June 29, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
691 
For Present and Later Sowing 
THE THREE BEST WALLFLOWERS 
ARE 
Dicksons’ Golden Beauty. 
Dicksons’ Selected Dark Red. 
Dicksons’ Primrose Dame. 
Per Packet 6d. and Is. Free by Post. 
Choice Mixed Double Wallflower, Myosotis, 
Silenes, &c., &c. 
For prices and all other particulars see our Illustrated 
Catalogue, free on application. 
mni/cnUC seed growers, niJCCTCD 
UllmOUnd NURSERYMEN, &c. (jllCu I bill 
SINGLE BEGONIA 
H. J. Jones respectfully invites all Begonia 
growers (both private and trade) to inspect his show 
of Begonias, which is admitted by all who have seen 
them to be the finest display in the country. 
RYECROFT NURSERY, 
Hither Green, Lewisham. 
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. 
CRIMSONRAmMSE. 
Charles Turner invites an inspection of 
this marvellous Rose, which is now in 
great beauty at his 
LANGLEY NURSERY, SLOUGH, 
And will be worthy a visit during the early 
part of July. 
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. 
ORCHIDS. 
Clean Healthy Plants at Low Prices. 
Always worth a visit of inspection. Kindly send for Catalogue. 
JAMES CYPHER, 
Exotic Nurseries, CHELTENHAM. 
SCALE OF CHARGES FOR ADVERTISEMENTS^ 
Small Advertisements, solid type, 6d. per line of about nine 
words. Displayed Advertisements, pep 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. 
TO BE HEALTHY PLANTS MUST BE CLEAN. 
Fumigate with 
CAMPBELL’S Fumigating Insecticide 
With the improved process of manufacture, and the tests 
it is subjected to by the makers, and ourselves in 4J acres of 
glass houses, we are able to ask all plant growers who have 
not tried it to do so with confidence, 
GROWERS of FERNS, ORCHIDS, GRAPES and other 
INDOOR FRUIT, also of PELARGONIUMS, CINER¬ 
ARIAS, CALCEOLARIAS, &c., state that their, plants, 
&c., are now quite clean with timely fumigations. 
MEALY BUG on STEPHANOTIS, See., is kept in check 
by the use of 
CAMPBELL’S FUMIGATING INSECTICIDE 
Bear in mind we are the only wholesale dealers in Insecti¬ 
cides who are using on a large scale the preparations they 
sell in their own Nurseries, and therefore, able to speak with 
confidence as Gardeners who actually use to Gardeners who 
ought to use this article. 
PRTrrr ( No. 3 Roll, for 1000 cubic feet of space, Is. each 1 Post 
(No.4 „ 2000 „ ls. 9 d. „ | free. 
Wm. CLIBRAN & SON, 
OLDFIELD NURSERIES, ALTRINCHAM; 
10 & 12 , Market Street, MANCHESTER; 
Also at Llandudno Junction, &c. 
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 Certificates* 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. 
Havipg purchased the whole of the stock ot this 
grand new early Strawberry from the raiser, we have 
pleasure in offering it as follows :— 
Strong plants i-n 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 702. 
“ Gardening Is the pnrest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon. 
IptltL 
Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , JUNE 29 ih, 1895. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, July 2nd.—Rose Shows at Sutton, Diss and Maid¬ 
stone. 
Wednesday, July 3rd.—Rose. Shows at Eajing, Croydon, Farn- 
ingham, Brockbam and Sitfirfgbaurne. Lee, Blackheath 
and Lewisham Flower Show. 
Thursday, July 4th.—Continuation of shows at Sittingbourne, 
and Lee, Blackheath and Lewisham. Norwich and Eltham 
; Rose Shows. • 
Friday, July 5th.—Sale of Orchids at Messrs. Protheroe & 
Morris'Rooms. 
Saturday, July 6th.—National Rose Society's Show at the 
Crystal Palace. London Pansy and Violet Society’s Show 
at the Crystal Palace. 
Warvesting • thf; 'Strawberries. —The 
Strawberry harvest in many a private 
garden is a matter of no small importance,- 
but one has only to learn a few statistics of 
a large fruit farm to realise the extent of 
the work that has to be accomplished in the 
short Strawberry season, and the risk and 
responsibility with which the owner of such 
a farm is saddled to make his harvest a 
success. As far as Britain proper is con¬ 
cerned the: first note of the call to arms in 
this field of labour came from Cornwall, 
Devon, and other counties favoured by the 
warmth and earliness of their southern 
latitude. From these points the Straw¬ 
berry . harvest practically travelled north¬ 
wards and eastwards. The railway traffic 
in Strawberries alone for the past fortnight 
has been very heavy, and in travelling 
southwards, both in an easterly and 
westerly direction one meets with trains 
consisting of vans specially constructed for 
the conveyance of fruit and labelled for 
London as well as Birmingham, Man¬ 
chester, and other large provincial towns 
where the fruits must fetch the best prices 
Qwj-JQK to the extent of their markets and 
northern situation. Later on supplies must 
be.obtained frpm local districts,, and which, 
must then have the effect of lowering and 
equalising prices, as between northern and 
southern markets. By and by, the northern 
growers,- if enterprising enough, might 
retaliate by sending consignments of fruit 
to the south when the harvest there has 
been brought to a close. Last week • the 
fruits were fetching qd., 6d., and 8d. a 
pound, retail price, in the London shops, 
according to size, which, from what we can 
see, is very nearly synonymous with quality 
in public estimation. 
What we saw and heard on the harvest 
fields in the north-west of Kent last week 
may not be devoid of interest to our readers 
at this season of the year,when Strawberries 
constitute the all absorbing topic amongst 
fruit growers and others interested in the 
culture of a class of fruit that seems to be 
gaining in importance every year. There 
the harvest operations were in full swing 
from the early morning till late in the 
day. The tonnage of Strawberries, per 
day-or week, that is taken away from 
some ■ of the railway stations is hardly 
credible,* except to actual eye-witnesses. 
This refers to districts where Straw¬ 
berries and other fruits are competing 
with Hops fob a large share of the most 
fertile landdn the county. The crop is a 
bountiful one owing to the absence of late 
spring frosts and other destructive agencies 
during the flowering period. In a 40-acre 
field at Swanley it is no uncommon thing 
for the pickers to gather 800 to 900 pecks 
of Strawberries before breakfast, and 2,500 
pecks have been gathered in three days. 
We noted that extra horses and vans, 
belonging to another owner, were being" 
employed in taking away the baskets of 
fruit and bringing back empties. On 
another farm not far off, 1,900 pecks of 
Strawberries have been gathered in one 
day; The number of pickers on a field of 
any extent, is very great, and moving 
slowly along in a bent position at work, 
their appearance is strongly suggestive of 
a large herd of cattle and sheep of all sizes 
and ages, grazing on pasture land. The 
garb of the workers generally is sober in 
hue, and, if not particularly picturesque, 
the whole assemblage must constitute a 
pleasing appearance, and give rise to 
agreeable reflections in the mind of the 
farmer who is not over-worried with 
business matters. More particularly would 
this be the case under such favourable con¬ 
ditions for harvesting this easily-injured 
fruit, as has prevailed in the south for 
many weeks past. All kinds of crops 
sadly want rain ; but that is another 
matter, although even yet the unripened 
Strawberries might derive advantage from 
a couple of hours of gentle rain. 
No wheeled vehicles are permissable 
beyond the edge of the field, nor indeed 
much beyond the gate where a little space 
just affords room for the vans to be drawn 
clear of the public highway. Boys are 
practically the carriers between the pickers 
and the vans, and they trudge slowly along 
between the rows (which are about 2ft. 
apart) with their heavy burden. They 
carry four to six baskets according to their 
strength, two in each hand, and sometimes 
one basket is slung round the neck in front 
with another behind so as to balance the 
young carrier on all the cardinal points. 
Every important and knowing man you meet 
is full of Strawberries—we mean metaphori¬ 
cally and mentally—for the first thing he 
has got to tell you, whether a stranger 
to him or not, is about the weather and 
Strawberries. Those two words and their 
story are practically bracketed together as 
if inseparable and the only topics worth 
talking about at present. Notwithstanding 
the importance of the industry and the 
diligence with which the workers ply their 
task, there seems neither fuss nor bustle, 
but the whole business is conducted with a 
quiet and steady earnestness from early 
morning till night. To the London and other 
pickers the work must prove wholesome as 
well as remunerative, practically combining 
