October 13, 1894. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
99 
WEBBS' 21/- BOX 
For Greenhouse Decoration, 4c. 
i Amaryllis Formosissima. 
ioo Crocus, five choice varie¬ 
ties. 
i Cyclamen Persicum. 
12 Hyacinths, choice named 
varieties. 
g Jonquils, sweet-scented, 
i Lilium Lancifolium. 
6 Narcissus Bulbocodium. 
9 Polyanthus Narcissus, 
25 Scilla Siberica. 
100 Snowdrops. 
6 Tulips, Due Van Thol, 
scarlet. 
18 Tulips, early single, six 
varieties. 
6 Tulips, Rex Rubrorum, 
double. 
6 Tulips, Tournesol, dble. 
OTHER BOXES from 5s, to 42s. each. 
WEBBS’ BULB CATALOGUE, 
Beautifully Illustrated, and containing complete cultural 
instructions, Post Free, 6d. Gratis to customers. 
Seedsmen by Royal Warrants to H.M. the Queen and 
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. 
WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
ORCHIDS. 
Clean Healthy Plants at Low Prices. 
Always worth a visit of inspection. Kindly send for Catalogue. 
Exotic Nurseries, CHELTENHAM. 
SPECIAL CULTURE 
OF 
FRUIT T REES & 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 WBRIDGEWORTH, Herts 
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HYACINTHS, TULIPS, 
Narcissi, Lillies, 
Snowdrops, 
Crocuses, 
Scillas, 
Irises 
&c. 
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BEST 
QUALITIES 
AT LOWEST 
RATE8. 
Delivebed Fbee by 
Rail ob Pabcel Post. 
Descriptive Catalogue No. 441 
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Bulb Growers 
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Pansies & Violas. 
FANCY PANSIES. 
I offer i 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 
(Awarded 4 Medals this season). 
I have 100,000 cuttings now ready for delivery. The ollovv- 
ing are the very best 20 new and old varieties for bedding 
and massing, and include the e'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. 1 will substitute other varieties in place 
of any of the above not wanted. One pair cuttings of each var. 
for 4/-; 5 each for 7/6; 10 each for 13/6; 20 each for 25/- 
Catalogues Free to any Address. 
S. PYE, 
CATTERALL, GARSTANG LANG. 
For Index to Contents see page 110. 
“ Gardening Is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."—B acon. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, Oct. 15th.—Bulb and Plant Sales at Protheroe & 
Morris’ Rooms, and every day in the week. 
Tuesday, Oct. 16th.—Sale of Orchids and other plants a( 
Pickering Lodge, Timperley, by Protheroe & Morris. 
Orchid Sale at Protheroe & Morris' Rooms. 
Wednesday, Oct. 17th.—Sale of Nursery Stock at PinkhiU, 
Murrayfield, Midlothian, by D. Mitchell (2 days). 
Sale of Lilium auratum bulbs at Protheroe & Morris' 
Rooms. 
Thursday, Oct. 18th.—Sale of Greenhouse Plants at Protheroe 
& Morris' Rooms. 
Friday, Oct. 19th.—Sale of Orchids at Protheroe & Morris' 
Rooms. 
Infill, 
Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 th, 1894. 
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For Market and Private Growers. 
Ornamental Trees,Shrubs, 4c. 
Descriptive CATALOGUES post free, 
I QHEAL & CONS, 
WI W Crawley, ^ Sussex 
Wrees for Town Planting.— The sea¬ 
son for planting is again close at hand, 
and we should like to see a better display 
of enterprise in the selection of trees for 
planting along the sides of the streets, in 
squares, and other open places, than has 
hitherto been the case. When the selection 
is entrusted to corporate bodies, it is gener¬ 
ally of a most meagre description, in fact, 
confined to one kind for a street or road, 
such as the London Plane, some of the 
forms of the False Acacia or the Common 
Lime. Avenues of one kind of tree are all 
very well in their way, but there is no rea¬ 
son why there should not be avenues and 
lines of mixed trees, presenting an ever 
varying appearance as the traveller moves 
along, both by the variation of the foliage, 
the different kinds of flowers, their season 
of display, and by the varying habit of trees 
that are well known to thrive in urban and 
suburban districts. Evergreens are in¬ 
admissible in large towns seeing that the 
filth of a smoky atmosphere in winter soon 
proves fatal to them, whereas deciduous 
species shed their foliage just at a time 
when the atmosphere becomes laden with 
moisture, which prevents the carbon and 
other impurities from being dissipated 
farther afield. Smooth-leaved trees, 
readily get washed with rain, and that is 
one of the secrets of their being able to 
withstand the deleterious effects of a smoky 
atmosphere. The London Plane has very 
downy leaves when they first expand in 
spring, but they soon become divested of 
this covering and by the time they are fully 
developed, they look burnished and glossy 
immediately after every shower of rain. 
The various horticultural gardening, and 
mutual improvement societies throughout 
the country should endeavour to dissem¬ 
inate information broadcast amongst their 
fellow men, by the several means at their 
disposal, concerning the most suitable trees 
for town planting. In this way, not merely 
the gardeners of private gentlemen, but the 
general public and those who act for it, 
would get educated to a sense of the beauti¬ 
ful, and be shown that the wealth of 
material at their command with which to 
gratify this taste, is really very great. The 
Common Lime is a great favourite with 
the town planter, and the beauty of it, as 
a rule,during the three months commencing 
with June cannot be denied, but by the 
beginning of September in very ordinary 
seasons it gets very rusty or even bare. 
This was the case all the summer last year, 
on account of the extreme drought. There 
is a species of Lime (Tilia cuchlora) with 
leaves of an intense dark green and which 
it retains a fortnight later than the com¬ 
mon one. It is notorious that all the best 
trees of Ailantus about London are in small 
private gardens, and that its beauty and 
utility as a street tree are entirely ignored. 
The objection sometimes put forward that 
its flowers emit an offensive odour, is a 
pointless tale seeing how seldom it flowers 
in this country. A fruiting tree is an 
object worthy of all admiration, and the 
feathery leaves constitute a picture but sel¬ 
dom seen. The Catalpa, notwithstanding 
its handsome foliage is equally neglected, 
though the trees by the House of Commons 
show that it is admirably adapted for town 
planting. 
Conifers generally succumb to the pre¬ 
judicial effects of a smoky atmosphere in 
a short time, probably because they are 
evergreen, but the Maidenhair-tree, which 
is deciduous, is a remarkable exception. 
It is difficult to imagine why it should not 
be used as a street tree, unless prejudice or 
ignorance rules its hapless neglect. The 
Mopheaded and other varieties of the 
False Acacia are favourites, yet the 
methods of training and winter pruning, 
and the hideous props, termed stakes or 
supports, make them resemble scare-crows 
more than objects of ornament in many 
cases, especially when leafless. The Honey 
Locust is as graceful in foliage as the False 
Acacia and different in colour. The 
Pagoda-tree or Sophora has the fault of 
being very late in assuming its leafage, 
but it not only retains it till a late period, 
but even flowers beautifully long after 
other trees have ceased, or are assuming 
their autumn tints. The rich dark green 
hue of the leaves is quite phenomenal even 
amongst others belonging to the same 
family. 
Many localities are overdone with the 
Black Poplar, which doubtless acquires its 
popularity on account of the rapidity of its 
growth, and the ease with which it may be 
cultivated. It is, moreover, frequently 
planted in positions that are too restricted 
in area, so that the head must inevitably 
get hacked about and disfigured to restrain 
it within bounds. Though seldom planted 
as a street tree, it practically may be con¬ 
sidered as such when planted in gardens 
