January 12, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
307 
CATTLEYA TRIAN/E. 
Wonderful importation just to hand in perfect condition, 
Inspection cordially invited. 
HUGH LOW & Co., Upper Clapton, N.E. 
THOMAS METHYEN & SONS, 
(By Royal Warrant Nurserymen and Seedsmen to the Queen.) 
BEG TO INTIMATE THAT THEIR DESCRIPTIVE PRICED 
CATALOGUE OF GARDEN AND FLOWER SEEDS. 
IMPLEMENTS, GLADIOLI, &c., for 1895. 
Is NOW READY, and may be had FREE on application. 
EAST LOTHIAN IHTERMEDIATESTOCK, r HV ffi N CH0ICE ) 
White, Purple, Scarlet, Crimson, and Snow White, Wall-leaved. In Packets, is., 2s. 6d., and 5s. each 
colour. 
METHYEN’S JUNE BROCCOLI, 
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SEED WAREHOUSES— 
15, P RINCES STREET, & NURSERY GATE, LEITH WALK, EDINBURGH. 
NOW READY. “ 
HARPES’ ILLUSTRATED 
Descriptive catalogue 
Post Free on application to 
CHARLES SHARPE & Co., Ltd., 
SEED FARMERS AND MERCHANTS, SLEAFORD. 
SPECIAL LIST OF 
W. WELLS 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS 
Contains the best Novelties of the season. Also the best 12* 
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Chrysanthemums a great speciality. EARLSWOOD 
NURSERIES, Redhill, Surrey. 
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ROUS in POTS From 15/- a doz. 
Ornamental Trees, 91 Acres. 
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N.B.—Single Plants are sold at 
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GENERAL CATALOGUE 
(164 pages) of Nursery Stock, 
artistically produced, containing 
r > some hundreds of illustrations, 
and full of valuable infoimation 
sent free. 
RICHARD SMITH&C9WORCESTER 
H. J. JONES’ 
CHRYSANTHEMUM GUIDE 
and CATALOGUE. 
Is now ready! Post free 8 stamps. 
That elaborate Catalogues have to be paid for by 
the Buyers is quite true, and only just when that 
elaborateness takes the form of supplying at a con¬ 
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possible, right up-to-date. That my Guide is 
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given below, and that its value is recognised by 
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Up to the present time it is the most useful book 
published on-The Chrysanthemum. It will be of 
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for exhibition I and how to save Chrysanthemum 
Seed and raise Seedlings,” by Mr. Chas. E. Shea, 
who is the most successful Exhibitor and Raiser of 
English Seedlings. Also “ How to grow Incurved 
for Exhibition,” by Mr. H. Shoesmith, including 
practical hints on dressing. " How to grow large 
specimen plants,” by Mr. J. Brooks, who is recog¬ 
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there are fourteen illustrations, and selected lists of 
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H. J. JONES, Kyecroft Nursery, Lewisham. 
SPRING 
CATALOGUE 
FOR 1895. 
Beautifully Illustrated with five Coloured 
Plates (Illustrating Potatoes and Flowers) and 
hundreds of Engravings. Also containing 
complete Cultural Instructions, an article on 
“Floral Facts and Fancies,” List of Novel¬ 
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For Indei to Contents see page 317. 
“ Gardening Is the purest of human pleasures, and tho greate3‘ 
refreshment to the spirit of man ’’—Bacon, 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, Jan. 14th.—Sale of Hardy Plants alProtheroe& 
Morris Rooms. 
Tuesday, Jan. 15th.—R.H.S. : Meeting of Committees at 12 
o clock. 
Meeting of the Committee of the National Vegetable Exhi¬ 
bition at the Royal Aquarium, Westminster "at 2 50 p m 
Sale of Bulbous Roots, &c.. at Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
Wednesday, Jan. 16th— Sale of Japanese Lilies and Plants at 
Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
Thursday, Jan. 17th.—Annual Meeting of the Gardeners’ 
Royal Benevolent Institution at “ Simpson’s ” at 3 p,m. 
Friday, Jan. 18th.—Orchid Sale at Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms- 
4m fajita ifJarid, 
Edited by BRIAN WYNNE. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 12th, 1895. 
lination of Pear Flowers.— On this 
* side of the Atlantic our great writers 
on the subject have generally, if not always 
used the word fertilisation instead of pollina¬ 
tion. The former includes the application 
of pollen to the stigma, which is pollination, 
and also relates to the action of the pollen 
tube upon the ovules, which is fecundation. 
A large number of experiments have been 
carried out in America in connection with 
the subject, and the results are recorded by 
Mr. Merton B. Waite, of the Smithsonian 
Institution, Washington, in Bulletin No. 5 
of the Division of Vegetable Pathology, 
U.S. Department of Agriculture. Two 
kinds of experiments were carried on rather 
extensively, namely, the covering up of 
trusses of unopened flowers with bags of 
thin paper or cheese cloth, and secondly, 
the removal of the stamens from other 
trusses of buds which were hand-pollinated, 
and then covered up in the same way to 
exclude insects. A considerable number of 
distinct varieties were treated in this way, 
while uncovered buds served as a control 
upon the protected ones and for comparison. 
