October 17, iBOX. 
T HE G A R D E N I N G W 6 R L D 
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Veitch s Bulbs 
OF SUPERIOR QUALITY. 
VEITCH'S 
COLLECTIONS OF BULBS 
To Suit all Requirements. 
Arranged on a most liberal scale, and containing only 
the most easily cultivated and attractive sorts for 
Winter and Spring Flowering. 
At 10s. 6d P , 15s., 21s., 42s., 63s., & 105s. 
For details see CATALOGUE, forwarded 
Gratis and Post Free on application. 
JAMES VEITCH & SONS, 
ROYAL EXOTIC NURSERY, 
CHELSEA, LONDON, S.W, 
To thos e about to P lant. 
A Descriptive Catalogue 
of ROSES, FRUIT TREES, CONIFERS, EVERGREEN 
and FLOWERING SHRUBS. RHODODENDRONS, 
ORNAMENTAL and FOREST TREES, CLEMATIS and 
other CLIMBING PLANTS, in large variety, sent free on 
application to 
GEO. JAOKMAN & SON, Woking Nursery, 
WOKING. 
ESTABLISHED iSio, AREA 150 ACRES. 
COME AND 
The most remarkable and finest display of Early-floweflng 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS 
Ever seen in this Country. 
Japanese varieties rivalling the best of those that bloom in 
November. 
H. 3 * 3 © M E S 
Respectfully invites all to see his show, which is now open and 
will continue so until the middleof November. Admission free. 
RYECROFT NURSERY, 
HITHER GREEN LANE, LEWISHAM, S.E. 
GARDEN. 
BULBS, ROSES, &c. 
F OR whatever is wanted, mentioned or 
ilot in these columns, please to write immediately to 
H; CANNELL & SONS, whose Seed and Nursery Stock 
Is very complete and extensive, and where nearly everything 
for the garden is grown and supplied in large quantities in the 
finest possible condition, at the lowest prices, consistent with 
correctness and superior character. Never has there been such 
a complete Autumn Catalogue issued of everything required for 
the garden as the one we are now sending post free. Neither 
has there ever been such a splendid stock of best varieties of 
the many families of plants necessary to keep the garden in 
the highest state of perfection as we are now soliciting orders 
for. Our climate, soil, and facilities give us and purchasers 
many advantages, and we ask all to send for a Catalogue. 
H. CANNELL & SONS, 
SWANLEY, KENT. 
WILLIAMS’ 
AUTUMN & WINTER-FLOWERING, 
and FORCING PLANTS 
Are now ready for delivery, in splendid condition- 
For Complete List and Prices, see 
ILLUSTRATED BULB CATALOGUE, 
Gratis and Post Free on application. 
B. S. WILLIAMS & SON, 
Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 
UPPER HOLLOWAY, LONDON, N. 
§ 
GARTERS 
CHOICE AND CELEBRATED 
HYACINTHS. 
so 
12 
Choice Named Hyacinths 
in 25 sorts, for Cultivation in pots 
or glasses. Carriage Free. 
Choice Named Hyacinths 
in 12 sorts, for Cultivation in pots 
or glasses. Carriage Free. 
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12 
Fine Named Hyacinths 
in 12 sorts, for Cultivation in pots 
and glasses. Carriage Free. 
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CARTERS’ ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, containing a 
bcautHully Coloured Plate , GRATIS and POST FREE 
to Customers. 
Royal Seedsmen by Sealed Warrants. 
237,238, HIGH EOLBORN. LONDON. 
For Index to Contents see page 106. 
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Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY.. OCTOBER 17th, 1891. 
" Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.” —Bacon, 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS, 
Monday, Oct 19,—Bulb sales at Protheroe & Morris' and 
Stevens' Rooms. 
Tuesday, Oct. 20.—Fruit Show in the Town Hall, Man¬ 
chester (4 days). Bulb sale at Protheroe & Morris' Rooms. 
Wednesday, Oct. 71, —Fruit Confererifie in the Town Hall, 
Manchester (2 days), Sale of the late Mr. Neville Wyatt's 
Orchids at Stevens' Rooms. Bulb sales at Protheroe & Morris' 
and Stevens' Rooms. 
Thursday, Oct. 22.—Bulb sale at Protheroe & Mofris’ Rooms. 
Friday, Oct, 23.—Olchid sale at Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
Saturday, Oct. 24.—Bulb sales at Protheroe & Morris' 
and Stevens’ Rooms. 
J'.Ihe Conifer Conference. —The Royal 
Horticultural Society was distinctly 
unfortunate in regard to much of the 
weather which prevailed during the hold¬ 
ing of the recent Conferences at Chiswick. 
As an exhibition of species and varieties 
of Conifers, nothing like it has ever been 
previously seen, and probably there was 
hardly a form in cultivation which was not 
duly represented. Just as the show of cut 
branches was very dull, flat, and except to 
a few uninteresting, the Conifer Garden 
was the reverse in being delightful. 
It was not possible to gaze upon the 
many beautiful varieties there shown, in a 
picturesque and growing form, especially 
when the rain poured down so pitilessly as 
it did on the 6th inst., without realising 
that for hardy winter gardening no material 
could be more pleasing. What a sensation 
would have been created in London could 
this charming Conifer Garden have been 
bodily transferred to one or other of our 
Metropolitan Parks. How many thou¬ 
sands, catching at the new idea, would 
have flocked to see the Conifer Garden! 
We commend the idea to the authorities of 
the Royal and Municipal Parks, and would 
suggest to them that they should contract 
with one or more nurserymen to furnish 
the Parks with something similar annually, 
in the shape of. a Conifer Garden, inter 
mingling the trees with various pleasing 
hardy shrubB; 
Anything which Will serve to make the 
Parks at once as interesting and as 
gardenesque as possible should be readily 
seized upon and utilised. Jt may be that, 
perhaps, some of the choicer or more 
tender forms of Conifers would not stand 
a few months of our London smoke, but 
many will. Generally it may be expected 
that some stimulus to Conifer culture will 
result from the Conference, and when the 
papers read are published our knowledge 
will be considerably extended. When we 
see noble specimens like those growing at 
Dropmore, Orton, Elvaston, Murthly, and 
other noble demesnes, indeed do Conifers 
command our highest admiration. 
/JXichaelmas Daisies.— It was but too 
evident from the plentiful use of note 
book and pencil seen on every hand at the 
Hardy Perennial Show at Chiswick last 
week, that many of the very beautiful 
Michaelmas Daisies there exhibited came 
as a revelation. It is now seen that the 
family is a very prolific one, and, still 
further, that it is being rapidly extended. 
Many of the old, small flowered sorts are 
nowhere, and, for any present good they 
are, may just as well be cast away on the 
rubbish heap, for they are occupying in 
gardens places that might be better filled. 
There are some of the small flowered 
sorts that, because they look so graceful, 
even elegant in form, are charming as well 
as enduring for vase decoration. Such 
species as Aster ptarmicoides and A, 
cordifolius elegans are indeed delightful for 
cutting, but there is a wealth of the larger 
flowered forms which merit the widest 
cultivation. Pity ’tis that we 
them more variety of colour, 
vailing tone is blue or mauve, 
varieties as Aster Novas-Anglis ruber, 
dark red and a late bloomer, and A. 
have not in 
as the pre a 
Still, such 
variety, 
greater 
sought for. 
Novse-Anglise roseus, a lovely 
shows that there is promise of 
Variation in colour if it be 
Some forms are of a white, or French 
white hue, but mauve, lavender, blue, and 
purplish blue predominate. 
Any garden which possesses a dozen 
strong clumps of the finest varieties is 
distinctly favoured; and we earnestly 
advise all our readers who have not been 
able to see the Chiswick collection and 
take their own notes, to obtain a few of the 
best varieties, such as have recently been 
noticed in our columns, and grow them for 
both garden decoration and to furnish cut 
flowers. The Asters are very hardy, very 
enduring bloomers, positively thriving and 
flowering best under October skies, liking 
cold rather than heat, and seemingly 
revelling in rain. Practically, the Michael¬ 
mas Daisies lengthen out our hardy flower 
season to the latest months of the year, 
and we may well favour flowers of this 
nature in the interest of those who have no 
glass houses. 
^reserved Plums. —As the Mayforth 
«“ apparatus now in operation for fruit 
drying at Chiswick seems to be the only 
one accessible to the public, so far .as we 
know, it commands some attention because 
its operations have so far been tested with 
success, and, even though there may be 
much in its modus operandi which seems 
objectionable, yet it is evident that in the 
evaporating or drying of fruit, it is the 
best machine that has yet been presented. 
With the drying of Apples in a sliced state, 
all the cores and rhind being first removed, 
we were long since made familiar, and, 
although the product in its dry condition 
