September 22, 1888. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
47 
VEITCH’S 
COLLECTIONS OF 
BULBS 
TO SUIT ALL REQUIREMENTS. 
j®3” These, Collections are arranged on a most liberal 
scale, and contain only the most easily cultivated and 
attractive sorts of Winter and Spring Flowers. 
VEITCH’S 
COLLECTIONS OF BULBS 
FOE INDOOR CULTIVATION, 
At 10s. 6d., 21s., 42s., and 63s. 
For particulars see Catalogue, gratis and post free 
on application. 
VEITCH’S 
COLLECTIONS OF BULBS 
FOR CROWING IN THE OPEN GROUND, 
At 10s. 6d., 21s., 42s., and 63s. 
For particulars see Catalogue, gratis and post free 
on application. 
JAMES VEITCH& SONS, 
Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, S.W. j 
Dutch. Bulbs Cheap! 
French Bulbs Cheap l 
English Bulbs Cheap! 
S EE our Special Wholesale Catalogue of 
Bulbs, containing LIST of all the best varieties of 
HYACINTHS, TULIPS, CROCUS, LILIUMS, DAFFODILS, 
SNOWDROPS, IRIS, &c., free on application.—WATKINS & 
SIMPSON, Seed and Bulb Merchants, Exeter Street, Strand, 
W.C. 
“ONLY THB BEST.” 
Cheap Bulbs for Forging. 
ROMAN HYACINTHS .15s. per 100. 
DOUBLE ROMAN NARCISSUS. 8s. 
PAPER-WHITE ,, 7s. 
VAN THOL TULIPS. 4s. 6 d. „ 
SECOND-SIZED NAMED HYACINTHS for 
- forcing, our own selection, assorted colours ... 21s. 
UNNAMED HYACINTHS, for bedding. 14s. 6 d. „ 
15 per cent. Discount Cash with Order. Carnage Paid. 
NAMED HYACINTHS, best quality, equally cheap. 
GARAWAY & Co., 
DURDHAM DOWN, CLIFTON, BRISTOL. 
KENT: The Garden of England, 
WEBBS’ 
FREE BY POST 
OR RAIL, 
FINEST SELECTED 
ROOTS. 
BULBS, 
For GREENHOUSE DECORATION. 
Collection A, containing 461 Bulbs 
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.. Price 105 0 
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W EBBS’ B ULB C ATALOGUE 
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. 
WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
K 
OYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
N OTICE ! The next meeting of the Fruit 
and Floral Committees will be held in the Drill Hall of 
the London Scottish Rifle Volunteers, James Street, S.W., on 
Tuesday, September 25th, when the special subjects invited for 
exhibition will be Grapes, Tomatos, Autumn Border Flowers, 
&c. Open to Fellows at 12 o’clock, and to the public at 1 p.m. 
An Apple and Pear Conference will be held in the Society’s 
Gardens at Chiswick, from the 16th to the 20th of October. 
For particulars respecting the election of Fellows apply to the 
Secretary, 111, Victoria Street, S.W. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, September 24th.—Great Sales of Dutch Bulbs at 
Protheroe & Morris's and Stevens’ Rooms. 
Tuesday, September 25th.—Royal Horticultural Society: Meeting 
of Fruit and Floral Committees at 11 a.m. Sale of Orchids 
in Flower at Protheroe & Morris's Rooms. Sale of Plants, 
Greenhouses, &c., at “The Hall," Dulwich, by Mr. J. C. 
Stevens. 
Wednesday, September 26th.—Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Stevens 
Rooms. 
Thursday, September 27th —Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe 
& Morris's Rooms. Sale of Greenhouse Plants at the 
Brunswick Nursery, Tottenham, N., by Protheroe & Morris. 
Sale of Orchids, Lilium nepalense, &c., at Stevens' Rooms. 
Friday, September 2Sth.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe 
& Morris’s Rooms. 
Saturday, September 29th.—Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe 
& Morris’s Rooms. 
FOR INDEX TO CONTENTS, SEE P. 58. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER W, 1SSS. 
interfere with their poor method of living; 
and were a stop put now to the coster’s trade, 
whether on stalls or harrows, frightful misery 
would soon he wrought, not only amongst the 
poor dealers but also amongst the poor pur¬ 
chasers. A remarkable experience of how the 
poor live may be obtained by perambulating 
some of these market streets on Saturday 
nights, and noting how the few pence at their 
disposal is disbursed to secure some apology for 
the next day’s meals. A pennyworth of Pota- 
tos, as much spent on Beans and Turnips, 
perhaps a decent Cabbage or Marrow is pur¬ 
chased ; whilst some of the little wealthier of 
the poor will secure a Cauliflower. How 
thankful should we be that these garden pro¬ 
ducts are, for the sake of the poor, so plentiful 
and so cheap, and, withal, so comparatively 
fresh and good. Better the costers sold and 
the consumers bought in this way than that 
we should have to keep them all in our work- 
houses. ^ 
Autumn Roses.— Outdoor Roses have not 
only been making splendid growth, but have 
been blooming superbly also. Especially is 
this rich development of flowers seen on 
dwarfs, whether on the Manetti, the briar, or 
own roots. Strong growers seem to revel on 
their own roots this season, and have thrown up 
wonderful shoots from the base of the plants, 
so that these shoots resemble whip handles in 
size and length. From such wood next year, 
not only should very fine flowers he obtained, 
but the roots should, through such aid, receive 
a wonderful stimulus. To enable the plants 
to sustain this development, some additional 
help in the shape of top-dressings of manure 
should he given during the winter. The 
display of bloom just now seems to be of an 
exceptionally fine character, and with a little 
care flowers might be obtained which would 
vie with July blooms in size and beauty. 
Such a second flowering season should help to 
give the Rose, if it were needed, some addi¬ 
tional popularity. 
An Early Winter. —Wetrust that the croaker 
who has seen, in the somewhat early gathering 
of the Swallows, indications of an early winter, 
is at fault. Certainly the incoming of the 
winter early would be a grave misfortune. 
The summer, so far, has been very short, and 
only a lengthened and pleasant autumn can 
make it tolerable. Even yet the harvest is 
far from being gathered in, and away in the 
north is hardly begun. There are yet, also, 
many late cuts of grass to gather up. Turnips 
are growing slowly. Sunshine and comparative 
dryness of soil is needed to help the season’s 
shoots on trees to mature. Plants which pro¬ 
duce seed and are late, need a long season yet 
to enable them to perform their work. If this 
cannot be done the loss must be very heavy. 
We want a late autumn to enable myriads to 
enjoy the country and their gardens ; in fact, 
a fine period without appreciable frost until 
the end of October is a grave necessity, and, 
in spite of portents, we hope will be realised. 
STRAWBERRIES T ^° 
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, JVIAIDSTONE. 
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. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
Poor People’s Vegetables. —Some writers 
on trade—and amongst others we note so prac¬ 
tical a man as Mr. Samuel Rawson—have not 
hesitated to denounce the unfortunate coster¬ 
monger and his compeer, the owner of street 
stalls, for underselling the greengrocer or shop 
dealer in fruit and vegetables. Possibly it 
would lead these critics to take a more lenient 
view of the peripatetic coster were they to 
visit some of these thoroughfares in large 
towns, which are really market streets, where 
the street stalls form a striking feature, and 
where vast numbers of the poorest town 
dwellers get for a few pence what they would 
have to pay twice as much for if purchased in 
the shop or stores. 
If, as the old book says, the poor will always 
be with us, we must, at least, do nothing to 
Cheap Grapes. —The statement of one of 
the speakers at the recent St. Albans Fruit 
Conference, that he hoped it might yet be 
possible to grow and sell unheated-house Grapes 
at 4 d. per lb., naturally provoked some adverse 
criticism, as it is very certain that under 
no conditions could Grapes he grown under 
glass in this country, and he sold at such 
a trifling price at a profit. But it may 
interest some of our country readers to learn 
that vast quantities of thoroughly ripe and 
good-looking white Grapes, in bunches of from 
\ lb. to l jr lbs., have been just recently on 
sale in London at 3d. per lb., and although 
not equal to our house-grown Grapes they 
are a long way better than are any out-door 
Grapes the most favourable season will 
produce here. Possibly these imported 
Grapes are White Nice, or Trebbiano, neither 
