November 24, 1888. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
191 
HIGHEST AWABD 
FOK 
At the Manchester Royal Botanical Society’s Fruit 
and Potato Show, held at Old Trafford on November 
24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th, 1888, in OPEN COM¬ 
PETITION, the highest Award, 
GOLD MEDAL, 
WAS GIVEN TO 
DICKSON & ROBINSON 
Seed Merchants, 
MANCHESTER. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
T the National Great Show last week we 
were awarded the highest honours—THE SOCIETY’S 
SILVER-GILT MEDAL. „ ^ ^ . 
It is remarkable that the greater proportion of first prizes 
went to Kent, and from whence nearly all the best blooms came. 
What is even more remarkable, of the many thousands of 
growers from all parts of Europe whom we have had the pleasure 
of supplying, not a complaint was heard. All was praise and 
gratitude for the fine, fresh, stout, clean cuttings and plants which 
carried them to victory. 
Send for ours, the best Illustrated and Descriptive 
Catalogue, post free. 
H. CANNELL & SONS, 
SWANLET, KENT. 
/CHRYSANTHEMUMS. — Large bushy 
V_^ plants established in pots, mostly having from 50 to 100 
blooms on ; fine for Decoration, Cut Flowers or Show. Packed 
free, 6s. per doz. Tops struck for blooming in small pots, mixed, 
25 for Is., free. All best sorts grown. Peat, 2s. 6 il. per sack.— 
TURNER, Thatto Heath, St. Helens, Lane. 
O LD-FASHIONED HEDGES. — English 
Tews, bushy, and with a profusion of fibrous roots, 1£ to 
2 ft., 6s. per doz., 35s. per 100 ; 2 to 2£ ft., Ss. per doz., 50s. per 
100: 24 to 3 ft., 9s. per doz., 60s. per 100 ; 3 to 3J ft., 12s. per 
doz.’, S4s. per 100. Prices of larger sizes and other Evergreens 
suitable for Hedges (e.y., Tree Box, Holly, Laurel, Privet, 
Cypress, Juniper, Thuja, &c.) on application. — RICHARD 
SMITH & Co., Nurserymen and Seed Merchants, Worcester. 
AAA CLEMATIS IN POTS, of all 
5 VA U Va the finest double and single varieties (some 
of the flowers of which become 10 inches across, and are of every 
shade, from pure white to the darkest purple), for climbing and 
bedding, from 12s. to 24s. per dozen, strong plants. Beauty of 
Worcester, a magnificent purple, excellent for bedding, recently 
sent out by us ; reduced price, 2s. 6 d. each. Descriptive List on 
application.—RICHARD SMITH & Co., Nurserymen and Seed 
Merchants, Worcester. 
“The Flower of the Future.” 
m he tuberous begonia, its 
I HISTORY AND CULTIVATION—Now Ready, Demy 
8 vo., Cloth Boards, with 25 illustrations, including Portraits of 
Mr. John Laing, Mr. H. Cannell and the late Mr. R. Pearce. 
Price Is.; Post Free, Is. 3d. Gardening World Office, IT, 
Catherine Street, London, W.C., and all Booksellers. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, November 26tli.—Bulb Sales at Protheroe & Morris’s, 
and Stevens’ Rooms. 
Tuesday, November 27th. —Sale of Orchids in Flower at 
Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Wednesday, November 28th.—Chrysanthemum Show at Luton 
(2 days). Sale of Bulbs at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Thursday-, November 29th.—Bulb Sale at Protheroe & Morris’s 
Rooms. 
Friday, November 30th. — Eccles, Patricroft, and Pendleton 
Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). Committee Meeting of 
Gardeners' Orphan Fund at six p.m. Sale of Orchids at 
Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Saturday, December 1st.—Bulb Sales at Protheroe & Morris’s, 
and Stevens’ Rooms. 
For Index to Contents & Advertisements, see p. 202. 
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First Prize ROSES, CARNATIONS, ftc. 
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Many other good things are offered equally cheap. Write 
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A few reasons for getting them from 
RICHARD SMITH & Co.— 
We have dealt in them for more than 80 years. 
We have visited the best Bulb Farms, and have 
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The Bulbs we have supplied have practically 
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WORCESTER. 
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refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
4 
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1888. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
The Chiswick Movement.— There can be no 
doubt but that the favour or otherwise towards 
Chiswick as shown at the recent meeting 
of the Fellows and Committeemen of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, which we last week 
reported, was pretty much according to the locale 
of the person giving the opinion. It was, of 
course, but natural that those living south 
or east of London should object to meetings 
being held at a place some half-dozen miles 
■west of the metropolis, although that place 
is singularly accessible all the same. In our 
efforts to secure for Chiswick more favourable 
consideration as well as to make it to some 
extent the place for holding the society’s 
regular meetings, we have not lost sight of 
the fact that moving these meetings to Chis¬ 
wick would, of course, favour some attendants 
and exhibitors at the meetings at the expense 
of others. But then, take what course Ave 
may, someone must suffer. 
These personal considerations, however, 
should not influence any Avho have the wel¬ 
fare of the society at heart, and after the 
year’s experience at Westminster, we do ask 
all who may feel ever so greatly grieved by 
the removal of the meetings to ChisAvick, 
■what gain the St. James’ Street Drill Hall 
has proved to he to either the society or to 
horticulture ; and Iioav far it has in holding 
meetings there fallen short of its earlier 
anticipations % It may he a serious matter in 
the minds of some objectors to remove the 
meetings to Chiswick, and we ask so much 
only for the larger ones; but Ave cannot 
disguise the fact that a grave responsibility 
hangs round the necks of those who have 
been and are pressing the society to retain yet 
for another year the cold, repellant place which 
all detest, and yet so many are afraid to quit. 
We have much more faith in Chiswick as a 
centre—both of population and of horticul¬ 
ture—than many objectors have. Still their 
opinion must be respected all the same. 
There can be no cpiestion but that the Drill 
Hall Avill be still a millstone round the 
society’s neck, Avhilst the sum spent on it 
would be a veritable God-send tOAvards help¬ 
ing impoverished ChisAvick. 
The Chrysanthemum Centenary. —It Avill 
perhaps have occurred to some of our readers, 
that the assumed date of the introduction of 
the Chrysanthemum into England is identical 
with that of the greatest public event of 
modern times—the Great French Revolution 
of 1799. Whether or no the promoters of 
the centenary commemoration are absolutely 
assured of the exact date of the introduction 
of the flower, it Avill be odd all the same if 
found to have been at a time when the entire 
political world of Europe was excited by 
events in France absolutely A\ r ithout a parallel. 
The introduction of the Chrysanthemum is 
but another illustration of the old saying, 
‘ ‘ from AA’hat trivial causes do great results 
spring ”; for the Chrysanthemum is now, 
Avithout exception even perhaps of the Rose, 
the Avidest cultivated and most popular of 
garden flowers in the Avhole Avorld. 
Here in England it has become an absolute 
essential of our garden life. We could hardly 
exist without it, and gardening Avould he 
robbed of one-half its pleasure Avere Chrysan¬ 
themums absolutely destroyed. We hope ere 
setting about this centenary our Chrysanthe¬ 
mum friends have made absolutely sure of 
their dates. There are so many critics of 
history noAV-a-days, men of the greatest 
audacity, Avho Avill only too freely with their 
undeniable facts knock cherished tradition 
into a cocked-hat hi no time, that it is best, 
even in the case of a highly favoured senti¬ 
ment, to he very careful. Of course, no 
method of celebrating the centenary of our 
loved flower, of such undoubted Mongolian 
origin all the same, would seem more appro¬ 
priate than an exhibition of imprecedented 
dimensions, held in London; but to effect 
that some self-denial would have to be 
practised in other directions hi order that 
a grand idea might not be minimised by the 
want of concerted action. The material now 
employed in the making of some fifty local 
metropolitan shows, if employed in the pro¬ 
duction of one grand exhibition might result 
in something worthy of the centenary cele¬ 
bration. 
Protective Earthing of Potatos. — The 
report of the comparatively successful experi¬ 
ment in the protective earthing of Potatos 
against the attacks of the Peronospora infestans, 
we published last Aveek as having been con¬ 
ducted at Chiswick during the past summer 
has naturally attracted very much attention. 
Whilst we have been flooded during many 
years Avith all sorts of information Avith 
respect to the purely scientific aspects of the 
Potato Disease, all of which, if helpful in 
understanding the nature of the fungus and 
Iioav it operates, yet it has been left exclu¬ 
sively to Mr. Jensen to indicate Avhat may 
he termed remedial measures or practical 
methods of dealing Avith the disease in 
ordinary Potato cultivation. Not only is Mr. 
Jensen’s method practical, but it is simple and 
easy of adoption universally, provided the 
Potatos are in rows sufficiently Avide apart, 
and planted specially Avith a view to the 
adoption of the protective moulding. 
It has been hard to create faith in the 
protective moulding system for two reasons, 
