THE GARDENING WORLD 
January 16, 1.892. 
Bob 
New Chrysanthemums, 
C ARTERS’ LIST OF THE BEST 
SORTS for 1892 Now Ready, gratis and post free 
on application to the QUEEN’S SEEDSMEN, 237 & 238, High 
Holborn, London, W.C. 
Plow READY. 
Free to Price, 4/-, 
Customers.^ Post Free. 
GARTERS 
Vade-Mecum 
For 1892. 
v The handsomest Catalogue of the year,, 
7 beautiful Coloured Plates. 
Seedsmen by Royal Warrants to 
H.M. The Queen & H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, 
237 k 238, HIGH HOLBORN, L 
Select VEGETABLE, 
Choice FLOWER, 
The best qualities at __., 
Moderate Prices. 
Delivered Free J§ The 
by Rail or Eest 
Parcels SEED 
POSt. y&r. 
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POTATOS, 
Garden Tools, 
Sundries, &c., &c. 
Illustrated 
Descriptive Catalogue, No. 403 
POST FREE ON APPLICATION, 
Dlcfsous A caster. 
(Limitedr ' 
NEW ENGLISH CHRYSANTHEMUMS 
For 1892 . 
Mrs. ROBINSON KING, 6 f.c.c.’s, New Golden Yellowsport 
from G. Empress. The WHOLE of the CERTIFICATED 
STOCK in my POSSESSION (see notice). PRELUDE or 
striped Alfred Lyne,Noel Pragnell or striped Empress. Excel¬ 
sior, Jap., rose cerise, f.c.c. F. W. Flight, Jap., crimson car¬ 
mine, 2 f.c.c.'s. G. C. Schwabe, J., carmine rose, 3 f.c.c.’s. Mrs. 
Nisbet, J., purple amaranth, f.c.c. Peter Blair, J., yellow and 
crimson, f.c.c. William Tunnington, J., chestnut red, com. 
Atlantic, J., white and rose; Budget, J., red and yellow; Charles 
Bonstedt, J., lilac rose ; J. Blenkinsop, J., crimson ; J. P. Ken¬ 
dall, J., amaranth ; Majestic, J., carmine rose; Masterpiece, J., 
ruby red: Mrs. Carr-Gomm, J, white; Mrs. C. Russell, J., 
bull; Mrs. Gladstone, J., cream; Mrs. H. F. Spaulding, J., 
black; Richard Nisbet, J., red and yellow; Standard, J., rose 
magenta: Umpire, J., lilac rose; Miss Lillian Cope, J., or white 
Etoile de Lyon. 
Descriptions and prices, see Catalogue (free). Orders booked 
and executed in rotation during February and March. 
ROBERT OWEN, Floral Nursery, Maidenhead. 
For PLEASURE and PROFIT . 
FRUIT 
ROSES 
Nothing so Profitable and 
Easy to Grow. 
74 ACRES IN STOCK. 
See CATALOGUE for Simple Instructions, and kinds of Tree 
to suit all Soils. 
Hundreds of 
Thousands. 
BUSHES, Packing and Carriage Free for 
8s. per dozen, 60 s. per 100 . 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| YEGE “ B a L F V» L01ffE,! ’ 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST, FREE. 
RICHARDSMITH &C0., WORCESTER. 
VEITCH’S 
SUPERB 
PRIMULAS, 
THE FINEST IN CULTIVATION. 
Awarded a Special Certificate by the Royal 
Horticultural Society for superior quality. 
YEITCHS “SNOWFLAKE.” 
The finest pure white Fern-leaved variety. Flowers large, 
of fine form, massive substance, and exquisitely fringed. 
Per Packet, 3 s. 6d. 
VEITCH’S Cheto SCARLET. 
The brightest and richest of all the high-coloured varieties. 
Per Packet, 2 s. 6d. 
Flowers of a beautiful rich blue colour. 
Per Packet, 3 s. 6d. 
YEITCH’S CHELSEA ROSE. 
A pretty and attractive variety of a charming rose-pink 
colour. Per Packet, 3 s. 6d. 
“ Veitch's Primulas are distinguished by purity, softness or 
richness Of Colour, great substance of blooms, and in 
most Cases by exceptional size .”—Journal of Horticulture, 
January 3b, 1S89._ 
For full descriptions of the above , see Seed CATALOGUE 
forwarded Gratis and Post-free on application. 
JAMES YEITCH & SONS, 
ROYAL EXOTIC NURSERY, CHELSEA, S.W. 
H. or. JOIES 
Begs to draw attention to the great bargains he is now 
offering in 
BEGONIAS. 
Absolutely the best value for money ever offered. 
rrR it ee jb m . 
if you are not satisfied cash returned, 
Single Begonias for Bedding. 
These have been selected with great care, and may be relied 
upon to give a grand display. 
Per doz. Per 100. 
Very choice, all colours, mixed . 3s. 20s. 
Very good to colour. 3s. 20s. 
Very choice, selected to colour . 4s. 26s. 
Single Begonias for Pot Culture. 
All the varieties offered under this heading are quite up to 
exhibition standard, and remarkable value tor money. 
12 finest selected, mixed colours, 4s. 6 finest selected fawn, 
bronze, terra-cotta, bud, apricot, and dark orange, 4s, 6d.; a 
unique collection. 12 fine selected, in 12 distinct colours, 6s. 
12 very fine selected, in 12 distinct colours, 9s. 12, my very 
best selected, equal to the finest named varieties usually offered 
at 5s. each, in 12 lovely colours, 12s. 
Double Begonias for Pots or Bedding. 
6 fine selected seedlings, 6s. 6d.; 12 for 12s. 6 extra fine 
selected, suitable for exhibition, 13s.; 12 for 24s. Unbloomed 
doubles, 60 per cent, of these will be fine double flowers, 6 for 
2S. 6d., 12 for 4s. Begonia seed, single, is. and 2s. per packet; 
double, is. 6d. and 2s. 6d. packet. All Free for Cash with Order. 
Ryecroft Nursery, Hither Green, Lewisham. 
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. 
TO PREVENT DISAPPOINTMENT 
sow 
SEEDS 
AND HAVE 
THE FINEST VEGETABLES 
FOR THE TABLE 
ALL THE YEAR ROUND. 
SUTTON'S COLLECTIONS 
prepared at the following prices, 
contain not only a most liberal 
supply, but alI the varieties are of 
the very best, of excellent quality 
when cooked, and abundant 
croppers. 
10s. 6d., 21s., 31s. 6d., £2 2s., 13 3s. 
Sent Carriage Free on receipt of Remittance. 
“ I am very pleased with your Collections ; 
there is a large variety and good value for the 
money.”—THOS. CARDER, Esq., Maiden 
Bradley. 
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Sutton’s seeds 
GENUINE ONLY FROM SUTTON & SONS,READING. , 
For Index to Contents see page 313. 
" Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Wednesday, January 2o.—Sale of Plants, Bulbs, etc., at 
Protheroe & Morris' Rooms. 
Thursday, January 21.—Sale of Lily Bulbs at Protheroe & 
Morris’ Rooms. 
Frida y, J anuary 22.— Sale of established Orchids at Protheroe 
& Morris’ Rooms, 
Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 16 th, 1892, 
JThf Cape Primrose.— It may possibly 
^ have occurred to some of our readers, 
when looking at the admirable illustration 
of a plant of Messrs. James Veitch’s & Sons 
new strain of Streptocarpus, which was 
published last week, that the strain has in 
it possibililies hardly less promising than 
have during the past ten years become 
great realities in the Gloxinia. There is 
much the same habit of growth, the fine 
depressed leafage, the flowers produced so' 
abundantly from the crowns on single 
stems, their pendant and somewhat 
trumpet shape, in many features resembling 
the Gloxinia as it was not so many years 
ago. 
Now we rarely see a pendant or droop- 
ing-flowered Gloxinia, and the superb 
erect blooms of to-day are such as even 
the most ardent raisers of a few years ago 
could hardly have looked for. But if we 
