April 11, 1896. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
507 
MACMILLAN & Co.s PUBLICATIONS. 
GREENHOUSE and WINDOW 
PLANTS. A Primer for Amateurs. By 
Charles Collins. Edited by J. Wright, 
F.R.H.S. With 38 Illustrations. Pott 8vo. is. 
Nature Notes .—"This little book of 154pages is crammed 
with useful information for would-be growers of greenhouse 
and window plants. We hope Mr. Collins’ little book will 
secure as large an amount of patronage as it certainly deserves." 
THE BOOK OF THE ROSE. By the 
- Rev. A. Foster-Melliar, M.A., Rector of 
Sproughton, Suffolk. Illustrated. Extra crown 
8vo. 8s. 6d. net. 
Gardeners' Chronicle.—" As the work of a sound and experi¬ 
enced practitioner, this will be received with acclamation.” 
Journal of Horticulture .—“ A work of permanent value to 
be treasured and studied for the information that it contains.” 
GARDEN FLOWERS and PLANTS. 
A Primer for Amateurs. By J. Wright, 
F.R.H.S. With 50 Illustrations. Pott 8vo. is. 
Saturday Review .—“There is no doubt that practically this 
little text-book will prove invaluable ; the beginner will find in 
TUBEROUS BEGONIAS 
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SINGLES, for pot culture and exhibition, in 12 distinct 
it exactly the information he must know, and generally does 
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what such illustrations should be; they give the necessary 
information where words would be unconvincing.” 
A PRIMER OF PRACTICAL HORTI¬ 
CULTURE. Ten Lectures delivered for the 
Surrey County Council. By J. Wright, 
F.R.H.S. Pott 8vo. is. 
Rural World.—" Clearly written by a man who knows what 
he is talking about.” 
VEGETABLE CULTURE. A Primer 
for Amateurs, Cottagers, and Allotment 
Holders. By Alexander Dean, F.R.H.S. 
Edited by J. Wright. With 38 Illustrations. 
Pott 8vo. is. 
Journal of Horticulture .—“ ‘ Vegetable Culiure ’ is as 
thorough, concise, and instructive as either of the preceding 
Ptimeis, and more than that need not be said." 
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PELARGONIUMS, ZONAL and DRCORATIYE. 
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Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , APRIL nth, 1896. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, Apiil 13th.—Sale of greenhouse, stove, and hardy 
plants by Messrs. Protheroe & Morris. 
Tuesday, April 14th.—Grand Daffodil Conference and Show at 
the Royal Botanic Society's Gardens, Regent's Park, N.W. 
(2 days). 
Spring Show at Brighton (2 days). 
Sale of Orchids by Messrs. Protheroe & Morris. 
Wednesday, April 15th.—Spring Show at Newcastle (2 days). 
Sale of seeds and plants by Messrs. Protheroe & Morris, 
Thursday, April 16th.—Daffodil Show in the Botanic Gardens, 
Edgbaston, Birmingham (2 days). 
Friday, April 17th.—Blackburn and District Spring Show 
(2 days). 
Sales of Japanese Lilies, hardy perennials, and Orchids by 
Messrs. Protheroe & Morris. 
|&HE Signs of Spring. —These are mani- 
^ fold, and have been quietly proceeding 
for weeks past, with fits and starts of cold 
wind and frosty nights intervening oc¬ 
casionally to check their progress. Only those 
who have been abroad in tropical or sub¬ 
tropical countries can fully realise the dis¬ 
tinctive characters of spring in our northern 
climate, as compared with those where 
frost and snow is almost an unknown 
quantity. True, we have had little frost 
and less snow during the past winter, 
and, in the more favoured parts of the 
country, vegetation has been pushing for¬ 
ward and the visible change progressing 
northward. The wild flowers in the 
Chrysanthemums, Japanese and incurved, choice 
sorts from our splendid collection, per 100, 
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,, Six grand new exhibition varieties, 3s. 6d. 
Dahlias, Show, Fancy, and Cactus flowered from our 
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„ Select Exhibition varieties, six for 3s. 6d. 6 0 
Salisbury white, the charming new pure 
white Cactus, splendid for cutting, each is., 
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„ Six grand new Cactus varieties of 1895. 
A splendid set 10s. 
„ Three superb decorative varieties, including 
Grand Duke Alexis, 2s. 6d.J 
„ Pompone, new and select varieties, six for 
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Fuchsias, single and double-flowered, including all 
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Six grand new and select varieties, including 
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Pelargoniums, single-flowered. Zonal. A very fine 
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„ Six grand new varieties, Pearson’s, 7s. 6d. 
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,, Ivy-leaved double, charming varieties for 
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„ „ „ Queen of Roses. The magnifi¬ 
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Carnations, Hon. J. Lowther, grand scarlet, sell, 
each is. 6d., three tor 4s. 
„ Mrs. Thornhill, beautiful salmon-pink, is., 
three for 2s. 6d. 
Choice named sorts, six or 3s. 6d. .. 6 o 
Oxlip, Prince of Orange, immense heads of orange- 
yellow flowers, a gem, each gd., three for 2s. 
DANIELS BROS., 
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The most select collection in the.Trade. 
SEE CATALOGUE, POST FREE. 
W. J. GODFREY, F.R.H.S , EXMOUTH, DEYON. 
GRAPE VINES and ROSES. 
JOHN COWAN & CO. have this season a 
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for fruitiDg in pots and planting vineries. 
Also a large and splendid Stock of Tea and other 
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country have had their admirers in many 
places ; but it is to the gardens and parks, 
public and otherwise, to which we look for 
the most attractive scenes and evidence of 
springtide ; for many of our most attractive 
trees and hardy flowers have been borrowed 
from every temperate clime under the sun. 
Compared with that of other countries our 
spring is notable for its duration and the 
slow progress from change- to change, as 
bud and blossom of herb and tree unfold 
with all their varied accompaniments and 
different shades of greenery. In warm 
countries the changes are so quick that 
winter gives place practically to summer, 
and there, too, twilight does not exist. 
Early in spring the Elm is seen to redden, 
and the thickly-clustering flowers make the 
twiggy heads of the trees seem denser. 
Anon the White and Black Poplars fling 
out their pendant catkins which sway in 
the breeze. Later on, these evidences of 
rousing vegetation are followed by the 
delicate rosy or peach-coloured flowers of 
the Almond. Abbe David’s Peach has 
indeed been flowering in various parts of 
the country since Christmas, or soon after. 
The ornamental Peach-trees have been gay 
