December 14, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
241 
appearance to a homestead in winter. The silvery 
Cedrus atlantica glauca looks as if covered with 
hoar frost. The Sequoias, the Cypresses, Libodedrus, 
Thuyas, Retinosporas, and others have a beautiful 
and spiry effect from their regular, pyramidal habit. 
Even the Stone Pine (Pinus Cembra) is of the same 
elegant form for many years of its younger stages, 
although older trees assume a more spreading 
contour in their old age. The dwarfer Yews and 
been awarded the firm for them are a sufficient 
guarantee of their value and importance for exhibi¬ 
tions as well as for decorative purposes generally. 
The Jackmanni section, including Smith’s Snow 
White Jackmanni, is well represented, as indeed are 
all other divisions. 
Stove and greenhouse plants constitute a very 
important department. Fine foliaged subjects, both 
evergreen and deciduous, are well looked after, and 
Those who live at a distance would do well to 
consult the excellent catalogue issued by the firm ; it 
runs to 172 pages, inclusive of a good index, and 
being replete with plants, information about them, 
and well illustrated, it is really a useful guide and an 
admirable production. 
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HYBRID BEGONIAS. 
I have really not the time or the inclination to 
Retinosporas are grown in a'great number of beauti¬ 
ful species and varieties. 
Climbing plants chiefly constitute the fourth 
department, and here the handsome improved forms 
of Clematis are all too important to be overlooked. 
From amongst them are drawn those huge flowery 
masses which have been so conspicuous a feature at 
the Temple Shows on the Thames Embankment 
during past years. The numerous medals that have 
include all those things which are most popular at 
the present day, so that we need not particularise. 
Hardy herbaceous and Alpine subjects make up a 
sixth department, together with hardy bulbs of all 
kinds calculated to meet the wants of every class of 
growers at the present day. Those of our readers 
who can should pay the nurseries a visit and see all 
these things for themselves, and we can assure them 
that Messrs. Smith will welcome them at any time. 
follow Mr. Napper through the farrago of nonsense 
with which he pelts me in your last issue. I invited 
him to give me a few plain facts in reply to a plain 
question, and he answers with a meaningless jumble 
of words which have no bearing on the point at 
issue, and in no way help to elucidate the truth. 
When 1 showed that his original statement with 
regard to the raising of the first hybrid tuberous- 
rooted Begonia was not in accordance with well- 
