September 23, 1898. 
.THE GARDENING WORLD. 
47 
BULBS 
TO SUIT ALL EEQUIREMENTS. 
tS” These collections are arranged on a most liberal 
scale, and contain only the most easily cultivated and 
attractive sorts of Winter and Spring Flowers. 
VEITCH’S 
COLLECTIONS of BULBS 
FOR INDOOR CULTIVATION. 
At los. 6d., 2IS., 42s., and 63s. 
For particulars see Catalogue, gratis and post 
free on application. 
VEITCH’S 
COLLECTIONS of BULBS 
FOR GROWING IN THE OPEN GROUND, 
At IDS. 6d., 21S., 42s., and 63s. 
For particulars see Catalogue, gratis and post 
free on application. 
JAMES VEITCH 4 SONS, 
ROYAL EXOTC RURSERY, CHELSEA, S.W. 
NOTHINO 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. 
HUGH LOW & CO. 
Invite inspectien of the magnificent Stock of Stove and Green¬ 
house Plants, Roses, Fruit Trees, and Vines growing in their 
Nurseries at Clapton and Bush Hill Park, Enfield ; all of the 
finest possible quality. Especially worthy of notice are the 
following:— 
ACACIAS in variety. 
AMPELOPSIS. 
ARALIAS. 
„ VARIEGATA. 
ARAUCARIAS. 
ASPIDISTRAS. 
AZALEAS. 
BORONIAS. 
BOUVARDIAS. 
CLEMATIS. 
CYCLAMENS. 
EPACRIS. 
ERICAS of all kinds. 
FERNS. 
FICUS ELASTICA. 
„ VaRIEGATA. 
GENISTAS. 
GREVILLEAS. 
Palms of all kinds. 
ROSES, MARECHAL NIEL 
and other extra strong 
climbers, &c., &c. 
CLAPTON NURSERY, LONDON, N.E. 
MR. DODWELL’S 
GRAND CARNATIONS. 
THE FINEST GROWN. 
All Classes, 10/6 per dozen. 
Mr. Dodwell’s List of Specialties is now ready. 
Send Stamp and get copy. 
Thb Cottage, Stanley Road, Oxford. 
XHE: garden GIFTS’ 
ROYAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. 
An Election of Pensioners on the funds of this 
Institution will take place in January next. In¬ 
tending Candidates must send in their Applications 
ON OR BEFORE OCTOBER 14th, after which 
date they cannot be received. 
Forms of Application and full particulars may 
be obtained from the Secretary, 
GEORGE J. INGRAM. 
50, Parliament Street, 
London, S.W. 
For Index to Contents see page 58. 
“ Garuening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.” —Bacon. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, September 25th.—Bulb Sale at Protheroe & Morris’ 
Rooms, and every day in the week. 
Bulb Sale at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Tuesday, September 26th.—Royal Horticultural Society; 
meeting of the Committees at 12 o'clock. 
Wednesday, September 27th.—Hardy Fruit show at Bail’s 
Court (three days). 
N.C S. Floral Committee meeting at the Westminster 
Aquarium. 
County of Gloucest. r and Cheltenham Royal Horticultural 
Society's Show. 
Sale of bulbs at Stevens' Rooms. 
Thursday, September 28th.—Bulb Sale at Stevens' Rooms. 
F'riday, September 29th.—Orchid sale at Protheroe & Morris 
Rooms. 
Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2yd, 1893. 
^T. Martin’s Summer. —Like everything 
^ else this year, even the summer of the 
autumn is exceptionally early. We have 
been enjoying a warmth and beauty in 
September that sometimes comes to us 
with the fall of the leaf, while the dying 
foliage is lit up with resplendent hues, and 
another funeral service of the season is 
chanted to the accompaniment of soft sun¬ 
shine, and Nature is bedecked in gold and 
crimson. If what of warmth of almost 
July temperature we have been having of 
late be our St. Ma.rtin’s Summer, at least 
it bids fair to be a prolonged summer, for 
there seems to be little or no evidence ot 
the break-up which all have long since 
anticipated, but all the same is constantly 
postponed. 
It now really looks as if we should get 
right into the dead of winter ere the needed 
rainfall came. If that should be so, it will 
be indeed a serious misfortune to all who 
want to plant or to transplant trees and 
shrubs. Of course, every one does feel 
certain that the rain will come in plenty in 
October; but it is equally possible that it 
may not do so, and if so our case will be a 
hard one indeed. Whilst the season, so 
far, has a long way broken the record of 
previous years in the matter of drought, it 
seems resolved that it shall be a record 
that will not find its equal for a long period. 
We are fully aware that the drought has 
been much more fully evidenced in and 
about the metropolitan area than else¬ 
where. 
South, west, and north the earth wears 
a far greener aspect than it does in the 
metropolitan counties, but still rain is in all 
cases badly needed. We have seen the stiff 
clays suffering far more than have the 
chalky, sandy soils of other districts; 
indeed it would seem as if a sandy soil 
proved to be far more retentive of moisture 
than does any other, even though it may he 
under ordinary conditions holding and 
moist. Possibly a purely ideal soil does 
not exist anywhere. 
Artificial PIeating.— The great coal 
strike is already and very materially 
creating considerable anxiety in the minds 
of all who have to heat glass houses during 
the winter. When it was remarked the 
odier day by a gardener that the strike 
would not affect him as he only burnt coke, 
it was difficult to avoid reflection as to 
what were the feelings of those who made 
the coke. Certainly all who have got in a 
big bulk of coke are favourably situated ; 
but even coke can only be furnished in 
plenty when coal, too, is abundant. 
In very many places now steam coal or 
anthracite has superseded coke, some 
boilers or rather furnaces being better 
adapted for their economical consumption 
and utilisation. What would happen to 
horticulture that absolutely needs heat were 
a coal famine to ensue, is not at all difficult 
to determine. It would mean almost 
everywhere cessation of heating and forc¬ 
ing, and wholesale destruction of tender 
plants by frost. So far the weather has 
been most merciful, and neither persons nor 
houses have been severely tried. Let, how¬ 
ever, but a wave of cold come, a change to 
the wintry weather that must be near, and 
the effects of a coal famine would be 
terrible beyond description. We should 
then see a demand made for the national¬ 
isation of our coal measures that would be 
irresistible, and the coal strike which 
created a famine, would, in its turn, create 
an economic revolution, which, so far 
as our coal supply is concerned, would 
probably render strikes and famines in the 
future impossible. 
We have no other fuel that can take the 
place of coal. Had we to depend on wood, 
we should burn up all our timber in a year, 
and oil cannot be used for ordinary heating 
purposes to any appreciable extent. It 
cannot be too strongly hoped that the 
present troubles may soon pass away. 
^UT OF Work.— The problem of finding 
employment for all needing work is 
one that is being felt severely now, and will 
be terribly intensified in the winter. We 
are not referring to the distressing state of 
things existing in the coal industry, because 
that is a matter outside of the ordinary in¬ 
dustrial course, and will certainly find 
solution presently after much bitter suffer¬ 
ing and inconvenience has been endured. 
What seems to be a fact, however, is that 
apart from all forms of industrial warfare, 
there is a large number of persons so 
oscillating between labour and pauperism, 
that anything which tends in the direction 
of trade dulness throws myriads of 
these out of employment, and finding 
them a means of living seems at present 
to be beyond the power of our local 
authorities. 
Without doubt the long, hot, dry summer 
is largely the cause of so much present 
poverty. The drought has immensely 
checked soil production ; it rendered verj^ 
little labour needful on the ground ; it has 
most materially diminished the spending 
power of cultivators, hence it is no matter 
for surprise if the labour bills be cut down 
to the lowest possible point. This has re¬ 
acted on trade in every way, and lack of 
employment and sufering is already 
becoming widespread. The proposals 
made to alleviate this wretchedness, that 
