No. 40.—1885. 
SATURDAY, JUNE 6th. One Penny. 
FLOWER SHOW. 
Sheffield Botanical Gardens. 
0.RAND 
HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION, 
17th and 18th JULY, 1885. 
£250 in Prizes. 
Entries close 13th July. 
Prize Schedules may be obtained from the Curator, Mr. JOHN 
EWING. 
J WEEKS & CO., Horticultural Builders and 
. HOT-WATER APPARATUS MANUFACTURERS, 
KING'S ROAD, CHELSEA, SAY. 
“ Book of Designs ” and Estimates post free on application. 
TOHN DOWNIE, BEECHHILL NURSERIES, 
fj near EDINBURGH, begs to intimate that his Stock of 
PANSIES, including the newest and best in cultivation, is 
NOW IN FULL 'BLOOM, and may be seen any day 
(Sunday excepted I. 
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 any time, or by Parcels 
Post when fit.—RICHARD SMITH & CO., Worcester. 
G rape vines.—Ireland & Thomson beg 
to announce f hat their stock of the above is this year 
specially line and now ready for present planting. All the 
lading sorts from 3s. 0 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 36s. 
per dozen. 
Nurseries: Craigleith, Comely Bank, and New Golden Acre, 
Granton Road, Edinburgh. 
i <• “YTE NARCISSUS OR DAFFODYL.” An in- 
JL 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.C. 
n-| YYYA/W OFFERED FOR PRIZES AT 
ob_LjVjU ,l U DUNDEE INTERNATIONAL EX- 
HIBITION, 1884, where Dobbie’s Prize Strains of Leeks. 
Turnips, Parsnips, Beet, Greens, Celery, Asters, French ana 
African Marigolds, Cockscombs, &e., 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. 
p REENHOUSES FOR EVERYBODY.—The Little 
VJX Gems, lean-to, 65s. ; span-roof, 75s. A perfect novelty, 
not to be 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. 
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 haring 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. 
O RCHID BASKETS.—Superior Octagonal Teak- 
wood Orchid Baskets, in various designs, with galvanized 
or copper wire. Send for New Illustrated Price List to 
SIDNEY WILLIAMS, 21, Farringdon Road, E.C. (close to 
the station). 
1885. Scotch Florists’ Flowers. 1885. 
B 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; 6, Is. 6d.; 12, 2s. 6d.; large flowering and Japanese 
Varieties, 12, Is. (id. ; 24, 2s. 9d.; all correctly named. Cuttings 
of above. Is. a dozen. 
CUCUMBER PLANTS. — Telegraph (best for frames or 
houses), 2, Is. Cd.; 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. F.R.H.S., Yerbury Road, Holloway, London. 
120 Plants for 5s. 
BADMAN offers his 
5s. box of 
W ILLIAM 
plants, containing 60 Geraniums of sorts, 10 Blue 
Lobelias, 10 Fuchsias, 10 Blue Ageratums, 10 Calceolaria, 10 
Scarlet Tropoeolums, 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. 
J OHN KENNARD’S Horticultural Soils, Sundries, 
and Berkshire Pottery Depot. Catalogue of all Horti¬ 
cultural Sundries, &c., Post Free. Established 1854.—Swan 
Place, Old Kent Road, London, S.E. 
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, 6 d. each. Seedling Cactus saved from the above, 
12, 3s. 2 d. ; 6, Is. 8 d. ; sure to produce some novelties. The 
best Show, Fancy, and Pompon, 12, 3s. 2 d. ; 6, Is. 8 d. Single, 
to include several of Ware’s best new varieties, 12, 3s. id .; 
6, Is. 8d. ; 12 seedlings, single, Is. 6 d .—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 tine new white Le Cygne, 4s.— 
HELIOTROPES, the 5 best, Is. 6 d .; White Lady, Swanley 
Giant, President Garfield, Albert Delaux, the beautiful 
golden varieties, and White-eyed Beauty, the prettiest ever 
seen; a unique collection. Mimulus, Tropreolum Fireball 
Improved, Verbenas, Harrison’s Musk, Nicotiana affinis, and 
blue Marguerites, Is. 6 d. per dozen; Asters, Phlox Drum- 
mondi grandiflora, French and African Marigolds, Dianthus 
Easter’s Queen and crimson Belle, 6 d. per dozen. The above 
are guaranteed thoroughly good plants.—H. J. JONES, Hope 
Nursery, Lewisham. Catalogue free. 
Notice. 
C OCOA-NUT FIBRE REFUSE.—Reduced price. 
The same as supplied to the Royal Horticultural Society 
of England. Truck-load, loose, of 2 tons, 20s.; Larger 
quantities contracted for. The same in sacks: ten, 8s.; 
twenty, 15s.; forty, 25s., sacks included. Delivered free on to 
Rail. Cash with all orders. Established 1872.—J. STEVENS 
& CO., “ Greyhound Yard,” and 153, High St., Battersea, S.W. 
Farms, Estates, Residences. 
Any one desirous of Renting a Farm or Residence, or 
Purchasing an Estate, can have copies of the 
M idland counties herald 
supplied free for six weeks on stating the purpose for 
which the paper is required, forwarding name and address, 
and six halfpenny stamps for postage, addressed “Midland 
Counties Herald Office, Birmingham.” The Midland 
Counties Herald always contains large numbers of advertise¬ 
ments relating to Farms, Estates, and Residences for Sale and 
to be Let. 
Laing’s 
Prize 
Begonias 
JOHN LAING & Co. 
GOLD MEDAL BEGONIAS 
NOW IN FULL BLOOM. 
Presenting an unrivalled floral display. 
Visitors are cordially invited. 
Frequent trains from the City and from the 
West End to Catford and Forest Hill Stations. 
Begonia Growers, Forest Hill, S.E. 
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 
Agricultural 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 free, 6s. 6 d. per annum. Specimen copies will 
be sent for one month, post free, for Qd.— Office, 291, Strand, 
London, W.C. 
“TAMES BOYD & SONS, PAISLEY and LON- 
U 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. 
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 
E OSES IN POTS, “ New of 1885,” 30s. and 36s. 
per doz. “ Teas,” Noisettes, &c., 18s., 24s., and 30s. per 
doz. Very strong H. Perpetuals for forcing, 24s. to 30s. per 
doz.—RICHARD SMITH & CO., Nurserymen and Seed 
Merchants, Worcester. 
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. YANDER REES, Exotic 
Nursery, Tooting, S.W. 
G reenhouses for the million.—B uyers 
can save 25 per cent, in price and workmanship. Green¬ 
houses complete from 50s. Conservatory from £5. Illus¬ 
trated Catalogues post free 3 stamps.—PEEL & SONS, Steam 
Power Horticultural Works, Wood Green, London, N.; also, 
Windhill, Bradford, Yorkshire. 
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 6s. per doz.; 
Cash with order.—H. LEANEY, Upton Nursery, Forest Gate, 
Essex. 
C HRYSANTHEMUMS, well-rooted, good, 12 sorts, 
Is. per doz. post free; to name, Is. 6 d. per doz.— 
T. GAYTON, Prospect Nursery, Hornsey, N. 
G ISHURST COMPOUND. — Used by leading 
gardeners since 1859 against Red Spider, Mildew, Thrips, 
Green Fly, 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. 6d. 
G ISHURSTINE keeps Boots Dry and Soft on 
wet ground. Boxes— 6d. 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 foruse, 
is printed on salmon-coloured paper on each id. box, with red 
air-tight ends. Be sure you get it, don’t be persuaded to take 
any other. Sold everywhere; a sample free, 3 d. One doz. 
will be sent, carriage paid for 2s. Trade terms on application. 
HEAPS & SON, Lordship Lane, London, S.E. 
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. 
JOHN LAING & Co. 
GOLD MEDAL BEGONIAS. 
Orders now booked for July delivery. 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, 18s.; J, 15s.; K, 12s.; L, 9s. For Bedding, 
per 100: M, 40s.; N, 30s.; O, 24s. Unnamed 
Sorts, per dozen, Doubles: W, 80s.; X, 24s.; 
Z, 18s. 
Begonia Growers, Forest Hill, S.E. 
Laing’s 
Prize 
Begonias 
