January 26, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
839 
CATTLEYA TRIAN/E. 
Wonderful importation just to hand in perfect condition. 
Inspection cordially invited. 
HUGH LOW & Co., Upper Clapton, N.E. 
NOW READY. 
HARPES’ ILLUSTRATED 
Descriptive Catalogue 
Post Free on application to 
CHARLES SHARPE & Co., Ltd., 
SEED FARMERS AND MERCHANTS, SLEAFORD. 
THE NOVELTY OF THE SEASON. 
VEITCHS CLIMBING FRENCH BEAN 
(6 tO 7 feet hi|fh). 
First-class Certificate Royal Horticultural Society. 
Price per packet, Is. 6d. and 2s. 6d. 
TO BE OBTAINED OF RETAIL SEEDSMEN THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. 
WHOLESALE :—of Messrs. HURST and SON; JACOB WRENCH and SONS; 
NUTTING and SONS ; COOPER, TABER and CO.; WATKINS and SIMPSON, London; 
HARRISON and SONS, Leicester; and direct of— 
ROBERT VEITCH and SON, 
QUEEN S SEEDSMEN, EXETER. 
SPECIAL CULTURE 
OF 
FRUI T TREES & 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 8c SON, 
The Nurseries, SA W BRIDGE WORTH, Herts . 
FERNS 
SPECIALITY. 
A MAGNIFICENT STOCK IN IMMENSE VARIETY. 
We now offer 12 beautiful kinds of Stove and Greenhouse 
Ferns for 3s.; 25 varieties for 8s. 6d.; 50 for 21s. ; 100, in 12 
varieties, 21s.; 100, in 25 varieties, 30s.; 100, in 50 varieties, 
40s.; 100 different kinds, 63s. All nice plants. 
Hardy Ferns, 12 varieties for 3s.; 25 for 8s. 6d.; 50 for 25s.; 
100, in 12 vars., 21s.; 100 in 25 vars., 30s.; 100 in 50 vars., 45s.; 
100 kinds, 75s. All good, satisfactory plants. 
Above sent Carriage Free for 6d. per dozen extra. Cata¬ 
logue of 1,400 species and varieties free on application, 
W. & J. BIRKENHEAD, F.R.H.S., 
Fern Nurseries, Sale, near Manchester. 
j^SEEDS fo th.|| 
GARDEN. i| 
SELECT S 
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• VEGETABLE SEEDS, i 
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CHOICE • 
: FLOWER SEEDS, i 
ILLUSTRATED J gj 
CATALOGUE, l H 
: SEED POTATOS,: 
No. 446 
: CARDEN TOOLS, ! 
POST FREE l H 
: SUNDRIES, &c. : 
ON APPLICATION. J M 
i CARRIAGE PAID. 1 
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1 DICKSONS. Chester. II 
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Large Consignment of Japanese Lilies. 
Lilium Auratum, fine, Plump Bulbs ... per dozen, 4/-, 5/- 
„ ,, Extra fine ... 8/- per 100, 25/-, 30/-, and 40/- 
Lilium Rubrum, Splendid Bulbs . 6/- per dozen. 
„ Melpomene, „ „ . 9/- 
,, Platyphyllum ,, ,, . 12/- ,, 
„ Album Kraetzeri, Lovely Bulbs 6/- to 9/- „ 
,, Krameri, Fine Bulbs . 6/- ,, 
And all other Lilies at equally Low Prices. Thousands of 
Choice Orchids in Stock. Please write for Catalogue to 
H. A. TRACY, F.R.H.S., Lily and Orchid Nursery, 
Amyand Park Road, Twickenham. 
NEW 
“ BROCKHAMPTON KING,” Per Packet, Is. 
Highly recommended for Early Forcing. Special Prizes will 
be given in 1895. For particulars apply— 
W. ] 
Brockhampton 
3. TIDY, 
Nurseries, HaYant, Herts. 
The Late MR. DODWELL’S 
GRAND CARNATIONS. 
THE FINEST GROWN. 
All Classes, 10/6 per dozen. 
List of Specialties can be obtained of— 
Mr. A. MEDHURST, 
The Cottage, Stanley Road, Oxford, 
H. J. JONES, 
CHRYSANTHEMUM GUIDE AND CATALOGUE. 
NOW READY. POST FREE 8 STAMPS. 
With the objecting of keeping this Guide as a per¬ 
manent record I have had a few well and tastefully 
bound. Included in these are eight plates of new 
varieties, specially executed by the London Stereo¬ 
scopic Company. I have retained ioo copies only 
for sale at 2s. 6d. each, and they will be supplied in 
strict rotation. 
RYECROFT NURSERY, LEWISHAM. 
4 PRESIDENT.’ 
An exceedingly valuable novelty, being tbe result of a 
cross between Hero of Lockingeand Hendre Seedling. The 
fruit, which is oval in shape and large in size, is of a 
brilliant yellow colour, and handsomely netted. The flesh is 
white, firm, and very deep, and the flavour exceedingly rich 
and luscious. 
Is. 6d. and 2s. 6d. per packet, post free. 
See Webbs' SPRING CATALOGUE. Post Free, Is. 
Abridged Edition, ready on February 1st, gratis 
and post free. 
WEBBS', Wordsley, Stourbridge. 
For Index to Contents see page 349 . 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man ” —Bacon. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, Jan. 28th.—Sale of Hardy Plants, Bulbs, &c., at 
Protheroe & Morris' Rooms. 
Wednesday, Jan. 30th.—Sale of Japanese Lilies at Protheroe 
& Morris’ Rooms. 
Thursday, Jan. 31st.—Sale of Bulbous and Tuberous Roots 
at Protheroe & Morris' Rooms. 
Friday, Feb. 1st.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe & 
Morris' Rooms. 
IWsw IpM 
Edited by BRIAN WYNNE. 
SATURDAY , JANUARY 26th, 1895. 
f oLOURS of Flowers. — Everyone,whether 
gardener or not, who has given some 
attention to the colours of flowers, cannot 
but have been perplexed at all attempts to 
name the hues of any given number of 
flowers with any degree of accuracy. One 
seems to get on well enough till notes are 
compared with any writer, whether learned 
or otherwise, or with the expressed opinions 
given from the mouth of a speaker ; then 
the student finds his calculations all wrong 
and his notions of colour misconceived. 
The further the study is continued the more 
intricate the subject becomes, for it will be 
found that scarcely two individuals will 
have the same notions of colour, until one 
