July 13, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD, 
723 
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. 
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, £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. 
DANIELS’ SEEDS 
FOR PRESENT SOWING. 
CABBACES—Select Stocks. 
DANIELS' DEFIANCE GIANT MARROW.—The finest 
Cabbage in cultivation. Grows to the weight of 10 to 
20 lbs. each, and is early, short-legged, compact, and of 
splendid flavour. Our own select stock. 
Per packet, -/6, per oz., 1/6 
Ellam’s Early Dwarf, very early „ -/4, „ 1 /- 
Enfield Market . ,, -/6 
Improved Dwarf Nonpareil ... „ -/3, ,, -/10 
Wheeler’s Imperial. ,, -/4, ,, 1/- 
Early York, dwarf. „ -/6 
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, - 16 , 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 /- 
Wbite Lisbon, the best for using green in Spring 
Per lb. 4/6, per oz. -16 
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 6cl. 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. 
nmi/cnuc seed growers, nuccTro 
UlblVOUNd NURSERYMEN, &c. UMtO I tit. 
WINTER FLOWERING ZONALS. 
Good Plants ready for shifting into 5 and 
6 in. pots. 4s. per dozen. 
S E EDLING PR IM UL AS. 
Extra quality. All colours. Mixed, is. 6d. 
per dozen. Free for cash with order. 
H. J. JONES, 
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. 
orchTds! 
Clean Healthy Plants at Low Prices. 
Always worth a visit of inspection. Kindly send, for Catalogue. 
JAMES CYPHER, 
Exotic Nurseries, C HELTENHAM. 
A 
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. 
LAINGS’ BEGON IAS 
NOW IN FULL BLOOM. 
The Premier House. Awardei 9 Gold Medals. 
Unequalled as a Floral Display. Visitors are cordially 
invited; free admission. Frequent trains from the City and 
West End to Catford, Catford Bridge and Forest Hill Stations. 
New Descriptive CA TALOGUE post free. Telephone 9660. 
JOHN LAING & SONS, 
Begonia, Caladium, Clivia, and Gloxinia Specialists, 
Seed, Plant, and Bulb Merchants, &c. 
FOREST HILL, S.E., AND CATFORD, KENT. 
For Index to Contents see page 734. 
“ Gardening Is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon. 
fit IpM 
Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , JULY 13th, 1895 . 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, July 16th.—Sale of imported Orchids at Messrs- 
Protheroe & Morris' Rooms. 
Wednesday, July 17th.—National Rose Society’s Show at 
Derby. 
Thursday, July r8th.—Rose Show at Halifax and Canterbury. 
Friday, July 19th.—Sale of imported and established Orchids 
at Messrs. Protheroe & Morris' Rooms. 
Saturday, July 20th.—Rose Show at Old Traflord. 
Ihe late Professor Huxley.— The great 
champion ot science, who died at his 
house at Eastbourne on the 29th ult., was 
best known to most people as Professor 
Huxley, but his full name was the Right 
Hon. Thomas Henry Huxley, to which 
was added a long string of titles, won during 
his active career in the field of science. He 
was born at Ealing on the 4th May, 1825, 
when that busy place was a quiet village. 
His school career at Ealing was neither 
long nor very profitable. In speaking of 
himself he said that “physically and men¬ 
tally” he was the son of his mother, “ a 
slender brunette, of an emotional and 
energetic temperament.” He continued to 
pursue his studies after leaving school and 
in casting about for an occupation he was 
ultimately appointed assistant surgeon of 
the Rattlesnake late in 1846, in which 
capacity he went on a cruise of four years 
for the purpose of surveying the intricate 
passage within the Barrier Reef on the 
north-eastern coast of Australia. His 
career practically commenced much in the 
same way as that of Darwin, and it was the 
best apprenticeship which he could have 
had to the work of his life. During the 
voyage the biologist in Huxley dominated' 
the doctor, for he busied himself on the 
marine animals collected. A paper he sent 
to the Linnean Society did not find 
acceptance, but a more elaborate treatise 
on the same subject to the Royal Society 
was published, and his name and fame in 
the field of science was practically made. 
In 1858 Charles Darwin and Alfred 
Russel Wallace simultaneously laid their 
great theory of Natural Selection before the 
Linnean Society and in November, 1859, 
Darwin’s “Origin of Species” was published. 
The effect of th& speculations and con¬ 
clusions of those naturalists on Huxley was 
profound : and from that date he became 
the leading man in the promulgation of the 
biological law of evolution. Sir Joseph 
Dalton Hooker and Huxley amongst 
eminent scientfic men were in the foremost 
rank of those who gave the new idea a 
whole-hearted acceptance. Speaking of 
Huxley it has well been said that the 
disciple out stripped his master, for 
Darwin did not at first push his theory to 
its obvious conclusion. Huxley did not, 
however, neglect to point out the limitations 
of the theory, and that much had yet to be 
done in the way of experiments of variation 
and the effect of external conditions. He 
also maintained that the evidence of 
palaeontology and embryology so strongly 
supported the idea of organic evolution that 
“ if all the conceptions promulgated in the 
‘ Origin of Species ’ which are peculiarly 
Darwinian were swept away, the theory of 
the evolution of animals and plants would 
not be in the slightest degree shaken.” 
For many years there was a great up¬ 
heaval in the world of thought, and fierce 
battles of criticism, dispute, and heated dis¬ 
cussions were fought in various parts of the 
kingdom. This of course is always to be 
expected if any original idea of far reaching 
importance is placed before the world. Both 
at home and on the Continent the phil¬ 
osophers of the old school, as we shall now 
term them, were up in arms and wordy con¬ 
tention against the theory of evolution. 
Thirty-six years ago few if any could have 
conceived what a change of front amongst 
scientific men all over the world could have 
taken place as exists at the present day 
amongst intelligent and enquiring minds of 
all classes of society. Huxley has the 
great distinction, more than any other, of 
promulgating the biological law of evolu¬ 
tion, by the practical working out and 
demonstration of the same. Englishmen 
may with gratification remember that the 
enunciation and establishment of the 
greatest speculative theory of the age was 
wholly English. 
Darwin entered more fully into the dis¬ 
cussion of the subject in relation to plant 
life; but although Huxley confined himself 
to that branch of biology which deals with 
the subject from a zoological standpoint, 
we may nevertheless bear in mind that the 
two sections of natural history— botany and 
zoology—are collateral branches of science 
having much in common and much that is 
closely akin. The new light brought to bear 
upon them has greatly modified and altered 
the whole system of teaching. Though 
we may fully understand what is meant by 
the “ physical basis of life,” yet the “ secret 
of life has never been discovered.” The 
professors of either branch of science just 
indicated are fully aware of this, but none 
were more ready than they to admit the 
limits and imperfections of human know¬ 
ledge. These limitations must always 
remain, as far as we can see or predict ; 
but that need not in any way lessen our 
zeal in the prosecution of enquiry in the 
vast field of the unknown that still lies 
before us waiting for exploration, so that in 
the fulness of time we may turn the results 
to practical account in the advancement 
and forward march of everything that tends 
to the betterment of our fellow men. 
The world cannot have too many 
Huxleys of the same stamp as the Professor 
who has just passed away; and we might 
rest assured that if some of them devoted 
their energies to the prosecution of the 
study of plant life, that some, nay much 
tangible and practicable benefit would 
ultimately result to the humble cultivator 
of plants. The new teaching could be 
