August 29th, 1885. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
819 
CARTERS’ 
EARLY BULBS, 
FOR FORCING. 
To produce Beautiful White and Coloured 
Flowers for Christinas and Easter 
Decoration. 
CARTERS’ Earliest White Roman HYACINTHS. 
Per 100, 15s.; per dozen, 2s. 3d. 
CARTERS’ Double Roman NARCISSUS. 
Per 100, 11s. 6 cl. ; per dozen, Is. 9d. 
CARTERS’ Paper-White NARCISSUS. 
Per 100, 11s. 6 cl. ; per dozen, Is. 9 d. 
CARTERS’ Red and Yellow VAN THOL TULIPS. 
Per 100, 5s. 6 d. ; per dozen, lOrf. 
CARTERS’ Extra Large SNOWDROPS. 
Per 100, 3s. 6 cl. 
CARTERS’ Double Sweet-scented TUBEROSES. 
Per 100, 30s.; per dozen, 4s. 6 cl. 
All Parcels Packing- and Carriage free. 
/HARTERS’ COLLECTIONS, SELECTED FBOM 
THE ABOVE BULBS.—A, price 5s.; B, price 7s C d ■ 
C, price 16s. AH forwarded, packing free, per Parcels Post! 
ee CAKTERS’ ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, 
gratis and post-free. 
Seedsmen by Royal Warrant to His Royal 
Highness the PRINCE 
OF WALES. 
m, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C, 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to tho spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
(ikrkmtg IMmrftr. 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 29m, 1885. 
London Markets. — The grave complaints 
which have of late cropped up in the daily papers 
respecting the miserable returns growers of 
Potatos and other produce receive from their 
London market salesmen, indicate very forcibly 
the great need which exists for a great increase 
in metropolitan markets, established by the 
municipal authorities, and the placing of the sale 
of all products seut by distant growers to the 
markets in the hands of official and not private 
salesmen. Whether the transactions which not only 
recently hut so often iu the past have called for such 
strong public comment he honest or otherwise, 
it is certain that there is, under the present system, 
ample room for want of confidence. Somehow 
the poor producer seems to be in the position of 
the unfortunate client iu a law suit, who although 
he won his case, yet found he was not a bit the 
richer and his advocate the reverse of poorer. 
What with salesmen, carriage, porterage, 
AUTUMN CATALOGUE 
Of FLORAL GEMS 
GRATIS AND POST FREE OX APPLICATION. 
Before ordering elsewhere please send for our Illustrated 
Catalogue. In it will be found USEFUL INSTRUCTIONS 
to amateurs, enabling them to pronounce botanical names 
correctly , besides much further interesting information. It 
is divided into sections as follows 
In this department will he found many 
species, new, rare, and beautiful, and which 
, are not to be found offered in any other 
English Catalogue; whilst the prices of 
popular species —such as Hyacinths, Tulips, &c.—will be 
found exceptionally low— e.g., White Roman jacinths, 
splendid healthy sample, in quantities of 250 and upwards, at 
9s. 3 d. per 100. 
FriHT fl We are offering some most beautiful speei- 
riHKNS mens of rare and seldom-seen species, many 
X ijlV.il kJi of which have been specially collected for 
us. As the stocks of several are limited, 
we would strongly advise early attention, and thus save 
disappointment. 
Hardy Orchids have received our 
special attention, the result of which 
is we are enabled to offer many lovely 
varieties comparatively unknown here 
•in England. We also offer these in collections at lowest 
figures possible, purposely to bring these beautiful novelties 
within the reach of all. 
These comprise a host of herbaceous, 
insectivorous, curious, and a general 
, collection of rare and other beautiful 
plants. This section will be found un¬ 
usually interesting to botanists, &c., in search of rarities. 
We are in a position to place before our 
patrons unequal stocks of all the very best 
, strains, and would respectfully draw the at¬ 
tention of all “unique ” collectors to same. 
In this section we 
offer a miscellany 
, of interesting items 
calculated to please 
both professional and amateur. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
dealers, and other distributors, the charges 
upon garden products are so increased to the 
consumer, that whilst the producer gets hut 20 per 
cent, of the final charge, the remainder goes into 
the pockets of those who invest nothing, and have 
few or no burthens. If producers cannot sell 
their own things in the market, and that of 
course is the most satisfactory arrangement, they 
may at least combine and employ their own sales¬ 
man at a regular salary. In any case the matter 
is replete with great difficulty and exceeding dis¬ 
satisfaction. If the producer and consumer could 
he brought into immediate contact, so much the 
better for both, but the doing so would produce a 
great outcry on the part of salesmen and dealers 
of all kinds, who would, of course, declare that 
they were being ruined. 
Still, there can he little doubt hut that the 
establishment of numerous roomy municipal 
markets would be a great gain. The many com¬ 
plaints as to the unsanitary condition of Covent 
Garden Market chiefly grow out of the fact that 
the place is private property. Were it and the 
neighbouring streets under efficient municipal 
authority the complaints would hardly be heard, 
because a public body, acting in the public 
interests, and influenced by public opinion, would 
be too careful not to allow evils to exist which 
called forth strong public criticism and earnest 
denunciation. 
N.B.—To amateurs who are in the habit of purchasing 
guinea and other collections.— Instead of doing so this season 
send the order to ns, leaving the selection to our judgment, 
simply giving particulars as to nature of soil, position of 
garden, if any glass, Ac., when we feel fully assured that 
we can by this method afford them much more gratification 
for their money than if they pursued the ordinary mode. 
VICCARS COLLYER & GO., 
BULB MERCHANTS, &c„ 
CENTRAL HALL, LEICESTER (where all letters 
are to he addressed) ; and Central Nurseries, Glenfield, 
near Leicester. 
A. W. CREWS, Manager. 
OUR GENERAL BULB LSST, 
No, 77, 
Is now in press. Send for a copy. 
KEW.PLAKTiAND BULByOMPABY, COLCHESTER. 
Thistles. —The Thistle, in all its varieties, is a 
most noxious weed, and too little pains is taken to get 
rid of it. In the month of August or September, it is 
usual to go over the pastures with a scythe, and cut 
the Thistles down ; but this is far too late to do the 
essential service. The greatest part of their abun¬ 
dant seed has long before been scattered by the wind, 
and an ample crop has been sown for succeeding 
years. There is also a want of care to destroy those 
that grow numerously in the hedgerows, and on the 
margin of fields. An attentive farmer will not allow 
the month of June to pass over without cutting down 
all the Thistles on his farm, whether growing in his 
pastures or elsewhere; and he will repeat the opera¬ 
tion in August. The Thistle is a biennial plant, and, 
therefore, if the seed be prevented from ripening, the 
crop will soon cease to be produced, —Agricultural 
Gazette. 
(Sartrmirrg JflistellcMg* 
Flower Snows for Next Week. — Tuesday ; 
Third Summer Showat Oxford.— Wednesday: Glasgow 
and West of Scotland Horticultural Society’s Show at 
Glasgow. Wednesday and Thursday: Bath Autumn 
Show. Friday and Saturday : Annual Fruit Exhibi¬ 
tion and Grand National Dahlia Show at the Crystal 
Palace. 
Several correspondents in various parts of the 
country report a great improvement in the appearance 
of the fruit and other crops since “ the grand rain ” 
which fell on the 21st inst. More is sadly wanted 
though, especially in the eastern and southern coun¬ 
ties. 
We understand that arrangements are being made 
for holding a Chrysanthemum show in Bedford in 
November next. 
Our correspondent, Mr. H. W. Ward, Longford 
Castle, was a very successful prize-winner last week. 
At Salisbury he was first for a collection of fruit, and 
at Exeter secured a silver cup also for a collection, 
besides first prizes for Grapes and Tomatos. 
TnE number of acre3 under Potato cultivation in 
Great Britain this year, according to the recently- 
issued summary of agricultural returns, is 548,731 
acres, or 16,317 acres less than last year. 
Mr. William Byron, late foreman at the Duke of 
Grafton’s, Wakefield Lodge, Stony Stratford, has been 
engaged as gardener to Thomas Eyre, Esq., Thorplee, 
Egham. 
From Mr. H. J. Farrow, Honorary Secretary of the 
St. Peter’s, Hammersmith, and District Gardeners’, 
Amateurs’, and Cottagers’ Improvement Society, we 
have received a schedule of prizes for a Chrysam 
themum and fruit show to be held on November 19th. 
There is an open class for twenty-four blooms of 
Chrysanthemums, and several classes for Apples, 
Pears, Potatos, &c. The Secretary’s address is 60, 
Black Lion Lane, Hammersmith. 
The Royal Horticultural Society has received from 
New Zealand a large consignment of the native Ferns 
of that country, to be established for exhibition at the 
Colonial Exhibition, to be held next year. The plants, 
several hundreds in number, range in size from a 
diminutive filmy Fern, to monster trunks of Cyatheas, 
and all have arrived in excellent condition. 
Mr. A. Greaves, late foreman to Mr. Kingston, at 
Brantingham Thorpe, Brough, East Yorkshire, has 
been engaged as gardener to A. K. Rollit, Esq., 
Thwaits House, Cottingham, Hull. 
Mr. Robert Lord, of Todmorden, a veteran northern 
florist, was successful at the late show of the Northern 
Section of the National Carnation and Picotee Society 
in securing first honours in the leading classes for 
Carnations and Picotees, notwithstanding that the 
date was full early for some of the northern districts. 
Mr. B. Simonite was second in both these classes. 
Mr. R. Gorton secured the first prize for a dozen 
Carnations, nine dissimilar; and Mr. T. Bleackley 
took the lead in the corresponding class for Picotees. 
The premier Carnation was an Admiral Curzon from 
Mr. R. Lord, who, with the same variety, carried off 
all the prizes for single scarlet Bizarres. Zerlina, from 
Mr. Bleackley, was the premier Picotee. 
Seedling Dahlia Prizes.— In addition to the Turner 
Memorial Prize for Dahlias, which is represented by 
a handsome silver cup, value ten guineas, the overflow¬ 
ings of the subscriptions, which were necessarily limited 
to Dahlia fanciers, have been devoted to three prizes 
(£1, 12s. 6 d., 7s. 6 d.) for the best seedlings exhibited 
at the Crystal Palace Show on the 4th of September 
next. The prizes are to be additional to the Certifi¬ 
cates offered in the schedule. The growers of Dahlias 
should note that this grand national show will soon 
be upon us. 
Messrs. James Carter & Co., who during the last 
few years have been conducting some valuable ex¬ 
periments in the fertilization and raising of new 
varieties of Wheat, have succeeded in obtaining one 
variety, a single seed of which has produced no less 
than sixty ears. As each ear contains on an average 
fifty grains, the one plant thus gives a total of 3,000 
grains ! If the man who makes two blades of grass 
grow where only one grew before, is a benefactor to 
his country, what is to be said in a case like this ? 
