September 2, 1898. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
3 
SPECIAL NOTICE. 
CYPRIPEDIUM CURTISII, 
CYPRIPEDIUM ELLIOTTIANUM, 
CYPRIPEDIUM HOOKERS, 
CYPRIPEDIUM LAV-/RENCEANUM, 
SACCOLABIUM CCELESTE, extra grand 
masses. 
Grand Importations of the above just received. 
Penllergare that he might see the show of 
the National Chrysanthemum Society ; and 
again to be present at the Society’s annual 
dinner, whilst last February he was, for a 
second or third time, elected on the 
.council of the Royal Horticultural Society. 
MR. ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
Tenby Street, 
Begs to inform his numerous gardening friends that 
his usual large and grand stock of BULBS has now 
arrived, and is open for inspection. He has now 
been before the public for eight years, and feels sure 
no one can supply Bulbs cheaper, if quality, carriage, 
discount, &c., are considered. He does not aim at 
selling the cheapest, but those of really good flower¬ 
ing merit, and as he can give references in nearly 
every town in the Kingdom, he hopes any lovers of 
Spring Flowers will send for his LIST and 
PAMPHLET, which has been corrected to date, and 
will be sent Post Free to any on application. His 
List was posted to all his old friends (over 6,ooo), 
August 15th. Any who have not received a copy will 
please send post-card. 
EARLY WHITE ROMAN HYACINTHS, a grand sample, 2s. 
doz., 15s. 100; average size, is. ^d. doz., los. loo. 
FREESIA REFRACTA ALBA, the most lovely flower of the 
day, planted now may easily be had in bloom at Christmas, 8rf. 
dozen, 4s. 100; or extra fine sample for forcing, is. dozen, ys, 
100. 
SCARLET DUC VAN THOL Tulips, 2s.gd. 100; 25s. 1,000. 
LILIUH HARRISI, fine solid bulbs, 7 to 9 in. round, 6s. 
dozen. 
HYACINTHS OF ALL SORTS.—A SPECIALITY, and very 
cheap considering size and quality. 
Orders over five per cent discount; orders over £5, ten 
per cent discount. Packages and carriage free. 
Bulb orders under 2 s. 6d, not solicited. 
NEW CINERARIA, NEW CALCEOLARIA, warranted saved 
from plants that took First Prizes in London this season. 
Cineraria, is. 6 d. pkt., about 200 seeds. Calceolaria, zs. pkt. 
MUSHROOM SPAWN, acknowledged the best in the world, 
the chief growers all use it, 3s. a dozen bricks; 4^. each ; or 
sent free by Parcels Post, i brick, gd.; 3 bricks, is. 8d.; 6 bricks, 
2S. gd. 
is too small. 
NOTHING is too much trouhle. 
Inspection Invited. The Trade Supplied. 
You will NOT be worried to order. 
E. D. 8HUTTLEW0RTH & CO. 
(LIMITED), 
Albert Nurseries, 
Palms, Ferns, Stove & Greenhouse Plants, &c., 
PECKHAM RYE, LONDON, S.E. 
Herbaceous Plants, General Nursery Stock, 
Bulbs, &c. 
FliSSrr, HANOTS. 
DUTCH & GAPE BULBS 
Direct from the Growers at Growers' Prices, 
ROOZEN BROTHERS, 
Ovepveen, Haarlem, Holland. 
Delivered entirely free in Aberdeen, Belfast, Bristol, 
Cardiff, Cork, Dover, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, 
Gloucester, Goole, Grangemouth, Greenock, Grimsby, 
Guernsey, Harwich, Hull, Isle of Man, Leith, Limerick, 
Liverpool, London, Londonderry, Middlesboro’, New- 
castle-on-Tyne, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Southampton 
or any other port in direct communication with Rotterdam or 
Amsterdam. 
Orders above £2 los. sent free to destination to anyplace in 
England, Scotland, or Ireland. Club (joint) orders for the 
same amount also delivered Iree to destination. No charge 
for packing or packages. 
Full particulars of our enormous Collection of BULBS, with 
List of SPLENDID NOVELTIES, will be found in our New 
List for 1893, 87 pages in English, which will be sent to all 
applicants, post free. 
ROOZEN BROTHERS, 
OVERVEEN, Haarlem, HOLLAND. 
Please name this Paper. 
Inspection Invited. 
HUGH LOW CO., 
CLAPTON NURSERY, LONDON, N.E. 
For Index to Contents see page 10. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, September 4th.—National Chrysanthemum Society 
meeting of General Committee at 7 p.m. 
Bulb Sales at Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms, and every day in 
the week. 
Tuesday, September 5th.—Brighton Flower Show (2 days). 
Wednesday, September 6th.—National Chrysanthemum 
Society’s Show at the Royal Aquarium (3 days). 
Friday, September 8th.—Bute Rose Show at Rothesay. 
Orchid Sale at Protheroe Morris’ Rooms. 
Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2nd, 1893. 
Whe distressing and sorrowful 
CALAMITY which last week befel that 
most amiable, esteemed, indeed we may 
say greatly loved gentleman, Sir John 
Dillwyn Llewellyn, through the death, so 
sudden and so unlocked for, of his eldest 
son, Mr. William Llewellyn, has touched 
deeply the heart of every horticulturist who 
has been favoured with a personal know¬ 
ledge of the good baronet—and, little, or 
much—has been privileged to come into 
contact with him at the Royal Horticultural 
or other societies’ meetings. In sweetness 
of disposition, in geniality, and in earnest 
devotion to horticulture. Sir John Llewellyn 
has, in his own social sphere, few equals. 
The unfortunate young man, so popularly 
known for his skill at cricket, seems to have 
fallen a victim to the sport of shooting, a 
sport which seems almost to have as many 
human victims as any useful vocation has. 
Guns when loaded may be useful friends, 
but are deadly enemies, and when turned 
upon their owners, as sometimes seems to 
be done unwittingly, they are terribly des¬ 
tructive. In this case, a bright young life 
has been torn not only from intensely 
loving parents and home, but also from one 
who was soon to be his loving wife. The 
surroundings are peculiarly sorrowful, and 
in remembering the deep affliction which 
has thus befallen so good a father, we all 
find our hearts deeply touched also. 
Beyond expressing our profound sym¬ 
pathy, how little, alas ! can we offer to 
assuage in any way the deep grief the sad 
event has caused. Time may weaken the 
poignant sorrow, but it can never kill it ; 
the sting will for life remain. Sir John 
Llewellyn is a devoted florist as well as a 
gardener. How often he used to attend the 
meetings of the National Auricula Society, 
of which he once was president, and also of 
the Carnation Society; and only last 
November he journeyed all the way from 
■Qutumn Plant Sales.— As we mentioned 
last week, the great trade sales of winter 
and spring flowering plants are near at 
hand, and very soon the famous factories— 
for they practically are such—at Edmonton, 
Lea Bridge, Lee, Enfield, and Sidcup will 
be discharging their myriads of occupants, 
to be carried to all parts of the country, 
where in due time they will help to fill the 
markets day after day, will be utilised for 
decorating or furnishing purposes, will be 
used in hundreds of ways to create the 
beautiful, even if it be but a fleeting beauty ; 
and then having discharged their season’s 
functions, will possibly be consigned to the 
rubbish heap. 
Such is the short, bright existence of 
literally millions of beautiful plants that are 
annually turned out of our great plant 
factories year after year. It is, perhaps, 
not the most pleasing form of plant culture, 
but it is made compulsory by the require¬ 
ments of the age, and is a fairly profitable 
one. No sooner are the tens of thousands 
of denizens of the huge glasshouses of the 
trade growers dispersed abroad, than tens 
of thousands of others are pushed on to take 
their places. It is a weary round of culture; 
but then all vocations are more or less 
weary rounds, and all tending to the same 
end. We can hardly conceive of a time 
when the public taste will be so changed 
that these myriads of plants will find no 
market. That would, indeed, be a 
disastrous time for horticulture, because it 
would'mean an almost universal decadence 
in floral taste and fashion. 
We think, rather, that the tendency of 
this taste is to grow, to expand, to become, 
in fact, almost illimitable. We base this 
assumption on the truth that flowers always 
will receive love and worship so long as the 
human race endures. A love of flowers is 
deeply ingrained in the human heart, and it 
is found deep and holding even amongst the 
most uncultured, the least reflned. It is, 
indeed, a touch of nature which makes the 
whole world kin, and because of that our 
faith in the future of flowers for the gratifi¬ 
cation of the masses is illimitable. 
<Tize of Vegetables. —It is a curious fact 
^ that whilst no one ever seems to have 
suggested the placing of any kind of limit 
to the dimensions of plants, or even of fruits, 
and we may almost say of flowers, at exhi¬ 
bitions, yet there seems to be growing up a 
strong feeling in opposition to the size—held 
to be unduly large—that is now usually 
found in exhibition vegetables. But after 
all, we judge of plants, flowers, and fruits, 
more in relation to the quality shown in the 
exhibits than in relation to mere size, hence, 
if things be unduly large without quality, 
the}! have no merit, and it is an undoubted 
fact in all these exhibits that quality and 
excessive size are seldom allied. 
Butin relation to vegetables, judges seem 
to have got into a big groove. They have 
been running on size, being, as it were, some¬ 
what dazed at the sight of big Potatos, 
Carrots, Onions, Cauliflowers, Cabbages, 
&c., and hence exhibitors, taking their cue 
from the judges’ awards, have followed suit. 
But the revulsion was bound to come some¬ 
time, and it has already began. Vegetables 
are grown to be eaten, and under no condi¬ 
tions does it for one moment follow that 
the biggest are the best for that purpose. 
So far from that being the case, we all 
admit that for our own consumption the 
