June 8, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
643 
JACK FROST 
has caused many losses that can be made good in 
an easy and cheap manner by purchasing the follow¬ 
ing bulbs and plants which I can recommend as being 
first class. 
BEGONIAS, SINGLE. 
20,000 grand bulbs, mixed colours, finest ever offered 
at the price, 3s. per dozen. 
PELARGONIUMS, SHOW AND DECORATIVE. 
Fine plants in best kinds, 6s., gs., and 12s. per dozen. 
ZONAL PELARGONIUMS. 
Best kinds only, 6 for 2s. 6d., 12 for 4s. 
IVY-LEAF PELARGONIUMS. 
A very choice lot, 6 for 2s. 6d., 12 for 4s. 
DOUBLE PETUNIAS. 
Extra fine new kinds, 6 for 3s. 6d., 12 for 6s. 
Send for Catalogue, Free. 
H. «J. JONES, 
Ryecroft Nursery, Hither Green, Lewisham. 
ORCHIDS. 
Clean Healthy Plants at Low Prices. 
Always worth a visit of inspection. Kindly send for Catalogue. 
JAMES CYPHER, 
Exotic Nnrseries, CHELTENHAM. 
Carnations! Carnations ! 
Carnations! 
The Choicest Varieties in Cultivation, from the 
late Mr. Dodwell's Garden , 
FROM 6s. PER DOZEN, UPWARDS. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST ON APPLICATION TO— 
ARTHUR MEDHURST, 
THE COTTAGE, STANLEY ROAD, OXFORD. 
FLORISTS’ FLOWERS 
AND 
HARDY BORDER PLANTS. 
FORBES’ ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 
for 1895 is now ready, and will be posted to all intending 
Purchasers. 
The new Catalogue for 1895 is enlarged to about 150 pages 
and very materially improved, embracing everything new and 
old worth cultivating in the way of Florists’ Flowers and 
Hardy Plants with accurate description and prices, copious 
notes as to their origin, how, and where best to grow, a full 
index of the common or popular names of Hardy Border 
Plants and a vast mass of other valuable information that 
cannot be had elsewhere, which renders this the best, most 
reliable, and complete catalogue ever issued on this popular 
class of plants. 
JOHN FORBES, Nurseryman, Hawick, Scotland. 
FERNS SPECIALITY. 
A MAGNIFICENT STOCK IN IMMENSE VARIETY. 
Catalogue (No. 40) Free on Application. 
W. & J. BIRKENHEAD, F.R.H.S., 
Fern Nurseries, Sale, near Manchester. 
THE ORCHID FLOWER HOLDER 
(PATENTED). 
A useful Invention for Orchid Growers and Floral Decorators 
Price, per dozen, 3s. •id., post paid, 
TO BE HAD OF 
ALFBBD OTTTIR^IM:, 
7, MOORE PARK ROAD, FULHAM, LONDON, S.W 
SCALE OF CHARGES FOR ADVERTISEMENTS. 
Small Advertisements, solid type, 6d. per line of about nine 
words. Displayed Advertisements, per inch, 6s.; per column 
(12 ins. long), £3 5s.; per half-page, £5 ; per page, £9. Special 
quotations given for a series. Gardeners and others Wanting 
Situations thirty words for is. 6d., prepaid. 
AN UNHAPPY EXPERIENCE AND ITS REMEDY. 
We have sold LEMON OIL many years, but we did not 
use it in our own nurseries largely, fearing it was too costly 
for use on a large scale. We relied on home-made mixtures 
of Petroleum, Quassia Chips, Softsoap, &c. Our experience 
with these was an unhappy one. If the preparations (and 
we tried these articles according to many recipes) were 
made strong enough to kill the insects and eggs, they also 
killed, sooner or later, foliage or wood, and to be safe we 
had to reduce the strength, with the result that the plants or 
trees required frequent dressings at a large cost for work¬ 
people’s time. We ultimately tried LEMON OIL, and on 
15 acres of Fruit trees and 4J acres of glass houses upwards 
of £35 was saved in wages and cost of insecticides in a 
season, and the stock cleaner than it had been before. Any 
fruit grower wanting a good dressing for Fruit trees outside, 
gardeners or amateurs wanting to clear Vines, Peaches, 
stove or other plants of Bug, Thrips, Scale, or Fly should 
give this preparation a trial. It has been before the public 
nearly 7 years, and is still unsurpassed for quality or price. 
Pints, is. iod.; quarts, 3s. 3d.; half gallon, 5s. gd., post 
free. Cheaper in larger quantities or with-carriage forward. 
Send for Circular. 
CLIBRAN’S 
Oldfield Nurseries, ALTRINCHAM. 
Or 10 & 12, Market Street, Manchester. 
THE NEW EARLY STRAWBERRY FOR 1893. 
“ Stevens' Wonder. ’ 
The earliest variety in cultivation and very prolific, 
solid fruit, good flavour, high perfume. 
Awarded First-class Cert.ficates, Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society and Royal Botanic Society, 1895. 
See Gardeners' Chronicle, March 2 ; Journal of Horti¬ 
culture, March 14; and The Garden, March 16. 
Having purchased the whole of the stock of this 
grand new early Strawberry from the raiser, we have 
pleasure in offering it as follows :— 
Strong plants in pots, £5 per 100 ; 15/- per doz. 
„ Runners, £3 per 100 ; 9/- per doz. 
Ready for Delivery Early in July. 
Early Orders requested as stock is limited. 
Further particulars upon application 
WM. CUTBUSH & SON, 
Highgate Nurseries, London, and Barnet, Herts. 
For Index to Contents see page 654. 
" Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man ”— Bacon. 
Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , JUNE 8th, 1895. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, June nth.—Royal Horticultural Society: Meeting 
o( Committees at 12 o’clock. 
Wednesday, June 12th.—Royal Botanic Society's Floral Fete 
at Regent’s Park. 
Southend Horticultural Show. 
Sale of the Beechcroft Collection of Orchids by Messrs. 
Protheroe & Morris at 67 and 68, Cheapside, E.C. 
Thursday, June 13th.—Southend Horticultural Show. 
Sale of tbe Beechcroft Collection of Orchids by Messrs. 
Protheroe & Morris at Epgbaston. 
Friday, June 14th.—Sale of Orchids at Messrs. Protheroe & 
Morris' Rooms. 
|s Gardening Hard Work? —This is no 
~ easyquestion toanswer withoutdetailsor 
the bearings of the situation. The occupa¬ 
tion or profession of gardening, taken in its 
broadest sense, is a very comprehensive 
one, as most gardeners know who have 
been in different parts of the country, inde¬ 
pendently of their collective knowledge 
gathered from all sources, as to the require¬ 
ments of various establishments. Both 
masters and men have irksome or dis¬ 
agreeable duties to perform, and, from a 
gardening point of view, some of the duties 
they are called upon to perform are really 
extraordinary. The quiet and submissive 
manner with which they put up with every¬ 
thing shows tne quality of the metal of 
which gardeners are made, and every bit of 
hard or difficult work faithfully and success¬ 
fully accomplished is a silent witness of their 
indomitable energy and mental capacity. 
Such men do indeed set a “ stout heart to 
a stey brae,” and make it their motto when 
called upon to do anything difficult, pro¬ 
vided it is reasonably and evidently their 
duty. As a rule the hardest of the manual 
labour would fall upon the young men, 
while the mental capacity of the head 
gardener is more put to the test not only in 
keeping everything under control but in 
seeing his work weeks or even many 
months ahead. 
In rural districts the young men are 
frequently called upon to do some work with 
the snow plough for an hour or two in the 
morning or even for a whole day after severe 
snow-storms, in order to open up the roads 
for the convenience of the establishment. 
On other occasions they have to fill the ice¬ 
house and even lie amongst the ice to com¬ 
plete the storage. This would always 
occur in winter„when there is a great lack 
cf excitement in the ordinary routine of 
gardening, so that an extraordinary job 
like this is often accepted by way of a 
change, even if scarcely to be classified 
as an agreeable form of excitement. The 
gardening boy and the apprentice some¬ 
times complain of the drudgery of the de¬ 
grading operation of pot-washing or the 
filthiness of the job of cleaning out the 
flues and stokeholes of the heating appara¬ 
tus, just as if they were not legitimate parts 
of a gardener’s education. In the minds of 
most people the hardest part of gardening 
is associated with digging. An amusing 
discussion on the subject of digging took 
place recently at a meeting of the Bideford 
Board of Guardians. Some of the latter 
could not understand what attraction the 
casual ward of their district had for 
vagrants and tramps who turned up not 
only in considerable numbers, but many of 
the self-same gentlemen of the road 
repeated their visits pretty frequently, and 
even regularly for years. One of the 
members got the register and found that 
the tramps were put to do gardening, which 
was synonymous with digging, also pump¬ 
ing and sifting ashes. The chairman ex¬ 
plained that it was sometimes necessary to 
put the vagrants in the garden, but they 
did not like it. Some years ago a strong 
fellow came to his house and asked for a 
job, and he directed his gardener to put the 
tramp to do digging in the garden. The 
tramp had half an hour of it and was 
thoroughly tired out. The chairman con¬ 
cluded that gardening was not an easy 
occupation to those unaccustomed to it. 
The member of the board alluded to above, 
with his eyes still upon the register, said 
that “ pumping and sifting ashes seemed to 
be the principal amusement,” and later on 
must have been pleased when through his 
instigation he got the Board of Guardians 
to give the master of the institution in¬ 
structions to lay in a stock of stones for the 
vagrants to break so as to make their work 
sufficiently disagreeable to act as a check 
on their visits, and put the institution 
on a similar footing with others of the 
kind. 
From the above point of view, digging is 
evidently considered a superior occupation 
to breaking stones. Young gardeners soon 
get accustomed to digging, and, seeing that 
it is chiefly performed in autumn and 
winter when the weather is cool, the drudg¬ 
ery of it is less felt than it would be in 
summer. Young men who choose garden¬ 
ing as a profession are highly delighted to 
secure a berth under a gardener who is noted 
for his accomplishments in vegetable culture 
as indicated by the number of first prizes 
he takes with his productions at the local 
shows. Such apprentices soon discover 
that there are more hard knocks and stiff 
work behind those show cards than on the 
face of them. No gardener nor cultivator 
can grow good Cabbages and the like, year 
after year, in an old garden without much 
labour in digging, trenching and manuring, 
and unless the establishment is well 
supplied with labourers the brunt of this 
trenching falls on the young men. Such 
work is legitimate enough gardening even if 
at times somewhat laborious, particularly 
if the kitchen garden is large and the 
workers few. On the other hand it is an 
excellent education for young men, and a 
healthy occupation ; and many a head 
gardener has had reason to bless his early 
experience in after years when he is called 
upon to direct others. An honest red face 
tells its own tale and shows that the owner 
has spent much of his time in the open air. 
In our opinion the mowing machine is 
harder work than digging, when it has to be 
accomplished by men. Improvements in 
