August 10, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
787 
W E B B S’ 
Mmm 
EMPEROR 
CABBAGE. 
The Earliest and Best 
6 d. and Is. per Packet. 
Is. 6d. per Ounce. 
From Mr. ROBT. WILSON, Gardener to the Rev. C. J. 
Steward, Summerleyton Rectory. 
11 Webbs’ Emperor Cabbage is the earliest and best variety 
I ever grew ; it is most compact in growth, and of excellent 
flavour. I am strongly recommending it to my friends 
around." 
EARLY NONPAREIL 
CABBAGE 
Per Ounce. 
... 8d. 
ENFIELD MARKET 
do. 
... 6d 
EARLY RAINHAM 
do. 
... 8d 
RED DUTCH 
do. 
... 9d. 
ONION. 
Per Pkt. Per Oz. 
WEBBS’ RED GLOBE TRIPOLI 6d- Is 6d- 
LARGE FLAT RED TRIPOLI 6d- ... 10d. 
GIANT ROCCA. 6d- ... 10d- 
WHITE LISBON . ... 6d. 
All Garden Seeds Free by Post or Rail. 
Seedsmen by Royal Warrants to H.M. the Queen 
and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. 
WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
SEEDLING PLANTS OF 
CHOICE FLORISTS’ FLOWERS, &c. 
Post Free at Prices Quoted. 
Per doz. Per ioo. 
CALCEOLARIAS.— From choicest flowers s. d. s. d. 
only. i 6 io 6 
CARNATIONS and PICOTEES. — From 
stage flowers .I 6 io 6 
CINERARIAS.—From a grand strain, very fine i 6 io 6 
,, New dwarf, large flowered, fine 2 0 126 
CYCLAMEN PERSICUM GIGANTEUM 
STRONG TRANSPLANTED 
SEEDLINGS from single pots... 3 6 25 0 
„ PURE WHITE, very beautiful 
and select.46 — 
GLOXINIA GRANDIFLORA ERECTA- 
From a magnificent strain. 26 15 0 
PANSIES, DANIELS’ PRIZE BLOTCHED. 
—Planted out now will bloom grandly 
next spring and summer . 16 10 6 
PRIMULA.— Our Primulas are acknowledged 
to be unsurpassable 
„ ALBA MAGNIFICA — Splendid white 26 — 
„ DANIELS’ CRIMSON KING.— 
Splendid variety 26 — 
„ „ SUPERB BLUE.—Very fine 26 — 
„ „ CHOICEST WHITE.—Fine 1 6 10 6 
„ „ „ Red, splendid ... 16 10 6 
„ „ „ Mixed,many beautiful 
varieties 1 6 
„ ,, „ Extra strong plants 2 6 
10 6 
15 0 
DANIELS BROR., 
TOWN CLOSE NURSERIES, NORWICH. 
WINTER FLOWERING ZONALS, 
Good Plants ready for shifting into 5 and 
6 in. pots. 4 s. per dozen. 
SEEDLING PRIMULAS. 
Extra quality. All colours. Mixed, is. 6 d. 
per dozen. Free for cash with order. 
H. J. JONES. 
RYECROFT NURSERY, HITHER GREEN, LEWISHAM. 
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. 
nifll/CflUC 8EED growers, nurcTCD 
LJIUlXOUrlO NURSERYMEN, &c. UfltO I tit. 
FERNS SPECIALITY. 
A MAGNIFICENT STOCK IN IMMENSE VARIETY. 
Catalogue (No. 50) Free on Application. 
W. & J. BIRKENHEAD, F.R.H.S., 
Fern Nurseries, Sale, near Manchester. 
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— 
ART MU Ft 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. 
For Index to Contents see page 798. 
" 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 , AUGUST 10th, 1895. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, August 13th.— Royal Horticultural Society: Meet¬ 
ing of Committees at twelve o’clock. West Malvern and 
Mathon Flower Show, 
Wednesday, August 14th.—Flower Shows at Salisbury and 
Bishop Stortford. Opening day of Cardiff Horticultural 
Show, 
Thursday. August 15th—Martock Horticultural Show. 
Continuation of Cardiff Horticultural Show. Flower 
Shows at Weston-super-Mare, Maidenhead, and Goole & 
District. 
Friday, August 16th.—Sale of Orchids at Messrs. Protheroe& 
Morris' rooms. 
J ournal of the Kew Guild. —I he third 
annual issue of this journal has just 
been published, as announced in our 
previous number. Long looked for come 
at last will be echoed by the old Kewites all 
overtheglobe. The reason for thisisnot farto 
seek; for it is virtually an answer to the ques¬ 
tions, “ where are you, and what are you 
doing ? Unfortunately the echo only 
answers “ where ? ” in far too many cases. 
The whereabouts of many are unknown, 
and the numerous obituary notices too 
plainly indicate the price in human life, that 
the mother establishment at Kew pays for 
her name and fame in the distant colonies 
all over the globe. Portraits are given of 
four heroic men—pioneers in distant lands 
—who met their fate in the early spring of 
their career—three in tropical Africa and 
one in India. The record is sufficiently 
convincing that “ not all who go out to 
Greater Britain win a comfortable com¬ 
petence and old age.” 
The frontispiece of the journal consists 
of a portrait of Sir William Jackson 
Hooker, and following it is a short memoir 
of that famous botanist, formerly the 
director and the first one of the Royal 
Gardens, Kew. Then follows the annual 
report, and the proceedmgs of the annual 
general meeting of the Guild. The notes 
and correspondence that follow must prove 
exceedingly interesting to gardeners gener¬ 
ally, whether they are old Kewites or not. 
It is satisfactory to learn that it has been 
definitely decided to complete the Tem¬ 
perate House, and that both wings are to 
be built simultaneously at an estimated 
cost of /12.000. In a note upon the aban¬ 
donment of green glass for plant houses at 
Kew an admission is made that “ science 
does sometimes make a “muss” in a 
garden.” Weareopinion that unless green 
glass had previously been tried in some 
or other garden and found wanting, the 
use of it at Kew would only have been 
in the nature of an experiment ; and 
even if such use originated as an idea con¬ 
ceived by scientific men, its failure in 
securing the desired results cannot be laid 
at the door ol science. What is not 
actual knowledge, cannot be science. A 
correct knowledge of the results obtained 
by experiments, whether made by practical 
or scientific men, is more of the nature of 
true science. 
Amongst the many improvements that 
have been effected in the gardens and the 
working of the same, we cannot overlook 
the fact that fifteen more gardeners have 
been added to the staff than formerly, thus 
raising the number to fourty-four. Trained 
gardeners now do the work in several 
departments for which labourers were 
at one time considered competent. The 
correspondence contributed by many old 
Kewites, is extremely interesting and 
constitutes an epitome of the successes and 
failures of the world’s gardeners, for the old 
boys have been and are of all nationalities, 
and white, brown and black skinned. The 
following extract, taken from the letter of a 
correspondent in Denmark, no doubt ex¬ 
presses the feelings of many with regard to 
the journal and the information it contains : 
—“ I had been wondering how fate had 
dealt with my old comrades, and now here 
comes the journal with just the information I 
wanted ! Mr. Dewar wielding his sceptre 
in Scotland ; Broadway lounging beneath 
the palms in the West Indies; Cameron 
and Canning going ahead in the Far West; 
Baker residing in venerable Oxford ; Mr. 
Hardy dwelling at the Antipodes—at 
Mooroopna (what an uncivilised name!) ; 
Proudlock eating rice in India, etc., etc.,” 
Mr. V. Bouckenhooghe, writing from 
the Upper Congo, thus testifies the value 
of Kew as an educational institution :— 
“What a fine country Tropical Africa is. 
But above all the manifold phases of nature 
which you see, that of the struggle for exis¬ 
tence is the most prominent and impressive. 
What strange things one sees, too, among 
plant life. I regret now that I did not 
obtain a better grasp of systematic botany 
whilst at Kew. It is when placed in such 
circumstances as I am that one feels keenly 
the want of knowledge which one had the 
chance of acquiring, but neglected to do 
so.” Not the most important items of 
information are the above, though vastly 
interesting. Technical education, we note, 
has reached the banks of the Nile, and we 
hope that before many years have passed, 
it will have reached far Cathay. 
■--f-- 
Mr. F. W. Moore, the Curator of the Royal 
Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, has been elected a 
corresponding member of the Societe Nationale 
d'Horticulture of France. 
The Potato Disease is now rampant in the West 
Cork owing to the recent heavy rain. 
His Grace the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, is 
providing seats and laying out walks and pleasure 
grounds on his property adjoining the town of 
Huntley, to be used by the public. 
The Drumblade Mutual Improvement Association 
offered prizes for the best kept cottage, and for the 
best kept garden. The awards were made recently, 
and the winner of the first prize for the best kept 
cottage also received the Highland Society’s Medal. 
