December 5, 1891. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
207 
For PLEASURE and PROFIT. 
Nothing so Profitable and 
Easy to Grow. 
74 ACRES IN STOCK. 
See CATALOGUE for Simple Instructions, and kinds of Tree 
to suit all Soils. 
FRUIT 
ROSES. 
BUSHES. 
8s. per dozen, 60s. per 100. 
Hundreds of 
Thousands. 
Packing and Carriage Free for 
Cash with Order. 
ROSES in Pots, from 15 s. per dozen. 
ORNAMENTAL TREES, 91 ACRES. 
4 ACRES of GLASS. 
CLEMATIS (80,000), from 15 s. per dozen. 
N B—Single Plants are sold at slightly increased prices. 
SEEDS & BULBS | SEGE ” B a L F E A/M L0WEE ’ 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST, FREE. 
RICHARD SMITH&C0., W ORCESTER. 
New Apple, Chelmsford Wonder. 
QALTMARSH & SON, The Nurseries, 
^ Chelmsford, are now sending out this splendid NEW 
KITCHEN APPLE, which, after receiving an Award of Merit 
in March last, has had an additional award of a First-class 
Certificate at the meeting of the Fruit Committee of the Royal 
Horticultural Society on November io. 
It is a firm, handsome Apple, of large size, a good keeper, 
great bearer, and cf superior flavour when cooked. It was 
favoured with a well-executed illustration, together with a 
faithful description, in the Gardeners' Magazine of April n, 
copies of which may be had on application. 
Strong Maiden Trees are now ready at 5s. each, with the 
usual discount to the Trade. 
To t hose 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. JACKMAN & SON, Woking Nursery, 
WOKING. 
ESTABLISHED 1810. 
AREA 150 ACRES. 
TRADE OFFER OF LARGE PALMS. 
W ICETON has a large Stock of the 
• leading kinds of Decorative PALMS, from 6ft. to 
25ft. high, fit for Conservatory and house decorations 
Dracrnas, Bamboos, and other foliage plants. 
Lowest Prices quoted on application. 
W. ICETON, Putney. 
~ GARDEN. 
BULBS, ROSES, &c. 
F OR whatever is wanted, mentioned or 
not 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. 
lARMAN’S 
For 
BULBS, 
SBBDS, 
ROSFS, 
FRUIT TRFLS, &c., 
SHRUBS, 
CLIMBING PLANTS, &c. 
Everything of FIRST QUALITY, GENUINE, 
and RELIABLE. 
Our Autumn Catalogue has been posted to our Customers— 
and a copy will be sent to any address on application. 
JARMAN & CO., 
Seedsmen & Nurserymen, 
CHARD, SOMERSETSHIRE. 
BARTER’S LIST OF THE BEST 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS for 1892 Now Ready, gratis, 
and post free on application to the QUEEN’S SEEDSMEN, 
237 & 238, High Holborn, London, W.C. 
I CARTERS’I 
Special Cash Clearance Sale of 
CHEAP HARDY BULBS 
For massing in large quantities in Parks, Promenades, 
Pleasure Grounds, Carriage Drives, Plantations, See. 
AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. 
Carriage and Packing Free for Cash with Order. 
DOUBLE DAFFODILS. 
price 
50 
0 
per 1000 
SINGLE DAFFODILS . 
11 
12 
6 
99 
DOUBLE WHITE NARCISS. 
11 
35 
0 
11 
(Gardenia-like—very sweet scented.) 
PHEASANT'S EYE NARCISS 
11 
13 
6 
11 
MIXED DAFFODILS . 
11 
15 
0 
11 
(A Grand Mixture.) 
BLUEBELLS . 
11 
12 
6 
» 
WINTER ACONITES . 
11 
10 
6 
11 
SNOWDROPS . 
11 
21 
0 
11 
Buyers from this List must please give the price 
with their order. 
All are offered so long as unsold, and for quantities of no'- 
less than 500 bulbs. 
Suppliers of Bulbs to the Royal London Parks, 
237 & 238, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON. 
For Index to Contents see pafe 218. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
retreshment to the spirit 01 man."— Bacon. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, Dec. 7.—Bulb Sales at Protheroe & Morris' ana 
Stevens’ Rooms. 
Tuesday, Dec. 8 — Royal Horticultural Society: Committee 
Meetings at the Drill Hall at 12 o’clock.—Nursery and Seed 
Trade Association : Annual Meeting at 6 p.m— Bulb Sale at 
Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
Wednesday, Dec. 9.— National Chrysanthemum Society: 
Early Winter Show at the Westminster Aquarium.—Bulb Sales 
at Protheroe Sc Morris’ and Stevens’ Rooms. 
Thursday, Dec. 10.—Sale oi Greenhouse Plants, See., at 
Protheroe & Morris' Rooms. 
Friday, Dec. n.—Sale of Orchids at Protheroe & Morris’ 
Rooms. 
Saturday, Dec. 12.— Bulb Sales at Protheroe & Morris' and 
Stevens' Rooms. 
Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY , DECEMBER 5th, 1891. 
f TREET Trees. —Some recent wholesale 
breakages of street trees in one of the 
London suburbs shows something of the 
danger to which they are subjected even 
in these presumably enlightened days. In 
the old Tom and Jerry times nothing 
would have afforded greater delight to the 
“ bucks ” of the day than to have employed 
their drunken pastime in pulling up street 
trees by the roots or in otherwise pro¬ 
moting destruction. We had hoped to 
have got beyond that form of rowdyism, 
and to have found public favour for trees 
so great that they would have been 
regarded almost with adoration. 
But we may take it for granted that 
what the Jerrys of old did, they did in 
their cups, and what the modern tree 
iconoclasts have done was doubtless done 
under similar influences. We may, as 
horticultural critics, sometimes have occa¬ 
sion to complain of the almost crass 
stupidity which marks some examples of 
street planting. Very often we see them 
thrust thickly into narrow streets, which, 
dark enough in winter and especially during 
fog, would when the trees become large and 
in full leaf render the streets dark almost 
all the year round. In other places we 
have seen trees of the most unfit kind 
planted. In others they have been 
planted right opposite to each other to 
secure uniformity, but which when they 
become large will be unduly crowded. In 
other cases again they have been so planted 
by rule of thumb that even street lamps 
have been practically hidden from view, 
and their light shut in because the rule of 
thumb planter would put some of the trees 
close to the lamps. 
Still faults of this nature should not per¬ 
mit us to overlook the charm there is 
incidental to trees in towns or their suburbs 
where there is ample space for them. We 
should much prefer to see our streets 
broader, and the trees planted down the 
centre as well as at the sides or down the 
centre when there is not room for both, so 
as at once to divide the traffic and to pro¬ 
vide a pleasant foot promenade down the 
middle of the roads. That would be a 
great gain, but we fear at home land is too 
costly to permit of very broad thorough¬ 
fares. 
X>ERPETUAL BLOOMING CARNATION S.— We 
P may well rank amongst the perpetual 
blooming flowers those varied members of 
the Dianthus family generally known as 
Carnations. What the old florists knew 
as Carnations were chiefly of the section 
which is still most largely exhibited and 
known as bizarres, flakes, &c. The world 
had got into the habit of regarding all Car¬ 
nations as of this type, and as needing con¬ 
siderable care and skill in their cultivation. 
We are wiser now, and whilst still greatly 
admiring the Florists’ favourites, find great 
pleasure in the commoner and it may be 
hardier sorts which now so much grace 
our flower borders, and give us during the 
summer such a wealth of deliciously 
perfumed flowers. 
But there is a section of Carnations 
which there is no particular reason for 
assuming are of a distinctive origin, which 
bloom so freely under glass all through the 
autumn and winter, that we can well claim 
for the Carnation the merit of perpetual 
blooming. We have now literally a wealth 
of winter blooming varieties commonly 
called tree Carnations, but all admirably 
suited for pot culture, and being easily pro¬ 
pagated can be had by anyone who has 
glass room in plenty. What again do not 
we gardeners of to-day possess as com¬ 
pared with our garden progenitors. What 
of winter blooming Carnations they had 
were of the poorest, and of garden or 
summer blooming varieties how few but of 
the tenderest. We have of late found it 
easy to obtain seeds of fine double strains 
and produce plants in plenty in that 
commonplace way. 
If we want to perpetuate stocks of good 
varieties the veriest tyro may manage a 
few layers or put in some pipings. If 
winter bloomers be needed cuttings put in 
early in the spring strike freely in gentle 
warmth and if later planted out in the 
open ground, scores of fine strong plants 
may be had for lifting into pots in 
October, and bloom all the winter. We 
cannot too much admire Carnations 
whether they be found under glass in 
winter or in the open borders in summer. 
They are always welcome. 
JTouvardias. —In the Bouvardia, like the 
^ Carnation, we have another class of 
plants which have proved to be wonder¬ 
fully serviceable in helping both to beautify 
our greenhouses and to furnish immense 
quantities of valuable cut flowers. Here 
again too do we find plants of such great 
service to us, but of which our progenitors 
