April 9, 1892'. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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Seeds for Amateurs. 
GARTERS’ 
BOXES OF TESTED 
SEEDS, 
FOR SMALL GARDENS. 
Carters’ 2/6 Box of Vegetable Seeds 
contains 13 Varieties, and is sent post free on 
receipt of remittance. 
Carters’ 5/- Box of Vegetable Seeds 
contains 22 Varieties, and is sent post free on 
receipt of remittance. 
Carters’ 7/6 Box of Vegetable Seeds 
contains 30 Varieties, and is sent post free on 
receipt of remittance. 
Carters’ 9/- Box of Vegetable Seeds 
contains 35 Varieties, and is sent post free on 
receipt of remittance. 
Other Boxes, 10/6, 14/-, 17/6, & 21/-. 
Full List of Contents Post Free. 
Seedsmen by Royat, Warrants to THE QUEEN and 
THE PRINCE OF WALES. 
237 4 238, HIGHHOLBORN, LONDON. 
MR. DODWELL’S GRAND CARNATIONS, 
The Finest G rown. 
Mr. Dodwell's Specialities. 
Bizarres, Flakes, Picotees, Selfs, Fancies, & Yellow 
Grounds, 10/6 per doz. 
THE COTTAGE, 
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NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS 
FROM AMERICA. 
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H. J. JONES, 
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FORBES 
Catalogue for 1892 
Is the largest, best, and most comprehensive ever 
issued on 
Florists’ Flowers k Herbaceous Plants, 
It contains full and accurate descriptions of all the 
best Antirrhinums, Begonias, Carnations, Dahlias, 
Delphinums, Fuchsias, Paeonies, Pansies, Violas, 
Pelargoniums. Pentstemons, Petunias, Phloxes, 
Pinks, Potentillas, Primulas, Pyrethrums, Verbenas, 
Herbaceous Plants, &c., &c. Also of iny true and 
reliable strain of 
EA8T LOTHIAN STOCKS, 
which, by the force of their merit, are now justly 
celebrated all the world over. In 5 distinct sorts: 
Crimson, Purple, Scarlet, White, and Wall-flower¬ 
leaved White. 
Each sort 1/-, 2/6, & 5/- per packet. 
It is anindispensable REFERENCE BOOK on all sections 
of Florists' Flowers, and should be carefully ferused by all 
buyers of Flowers. Free on application. 
JOHN FORBES, 
fiursepyman, 
HAWICK, SCOTLAND. 
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FINEST 
LAWN 
Carefully prepared fr 
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MIXED 
GRASS 
om the finest Dwarf 
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per Bushel, 25s. 
VEIT 
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GROUNDS. 
per Bushel, 21s. 
JAMES VEIT 
Royal Exotic Nursei 
CH & SONS, 
fj, CHELSEA, S.W. 
For Index to Contents see page 506. 
“ Gardening is the purest ot human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.” —Bacon. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, April 12.— Royal .Horticultural Society: Meeting 
of Committees at Drill Hall, 12 o’clock. Sale of Established 
Orchids at Protheroe & Mori is’ Rooms. 
Wednesday, April 13. —Sale of Japanese Lilies,Greenhouse 
Plants, Roses, &c., at Protheroe & Morris' Rooms. 
Thursday, April 14.— Opening of Orchid Show at Brussels. 
i|4 GiHjiUiuns IfWii 
Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY, APRIL gth, 1892. 
Ornamental Trees. —The noble estate of 
™ Trentham has long been known in 
garden annals as one of the finest and 
most beautiful in the kingdom, therefore 
whatsoever relates to its interests has in¬ 
terest for horticulturists. It is no new 
circumstance in the law courts to find 
father and son in antagonism, and the 
action now pending between the Duke of 
Sutherland and his eldest son, the Marquis 
of Stafford, in regard to the cutting of 
timber on the estate has had numerous 
counterparts in past years. 
The spectacle so presented is not an 
edifying one, but seems to be occasionally 
inevitable under existing laws which settle 
the devolution of estates practically for 
generations. Preliminary to the reaching 
of the real action between the parties 
which relates to the rights or powers of 
the tenant for life to cut timber, a special 
appeal was recently made to the Court of 
Chancery to restrain the duke from further 
felling timber pending the decision in the 
action at law. In a minor degree the ap¬ 
peal was successful, but in the major cases 
failed. The Marquis of Stafford held that 
the timber now being cut was ornamental, 
in relation to which the law has saving 
clauses. So far as concerned a small wood 
near the mansion, it was admitted that it 
was chiefly of the class of ornamental tim¬ 
ber. With reference to the larger -woods 
the plea could not be admitted. 
It would have indeed been difficult to 
define how ornamental timber differed 
from timber grown specially for profit, and 
in any case a judicious course of thinning, 
provided it is not wholesale clearing, rather 
tends to the production of ornamental trees 
than otherwise. Sti 1 1 it is obvious that 
woods deiive their ornamental character 
less from the value of individual trees than 
from their general effect in the landscape ; 
hence ic is not easy to refer to individual 
trees in such cases as ornamental. On the 
other hand single trees or small clumps are 
distinctly ornamental if sound and well- 
grown. It is not easy to withhold some 
sympathy with those who, knowing how 
long it takes to produce a noble tree,desire 
to retain it as an ornament so long as pos¬ 
sible. 
^ndulations in Landscapes. — The im¬ 
mense value of an undulated surface 
of ground to the landscape gardener can¬ 
not be too highly estimated. When a very 
low or flat area has to be converted into 
pleasure grounds or garden surroundings 
the skill of the landscape architect is in¬ 
deed tried to ensure that there shall be 
variation in scene, and that his planting 
shall lend itself to some apparent deception, 
so as to break the monotony of features. 
None the less all that skill can furmsh can 
at the best only convert a mere flat into a 
make-believe irregularity. 
When nature has as it w T ere flung upon 
the earth, in one of her roughest moods, a 
series of hills and vales of mounds and hol¬ 
lows,it really becomes less a matter for the 
gardener to consider how to hide the pleas¬ 
ing features than how to clothe them, so 
that all their natural beauties may be pre¬ 
served. There is about a garden so situ¬ 
ated a charm that is undefinable, and va¬ 
riety that is ever changing and ever inter¬ 
esting. It is then that the landscape gar¬ 
dener finds scope for the presentation later 
of a series of pictures and of pleasing 
surprises. We have been led to reflect 
thus after looking over the extensive and 
beautiful grounds which surround the 
royal residence of Claremont, where,within 
a few miles of the metropolis, there is found 
pleasure grounds of so noble and varied a 
kind as to excite feelings of the liveliest 
pleasure. 
The change from hollow to hill, from 
glade to wood, is indeed charming, and the 
visitor constantly comes upon new views, 
new features ; and thus if the peregrination 
of such extensive grounds be somewhat 
toilsome because of the surroundings at 
least reward is found in the variations of 
scene, the nobility of the trees and huge 
masses of shrubbery, the pleasing views 
here and there found, and the general 
beauty of what is indeed a royal demesne. 
TThe National Auricula Show. —Many 
^ minds have doubtless been exercised 
unsuccessfully in endeavouring to discover 
why the two meetings of the Royal Horti- 
