August 24, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
819 
The New Spineless Gooseberries. 
SPINELESS, ROBUST GROWTH, LARGE RED FRUIT, EXTREMELY FERTILE, BEST QUALITY. 
See “ Gardening World” of August ioth, (No. 571), pages 793-794. 
Coloured Plate, Prices, and Every Information from WM. RUSHFORTH, Hunslet, Leeds, 
AND FROM THE ONLY PROPRIETORS, 
LETELLIER & SON, CAEN, FRANCE. 
Carnations! Carnations ! 
Carnations! 
The Choicest Varieties in Cultivation, from the 
late Mr. Dod well’s Garden, 
FROM 6s. PER DOZEN, UPWARDS. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST ON APPLICATION TO— 
ARTHUR MBDHURST, 
THE COTTAGE, STANLEY ROAD, OXFORD. 
ORCHIDS. 
Clean Healthy Plants at Low Prices. 
Always worth a visit of inspection. Kindly send for Catalogue, 
JAMES 
Exotic Nurseries, CHELTENHAM. 
SEEDLING PLANTS OF 
CHOICE FLORISTS’ FLOWERS, &e. 
Post Free at Prices Quoted. Per doz. Per ioo. 
CALCEOLARIAS.— From choicest flowers s. d. s. d. 
only... ... ... ... ... ... ... 16 10 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 o 12 6 
CYCLAMEN PERSICUM GIGANTEUM 
STRONG TRANSPLANTED 
SEEDLINGS from single pots... 36 25 0 
„ PURE WHITE, very beautiful 
and select.46 — 
GLOXINIA GRANDIFLORA ERECTA.— 
From a magnificent strain. ... 2 6 
PANSIES, DANIELS’ PRIZE BLOTCHED. 
—Planted out now will bloom grandly 
next spring and summer . 1 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 16 10 6 
„ „ „ Red, splendid ... 16 10 6 
„ „ „ Mixed,many beautiful 
varieties 1 6 10 
„ „ „ Extra strong plants 2 6 15 
DANIELS BROS., 
TOWN CLOSE NURSERIES, NORWICH. 
15 0 
10 6 
CHRYSANTHEMUM BOOKS. 
I Have a few of my Chrysanthemum Guides left. 
Handsomely bound in cloth boards, gilt edges, 
2 s. 6 d. each. 
The N.C.S, YEAR BOOK, is. 2 d. each, contains 
much useful information. 
The AMERICAN CHRYSANTHEMUM ANNUAL 
(a limited number only), 5 s. each. 
All Post Free for Cash wi.h Order. 
USE JADOO FIBRE 
Fop BUL.BS and AUTUMN POTTING. 
8 s. per 3-bushel sack. Special rates per ton. 
Obtainable through any Nurseryman. 
For further particulars apply to— 
Per packet 
• 16 , per oz. 
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11 
-/4, „ 
II 
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DANIELS’ SEEDS 
FOR PRESENT SOWING. 
CABBACES—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 
Enfield Market .. 
Improved Dwarf Nonpareil 
Wheeler’s Imperial. 
Early York, dwarf.. 
0NI0N8. 
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. 
CABBAGE ! 
WHEELER'S IMPERIAL. —Earliest and hardiest 
Cabbage known, having stood the severe winter 
where all others have failed. Unless had direct 
from the raiser you do not know what this 
variety is like. 
In sealed packets only, 6d., is., and 2S. each. 
Post free. 
Sole Proprietor— 
H. J. WHEELER, F.R.H-S., Seed Grower, 
WARMINSTER, WILTS, 
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 NATIONAL 
Chrysanthemum Society’s 
YEAR BOOK FOR 1895. 
Edited by C. HARMAN PAYNE, F.R.H.S. 
JUST PUBLISHED, 
PRICE ONE SHILLING 
JADOO, Ltd., 5i, HIGH STREET, EXETER. 
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Address only the PROPRIETOR, 
JOSEPH ARNOLD, 
32, St. Paul's Road, Camden Town, LONDON, N.W. 
JOSEPH ARNOLD invites the Attention of the Trade that 
he is now Cutting the Famous Bedfordshire Peat, and Yellow 
Fibrous Loam of Superior Quality. Supplied in quantities and 
loaded on Rail or into Boats (with or without Sand), at 
Leighton Buzzard. Prices on Application as above. 
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Post free is. ijd. from the Publisher of 
the Gardening World, i, Clement’s Inn, 
Strand, London, W.C. 
“ AMERICAN GARDENING.” 
An illustrated Journal of Horticulture, published in the 
interests ot the amateur in the Garden, the Conservatory, the 
House, the Fruit and Vegetable Grower, Tree's, Shrubs, and 
FTowers. 
The Leading American Horticultural Authority. 
Issued semi-monthly, and mailed, postage paid, twenty-four 
times in the year to English subscribers for a 6s. money order 
Address, “AMERICAN GARDENING," 170, Fulton Street 
New York, U.S.A. 
For Index to Contents see page 830. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon. 
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Edited by J. FRASER F.L.S. 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 24 th, 1895. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, August 26th.—Trade sale oi Dutch Bulbs at Messrs, 
Protheroe and Morris’ Rooms. 
Tuesday, August 27th.—Royal Horticultural Society; Meet¬ 
ing ot committees at 12 o’clock. Bright m and Sussex 
Summer Show (two days). Sale of the Wilson Collection 
of Orchids at Messrs. Protheroe and Morris' Rooms. 
Wednesday, August 28th.—Bath Autumn Show (two days). 
Sale of the Wilson Collection oi Orchids at Messrs Proth. 
eroe and Morris’ Rooms. 
Thursday, August 29th.—Trade sale of Dutch Bulbs at Messrs, 
Protheroe and Morris' Rooms. 
Friday, August 30th—Sale of Orchids at Messrs, Protheroe 
and Morris' Rooms. 
Mardy Bamboos and their decorative 
value.— There are something like 175 
species of grasses belonging to the tribe 
Bambusae, and distributed through 22 
genera ; but for garden purposes they may 
all be regarded as Bamboos, though only 
some two dozen of them belong to the 
genus Bambusa. Of all that number we 
are at present concerned only with those 
that prove hardy in one or other part of the 
British Isles. Until quite recently, people 
in this country regarded them as tropical 
plants, unsuitable for outdoor gardening, 
and unmanageable for indoor work on 
account of their huge proportions. This 
would have been the case had all the 
Bamboos been like Arundinaria gigantea, 
growing to a height of forty to sixty feet or 
more, as seen in the Palm House at Kew 
and in the tall conservatory at Syon House. 
More familiar perhaps to British gardeners 
was the dwarf Arundinaria Fortunei varie- 
gata and the golden-leaved form, usually 
about twelve to fifteen inches in height as 
cultivated in pots and used for decorative 
purposes in greenhouses. Many gardeners 
had a dim suspicion that Fortune’s Bamboo 
was hardy or nearly so in certain parts of 
the country. Discoveries in this direction 
seemed for a long time to be accidental 
rather than made as a result of direct ex¬ 
periment. 
For several years past, Bamboos have 
been grown more or less extensively in the 
Channel Islands, but particularly in 
Guernsey ; but those instances of cultiva¬ 
tion were not accepted as proof of hardiness 
by gardeners in Britain proper, because the 
climate of those islands is always much 
