August 9, 1890. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
771 
WEBBS’ 
EMPEROR CABBAGE. 
THE EARLIEST AND BEST. 
6(1. and Is. per packet; 
Is. 6d. 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. 
Early Nonpareil Cabbage . 
. 
... 8d. 
Enfield Market Cabbage . 
• • • . 
. . 6d. 
Early Rainham Cabbage . 
... 9(1. 
Red Dutch Cabbage . 
. 
... 9(1. 
OMION. 
Per pkt. 
Webbs’ Red Globe Tripoli. 
.. 6(1. 
Is. 6d. 
Large Flat Red Tripoli . 
.. 6(1. 
10d. 
Giant Roeca . 
. 6(1. 
Is. 6d. 
White Lisbon . . 
8(1. 
Post Free. 
NARCISSUS, 
“SIR WATKIN.” 
Now ready, thoroughly 
ripened, strong flowering 
Bulbs of this grandest Daffo¬ 
dil, Is. each; extra large. 
Is. 6d. each. Special prices 
per dozen and 100. New 
Catalogue will be ready shortly. 
nurseries, CHUSTEBi. 
(1,00 Acres.) 
LIMITED. 
IF YOU WANT 
mm GOOD BUBS 4 SEEDS, 
APPLY TO ' 
Mr. ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
Of the firm of Sydenhmn Brothers, Wholesale Jewellers, 
THE LARGEST AMATEUR IMPORTER IN THE KINGDOM 
HIS 
UNIQUE BULB LIST, 
With Pamphlet, JNow Revised and Enlarged, 
“HOW S CAME.TO CROW BULBS,” 
iiie iuost j&euaDie u-uiae to tne nest varieties and 
How to Grow them. NOW Ready. Sent Post 
Free on application. 
This List, and Pamphlet will be sent post free early in August to 
all who ordered in previous years. If wanted before, please send 
post card. Please mention this Paper. 
BULBS FOR CHRISTMAS BLOOMING. 
The following, if ordered and potted at once, will bloom well 
for Christmas. 
EARLY WHITE ROMAN HYACINTHS, Is. 6 d. doz., 
11s. 100 ; or extra selected Bulbs, all averaging over live 
inches round, the finest that can possibly be imported, 2s. doz., 
15s. 100. ’ ’ 
EREESIA REFRACTA ALBA. the most lovely flower of 
the day. Planted from now_until end of August, will bloom at 
Christmas, Is. doz., 7s, 100; or extra selected Bulbs, Is. 6 d. 
doz., 11s. 100. 
DOUBLE ROMAN NARCISSUS, is. doz., 7s. 100. 
PAPER-WHITE NARCISSUS, Is. doz., 7s. ICO; or the 
large-flowering variety, Is. 0 d. doz., 11s. 100. 
My other Bulbs I hope to have ready for delivery the latter 
part of August, but orders should be booked as early as possible 
to secure best quality. Full list sent post free on application. 
Any wanting VEGETABLE or FLOWER SEEDS for autumn 
sowing would do well to send for my UNIQUE SEED LIST and 
GUIDE, free on application. 
Mr. DODWELL’S GRAND CARNATIONS 
THE FINEST CROWN. 
MUSHROOM SPAV/N. — id. each, 3s. dozen bricks; or sent, 
post free, 1 brick, 9 d. ; 3 bricks. Is. S d. ; (i bricks, 2s. 9<2. 
RAFFIA GRASS.— Best White, for tying. Price, Is. per 
postal lb.; 2 lb., Is. 6d.; 3 lbs., 2s, If sent with seeds or 
bulbs, 6 d. per lb. 
5,000 Unbloomed Seedlings, warranted of the highest parentage 
unrivalled whether for bedding or forciDg for Spring flowering! 
White Grounds, 3s. 6d. per (loz.; 31s. per 100. 
Yellow Grounds, 5s. per doz.; 31s. 6d. per 100. 
Strong- plants of his NEW YELLOWS and KILMURRY 
YELLOW GROUNDS, for late Autumn or Winter 
blooming, 10s. 6(1. per dozen. 
THE COTTAGE, STANLEY ROAD, OXFORD. 
PRIMULAS! PRIMULAS! PRIMULAS! 
21st YEAR OF DISTRIBUTION. 
Williams’ Superb Strain, Is. 6 cl. per dozen ; 10s. per 100. 
CINERARIAS same price, also DOUBLE WHITE PRIMULAS, 
Gd. each. Carriage free for cash with order, 
JOHN STEVENS, The Nurseries, G0VENTEY 
FLORAL ALBUM OF CONFERENCE DAFFODILS. 
This unique “ Work of Art,” illustrated by-Gertrude Hartland 
has 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. “Key” to same, descriptive and 
priced, post free to all applicants. 
WM. BAYLOR HARTLAND, Seedsman, CORK. 
STRAWBERRIES 
DICKSONS, 
LIMITED. 
Strong hardy runners 
and plants in pots of 
the newest and best 
varieties. 
Descriptive Catalogue 
on application. 
THE NURSERIES, 
(U00 Acres.) 
NEW HYBRID ROCHEAS. 
The Gardeners Chronicle (February 22nd, last), says:—“The 
easy cultuie of these plants, and the beauty of their flowers, 
1 ender them * 
PLANTS FOR THE MILLION.” 
THEY FLOWER IJV MID-WINTER. 
The set of five splendid varieties, 15s. ; 3s. 6cl. each. 
For full description and illustration, see New Catalogue, 
sent post free on application. 
Usual Allowance to the Trade. 
A. J. A. BRUCE, 
THE NURSERIES, 
EDGE LANE,. CHORLTON - CUM - HARDY, 
MAactiester. 
_ ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
New Tenby Street, Birmingham. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Tuesday, August 12th.—Royal Horticultural Society; Meeting 
of Committees at 12 o’clock. Clay Cross Flower Show. 
Wednesday, August 13th.—Cardiff Flower Show. 
Thursday, August 14.—Taunton Flower Show. 
Friday, August 15tli.—Cheadle Flower Show (2 days). Sale of 
Liclia autumnalis at Protlieroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Saturday, August 16th.—National Co-operative Flower Show 
at the Crystal Palace. Hawick Floral Fete. 
For Index to Contents & Advertisemeats.. see p. 782, 
" Gardeuing is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”—B acon. 
SATURDAY , A (JOUST 9, 1890. 
(JURBENT TOPICS. 
/|\ur Home Fruit Prospects. —Whilst we 
have had very fair crops of summer fruit, 
its season is now over, and we have to face, for 
the next ten months at least, a miserable 
prospect, for the recently published fruit 
reports from all parts of the kingdom, fur¬ 
nished by able observers, show that rarely, 
if ever, have worse hardy tree crops been 
noticed than now. Practically we may he 
said to have shot our fruit crop bolt for 
the present year, for what little there is, 
is of so infinitesimal a kind, that it seems 
to be hardly worthy of notice. If just here 
and there localities have been specially 
favoured, in most others the reports specify 
comparative barrenness. 
What seems odd, but is all the same 
well worthy of attention, is that other 
countries accustomed to send us abundant 
supplies of hardy fruits seem to ho almost 
as badly off as ourselves. The loss to the 
kingdom generally, and to the fruit-growing 
trade specially, because of this absence of 
fruit, will he great indeed, and must be 
heavily felt during the coining winter, 
especially in the labour market, for an 
absolute lack of hardy tree fruits often means 
to growers such scanty returns, that winter 
labour cannot he paid for. If fruit-growing 
associations wish to encourage hardy fruit 
culture, w'e advise them to get at the 
bottom of the present season’s scarcity, and 
determine how far it may be possible, 
through human agency, to obviate such disasters 
in the future. 
If no such information can he afforded, 
then is it running dangerously near to 
illusiveness to urge the wider cultivation of 
hardy fruits as a means to a livelihood. 
The general fruit product of the past two 
or three years has been far from profitable, 
the present year pulling down the average 
returns enormously. Whilst it may be wise 
to proceed tentatively and slowly, any 
great expansion of fruit culture with our 
existing climatic conditions would he a 
dangerous speculation. 
||he Tomato Disease. — The Scientific Com¬ 
mittee of the Royal Horticultural Society 
can hardly he charged with intentional 
waggishness, but there were evidences of ail 
obscure joke to he found in the published 
report of its last meeting. Discussing the 
appearance of disease in the outdoor Tomatos 
at Chiswick, this sapient body positively 
advised that in the case of a similar appear¬ 
ance of the disease in outdoor plants at 
Chiswick, and we presume elsewhere, the 
plants attacked should be lifted from the 
open ground and he placed under glass, to 
secure the warmth needed. That this odd 
suggestion emanated from a scientific body 
explains its absurdity, and it is to be regretted 
that the Council which claims to revise the 
work of the other committees did not exercise 
a similar prerogative in this instance, as with 
such redoubtable Tomato growers at Chiswick 
as Mr. Barron, and his first lieutenan f , Mr. 
Summers, to advise them, even the Scientific 
Committee might have been prevented from 
making itself ridiculous. 
Who would grow Tomatos out-of-doors at 
all if they had ample room under glass?. 
They are only planted outside because 
space under glass is not available, and on the 
chance of a favourable season. How foolish, 
therefore, is it to advise that affected plants 
be taken from out-of-doors and put in glass 
houses ! Why, even if there were ample 
accommodation under glass, the lifting 0 f 
fruiting Tomato plants in quantity from the 
open ground and getting them under cover is 
practically impossible, and that the Chiswick 
authorities or any grower could have told 
the Scientific Committee had they have been 
asked. If the committee had advised that 
because of the eccentricities of our climate 
and uncertain summer temperature it was 
essential that all Tomato plants outdoors 
should all the same be grown in pots, so 
that the plants could he easily removed under 
cover in case of necessity — that would have 
been wisdom; still the difficulty of finding 
house room would have remained, hut in the 
case of small numbers might have been over¬ 
come. 
The present does not promise to be a 
prosperous Tomato season. We do not get 
the needful heat and sunshine. The season 
shows us constantly that the more needful it 
is for to have Tomatos, the more essential it 
is that we have ample glass shelter beneath 
which to grow them. 
