No. 39.—1885. 
SATURDAY, MAY 30th. 
( Registered at the General \ 
X Post-Office as a Newspaper, j 
One Penny. 
FLOWER SHOW. 
Brighton Exhibition of the Bath and West of 
England and Southern Counties Association, 
commencing June 8th. 
H orticultural department.—a cup or 
MONEY, value £15, will be given for the best GROUP 
of ORCHIDS : Second Prize for ditto, £5. 
A £5 CUP or MONEY for the best COLLECTION of 
FRUITS. £3 for the best TWO BASKETS (two sorts) of 
STRAWBERRIES, each containing 36; Second ditto, £2; 
Third ditto, £1. 
.1. TOWNSHEND BOSCAWEN. 
Oxford and Cambridge Club, 
Pall Mall, London, S.W. 
A SPARAGUS.—This delicious Vegetable does not 
require half the expense often incurred ; for directions 
see Seed List, free. Strong Roots, 2s. 6 d. per 100 ; extra strong 
ditto, two years old, 3s. fid. per 100 ; forcing, 12s. fid. per 100.— 
RICHARD SMITH & CO., Nurserymen and Seed Merchants, 
Worcester. 
C LEMATIS, 12s. to 24s. per doz., strong plants in 
pots. List, containing descriptions of best singles and 
doubles of every shade from white to dark purple (some of 
the flowers of which become 10 ins. across), free.—RICHARD 
SMITH & CO., Nurserymen and Seed Merchants, Worcester. 
OSES IN POTS, “ New of 1885,” 30s. and 36s. 
H per doz. “Teas/’ Noisettes, &c., 18s., 24s., and 30s.per 
Ve 
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doz. Very strong H. Perpetuals for forcing, 24s. to 30s. per 
doz—RICHARD SMITH & CO., Nurserymen and Seed 
Merchants, Worcester. 
N OW IS THE TIME TO TRANSPLANT HOLLIES 
and many other choice Evergreens. Eor prices of 
beautiful specimens at very low price, see “ Special Offer of 
Surplus Stock.”—RICHARD SMITH & CO., Worcester. 
H erbaceous and alpine plants.— 
Catalogue of 50 pages, containing full information as 
to colour, height, situation, time of flowering, &c., free on 
application. A capital collection for Rocks, Stumps, and 
Borders, from 25s. per 100, or 4s. per doz. Most of the plants 
being in pots may be despatched at anv time, or bv Parcels 
Post when fit.—RICHARD SMITH & CO., Worcester. 
RAPE VINES.—IRELAND & THOMSON beg 
VT to announce that their stock of the above is this year 
specially fine and now ready for present planting. All the 
leading sorts from 3s. 6 d. to 5s. each. 
Nurseries : Craigleith, Comely Bank, and New Golden Acre, 
Granton Road, Edinburgh. 
P OT ROSES.—IRELAND & THOMSON have a 
splendid stock of all the best H.P. and Tea Roses for 
conservatory decoration or for planting out, from 18s. to 3fis. 
per dozen. 
Nurseries : Craigleith, Comely Bank, and New Golden Acre, 
Granton Road, Edinburgh. 
B edding plants.—Ireland & Thomson 
have a very large and fine stock of all the leading 
varieties of Geraniums, Dahlias, Pansies, Violas, Lobelias 
Verbenas, Tropseolums, Calceolarias, &c., &c. Price List on 
application. 
Nurseries : Craigleith, Comely Bank, and New Golden Acre, 
Granton Road, Edinburgh. 
11 '*" r E NARCISSUS OR DAEFODYL.” An in- 
Y 1 
— teresting history of the Daffodil, covering a period 
of the 300 years, with its poetry, and notes on hybridization, 
with many illustrations. Price one shilling, published by 
BARR & SON, 12 and 13, King Street, Covent Garden, 
W .0, 
H ARDY AQUATICS.-—Finest collection in the 
country, Herbaceous, Alpine, and old-fashioned border 
plants, from per doz. in 12 sorts, 4s. ; from per 100 in 50 sorts, 
30s. Catalogue on application to J. VANDER REES, Exotic 
Nursery, Tooting, S.W. 
JOHN LAING 8c Co. 
GOLD MEDAL Prize Plants. Now again in 
bloom, presenting an unrivalled floral display. 
Visitors are cordially invited. 
Erequent trains from the City and from the 
V est End to Catford and Forest Hill Stations. 
Begonia Growers, Forest Hill, S.E. 
1885. Scotch Florists’ Flowers. 1885. 
E B. LAIRD & SONS (successors to Downie 
• & Laird), will have much pleasure in posting their 
new Catalogue of the above. 
OUR COLLECTION has been well known for many years 
to be the largest and best in Scotland. 
ROYAL WINTER GARDEN, EDINBURGH. 
D ON’T FORGET to plant a few SUMMER 
BLOOMING CHRYSANTHEMUMS, as no garden 
is complete without a few of these; they bloom from July 
till November; 6 varieties Is. 3d. ; 12, 2s.; single varieties 
(very useful for cut bloom and decorative purposes) bloom 
well out-doors, and can be had in bloom from October till 
January; G, Is. 6 d .; 12, 2s. 6<Z.; large flowering and Japanese 
varieties, 12, Is. fid. ; 24, 2s. 9d. ; all correctly named. Cuttings 
of above, Is. a dozen. 
CUCUMBER PLANTS. —Telegraph (best for frames or 
houses), 2, Is. fid.; 4, 2s. 9d.; Stockwood Ridge (best for ■ 
out-doors), and Marrow Plants, 3, Is. 3d.; 6, 2s. 3d. 
NEW FUCHSIA.—Mr. Stephens, a splendid free flowering 
variety, and can be had in bloom all the year, 2s. 6d. each. 
W. E. BOYCE, E.R.H.S., Yerbury Road, Holloway, London. 
120 Plants for 5s. 
W ILLIAM BADMAN offers his 5s. box of 
plants, containing 60 Geraniums of sorts, 10 Blue 
Lobelias, 10 Fuchsias, 10 Blue Ageratums, 10 Calceolaria, 10 
Scarlet Tropseolums, 10 Sweet Heliotropes. All well rooted, 
and sure to give satisfaction. Half the above for 2s. 6d.; 
ost-free 6d. and 9d. extra.—P.O.O. with order.—Cemetery 
"ursery, Gravesend. 
£ 
Good and Cheap Insecticides. 
OBACCO PAPER and CLOTH (Roll).— 
Thoroughly reliable quality; law prices. Trade supplied. 
RICHARDSON & CO., Tobacco Works, Leith, N.B. 
T 
C ACTUS DAHLIAS, Picta Formosissimus, Mr. 
Tait, Cochineal, Prince Imperial, Lord Lyndhurst, and 
Annie Harvey, Is, each; the 6, 5s. Juarezii, Constance, and 
Fire King, fid. each. Seedling Cactus saved from the above, 
12, 3s. 2d.; G, Is. 8d.; sure to produce some novelties. The 
best Show, Fancy, and Pompon, 12, 3s. 2d.; 6, Is. 8d. Single, 
to include several of Ware’s best new varieties, 12, 3s. 2d.; 
6, Is. 8d. ; 12 seedlings, single, Is. 6d.—ZONAL GERA¬ 
NIUMS, single, 12 grand kinds, to include Cannell’s 
splendid new white “Queen of the Belgians,” 4s.; 12 best 
doubles, to include the very fine new white Le Cygne, 4s.— 
HELIOTROPES, the 5 best, Is. 6d.; White Lady, Swanley 
Giant, President Garfield, Albert Delaux, the beautiful 
golden varieties, and White-eyed Beauty, the prettiest ever 
seen; a unique collection. Mimulus, Tropteolum Pireball 
Improved, Verbenas, Harrison’s Musk, Nicotiana affinis, and 
blue Marguerites, Is. 6d. per dozen; Asters, Phlox Drum- 
mondi grandiliora, French and African Marigolds, Dianthus 
Easter’s Queen and crimson Belle, 6d. per dozen. The above 
are guaranteed thoroughly good plants.—H. J. JONES, Hope 
Nursery, Lewisham. Catalogue free. 
G reenhouses for everybody.—T he Little 
Gems, lean-to, 65s.; span-roof, 75s. A perfect novelty, 
not to he believed until seen; send 4 stamps for photo of 
gems. Cucumber frames, glazed and painted, 20s. Send 
2 stamps for OGDEN & CO.’S Price List to the Alexandra 
Palace Horticultural Works, Wood Green, London, N. 
pHRYSANTHEMUMS, well-rooted, good, 12 sorts, 
VA Is. per doz. post free; to name, Is. 6 d. per doz.— 
T. GAYTON, Prospect Nursery, Hornsey, N. 
P URE WHITE GERANIUM, “NIPHETOS.”— 
A hybrid nosegay, of a purer white than any we are at 
present acquainted with. It differs from all other white 
varieties in that it remains pure white to the very last, and 
never under any circumstances becomes tinted with pink, or 
any other colour. The trusses are of immense size, producing 
in nearly every case upwards of a hundred flower pips each. 
It is of a strong, robust, dwarf habit, free flowering, and 
whether for Winter or Summer flowering, or for cultivating 
indoors or out, will be found invaluable. Price Cs. per doz.; 
Cash with order.—H. LEANEY, Upton Nursery, Forest Gate, 
Essex. 
T he farmer and chamber of agricul 
TURE JOURNAL. EVERY MONDAY. ONEPENNY. 
This JOURNAL, in its forty-second year, is now published 
at One Penny weekly, and is the largest, cheapest, and best 
A gricultural Paper. It contains all the Agricultural News of 
the Week, the Latest Markets, and numerous original and 
interesting articles on Farming subjects by the leading Agri¬ 
cultural Writers of the day. Should be in the hands of every 
Farmer. Post ree, 6s. 6 d. per annum. Specimen copies will 
be sent for one month, post free, for 3d — Office, 291, Strand. 
London, W.C. 
J ames boyd & sons, paisley and Lon¬ 
don, Horticultural Builders and Heating Engineers 
to Her Majesty the Queen, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 
H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught, H.R.H. the late Duke 
of Albany, H.M.’s Board of Works, London and Dublin, 
H.M.’s Colonial Department, the Royal Horticultural Society, 
the Royal Botanic Society, and the Royal Dublin Society. 
Gold Medal, Paris, 1878.—London Office. 48, Pall Mall, S.W. 
Illustrated Circulars post free. Complete Catalogue, 3s. 
n -1 nrifl offered for prizes at 
obJLjUUVJ DUNDEE INTERNATIONAL EX- 
HIBITION, 1884, where Dobbie’s Prize Strains of Leeks, 
Turnips, Parsnips, Beet, Greens, Celery, Asters, French and 
African Marigolds, Cockscombs, &c., gained First Prizes 
respectively. 
Catalogues, free , of Dobbie’s Choice Pansies, Seeds and 
Plants, containing an Election of Pansies, the Culture thereof, 
with Remedies for the Prevention of the Pansy Disease, the 
True Secret of Growing Leeks and Onions for Competition, 
may now be had from DOBBIE & CO., Rothesay, N.B. 
W EEDS: HOW TO DESTROY THEM.—Use 
SMITH’S celebrated WEED KILLER, the cheapest 
and most effectual preparation ever invented. Testimonials 
and prices on application to MARK SMITH, Manufacturing 
Chemist, Louth, Lincolnshire. 
J OHN KENNARD’S Horticultural Soils, Sundries, 
and Berkshire Pottery Dep6t. Catalogue of all Horti- 
cultural Sundries, &c., Post Free. Established 1854.—Swan 
Place, Old Kent Road, London, S.E. 
RCHID BASKETS, RAFTS, BOATS, &c. 
including copper pins and wires :— 
DOZ. 
4s. 3d. 
5s. 
5s. 6 d. 
INS. 
41 . 
6 
DOZ. 
6s. 3d. 
7s. 6 d. 
8s. 6 d. 
INS. DOZ. 
7 ... 10s. 6 d. 
8 ... 12s. 3d. 
9 ... 14s. 3d. 
INS. 
10 ... 
11 .. 
12 ... 
DOZ. 
17s. 6tf. 
21s. 3d. 
24s. 6d. 
O 
INS. 
3 .. 
31 .. 
4 .. 
Rafts Id., Boats lid.. Cylinders 2d. per inch run. 
Sample of 12 Baskets, Raft, Boat, and Cylinder, 14s. 6d. 
J. E. BONNY, 88, Downs Park Road, Hackney, London, 
Grower of the leading varieties of Orchids. 
This Advertisement appears every Month. 
P ROTECT YOUR FRUIT FROM THE FROST 
AND BIRDS.—Good Netting, 18 square yds. for One 
Shilling, shrunk too much for fishing use, but just suitable for 
gardening purposes. This Netting will last much longer than 
new, it having been preserved for the sea, which thus prevents 
the rain from rotting it. Can be had any width. Carriage 
paid on all orders over 5s.—HENRY JOHN GASSON, Fish 
Merchant, Rye, Sussex. 
G ISHURST COMPOUND. — Used by leading 
gardeners since 1859 against Red Spider, Mildew, Thrips, 
Green Ely, and other Blight. 1 to 2 ozs. to the gallon of soft 
water, 4 to 16 ozs. as winter dressing for Vines and Orchard 
House Trees, and in lather from the cake against American 
blight. Has outlived many preparations intended to supersede 
it. Boxes—Is., 3s., and 10s. 3d. 
G ISHURSTINE keeps Boots Dry and Soft on 
wet ground. Boxes — 3d. and Is., from the trade. Whole¬ 
sale from PRICE’S PATENT CANDLE CO. (Limited), 
London. 
W HAT IS IT ? A FACT, that all Spite, Prejudice, 
and Menace can be overcome by an outlay of two¬ 
pence, and prove “HEAPS’S FOOD FOR PLANTS” the 
best, safest, and most convenient to use of all artificial 
manures. “ Heaps’s Food for Plants,” with directions for use, 
is printed on salmon-coloured paper on each 2 d. box, with red 
air-tight ends. Be sure you get it, don’t be persuaded to take 
any other. Sold everywhere; a sample free, 3d. One doz. 
will be sent, carriage paid for 2s. Trade terms on application. 
HEAPS & SON, Lordship Lane, London, S.E. 
Q tX. CHOICE GREENHOUSE FERNS, 10s. 6 d.~ 
fCl tj Large plants in 4-in. pots, all distinct sorts, correctly 
named, including many new and rare varieties.—E. YANDER 
MBERSCH, Queen’s Nursery, Selhurst, S.E. 
JOHN LAING & Co. 
All Good Tubers just starting into Growth, free by Parcels 
Post. Catalogues Gratis. 
OUR OWN UNRIVALLED VARIETIES. 
Named Sorts, per dozen, Singles: A, 42s.; 
B, 36s.; C, 30s.; D, 24s.; E, 18s.; F, 12s. Named 
Sorts, per dozen,Doubles: R, 63s.; S, 48s.; T, 42s. 
Unnamed Sorts, per dozen, Singles: G, 21s. ; 
H, ISs.; J, 15s.; K, 12s.; L, 9s. For Bedding, 
^r 100: M, 40s.; N, 30s.; O, 24s. Unnamed 
^ts, per dozen, Doubles: W, 80s.; X, 24s.; 
Z, 18s. 
Begonia Growers, Forest Hill, S.E. 
