.November 23, 1889. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
179 
FOR PL EASURE an d PROFIT. 
ITO S 11"!" Nothingso profitable and easy to grow. 
rnUfl B ■ 74 Acres in Stock. 
Sec Catalogue for simple Instructions and lcinds of 
Trees to suit all soils. 
20 Acres. 
nUOfcOa Bushes, 8.s. per doz. ; 60s. per 100. 
ggj" Packing and carriage free for cash with order. 
ROSES IN FOTS from 15s. per dozen. 
ORNAMENTAL TREES. —91 Acres. 4 Acres of 
Glass. 
CLEMATiS (80,000), 12s., 18s. and 24s. per dozen. 
Vegetable, Flower 
and Farm. 
SEEDS & BULBS. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST FREE. 
RICHARD SMITH i GO. 
WORCESTER. 
liEW C HRYSANTHE MUMS. 
Miss Margaret (large Anemone), F. C. C. Plants ready 1st 
March, 1S90. 2s. Gel. each. 
Mrs. A. Hardy, 2s. 6 d each. 
Etoile de Lyon, Is. Gd. each. 
Orders hooked now for the above and 1,001 other varieties. 
Catalogue with most complete directions on cultivation, price id. 
W. E. BOYCE, F.N.C.S., 
ARCHWAY ROAD, H1GHGATE, N. 
FRUIT 
TREES. 
Immense Stock of remark¬ 
ably well-grown Trees. In¬ 
spection invited. 
New Descriptive CATALOGUE 
on application , 
Dicksonts nurseries, 
CHESTER. 
“NOW IS THE TIME TO PLANT TREES.” 
R OBERT NEAL begs to call the attention of 
Gentlemen, Local Boards, Builders, and others 
who intend planting this season, to his large and varied 
stock of Shrubs, Standard and Ornamental and Forest 
Trees, Fruit Trees, Roses, and Climbing Plants, &c., 
which, being well transplanted, are in fine condition 
for removal, and having been grown in the vicinity of 
London, are specially adapted for Town and Street 
Plantings. Special quotations for large quantities. 
Delivery free within a radius of six miles of the 
Nursery. Inspection of the stock solicited. Cata¬ 
logues free on application. “Also to offer extra fine 
Forcing Sea Kale and Rhubarb.” 
THE NURSERIES, 
TRINITY ROAD, 
WANDSWORTH COMMON, 
COLD MEDAL, PARIS. 
KELWAY’S 
CHOICE SEEDS OF 
VEGETABLES AND FLOWERS, 
50 VALXTABLg TO HXHIBITOES, 
May be obtained through most Seedsmen in England, 
Scotland, and Ireland. 
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CATALOGUES GRATIS. 
LANGPORT, SOMERSET. 
EVERY HUE, IS WARRANTED. 
ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
NEW TENBY ST., BIRMINGHAM 
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THE LARGEST AMATEUR IMPORTER OF BULBS in the 
country, begs to thank the large number of friends in all parts 
of the United Kingdom for their kind orders and reeoinmendati in 
this season. 
I regret that many orders have not been sent off so promptly 
as usual during the latter part of October. This is caused by so 
many delaying to order till October, instead of ordering in 
September. Many seem to wait till the last moment; then all 
seem to send at once. This makes it impossible to despatch the 
orders until three or four days after they are received. 
From this date I put in extra Bulbs to make up for any in¬ 
feriority of size or quality. 
I will be pleased to send a liberal selection of assorted Bulbs 
for 10s., £1, £2, or £5 to clear out remainder of my stock. Any 
ordering a selection of this sort will please state if they prefer 
Hyacinths, Tulips or other bulbs. 
I have now arriving a fine stock of Lily of Valley crowns, 
Dutch, 3s. 6 d. ; Berlin (much the best for early forcing), 5s 6 d. 
per 100. Fine Lily of Valley clumps, 10s. and 12s. dozen. 
Spiraea japonica clumps. 3s. and 4s. dozen, according to size. 
Dielytra spectabilis, 3s. dozen. A grand lot of Liliums rubrum 
or roseum, 5s. 6<t. and 7s. dozen ; Lilium album, 10s. 6 cl. dozen ; 
album Kroetzeri, Is 6 cl. each ; Lilium tigrinum, 2s. doz.; double 
tigrinum, 5s. Gel. doz.; longiflorum, 4s. f d. doz.; umbellatum 
ereetum, 3s. Gel. doz. ; chalcedonicum, Is. 3d. each ; Colchicum 
(Szovitzianum), Is. 6d. each ; testaeeum, Is. 6cl. each. All these 
should be bought and potted at once. Gladioli Branchleyensis, 
fair flowering eorms, 2s. 6 d 100 ; large size, 4s. 100 ; extra large, 
5s. C d. 100. My stock of above is limited, and a great p rt 
already sold. Early orders are solicited to avoid disappointment. 
About the end of November I shall have a special consignment 
of Lilium auratum, direct from Japan, at specially low prices— 
viz., good flowering bulbs, 6 d. ; large, Gd. ; extra large, Is- each; 
or 5s., 7s. Gd., 10s. dozen. I do not advise buying from the 
earlier arrivals, as the bulbs are not properly ripernd. 
American Pearl Tuberoses, good average size, Is. 6 d. doz.; 
extra size. 2.s. Gd. doz. 
Kelway’s choice Gandavensis Hybrid Gladioli, all colours, 
Is. S d. doz ; 12s. 100; or best selected, 2s. Gd. doz. ; ISs. 100 
Choice single mixed Begonias. 4s. Gel. dozen ; double, 12s. 
dozen, or in separate colour.- a little extra. 
All orders in this section, when ordered with other bulbs, will 
be sent carriage paid directly they arrive. 
Best white Raffia Fibre, Gd. per pound. 
(Please Mention this Paper.) 
Letter Orders have same care as for my own planting. 
ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
NEW TE NBY STREE T. BI RMIN GHAM. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday. November 25th.—Bulb Sales at Protheroe & Morris’s, 
and Stevens’ Rooms. 
Tuesday. November 26th.—Na! ional Chrysanthemum Society : 
Floral Committee meeting at the Royal Aquarium. Sale of 
Lily bulbs at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Wednesday, November 27 th.-Bulb Sales at Protheroe & Morris’s, 
and Stevens' Rooms. 
Thursday, November 2Sth.—Bulb Sale at Protheroe & Morris’s 
Rooms. 
Friday, November 29th.—Dundee Chrysanthemum Show. Sale 
of Orchids in flower at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Saturday, November 30th.—Bulb Sales at Protheroe & Morris's, 
and Stevens’ Rooms. 
For Indexto Contents & Advertisements, see p. ISO. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 23, 1889. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
he Kingston Challenge Yase.—A few 
years ago the competition for this prize 
created greater interest in the breasts of 
Chrysanthemum growers than any other offered 
in the United Kingdom. But in Chrysan¬ 
themum exhibiting we are fast getting into the 
condition of things found in the racing world, 
in which the old blue ribands of the turf are 
being overshadowed by other and far richer 
prizes. It seems not so long since when the 
ablest of the Liverpool Chrysanthemum men, 
then by far the best growers in the north, used 
to come south, and contend in the Kingston 
arena, when the southern champions were 
Harding, Gibson, and Molyneux, whose names 
are numbered among our very best growers, and 
who were successful in preventing any of the 
vases from being taken northwards. 
In 1882, after a severe tussle for several 
years with northern exhibitors, Mr. Harding 
took the vase home to Putney for his employer, 
Mr. Galpin, and in that year there was the 
excitement of two challenge vases being in the 
field, for in the final contest for the first one 
new exhibitors were excluded, and, therefore, 
to give them a chance, a second vase competition 
was instituted. That vase Mr. Molyneux won 
for Mr. Myers, of .Swanmore Park, and proved 
his skill as a grower by beating all exhibitors 
for four years in succession. The result was 
unfortunate for the society, as Mr. Molyneux, 
satiated with prizes and honours, has practically 
retired from the competition, and is now one of 
the most severely worked of judges. Mr. Gibson 
worthily won the next vase for Mr. Wormald, 
of Morden Park, and last week Mr. Coombes, 
gardener to Mr. W. Furze, of Teddington—a 
popular southern amateur—having been twice 
victorious, took off the last of the vases, 
although he had to compete for it against 
seven other competitors. 
It may be -well just now to ask whether after 
all the competition is worth continuing. The 
old interest has largely died out now that the 
champions do not contend. The class has 
always been an unsatisfactory one, because it 
puts incurved and Japanese into competition, 
and the latter generally go to the wall. 
/TV 1 iE National Chrysanthemum Society’s 
Show. —Some of our “ Royal ” friends 
were considerably elated because the Chry¬ 
santhemum meetings held at Chiswick recently, 
seemed to bring in some few additional visitors. 
When, however, we compare the attendance 
with that seen at the IS ational Society’s show, 
it is obvious that so far as the Chrysanthemum 
is concerned, the latter body has the confidence 
and support of growers universally. The 
attendance on both the show days at the 
Aquarium was enormous, the hulk, we were 
assured, and the matter was pretty evident, 
being of the Chrysanthemum persuasion. As 
it was, the area of the building, broad and 
expansive apparently, allowed none too much 
room for sightseers, and hundreds preferred to 
escape from a crush to seeing the myriads of 
flowers spread out before them. 
When there is none too much room for the 
show as it is,what sort of prospect is there opened 
out for the big display of four days’ duration, 
which is to mark the Chrysanthemum cele¬ 
bration of next year 1 It may be worth while 
to state that it is probable the usual competitive 
portion will be of two days’ duration only, and 
the change made in the arrangements on the 
morning of the third day will be exceedingly 
welcome. The change will also materially 
relieve the pressure on the space available 
during the first two days, as everybody will 
want to have a finger in the great centenary 
pie of 1890, that is pretty -well certain. 
Judging by the past two years’ experience, 
it will he of serious importance that the date of 
the show be not fixed too late in November, as 
owing to the practice of housing earlier, hosts 
of the finest florvers are over and gone before 
the second week of the month is well in. We 
also hope, for the sake of a favourite old 
suburban body, that some effort will he 
made not to create friction in that quarter. 
Each of the big shows may, of course, hold 
their own, hut all the same there is no reason 
for wilfully running heads against brick walls. 
%.arge-flowered Chrysanthemums. — The 
introduction of such huge blooms as 
Etoile de Lyon into our stands of Japanese, 
opens up a prospect which is enough to make 
exhibitors and committees of Chrysanthemum 
shows shudder. A\ hat if a larger standard 
for these be Created than now prevails 1 Our 
“Japs” are big enough as they are for anything, 
and this year, on the whole, we have not seen 
the finest blooms of ordinary varieties ; that is 
universally admitted. Still we see them 
crowded into the boxes, so much that one 
bloom often presses another, and thus form is 
