August 10, 1889. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
78B 
“RELIABLE SEEDS” 
FOR 
Summer and Autumn Sowing. 
DANIELS BROS. 
B EG to draw attention of tlieir customers to their 
Choice Stocks of VEGETABLE SEEDS for 
Present Sowing, all of which have been selected with 
great care and discrimination. 
CABBAGE- 
Daniels’ Defiance Giant Early Pkt. Oz. 
Marrow, the largest and best s. d. s. d. 
variety in cultivation... ... 0 6 16 
Ellam’s Early Dwarf, very fine 
early kind ... ... ... 0 4 0 10 
Enfield Market, improved stock 0 4 10 
ONIONS— 
Daniels’ Golden Rocca, grand 
new variety for exhibition ... 0 6 16 
Daniels’ Giant Rocca, large and 
fine ; our true stock ... ... — 10 
White Spanish .. 3s. 6 d. per lb. — 0 4 
White Lisbon ...2 s. 9d. ,, —■ 0 4 
Daniels’ White Elephant Tripoli 0 6 16 
DANIELS BROS., 
16,18, & 20, Exchange St, NORWICH. 
LAING’S BEGONIAS. 
AWARDED four gold medals. 
A GREAT 
SPECIALTY. 
A GREAT 
SPECIALTY. 
NOW IN FULL BLOOM. 
Unequalled us a floral display. Visitors are 
cordially invited; free admission. Frequent 
trains from the City and West End to Catford 
Bridge and Forest Hill Stations. 
Descriptive Catalogue post free. 
JOHN X,AINQ &; SONS, 
NURSERIES, FOREST HILL, LONDON, S.E. 
SEEDS FOR PRESENT SOWING. 
Per oz. Per lb. 
CABBAGE. s. d. s. d. 
Barnes’ Norwich Market, the earliest. 10 7 6 
Barnes’ “Great Eastern,” the largest. 10 7 6 
ONION. 
Barnes’ Giant Roeea, the mildest . 0 9 6 0 
Barnes’ White Mammoth, the best white, 
6d per pkt. 16 12 0 
THB gESf QUALITY- ONLY, PQSf FREE. 
Price Lists Gratis to all Applicants. 
J n W A TSTVTTI'Q (16 Tears Managing Assistant 
a £J. J9*feJEwJN £lM with Daniels Bros.), 
THE “GREAT EASTERN” SEED STORES, 
9, EXCHANGE STREET, NORWICH. 
R eaders of the gardening 
WORLD who experience any difficulty in obtaining the 
paper at Railway Bookstalls, or through local agents, are 
espectfully requested to communicate with the Publisher, 
17, Catherine Street, Strand, W.C. 
SUTTON’S 
Roman Hyacinths 
NOW READY FOR 
IMMEDIATE DESPATCH. 
SUTTON'S BULBS 
GENUINE ONLY DIRECT FROM READING. 
EVERY BULB WARRANTED, 
Robert Sydenham, 
HEW TENBY ST, BIRMINGHAM, 
The celebrated importer of Bulbs, will send his revised 
Pamphlet, “ How I Came to Grow Bulbs,” and the 
cheapest Price List for reliable Bulbs ever issued, 
free on application. 
I can guarantee my best Bulbs to be the finest that come from 
Holland, and will undertake to replace, at half price next year, 
any which, with fair treatment, do not flower satisfactorily ; 
or any bulbs that are not perfectly satisfactory when received 
may be returned and the money refunded, as my great aim is to 
send out nothing but the best, at moderate prices. 
White Roman Hyacinths, 2s. doz., 15s. 100; or 
a very grand sample, 2s. 6d. doz., 19s. 100. 
Freesia refracta alba, the coming Flower of the Day, 
planted in August, will bloom at Christmas, Is. doz , 
7s. 6d. 100 ; extra selected Bulbs, Is. 6d. doz., 11s. 100. 
I MAKE A SPECIALITY OF HYACINTHS. 
One dozen, first size and named, for pots or glasses, 4s. 
A splendid dozen, unnamed, for pots, 3s., for water, 3s. 6d. 
Capital second-size Hyacinths, quite equal to what are often 
sold as first size, 2s. 3d. doz., or 16s. 100. 
A choice collection of all the best Hyacinths for Exhibition 
purposes from 3d. to 8d. each. 
Splendid Bedding Hyacinths, Blue, 9s. ; Red, 13s. ; White, 
16s. ; or mixed, all colours, 11s. per 100. 
TuHps will be dearer and scarcer this year, owing to the 
great increased demand, but having made very advantageous 
purchases, my prices will be but little above those of last year. 
I shall have a very select collection of Narcissi at reduced 
prices, and I shall have a grand lot of Scilla sibirica, Chionodoxa 
Lucilise, Snowdrops, Crocuses, Winter Aconites, Ixias, English 
and Spanish Iris, Ranunculus, Lilium Harrisi, &c., &c. 
A full list ready shortly, and sent post free on application. 
(Please Mention this Paper.) 
Letter Orders have same care as for my own planting. 
ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
NEW TENBY STREET, BIRMINGHAM. 
g/gT Terms of Subscription. —Post free from the office to any 
part of the United Kingdom, one copy, 1 hd .; three months, 
Is. 8 d. ; six months, 3s. 3d. ; twelve months, 6s. 6d. Foreign 
Subscription to all counties in the Postal Union, 8s. 8^. per 
annum. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, August 12th.—Members of National Chrysanthemum 
Society visit Hatfield and Knebworth. 
Tuesday, August 13th.—Royal Horticultural Society : Meeting 
of Fruit and Floral Committees at 11 a.m. Clay Cross Hor¬ 
ticultural Society’s Show. 
Wednesday, August 14th.—St. Albans Flower Show. 
Thursday, August 15th.—Taunton Deane Flower Show. 
Friday, August 10th.—Cheadle Flower Show (2 days). Haver¬ 
fordwest Flower Show. 
Saturday, August 17th.—National Co-operative Flower Show. 
Keighley and Darlington Flower Shows. 
For Index to Contents & Advertisements, see p.794. 
11 Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1889. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
(MjciDEii Gardens. —We have rarely met with 
a more misapplied term than is this 
when used in relation to those wretched 
constructions called model gardens, which are 
so commonly found and stupidly encouraged 
at provincial flower shows. Nine-tenths 
of these things exhibit misapplied energy 
and industry, which sadly need to he 
diverted into a more useful direction. Who 
ever saw one of these constructions which 
was not tawdry and of almost impossible 
design, when practically applied 1 They repre¬ 
sent imaginative gardens, conceived by persons 
who appear to he devoid of all practical 
knowledge of what a garden should be like. 
The constructor probably thinks that a 
tennis net with tiny dolls, imitating players, 
is the correct thing; or a tin squirt with a 
pint cistern to supply water, presents a 
serious imitation of a fountain, with stickle¬ 
backs floating in the saucer of water to 
imitate fish. Perhaps we find an imitation 
cascade where not a drop of natural water can 
be found, or a conservatory where no one 
familiar with construction would dream of 
putting such a building; carriage roads or 
paths without beginning or end ; flower-beds 
of such tawdry and absurd combinations of 
colours as to make one’s hair almost stand on 
end—in fact, the constructions indicate poverty 
of idea and incapacity to design. 
Would that flower show committees would 
abolish these ridiculous things from their 
schedules, and substitute, in these days of 
education, technical and artistic designs for 
good gardens, of definite dimensions, on paper 
—these being coloured or not, at the option of 
the competitors; but they should represent, to 
scale, really good sensible gardens, with flower 
and vegetable departments, shrubberies, paths, 
and all complete ; also houses, frames, and other 
erections essential to a residence and garden. 
Such designs would have technical and artistic 
value. 
he Fruit Crops. —- The returns of the 
fruit crops from all parts of the kingdom 
tell the same story of comparative failure of 
tree crops, and comparative excellence of small 
fruits. Here at once do we find a lesson for 
planters that they must never put all their 
eggs into one basket, hut should have trees 
and bushes alike if they would have some sort 
of a crop of fruit every year. Whilst 
the wet and cold of the previous year did 
undoubtedly harmfully affect the setting of 
mature bloom-buds on trees, it did no 
appreciable mischief amongst bushes, for these 
latter not only seem to love plenty of 
moisture, hut at least ripen their wood and 
buds much earlier than trees do. 
It is true we saw on the trees a grand 
bloom last spring, hut there was the know¬ 
ledge beforehand that the preceding year 
had not been a ripening one, and the bloom 
would probably prove illusory. Events 
showed that such was the case, and therefore 
except on certain early kinds of Apples 
there is little fruit. Pears and Plums are 
also very thinly cropped. Cherries have been 
a moderate crop, but then it is a very 
fugitive one. Currants and Gooseberries 
have been plentiful, though in some districts 
thin, yet generally excellent crops. Straw¬ 
berries have been universally abundant, and 
very fine. Raspberries have been good. Nuts 
are thin. With regard to wall fruits, there is 
little to boast of, and house trees have shown 
the value of glass coverings by contrast. 
Fruit culture would have served to break 
more backs than to stiffen them this year, hut 
for the fact that most persons have some other 
crops and find compensation in them. So far, 
in fact, it has been a profitable vegetable season, 
so that if one branch of gardening has 
suffered, another has gained. 
Tkhe Potato Disease. —We are now enabled 
to say definitively that our old visitor, the 
Peronospora infestans, is running riotously 
amongst our Potato breadths, and we may 
soon expect to hear of lamentations over the 
mischief wrought by the fungus. Some heavy 
rains, cold winds, strong variations of tempe¬ 
rature, and even occasional excessive heat have 
helped the Peronospora immensely, and now 
there is hardly a breadth of Potatcs anywhere, 
except very late growths, which is not 
showing the black spot generally. A fortnight 
hence, thousands of acres of the earlier kinds 
will probably not have a green leaf left on 
them. 
Still, the disease comes late, and far less 
virulent in form than last year. All early 
kinds now have full-grown tubers, only needing 
firmer skins to fit them for lifting, although, 
when it is purposed to store them, it is doubt¬ 
ful whether it is wise to lift until the haulm 
