December 15, 1888. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
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SPECIAL LINES. 
HARDY CLIMBERS. 
ORN AM ENTAL-LEAVED IVIES. —All grown in pots. 
These are very beautiful objects for training about 
doors, windows or places where the eye comes in close 
contact; also make charming objects in the shrub¬ 
bery fastened to a stout stake, where their pendent 
branches at once attract the eye as objects of great 
beauty, 3 ft. to 4 ft., Is. 3c?. each. 
IRISH IVIES. —Grand plants, 3 ft. high, 6 d. each. 
HONEYSUCKLE, SCARLET TRUMPET.— A de¬ 
liciously fragrant, and an old favourite creeper, 3 ft. 
to 4 ft., 9 d. each. 
VIRGINIAN CREEPERS. —A very rapid grower, and 
much admired ; the crimson tint of the leaves in 
autumn is quite lovel} 7 . 9c?. each. 
PYRACANTHA JAPONICA. —A very much admired 
creeper; bears clusters of bright scarlet berries. 
Is. each. 
CLEMATIS FLAMMULA. —Most rapid grower. 9c?. 
CLEMATIS VITALBA (Travellers’Joy).—These two 
are the very best for forming arbours ; they grow 
with such rapidity, and in a few seasons they form a 
complete bower. 9c?. 
JASMINUM NUDIFLORUM AUREA. — Bright 
golden flowers ; a most lovely object, flowering in 
the depth of winter. Is. 
JASMINUM OFFICINALE. —Pure white, flowers in 
spring, deliciously fragrant. Is. 
WISTARIA SINENSIS. —One of the most charming 
flowering creepers ; a perfect picture when laden with 
its beautiful lavender flower-trusses. Is. 
LONICERA RETICULATA. —A sweetly beautiful 
variety of Honeysuckle ; the variegation of its leaves 
is quite charming, composed of green and gold. 9c?. 
BIGNONIA RADICANS .—Another popular and very 
beautiful flowering creeper. Is. 
12 , from above, all different, my choice, 9s. ; 6, 5s. 
GLADIOLI BRENCHLEYENSIS. —One of the most 
gorgeous autumn flowers. 12 very fine bulbs, Is. 3c?., 
free. A special line. 
GLADIOLI THE BRIDE. —Pure white ; a very lovely 
thing, flowers early. 12 bulbs, Is. 6c?., free. 
AZALEA INDICA. —Grand plants, full of bud, 12, 
all different, very best sorts, 24s. ; 6, 13s. ; 2s. 6c?. 
each. 
CAMELLIAS, with four and five buds on each, all 
named, 2s. 6c?. each. Great bargains. 
A. J. A. BRUCE, 
The Nurseries, 
CHORLTON-CUM-HARDY, MANCHESTER. 
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L TREES, 800 Kinds, Six Stamps. 
SKELETON LIST—Names and Prices, also all Outdoor 
Stock—Gratis- 
ROSE LIST, CONIFER and SHRUB LISTS, Free. 
One Hundred Acres Nursery. Liberal terms. 
QCOTCH GAEDENEES are reminded that 
kj Fruit Trees from these Nurseries succeed grandly in the 
North (see Testimonials). 
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Truit 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. 6<i, and 10s. 6 d. 
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, &e., free by 
post. 
EICHAED SMITH & Co., 
WORCESTER. 
/NABTEES’ YADE MECUM FOE 1889 
V_V is Now Ready, and will (reach Messrs. CARTERS’ cus¬ 
tomers within the next few days. Price ONE SHILLING (post 
free) to unknown correspondents. It contains seven elegant 
Coloured Illustrations, and will he found a most thorough book 
of reference by all who desire to cultivate successfully the 
choicest Vegetables and the prettiest Flowers. 
JAMES CARTER & Co., The Queen's Seedsmen by Royal 
Warrant, 237 & 233, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C. 
O LD-FASHIONED HEDGES. — English 
Tews, bushy, and with a profusion of fibrous roots, 1J to 
2 ft., 6s. per doz., 35s. per 100 ; 2 to 2J ft., Ss. per doz., 50s. per 
100 ; 2£ to 3 ft., 9s. per doz., 60s. per 100 ; 3 to 3J ft., 12s. per 
doz., 84s. per 100. Prices of larger sizes and other Evergreens 
suitable for Hedges (e.gr., Tree Box, Holly, Laurel, Privet, 
Cypress, Juniper, Thuja’, &e.) on application. — RICHARD 
SMITH & Co., Nurserymen and Seed Merchants, Worcester. 
P ANSIES.—100 stout transplanted plants 
from open ground, in 8 named varieties, free, 2s. G d. ; 100 
Flowering Shrubs, in 100 very choice varieties, stout transplanted 
plants from open ground, 1 to 4 feet, free, carefully packed, 
27s. 6 d. Virginian Creepers, 12 strong transplanted plants, in 
8 distinct varieties, including A. Veitchii (small-leaved), A. 
sempervirens (evergreen), A. variegata (charming pink and white 
variegation), free, 3s. 9 d. China Roses (the true perpetuals), 10 
strong plants, on own roots, in 10 distinct varieties, free, 
2s. 9d.—J. GALVIN'S NURSERIES, Roscommon. 
on nnn clematis in pots, of ail 
O \J ) 'A U U 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. 
L ILIUM AUEATUM, THE GOLDEN- 
RATED LILY OF JAPAN, can now be purchased in 
cases containing 50 fine Bulbs, just as received from the Japanese 
Bulb Farms, unopened and unexamined, at 25s. per case, sent 
free to any Railway Station in England and Wales on receipt of 
Postal Order for 23s. 9<f. ; cases containing 100 fine Bulbs, price 
40s. Fine and sound Bulbs, per dozen, 4s., 6s., 9s., 12s. and ISs. 
Mammoth Bulbs, 2s. 6 d. and 3s. 6 d. each. All sent packing and 
carriage free.—CARTERS', Royal Seedsmen by Sealed Warrants, 
237 and 238, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Tuesday, Dec. 18th. — Sample Sale at Protheroe & Morris’s 
Rooms. 
Wednesday, Dec. 19th.—Sale of Bulbs and Plants at Protheroe 
& Morris's Rooms. Sale of Shrubs, Bulbs, Ac., at Stevens’ 
Rooms. 
Thursday, Dec. 20th.—Final Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe 
& Morris's Rooms. Sale of Lilies and Tuberoses at Stevens' 
Rooms. 
Friday, Dec. 21st.—Sale of Orchids in Flower, &e., at Protheroe 
A Morris's Rooms. 
Saturday, Dec. 22nd.—Sale of Shrubs and Bulbs at Stevens’ 
Rooms. 
For Index to Contents & Advertisements, see p. 250. 
SATURDAY , DECEMBER 15, 1888. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
The Chrysanthemum Conference. — The 
National Chrysanthemum Society has done 
well to recognise the fact that other duties and 
responsibilities rest upon horticultural societies, 
and especially upon such bodies as the one in 
question, than is found in the mere arranging 
of exhibitions, and offering prizes for competi¬ 
tion. That the competitions are the natural 
outcome of the universal cultivation of our 
most beautiful autumn and winter flower 
may he taken for granted ; but after all the 
chief labour of such a society should be found 
in fostering deep love for the Chrysanthemum 
apart from its exhibition properties, and in 
developing wide cultivation, as well as the 
knowledge of good cultivation in the most 
liberal way. Therefore we hail with satisfac¬ 
tion the proposed conference because it evi¬ 
dences a desire on the part of the society to 
step out of the beaten track, and to do some¬ 
thing as useful as it will be unostentatious. 
Naturally in arranging a conference it is 
needful, to give it value, that it should be a 
little original and the reverse of stereotyped. 
To have papers on such subjects as Avere dealt 
with at Sheffield so admirably, or to cover 
ground thrashed over time after time in 
gardening publications and books, would be 
little less than wasting time. That the con¬ 
ference is to be held during the mid-winter 
show points to the conclusion that the 
cultivation of plants—with best varieties for 
the purpose—to produce January flowers of 
good quality would be of special interest and 
value. We have such an immense wealth of 
flowers of every kind before Christmas that 
knowledge of the art of producing these is far 
less needed than is special information as to 
the production of flowers in mid-winter. Then 
there is in prospect — if yet remote — the 
centenary celebrations, the best method of 
conducting which should also form a topic of 
discussion. To do it well is of such import¬ 
ance that how to proceed with that view can 
hardly be discussed too early, and it is but 
fair that all classes of Chrysanthemum fanciers 
should have their say in the matter, as well as 
members of managing committees. 
Prospective Weather. —With all its custo¬ 
mary affability the weather has of late afforded 
ample stock of material for conversation both 
in public and in private. Britishers perhaps 
have rarely ever realised, or realising, have 
recognised how much in a conversational aspect 
they owe to the weather. It is so varied in its 
character, and so often just the reverse if not 
of what it ought to be, at least, what it is 
expected to be, that almost every day brings 
new aspects for surprise and remark. That 
we have recently had some Avonderful weather 
for the time of year there can be no doubt. 
Enthusiasts have spoken of it as delightfully 
spring-like, somewhat oblivious of the fact that 
springs now-a-days have in them too much of 
a tinge of iciness, of bitter easters, and of 
sharp Avhite frosts, to merit the appellation of 
idealistic. 
That the recent weather was just Avhat we 
would like to see in the spring months 
there could be no doubt, and the birds with 
their rich harmonies, and the spring flowers 
in their profuse blooming seemed to realise 
that for once spring—the spring-tide of poesy 
and tradition—had come. Will the Avinter 
partake of the soft mild nature of its earlier 
days 1 That is indeed hard to tell, for the 
soft placid mildness of one Aveek may be 
changed into fierce storms of snoiv and sleet, 
or to intense frosts the next. We have 
absolutely no data upon which to base our 
anticipations of the coming Aiunter—indeed, 
data of any kind seems valueless, as even our 
most capable meteorologists can hardly foretell 
the nature of the Aveather for one day. Gilbert 
White, in his interesting Natural History of 
Selborne, left behind some general descrip¬ 
tions of the seasons about one hundred years 
ago, and Avith the exception that their Avin- 
ters- occasionally Avere colder, the frosts 
severer, and the snoiv-falls deeper, Avhilst also 
at times summers Avere intensely hot, there 
does not yet appear to have been any great 
divergence from the general tenour of seasons 
noAV. On the Avhole, perhaps, we have now 
less of extremes and more of equability. Is 
any observer now furnishing for future genera¬ 
tions such weather notes as White gave us 
of the weather a century since 1 
A Bose Conference. — Yet another con¬ 
ference is in prospect, in fact an epidemic of 
horticultural conferences seems to have set 
in recently. This later conference is to relate 
to the Eose, and if Ave have in the subject one 
Avhich has been Avritten about most exhaus¬ 
tively, yet it may prove that something fresh 
is to be said. It will be hard to provide for 
the Eose greater popularity, for it is the 
most prized of garden floAvers; but the confer¬ 
ence may help to popularise higher cultivation. 
Perhaps something also may be done to create 
a taste for those Eoses, Avhich if beautiful in 
gardens, are not adapted to win cups and 
