THE GARDENING WORLD 
571 
May 
9 , 1890 . 
READY—THURSDAY, 21st inst., at 9 a.m. One Penny. 
The Publisher has pleasure in announcing that arrangements are completed 
for making the issue of 
“THE GARDENING WORLD” 
For MiLY 23rd Next, 
A SPECIAL NUMBER, 
Treating on the R.H.S. and its Grand Summer Show in the Temple Gardens. 
A SUPPLEMENTARY PLATE 
Giving Portraits of the Society’s Officers will be included. 
DEUTZIA HYBRIDA LEMOINEI. 
Awarded First-Class Certificate, R.H.S., March 24,1896. 
Messrs. THOS. CRIPPS and SON, 
THE 
For Index to Contents see page 583. 
TUNBRIDGE WELLS NURSERIES, KENT, 
Beg 1 to offer healthy, well-rooted Plants of this sterling 1 novelty, for delivery 
September, at 
N OT R UBBISH 
BUT 
PLANTS. 
That will make a good show and give the buyer entire 
satisfaction. 
This I gua'antee or cash returned. s. d. 
BECONIAS, 12 Splendid Single, mixed colours. 3 6 
BECONIAS, 12 Snlendid Uoub e. mixed colours ... 6 0 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS, 12 Grand New Japanese. 6 0 
CHRYSANTHt MUMS, 6 Grand New Incui ved. 3 6 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS', 12 Grand New Early-flowering, 
goon for pm s or ground . 6 o 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS, 12 Early-flowering Pompons ... 3 6 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS, 12 Beautiiul Singles, Ai tor cut 
fPw.rs... . 4 0 
DAHLIAS, 12 Grand New Cactus kinds . 6 o 
DaHi IAS, 12 Best older Cactus kinds . 3 6 
DAHMAS, 12 Splendid Show and Fancy kinds. 3 6 
DAHLIAS, 12 Lovely Pompon kinds . 3 6 
DAHLIAS, 12 Beautiful Single kinds . 3 6 
FUCHSIAS, 12 Splendid Double kinds, including 
Whit'* and Rose Phenomenal . 4 o 
FUCHSIAS, 12 Solendid Single kinds . 3 6 
SHOW & DECORATIVE PELARGONIUMS, 12 Splendid 
kinds ... 6 6 
ZONAL PELARGONIUMS, 12 Best New Singles, 1895, 
includin' Pearson's, Miller’s, and Cannell's ... 8 o 
ZONAL PELARCONiUMS, 12 Very fine older kinds ... 4 o 
zonal PELARCONIUMS, 12 Best New Double and 
Semi-Double kinds, including Double H. Jacoby and 
Raspail Improved. 6 6 
ZONAL PELARCONIUMS, 12 Best older kinds. 4 0 
IVY PELARCONIUMS, 12 Best kinds . 4 o 
DOUBLE PETUNIAS, 12 Grand kinds . 6 o 
All free for Cash with Orders. Send for Catalogue. 
H. J. JONES, Ryecroft Nursery, LEWISHAM. 
Have you seen, if not secure at once, 
OPEN GLORY SWEET WILLIAM (New). 
Each flower pip size of penny piece. Strong plants, 
5/- doz. 
AURICULAS. 
Young’s grand prize strain, 4/- doz., in bloom ; all 
hardy plants supplied. 
YOUNG & DOBINSON, 
Holmes dale Nurseries, Stevenage, Herts ; also 
Highfield Nurssrles. 
HLOXES, PENTSTEMONS, 
ANTIRRHINUMS, &c. For the BEST and mos 
complete COLLECTIONS extant of these deservedly popular 
high-class flowers, obtain FORBES’ NEW Illustrated Descrip¬ 
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Is. 6d. each. 
ORCHIDS. 
Clean Healthy Plants at Low Prices. 
Always worth a visit of inspection. Kinily send for Catalogue. 
JAJVEES CYPHER, 
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varied and highly-popular flowers, free on application.—JOHN 
FORBES, Hawick, Scotland. 
CUTHBERTSON’S NEW VIOLAS 
FOR 189©. 
Mrs. Mitchell, William Haig, and Sweetness, are 
the Sensation of the Season- 
They mark the greatest advance made in Violas in recent 
years. W. HAIG is judged the BEST BLUE ever raised, 
either for competition or bedding. Every gardener and 
amateur must have ti em. They were collectively awarded— 
THIRTY-ONE FIRST-CLASS CERTIFICATES 
last season at leading shows in Scotland and England. Each, 
is. 3d.; 1 of each, 3s.; 10s. per dozen; 50 for 35s.; 100 for 60s. 
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The Trade supplied. 
MICHAEL CUTHBERTSON, 
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Send for Catalogue of 160 Illustrations, 80 pages ; also my new 
Horticultural and Poultry Catalogue, post free. 
T. B. BLOW, Welwyn, HERTS. 
GRAPE VINES and ROSES. 
JOHN COWAN & CO. have this season a 
large and splendid Stock of Grape Vines suitable 
for fruiting in pots and planting vineries. 
Also a large and splendid Stock of Tea and Other 
Roses in pots. 
Descriptive and priced catalogue post free on 
application to the Company. 
THE VINEYARD & NURSERIES, 
Garston, near Liverpool. 
“ Gardening Is the pnrest 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, MAY gth, 1896. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, May 12th.—Special sale of Orchids by Messrs. 
Protheroe & Morris. 
Wednesday, May 13th.—Royal Botanic Society's summer 
show at Regent's Park. 
Friday, May 15th.—Royal Botanic Society, lecture. Sales of 
imported and established Orchids by Messrs. Protheroe 
& Morris, 
<TURPLUS FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.- 
* Though the drying of fruits and 
vegetables by artificial means in this 
country may be regarded by many of our 
j readers as an old subject that has frequently 
been ventilated, it cannot be regarded as a 
theme that has wholly been threshed out. 
Such is not likely to be the case so long as 
; it continues to be such a thriving industry 
in California and Germany. Fruit farmers 
in this country take a long time to change 
old established customs; byt if any one 
endowed with a spirit of enterprise were to 
chance upon a method which would apply 
to existing circumstances in. this country 
and make the process of fruit and vegetable 
drying a paying concern, there could hardly 
fail to be a host of followers along the same 
lines in various parts of the country. The 
supply of really suitable varieties of Apples 
1 in this country is so small that orchard 
planting on modern principles would have 
to keep pace with the establishment of fruit 
drying centres. An admirable paper on 
this subject was read by Edward W. 
Badger, F.R.H.S., of Birmingham, at the 
meeting of the Society of Arts on the 29th 
ult., and which appears in the issue of the 
Journal of the society for the 1st inst. For 
the details we refer our readers to the same 
in another column. 
