NOW READY. 
August 19, 1893. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
799 
CYPRIPED1UM CURTIS1I, 
CYPRIPEDIUM ELLIOTTIANUM, 
CYPRIPEDIUM HOOKERS, 
CYPRIPEDIUM LAWRENCEANUM, 
SACCO LABIUM C CELESTE, extra grand 
masses. 
Grand Importations of the above just received. 
Inspection Invited. 
HUGH LOW & CO., 
CLAPTON NURSERY, LONDON, N.E. 
RUNNERS FROM OPEN 
GROUND PLANTS IN 
LARGE OR SMALL POTS 
All the good older kinds in ground runners your selection. 
4s. per ioo. Our selection, 3s. per 100. In small pots, 10s. 6d 
per 100 extra. For a list of the sorts and for prices and des¬ 
cription of all the finest novelties, including Royal Sovereign, 
Gunton Park, Lord Suffield, &c., &c., see catalogue free. 
Wm. CLIBRAN & SON, Nurserymen, Altrincham 
And 10 & 12, Market St., Manchester. 
For Index to Contents see page 810. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, August 21st.—Trade Sale of Dutch Bulbs at 
Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
Tuesday, August 22nd.—West Malvern and Mathon Flower 
Shorv. 
Wednesday, August 23rd.—Shrewsbury Summer Show (two 
days). 
Gladioli Show at Earl’s Court (two days). 
Thursday, August 24tn.--Trade Sale of Dutch Bulbs at 
Protheroe & Morris' Rooms. 
Friday, August 25th.—Royal Horticultural Society of 
Ireland. 
Orchid Sale at Protheroe & Morris' Rooms. 
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Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19 th, 1893. 
he Heat. —The present summer is 
maintaining its record splendidly, and 
the recent warmth, really of the most 
tropical kind that we have long experienced, 
has still further helped to redeem our 
climate from its ancient reputation. Cer¬ 
tainly, let the summer break up when it 
may, we shall have to admit that it has 
been one of the grandest within remem¬ 
brance. But the recent heat has done 
wonders in relation to harvesting and 
maturation. In all directions the ingather¬ 
ing of the harvest has been most rapid, and 
whilst in that respect the farmers have 
gained much, labour has lost. Still the 
fine weather, in assisting such rapid harvest¬ 
ing in ripening up the Corn so bright and 
hard, has done very much to help recom¬ 
pense for the moderate Corn crops found 
in some other directions. 
Whilst the heat has been so generally 
felt the rains have been less generous to all. 
We could, at the moment of writing, do with 
several hours of steady rainfall everywhere, 
except in those favoured districts, especially 
in the west, where there has been abundance. 
The air is highly charged with electricity, 
and at any moment there may be heavy 
downpours ; but then these are at best but 
temporary changes, which pass away as 
speedily as they come, and still leave the 
summer gloriously beautiful. We see on 
every hand the season’s growths on trees 
and shrubs of all descriptions maturing and 
ripening admirably, and where the fruit 
crops are light the drought is not trying the 
trees too severely and there is every reason 
to hope that fruit buds will be stout and 
plentiful for cropping next season. 
The heat is, as it were, killing both 
moulds and various other plant diseases. 
We hear nothing of any moment respecting 
the Potato disease, and although it does 
now seem certain that the tuber crop must 
he a moderate one, absence of size will be 
largely compensated for by soundness and 
an entire absence of rot of any description. 
Somehow, and in spite of the drought the 
winter green crops look very well and there 
is every prospect that vegetable food will 
be abundant in due time. Really, whilst 
we are having magnificent weather, we 
have after all but little to find fault with in 
other directions. 
(TVutKET Apples. —There is so abundant a 
^ crop of Apples and they are so early in 
maturing this season, that prices are un¬ 
usually low. We had good evidence of 
that the other day from an extensive 
grower, who said that whilst he had never 
before sold gathered Lord Suffields for less 
than three and sixpence to four shillings 
per bushel, now he could not obtain more 
than two shillings and sixpence. We have 
no doubt whatever, but that many house¬ 
holders would like to be able to purchase 
so cheaply. Instead of which, however, 
when they go to market in their humble 
way they are charged 2d. per pound, or 
about 8s. per bushel, so that the consumer 
profits little by the low price the un¬ 
fortunate grower obtains; but then that is 
nearly always the case. 
Very likely the present prices of Apples 
are somewhat affected by the numbers that 
fall from the trees, for such rains as we 
have had have hardly touched tree roots. 
The fruits too are rather smaller than usual, 
and samples have much to do with prices. 
Without doubt prices for all hardy fruits 
will for a short time rule low. Apples 
especially have an enormous crop of Plums 
to compete with, but these will have dis¬ 
appeared in a few weeks, and then Apples 
will be more in request. No doubt many 
who have been looking for special profits 
on their fruit will be disappointed, but a 
very abundant crop is seldom remunerative, 
whilst the best paying is invariably that 
which is the finest and best grown. 
If prices on the one hand should cause 
some intending planters to pause, on the 
other hand the heavy crops of the year will 
give encouragement. • No doubt good 
samples of the later Apple gatherings will 
pay well, but there must he no undue haste 
to sell. 
#ome Good Fuchsias. —-We were much 
V interested recently, in looking over a 
large collection of Fuchsias in a provincial 
nursery, to see how many fine new sorts 
have got into commerce, and how large, 
free and beautiful, many of them are. 
Fuchsias are not grown in this nursery in 
the least degree as specimens, but in 
large quantities as small bush plants in 
48's, some of them having been in that 
sized pot for four or five years. All that is 
required of them is to produce cuttings in 
the spring, and these they give in abun¬ 
dance. The plants are put into gentle 
warmth and then as fast as tops are formed 
these are taken off, set thickly into shallow 
boxes filled solely with common surface 
sand, into which they root freely, and from 
these boxes the rooted cuttings are lifted, 
packed in a little moss and sent out by 
thousands. 
If the stuff is cheap it is stout and good, 
and being soon worked off gives little 
trouble. It is a pleasure to learn that such 
a big demand still exists for Fuchsias, due 
largely, no doubt, to their great popularity 
