June 8, 1889. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
089 
SPECIAL CHEAP OFFER 
By Permission of the Hon. Board of Customs. 
OF 
FIRST-CLASS HARDY-GROWN 
DUTY FREE. 
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Tobacco Preparations 
GDTTING PLANTS 
For the Coming Season 
BY 
FOR HORTICULTURAL USE. 
NICOTINE SOAP. 
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Selections can be made from all the undermentioned 
plants, all one price. Is. per doz. ; 4 doz., 3s. ; 100, 5s. 
Myosotis dissitiflora, the best Forget-me-not ; Pe¬ 
tunias, striped and blotched, extra ; Balsams, the best 
double Camellia-flowered, striped and blotched ; Corn¬ 
flowers, Emperor William, splendid blue; Chrysan¬ 
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double golden, Violet Queen, and other beauties; 
Fancy Pansies, mixed colours ; Mimulus, finest blotched 
and spotted varieties; Tropaeolum, the grand new 
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“ 15, Princes Street, Edinburgh, loth July, 1887. 
“Dear Sirs— I have thoroughly tested a sample of a new 
Insecticide which you were so good as to send me. At the 
rate of 1 oz. to a gallon of water at a temperature of 95° I find it 
kills Green-fly immediately. Double this strength, or 2 ozs. to 
gallon at 120°, seals the fate of Scale of all sorts in a few seconds ; 
while 3 ozs. to gallon at same temperature effectually dissolves 
Mealy Bug, and so far as I have yet observed, without the 
slightest injury to leaf or flower, and it is withal a most agree¬ 
able compound to work with. All our insect remedies are 
applied through common syringe or garden engine, a much 
severer test of efficiency than when applied by hand-washing or 
spray. 
“I remain, DearSirs, yours truly (signed) A. MACKENZIE." 
(Of Messrs. Methven £ Sons.) 
“Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, Upper Holloway, 
London, 7th January, 1888. 
“Gentlemen— I have given your Insecticide, ‘Picrena,’ a 
good trial in competition with many others. I am pleased to 
say that I have found it more effectual in destroying Mealy Bug 
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Sold by Chemists, Nurserymen, and Florists. 
In Bottles at Is. 3d., 2s. 6 d., and 3s. 6d.; in tins (T 
and 2 gallons), 10 s. 6 d. and. 20 s. each ; in quantities of 
5 gallons and upwards, 9s. per gallon.. 
prepared only by 
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AND 
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The basis of this preparation is Nicotine, or the Oil of 
Tobacco, with which is blended other essential ingredients to 
render it available as a general Insecticide that may be used as 
a Wash or Dip for out or indoor plants. It is well known that 
Tobacco, in various forms, is the best remedy for cleansing 
Plants of Parasites, but owing to the high Duty of 3s. 6 d. per lb., 
it has been too expensive for general use. 
Sold in Jars, 8 ozs., Is. 6d.; 20 ozs., 3s .; 4 0 ozs., os. Gd.; and 
in Tins, 1A lbs., 15s. 6d. ; ami Drums, 28 lbs., 25s.; 56 lbs., 50s. ; 
112 lbs., 95s. Full directions for use upon each package. 
TOBACCO POWDER 
Consists of best Virginian Tobacco, finely ground and mixed 
with other ingredients of an essential character. 
Price in Tins, 1 lb., Is.: 3 lbs., 2s. 6d.; and 5 lbs., As, ; or in 
bulk, £3 12s. per cwt. 
TOBACCO JUICE. 
(DUTY FREE.) 
Manufactured from strong American Leaf Tobacco, and highly 
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Sold in Bottles, pints, Is.; quarts, Is. 6d. ; half-gallons, 2s. Gd.; 
and gallons, As.; or in Casks of 10 gallons and upwards at 2s. Gd. 
per gallon. 
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Offices : 18, FINSBURY ST, LONDON, E.C. 
Manufactory and Bonded Tobacco Stores: 
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Sold by all Nurserymen, Seedsmen and Florists. 
“A New Plant to English Gardens.” 
HAETLAND’S NEW “ &0LDEN QUILLED” 
B0UBLE SUNFLOWER. 
66 QOLEIL D’OR.”— Strong plants, Is. 6d. 
LT each ; extra clumps, 2s. 6d.; post free for cash. The 
clumps can be divided for quantity. It is one of the finest things 
introduced to English gardens for years. For cutting purposes 
and harvest festival decorations superb. — WM. BAYLOR 
HARTLAND, Seedsman, 21, Patrick Street, Cork. Special 
terms to the trade on application. 
FERNS A SPECIALITY. 
Tire finest, most varied, choice, and interesting collection in 
the Trade. 
1,400 species and varieties of Stove, Greenhouse, and Hardy 
Ferns. 
Partially descriptive Catalogue free on application. 
Illustrated Catalogue (No. 21), containing 120 illustrations, 
and much valuable information on the cultivation of Ferns, 
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Black and Brown Peat 
Silver Sand and Loam 
Cocoa Nut Fibre Refuse 
Leaf and Peat Mould 
Specially Prepared Mould 
Sphagnum Moss 
Guano and Dissolved Bones 
Bones, J inch and I inch 
Bone Dust, guaranteed pure 
Blood and Bone Manure, highly 
recommended 
Horticultural Charcoal 
Tobacco Cloth, far superior to 
Paper 
Mushroom Spawn 
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Russia and Archangel Mats 
Pot Washing Brushes 
Virgin Cork and Raffia 
Tanned Netting & Tarred Twine 
Trugg Ga'rden Baskets 
Flower Sticks, from 1 to 5 feet 
Wooden Labels, from 4 to 12 in. 
Thin Bamboo Canes 
Rose and Dahlia Stakes, about 
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Orchid Baskets and Teak Rods 
Patent Bass Brooms 
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ClITBirSH'S 
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Too well known to require descrip¬ 
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per bushel for package; or 6d. per cake, 
free by Parcel Post, Is. None genuine 
unless in sealed packages, and printed 
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ROSES in POTS. 
All tbe best New and Old English and Foreign sorts, 
from 18s. to 36s. per dozen. 
Descriptive List free on application. 
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annum. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, June 10th.— Continuation of the Great Horticultural 
Exhibition at Manchester (and four following days). Norton 
Pansy Show. 
Tuesday, June lltli.—Royal Horticultural Society : Meeting of 
Fruit and Floral Committees at 11 a.m. 
Thursday, June 13th.—Jubilee Festival of the Gardencas’ Royal 
Benevolent Institution at the Albion, Aldersgate Street, 
6 p.m. 
Friday, June 14th.—Sale of Orchids at Prothcroe & Morris's 
Rooms. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1889. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
THacile descendens.— This should now he 
-H the motto of the Royal Botanic Society. 
We have never held the work of this body 
in very high appreciation, as at best the 
highly-favoured gardens in the Regent’s Park, 
valuable land literally purloined from the 
nation and placed at the entire disposal of a 
select body of private individuals, has never 
been little other than a show place—a fashion¬ 
able promenade. But the appellation “Botanic” 
has gulled many persons into the belief that 
the royal society which has its habitation in 
the Regent’s Park, is doing some excellent 
scientific work, yet no greater fallacy ever 
existed. 
Now, as if to show how low the mighty 
can fall, we hear of a Battle of Roses, and a 
parade of florally decorated donkeys—four¬ 
legged ones, not bipeds—that is to take place 
in this fashionable resort next month, and the 
ostensible scientific garden, devoted to the 
study of botany, is to become a sort of floral 
pandemonium, during which the Rose, our 
national flower, is to be prostituted to the 
worst and meanest of uses. What lias the 
National Rose Society to say in this matter! 
Can it make no protest 1 Every Rose grower 
in the kingdom, ivho loves Roses because to 
him these flowers are his floral queen, should 
protest in the strongest language against such 
a desecration of lovely flowers as is threatened 
at Regent’s Park on July 15th. We commend 
this matter to the attention of the Chiswick 
Rose Conference. Dean Hole is to be the 
chairman of that gathering; he is a fearless 
and outspoken man, a devout admirer of 
Rosa, regina florum, and we do hope that lie 
will have the courage to denounce a dese¬ 
cration of our floral queen and national emblem 
as a disgrace to our nationality. 
TjThe Temple Show. —We can heartdy con- 
^ gratulate the Council of the Royal 
Horticultural Society on the splendid character 
of their second Temple Gardens show, but 
even in so doing must admit that but for the 
enterprise of some of our leading Orchidists, 
the show would have been, so far as plants were 
concerned, almost a failure. It may be inter¬ 
esting to establish comparisons between the 
display of Orchids made on the Thames 
Embankment last week and that seen at the 
Orchid conference at South Kensington in 
1885, but the matter has little general concern. 
What we aver is that a grander show of 
these gloriously beautiful flowers has never 
before been seen in London, and to the 
Orchidists belong the honour of having made 
the finest feature of this brilliant exhibition. 
