august 81, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
835 
The New Spineless Gooseberries. 
SPINELESS, ROBUST GROWTH, LARGE RED FRUIT, EXTREMELY FERTILE, BEST QUALITY. 
See “ Gardening World” of August iotli, (No. 571), pages 793-794. 
Coloured Plate, Prices, and Every Information from Wit. RUSHFORTH, Nursery Mount, Leeds, 
AND FROM THE ONLY PROPRIETORS, 
LETELLIER & SON, CAEN, FRANCE. 
DUTCH FLOWER ROOTS. 
JAMES VEITGH & SONS 
Beg to announce they have received their annual supply of 
HYACINTHS, NARCISSUS, TULIPS, AND OTHER BULBOUS ROOTS, 
And are pleased to say that they are in exceptionally fine condition. 
BULB CATALOGUErFOR 1895 
Has baen Posted to all their Customers; any one not having received the same, a Duplicate Copy 
will be forwarded, Post Free, on application. 
ROYAL EXOTIC NURSERY, KING'S ROAD, CHELSEA, LONDON, S.W. 
The Publisher begs to announce that the 
« TWELFTH ANNUAL VOLUME ¥ 
OF THE 
GARDENING WORLD, 
SEPTEMBER 7th. 
Will toe commenced 
NEXT WEEK, 
BY THE ISSUE OF A 
SPECIAL NUMBER, 
TREATING ON THE 
TUBEROUS BEGONIA 
AND CONTAINING 
NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. 
To secure good positions Advertisers should send their Orders by Tuesday 
Morning, September 3rd. 
Force your Strawberries in Jadoo Fibre. 
Brings out flavour and increases the yield. 
8 /- per 3 bushel sack. Special rates per ton. 
Obtainable through any Nurseryman. 
For further particulars apply to 
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CHRYSANTHEMUM BOOKS. 
I Have a few of my Chrysanthemum Guides left. 
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For Index to Contents see page 843, 
" Gardening Is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man. 1 '— Bacon. 
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Edited by J. FRASER F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , AUGUST 3 i st, 1895. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, September 2nd.—Bulb Sales at Messrs. Protheroe 
and Morris' Rooms. 
Tuesday, September 3rd.—Early Exhibition of Chrysanthe¬ 
mums by the N.C.S. at the Royal Aquarium (3 oays). 
Dumfries Flower Show (2 days). 
Bulb Sales at Messrs. Protheroe and Morris' Rooms. 
Wednesday, September 4th.—Bulb Sales at Messrs. Protheroe 
and Morris' Rooms. 
Thursday, September 5th.—Stilling Flower Show (2 days). 
Bulb Sales at Messrs. Protheroe and Morris’ Rooms. 
Friday, September 6th.—National Dahlia Society’s Show at 
the Crystal Palace (2 days). 
Bulo and Orchid Saies at Messrs. Protheroe and Morris' 
Rooms. 
Saturday, September 7th.—Bulb Sales at Messrs. Protheroe 
and Morris' Rooms. 
ANURES AND THEIR APPLICATION.- It is 
one of the signs of the times, that 
amongst the several burning questions 
being discussed in relation to plant culture, 
manures are receiving more special atten¬ 
tion than formerly. Not only is this the 
case in Britain, but in America where the 
land has been greatly exhausted by con¬ 
tinuous cropping without the aid of 
manure, artificial or otherwise. On the 
Continent the question of manures has 
been more thoroughly discussed than in 
this country, except in a few cases where 
private and individual enterprise has been 
putting the country under obligation to its 
exertions. Gardeners themselves are tak¬ 
ing a more active interest in the question 
of manures than formerly. Recent evidence 
of this is exemplified in the admirable 
lecture on the subject of manures delivered 
by Mr. W. Dyke at a meeting of the Ches- 
hunt, Wormley and District Horticultural 
Society in May last. The gardeners ex¬ 
pressed a desire to have it in permanent 
form, and their generally expressed wish 
induced Mr. Dyke to re-write his lecture in 
fuller detail. This he has done and pub¬ 
lished it in the form of a pamphlet of some 
thirty-two pages in which he deals with 
the larger number of subjects at present 
utilised as fertilisers of the soil. 
The aim of the author is to give his 
readers some insight about the constituents 
of plants, and the nature of their require¬ 
ments in the matter of nourishment and 
stimulants needed to foster the full develop¬ 
ment of the several kinds in most general 
cultivation. The information given is con¬ 
cise, and not in any way burdened with 
