January 19, 1889. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
319 
WILLIAMS’ 
SUPERB AND CHOICE 
STRAINS 
OF 
CYCLAMEN 
BEGONIAS 
GLOXINIAS 
CALCEOLARIAS 
PRIMULAS 
CINERARIAS 
ARE THE BEST. 
For further particulars see ILLUSTRATED SEED 
CATALOGUE for 1889, which ivill he forwarded gratis 
and post free on application. 
B. S. WILLIAMS, 
Victoria & Paradise Nurseries, 
Upper Holloway, London, 1 
GANNELL’S BEGONIAS. 
Not only is our Catalogue the best, most complete, 
and wonderfully illustrated and descriptive, but our 
whole strain of Begonias is totally different and far 
nearer perfection than any others in the world. The 
exact treatment is given therein of how we grew the 
nine plants which took the First Prize at Eegent’s 
Park, on which occasion there were seven entries. 
Those who have not hitherto grown or seen our varieties 
will be astonished at their dwarfness, new colours, and 
brilliancy. We are now sowing our seed that will 
give plants a foot through, with a profusion of blooms 
similar to the undermentioned, from July to November. 
One of our greatest critics and connoisseurs icrites to 
us thus :— 
W. E. GUMBLETON, Esq., Belgrove, Queenstown. 
“I am extremely sorry to see, in the last number of 
L’Illustration Horticole, that, through some mistake on the part 
of their artist, the drawing they intended to have made for a 
reproduction of their beautifully illustrated work of the blooms 
of some of your lovely seedling Double Begonias was not made 
before the flowers withered. The beauty of these flowers seems 
to have quite astonished the Belgians, as they say they are 
hardly recognisable as Begonias at all as they know them, but 
more like Roses and Camellias ; and this I can quite understand, 
as the variety named Beauty of Belgrove is more like a good 
bloom of La France Rose than a Begonia. 1 ' 
SINGLES (Seed). 
THE LADY (White). 
MAGENTA. 
CRIMSON. 
ROSE. 
3s. per Packet; 
PINK. 
ORANGE-SCARLET. 
SINGLE MIXED. 
SALMON. 
Half-packets, Is. 6 d. 
DOUBLE BEGONIAS. 
Colours Mixed, 3s. 6 d. and 5s. per Packet, 
SWANLEY, KENT. 
SANKEYS FAMOUS GARDEN POTS. 
Best, cheapest, lightest, strongest. 
SANKEY’S FAMOUS GARDEN POTS. 
Best colour, shape, and finish ; enormous stocks. 
SANKEY’S FAMOUS GARDEN POTS. 
No waiting; orders executed within one hour of letter or 
telegram. Thirty different sizes. Carriage and breakage 
free on £10 orders ; half carriage on £5. 
RICHARD SANKEY & SON, Bulwell Potteries, Nottingham 
The BEST in the WOULD. 
WEBBS 
PEAS. 
p 
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CHANCELLOR. 
JJ 
For the Main crop; height 3 ft. 3s. per quart. 
From Mr. E. TATE, GardeDer to Sir Coutts Lindsay, Bart,— 
“ Your New Pea ‘ Chancellor' has been fine with me this season; 
it is a distinct variety , of good flavour, very prolific , and con¬ 
veniently dwarf; each pod is well filled with large-sized Peas.” 
WORDSLEYWONDER 
The Earliest blue wrinkled Marrow ; height 2^ ft. 
3s. 6d. per quart. 
From Mr. J. BEST, Gardener to His Grace the Duke of 
Hamilton.—“ I was very pleased with the ‘ Wordsley Wonder' 
Pea. I must say that it is a grand Pea , a very prolific bearer, 
and of excellent flavour.” 
Webbs' Spring Catalogue, post free, Is. 
r \LD-FASHIONED HEDGES. — English 
x r Yews, bushy, and with a profusion of fibrous roots, 11 to 
2 ft., 6s. per doz., 35s. per 100 ; 2 to 2J ft., 8s. per doz., 50s. per 
100; 2£ to 3 ft., 9s. per doz., 60s. per 100 ; 3 to 3} ft., 12s. per 
doz., 84s. per 100. Prices of larger sizes and other Evergreens 
suitable for Hedges (< ;.g Tree Box, Holly, Laurel, Privet, 
Cypress, Juniper, Thuja, &c.) on application.— RICHARD 
SMITH & Co., Nurserymen and Seed Merchants, Worcester. 
pLEARAXCE SALE OF SPRIXG- 
V J FLOWERING BULBS. — Hyacinths, Daffodils (Narcissi), 
Tulips, Crocus, Snowdrops, Winter Aconites, Chionodoxa, Sciilas, 
Spanish Irises, Early-flowering Gladioli, Alliums, Star of Bethle¬ 
hem, Alstrcemerias, &e., &c , all in splendid condition, at reduced 
prices. List free on application to BARR & SON, 12 & 13, 
King Street, Covent Garden. 
TENSEN’S GUANOS are the most perfect 
9/ Fertilisers. Promote and sustain all growths. Do not 
exhaust, but enrich the soil. Analyses guaranteed. Six Prize 
Medals, awarded in 1SS8.—J. JENSEN & Co. (Lmtd). 109, 
Fenchureh Street, London. 
/DARTERS’ VADE MECUM FOR 1889 
is Now Ready, and has been posted to Messrs. 
CARTERS’ CUSTOMERS. Price ONE SHILLING (post free) 
to unknown correspondents. It contains seven elegant 
Coloured Illustrations, and will he 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 & 238, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C. 
L 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 25 s. per case, sent 
free to any Railway Station in England and Wales on receipt of 
Postal Order for 23s. 9(1. ; eases containing 100 fine Bulbs, price 
40s. Fine and sound Bulbs, per dozen, 4s., 6s., 9s., 12s. and 18s., 
Mammoth Bulbs, 2s. 6 cl. and 3s. 6 d. each. All sent packing and 
carriage free.—CARTERS', Royal Seedsmen by Sealed Warrants, 
237 and 238, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, Jan. 21st,—Sale of Lilies at Protheroe & Morris's 
Rooms. 
Tuesday, Jan. 22nd.—Sale of Orchids in Flower at Protheroe 
& Morris’s Rooms. 
Wednesday, Jan. 23rd.—Sale of Plants, Bulbs, &c., at Protheroe 
& Morris's Rooms. 
Thursday Jan. 24th.—Sale of the remaining portion of the 
collection of Orchids formed by C. Hamerton, Esq., at 
Stevens' Rooms. 
For Index to Contents & Advertisements, see p. 330. 
TEA ROSES 11 
GRAPEVINES 
FERNS I 
Catalogues free. 
grand stock, in 5-in. pots, 12s. & 18s. doz. 
grand stock, in 7-in. pots, 24s. & 30s. doz. 
I Black Hamburgh and other varieties. 
I Suitable for fruiting in pots, 10s.6d.each 
) Suitable for planting vineries, 5s. and 
\ 7s. 6 d. each. 
A fine stock, in 5-in. pots, 12s. per dozen. 
A fine stock, in small pots, 4s. per dozen. 
Terms to the Trade on application. 
The Liverpool Horticultural Company 
(John Cowan), Limited, 
THE VINEYARD AND NURSERIES, 
Q&RSfQK, near DIYERPOOL. 
JERSEY FRUIT TREES AND ROSES. 
Carriage paid. Packed gratis. 
Strong healthy trees, the finest that money can buy. 
Roses wonderfully cheap. Cordons a specialite. Before 
ordering he sure to write for our Illustrated Catalogues. 
Joshua Le Cornu & Son, High View Nurseries. 
CLEMATIS IX POTS, of all 
the finest double and single varieties (some 
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. 6 d. each. Descriptive List on 
application.—RICHARD SMITH & Co., Nurserymen and Seed 
Merchants, Worcester. 
80,000 
l i on non garden pots, 3* m. 
JL } JL V/ vJ 5 \J vJ diam., in stook, ready for im¬ 
mediate delivery ; carriage and breakage free on £10 orders; 
half carriage on £5. Acknowledged by the trade to he the best 
pots manufactured. Largest Stock and Largest Manufacturers 
in the United Kingdom. RICHARD SANKEY & SON, Bulwell 
Potteries, Nottingham. 
P ANSIES.—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. 6 d. Virginian Creepers, 12 strong tiansplanted plants, in 
8 distinct varieties, including A. Veitchii (small-leaved), A. 
sempervirens (evergreen), A. variegata (charming pink and white 
variegation), free, 3s. 9d. China Roses (the true perpetuals), 10 
strong plants, on own roots, in 10 distinct varieties, free, 
2s. 9d. —J. GALVIN’S NURSERIES, Roscommon. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
T O and from all parts of the Globe.—By far 
the best collection of new and old varieties in commerce. 
Descriptive Catalogue with cultural directions by E. Molyneux 
and C. Orchard. Acknowledged in Europe and America as the 
best Descriptive Catalogue. Price 6 d. 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. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1889. 
H^he National Chrysanthemum Society.—■ 
The retirement of the venerable and 
esteemed president of this society, which will 
shortly have to he recorded as an accomplished 
fact, presents a most favourable opportimity 
for making an effort to obtain for the society 
a wider and more truly national reputation. 
Mr. Sanderson has done remarkably good 
work for the society in assisting to elevate it 
from the position of a mere local organisation 
to that of a national one, at least, so far in 
name. He has now, because of advancing 
years and the ills Avhich flesh is heir to, as 
lie himself puts it, every right to retire on 
his laurels ; and he will assuredly carry with 
him into his retirement the esteem and respect 
of all Chrysanthemum fanciers. 
But the National Chrysanthemum Society 
is now very much more than a Borough 
of Hackney Society. It aspires to be re¬ 
garded as a truly national society, a position 
to which it may eventually reach if well 
and capably led. It has already the cordial 
good-will and support of most Chrysanthe¬ 
mum growers, and of a very large section 
of the practical gardeners of the country, 
who mustered so strongly at its great annual 
exhibitions in November; and who generally 
consider that, with the adoption of a bold 
progressive policy, there is a grand future 
