July 6, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
707 
STRAWBERRI ES. 
JAMES YEITCH & SONS 
beg to intimate that they are now booking orders for ail the leading kinds of Strawberries, either in pots 
or prepared runners. 
SPECIAL LIST, just published, can be had on application. 
ROYAL EXOTIC NURSERY, KING’S ROAD, CHELSEA, S.W. 
DANIELS’ SEEDS 
FOR PRESENT SOWING. 
CABBAGES—Select Stocks. 
DANIELS' DEFIANCE GIANT MARROW.—The finest 
Cabbage in cultivation. Grows to the weight of io to 
20 lbs. each, and is early, short-legged, compact, and of 
splendid flavour. Our own select stock. 
Ellam’s Early Dwarf, very early 
Per packet, -/6, per oz., 1/6 
,> -/ 4, „ 1/- 
Enfield Market . 
-/6 
Improved Dwarf Nonpareil 
-13, „ -/ 10 
Wheeler’s Imperial. 
-/4, «/- 
Early York, dwarf. 
. „ -16 
ONIONS. 
DANIELS’ GOLDEN ROCCA.—Magnificent variety, of 
splendid form and great size, with light brown skin and 
mild flavour, the best tor autumn sowing. 
Per packet, -/6, per oz., 1/6 
WHITE ELEPHANT TRIPOLI. The largest of all 
the Tripolis . Per packet -/6, per oz. 1/6 
Red Italian Tripoli . „ -/9 
Giant Rocca, very fine . „ -/4, „ 1/- 
White Lisbon, the best for using green in Spring 
Per lb. 4/6, per oz. -/ 6 
LETTUCE. 
DANIELS' CONTINUITY. The best Cabbage Lettuce 
in cultivation. Heads large, firm and crisp. Does not 
run to seed even in the hottest and driest weather. 
Per packet -/6, per oz. 1/6 
DANIELS BROS., 
SEED GROWERS and NURSERYMEN, NORWICH. 
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. 
niPlfCfUIC SEED growers, niJCCTCD 
UlulVoUNO nurserymen, &c. Unto I fcn« 
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. 
ORCHIDS. 
Clean Healthy Plants at Low Prices. 
Always worth a visit of inspection. Kindly send for Catalogue. 
JAMES CYPHER, 
Exotic Nurseries, CHELTENHAM. 
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 NEW EARLY STRAWBERRY FOR 1895. 
“ 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 oj Horti¬ 
culture, March 14; and The Garden, March 16. 
Having 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 in pots, £3 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 718. 
11 Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”—B acon. 
Edited by Jr FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , JULY 6 th, 1895 . 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, July 9th.—Royal Horticultural Society. Special 
Rose Show. Meeting of Committees at 12 o’clock. Ips¬ 
wich Rose Show. Opening day of Wolverhampton Floral 
Fete. 
Sale of Messrs. R. A. Todd's Collection of Orchids by 
Messrs. Protheroe & Morris, at 67 & 68, Cheapside. 
Wednesday, July 10th.—Rose Shows at Farnham, Hitchin, 
Chelmsford, and Redhill. Reigate Cottagers' Flower 
Show. Royal Botanical Society's Evening Fete. Wol¬ 
verhampton Floral Fete. 
Thursday, July nth.—Rose Shows at Helensburgh, Worksop, 
and Bath. Wolverhampton Floral Fete. Woodbridge 
Flower Show. Hereford Rose Society's Show at Great 
Malvern. 
Friday, July 12th.—Sale of Orchids at Messrs. Protheroe & 
Morris' Rooms. 
Saturday, July t3th.—Flower Shows at Galashiels and Wood 
Green. 
5 ||tility of Hardy Herbaceous Plants. 
—Although there is little or no evi¬ 
dence that this class of plants is likely to 
become the mainstay of the garden for 
decorative purposes for many years to come, 
yet there can be little doubt that their 
utility and decorative value are annually 
becoming more and more recognised by the 
general public. When the summer bedding 
actually became a craze, many an old border 
was despoiled of its herbaceous occupants 
solely for the purpose of making panelled 
and ribbon borders and other floral designs. 
Some old gardeners actually gave up their 
berths rather than submit to the new order 
of things ; yet that proved neither check 
nor bar to the fashionable innovation. 
Happily some gardeners, as well as pro¬ 
prietors, were wise in their day, and 
retained good representative collections ot 
their old favourites in borders that did not 
interfere with the arrangements of the 
flower garden proper. Others would fain 
get back much of what they threw away, 
and others are being enlisted in the ranks 
of collectors and cultivators. Very often 
these collections consist of special classes 
or sections of hardy herbaceous subjects, 
and against that we take no objection, for 
the charm and colour harmony to be found 
amongst many sorts is sufficient to enlist 
the sympathies of the most obdurate and 
hardened enemies of hardy, common, and, 
therefore, plebeian plants. 
Other reasons for the growing popularity 
of herbaceous subjects are not far to seek. 
There is a gradual succession of different 
kinds from the earliest period of the year 
at.which flowers can hold their heads up 
against stress of weather in our variable 
climate. There is an endless variety of 
form, height, habit, contour, and colour of 
both foliage and flowers, such, in fact, 
as it would be impossible to obtain from 
more tender exotics grown under glass in 
ninety-nine per cent, of the private 
establishments of the country. It is all the 
same whether the season is wet or dry. In 
cold and wet summers we have seen the 
relatively tender exotics of the flower beds 
look miserable throughout the season, while 
the sun-loving Pelargoniums of the Cape 
were unable to make any display whatever, 
or to hold up against the pitiless rain. The 
herbaceous plants, on the contrary, looked 
happy, and were replete with vigour. The 
droughty season of 1893 and the present seem 
to have very little effect in destroying the 
vitality of the plants or depreciating the 
quantity and quality of the blossoms com¬ 
pared even with bedding plants. In some 
cases where the soil is chalk and dry, 
Pelargoniums even lose their foliage and 
become gradually smaller, or die outright. 
Few cultivators mulch their herbaceous 
borders (excepting perhaps where Paeonies 
are special favourites and cared for accord¬ 
ingly), and fewer still ever think of watering 
them, seeing that the watering pot and 
the hose are incessantly plied on some¬ 
thing else of more special value, merely 
to keep them alive. When planted in 
the proper season in well tilled ground, 
hardy herbaceous plants get thoroughly 
established before the advent of summer 
drought, and so manage to take care 
of themselves that a heavy harvest of 
flowers can be reaped with little trouble 
and less expense compared with what is 
lavished ungrudgingly upon the occupants 
of stoves and greenhouses. Those who are 
fond of flowers may grow both the hardy 
and tender, and thereby insure the greatest 
amount of variety. 
These hardy “commoners of air” have 
also the advantage that they are equally 
effective in borders alongside tne garden 
walks, as in isolated beds on the grass or in 
borders bounding the lawns and backed 
up with shrubbery. The latter is indeed a 
highly effective method of employing them. 
What can be more restful to the wearied 
eye of business people, or indeed of anybody, 
than a wide expanse of well kept lawn with 
the bright colours of the flowers of various 
plants in the distance, and shown up to 
advantage by a background of dark green 
foliage? Nothing in the garden is more 
wearying than a monotony of beds where 
everything is on the same level, and as flat 
as a carpet, especially where the breadth of 
green sward is limited. All this can be 
avoided by a liberal use of herbaceous 
plants, including such as are suited for the 
margins of ponds to which the lawn often 
slopes down without anything to break the 
monotony. We think that in the near 
future there will be a more general use of 
