March 30, 1889. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
479 
I have issued this Spring 
8 CATALOGUES 
and am now preparing another 
which will complete my Catalogues 
FOR THE 
SPRING of [im. 
They are all well done, fall of information, use¬ 
ful to everyone, and beautifully illustrated. To 
enumerate every family would be impossible, but 
I will mention a few of the most popular families 
contained in them. 
IRIS. 
Consisting of Germaniea, Pumila, Olbiensis, Kaemp- 
feri, Siberica, and a great number of most beautiful 
species and varieties. 
HARDY ORCHIDS. 
Grand collections of Cypripediums, Orchis, Ophrys, 
Habenarias, Bletias, Disa, Satyrium, and many other 
allied families. 
AQUATIC AND BOG PLANTS. 
The most complete collection in the country, con¬ 
taining every plant that is hardy and beautiful, for 
deep or shallow, running or stagnant water, and on 
the margins thereof. 
CARNATIONS AND PICOTEES. 
Over 100,000 of these are cultivated every season, 
and contain all the finest varieties in cultivation. 
PYRETHRUMS, PENTSTEMONS 
AND PHLOX. 
These favourite families, are indispensable in every 
garden. 
POPPIES. 
A special catalogue is devoted entirely to this popular 
group, containing all the best, both annual and peren¬ 
nial, also several novelties never offered before. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
An entire catalogue is devoted exclusively to this 
interesting family, and several pages are devoted to 
soils, cultivation, and other matters necessary to its 
successful cultivation. Every known variety worthy 
of cultivation will be found in its pages, all of which 
are fully described, &c. 
P/EONIES. 
Sly collection is a superb one, and is one of the great 
attractions of my Nurseries. Sly Tree Paeonies will be 
in flower about the end of April, and will be a sight 
unequalled in this country. The Chinese section are 
cultivated by thousands, and should be seen by every¬ 
one fond of this family. 
SUNFLOWERS. 
All the finest of the perennial varieties are cultivated 
in large quantities, and I am offering for the first time 
this season the double variety named Soleil d’ Or, an 
old yet very scarce variety. 
HARDY CLIMBING PLANTS. 
A grand collection of climbing and trailing plants 
for Conservatory or out-door decorations. Clematis, 
Jessamines, Honeysuckle, and other popular families 
are grown by thousands. My catalogue of these is an 
interesting one, and should be seen by everyone. 
CLADIOLUS, GLOXINIAS AND 
BEGONIAS. 
These and many other allied families are fully 
described, and will be found very interesting to every¬ 
one fond of a garden. 
HARDY FERNS AND PRIMULAS. 
A most comprehensive list of both of these families 
fully described, and containing a vast amount of most 
useful information. 
Catalogues of any or all of above may be 
had free on application to 
THOS.S.WARE, 
HALE FARM MRS FRIES, 
TOTTENHAM, LONDON 
The Finest 
NEW POTATO 
For the Main Crop. 
“STOURBRIDGE GLORY.” 
3s.6d.per peck(14lb.),12s.6d.perbshl.(56lb.) 
From Mr. GSOSGE MATTHEWS, Weston-on-Trent.— 
“I cannot praise your Stourbridge Glory Potato too much, 
as, in spite of the unfavourableness of the season, they have 
done remaikably well. I have raised 64^ lb from one pound ; 
they are all free from disease, and many of them weigh above 
one pound each, whilst four of them scaled the extraordinary 
weight of 9 lb. 
Webb’s Spring Catalogue, post free Is. 
Abridged Edition Gratis and Post Free. 
SEEDS, 
Vegetable, Flower and Farm, 
CAREFULLY SELECTED, 
AND FROM WHICH MAY BE EXPECTED 
THE BEST RESULTS 
EVER YET ATTAINED. 
ILLUSTRATED LIST, 
Containing Copious, Interesting, and Eeliable Infor¬ 
mation, Free. 
RICHARD SMITH & Co., 
Seed Merchants and Nurserymen, 
WORCESTER. 
A Grand Early Potato, 
A white sport from the well-known Beauty of Hebron, the finest 
first early Potato in the world. Very early, enormously pro¬ 
ductive, and of splendid cooking quality. This is a most 
valuable variety for Market Growers. Price 2s. 6 d. per peck, 
8s. 6 d. per bushel, 14s. per cwt., £10 per ton. Orders value 20s. 
Carriage Free. ILLUSTRATED POTATO CATALOGUE, 
Gratis to all applicants. 
DAN1ELSBRQ8., GROWERS, NORWICH. 
EELWAYl^SOlT. 
NOW IS THE TIME TO PLANT 
GLADIOLI, of which we grow 20 acres 
PiEONIES 
PYRETHPvUMS 
DELPHINIUMS 
GAILLARDIAS 
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“The largest collection in the World,” for which the 
highest awards of the Royal Horticultural and the 
Royal Botanical Societies of London have been given. 
See our Manual for 1889, gratis and post free. 
LANGPORT, SOMERSET 
CHOICE VEGETABLES 
ALL THE VEAR ROUND. 
CARTERS’^ 
WORLD 
(RENOWNED 
OF 
BOXES 
TESTED SEEDS 
free s Wa01VER WffMs free 
PACKING. CARRIAGE. 
Containing Vegetable Seeds Only, 
Price, 2 6, 5/-, 7/6, 9/-, 3L7/6. 
Containing Flower Seeds Only, 
Price, S/6, 5/-, 3L6/6, 2.6/—, 
Zl/-, 31/6, 4Z/-, 63/-. 
Containing Vegetable & Flower Seeds, 
Price, 10/6,14/-,ZZ/6 1 30/- 
Sent to any address in Great Britain 
on receipt of Cash. 
FULL LIST OF CONTENT S GRATIS & PC ST FREE. 
Royal Seedsmen by Sealed Appointment, 
S. HIGH HGLBORN, LONDON. 
pgr Terms of Subscription.— Post free from the office to any 
part of the United Kingdom, one copy, 1 Jet.; three months, 
Is. St?.; six months, 3s. 3d. ; twelve months, 6s. 6d. Foreign 
Subscription to all counties in the Postal Union, 8s. 8 d. per 
annum. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, April 1st.— Sale of Lilies, Carnations, Hardy Plants, 
&e., at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Tuesday, April 2nd.—Sale of second portion of Major Lendy’s 
collection of Orchids at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Wednesday, April 3rd. — Royal Caledonian Horticultural 
Society’s Spring Show at Edinburgh. Sale of Lily, Bulbs, 
Roses, &e., at Steven's Rooms. 
Friday^, April 5th—Sale of Orchids at Protheroe & Morris’s 
Rooms. 
For Index to Contents & Advertisements, see p. 489. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1889. 
4 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
0rchid Growing.— Does the frequent dis- 
posing of private Orchid collections indicate 
that growers are tiring of them, that they 
are too costly a burthen, or that in such 
occasional dispersal, through auction sales or 
otherwise, there is found pecuniary interest 
long deferred 1 Very probably many of those 
who have had, or still have, good collections 
of Orchids would object to the innuendo that, 
after all, they are in their cultural labours 
actuated by mercenary motives. And yet we 
do not see why they should feel annoyed at 
such suggestion, as, even if they sin—and we 
make no such suggestion—they sin in the 
best of company. How many of our wealthy 
connoisseurs in art are there who are not 
making costly collections of pictures or other 
valuable objects, as also libraries, which they 
know signify the laying up of treasure in a 
not too readily convertible form, for their 
successors 1 
Practically, collections of works of art have 
proved to be valuable investments, and we 
have sometimes had evidence that collections 
of Orchids have come into the same category. 
