June 17, 1893. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
655 
ORCHIDS. 
Clean Healthy Plants at Low Prices. 
Always worth a visit of inspection. Kindly send for Catalogue. 
JAMES CYPHER, 
Exotic Nurseries, CHELTENHAM. 
FERNS! FERNS! TRADE. Stove & Greenhouse, 
25 best sorts in 2j-in. pots 12s. 100, large in 10 best sorts 5-in. 
pots 6s. per doz. Seedlings in variety 6s. too. Palms, Ficns, 
Hydrangeas, Marguerites, Pelargoniums, Dracrenas, in 5-in. 
pots rs. each. Cyperus, Auralias, Grevellias, and Rhodanthe, 
in 5-in. pots 6s. dozen. A. Cuneatum, large, in 5-in. pots, value 
in fronds, 6s. and 8s. dozen. Pteris Tremula and A. Cuneatum 
for making large plants quickly, 16s. and 20s. 100. Packed, put 
on rail, free for Cash. J. SMITH, LONDON FERN 
NURSERIES, LOUGHB3RO JUNCTIO i, S.W. 
MR. DODWELL’S 
GRAND CARNATIONS. 
THE FINEST GROWN 
All Classes, 10/6 per dozen. 
Mr. Dodwell’s List of Specialties is now ready. 
Send Stamp and get copy. 
The Cottage, Stanley Road, Oxford 
“THE Jjf LAWN 
NONSUCH ” WEEDER. 
The fulcrum is not /jfl Bp ? fixed, as usual, but is 
pivoted to the fork at A. so that the teeth are 
naturally pressed for- ward against the root and 
hold it. This makes the work so easy that a child can do 
more work with it than a man can do with any other fork. 
Price 1/6 each, of Ironmongers, Seedsmen, &c.; or post free ol 
A. C. STERRY, 
2, Marshalsea Road., London, S.TC 
SOLE WHOLESALE AGENTS! 
Harding & Sons, 25, Long Lane, London, S.E. 
Osman & Co., 132, Commercial Street, London, E. 
THE 
CHAMPION WEED KILLER 
OF THE WORLD IS 
THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE, 
MANUFACTURED BY 
MARK SMITH, LOUTH, 
LINCOLNSHIRE. 
Best and Cheapest. Never fails. Used in the Royal 
Gardens. Don’t be imposed upon by Useless Imitations, 
but send at once for Prices and Testimonials. Carriage 
paid on four gallons. 
BRIGHT FLOWERS FOR BEDS 
AND BORDERS. 
Calceolarias, Geraniums, Petunias, and other Gay 
Flowering Plants, with Irisine, Coleus, Perilla and 
other Plants of Decorative foliage. Large Stocks of 
Bcdding-out Plants at most moderate Prices 
DICKSONS NURSERIES, CHESTER 
STUART & MEIN’S 
No. 1 CABBAGE, 
The earliest and finest type of Spring Cabbage in cultivation, 
coming into use in April and May. The hearts are large and 
solid, and of the finest Havour. Our seed of this famous cab¬ 
bage being the true stock, and as many inferior varieties are 
substituted for it, we stongly advise all to send to us direct for 
their supply. 
As a further inducement we offer £8 in Cash Prizes for 
the three best Cabbages grown from seed procured direct 
from us. 
Full particulars will be supplied with each packet of seed 
sent out. Is. per packet. Post free, Is. 6d. per ounce. 
STUART & MEIN, 
KEDSO, SCOTLAND. 
Established upwards of Half a Century. 
NOTHING is too small. 
NOTHING is too much trouble. 
N1W BEDDING FUCHSIA, 
“ DUN ROBIN BIDDER.” 
MESSRS. JAMES VEITCH & SONS 
Offer this very useful and distinct Bedding FUCHSIA 
which was raised by Mr. Melville, of Dunrobin Castle 
Gaidens. 
The plant is dwarf and compact, scarcely exceeding a foot 
in height, and remarkably floriferous, its bright coral-red 
flowers being produced in great profusion. This Fuchsia is 
well adapted for small beds, edgings, carpeting below taller 
plants, out-of-door vases, window-boxes, &c. 
It has received an Award of Merit from the Royal 
Horticultural Society. 
“The very remarkable appearance presented by that 
charming dwart Fuchsia Dunrobin Bedder, as seen recently 
at Chiswick, very naturally attracted the attention of several 
members of one of the Committees, because so compact and 
wondrously full of bloom. If Fuchsias merit the appellation 
of bedders, this one certainly possesses the properties of a 
bedder in a high degree."—Gardening World. 
Mr. Barron, Superintendent of the Royal Horticultural 
Society’s Garden at Chiswick, writes—“ This Fuchsia is a 
real good thing, dwarf, very floriferous, and much admired by 
everybody. ” 
Mr. Dunn, of Dalkeith Palace Gardens, writes—“This 
little Fuchsia has done very well here for the past two 
seasons. It flowers profusely, and is noticed by everybody as 
a bright, distinct and attractive plant among the host of other 
‘ bedding' subjects.” 
Price 12s. per dozen. 
ROYAL EXOTIC NURSERY, 
CHELSEA, S.W. 
For Index To Contents see page 665. 
Inspection Invited. The Trade Supplied. 
You will NOT be worried to order. 
E. D. SHUTTLEWORTH & CO. 
(LIMITED), 
Albert Nurseries, 
Palms, Ferns, Stove & Greenhouse Plants, &c., 
PECKHAM RYE, LONDON, S.E. 
Herbaceous Plants, General Nursery Stock, 
Bulbs, &c. 
FLEET, HANTS. 
BEDDING BEGONIAS. 
All the Choicest Colors, & best quality, 
4/- per dozen. 
POST OR PACKAGE FREE. 
H. J. JONES, Ryecroft Nursery, Hither Green, 
LEWISHAM, S.E. 
FERNS SPECIALITY. 
A magnificent stock of all kinds of Ferns. Abridged 
Catalogue of 1,400 varieties free on application. 
Illustrated Catalogue of Ferns (No. 22) 
The most beautiful and complete 
ever published, 2 /-postfree. 
It contains 150 Illustrations, and an immense 
amount of interesting and instructive matter of great 
value to all Fern cultivators. 
W. & J. BIRKENHEAD, F.R.H.S., 
Fern Nurseries, Sale, near Manchester. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, June 20th.—Royal Horticultural Society: Meeting 
of Committees at 12 o'clock. National Rose Show at the 
Drill Hall. 
Sale of Established Orchids at Protheroe & Morris' Rooms. 
Wednesday, June 21st.—Royal Botanic Society's Summer 
Show. 
Thursday, June 22nd.—Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Institu¬ 
tion : Annual Dinner. Ryde Rose Show. 
Friday, June 23rd.— Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe 
& Morris' Rooms. 
Saturday, June 24th.—Reigate Rose Show. 
tf|f( ijMd, 
Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S 
SATURDAY, JUNE ijth, 1893. 
Mhe Pansy Show. —Whilst we have not 
the slightest desire to set one popular 
flower against another, yet was it difficult 
to refrain from an expression of sympathy 
with the exclamation overheard at the Drill 
Hall the other day—“Well, Pansies give 
more to lock at than Auriculas ! ” That is 
very true, although to the true florist there 
is perhaps no flower regarded with deeper 
veneration than is a perfect Show Auri¬ 
cula. But the Pansy does appeal to popu¬ 
lar taste much more effectively because of 
its exceeding beauty, thorough hardiness, 
and considerable size of the flowers. Of 
THE CARNATION: 
Its History, Properties, and Management; 
course it is not easyffor everyone to pro¬ 
duce even from the same varieties such 
splendid flowers as the Scotch growers set 
up; but at least with fairly favourable con¬ 
ditions of soil and situation, they can 
accomplish much and doubtless be more 
WITH 
than satisfied. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF THE BEST VARIETIES IN CULTIVATION 
BY 
E. S. DODWELL, 
Hon. Secretary and Treasurer of the Carnation and Picotee Union. 
A NEW AND CHEAPER” EDITION, 
With Supplementary Chapter on the Yellow Ground. 
Price, Is, 6d. Post Free, Is, 7d, 
GARDENING WORLD ” OFFICE, 1, CLEMENT’S INN, STRAND, W.G. 
It probably surprised many visitors to 
the recent show to note that few flowers 
indeed were shown that were grown in the 
South, and that by far the larger propor¬ 
tion came from the North. Practically it 
has been a North season, but then it may 
not be so always, for to us down South it 
has been one of exceptional drought and 
warmth. Such exceptional weather, how¬ 
ever, should be far from discouraging to 
would-be Pansy growers, and we urge them 
to try again, obtaining some of the fine 
sorts plentifully shown at the Drill Hall, 
and getting them, too, early in the autumn, 
keeping them in pots in a cool frame, the 
pots plunged in ashes for the winter, then 
