August 12, 1893. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
783 
ORCHIDS. 
Clean Healthy Plants at Low Prices. 
Always worth a visit of inspection. Kindly send for Catalogue. 
JJL IVIES CYPHER, 
Exotic Nurseries, CHELT ENHAM. 
FERNS! TRADE! 
STOVE AND GREENHOUSE. 
25 best sorts in 2Lin. pots 12s. 100, large in 10 best sorts 5-in. 
pots 6s. per doz. Seedlings in variety 6s. 100. Palms, Fipns, 
Dracasnas, in 5-in. pots is. each; Hydrangeas, Marguerites, 
Pelargoniums, 9 d. 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, LOUGHBORO JUNCTION S.W._ 
NEW PLANT CATALOGUE for 1893. 
The above is now ready, and will be sent free on applica¬ 
tion. It consists of 150 pages, and contains a mass of useful 
information. 
PLANTS EVERYONE WANTS. 
Primula Sinensis and Cinerarias, our own unrivalled 
strains. Seedlings trom stores, is. 6d. doz., 10s. per 100. 
Bouyardias, the finest free flowering sorts, fine for cutting. 
Plants for growing on, 4s doz., 25s. 100. Begonias, tuberous 
rooted, our superb strains, singles selected colours, 4s., 6s., 
and gs. doz.; fine plants, is. to 3s. 6d. each. Doubles, good 
plants to colour, 9s. to 42s. doz. Gloxinias, splendid strain, 
6s., 9s. and 12s. doz. For prices and descriptions of many 
thousands of plants for m and out-doors see New Catalogue. 
CLIBRAN & SON, Nurseries, ALTRINCHAM. 
Also at Manchester »nj Ll»xd' dnq Juvctionv 
EUCHARIS LOWII 
(BAKER, N. SP.) 
HUGH LOW & CO. 
Beg to offer the above lovely Novelty, which re¬ 
ceived an Award of Merit at the Royal Horticultural 
Society's Meeting, April 11, last. Full description 
and illustration appeared in Gardeners' Chronicle of 
May 6. Price, 10s. 6d. each. 
CLAPTON^NURSERY, LONDON, N.E. 
NOTHING is too small. 
NOTHING is too much trouble. 
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. 
ST RAWBER RIES 
WM. CUTBUSH & SON 
Have ready for immediate delivery, all 
the leading sorts in small pots. They are 
strong, free plants, and such as will give 
every satisfaction. 
H1GHGATE NURSERIES, 
LONDON, N., 
ilnd BARNET, IIERTS. 
For Index to Contents see page 794. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, August 15th.—Cardiff Flower Show (2 days). 
Wednesday, August i6th.—Bishop’s Stortford Flower Show. 
Eling (Hants) Flower Show. 
Reading Flower Show. 
Kingswood St. George Flower Show. 
Salisbury Flower Show. 
Bilston Flower Show (2 days). 
Thursday. August 17th.—Parsonstown (King’s Co.) Flower 
Show. 
Friday, August 18th.—Exeter Flower Show. 
National Co-operative Flower Show at the Crystal Palace 
(2 days). 
Orchid Sale at Protheroe & Morris' Rooms. 
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Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12 th, 1893 . 
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 
strawberries. 
A fine collection of the best varieties can be supplied. Orders 
should be booked now. 
DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE POST FREE. 
THOMAS RIVERS & SON, 
SAWBRIDGEWORTH. 
Wlower Show Accessories.—A public 
— speaker the other day remarked that 
the general public were becoming very 
frivolous. In other words, the prevailing 
taste was in the direction rather of pleasure 
than of practical knowledge. Of course 
that statement will be as freely disputed as 
defended, and we only refer to it because it 
serves to illustrate in so large a degree the 
prevalent desire there is to have in connec¬ 
tion with flower shows some sort of 
sensational amusements provided, because 
a mere inspection of the exhibits at a show, 
howsoever fine and extensive they may 
be, no longer serves to attract public sup¬ 
port. The fact is a deplorable one in a 
certain sense, because, as gardeners, we are 
somewhat shocked to find the public after 
all exhibiting such comparative indifference 
towards our beautiful products. When it is 
found that a tight rope performance, a brass 
band contest, an athletic display, or even 
a Punch and Judy show, fetches far more 
than the finest of flower shows it is difficult 
to avoid feeling some sense of humiliation, 
and even of shame that people in the mass 
should exhibit such depraved taste. 
Flower Show Committees in many places 
have found that to secure financial success, 
they must combine the instruction which 
a flower show affords with amusement, 
hut the quantity of the latter is very often 
in the ascendant. We may hope that 
whilst the hundreds are attracted to see fun 
or folly, the tens may be attracted only by 
the exhibition, and if in that way perhaps 
one or two from the hundreds may in time 
join the ranks of the tens some good is 
accomplished. 
It is obvious that the chief nay almost 
the only, reason for the supporting of flower 
shows is found in their educational value. 
They are great object lessons on a subject 
too, to the nation at large of surpassing 
interest. Let the various local committees 
do what they may in providing amusements 
and making the flower show practically the 
fete of the season, we earnestly trust the 
great object of these gatherings will never 
be allowed to become lost sight of or ab¬ 
sorbed into the more attractive and doubt¬ 
less more profitable one of providing amuse¬ 
ments. Amidst all our present tendency 
to favour frivolityjhe banner of sound prac¬ 
tical knowledge must be kept to the front. 
^The Plague of Wasps. —So intolerable 
^ an evil, not merely to our fruit crops, 
but to our common comfort in many places, 
have wasps become this season, that more 
than usual attention has been called to 
these pests, and it seems as if some very 
general steps will have to be taken to secure 
their extermination. We have yet to learn 
that wasps perform any very useful part in 
the economy of nature ; their hands, meta¬ 
phorically speaking, are against everything, 
and everything is against them. They may 
help to kill some flies, but certainly prefer 
sweets, and when sugar in any form, and 
especially when found in fruit, can be had, 
flies may exist with impunity. 
Buc the other day we read of a large 
number of poor children sitting down to 
eat of sweet-stuff, when they were assailed 
by myriads of wasps, driven away from 
their repast and severely stung. Fruit 
growers, however, have the deepest cause 
for complaint against these pestilential 
depredators, for they are doing immense 
injury. All the efforts of private indi¬ 
viduals seem to fail in keeping down the 
evil, and it really has become a matter 
worthy the attention of local authorities, 
especially County Councils, and we hope 
ere long to see those representative bodies, 
or lesser ones, charged with the duty of 
exterminating wasps. 
Twopence at least should be paid for 
every queen or breeder wasp found in May, 
and sixpence for every fully exterminated 
nest. Of course, proper care should be 
taken to see that all is fair, but it would be 
wisest to place the work in the hands of 
the local health inspectors, who should also 
see that the simplest and most efficacious 
means were adopted to secure the complete 
destruction of wasp’s nests. 
Whf. Pear Crop.— It seems almost 
certain that whilst we shall have a 
very abundant crop of pears generally, we 
shall also have a very precocious one. 
Even now, such a variety as Marie Louise 
is ripening on walls, and others that are 
usually at their best from the end of 
September, bid fair to be ripe a full month 
earlier. What, therefore, seems almost 
certain, is that by the middle of November, 
when all our finest pears are usually at 
their best, we shall hardly have any to 
eat, because they will have come to 
maturity so early. Really we ought to see 
very fine and well-ripened pears at the 
Earl’s Court and Aquarium Shows of the 
end of the present and early next month. 
The present is, perhaps, the finest year 
for William’s Bon Chretien ever known. 
Fruits of this variety we have seen hanging 
on trees, young and old, in enormous 
quantities, and many other varieties, too, 
will be very plentiful. We have seen many 
of the finest of our November pears on 
pyramids, and wall trees already bagged, 
not only because they are maturing so early, 
hut because of the enormous number of 
tom-tits and wasps that abound. It is very 
probable that the season will help to give 
