July 19, 1890. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
723 
WEBBS’ 
EMPEROR CABBAGE. 
THE EARLIEST AND BEST. 
Cd. and Is. per packet; 
Is. 6(1. per oz. 
“Webb’s Emperor Cabbage is a 
very good fast-growing sort, of large 
size and good quality.” — Mr. E. 
SIMPSON, Gardener to the Right 
Hon. Lord Wrottesley,’’ 
- Per oz. 
Earlv Nonpareil Cabbage . 8d. 
Enfield Market Cabbage . *'<}• 
Early Rainham Cabbage . *”}• 
Red Dutch Cabbage . 
ONION. 
Webbs’ Red Globe Tripoli . 
Large Flat Red Tripoli . 
Giant Roeca . 
White Lisbon . 
Post Free. 
Per pkt. 
6(1. 
Is. 6d. 
6(1. 
10(1. 
6(1. 
Is. Gd. 
8d. 
Gr 
s.w. 
Gardening Charities, &c. 
ARDENERS' royal benevolent institution.— 
Secretary, Edward Roger Cutler, 50, Parliament Street, 
G ARDENERS' ORPHAN FUND. — Honorary Secretary, 
A. F. Barron, Royal Horticultural Society’s Garden, 
TTNITED HORTICULTURAL PROVIDENT and BENEFIT 
cj " SOCIETY.—Secretary, William Collins, 9, Martindale 
Road, Balhain, S.W. __ 
S TEPHANOTIS FLOBIBUXDA, the true 
Elvaston variety. I have plants now in 4-inch pots in 
bloom. For truthful illustration, see Catalogue. Strong- 
growing plants, 3s. 6(1. and 2s. Cd. 
HYBRID ROCHEAS. — Charming new winter - dowering 
plants The five splendid varieties figured in the Gardeners' 
Chronicle, February 22nd last, 3s. 6d. each ; the set, 15s. 
Most valuable addition to the list of winter-flowering plants. 
Lovely Bouvardia-like flowers of various colours. 
HYDRANGEA STELLATA FIMBRIATA —Pure white, 
fimbriated eDes, crimson spot in centre. This is quite a new 
departure, and totally distinct from any other Hydrangea. 
Is. 6d. each. 
NEW FUCHSIA, MOLESWORTH.—The largest Fuchsia in 
existence. 5s. per dozen. 
My NEW PLANT CATALOGUE is a most interesting book, 
beautifully illustrated. Sent free to all who apply for it. 
A. J. A. BRUCE, 
THE NURSERIES, 
EDGE LANE, CHORLTON - CUM - HARDY, 
lycaaeiiestei;. 
PRIMULAS I PRIMULAS! PRIMULAS! 
21st YEAR OF DISTRIBUTION. 
Williams’ Superb Strain, Is. 6 d. per dozen ; 10s. per 100. 
CINERARIAS same price, also DOUBLE WHITE PRIMULAS, 
6(1. each. Carriage free for cash with order. 
JOHN STEVENS, The Nurseries, SQVENTBY 
Mr. DO MI ELL’S GRAND CARNATIONS 
THE FINEST GROWN. 
5 000 Unbloouied Seedlings, warranted of the highest parentage, 
unrivalled whether for bedding or forcing for Spring flowering. 
White Grounds, 3s. 6d. per doz.: 21s. per 100. 
Yellow Grounds, 5s. per doz.; 31s. 6d. per 100. 
Strong plants of bis XE1V YELLOMS and KILlItRRY 
YELLOW GROUNDS, for late Autumn or Winter 
blooming, 10s. 6d. per dozen. 
THE COTTAG E, STANLEY HOAD, OXFORD . 
FLORAL ALBUM OF COHPERESCE DAFFODILS. 
This unique “ Work of Art," illustrated by Gertrude Hartland, 
lias now become a regular Drawing-room Book, containing, as it 
does, over 50 faithful pictures of one of the most accommodating 
of all Spring Flowers. First Edition, limited to a thousand 
copies, Post Free, 2s. 6d. Complimentary to past and future 
purchasers. Trade circular of Best Market Varieties, Gratis. 
Bulbs very fine and prices moderate. 
WM. BAYLOR HARTLAND, Seedsman, CORK. 
BEGONIAS A SPE CIALITY 
Exhibition of th ese Lovely Flowe rs Now on View. 
Unequalled as a floral display. Visitors are cordially 
invited. Free admission. Frequent trains from the 
City and from the West End to Catford Bridge and 
Forest Hill Railway Stations. 
Descriptive Priced Lists Free on Application. 
JOHN LAING & SONS, 
The Nurseries, FOREST HILL, LONDON, S.E. 
IF YOU WANT 
REALLY HMD BULBS A SEEDS, 
Mr. ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
Of the firm of Sydenham Brothers, Wholesale Jewellers, 
THE LARGEST AMATEUR IMPORTER IN THE KINGDOM, 
HIS 
UNIQUE BULB LIST, 
With Pamphlet, Now Revised and Enlarged, 
“HOW I CAME TO GROW BULBS,” 
The Most Reliable Guide to the Best Varieties and 
How to Grow them. NOW Ready. Sent Post 
Free on application. 
Please mention this Paper. 
A few CHOICE ELOWER SEEDS for Sowing 
now. — Aquilegia californica, 6(J.; Auricula, show, Is., Is. 6(! ; 
Alpine, 9 d.. Is.; Calceolaria, Is., 2s. ; Carnation, very special, 
Is., Is. Cd. ; Cineraria, Is., Is. 6(1.; Gloxinia, Is., 2s.; Hollyhock, 
prize double, 6d , Is. ; Pansy, Roomer’s Prize Giant, Is. ; Show 
and Fancy, best mixed, Cd., Is. ; Picotee, very special, Is , Is 6d. ; 
Pink, very choice, Is., Is. fid. ; Poppy, new, very large single 
scarlet (142 in List), fid. ; Pyrethrum, from best sorts, 6d. ; Stock, 
Giant Scarlet Brompton, fid., 9 d. ; Giant White, Gd., 9 d. ; Wall¬ 
flower, single, crimson, gold, rich brown early, each 3d. ; Double 
German, id., Cd. All per packet, post free. All of the choicest 
strains. See My Guarantee. 
MUSHROOM SPAY/N.—4d. each, 3s. dozen bricks; or sent, 
post free, 1 brick, 9d. : 3 bricks, Is. Sd. ; 6 bricks, 2s. 9d. 
RAFFIA CRASS.—Best White, for tying. Price, Is. per 
postal lb.; 2 lb., Is. fid.; 3 lbs., 2s, If sent with seeds or 
bulbs, 6d. per lb. 
ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
New Tenby Street, Birmingham. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Tuesday, July 22nd.— Carnation Show and Conference at Chis¬ 
wick. Tibshelf Flower Show. Sale of Orchids at Protheroe 
& Morris’s Rooms. 
Wednesday, July 23rd.—Fern and Selagiuella Conference at 
Chiswick. Luton Flower Show. Sale of Orchids at Seeger 
& Tropp’s Nursery, Dulwich, by Protheroe & Morris. 
Thursday, July 24tli.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe & 
Morris's Rooms. SalteHiebble Rose Show. 
Friday, July 25th.—Broughty Ferry Flower Show. Wilmslow 
and Alderley Flower Show (2 days). 
For Index to Contents ^Advertisements, see p. 734. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1890. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
$^he Causation Conference. — - If we are 
^ favoured with fine weather—and the “ if ” 
is a most important element in the matter— 
this year, a most enjoyable gathering may he 
looked for next week, when the Carnation and 
Fern Conference takes place. The florists’ 
flowers will have the first notice, as Tuesday 
is devoted to them, and the Ferns will have 
their innings the next day. Warmer weather 
will be all the more enjoyable on a day devoted 
to such cool-looking subjects as Ferns arc. 
Keally, it will be a treat to get away for once 
from the hard walls and empty dulness of the 
Westminster Drill Flail. The change may 
almost represent to the committees of the 
Royal Horticultural Society a summer s picnic, 
although their enjoyment must be chiefly con¬ 
tingent on the -weather. 
The gardens just now have in them many 
attractive features, but still it is not possible to 
do other than deplore the fatuity which leads 
to considerable expenditure at the Drill Hall, 
whilst so admirable a property as Chiswick 
Gardens is starving. So long ago as the Vegetable 
Conference a provincial Fellow of the Society 
deplored publicly the want of putty and paint 
on the glass houses. Time has not helped to 
mend that lack, and as time goes on the want 
becomes intensified. Had the Society gone 
to Chiswick direct from South Kensington, 
how vastly the gardens might have been 
improved ere now ! 
Turning to the Conference, Carnation lovers 
will find much that is very interesting to them 
in the trial of those plants in the open ground, 
which was instituted last winter. By next 
week no doubt the bulk of tlie plants, which, 
put out in clumps of three, form in many 
cases effective objects, will be in bloom, and 
the attention of a special committee of Carna¬ 
tion growers may well be directed to them. It 
is hoped that, as one result of the Conference, 
the Chiswick collection will be largely added 
to, and the trials henceforth made to include 
all the best border varieties in the kingdom. 
She Potato Disease. —When the Potato 
disease gets, though only metaphorically, 
into the House of Commons, it may be regarded 
as dangerously near home. On the 10th a 
question was put in the House with respect to 
the appearance of the disease amidst the I J otato 
breadths of Ireland, and the Government 
intimated that close enquiry would be made 
respecting it. We wonder in what direction 
or for what purpose it is needful to make 
enquiry. If the disease is en evidence all the 
world will soon know it, whilst as to its nature 
and operation the Government must he singu¬ 
larly ignorant if unacquainted with those 
elements. As there seems to be no doubt but 
that the disease has appeared in Ireland, our 
concern is naturally with our own crops, 
which may at any moment be attacked by 
the Peronospera—indeed, having regard to the 
weather which has prevailed, so cold, wet, 
and stormy, it is a matter for surprise that 
we have not heard numerous complaints as 
to the appearance of the disease already. 
We have just at present a nice crop of 
Potatos in prospect, and with a good healthy 
season should see later tubers selling at 
exceedingly low prices. If an attack of the 
disease should come there will be a quickening 
of the prices later, though not at the first; 
but still growers would gain nothing, as the 
labour incidental to lifting diseased tubers is 
greater than is the case with healthy crops, 
and the risk to the purchaser is so great that 
sales are made with difficulty. Our present 
hope for the Potato crop lies in warmer and 
drier weather. The plants will not want a 
drop of rain on them for the rest of the 
summer, whilst every fresh shower or storm 
brings the disease perilously near. Tubers are 
at present somewhat watery. They have— 
even apart from tlic threatening disease—great 
need for dryness and warmth to make them 
good. We hope the needful warmth will soon 
come. 
‘pTT beds. —The present summer so far may 
'-'H well be characterised as the Paradise of 
W e eds. The difficulty the farmers and gar¬ 
deners have felt is in getting rid of them, for 
with heavy rains day after day hoeing was out 
of the question, and the weeds all the time 
were growing amazingly. There has been no 
other course open but to pull them bodily up— 
a difficult and costly process, or set to work and 
mow them down. In some cases the rveeds so 
overpowered-the crop that there Avas no other 
course open in destroying the weeds but to 
destroy the crop also, plough or dig in the 
dressings thus created, and sow or plant 
again. 
Ho one can afford to grow crops of weeds. 
They not only destroy present profitable crops, 
but leave behind a fearful legacy of seeds, 
which remain to produce future troubles from 
year to year. Far better to destroy the sown 
crop with the weeds than leave the latter to 
seed. With many crops profitable cultivation 
is possible only when the horse hoe or manual 
