October 5, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
71 
FRUIT TREES & TINES. ||| 
JAME S VEITCH & SONS 
Beg to direct attention to their very fine stock of all the 
leading varieties of above. 
CATALOGUES AND ALL PARTICULARS IVIAY BE OBTAINED AT 
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Price Three Shillings. By post , js. jd. 
“ Hardy Ornamental Flowering 
Trees and Shrubs.” 
By _A._ ID. WISE ST .SIR,, 
Author of “ Practical Forestry “ British Orchids&c., &c. 
“THE GARDENING WORLD,” 1, CLEMENT’S INN, STRAND, W.C. 
CARNATIONS & PINKS 
IN GREAT VARIETY. 
Catalogues on Application. 
By Special 
Appointment. 
LAING & MATH E R, 
Nurserymen and Seed Merchants, 
Kelso-on *Tweed. 
FLORA LONDINENSIS; 
OR, 
PLATES AND DESCRIPTIONS of such Plants 
as grow wild in the 
ENVIRONS OF LONDON ; With their Places 
of Growth and Times of Flowering, 
Their several names according to 
LINNAEUS AND OTHER AUTHORS. 
With a particular description of each plant in 
LATIN and ENGLISH, &c. 
BY WILLIAM CURTIS. 
Illustrated with 435 Coloured Plates, 
Two Volumes. 
Whole mottled calf, in fine condition. Folio. 1798. 
A Rare and Exceedingly Fine Work. 
LOUDON (Mrs.) —Descriptions and Coloured 
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British Wild Flowers.— 60 Coloured Plates 
containing representations of 296 Plants. Finely 
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The great knowledge of plants, and of plant life 
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Offers for the purchase of the above should be 
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100 Crocus, five choice varie¬ 
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12 Hyacinths, choice named 
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9 Jonquils, sweet-scented. 
1 Lilium Lancifolium. 
6 Narcissus Bulbocodium. 
9 Polyanthus Narcissus. 
25 Scilla Siberica. 
100 Snowdroos. 
6 Tulips, Due Van Thol, 
scarlet. 
18 Tulips, early single, six 
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THE COTTAGE, STANLEY ROAD, OXFORD. 
THE KING OF DENDROBEsT 
Dendrobium Phalaenopsis Schroderiana. 
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RARE DENDROBIUMS A SPECIALITY. 
JAMES CYPHER, Cheltenham. 
For Index to Contents see page 82 . 
11 Gardening Is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon, 
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Edited by J. FRASER F/L.S, 
SATURDAY , OCT. 5 th, 1895. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, October 7th—Sales of Dutch Bulbs by Messrs. 
Protheroe and Morris and Mr. J. C. Stevens. 
Tuesday, October 8th.—Opening day of the National Chry¬ 
santhemum Society’s Show at the Royal Aquarium (three 
days). Meeting of the Floral Committee at 1 p.m. 
Sales of Dutch Bulbs by Messrs. Protheroe and Morris 
and Mr. J. C. Stevens. 
Wednesday, October 9th.—Sales of Dutch Bulbs by 
Messrs. Protheroe and Morris and Mr. J. C. Stevens. 
Thursday, October 10th.—Sales ot Dutch Bulbs by Messrs. 
Protheroe and Morris and Mr.J. C. Stevens. 
Friday, October nth.—Sales of Dutch Bulbs by Messrs 
Protheroe and Morris and Mr. J. C. Stevens. 
Sale of Orchids by Messrs. Protheroe and Morris. 
ESSONS AND ASPECTS OF THE FRUIT SHOW. 
—The exhibition of British-grown fruit, 
so happily inaugurated by the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society last year, has been carried 
to a very successful issue. Both exhibitors 
and exhibits were more numerous 
than last year, and altogether the display 
was finer and in some respects more attrac¬ 
tive. This result we consider was due to 
the more numerous exhibits and higher 
colour of the Apples, for in' the greater 
portion of England it has been truly an 
Apple year. The Pears were more in 
evidence last year than on this occasion, 
and the fruits generally, from our recollec- 
tion, were larger. This lack in bulk has 
been more or less compensated for by 
better coloured and riper fruit, which, of 
course, means better quality. Concerning 
Apples it may here be noted that Sir Trevor 
Lawrence, in a postprandial speech at the 
Crystal Palace, stated that we are capable 
of producing Apples equalling in quality 
those produced in any part of the world. 
The president of the society is not the only 
one who shares that opinion, so that the 
British fruit farmer or grower has no occa¬ 
sion to hang his head on that score. If 
some parts of England are more favourable 
to the production of handsome and tempt¬ 
ing looking fruits, than others, then a fair 
solution of the question would be for fruit 
