June 2, 1894. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
623 
PLANT NOVELTIES FOR 1894. 
All of High Decsrative Value, not Botanical Curiosities. 
URCEOCHARIS CUBRANI, los. 6d. to 2IS. each. 
•‘G0‘ DEN DALLAS, ” Elliottiana, 21s. to 4?s.; Aurata, 3s. 6d. 
TYDAEAS. —Our new race, 6 vaiieties, is. 6d. and 2S. 6d. 
pach. or the set for 9s. 
XBOPAEOLUMS. —Mrs. Clibran. golden flowers. 6d. each; 
4s. 6d. doz. Crimson Bedder and Scarlet Bedder, 
4d. each ; 3s. 6d. doz. Annie Clibran,gd. each; 6s. doz. 
PASSION FLOWERS. —Oldfield Gem and Fragrant Beauty. 
Flowers handsome and very fragrant; 2S. 6d. to 5s. 
SOLANUMS. —Climbing varieties. Seaforthianum, 2E. 6d. to 
5s. e ch ; Wendlandi, 3S. 6i. each. 
DOUBLE BEGONIAS. —10 grand varieties, 7s. 6d. to 15s. each. 
CALADIUMS.— g splend d acquisitions, 7s. 6d & los, 6d. each. 
COLEUS.— 3 superb novelties, is. each. 
FUCHSIAS. —6 varieties, is. each, or the set for 5s. 
'’LOXINIAS .—13 beautiful kinds, 2S. 6d. and 3s. 6d. each. 
For descriptions of above, also particulars of all kinds of 
plants for in and outdoors, see new list, 160 pages, free. 
CLIBRAN’S, Oldfield Nurseries, d LTR*NCHAM. 
Also at Manchester, Llandudno Junction, etc. 
BoogainYillea glabra vw. Sanderiana. 
First-class Certificate, R.H.S., April 24, 1894. 
A fine free-ffowering ana brilliantly coloured variety 
of this old well-established favourite. 
STRONG YOUNG PLANTS, 3 s. EACH. 
HUGH: UOW & CO., 
CLAPTON NURSERY, LONDON, N.E. 
The Late MR. DODWELL’S 
GRAND CARNATIONS. 
THE FINEST GROWN. 
All Classes, 10/6 per dozen. 
List oi Specialties can be obtained of— 
Mr. A. MEDHURST, 
Thr Cottage, Stanley Road, Oxford. 
ORCHIDS. 
Clean Healthy Plants at Low Prices. 
Always worth a visit of inspection. Kindly send for Catalogue. 
JiLMEIS CYI>HER, 
Exotic Harseries, CHELTENHAM. 
JL STERI-ING NOYEIiTY. 
NEW PERPETUAL CARNATION. 
“URIAH PIKE.” 
Awarded Certificate of Merit and Medal from the Royal 
Botanical Society. 
This is undoubtedly the finest Carnation that has been offered 
to the gardening world for many years, in fact a “ march past ” 
all other Carnations. It is a lovely crimson-maroon in colour, 
splendid habits, a vigorous grower, and most profuse bloomer, 
strong clove scented, and throwing its perfect formed flowers on 
long stems, which is an indispensable quality, the calyx does not 
split, and resists disease. This Carnation has been grown for 
several years (for cut bloom only) for all the leading florists in the 
kingdom,and it is acknowledged by them to be the finest Carna¬ 
tion lor all floral decorations, its lasting proclivities in a cut 
state being marvellous. 
It is now offered for the first time to those requiring a genuine 
oveity. 
Plants Now Ready at the following prices;— 
3Hn. 1*0(13 . 2/6 Each, 24/- Per Doz. 
Flowering Plants, in 5-in Pots 5/- Each, 50]- Per Doz. 
TERMS—CASH WITH ORDER. 
Please order early, as all orders will be executed in 
strict rotation. For trade price and all particulars apply to 
JABSSS PIKS, 
Park Rd. Nurseries, South Acton, London, W. 
DON’T 
forget if you want to succeed in plant growing you must start 
in the right manner Many buy sciaps instead of plants, 
because they are advertised cheaply, and finding they do not 
succeed 
BLAME 
the Vendor for it. when they should rather blame themselves 
for supposing that anyone can supply Goods at a price that 
would not cover the cost of post^ige if the Goods were what 
they should be. Study 
YOUR 
own interest, and remember that the best is tar the cheapest; 
buy good plants at a lair price and you will succeed. A few 
ihil ings well spent in good plants will provide a great deal oi 
pleasure to yourself and 
WIFE 
instead of the vexation caused by buying scraps which are ot 
no use until the season is almost over. Jf you want good 
Begonias, Zonal Geraniums, Petunias, Fuchsias, &c., send for 
my Catalogue. 1 guarantee if the plants are not satisfactory 
to return the money. 
H. J. JONES, 
Ryecroft Norsery, Hither Green, Lewisham. 
1894 . 
For list of the finest Novelties in flowering and ornamental 
foliage plants, apply to 
SANDER & CO., St Albans. 
NOVELTIES, 1894. 
The Royal Set of Coleus. 
Unique and superb, the handsomest ever offered; foliage 
rivalling the best Caladiurns. 
See 
Empress of India. Princess of Wales. 
Princess May. Princess Beatrice. 
Prince Albert Edward. Duke of York. 
Seven varieties for 21s 
SANDER & CO.’S LIST OF NOVELTIES. 
NOVELTY, 1894. 
Bougainvillea glabra Sanderiana. 
The most useful and brilliant flowering plant known—First- 
class Certificate Royal Horticultural Society, April 24th, 1894— 
of the most easy culture either in the Greenhouse, Conserva¬ 
tory or Plant Stove, producing its magnificent rosy crimson 
bracts and yellow blossoms in the smallest pots under all 
conditions in the greatest abundance and amazing profusion. 
PLANTS NOW READY. PRICE 7s. 6d. EACH. 
SabXAdex* & Co., St. Albans. 
For Index to Contents see page 633. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENT. 
Friday, June 8th.—Orchid Sale at Protheroe & Morris' 
Rooms. 
Ifladtl. 
Edited by BRIAN WYNNE. F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY, JUNE 2nd, 1894. 
Whe Temple Show.— This great annual 
floral symposium has come and gone. 
It was an aimost rnarveiious display of what 
after all a comparatively limited number 
of trade houses and private horticulturists 
can accomplish in this direction ; but it was 
far from presenting one-half of what could 
be done were an effort made to create once 
more a truly representative and grand 
International Exhibition. Treacherous 
May, that had done so much to harm in our 
gardens and orchards what previously it 
had so magnificently produced, also proved 
itself antagonistic with wind and rain on 
the first day, but in any case that did not 
apparently restrict the public interest or 
attendance. 
Well might it be so, however, for whilst 
some persons did set down the pressure to 
the Royal Visit, we rather prefer to believe, 
or at least to hope, especially having regard 
to the attendance on the other days, that 
such an exhibition, the finest of its kind 
held in the Kingdom, did of itself prove of 
sufficient attraction. Again as before the 
Orchids presented a feature that can only 
be described as truly marvellous. We hope 
that all who went to the Temple to criticise 
them knew at least a little of what they 
were talking. However, it is something to 
get people to attend shows of this nature 
and admire the flowers. By contrast to 
the Orchids came the hardy flowers, and 
these were in such immense profusion that 
thousands of visitors must here at least 
have admitted some ignorance. No wonder 
is it that these obtained as much attention 
as their exotic companions. 
There is after all no feature in modern 
gardening that offers more cause for satis¬ 
faction than is found in the wondrous 
popularity and wide cultivation which hardy 
flowers have now attained to. That the 
exhibition presented a great social gather¬ 
ing of horticulturists is true also. We found 
provincial friends present from all parts, 
and a greater number of foreign horticul¬ 
turists than we remember to have seen at 
any. previous Temple show. That is one of 
the not least pleasant features of this 
meeting. Would that such gatherings 
could be more frequent. They are worth 
creating, and whilst so many had sad stories 
to tell of the injury done by the frost of 
the previous Monday morning, most in 
any case had smiles and congratulations 
for old friends.- 
Ilf HE Frost.— Remembering the magnifi¬ 
cent promise of the season in every 
description -of crop presented a few weeks 
since, and the delightful warmth which has 
but recently been experienced, it is so 
difficult to realise that for a few days and 
nights Nature, in her terribly uncertain 
mood, did carry our crops to the very verge 
of the valley of death. We preferred last 
week to leave over any detailed reference 
to this distressing matter until more was 
known about the harm wrought than could 
then be told. Even now it is difficult k) 
say how widespread the mischief has been, 
but that it has been exceedingly great we 
know too well. 
The most irreparable harm done is to the 
fruit, of which in every direction the promise 
was so splendid. The most evident mis¬ 
chief has been done to Potatos and some 
other tender vegetables, which may be to 
some extent repairable. Tempted, as is 
always the case, and which it would seem 
no experience can counteract, by the 
delightful nature of the spring weather, 
sowing and planting began and went on very 
early, as no one imagined that so late as the 
2ist of May such severe frosts would occur. 
The wind veered to the north and blew 
strongly and coldly. It seemed as if it had 
come straight from the North Pole, and had 
been chilled in passing over the vast inter¬ 
vening sea fields. It was one of those 
tremendous misfortunes, not for the few but 
for humanity at large, that none foresaw, 
that no one could well guard against. 
We have in some things, indeed in 
many things, paid a heavy penalty for 
trusting in May weather. All sorts of tender 
things besides Potatos—even bedding plants 
in thousands—had been exposed, and have 
been killed wholesale. Chrysanthemums, 
too, where fully exposed, greatly suffered, 
and the effect of the harm on the autumn 
bloom must be appreciable. In all directions 
the Strawberry bloom has been destroyed, 
tree and bush fruits sadly hit, and the 
young, tender shoots of many of our beauti¬ 
ful hardy trees and shrubs badly disfigured. 
It is indeed a pitiable, a lamentable story. 
Such di^asters test severely the philosophy 
and the sensibility of the gardener. The 
farmer has suffered little, the gardener 
greatly. Our sympathies are deep and 
profound with all our suffering craft, and 
we earnestly hope that warmer weather 
may do something, if it cannot do much, to 
ameliorate the misfortune which is so wide¬ 
spread. — 
Whe Right to Lop Trees. —It would be 
unfortunate were the recent decision 
of the High Court of Appeal, given a few 
weeks since in relation to the rights of any 
person aggrieved by the overhanging 
boughs of other people’s trees or their roots 
to cut the same vertically to their line of 
fence or boundary, should be overlooked. 
The judgment, which was the unanimous 
one of Lords Justices Lindley, Lopes and 
Kay, decided, we presume now without 
further question, that such right as is laid 
down did exist in law, and that every owner 
