July 2, 1892. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
687 
A NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION, 
Now Ready, 
With Supplementary Chapter on the Yellow Ground. 
Price, Is. 6d. Post Free, Is, 7d. 
THE CARNATION: 
Its History, Properties, and Management; 
WITH 
FOR 
SOW NOW All the best varieties of Myoso- 
I'UWf t ; s (Forget-me-nots), Silenes, 
East Lothian and Brompton 
Stocks, Wallflowers, Pansies, 
Primroses, Polyanthus, &c. 
Per pkt., 6d., Is., & Is. 6d., post free 
Seed Merchants, CHESTER. 
~ SPRING 
FLOWERING. 
DICKSONS 
(limited.) 
j Nurserymen, dc 
R eaders of the gardening 
WORLD will greatly oblige the Publisher by mention- 
ng this Paper when writing to Advertisers. 
For Index to Contents see page 698. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF THE BEST VARIETIES IN CULTIVATION. 
BY 
E. S. DODWELL, 
Hon. Secretary and Treasurer of the Carnation and Picotee Union. 
GARDENING WORLD ” OFFICE, 1, CLEMENT’S INN, STRAND, W.C. 
MERRYWEATHER’S HIGH-CLASS GARDEN HOSES- 
LAST TEN YEARS. 
SEE TESTIMONIAL BELOW. 
ON THE LINES OF THE HOSE MADE 
BY MERRYWEATHER & SONS FOR 
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IINCTER GRIP. 
See that every Hose haa Merryweather’s name on it. 
Merryweather and Sons continue to guarantee all their high-class Hoses to pass the severe British 
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The Non-kinkable Red-Grey Hose (Unarmoured) is, in certain cases, to be preferred as more suitable. 
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For “Guaranteed High Class Sphincter Grip Armoured Hose ” order direct from 
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IMPORTANT DECISIONS re “SPHINCTER GRIP ARMOURED HOSE.” 
In the High Court of Justice — Queen's Bench Division. 
Before the Lord Chief Justice (LORD COLERIDGE). 
Judgment in favour of Merryweather & Sons, with Costs in both actions. 
THE ORCHID FLOWER HOLDER 
(PATENTED). 
A useful invention for Orchid Growers and Floral Decorators 
Price, per dozen , 3 s. 9 d., post paid. 
TO BE HAD OF 
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“THE p LAWN 
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sole manufacturers: 
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MR. DODWELL’S GRAND CARNATIONS, 
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“ Gardening is the purest oi human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, .July 5.— Rose Show at the International Horticultu 
ral Exhibition. Earl’s Court. 
Bagshot Rose Show. 
Diss Rose Show. 
Enfield Flower Show. 
Gloucester Rose Show. 
Sutton Rose Show. 
Sale of Orchids at Protheroe Sc Morris’ Rooms. 
Wednesday, July 6. —Conference of Delegates of Gardeners' 
Associations, at Tunbridge Wells. 
Royal Botanic Society’s Evening Fete. 
Croydon Flower Show. 
Hitchin Rose Show. 
Fareham Rose Show. 
Thursday, July 7.— Woodbridge Flower Show. 
Bath Rose and Begonia Show. 
Windsor Rose Show. 
Norwich Rose Show. 
Lee and Blackheath Flower Show (2 days). 
Ware Flower Show. 
Friday, July 8.—Sale of Orchids at Protheroe & Morris’ 
Rooms. 
Saturday, July 9.—Reigate Rose Show. 
Wood Green Flower Show. 
¥ 
Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY, JULY 2nd, 1892. 
&e Rose Shows. —What sort of a Rose 
season we are to be favoured with it is 
perhaps hard to determine, especially that 
the late frosts of the spring or early summer 
may have materially injured the buds. Did 
we judge solely by the Roses presented at 
the early show of the National Rose 
Society, reported last week, we should 
anticipate rather a poor average quality. 
It was instructive to note that the only lot 
of blooms which did full justice to ordinary 
size and beauty of Tea Roses, were grown 
under glass, and thus in their class very 
easily obtained a first prize. However 
that was for the season perhaps the last lot 
cut from under glass. 
So far as the outdoor grown flowers 
were concerned they were rather indifferent, 
but we look hopefully for better examples 
so soon as we get into July. The 
recent very heavy rains, followed as they 
have been by such warm weather, should 
have done wonders in helping at once to 
cleanse buds and foliage, and to saturate 
the roots. The comparatively restricted 
list of shows specially devoted to Roses, 
which we published last week, affords con¬ 
clusive evidence of the widespread popu¬ 
larity of the flower for exhibition, and there 
are scores of those exhibitions elsewhere, 
not there enumerated ; hence during the 
next two or three weeks the Rose will be 
in great evidence everywhere, attracting 
its myriads of admirers and we hope bring¬ 
ing grist to many a hardworking exhibitor’s 
mill. 
The season of exhibitions, like that of 
the Chrysanthemum, is all too short, and far 
too much has to be crowded into a limited 
