September 10, lb98 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
19 
ST. JOSEPH. 
A new, perpetual-bearing Strawberry, of medium 
size, bright scarlet, and good flavour. 
I am growing this variety at Cliffe. Plants put out in March 
were in bloom in May, and are to-day full of fruit and bloom, 
besides making young runners, and will continue to bear through 
this month and next. A sterling and valuable novelty. 
Pants booked for October and November delivery, 2s. per doz. 
15s. per 100. Stock very limited. 
I can also book orders for VEITCH’S PERFECTION (New), 
excellent quality; LAXTON’S LEADER, large fruit; LAX- 
TON’S MONARCH, the best Strawberry in commerce to travel; 
and LAXTON’S No. 1, very early ; also ROYAL SOVEREIGN, 
early and good ; and LATEST OF ALL, fine quality. 
All at 3s. per 100; 203. per 1,000. 
M essrs, protheroe & morris 
have received instructions to prepare the TENTH 
ANNUAL GREAT FRUIT TREE SALE, on the Premises, at 
Perry Hill. 
Owing to the large breadth of trees and their fine growth this 
year, it will require two days to dispose of them. 
October 11th and 12th has been fixed for the same. 
Everything will be rold where growing, and one month will be 
allowed to clear and settle accounts. A post-card sent at once, 
while you think ot it, will ensure you a CATALOGUE the first 
week in October, either to Messrs. PROTHEROE & MORRIS 
or to Mr. W. HORNE, Perry Hill, Cliffe, near Rochester, Kent. 
SEEDLING STRAWBERRIES. 
William Carmichael, 14, Pitt Street, Edinburgh. 
1. QUEEN OF DENMARK.— Proliflc bearer, 
medium size, unsurpassed in flavour. 
2. RICHARD GILBERT.— Large iu size, fine 
flavour, unsurpassed for market purposes ; 
awarded a First-class Certificate R.H. Society, 
August 3 rd. 
3. BRITANNIA. —To be sent out for the first 
time, fruit medium size, delicious flavour, and 
thelatestofall my seedlings; a great acquisition. 
The above three kinds are all standard kinds. 
Queen of Denmark, £1 per 100 ; Richard Gilbert, 
£1 per 100; Britannia (new), £3 per 100. 
Cheaper to the Trade. 
ORCHIDS. 
Clean Healthy Plants at Low Prices* 
Always worth a visit of inspection. Kindly send Jor Catalogue, 
JAMES CYPHER, 
Exotic Nurseries, CHELTENHAM. 
GLOXINIAS 
JOHN PEED & SONS, 
FINEST MEDAL COLLECTION 
& IN THE WORLD. ife 
Send for CATALOGUE to 
West Norwood, London 
The Royal Nurseries, Maidstone, Kent. 
“ Gardening Is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
4fa 1 |Ml 
Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
GEORGE BUNYARD & GO., 
Are now booking orders for early delivery of the very best 
NEW AND OLD STRAWBERRIES. 
For crop 1899, or for forcing. 
They offer the largest stock and the best plants in the trade. 
Change of stock pays. 
Catalogue of Strawberries and Summer Fruits now ready. 
SATURDAY , SEPT. 10 th, 1898. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENT. 
Wednesday, September 14th.—Royal Caledonian Horticul 
tural Society's Show at Edinburgh (2 days). 
NEW HINTS 
— FOR — 
F RUIT GR OWERS. 
“ A Year’s Work on a Kent Fruit Farm.” 
II- Post Free from the Publishers, 
GEO. BUNYARD & CO., Maidstone. 
Established 1815, by Royal Warrants 
TOOGOOD’S 
ROYAL BULBS. 
Cost half the usual price, and are guaranteed 
absolutely the best produce of the season. 
Beautifully illustrated List gratis on application to 
TOOGOGD & SONS, SOUTHAMTON. 
THE ROYAL SEEDSMEN FOR HALF-A-CENTURY. 
Established 1815. 
O RCHIDS of the highest quality, every 
plant guaranteed true to name, from 2/6 each. Please 
send for free list.—P. McARTHUR, The London Nurseries, 
4, Malda Vale, London, W. 
M Surrey Garden. — One can hardly 
imagine a more ideal spot for a re¬ 
sidence, a garden and grounds, than that 
where Burford Lodge, Dorking, nestles 
amongst its tall ancestral trees, close under 
the escarpment of Box Hill, where the un¬ 
pretentious River Mole had, in ages gone 
past, cut its way through the chalk of the 
North Downs. Sir Trevor Lawrence, 
Bart., the president of the Royal Horticul 
tural Society, comes of a flower-loving 
family, whose taste he has inherited to the 
full. Though limited in extent, the garden 
and grounds are a maltum in parvo, for they 
are simply crammed with representatives of 
the best things in cultivation, so that a visit 
of inspection will always repay the gar¬ 
dener interested in gardening and the sub¬ 
jects cultivated. Mr. W. Bain is equally 
an enthusiast, and takes particular delight 
in the successful cultivation of the best and 
most handsome of the more common, as 
well as the rarest flowers. 
One of the most recent acquisitions is 
Apera arundinacea, a grass with a slender, 
drooping inflorescence, and allied to the 
British Hair Grasses. An interesting ex¬ 
periment is the planting of several climbers 
against the walls of a greenhouse in the 
open air. Under this treatment Swainsonia 
galegifolia alba flowers and fruits profusely. 
It is grown in a pot plunged in the 
ground, and is now about io ft. high. 
Solanum Wendlandii, planted out in spring, 
is 10 ft. or 12 ft. high, and has 
flowered splendidly; it is usually re¬ 
garded as a stove plant. Another piece of 
it that has been out for some years usually 
gets killed to the ground in winter,but starts 
forth afresh and flowers late. Some ashes 
are put over the roots in winter, that being 
all the protection it gets. The golden 
Tropaeolum Phoebe, with a scarlet blotch 
on each petal, was put out in spring and is 
very pretty. Rhodochiton volubile,also put 
out in spring, flowers handsomely. The 
African Nymphaea stellata is flowering in 
an unheated tank in the open. Akin to the 
above experiment was the much older one 
of planting Crinum Powelli in an open bed; 
it now forms, practically, a dense hedge of 
bulbs, foliage and flowers, the latter being 
conspicuous for weeks past. C. P. alba in 
smaller quantity is flowering freely. The 
clumps of C. Moorei are also flowering 
handsomely. All of these plants require 
lifting, thinning out and replanting. They 
are usually regarded as greenhouse plants. 
We are reminded that summer has well 
nigh gone, for Colchicum autumnale is 
already in full bloom. Ipomoea variabilis 
(Mina lobata) is a magnificent climber 
when grown as it is here. The sub tropical 
effect may be imagined when it is stated 
that the twining stems have overtopped 
poles 20 ft. to 25 ft. high, and are flowering 
profusely, with tall standard Abutilons be¬ 
tween them. Gorgeous also are the huge 
orange panicles of Streptosolen Jamesonii, 
in the form of dwarf bushes densely clothed 
with dark green leaves. What a picture 
and a contrast to the scrubby and neglected 
plants we have seen in pots stood out to 
starve through the summer months. 
The fine collection of Cannas planted out 
in company with the above subjects is 
flowering grandly, and testifies to the 
assiduous care of the raiser of improved 
hybrid varieties and of the cultivator. A 
fine plant of Musa japonica that was out 
all last winter, is now 6 ft. high, and throw¬ 
ing up numerous suckers. Roscoea pur¬ 
purea, a plant belonging to the same family, 
is flowering close to a wall. Some of the 
new hybrid and other Nymphaeas are 
flowering in tubs sunk in the ground. They 
include the beautiful N. sulphurea grandi- 
flora, N. rubra punctata and the charming 
pigmy N. pymaea, with its four sepals and 
twelve petals beautifully set in alternating, 
erect whorls of four, in a singularly inter¬ 
esting fashion. 
A very interesting dwarf plant is Angelonia 
