October 27, 1894. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
131 
JAPANESE CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
§qp- “The Finest Show in the World.” 
Arranged in one of the Best Show Houses in the Kingdom. No other Chrysanthemum Specialist has 
anything to compare with it. 
Novelties from Japan, America, the Continent, and the cream of the English. Also 8oo Seedlings, 
raised entirely from Seed, hybridised and saved in the Nursery. The whole forming the most complete 
trial of Novelties in existence. 
Worth going miles to see. The Exhibition is open daily (Sundays excepted). 
W. J. GODFREY, THE NURSERIES, EXMOUTH, DEVON. 
FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT 
Nothing so profitable and 
easy to grow. 
80 Acres in Stock. 
THE BEST PROCURABLE 
Lists Free • 
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS. 
. Bushes in variety. Packing and 
( Carriage Free for cash with order, 
8s. per doz., 80 s. per 100. 
All other Nursery Stock 
carriage forward . 
jjjOSEjImPOTS From 15 /-a doz. 
Ornamental Trees, 91 Acres. 
Four Acres of Class. 
Clematis (80,000> from 15/- 
per doz. 
N.B.—Single Plants are sold at 
slightly increased prices. 
GENERAL CATALOGUE 
(Over 164 pages) of Nursery Stock, 
artistically produced, containing 
some hundreds of illustrations, 
and full of valuable infQnaaUQtt. 
, sent free. 
mCHARDSMITH SCS WORCESTER 
SPECIAL CULTURE 
OF 
FRUIT TREES & ROSES. 
ORCHIDS. 
Clean Healthy Plants at Low Prices. 
Always worth a visit of inspection. Kindly send for Catalogue. 
JAMES CYPHER, 
Exotic Nurseries, CHELTENHAM. 
For Index to Contents see page 142. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”—B acon. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, Oct. 29th.—Bulb Sale at Protheroe & Morris’ 
Rooms, and every day in the week. 
Wednesday, Oct. 31st.—Kent County Chrysanthemum Show 
at Blackheath (2 days). 
Exmouth Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Dorchester Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Sittingbourne Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Steyning Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Thursday, Nov. 1st.—Highgate Chrysanthemum Show 
(2 days). 
Chudleigh Chrysanthemum Show. 
People's Palace Chrysanthemum Show. 
Teignmouth Chrysanthemum Show. 
Friday, Nov. 2nd.—Crystal Palace Chrysanthemum Show (2 
days/. 
Battersea Chrysanthemum Show (2 days). 
Brixham Chrysanthemum Show. 
Havant Chrysanthemum Show. 
Orchid Sale at Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
Saturday, Nov. 3rd.—Loughborough Chrysanthemum Show 
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 
HYACINTHS, TULIPS, 
Narcissi, Lillies, 
Snowdrops, 
Crocuses, 
Scillas, 
Irises 
&c. 
& 
BEST 
QUALITIES 
AT LOWEST 
RATES. 
Delivered Free by 
Rail or Parcel Post. 
Descriptive Catalogue No. 441 
Post Free on application. 
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For Market and Private Growers. 
Ornamental Trees,Shrubs, *«. 
Descriptive CATALOGUES post free, 
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Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY , OCTOBER 27 tk, 1894. 
f ARDENERS and Holidays. —We presume 
that most gardeners by this time will 
have had their holidays and returned home, 
so that they will now be in a position to 
judge whether the start for theholiday or the 
return home is the more delightful. Doubt¬ 
less the pleasure of such times varies 
according to the places visited and the 
duration of sunshine, for the weather is 
generally the most dominant factor in 
determining whether a holiday can be 
pleasantly spent or otherwise. Many on 
the other hand may complain that gar¬ 
deners’ holidays are too short, too few and 
far between, to form any opinion of the 
pleasure experienced in returning home. 
That may be so, but as a rule it only serves 
to intensify the happiness that may be 
derived from the same. The general public 
has its places of resort, which change from 
time to time according to the prevailing 
fashion ; but any observer at all intimate 
with the ways of gardeners can see that the 
latter do not follow the prevailing fashion 
of the public. A gardener’s holidays are 
valuable to him in proportion to his energy 
and his desire to better his prospects by 
thirsting to acquire fresh knowledge and 
experience. His occupation is a whole¬ 
some one, so that he is not compelled to 
resort to sea-side towns and watering places, 
as the toiling, middle-class, and business 
people generally, who are pent up in towns 
for the greater part of the year, do for the 
sake of recuperating their mental and phy¬ 
sical faculties. His places of resort are 
therefore different, and we frequently find 
that he contrives to combine business and 
pleasure for the sake of economy. The 
latter may either be immediate or prospec¬ 
tive, as when he makes the journey partly 
educational. 
Relatively few gardeners, in proportion to 
the whole number, ever cross the “ silver 
streak ” for the purpose of visiting Conti¬ 
nental countries; yet the facilities and 
cheapness of modern travelling enable an 
ever-increasing number to find their way 
to Holland, Belgium and France or even 
Switzerland. The occasion of a great 
international exhibition is generally selected 
as the raison d'etre for the luxury of such a 
holiday. In this respect he is economical, 
and his advantages educational; for in 
proportion as he cultivates the faculty of 
observation, so will he profit by a stock of 
new ideas which he can put into practice 
upon his return, or on some future occasion 
when opportunity serves, while the delight 
experienced during the acquirement of such 
knowledge will be immediate and in after 
life retrospective. Independently of ex¬ 
hibitions, however, the enthusiastic gar¬ 
dener, when he goes abroad, may and does 
add largely to his knowledge by visiting 
nurseries and gardens of repute. 
Without crossing the Channel, the gar¬ 
dener may make his holidays both 
pleasureable and profitable. Those in 
surburban districts contrive to get to the 
sea-side or frequent rural districts, which 
may not coincide with the resorts of the 
general public ; and even here, especially 
when a party of gardeners arrange to travel 
in company, one may note that the visiting 
of note-worthy gardens frequently forms an 
important element in the day’s enjoyment. 
All this is educational, but even if any or 
all the party choose to spend a day in pure 
amusement, we can readily take it for 
granted that such a holiday has been well 
earned. On the contrary those who reside 
and toil from one year’s end to the other 
in rural districts are glad of a day or a 
week’s respite from their labours so that 
they can visit London or some other popu¬ 
lous centre for the purpose of visiting the 
parks and gardens they may have known 
for years, but only by repute and by what 
they have read concerning the same. 
Young gardeners are often the more enthu¬ 
siastic concerning such travel and sight¬ 
seeing ; but their superiors not unfrequently 
rank in the same category, particularly 
those residing in districts remote from the 
great centres. Their first inspection of 
flower-bedding, carpet-bedding, and sub¬ 
tropical gardening, when the best modern 
examples are seen, generally constitutes a 
red-letter day in the quiet annals of their 
after life. 
Apart from the above modes of spending 
a holiday there are others which are 
equally enjoyable to those of different tastes 
and inclinations. Gardeners may be 
naturalists likethoseof any other avocation, 
or they may be botanists, as we know that 
some of them are. We read of shoemakers 
who are naturalists, bakers and weavers 
who are botanists. Their labours in those 
directions would be carried on for pure 
amusement and recreation—the latter of 
no small importance to those whose occupa¬ 
tion is sedentary. Gardeners who get 
fascinated with the study of botany, really 
adopt a science which has a strong affinity 
with their profession. Botany is wrongly 
described as a string of Latin names; for 
the proper study of it offers much that is 
instructive in the habits and mode of 
growth of plants akin to those under cul- 
