September 28, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
55 
Price Three Shillings. By post , js. 3d. 
“ Hardy Ornamental Flowering 
Trees and Shrubs.” 
By JD. WIEIBST-EIR,, 
Author of “ Practical Forestry"British Orchids 6-c. 
“THE GARDENING WORLD,” 1, CLEMENT’S INN, STRAND, W.C. 
Finest Selected 
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BULBS 
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FOR 
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ioo Crocus, five choice varie¬ 
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i Cyclamen Persicum. 
12 Hyacinths, choice named 
varieties. 
9 Jonquils, sweet-scented, 
i Lilium Lancifolium. 
6 Narcissus Bulbocodium. 
9 Polyanthus Narcissus. 
25 Scilla Siberica. 
100 Snowdrops. 
6 Tulips, Due Van Thol, 
scarlet. 
18 Tjlips, early single, six 
varieties. 
6 Tulips, Rex Rubrorum, 
double. 
6 Tulips, Tournesol, dble. 
OTHER BOXES from 5s. to 105s. each. 
WEBBS’ BULB CATALOGUE, 
Beautifully Illustrated, and containing complete cultural 
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Force your Strawberries in Jadoo Fibre. 
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CHRYSANTHEMUM BOOKS. 
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ORCHIDS. 
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For Index to Contents see page 66. 
" Gardening Is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."—B acon. 
Edited by J. FRASER F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , SEPT. 28 th, 1895. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, September 30th.—Sales of Dutch Bulbs by Messrs. 
Protheroe and Morris and Mr. J. C. Stevens. 
Tuesday, October 1st.—Sales of Butch Bulbs by Messrs. 
Protberoe and Morris. 
Wednesday, October 2nd.—Sales of Dutch Bulbs by 
Messrs. Protheroe and Morris and Mr. J. C. Stevens. 
Special Sale of Lilium Harrisi by Messrs. Protheroe and 
Morris. 
Thursdav, October 3rd.—Sales of Dutch Bulbs by Messrs. 
Protheroe and Morris and Mr. J. C. Stevens. 
Friday, October 4th.— Sales of Dutch Bulbs by Messrs. 
Protheroe and Morris and Mr. J. C. Stevens. 
Sale of Orchids by Messrs. Protheroe and Morris. 
Mpples in Kent.— The hop-picking season 
V- is not an unpleasant time to make an 
excursion down into Kent, especially if 
favoured with such grand weather as that 
which prevailed last week, when we accom¬ 
plished the journey to the capital of Kent, 
an ancient and interesting provincial town 
of some 32,000 inhabitants, and pleasantly 
situated on the south side of the North 
Downs. The hop harvest had been com¬ 
pleted on certain farms, and the pickers 
were returning to London, though waggon¬ 
loads of them going into Maidstone during 
the afternoon and evening, as well as the 
camp fires of others at night, showed that 
the season was not altogether over. Our 
intention, however, was to see some of the 
Apples for which this part of Kent is 
famous, and for that purpose we visited the 
Allington Nurseries of Messrs. George 
Bunyard & Co., whose headquarters are in 
Maidstone, close by the South Eastern 
Railway Station. In former years we have 
been astonished at the fine colour, no less 
than the size of the Apples from Kent 
shown at the London exhibitions ; but on 
this occasion we must own that these desir¬ 
able qualifications far exceeded our most 
sanguine anticipations. 
The Allington Nurseries are very exten¬ 
sive, but one hundred acres are devoted to 
the cultivation of fruit, Conifers and Roses. 
They are pleasantly situated on elevated, 
but undulating ground, less than two miles 
to the north-west of Maidstone ; and though 
the North Downs rise far above them a 
short distance off, they are exposed to light 
and wind from the four cardinal points, 
which may account in a great measure for 
the robust and healthy character of the 
fruit trees and the absence of disease. The 
nurseries are above and beyond the influ¬ 
ence of the slowly-winding River Medway, 
whose tidal flow reaches Maidstone Bridge. 
The soil of the nurseries is a sandy, yellow 
loam overlying the green sand, but at no 
great depth solid rocks consisting of the well- 
known “ Kentish Rag ” (a very hard lime¬ 
stone with fine grains of quartz), extends to 
the depth of seventy feet in these straia. 
For these reasons it will be understood that 
the nurseries suffer greatly during periods 
of drought like that of last summer. Seeing 
that the water has to be pumped and 
carted for some distance, the artificial 
application of it is out of the question; and 
the extent of ground to be got over makes 
it impracticable. Some curious physio¬ 
logical facts in connection with this year’s 
growing season may be noted. Alterna¬ 
tions of excessive drought and heavy rain¬ 
falls, with a high temperature all the time, 
caused fruit trees to make three distinct 
starts into growth, yet their health and 
capacity for further extension and fruit¬ 
bearing nextyearare by no means impaired. 
Many of the recently transplanted Apple and 
Pear trees are now in bloom ; some bear 
blossom, half grown mid-summer set fruit 
and the ripening crop. We noted a maiden 
New Hawthornden which finished its 
growth and flowered at the top. Many of 
the maiden trees are as stout as good 
walking canes, but though theyare eighteen 
inches to two feet short of last year, yet 
four to five feet is no mean growth. This 
has been made by Cox’s Orange, budded 
on the Paradise, and a -curious fact is that 
Warner’s King treated in the same way is, 
on an average, six inches shorter. During 
the second year’s growth, these proportions 
will be entirely reversed, for Warner’s King 
is a strong grower after it has been 
established for a year. Another point of 
great interest is that many of the finest 
exhibition fruits are obtained from maiden 
trees on the English Paradise . 
The earlier ripening varieties of Apples 
and Pears have been gathered, and some of 
them are highly ornamental from their rich 
colours, but the aristocrats of the collection 
are being harvested daily as they ripen. 
There is no hurry to complete the opera¬ 
tion, however, for they keep best when 
allowed to hang upon the trees as long as 
they will to reach full maturity, so that we 
were in good time to see some of the finest 
crops, the largest and the most highly 
coloured fruits it has been our good fortune 
to witness. We rambled through large 
plantations of pyramidal and bush trees of 
Apples, varying from one or two to ten 
years old, and the sight in many striking 
instances was something to remember. At 
intervals the trees varied in height, even in 
the same row, showing off the Apples to 
great advantage. Gascoigne’s Seedling, 
with its huge and gorgeously-coloured 
fruits, looked like rows of scarlet Dahlias. 
They are pruned in pyramidal form and 
worked upon the English Paradise. Others 
to which a similar description would apply 
were Col. Vaughan, Baumann’s Red 
Winter Reinette, and that noble Apple 
Bismarck. Lady Sudeley had been equally 
