December 22, 1888. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
255 
SPECIAL LUTES. 
HARDY CLIMBERS. 
ORNAMENT A L-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. 3d. each. 
IRISH IVIES. —Grand plants, 3 ft. high, 6d. each. 
HONEYSUCKLE, SCARLET TRUMPET.— A de¬ 
liciously fragrant, and an old favourite creeper, 3 ft. 
to 4 ft., 9d each. 
VIRGINIAN CREEPERS. —A very rapid grower, and 
much admired ; 'the crimson tint of the leaves in 
autumn is quite lovely. 9 d. each. 
PYRACANTHA JAPONICA. —A very much admired 
creeper; bears clusters of bright scarlet berries. 
Is. each. 
CLEMATIS FLAM MU LA. —Most rapid grower. 9 d. 
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. 9 d. 
JASMINUM NUDIFLORUM AU REA. — 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 REilCULATA. —A sweetly beautiful 
variety of Honeysuckle ; the variegation of its leaves 
is quite charming, composed of green and gold. 9 d. 
BIG NON IA RAD I CANS. —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. 3d., 
free. A special line. 
GLADIOLI THE BRIDE.— Pure white ; a very lovely 
thing, flowers early. 12 bulbs, Is. 6d., free. 
AZALEA INDICA.— Grand plants, full of bud, 12, 
all different, very best sorts, 24s. ; 6, 13s. ; 2s. 6 d. 
each. 
CAMELLIAS, with four and five buds on each, all 
named, 2s. 6d. each. Great bargains. 
A. J. A. BRUCE, 
The Nurseries, 
CHORLTON-CUM-HARDY, MANCHESTER. 
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free) to unknown correspondents. It contains seven elegant 
Coloured Illustrations, and will be 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 & 23S, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C. 
P AXSIES.—100 stout transplanted plants 
from open ground, in S named varieties, free, 2s. 6 d. ; 100 
Flowering Shrubs, in 100 very choice varieties, stout transplanted 
plants from open ground, 1 to 4 feet, free, carefully packed, 
27s. 64. Virginian Creepers, 12 strong transplanted plants, in 
S distinct varieties, including A. Veitchii (small-leaved), A. 
sempervirens (evergreen), A. variegata (charming pink and white 
variegation), free, 3s. 94. China Roses (the true perpetuals), 10 
strong plants, on own roots, in 10 distinct varieties, free, 
2s. 94.—J. GALVIN'S NURSERIES, Roscommon. 
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Descriptive Catalogue with cultural directions by E. Molyneux 
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best Descriptive Catalogue. Price 6d. Free to customers. 
Awarded Three Medals and Twenty First Class Certificates. 
I never Exhibit for Prizes in competition with Gardeners or 
Amateurs. Open to purchase new varieties of merit. 
R. OWEN, F.N.C.S., Floral Nursery, MAIDENHEAD. 
TEXSEX’S GUAXOS are the most perfect 
?s Fertilisers. Promote and sustain all growths. Do not 
exhaust, but enrich the soil. Analyses guaranteed. Six Prize 
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RO OOO CLEMA TIS IX POTS, of all 
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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. 6d. each. Descriptive List on 
application.—RICHARD SMITH & Co., Nurserymen and Seed 
Merchants, Worcester. 
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ILIUM AURATUM, THE GOLDEX- 
RAYED 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. 94.; cases containing 100 fine Bulbs, price 
40s. Fine and sound Bulbs, per dozen, 4s., 6s., 9s., 12s. and 18s. 
Mammoth Bulbs, 2s. 64. and 3s. 64. each. All sent packing and 
carriage free.—CARTERS’, Royal Seedsmen by Sealed Warrants, 
237 and 23S, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON. 
For Index to Contents & Advertisements, see p. 266. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1888. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
Christmas. — The, Christmastide which we 
shall celebrate nest week indicates the close of 
the year, but with whatsoever joy we may 
look forward to the advent of 1889, we shall 
at least part with the closing year without 
regret. For gardening and gardeners it has 
been a disastrous period ; its weather will long 
be remembered, and probably quoted by onr 
children as the particularly cold, wet, uncon¬ 
genial year of 1888. Probably, too, in 
celebrating Christmas, most of onr readers will 
rather welcome it, because it indicates the 
passing away of a bad time, than for any other 
reason. 
We can hardly expect to see a return next 
year of the experience of the passing one ; we 
hope, rather, that the new year may prove to 
be a pleasant and generous one, full of 
encouragement and help to the gardener. The 
year’s date serves to indicate to us that the 
century is fast drawing to a close, and some 
eleven years hence we shall be entering upon 
the twentieth century of years of the Christian 
era. 
There may not he much to recall that is of 
special interest in horticulture in any one year 
of the nineteenth century—least of all in the 
unfortunate one that is fast dying out — but 
the horticultural developments of the past half 
century have been indeed wonderful, for 
during that time gardening has been almost 
revolutionised. Our rate of progress now is 
slower, but not less practical—perhaps, indeed, 
it is more so—and if the remaining years of 
the century show nothing startling in garden 
development, they will certainly exhibit garden¬ 
ing steadily marching onwards. We shall, 
however, be able to refer to that progress more 
fittingly, if spared, some eleven years hence. 
For the present we content ourselves with very 
heartily -wishing all our readers and friends a 
very happy and enjoyable festive season. 
A Vegetable Conference.— Orchids, 
Primulacea, Potatos, and some other garden 
products have had their conferential honours, 
and may again. So also have Apples and 
Pears, and worthily so Chrysanthemums and 
Roses, as we have recently shown, are to be duly 
feted in the same way. And now we hear of 
a Vegetable Conference, which it is hoped may 
prove not less attractive than any of its pre¬ 
decessors, whilst, having regard to its elements, 
it ought to prove one of the most practical. 
We are glad to know that Chiswick is to he the 
place of meeting, and very fitly so, for of all the 
good work done in the old gardens there is 
none that has had more general interest than 
its vegetable supervision. The project is so far 
only suggested, we are not so sure that it has 
been adopted, but the idea is to hold the confer¬ 
ence about the end of September next, though 
what particular form it will assume must be 
left for the committee directing it to determine ; 
we cannot doubt but that it will be broad as 
well as jiractical. 
In promoting a conference of this description, 
which of course will include an exhibition of 
vegetable garden products, there -will be on the 
one hand the distinct advantage that the end 
of September finds few ordinary exhibitions in 
competition, also that it presents a capital time 
for the exhibition of autumn vegetables in 
the best possible form; on the other hand there 
is the difficulty that vegetable exhibitors, who 
ordinarily comprise our best growers, have 
been so considerably pampered by liberal prizes 
at shows that they may find it hard to exhibit 
for love alone and not for money. But then, 
again, we have the example of the Apple and 
Pear Congresses as evidence of what pure love 
can accomplish, and we may well hope that the 
higher passion may rule as strongly as regards 
vegetables. The exhibition department, it is 
hoped, will deviate somewhat from the beaten 
track, and if even the conference department 
can be made more conversational and less 
didactic so much the better. 
The Trade.— Xow and again, as with 
feverish intermittence, denunciations are hurled 
at the horticultural trade because of its con¬ 
nection with the Royal Horticultural Society, 
and it is invariably gravely hinted that such 
connection is used by the trade for selfish 
purposes. Xow it is very odd, hut a fact all 
the same, that this kind of invective and of 
suspicion seems to be reserved for the trade in 
association with the Royal Horticultural Society 
only, and is little heard of in connection with 
other similar bodies. The charge is a very 
foolish one, and is quite unfounded ; and 
those who make it, in claiming for themselves 
that they are the sole depositories of horti¬ 
cultural purity and enthusiasm, quite ignore 
the fact that in horticulture the trade stands 
out with singular prominence as being deeply 
imbued with the finest horticultural instincts 
and tastes ; indeed, in no other trade is found, 
as in horticulture, that deep devotion to the 
profession, that genuine passion for it, as exists 
amongst the ranks of our horticultural traders. 
If each and all are traders, so also are they 
devoted gardeners, and gardeners in the pos¬ 
session of knowledge which is unique ; what 
