June 10, 1894. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
655 
PLANT NOVELTIES FOR 1894. 
All of High Decorative Value, not Botanical Curlositie?. 
URCEOCHARIS CLIBRANI, los. 6d. to 2is. each. 
*‘GOl DEN CALLAS,'' Elliottiana, 2is. to 42s.; Aurata, 3s. 6d. 
TYDAEAS. — Our new race, 6 varieties, is. 6d. and 2s. 6d. 
each, or tlie set for gs. 
TROPAEOLUMS.—Mrs. Clibran, golden flowers, Cd. each ; 
4s. 6d. doz. Crimson Bedder and Scarlet Redder, 
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, 2s. 6d. to 
5s. each : Wendlandi, 3s. 6d. each. 
DOUBLE BEGONIAS. —10 grand varieties, 7s. 6d. to 15s. each. 
CALADIUMS.—g splendid acquisitions, 7s. 6d- & los. fid, each. 
COLEUS.—3 superb novelties, is. each. 
FUCHSIAS.—6 varieties, is. each, or the set for 5s. 
GLOXINIAS .—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, ALTR'NCHAM. 
Also at Manchester, Llandudno Junction, etc. 
BoflgaiflYillea glatra var. SanderiaEa. 
First-class Certificate, R.H.S., April 24 , 1894 . 
A fine free-fiowering and brilliantly coloured variety 
of this old well-established favourite. 
STRONG YOUNG PLANTS, 5 s. EACH. 
HUGH LOW & CO., 
CLAPTON NURSERY, LONDON, N.E. 
The Late MR. DODWELL’S 
GRAND CARNATIONS. 
THE FINEST GROWN. 
All Classes, 10/6 per do 2 en. 
List ot Specialties can be obtained of— 
Mr. A. MEDHURST, 
Thk Cottage, Stanley Road, Oxford. 
ORCHIDS^ 
Clean Healthy Plants at Low Prices. 
Always worth a visU of inspection. Kindly send for Catalogue. 
jTiLJvrss 
Exotic Nurseries, CHELTENHAM. 
2L NOYEIaTY. 
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 
novelty. 
Plants Now Ready at the following prices;— 
3 Hn. Pots . 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 
JAIMESS PXKS, 
Park Rd. Nurseries, South Acton, London, W. 
Gardening Charities, &c. 
G ARDENERS’ ROYAL BENEVO- 
LENT INSTITUTION.—Secretary.GEO. J. INGRAM 
50, Parliament Street, S.W. 
R oyal gardeners’ orphan 
FUND.—Honorary Secretary, A. F. BARRON, Roya, 
Horticultural Society's Gardens, Chiswick, W. 
U NITED HORTICULTURAL 
PROVIDENT and BENEFIT SOCIETY.—Secretary 
W'LLIAM COLLINS, g, Martindale Road, Balham, S W. 
TRY THEM. 
12 very fine single Begonias for bedding. 
s. 
3 
d. 
6 
12 extra fine for pots. 
6 
0 
6 extra choice for exhibition . 
6 
0 
6 grand double for pots . 
6 
0 
6 finest decorative Pelargoniums. 
6 
0 
r2 finest single zonal Geraniums . 
4 
6 
12 finest double. 
... 4 
6 
6 finest Ivyleaf Geraniums. 
3 
0 
12 finest Fuchrias . 
... 3 
6 
6 finest Cactus Dahlias . 
... I 
9 
6 finest show and fancy 
... I 
9 
6 finest Pompons . 
... I 
9 
6 finest single.. 
... 1 
9 
6 finest double Petunias . 
... 2 
6 
NOVELTIES, 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 Caladiums. 
See 
Empress of India. Princess of Wales. 
Princess May. Princess Beatrice. 
Prince Albert Edward. Duke of York. 
Seven varieties for 21 s 
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. 
Sa.ndLex> & Co., St. Albans. 
For Index to Contents see page 665. 
" Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, June igth.—Oxford Commemoration Flower Show. 
Orchid Sale at Protheroe & Morris Rooms. 
Wednesday, June 2oth.—Royal Botanic Society’s Summer 
Show. 
Shanklin (Isle of Wight) Rose Show. 
Thursday, June 2ist.—Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Institu¬ 
tion : Anniversary Dinner at the Hotel Metropole, 7 p.m. 
Friday, June 22nd.—Orchid Sale at Protheroe & Morris’ 
Rooms. 
All the above are good plants, delivered free for cash with 
order. If not satisfactory, cash returned. Catalogues Free. 
H. «J. JOMES, 
Ryecroft Nursery, Hither Green, Lewisham. 
Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY, JUNE iCth, 1894 . 
Horticultural Honours. —The subject 
of the non-bestowal of honours by the 
Crown to any prominent horticulturist 
has again cropped up. It is not at all a 
pleasant thing to find anyone associated 
with horticulture thus complaining or feel¬ 
ing hurt at what may be regarded as cold 
neglect on the part of those in power. 
There may have been in the past cases in 
which horticulture has found some of its 
votaries so distinguished, but they are so 
few as to have almost escaped our notice. 
Botany has had its Knighthoods and its 
C.B.’s, but horticulture, no ! Even the 
sometimes quoted case of Sir Joseph 
Paxton is not one in point, as that gentle¬ 
man received his honour, not because he 
was a distinguished gardener, but as an 
architect. Any gentlemen who have been 
knighted, and who are very intimately 
associated with gardening, have obtained 
their honours for other reasons, mostly 
civic. 
It is, of course, a very natural cause for 
complaint that whilst other arts, such as 
painting, sculpture, and music, or profes¬ 
sions such as Medicine, Literature, and 
Law, get plenty of honours, so-called, 
horticulture, which is both an art and a pro¬ 
fession, gets no notice. Possibly in the 
circles from which honours fall upon the 
shoulders of inferior mortals, horticulture 
is regarded only as an occupation, and in 
no sense an art. However, we would not 
wish to be the person, however highly 
placed, on whom should be laid the re¬ 
sponsibility of selecting one, two, or even a 
dozen horticulturists entitled to receive 
Knighthood. 
We could of course name pLnty who are 
eminent, and if need be deserving, of such 
honour, but we should prefer not to have 
the responsibility of the selection. That 
any selection would be productive of much 
deep disappointment and heart burning 
there can be no doubt, whilst it is ab¬ 
solutely impossible to determine in what 
way those selected for honours would be 
the better, or in what sense horticulture 
can be benefited. On the whole it would 
seem as if it were best to leave things as 
they are, for horticulturists are just now 
a fairly happy family. 
^URAL Charms.— We have very much of 
sympathy with the Selborne Society 
in its efforts to preserve to us, wherever 
found, that which is natural and beautiful, 
just as we are heartily with those who would 
clear away from beside railways, highwaj'S, 
&c., those advertising excrescences that 
now on every hand greet the eye, and are so 
ugly as well as so annoying. Those who so 
persistentl}' blazen forth their medicines 
doubtless in that way do much to lead people 
to take them, and thus become victims to a 
species of physical terrorism. But ourpresent 
concern is of course with the abominations 
thus inhicted upon humanity, especially 
where otherwise all might be natural and 
beautiful. 
The Selborne Society has recently com¬ 
plained, and with good cause, of a hagrant 
case in a semi-rural district, where almost 
miles of hedgerows have been displaced by 
as great a length of the most ugly and 
monotonous of fences, that of coiiugated 
iron. True, it may be pleaded that such a 
fence is not worse than similar lengths of 
brick wall, or of oak paling, for it is in this 
way that some of the wealthy have loved to 
enclose their select demesnes. But we 
have got so accustomed to these things that 
they do not grate upon our vision in the 
same way that corrugated iron does. That 
is a horror, yet that may, alas ! become a 
commonplace to our children. 
True, country or rural hedgerows may be 
wasteful of good ground, and productive of 
nuisances in the shape of ground vermin ; 
but all the same, they are delightful to the 
sense of sight. It is such things that help 
to make rural life enjoyable, and rural 
scenery picturesque. In gardens or other 
enclosed areas nothing seems so apposite as 
neat, well trimmed hedges of some hardy 
shrubs, but these in lanes and fields become 
rather tiring. The picturesque is found in 
that which is comparatively natural and wild, 
and which is ever contending for place with 
that which is for utility and neatness. It is 
possible to have too much of either, and for 
that reason we may well hope that whatso¬ 
ever is picturesque may as such be long 
preserved. 
Whe xate Frosts. —Riding in a train the 
other day, we overheard a farmer 
express his belief that the British climate 
had changed for the worse. His thoughts 
were of the frosts that just previously had 
done so much harm, but then specially 
attracted to the weather because of a 
terrific hailstorm then falling. It was a 
storm that in some directions did even more 
harm than the frost had done. We cannot, 
however, accept the agricultural dictum 
that the British climate has changed, at 
least not materially, if at all. Those who 
remember so acutely the late frosts, forget 
the delightful spring we had previousl}-, 
and still furthur the very early and most 
delightful spring time of the previous year. 
No doubt it is characteristic of human 
nature to forget blessings soon, and to 
