September 1, 1888. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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B. 8, 
Well-ripened and heavy 
Fop Early Forcing. 
FINEST SELECTED. 
WHITE ROM HYACINTHS 
From 5 to 5f inches in circumference. 
PAPER-WHITE NARCISSUS 
From 5 to 6 inches in circumference. 
DOUBLE ROMAN NARCISSUS 
From 5 to 6^ inches in circumference. 
LILIUM GANDIDUM 
Pure white, extra strong bulbs ; also 
HYACINTHS FOR POTS AND GLASSES. 
HYACINTHS FOR BEDDING. 
TULIPS, SINGLE AND DOUBLE. 
NARCISSUS IN VARIETY. 
CROCUS IN VARIETY. 
JONQUILS, SINGLE AND DOUBLE. 
ANEMONES, FREESI AS, RANUNCULUS, 
GLADIOLI, EARLY-FLOWERING VARS. 
SNOWDROPS, SCILLAS, LILIUM HARRISI. 
Special prices will be submitted for large quantities. 
FOR PARTICULARS SEE 
Illustrated Bulb Catalogue, 
Forwarded gratis and post free to all applicants. 
Bulb Catalogue has been posted to all Customers; 
anyone not having received same another copy will be 
forwarded on application. 
Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 
UPPEE HOLLOWAY, LOSTDOH, ST. 
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NOW IN FULL BLOOM. 
EGONIAS.— Awarded Four Gold Medals. 
Unequalled as a floral display. Visitors are cordially in¬ 
vited ; free admission. Frequent trains from the City and "West 
End to Catford Bridge and Forest Hill Stations. 
JOHN LAING & SONS, 
STANSTEAD PARK, FOREST HILL, S E. 
“ONLY THE BUST.” 
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WEBBS 
EARLY FORCING 
F LOWER ROOTS 
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ROMAN HYACINTHS — 
Early White, selected roots .2s. per doz. 5 
Ditto .15s. per 100. j 
FINEST NAMED HYACINTHS.. .. 6s. to 12s. per doz. 5 
POLYANTHUS NARCISSUS— 
Double Roman .3 cl. each, Is. 6cl. per doz. 
Paper White .. .. .. .. 3 d. each, Is. Qd. per doz. j 
EARLY TULIPS— 
Due Van Thol, single, scarlet and yellow, 9 d. per doz., os. 
Ditto double ditto 8d. per doz., 3s. 6 d. 
100. 
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WEBBS’ BULB CATALOGUE 
Beautifully Illustrated, and containing complete 
cultural instructions. 
Now ready , Gratis and Post Free. 
Seedsmen by Royal Warrants to H.M. the Queen 
and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. 
W0RDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
Crystal Palace. 
G reat annual exhibition of 
FRUIT and GRAND NATIONAL DAHLIA SHOW, 
Friday and Saturday, September ,7th and 8th, 1SS8. In con¬ 
junction with the Fruit Show, arrangements have been made for a 
CONFERENCE OF FRUIT GROWERS. 
The questions to be discussed will include the Profitable 
Culture of Fruits for Market and Home Supply, the Packing, 
Carriage, and Sale of Fruits, their Economic Importance and 
Utilisation. Hon. Secretaries to Conference : 
Mr. WILLIAM EARLY, Ilford, 
Mr. LEWIS CASTLE, Hotham House, South "Wimbledon. 
Engagements for Next Week. 
Monday, September 3rd.—National Chrysanthemum Society : 
General Meeting at 7.30 p.m. Sale of Dutch Bulbs at 
Protheroe & Morris’s, and Stevens’ Rooms. 
Tuesday, September 4th.—Bicester Flower Show. Sale of 
Imported Orchids at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Wednesday, September 5th.—Royal Caledonian Horticultural 
Society's Show at Edinburgh (2 days). Bath Floral Fete 
(2 days). Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Thubsday, September 6th.—Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe 
& Morris’s Rooms. 
Fp.iday, September 7tli.—Dahlia and Fruit Show, and Con¬ 
ference of Fruit Growers at the Crystal Palace (2 days). 
Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe & Morris Rooms. 
Sale of the Royal Nursery, Ascot, at the Mart, by Protheroe 
& Morris. 
Saturday, September 8th.—Bulb Sale at Stevens’, and Protheroe 
& Morris’s Rooms. 
same we hope that some higher con¬ 
siderations have animated the promoters of 
these conferences, and that a real, we may- 
even say an enthusiastic desire to develop 
hardy fruit culture in the kingdom is the 
actuating force. 
At the Crystal Palace, on Friday and Satur¬ 
day next, the culture of hardy fruit in relation 
to agriculture is chiefly to he discussed, 
whilst at Chiswick some few weeks later we 
shall be instructed mainly, so far as there is 
room for instruction, in whatsoever may 
concern the culture of hardy fruits in 
gardens and ordinary orchards. Before both 
gatherings a wide field for inquiry and dis¬ 
cussion is opened ; but still, both will sadly 
fail of the needs of the case if some con¬ 
sideration is not given to the interesting as well 
as the important subject of the importations 
of hardy fruits into this country, and how 
these considerable importations can he checked 
by home-raised produce. Possibly a harder 
nut to crack may be, found in the consider¬ 
ation of how to counteract climatic troubles 
and difficulties incidental to fruit production, 
as found in varying and ungenerous seasons. 
More Rain !—The weather has again been 
a sad incident of the week, the heavy downpour, 
accompanied by strong cold winds, of Tuesday 
and later having wrought infinite mischief 
amongst the corn, much of which is in process 
of being harvested. Seed crops generally, and 
Peas especially, suffer severely also; indeed, 
we fear a very bad crop of seed Peas, wrinkled 
forms especially, must result. The low tem¬ 
perature, combined with the excessive saturation 
of the soil, is acting adversely upon vegetation, 
which it is desirable should progress rapidly 
to maturity ; whilst all the Cabbage or Brassica 
tribe is literally running riot in luxuriant 
growth. To town dwellers a day’s heavy rain 
is probably little more than an unwelcome 
incident, hut to the cultivator of the soil such 
weather as has marked the week so far brings 
gloom and dismay. Should the autumn finally 
take the same ungenerous and wretched line 
which lias so far marked the summer, then will 
agriculture, as well as gardening, receive an 
overwhelming blow, to ease which the appoint¬ 
ment of Ministers or Boards of Agriculture 
would be as ludicrous and helpless as can well 
he conceived. 
Cheap Bulbs for Forging. 
ROMAN HYACINTHS .15s. per 100. 
DOUBLE ROMAN NARCISSUS. Ss. 
PAPER-WHITE ,, 7s. 
VAN THOL TULIPS. 4s. 6d. „ 
SECOND-SIZED NAMED HYACINTHS for 
forcing, our own selection, assorted colours ... 21s. ,, 
UNNAMED HYACINTHS, for bedding. 14s. 6cZ. „ ' 
15 per cent. Discount Cash with Order. Carriage Paid. 
NAMED HYACINTHS,best quality, equally cheap. 
GARAWAY & Go., 
DURDHAM DOWN, CLIFTON, BRISTOL. 
KENT: The Garden of England. 
STRAWBERRIES t n r aV° 
GEO. BUNYARD & Co.’s 
New List, embracing Noble, Waterloo, etc., and the 
30 best kinds, may now be had on application. 
Splendid plants in little pots, and runners. 
THE OLD NURSERIES, MAIDSTONE. 
ROSES in POTS. 
All the best New and Old English and Foreign sorts, 
from 18s. to 36s. per dozen. 
Descriptive List free on application. 
RICHARD SMITH & Co., 
Nurserymen and Seed Merchants, 
WORCESTER. 
FOR INDEX TO CONTENTS, SEE P. 14. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.” —Bacon. 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1888. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
The Fruit Conferences. —Two real con¬ 
ferences on hardy fruits, their culture, uses, &c., 
in one year seems to indicate a sudden awaken¬ 
ing either to the value of competition or else 
to the importance of hardy fruits both as 
objects of general culture and of consumption 
as food. It matters little what motives may 
have actuated this or that originator of the 
respective gatherings, this or that body or 
committee charged with their conduct and, 
we cordially hope, successful issue. Even if 
the former incentive has been the actuating 
one, it will not he the first time in the 
world’s history that dubious motives have 
been productive of useful results. All the 
Mr. Gladstone on Spade Culture. —This 
eminent statesman has shown again his re¬ 
markable versatility of thought as well as 
of speech in the extremely interesting and 
non-debateable address given to the cottagers 
at Hawarden on the occasion of the recent 
annual flower show at that place. Having- 
in previous years forcibly advocated the 
general cultivation of fruit by farmers, and 
also, by cottagers, the right hon. gentleman 
this time went a step farther, and as boldly 
endorsed all that has been urged in this as 
in other gardening papers from time to time 
as to the value of spade cultivation. 
The term spade is by Mr. Gladstone wisely 
shown to he of wide application as applied 
to culture, and practically signifies gardening— 
and good gardening. The mistake made some 
years since by both landowners and farmers 
in aggregating small farms and many home¬ 
steads into large farms worked by considerable 
capital and machinery has practically failed, 
and there remains now for the land interest 
no other resource hut to revert to small holdings 
and “ spade ” cultivation. This method alone 
will re-people the soil, give universal employ¬ 
ment, and extend practical gardening through¬ 
out all parts of the kingdom somewhat in 
the direction which so widely exists on the 
Continent. Domestic life and land culti¬ 
vation must conjointly form the backbone of 
English rural life and prosperity. With 
these will come vegetables, fruits, poultry, 
bees, and other products which form blessings 
to every household. 
