November 23, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
187 
RESULT 
proves more than volumes of print. My collection of Chrysanthemums has again suc¬ 
ceeded in winning the President’s Prize for Group of Plants, and the Gold Medal for 
Table of Exhibition Blooms at the great N.C.S. Show, November 5th, 1895. In addition 
to many other prizes my collection has now been awarded 
FIVE GOLD MEDALS 
in two years, the highest award attainable in each case. I have much pleasure in 
announcing that I have secured some grand Seedlings from our two most noted and 
successful English raisers, Chas. E. Shea, Esq., and H. Briscoe Ironside, Esq., which, 
together with my own Seedlings, will form a collection 
UNRIVALLED 
My General Guide is now ready, with reduced prices for all last season’s novelties, and 
contains the following Cultural articles:—“How to grow Japanese for Exhibition”; 
“ How to grow Incurved for Exhibition ” ; “ How to grow Specimen Plants ” ; “ How to 
grow for Decoration How to dress Incurved for Exhibition,” and “How to save 
Seed.” A large number of Growers attribute their 
SUCCESS 
to following the advice given in my guide, which can be obtained post free for 8 stamps. 
My list of Novelties for 1896 will be ready in December. 
H. J. JONES, Ryecroft Nursery, LEWISHAM, S.E. 
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The Choicest Varieties in Cultivation, from the 
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CALADIUMS. —Awarded Two Gold Medals. 
GLOXINIAS. —An unrivalled collection. 
VINES. —All leading varieties. 
FRUIT TREES —A very fine collection. 
ROSES. —The finest ever offered. 
For Catalogues apply— 
JOHN PEED & SONS, 
Roupell Park Nurseries, West Norwood. 
The Royal Gardeners’ Orphan Fund. 
The Eighth Election of Children to the benefit 
of this Fund, consistirg of an allowance of 5/-Der 
week (subject to the conditions stated in Rulexiii.), 
will take place in February Next, at Anderton s 
Hotel, Fleet St., London, E.C. All applications must 
be made on a printed form, copies of which may be 
had, gratis, of the Hon. Secretary, or of any of the 
Local Secretaries. Such form must be properly 
filled up, duly signed, and returned to this office not 
later than Friday, December 6th. 
A. F. BARRON, Hon. Sec. 
Royal Gardeners’ Orphan Fund, 
Chiswick, W. 
CUTBUSH’S MILLTRACK MUSHROOM SPAWN. 
Everyone can readily grow Mush¬ 
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unless in sealed packages and printed 
cultural directions enclosed, with our 
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bushel, is. extra for package, or is. 
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Nurserymen and Seed Merchants , 
Highgate Nurseries, London, N., & Barnet, Herts 
PLANTING SEASON. 
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NEAR ROCHESTER, KENT, (adjoining Clitfe 
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30,000 Standard and Half-standard Apples, Pears, 
Plums, and Cherries; 20,000 Baldwin Black and 
Red Currant; 15,000 Gooseberries; 60,000 Rasp¬ 
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100,000 Myatt’s Spring Cabbage; 200,000 Cos Lettuce ; 
50,000 Red Pickling Cabbage ; 200,000 Drumhead and 
Thousand Head Kale; 15,000 two year Asparagus, 
&c. Catalogues may be had of the Auctioneers, 
67 , Cheapside, London. 
CARNATIONS. 
Splendid, Healthy, Acclimatized Plants. 
AUSTIN Sc M’ASLAN invite 
attention to their extensive and well-grown stock of 
FOREST TREES, ORNAMENTAL AND FLOWERING 
SHRUBS, suitable for Parks, Lawns, Villa Grounds, &c. 
FRUIT TREES & BUSHES in a Bearing Condition. 
ROSES.—A large collection of strong, well-grown 
plants, including all the newest varieties. 
Catalogues free on application. Special quotations 
for large quantities. 
The Nurseries are within five minu’es’ walk from 
Cathcart Station. Trains from Central Station every 
ten minutes. 
Warehouse: 89, Mitchell St., GLASGOW. 
Nurseries: CATHCART. 
'"JpHE largest and most complete Collection in the 
Kingdom. Strong healthy layers now ready. 
Catalogues free. 
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N urseryman, 
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The Finest New Flowering Plant, as easily 
managed as a Chrysanthemum. It produces in 
autumn large heads of brilliant red and yellow 
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" Gardening Is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit ot man."— Bacon. 
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Edited by J. FRASER F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , NOV. 2 yd, 1895. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday. November 25th.—Sales of Dutch Bulbs by Messrs 
Protheroe and Morris and Mr. J. C. Stevens. 
Tuesday, November 2f>.h.—Royal Horticultural Society 
Meeting of Committees at 12 o’clock. 
Sales of Dutch Bulbs by Messrs. Protheroe and Morris 
and Mr. J. C. Stevens. 
Wednesday. November 27th.—Sales of Dutch Bulks by 
Messrs. Protheroe and Morris and Mr. J. C. Stevens. 
Sale of Fruit Trees, etc., at Perry Hill, Cliffe, by Messrs. 
Protheroe and Morris. 
Thursday, November 28th.— Sale of Plants from Belgium 
by Messrs. Protheroe and Morris. 
Sales of Dutch Bulbs by Mr. J.C. Stevens. 
Friday, November 29th.—Alderley, Edge, and Wilmslow 
Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Sales of Dutch Bulbs by Messrs. Protheroe and Morris 
and Mr. J. C. Stevens. 
Sale of Orchids by Messrs. Protheroe and Morris. 
Saturday, November 30th.—D-anfermline Chrysanthemum 
Show. 
Sales of Orchids by Messrs. Protheroe and Morris and Mr 
J. C. Stevens. 
Whe wail of the artist.— By the aid of 
an artistic expert the Brighton Examiner 
has been trying to find how far the methods 
of flower shows at Brighton are consistent 
with the ideas of artists who have success¬ 
fully made flower painting the business of 
their lives. We are not surprised that the 
ideas of gardeners, the promoters of shows, 
and artists on the other hand should differ 
in toto coelo. So long as the human mind is 
so diversely constituted, so long will it be 
impossible to lead everybody to believe that 
there is only one pathway to real beauty, 
or that it can only be developed along 
certain restricted and well-defined lines. 
There is beauty in regularity as well as 
irregularity. Hogarth’s line of beauty was 
a regular and natural curve fashioned by 
the waters of the Thames ; and various 
epithets such as graceful, elegant, sweeping, 
beautiful, &c., might with equal propriety 
be applied to it as to the jagged and indented 
outline of a rocky coast. Both the curve 
and the sharp angle are perfectly beautiful 
and occur as they must do under different 
conditions. 
Fault is found with the “ barbarously- 
coloured top-lights ” of the Dome in which 
part of the show was located. We are not 
sure whether variously coloured light or no 
light at all, is the worst condition under 
which to place Chrysanthemums on exhibi¬ 
tion. We have to he contented very often 
with the yellow brown light which has 
filtered through a dense London fog, to 
inspect many forms of floral *beauty. Few 
places in the United Kingdom have been 
specially constructed to accommodate floral 
exhibitions and to show them off to the best 
advantage. Gardeners and promoters of 
flower shows are therefore obliged to fall 
back upon those public buildings which 
afford the most convenience for the object 
they have in view. Brighton is, therefore, 
by no means singular in this respect. The 
artist admitted that the slaughter of colour 
was not so terrible in the case of Chrysan¬ 
themums as that of the summer flowers, 
because the blooms of the Autumn Queen 
are for the most part only half toned. This 
would apply to the incurved or Chinese 
section more particularly than to the 
Japanese. Many of the latter are dark 
enough, and if light coloured varieties are 
the most predominant at shows, one reason 
for it could be advanced in the fact that 
they are popular and certainly more 
