July 6, 1889. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
703 
HORTICULTURAL= 
=PREPARATIONS. 
FOWLER’S GARDENERS’ INSECTICIDE for 
destroying and preventing Insects, Blight, and 
Mildew infesting plants and trees. It is easily 
applied either by dipping, syringing, sponging, or 
as a winter dressing ; does not require cleansing olf 
with water; will not stain or injure any more 
than plain water ; and gives the foliage a bright, 
clean, and healthy appearance. In jars , Is. 6d., 
3s., 5s. 6c?., 10s. ; and in kegs, 28 lbs., 21s. ; 56 lbs., 
42s. ; 112 lbs., 84s. each. 
FOWLER’S MEALY-BUG DESTROYER for 
the special eradication of this most troublesome of 
stove-house plant pests. It is easily applied, 
either with a small brush or vaporiser ; is instant 
destruction to both insects and ova, and does not 
stain or injure the foliage. In bottles, Is., 2s. 6c?., 
5s., 10s. ; 4 gal., 21 s.; 1 gal., 42s. each. 
ELLIOT’S “SUMMER CLOUD” SHADING 
for Greenhouses, Conservatories, Skylights, and 
all glass structures that require shading material. 
In'packets, Is. each. 
EWING’S MILDEW COMPOSITION. In bottles, 
Is. 6c?. and 3s. 6c?. each ; per gallon, 12 s. 
TOBACCO JUICE, extra strong, specially prepared 
for evaporating. 10s. 6c?. per gallon. 
F MU&s 
UNEQUALLED 
AS A 
DRESSING FOR LAWNS 
AND FOR 
DESTRUCTION OF 
WEEDS. 
A trial tin will prove its 
efficacy. 
PRICES. 
In Tins, Is., 2s. 6d., 5s.; and 
in Casks, 10s., 19s., 36s. 
SOLE MANUFACTURERS: 
CORRY, SOPER, FOWLER & Co, Ltd, 
16, FIMSB UBY STREET, LO NDON, E.C. 
Sold by all Nurserymen, Seedsmen and Florists. 
BERMUDA LILIES. 
LILIUM HARRISII (warranted true). 
Send for Trade Price List. 
SIEBRECHT & WADLEY, 
409 , FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, U.S.A. 
FERNS A SPECIALITY. 
The finest, most varied, choice, and interesting collection in 
H 10 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 d., post free. 
W. & J. BIRKENHEAD, 
FERN NURSERY, 
SALE, MANCHESTER. 
GUTTBUSH’S 
MILLTRAGK MUSHROOM SPAWN. 
Too weU 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 t SEED MERCHANTS, 
HI6H6AfB NURSERIES, 
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. 
(gg'T erms of Subscription. —Post free from the office to any 
part of the United Kingdom, one copy, 1 ; three months, 
Is. 8 d .; six months, 3s. 3d. ; twelve months, 6s. 6d. Foreign 
Subscription to all counties in the Postal Union, 8s. Sd. per 
annum. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Tuesday, July 9th.—Royal Horticultural Society : Meeting of 
Fruit and Floral Committees at Chiswick. Chiswick Horti¬ 
cultural Society's Show. Diss and Hereford Rose Shows. 
Portsmouth Summer Show (3 days). 
Wednesday, July 10th.—Rose Shows at Brighton, Dursley, 
Baling, Ipswich and Tunbridge Wells. 
Thursday, July 11th.—Gloucester Rose Show. Higligatc 
Flower Show at Caen Wood Towers. 
Friday, July 12th.—Alexandra Palace Bose Show. Sale of 
Orchids at Protlieroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Saturday, July 13tli.—Rose Shows at Eltham and New 
Brighton. 
For Index to Contents & Advertisements, see p.714. 
‘ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1889. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
T^The Rose Season. —The recent hot weather 
lias given the Rose growers some cause 
for anxiety. It has been of so forcing a kind 
that calculations as to the duration of flowers, 
or their time of opening, seem to have been 
sadly discounted. When very hot weather 
ensues the work of a week is often performed 
in a day, and flowers come with a rush, 
which is absolutely alarming. The exhibition 
of the National Bose Society this day, at 
the Crystal Palace, attracts special attention 
this year, because of the expected presence of 
the Prince and Princess of Wales and the 
Persian Monarch; hut everything in the way 
of success hinges upon the continuation of the 
heat, or the reversion to a cooler temperature. 
At Eichmond last week, although the show 
there was held at the earliest possible date, 
yet the display of Eoses exceeded by far 
all previously seen in that locality; indeed, 
the committee were exceptionally fortunate in 
thus standing alone at the opening of the 
season in securing the remarkably brilliant 
display of flowers which resulted. What 
with the shows almost all over the country 
just now, we shall be filled with Eoses to 
satiety, yet they can be endured, for they are 
indeed glorious flowers. 
Then, if we have such early blooming, the 
wood should become so firm as to encourage 
the production of summer growths of the 
stoutest character, and a fine autumnal bloom 
should result. We shall look hopefully to 
that end. A fine corn year seems always to 
he a good Eose year, because the Eose likes 
warmth and clear skies, and where modern 
appliances enable water to he freely applied 
the absence of rain need not be regretted. 
Strawberries. —We make no apology for 
J® reverting to these popular fruits again, 
because we have never had on the market a 
bigger crop of these fruits than has been seen 
this year. To growers there have been far 
too many, as, whilst the cost of gathering 
remains about the same, in thousands of cases 
prices have fallen so low that after all 
expenses have been paid there has been little 
or nothing left for the grower. The fact is, 
our large growers—the ten, twenty, or fifty- 
acre men—have been by far too dependent 
upon merely two or three kinds of mid-season 
ripening, large croppers and popular sorts, 
such as Paxtons, Napiers and Presidents, the 
former especially, with the result that the 
market has been literally deluged at the same 
moment with fruit. 
The early samples have been wondrously 
fine, chiefly because all the earlier bloom 
remained unhurt by the late frosts. On the 
other hand, the later pickings show a con¬ 
siderable falling off in size, consequent upon 
the heat and lack of rain generally. It has 
therefore been found more profitable to pull 
these and send them to the jam makers, than 
to gather and market the fruits in the usual 
way. The great want of the market growers 
is a first-class early sort, and that want seems 
about to be supplied in Noble, which is 
making a big reputation as a decidedly 
early, as well as a fine fruiting kind ; indeed, 
in dimensions of fruit, it rivals Sir J. Paxton. 
To secure any fine variety which shall com¬ 
mand the market a week before the rush of 
the fruits from standard kinds come in, would 
not only be a great gain, hut would effectually 
shut out the French consignments. Then we 
should like to see Waterloo and Elton Pine, 
two of the very best late varieties, more 
largely grown, and thus enable the public to 
have good fruits earlier and later, rather than 
to be flooded with them in a too short 
season. 
JIarron’s Tree Transplanter.— Amidst the 
(o wealth of exhibits, attractive and other¬ 
wise, to be seen at the great show at Windsor, 
very many of the visitors, we fear, failed to 
notice, as we did on our first visit, that very 
interesting, practical exposition of Mr. Barron’s 
(of Elvaston) famous tree transplanter, seen in 
one part of the grounds. Here suspended 
some 18 ins. or 20 ins. above the ground, in 
the middle of a huge vehicle resembling a big 
timber carriage, was seen a fine Scotch Fir 
some 40 ft. in height, which had some ten days 
previously been lifted by the machine at 
Ascot, and brought to the show yard, so that 
the practical value of the lifter might be 
thus exemplified. 
We saw the tree after it had been in this 
novel position for several days, and exposed 
to the full glare of almost tropical sunshine, 
the heat of the show week being for England 
abnormally high, yet there the tree still hung, 
suspended upon the bearers by stout chains, 
the roots beneath and at the sides somewhat 
protected from the sun’s rays by mats, but, 
none the less, not a twig hung, and not a 
branch flagged; in fact it seemed as though 
it had grown on the machine for years and 
liked it. The entire tree and hall of soil 
weighed several tons. Occasionally a few 
buckets of water were thrown over the grassy 
surface of the ball to keep it moist. 
Eeally this exhibit was for foresters and 
gardeners one of the most practical and useful 
things shown, for beyond much of the very 
showy and elaborately got-up machinery seen, it 
was thus demonstrating what it could do, whilst 
other things left much to he inferred. Mr. 
Barron has accomplished some remarkable 
things in the way of transplanting in his day, 
and merits our warm congratulations for the 
success he has met with. 
^lhe Papers read at the Drill Hall. —If 
^ the lack of interest in the papers read at 
the Westminster Drill Hall, as shown when 
Mr. Barron and Mr. Bunyard read their 
admirable essays on the 25th ult., is to mark 
future gatherings, then we hope that both in 
the interest of the society and the readers of 
papers—and these latter merit some consider¬ 
ation—that steps will be taken to ensure _ a 
larger gathering, or else that the papers will 
be taken as read and published without 
further trouble or fuss. 
