September 21, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
39 
Price Three Shillings. By post , js. yd. 
“ Hardy Ornamental Flowering 
Trees and Shrubs.” 
By Jl. ID. WEBSTER 
Author of “ Practical Forestry“ British Orchids&c. } &c. 
“THE GARDENING WORLD,” 1, CLEMENT’S INN, STRAND, W.C. 
WARE'S 
BEGONIAS 
Blooming Beautifully 
AT 
BEXLEY HEATH. 
Awarded Three Gold Medals and upwards of 
Fifty other Highest Honours. 
CARDIFF. 
CALL AND SEE 
THIS 
MAGNIFICENT SIGHT, 
Trains run from London Bridge and Cannon 
Street Stations to Bexley Heath (New line) 
or Omnibus from Woolwich. 
THOMAS S. WARE, 
Hale Farm Nurseries, 
TOTTENHAM, LONDON. 
CARNATIONS & PIRKS 
IN GREAT VARIETY. 
Catalogues on Application. 
LAING & MATHER, 
By Special Nurserymen and Seed Merchants, 
Appointment. KelSO-On-Tweed. 
Carnations! Carnations ! 
Carnations! 
The Choicest Varieties in Cultivation, from the 
late Mr. Dodwell’s Garden, 
FROM 6s. PER DOZEN. UPWARDS. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST ON APPLICATION TO—• 
ARTHUR MEDHURST, 
THE COTTAGE, STANLEY ROAD, OXFORD. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM BOOKS. 
I Have a few of my Chrysanthemum Guides left. 
Handsomely bound in cloth boards, gilt edges, 
2S. 6d. each. 
The N.C S. YEAR BOOK, is. 2d. each, contains 
much useful information. 
The AMERICAN CHRYSANTHEMUM ANNUAL 
(a limited number only), 5s. each. 
All Post Free for Cash with Order. 
H. J. JONES, 
Ryecroft Nurseries, Lewisham, S.E. 
ORCHIDS. 
Clean Healthy Plants at Low Prices. 
Always worth a visit of inspection. Kindly send for Catalogue. 
JAMES CYPHER, 
Exotic Nurseries, CHELTENHAM. 
15,000 PRIZE CARNATIONS AND PICOTEES 
(Strong, well-rooted, and very plump hearts). 
Price 12s. per doz. Special terms for quantity. Catalogues free. 
ARTHUR PIKE, 3, Windsor Place, Cardiff. 
For Index to Contents see page 50. 
11 Gardening Is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon, 
ft* ifwji 
Edited by J. FRASER F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , SEPT. 21 st, 1895. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, September 23rd.—Sales of Dutch Bulbs by Messrs. 
Protheroe and Morris and Mr. J. C. Stevens. 
Tuesday, September 24th.—Sale of the Beech Lawn Collec¬ 
tion of Established Orchids by Messrs. Protheroe and 
Morris, at Audenshaw, near Manchester. 
Sales of Dutch Bulbs by Messrs. Protheroe and Morris and 
Mr. J. C. Stevens. 
Wednesday, September 25th.—Sales of Dutch Bulbs by 
Messrs. Protheroe and Morris and Mr. J. C. Stevens. 
Thursday, September 26th.—R.H.S. Fruit Show at the 
Crystal Palace. 
Sales oi Dutch Bulbs by Messrs. Protheroe and Morris and 
Mr. J. C. Stevens. 
Friday, September 27th.—Orchid Sale at Messrs. Protheroe 
and Morris’ Rooms. 
Sales of Dutch Bulbs by Messrs. Protheroe and Morris and 
Mr. J. C. Stevens. 
^he Yorkshire College, Leeds.— The 
^ teaching at this institution is mainly 
directed to the education of agricultural 
students and farmers, rather than gar¬ 
deners ; but a considerable amount of hor¬ 
ticultural instruction is given at various 
centres throughout the country. The Pros¬ 
pectus of the coming courses, as well as 
the Fourth Report of the work accom¬ 
plished in Yorkshire during the past year 
are before us, and show that the instruc¬ 
tion given is becoming more and more 
appreciated as the inhabitants get roused 
to the value and advantages of such teach¬ 
ing. At the college itself regular and syste¬ 
matic courses of two and three years’ dura¬ 
tion are carried on, as well as a ten weeks’ 
course. No strictly horticultural classes 
are organised at the college, though the 
lectures on chemistry, botany, and geology 
would apply in the main to horticulture as 
well as to agriculture. If a college educa¬ 
tion has become a necessity for the agri¬ 
cultural interest, it is even more so in 
gardening, where the difficulties that beset 
the members of the profession are so much 
more numerous. Some are born gar¬ 
deners, who are almost bound to succeed by 
virtue of their innate faculty and natural 
equipments for their profession, whether 
their education has been neglected or not ; 
but a college education would come to 
the rescue of those who are not so naturally 
gifted. 
This is why we urge the powers that be 
to increase the facilities for the acquire¬ 
ment of a college education by gardeners, 
to enable them the better to grapple with 
the difficulties that confront them, and 
adapt themselves to fresh contingencies as 
they arise. The botanical lectures and 
laboratory work provided by the Yorkshire 
College for agricultural students, would 
require but little adaptation to the require¬ 
ments of gardeners, for the cultivation of 
plants is very much the same whether 
grown in field or garden. The teaching 
embraces the anatomy and physiology, 
nutrition and diseases, of flowering plants, 
together with descriptive botany and the 
classification of the chief Natural Orders. 
As far as horticulture is concerned, how¬ 
ever, the Yorkshire College undertakes the 
laying-out and supervision of demonstra¬ 
tion plots to illustrate the principles of 
agricultural and horticultural practice. It 
also supervises the instruction in horticul¬ 
ture given in the evening continuation 
schools of the West Riding. Scholarships, 
tenable for two years, and to the number 
of eight or more, are offered and awarded 
annually on the results of the competitive 
examinations; but unfortunately they are 
not extended to horticulture. 
The Fourth Annual Report gives 
detailed information concerning the 
numerous lectures and demonstrations held 
throughout the country, and the work done 
is considered to be of a most satisfactory 
character. The various branches of edu¬ 
cation exhibit much growth, and have 
assumed a more permanent and consoli¬ 
dated character than was evident during 
the first year or two. Students in various 
parts of the country have derived much 
advantage from the travelling libraries sent 
out by the Victoria University in connec¬ 
tion with the courses of instruction. The 
average attendance at each lecture, 
delivered at various places throughout the 
three divisions of the county, shows 
material increase, but nowhere more so 
than in horticulture. During the session 
of 1893 an d 1894 the average attendance 
varied from fifty to seventy-eight in the 
three divisions; but in 1894 an d 1895 it 
varied from thirty-eight to a hundred and 
twenty-six, the latter average representing 
that of the West Riding. The attendance at 
the agriculture and veterinary lectures was 
much smaller. Surely then we have some 
evidence of a growing demand for horticul¬ 
tural instruction ; and if the cottager and 
amateur element derives advantage from 
such teaching, how much more serviceable 
would a college education be to gardeners 
to enable them to cope with the exigencies 
of their profession ? 
Sweet Pea Emily Henderson, when grown in heavily 
manured soil, often produces twin standards to the 
same flower, giving it a semi-double appearance. 
When using chemicals for plants it is well to 
remember that " too much of a good thing is good 
for nothing," but often mischievous. 
The bouquet of Lilies which has been brought 
from Australia in the Ophir, as a present for the 
Queen, is beautiful, but not novel. Ice-preserved 
flowers are now pretty frequently shown. 
A white variety of Aster Novae Angliae, says 
Gardening (American), was lately discovered in its 
native wilds by Mr. A. Gilchrist, of West Toronto 
Junction, Ontario, who states that it was as good as 
Chrysanthemum uliginosum in his grounds last 
autumn. Our contemporary speaks of it as Gilchrist’s 
Perennial Aster. 
