September 15, 1894. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
35 
WEBBS’ 
EARLY BULBS. 
THE FINEST ROOTS OF THE SEASON. 
ROMAN HYACINTHS. 
EARLY WHITE, extra large bulbs ... 2s. per doz. 
do. do. ... 15s. per 100. 
do. fine bulbs. Is. 9d. per doz. 
do. do.12s. per 100. 
do. smaller bulbs . Is. 6d.per doz. 
do. do. . 10s. per 100. 
POLYANTHUS NARCISSUS. 
DOUBLE ROMAN . 3d. each, 1 s. 6d. per doz. 
PAPER WHITE . 3d. each, Is. 6d. per doz. 
DUC VAN THOL TULIPS. 
Single, Scarlet .9d. per doz., 5s. per 100. 
Double, Scarlet and Yellow ... 9d. per doz., 5s. per 100. 
WEBBS' BULB CATALOGUE. 
Beautifully Illustrated, Gratis and Post Free. 
Seedsmen by Royal Warrants to H.M. the Queen and 
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. 
WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
CARNATIONS. 
Our extensive collections 
embrace all the best and 
newest varieties in the 
various sections of Hardy, Border, Clove, and Yellow Ground 
sorts; also Show Carnations and Picotees, and Show and 
Border Pinks. 
TREE & WINTER-FLOWERING CARNATIONS (including 
the specially fashionable “ Deep Pink ” and other Malmaisons). 
Out handbook, “Carnations and their Culture," with full 
Descriptive Catalogue, can be had free on application. 
LA ING & M ATH ER , Nursery men, Kelso-on-Tweed. 
SPECIAL CULTURE 
OF 
FRUIT TR EES & R OSES. 
A Large and Select Stock is now offered for Sale. 
The Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of Fruits post free. 
The Descriptive Catalogue of Roses post free. 
THOMAS RIVERS & SON, 
The Nurseries, SA WB RIDGE WORTH, Herts 
orchids! 
Clean Healthy Plants at Low Prices. 
Always worth a visit of inspection. Kindly send for Catalogue. 
JAMES CYPHER, 
Eiotic nurseries, CHELTENHAM. 
GRAND NEW ZONALS, 1894. 
Selected from Pearson’s, Cannell’s, Miller’s, and my 
own sets. 
Cuttings . 6s. per doz. 
New Zonals, 1893, Cuttings.. .. 3s. 
Very fine previous introduction .. 2s. 
Free, Cash with Order. 
H. J. JONES, 
Ryecroft Nursery, Hither Green, Lewisham. 
The Late MR. DODWELUS^ 
GRAND CARNATIONS. 
THE FINEST GROWN. 
All Classes, 10/6 per dozen. 
List of Specialties can be obtained of— 
Mr. A. MEDHURST, 
Thk Cottage, Stanley Road, Oxford. 
HYACINTHS, TULIPS, 
Narcissi, Lillies, 
Snowdrops, 
Crocuses, 
Scillas, ^ BEST 
A # QUALITIES 
Irises r AT LOWEST 
RATES. 
Delivered Free by 
Rail or Parcel Post. 
Descriptive Catalogue No. Ml 
Post Free on application 
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Bulb Growers 
& Importers 
in 1 in iii 111 a 11111 m nm 
Dicksons 
Chester 
Pansies & Violas. 
FANCY PANSIES. 
I offer 1 pair cuttings of Miss Stirling and B. Doulton, the best 
var. in cultivation, these have been awarded five special 
prizes for the best new Pansies, and were the leading flowers 
in seven medal stands this season, including Edinburgh 
Glasgow and London, and n pairs of the best 1894 var. for 7s. 6d. 
My 3s. collection of 13 pairs includes one variety of Mr. C. 
Kay’s new Pansies and 3 pairs for 1894, 
SHOW PANSIES. 
One pair cuttings of a new variety and 12 pairs of the best 
1894 for 61 - 
Four pairs of 1894 var. and 9 grand competition sorts for 3/- 
YIOLAS 
f Awarded 4 Medals this season). 
I have 100,000 cuttings now ready for delivery. The follow¬ 
ing are the very best 20 new and old varieties for bedding 
and massing, and include the c-eam of the unrivalled rayless 
Violas. Seven are new 1894 var. and three are 1893 var. Mrs. 
C. F. Gordon, Cecilia, Beautiful Snow, Admiration, Goldfinch, 
Charmer, Commodore, M. Todd, Accushla, Lord Elcho, 
Wm. Niel, Duchess of Fife. Rayless type: Grandee, Border 
Witch, Christiana. Lutea, Queen of the May, Sylvia, Blue 
Gown, Blush Queen. I will substitute other varieties in place 
of any of the above not wanted. One pair cuttings of each var. 
for 4/- i 5 each for 7/6; 10 each for 13/6; 20 each for 25/- 
Catalogues Free to any Address. 
S. PYE, 
CATTERALL, garstang, lanc. 
For Index to Contents see page 46. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, Sept. 17th.—Bulb Sale at Protheroe & Morris' 
Rooms, and every day in the week. 
Tuesday, Sept. iSth.—Sale of plants at Welford Park 
Newhury. 
Wednesday, Sept. 19th.—Sale of a Nursery Business at Plum- 
stead, by Protheroe & Morris. 
Trade Sale at Mr. R. Owen’s, Maidenhead. 
Friday, Sept. 21st.—Orchid Sale at Protheroe & Morris’ 
Rooms. 
Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 5 th, 1894. 
he Naming of New Plants.— Plant 
cultivators, and particularly those 
who have not had the advantage of a 
classical education, are often very much 
befogged and annoyed with the synony¬ 
mous names with which a large number of 
plants are burdened. A plant may be 
grown for many years under a certain well- 
known name, till an edict goes forth that 
the correct name ol it is something else, or 
till the cultivator receives an old friend 
obscured under a title of which he had 
never previously heard. All this is very 
annoying and ever tends to confusion, not¬ 
withstanding all efforts to rectify previous 
blunders. Two botanists, unknown to each 
other, may describe the same plant under 
different names, or a previously named and 
forgotten one may be re-described under a 
different appellation. The juvenile stage 
of plants is often introduced and appre¬ 
ciated by gardeners more than the adult 
stage, or the latter may be unknown, hence 
a new name is requisite. After many 
years of cultivation, the plant may flower 
or bear fruit and some botanist is almost 
certain to make the discovery that the 
plant is an old and previously named one, 
and rectifies the error, perhaps by making I 
another. The creeping plant known by 
gardeners as Ficus repens is a case in 
point. No fewer than five species have 
had this appellation given them. The 
oldest description applies to a Ficus from 
the East Indies. The garden Ficus repens 
is now referred to F. pumila, a native of 
China and Japan, and was originally so 
described by Linnaeus. 
Whether the nomenclature of plants will 
ever be reduced to a general uniformity all 
the world over or even in any one country 
is a question of the future; but even 
gardeners may assist in the consumation of 
this desirable accomplishment, by refrain¬ 
ing from giving new names to plants that 
have hitherto been well authenticated. We 
do not of course refer to mere garden varie¬ 
ties of popular florists’ flowers, for the 
fashion may call into existence hundreds of 
varieties which probably in many cases 
existed in bygone days, and became lost, 
both plants and names. In that case no 
confusion can be produced by re-naming 
things which may have previously existed. 
With wild and introduced plants the case 
is different. The cultivator may reply that 
the botanist is responsible for the existing 
confusion, and to some extent this is 
doubtless true ; but as time goes on and 
every country gets thoroughly explored, 
and its plants described and specimens 
stored away in herbaria, there will be no 
excuse on the botanist’s part for rushing 
into print with a new species till he has 
thoroughly ransacked his cabinets of old 
ones. 
The modern botanist, with his descrip¬ 
tions, illustrations and specimens has some¬ 
thing more tangible to work upon than the 
paleontological student, with his stony 
fossils, casts, impressions on stones, mud, 
slate or coal, and the like. The paleontolo¬ 
gists of the future will have many correc¬ 
tions to make, for those now living are 
doubtless making many gross blunders. 
The Eozoon was formerly accepted as a 
well defined and perfectly developed 
foraminifer. Now, by general consent, it 
is dismissed as neither an animal or a plant, 
but a mere crystallisation. Quite recently 
M.M. Renault and Bertrand have described 
what might have been a disease producing 
germ under the name of Bacillus permiensis 
from the Peruvian rocks of Autun, that is, 
the strata overlying the coal measures. 
They describe the organism as consisting 
of straight rods, separate, or in pairs, 
sometimes in spirals or in chains. This 
would include characters belonging to 
different genera of microbes. After the 
fate of the Eozoon we may well choose to 
remain sceptical, for those organisms are 
too minute, watery and perishable to 
become fossilised even to oblige the 
paleontologist. 
-4.- 
Mr. William Lust has been appointed assistant 
superintendent of the Trinadad Botanic Garden. 
Mr. James Packham, Ayton Castle Gardens, 
Berwickshire, N.B., has been engaged as gardener to 
Henry Webber, Esq., of Duxhurst, Horley, Surrey. 
Crystal Palace Fruit Show.—Some difficulty having 
naturally arisen in respect to the ill-considered note 
4 on p. 3 of the schedule of the Crystal Palace 
Fruit Show, on September 29th, October 1st and 
2nd, the Secretary of the Royal Horticultural 
Society asks us to state that “ the exact dimensions 
of the Grape stands fixed therein will not be rigidly 
enforced. Stands of any reasonable size may be 
used.” 
New Plants Certificated in Ghent.—At the last meet¬ 
ing of the Belgian Chamber of Horticulture, Certifi¬ 
cates of Merit were awarded to Mr. Jules Hye for 
Miltomopsis Bleueana gigantea, Cypripedium 
Meteore (C. barbatum grandiflorum x C. belatulum 
Mariae), C. Anne Measures (C. Dayanum x C. 
belatulum), and Acineta species, 
