December 8, 1888. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
223 
FRUIT TREES. 
SEVENTY-FOUR ACRES. 
APPLES, PEARS, PLUMS, CHERRIES, PEACHES. 
NECTARINES, APRICOTS, and other FRUIT TREES, as 
Standards, Dwarfs, Pyramids, Bushes, Cordon, and Trained 
Trees in great variety. 
VINES, excellent Canes, 3s. 6 d., 5s,, 7s. Gd., and 10s. 6 cl. 
Orchard House Trees in pots, PEACHES, APRICOTS, NEC¬ 
TARINES, &c., from 5s. FIGS from 3s. 6 d. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST, containing a sketch of the various 
forms of Trees, with Directions for Cultivation, Soil, Drainage, 
Manure, Pruning, Lifting, Cropping, Treatment under Glass ; 
also their Synonyms, Quality, Size, Form, Skin, Colour, Flesh, 
Flavour, Use, Growth, Duration, Season. Price, &c., free by 
post. _ 
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WORCESTER. 
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Mammoth Bulbs, 2s. 6 d. and 3s. 6 d. each. All sent packing and 
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Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, December 10th.—Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe & 
Morris’s, and Stevens’ Rooms. Clearance Sale of Nursery 
Stock at the Hadley Nursery, Barnet, by Protheroe & 
Morris. 
Tuesday, December 11th.—Royal Horticultural Society : Meet¬ 
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Wednesday, December 12th. — Sale of Lily and other Bulbs, 
Greenhouse Plants, &c„ at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Thursday, December 13th.—Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe 
& J'o-ris’s Rooms 
Friday, December 14tli.— Sale of Imported and Established 
Orchids at Protheroe and Morris’s Rooms. 
Saturday, December 15th.—Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Stevens’ 
Rooms. 
For Index to Contents & Advertisements, see p. 234. 
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1888. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
Border Tulips.— The very pleasant paper 
on the Florist’s Tulip, which we published 
lost week from the pen of that prince of 
florists,—should we not say primate rather 
than prince 1 —the Rev. F. D. Horner, will, we 
hope, assist to draw attention to the wondrous 
beauties and glorious colourings found in 
one of the hardiest of bulbs. Everybody 
who has a garden appreciates the presence 
in bloom during the month of April of 
masses or clumps of single and double Dutch 
Tulips, for are not these one of the most 
elegant and gorgeous of spring flowers'? But 
there is yet another section, blooming later, 
produced on taller stems, seldom of double 
form, but still so hardy that they exist and 
bloom from year to year, giving little trouble, 
and yet a wealth of colour and of beauty in 
their season. 
These late border Tulips rank with rural 
cottagers amongst the most popular of garden 
flowers. Big clumps of yellows, whites, reds, 
crimsons, and purples, with many broken or 
rectified flowers, serve to make the cottage 
gardens in rural districts wonderfully gay, 
and all with so little trouble that the wonder 
is similar displays are not found in larger or 
pretentious gardens as well as in those of the 
cottager. The florists’ Tulips are the select 
or elite of this race, a wondrously refined and 
beautiful class of flowers, absolutely perfect 
in form and in markings, although the Tulip 
florist alone can appreciate the wondrous 
excellence found in flakes and hybloemens of 
many hues. 
But if growers of these are connoisseurs 
and few, the growers of the hardy and 
usually self colours are legion, and may well 
be many legions. It is not too late even 
yet to plant bulbs of these hardy border 
kinds. Let our readers seek Tulip salvation 
whilst there is yet time, and then henceforth 
bless the day they started hardy border Tulip 
culture. 
Allotments. —Amongst the duties to be 
discharged by the new County Councils is the 
administration of the Allotments Act of 1887 
—an Act which has so far sadly failed in its 
aims, not only because of the defects of its 
clauses, but also because its working lias 
been left to the tender mercies of Boards of 
Guardians, local governing bodies of the worst 
possible kind, and least of all possessing any 
sympathy with working men in their desire 
to obtain garden allotments. The new County 
Councils will consist of a superior class of 
members, men, we trust, actuated by broader 
and higher sentiments than are those found 
in the minds of average Guardians of the 
Poor. We may, therefore, very well hope 
that in the new hands the Act may be 
administered with intelligence; that, indeed, 
every desire will be shown to make its 
provisions practical realities. 
We have recently had under notice a case 
in which a number of hard-working men 
who have for several years occupied and 
very efficiently cultivated and cropped some 
allotment land, now find themselves as 
tenants about to be summarily turned out of 
their little holdings and all their labours 
ignored, because the owner desires to put 
the land to other uses. Now the owner may 
be only doing that which is legal, but such 
actions all the same are morally unjust, and 
the putting into operation generally of the 
provisions of the Allotment Act of 1887 by 
the County Councils, would prevent such 
injustice being henceforth perpetrated. 
Land for allotment purposes should he 
either purchased for that intention solely, 
being so devoted in perpetuity, or it would be 
rented by the county authorities for the same 
purpose on long leases, thus ensuring for 
the poor tenants practically enduring tenure, 
provided of course the regulations needful 
for the protection of the county authorities 
were duly carried out and respected. 
Public Markets. —The City of London 
Corporation intimate their intention to erect 
a new Fruit and Vegetable Market on a site 
long vacant at Smithfield. Although a new 
erection, it will after all but replace the old 
and discreditable Farringdon Street Market, 
which has long been doomed, hut lias equally 
long had to wait for a new habitation. That 
the City Corporation has so far provided a 
series of very fine public markets for the 
sale of the necessaries of life none can deny, 
neither can anyone deny that the costliness 
of these structures has necessitated the 
charging of considerable stall-holder’s fees, 
and farther, that the income derived from 
these sources has been an enormous one. 
Now it is all very well to erect new 
markets and to seek for public approval of 
such an exhibition of public spirit, but if 
the fees charged for the use of the same are 
heavy, the public can benefit from the 
establishment of such markets only inappreci¬ 
ably. 
The markets element in relation to the 
profitable disposal of the produce of the land 
