.— Our attention 
was Called the other day, in one of 
our large Metropolitan market gardens, to 
the very interesting fact that a quantity of 
Victoria Plum trees, some ten years 
planted, and which came from a nursery 
situated in a rather poor, sandy district, 
were fruiting enormously, whilst other 
trees of the same variety from nursery land 
of a deep, retentive kind were but bearing 
moderately. This was no isolated case, 
but had invariably been the same in 
previous years. The grower held that 
nursery grown trees of a too luxuriant 
habit invariably did worse from a fruiting 
point of view than do trees off poor land. 
The example showed that some of the 
trees had either been indifferently worked, 
or were on undesirable stocks, a feature 
which merits attention because all such 
trees can only be short-lived. Those trees 
from the strong soil were all robust and 
healthy, but still did not, and never did, 
bear so profusely as those from the poorer 
soil. 
Perhaps it would be wisest on the whole 
to plant young trees from rich soils into 
comparatively poor soils, as it is usually 
found that too much of vigour only conduces 
to barrenness, just as too little vigour 
conduces to fruitfulness, but then too 
often producing a poor sample. The 
transposition of robust trees into poor soil 
would doubtless lead to results nearly 
identical to those we have described. One 
very deplorable case was that of a large 
number of standard Apple trees, clean, and 
evidently, when in the nursery, of luxuriant 
growth, ninety per cent, of which had died, 
either because badly lifted last autumn 
when the soil was still hard and dry, or 
had suffered from the severe frost. The 
first hypothesis seems to be the most 
correct one, as the trees were planted early 
in the winter and some time before the 
severe weather set in. 
Those who plant largely incur some risk 
at all times, but specially so if trees be not 
carefully lifted so as to retain all the young 
fibrous roots. We do not imagine that 
failures of this kind often happen, hut the 
fact that they do sometimes shows the 
importance of exceeding care being taken 
in the lifting, the packing for transit by 
rail over long distances, and finally in the 
planting in their permanent places. 
Rutter Beans. —It would be an odd 
thing were there to arise just now a 
