May 7, 1892. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
559 
INTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION, 
LONDON, EARL’S COURT, S.W. 
Opening Day-Saturday, May 7th. 
H. E. MILNER, F.L.S., Assoc. M. Inst. C.E. - - - Chairman of the Executive. 
Most magnificent display of Flowers and Shrubs seen since the great Exhibition of 1866. A new 
departure in gardening, a Landscape Garden under Cover. Exquisite Scenery; a profusion of Palms, 
Ferns, and Flowering Plants. Insectivorous House— one of the greatest Curiosities in Nature! 
Beautiful Walks and Slopes. Floral Maze, Conservatories, Rockeries, and Ferneries. Gardens of all 
periods and styles—Egyptian, Roman, Italian, Tudor, Jacobean, Japanese, etc., etc. Indian Tea Garden. 
Representation of Pliny’s Villa. Temple of the Pharaohs on the bank of the Nile. The Long Walk in 
Windsor Park. 
Electric Coloured Fountains. Brilliant Illuminations. Switchback Railway. 
The BAND of the GRENADIER GUARDS, Conductor—Lieut. DAN GODFREY. 
NOW 
(and when the plants have 
commenced to grow) is an 
excellent TIME TO PLANT 
HOLLIES, CONIFERS, YEWS, 
AND ALMOST ALL 
EVERGREEN SHRUBS. 
CLEMATIS may be planted in May. 
DESCRIPTIVE LISTS of the above and 
following, fret :— 
CREEPERS FOR WALLS. 
ROSES IN POTS ,—Best New and Old 
English and Foreign Sorts. 
RICHARD SlTH k CO., 
NURSERYMEN AND SEED MERCHANTS, 
WORCESTER. 
SHOWY 
HARDY 
FLOWERS 
FOR 
BORDERS. 
THE 
GARDEN 
ALWAYS 
GAY. 
Choice Carnations of good 
kinds. An immense stock. Well 
grown plants, free flowering 
varieties. Some of the best in 
cultivation. Prices most moderate 
throughout. Our selection in 
good sorts at from 7 s. 6d. per doz 
Also Auriculas, Pansies, Pent- 
stemons, Phloxes, Primulas, Pinks 
and Pyrethrums. 
TQh'UirnhsP'jrQTrn 
, « <J ( 40 C Acres) %S £ I L O 9 L U 
I LIMITED' 
MR. DODWElL’S GRAND CARNATIONS. 
The Finest Grown. 
Mr. Dodwdl's Specialities. 
Bizarres, Flakes, Picotees, Selfs, Fancies, & Yellow 
Grounds, 10/6 per doz. 
THE COTTAGE, 
ST-A-flFTX.IE'Z' "RID.. OXFORD. 
Stove.Greenhouse,Hardy Exotic & British 
EVERYONE interested in Ferns SHOULD 
SEND FOR OUR partially descriptive. 
Catalogue free on Application. 
also our ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE N22I. 
Price 1/6 post free. 
HESTER: 
CUTBUSH’S MILLTRACK MUSHROOM SPAWN. 
Too well known to require descrip¬ 
tion. Price 6s. per bushel (is. extra 
per bushel for package), or 6 d. per 
cake ; free by Parcel Post, is. 
None genuine unless in sealed pack¬ 
ages, and printed cultural directions 
enclosed with our signatures attached. 
New publication, “ Mushrooms, and 
How to Grow Them,” by Luke Ellis, 
<) should be read by everyone interested 
in the growth of Mushrooms. Price 6 d. t 
free by post, yd. 
larue. cutbusk & son, 
Nurserymen and Seed Merchants , 
HIGHGATE NURSERIES, N.; & BARNET, HERTS 
ORCHIDS. 
THE 
Liverpool Horticultural do. 
(JOHN COWAN) Ltd., 
Have just received Large and Splendid 
IMPORTATIONS 
Of the following and other 
ORCHIDS: 
0D0NT0GL088UM CRISPUM 
(Finest Pacho type); 
DENDROBIUMS, 
In Grand Masses, and in Great Variety; 
MEXICAN ORCHIDS 
In Great Variety; 
ORCHIDS FROM GUATEMALA, 
And other Countries. 
Prices and full particulars sent, post 
free, on application. 
TDETUNIAS, Choice double, 8 good 
1 plants, is. 41b ; Isolepis, 6 good plants, is. +d . ; 12 Giant 
Harrison’s Musk, is. 3d.; 12 choice Mimuias, is. 3d. —GAR¬ 
DENER, Park Gorey, Ireland. 
EADERS of THE GARDENING 
The Vineyard and Nurseries, 
GAR3T0N nr. LIVERPOOL 
IF YOU WANT 
BEGONIAS, 
H. J. JONES, 
Ryecroft Nursery, Hither Green, Lewisham, S.E., 
Guarantees to supply Begonias, First Class Quality, at one third 
the usual "price, as potion's :— 
12 good single mixed, 3s.; 12 extra good to colour, 6s. 
12 very finest,equal to named varieties at js. each, 12s. 
12 mixed double, 6s.; 12 very fine to colour, 12s. 
12 extra fine double, 18s. 
I could give a large number of Testimonials, but the follow¬ 
ing I think will be sufficient to prove the excellence of my 
Begonias. 
Hcgg House, Buxteu, Uckfield. 
Dear Sir, August 26th, 1891. 
You will be glad to learn that the Begonias I had 
from you in the summer have turned out remarkably well. 
The pinks and terra-cotta are specially fine, some of the 
blooms measuring near 6 inches across. The flowers are oi 
fine form, and good substance in the petals, plants dwarf in 
habit, and free flowering, foliage robust. I shall have much 
pleasure in recommending them to my friends. 
Yours truly, H. C. PRINSEP, 
To Mr. H. J. Jones, Gardener to Viscountess Portman. 
Ryecroft Nursery, Hither Green, S.E. 
R 
WORLD will greatly oblige the Publisher by mention¬ 
ing this Paper when writing to Advertisers. 
C LUGICIDE (Registered), certainDeath 
vj to Slugs, fertilises the soil, perfectly harmless to plants 
and domestic animals. The greates boon to Gardeners ever 
invented, is. 6d. per box, of all seedsmen.—Trade terms, 
‘‘THE SLUGICIDE” Co., 6, Maryleport Street, Bristol. 
For Index to Contents see page 569, 
1 Gardening is the purest or human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”—B acon, 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, May io.—Sale of Imported Orchids, at Protheroe 
& Morris’ Rooms. 
Wednesday, May n.—Sale of Greenhouse and Herbaceous 
Plants at Protheroe & Morris’Rooms. 
Friday, May 13.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe tS; 
Morris’ Rooms. 
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Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY, MAY jth, 1892. 
“ Encumbrances.” — There 
many reasons doubtless why 
f ARDENER s 
are many reasons 
gardeners find a family to be a somewhat 
heavy burthen. Thousands of excellent 
men have found having a few children an 
insuperable bar to their getting situations, 
whilst the heartless requirements of many 
employers have not only embittered many 
a good gardener’s existence but have almost 
put a premium on infanticide. That is, 
however, but one aspect of the question. 
How many gardeners are there whose 
places are so isolated from ordinary life, 
that they find it to be a matter of the 
greatest difficulty to furnish their children 
with even the ordinary elements of educa¬ 
tion ? 
It is indeed saddening to any man who 
has himself some education and fully 
realises its value to his children to have to 
keep them at home almost uncultured until 
they have become wayward dunces, for 
the simple reason that schools are too 
remote and his poor wage will not allow 
him to send them away from home. We 
heard but the other day of a case where a 
gardener had to pay some twelve shillings 
per week for the keep of his child as a 
weekly boarder, besides school fees, and yet 
