June 29, 1889. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
G87 
By Permission of the Hon. Board of Customs. 
DUTY FREE. 
Tobacco Preparations 
FOR HORTICULTURAL USE. 
NICOTINE SOAP. 
- An effectual and speedy Eradicator of Scale, Tlirips, Green 
Fly, Mealy Bug, Bed Spider, American Blight, and all Parasites 
affecting Plants, without injury to Foliage. 
The basis of this preparation is Nicotine, or the Oil of 
Tobacco, with which is bleDded 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, S ozs., Is. 6d.; 20 ozs., 3s. ; 4 0 ozs., 5s. Cd. ; and 
in Tins, 14 lbs., 15s. 6cl.; and Drums, 2S 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.. Us, ; or in 
b\dlc, £3 12s. per cwt. 
TOBACCO JUICE. 
(DUTY FREE.) 
Manufactured from strong American Leaf Tobacco, and highly 
Concentrated. 
Sold in Bottles, pints, Is.; quarts, Is. 6d. ; half-gallons, 2s. 6d. ; 
and gallons, 4s.; or in Caslcs of 10 gallons and upwards at 2s. 6d. 
per gallon. 
SOLE MANUFACTURERS : 
82g~TERMs oe Subscription. —Post free from the office to any 
part of the United Kingdom, one copy, lid.; three months, 
Is. S d .; six months, 3s. 3d. ; twelve months, Os. 6 d. Foreign 
Subscription to all counties in the Postal Union, 8s. 8 d. per 
annum. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, July 1st.—Kettering Flower Show. 
Tuesday, July 2nd.—National Rose Conference at Chiswick. 
Rose Shows at Boston and Sutton. 
Wednesday, July 3rd.—National Rose Conference at Chiswick. 
Flower Show at Wimbledon. Rose Shows at Bagshot, Farn- 
ham, Croydon and Maidstone. 
Thursday, July 4th.—Rose Shows at Bath, Canterbury, Hitchin 
and Norwich. 
Friday, July 5th.—Sale of Established Orchids at Protheroe & 
Morris's Rooms. 
Saturday, July 6th.—National Rose Show at the Crystal 
Palace. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.” —Bacon. 
SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1889. 
CORRY, SOPER, FOWLER & Co., Ltd, 
OFFICES! !8, FINSBURY ST, LONDON, E.G. 
Manufactory and Bonded Tobacco Stores: 
SHAD THAMES, S,E M LONDON. 
Sold by all Nurserymen, Seedsmen and Florists. 
ROSES 
The finest HYBRID PER¬ 
PETUAL, TEA-SCENTED, 
and other varieties, from 
15s. to 42s. per dozen. 
IN 
POTS. 
Catalogue of New Varieties on 
application . 
DICKSONS, Nurseries GHESTEE. 
(Limited.) 
FERNS A SPECIALITY. 
The 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, 
Is. 6<J, post free. 
W. & J. BIRKENHEAD, 
FERN NURSERY, 
SALE, MANCHESTER. 
CITTBFSH’S 
MILLTRACK MUSHROOM SPAWN. 
Too well known to require descrip¬ 
tion. Price 6s. per bushel; Is. extra 
per bushel for package; or 6d. per cake, 
free by Parcel Post, Is. None genuine 
unless in sealed packages, and printed 
cultural directions enclosed, with our 
signature attached. 
Wm. CUTBUSH & SON, 
NURSERYMEN « SEED MERCHANTS, 
BI:QH CeATfU BTOS§Eg£E§, 
LONDON N. 
ROSES in POTS. 
All the best New and Old English and Foreign sorts, 
from 18s. to 36s. per dozen. 
Descriptive List free on application. 
RICHARD SMITH & Co., 
Nurserymen and Seed Merchants, 
WORCESTER. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
TSThe Eotal Agricultural Society.— If we 
were to be guided by wbat is to be seen 
at Windsor this week, in the show yard of the 
Royal Agricultural Society, we should be of 
opinion that agriculture was one of the costliest 
of vocations. Machinery in vast quantities, 
enough in its variety to turn the brains of any 
ordinary farmer; horses and cattle so costly, 
because of pedigree, as to make agriculturists 
dizzy; surroundings and accessories of the 
most voluptuous type spread in every direction, 
giving to agriculture the aspect of being the 
richest and most prosperous of vocations, rather 
than that of a breaking up and half bankrupt 
business. Clearly to all who have studied the 
aspect of agriculture during recent years, either 
the cry as to the decadence of agriculture is all 
nonsense and humbug, or else the exhibition 
in Windsor Park is a sham. 
It would be interesting to learn how many 
of the agriculturists of the kingdom have been 
made by this great society, and, on the other 
hand, how many, encouraged by its shows 
to purchase costly and very soon useless 
machinery, have been broken. Then what 
does this immense exhibition offer the small 
cultivator 1 Here are we in the midst of a 
great national movement for the creation of 
small holdings, one of the chief elements of 
success in the cultivation of which must be 
looked for in plenty of manual labour; and 
these holdings the Royal Agricultural Society 
practically does nothing to encourage. It is a 
society for enabling rich men to spend their 
money, but judging from the present state of 
agriculture as presented by some associated 
with it, the society seems to have clone little or 
nothing to help save it from destruction. 
However, we do not believe all that is said on 
that bead, neither do we bold that this said 
royal society has been for agriculture a saving- 
grace. We have tried the scientific and costly 
methods, and they have not proved successes. 
We should now like to revert to the simpler 
plan of smaller farms and holdings and more 
manual labour. 
HThe Farm Crops.— It is odd to find that 
^ whilst the farmer is being invited to 
endeavour to better his position and prospects 
by the association of fruit culture with 
farming, we should have a season in which, 
whilst the fruit crops will be very moderate 
indeed, all ordinary farm crops, such as cereals, 
pastures, pulse, Potatos and cattle-feeding 
roots generally, should present such an 
abundance as to bid fair to make 1889 one 
of the most plentiful years of the passing 
decade. We are in the midst of the hay 
harvest, and on every hand the grass and 
clover crops have proved to be the best for 
a generation; literally the soil has groaned, 
as it were, with the weight of the grasses, and 
ricks got together in capital order have been 
rising up in enormous numbers all over the 
kingdom. 
As to the wheat, large breadths of it have 
been in full bloom so early as midsummer, 
and looking dense and wonderfully well; 
indeed, the promise of a grand wheat crop 
is all that can he desired. Nearly all other 
com crops look as flourishing, so do the 
Potato breadths ; the field Peas and Beans and 
Turnips will doubtless be excellent also. 
The farmer’s life so far bids fair for the 
present year to be a happy one, and the fruit 
failure will not trouble him. Presently there 
will be a great fall in prices, and then the 
farmer will groan aloud, but the public "will 
benefit, as it always does whenever articles of 
food are cheap and plentiful. 
Strawberries.— It was announced the other 
J^ day that on the 17th inst. no less than 
52 tons of Strawberries were sent into the 
English market from St. Malo, a port in 
Normandy, in the Avest of France. That cargo 
would arrive just before the incoming of onr 
earliest out-door gatherings, and naturally it 
materially affected the prices, the drop from 
shillings to pence per lb. being sudden and 
alarming. These French StraAvberries were 
being sold in the market at from 4s. to 5s. per 
dozen lbs., Avhilst the best early home-gathered 
fruits fetched from 5s. to 6s. per dozen lbs, a 
very moderate price indeed for starting the 
season. The French consignments, however, 
Avill probably soon collapse, as Avith such an 
abundant crop at home—one of the largest seen 
for years—it can hardly pay to send foreign 
fruits here. 
It is very probable that in a feAV days, if not 
already, StraAvberries will be selling at from 
2s. to 2s. 6c?. per dozen lbs. of the best quality, 
and in poorer qualities at even lc?. per lb. 
We hope the masses Avill he able for once to 
indulge in a thorough feast of StraAvberries ; 
such a “ blow-out,” if Ave may use so slangy a 
term, Avould do them a lot of good, and 
indulging in a hearty feed of fruit AA’ould 
materially help to check the taste for coarser and 
more pernicious diet. The best price this year 
will be realised bj r the finest samples, and young 
plants on Avliick the fruits are not too abundant 
will certainly give these in the most acceptable 
form. We hope growers Avill have a fine time 
for the fruits, for rain can yet be dispensed 
Avith, and if prices be Ioav, then they may be 
recompensed by the quantity gathered. 
‘Tj'pple Culture at Home.— We published 
Jr~ last week a lengthy report of an inter¬ 
esting gathering Avhich took place at Maid¬ 
stone, Avhen the question of Foreign versus 
Home-grown Fruits—especially of Apples— 
was largely discussed. We missed from the 
names of those taking part in the gathering 
that of Mr. George Bunyard, one of the most 
practical fruitists in Kent, Avho could doubt¬ 
less have added much that Avas valuable to 
the discussion. Mr. C. Whitehead’s remarks 
A r ery much covered ground which has already 
been pretty hard trodden by others during 
the past year; and any further additions to 
the discussion of this interesting question will, 
Ave hope, come from practical men rather than 
amateurs. 
But the point for consideration in regard to 
the production at home of Apples which can 
at all vie with the productions of Canada, 
is as to climate, for no doubt Avhatever, let 
