October 15, 1898. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
99 
BARR’S DAFFODIL CATALOGUE, Illustrated, with 
original photographs taken at the Long Ditton Nurseries, and 
containing a Descriptive List of all the finest Daffodils in 
cullivation, and the l.test Novelties for 1898. Free on applica¬ 
tion. 
A FEW FINE SORTS 
For Pots or Outdoors. 
GOLDEN SPUR, a fine, large, deep golden-yellow variety, 
per roo, 21/-; per doz,, 3/-. 
HENRY IRVING, one of the earliest, very large flower, 
fine, deep golden-yellow, per 100, 2:/-; per doz., 3/-. 
QUEEN OF SPAIN, very beautiful, delicate soft yellow, 
with reflexing petals, per roo, 17/61 per doz., 2/6. 
BICOLOR HORSFIELDII, petals pure white, trumpet 
golden, handsome, very early, per too, 17/6; per doz., 2/6. 
INCOMPARABILIS SIR WATKIN, a very handsome 
large flower, petals sulphur; cup rich orange-yellow, per roo, 
25/-; per doz.,3/6. 
BARRII CONSPICUUS, broad yellow petals, cup con¬ 
spicuously edged bright orange-scarlet, a beauty and a general 
favourite, per too, 17/6 ; per doz., 2/9. 
LEEDSII MRS. LANGTRY, broad, white petals, large 
white cup edged canary-yellow and milch crinkled, a pretty 
Daffodil, and very free, per too, 3;/-; per doz., 5/6, 
TRIANDRUS ALBUS (Angel’s Tears', a gem onrockwork, 
pretty cream-coloured flowers, petals reflexed, per ico. 8/6; 
per doz., 1/3. 
POETICUS POETARUM, the most beautiful of the 
white Poet's Daffodils, per 100, 12/6 ; per doz., 1/9. 
BARR’S GENERAL BULB CATALOGUE, containing a 
Descriptive List of the best Bulbs and Tubers for autumn 
planting, and a List of Bulbs and Plants for early forcing. 
Free on application. 
BARR & SONS, 
12 413, Ring St., Covent Carden, London, l.C. 
GLOXINIAS 
JOHN PEED & SONS, 
FINEST MEDAL COLLECTION 
IN THE WORLD. ifc 
Send for CATALOGUE to 
West Norwood, London 
THE EXPORT NURSERIES. 
Another Gold Medal Awarded Us 
by the National Chrysanthemum 
Society, September, 1898. 
WARE’S 
BULBS and PLANTS 
Of the finest kinds for early Autumn planting. 
Complete Collection of Bulbs, including 
Hyacinths, Tulips, Crocus, Snowdrops, Daffo¬ 
dils, Gladioli, Iris, Anemones, Ranunculus, 
Scillas, Chionodoxas, etc., 15s , 20s., 27s. 6d., 
32s. 6d., 37s. 6d., 42s., 50s., 60s. and 70s. 
Collections of Hardy Plants for the Rockery 
from 5s. for 12 distinct varieties, 40s. for 100 
distinct varieties. 
Collections of Hardy Plants for the Border 
from 5s. for 12 distinct varieties, 30s. for 100 
distinct varieties. 
Collection of Begonias for superior Bedding. 
Single, mixed, 3s. per doz , 20s. per 100. Single, 
in 8 distinct varieties, 5s. per doz , 32s. per 100. 
Double, mixed, 5s. per doz., 35s. per 100 Double, 
in 10 distinct varieties, 8s. per doz., 60s. per 100. 
Collections of Lilies. 12 in 4 first-class 
varieties for 7s. 6d. Collections of 12, in 12 dis¬ 
tinct varieties, for 10s., 12s. 6d., or 24s. Collec¬ 
tions of 20, in 20 distinct varieties, for 14s., i8s., 
25s, 36s. 
Additional Bulbs and Plants given with 
orders accompanied by Cash. 
Landscape Gardening a Speciality. 
Catalogues post free. 
THOS. STWARE, LTD., 
Hale Farm Nurseries, 
TOTTENHAM, LONDON. 
NEW HINTS 
— FOR — 
FRUIT GROWERS. 
“ A Year’s Work on a Kent Fruit Farm,” 
1/- Post Free from the Publishers, 
GEO. BUNYARD & CO., Maidstone. 
J. J. THOOLEN, 
Bulb and Plant Grower, 
HEEMSTEDE, NEAR HAARLEM, HOLLAND, 
(Formerly of Overveen) 
H AS the honour to inform readers that his Illustrated Bulb 
and Plant Price List, at lowest prices, in English, 
Autumn, 1898, will be sent post free on application. No 
charges lor packing. Orders of 10s. and above entirely free to 
destination in England, Scotland, and Ireland. 
Some Sorts of Bulbs Noted Out Price List. 
Per 100 1,000 
Crocus, II. size, in fine mixture ... 08... 63 
Crocus, I. size, In fine mixture. 1 4 ... 10 2 
Hyacinths, mixed, for bedding or forcing ... 9 8 ... 91 8 
Hyacinths, single, first size, named, In several 
best leading sorts (red, white, and blue 
vaiieties). equal quantities, my selection 
Iris Kaempferi (Japan Iris), In fine mixture ... 
Iris Gprmanica (Flag Iris), in fine mixture ... 
Iris Siberica, in fine mixture. 
Iris Spanish, In the finest mixture . 
Lilium Candidum, single, pure white. 
Montbretia, croscosmiasflora, orange scarlet 
, „ „ yellow. 
Narcissus, double, Incomparable, primrose... 
Narcissus van Sion, single, yellow trumpet... 
>. .. it ,i yellow cup 
Gladiolus Marie Lemoine, fine. 
Gladiolus Brenchleyensis, deep scarlet 
Scilla Sibirlca praecox, intense blue. 
Tulips, single early, in the finest mixture ... 
Tulips double early, in the finest mixture ... 
Due van Thol Tulips, single, excellent for 
early f oroing. 2 
Grape Hyacinths, blue.o 
Anemone Japonica, rose.6 
Hemerocallis (Day Lily), mixed . 8 
Pyrethrum, fine double, pure white .15 
Tritoma uvaria (Red Hot Poker) .14 
Sparaxis; in fine mixture.. 
Funkias, in fine mixture.10 
Gladiolus Colvilli, white. 1 
Hyacinthus candicans, white. 5 
Iris pumila, mixed.4 
Lilium umbellatum, red ... .] 10 o . . _ 
Snowdrops, Elwesi. ... 2 o 18 
250 Bulbs of the same kind will be charged at the 1,000 rate 
25 at the price per 100 ; 6 at the price per doz. 
COLLECTION D.—For Spring Gardening, containing 1,52 
Bulbs, £1 is. Half this for its. 
COLLECTION B.—For Indoor, containing 529 Bulbs, to r c 
Pots or Glasses, £1 is. Half this for 11s, 
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Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY, OCT. i 5 th, 1898. 
Wke Yorkshire College, Leeds. —The 
Twenty-fifth Session of the Depart¬ 
ment of Science, Technology and Arts, of 
this college commenced on Tuesday last, 
and is to continue to the 30th June next. 
The scheme of the Agricultural Depart¬ 
ment consists of a two years’ course of 
instruction, during which time the students 
attending the classes have the benefit of a 
large number of lectures, lessons, demon¬ 
strations, and practical work, in a large 
number of subjects that have a more or less 
direct bearing and importance upon agri¬ 
culture and its sister arts, gardening and 
forestry. The greatest amount of attention 
is given to agriculture, as being the most 
important industry of the three. To give 
some idea of the amount of work to be got 
through the first year by students and pro¬ 
fessors alike we may state that sixty lectures 
are to be delivered in agriculture ; forty 
lessons are given in tutorial agriculture; 
outdoor agriculture periodically ; ninety lec¬ 
tures in chemistry ; tutorial chemistry, 
thirty lessons; chemical laboratory, six 
hours weekly; elementary botany, forty 
lectures ; botanical laboratory, two hours 
weekly during the first and second terms, 
and four hours weekly during the third 
term ; physics, twelve lectures ; mathemat¬ 
ics, twenty lessons ; drawing, &c., two 
hours weekly during the first and second 
terms ; surveying, nine hours weekly during' 
the third term ; and economic entomology, 
three hours weekly during the third term. 
Any student who takes the full advantage 
of the above should have his ideas of agri¬ 
culture and cognate subjects considerably' 
enlarged, and be able to advance the cause 
considerably, when he comes to years of 
discretion, if practical agriculture comes to 
be his calling. 
The second year’s course includes 100 
lectures in agriculture; sixty lectures in 
agricultural chemistry ; twenty lectures in 
agricultural botany ; forty lectures in agri¬ 
cultural geology ; sixty lessons in veterinary 
science ; twenty lectures each in forestry 
and horticulture; thirty lectures in 
engineering ; and shorter courses in other 
subjects, as well as laboratory practice. 
The attendance at the forestry, horticulture 
and poultry lectures is not compulsory in 
order to obtain the Certificate of Proficiency, 
a fact which shows how little stress is laid 
upon these sister arts to agriculture. The 
lectures on horticulture include the prepar¬ 
ation of soils for fruit culture, manuring, 
stocks and their influence, propagation, 
fruit culture in the open air and under glass, 
flower culture, arboriculture, &c. Besides 
these courses, the college also supervises 
the instruction in horticulture given in the 
evening continuation schools in West Rid¬ 
ing, and by means of gardens attached to 
the schools. 
All this is very well in its way, but we 
think it is high time the country should 
wake up to the importance of fruit, flower 
and vegetable culture for commercial pur¬ 
poses, if not for private establishments,, 
which are usually better supplied with good, 
practical men. Nevertheless, there should 
be horticultural schools or colleges at all 
the principal and more populous centres in 
the United Kingdom for the higher educa¬ 
tion of those about to follow horticultural 
pursuits. Education would be a great" 
stimulus to the rising generation of gar¬ 
deners, enabling them the better to leave 
the old beaten tracks, trodden by so many, 
generations of our forefathers. It would 
then be much easier to lay aside old pre¬ 
judices, and move with the times, so that 
Britons in all parts of the world may con¬ 
tinue to hold their own, or even take the 
lead, against all foreign competitors in the 
wide domain of horticulture in its various 
branches and phases. 
¥ he Huxley Lecture.— The most im¬ 
portant event at the general opening 
of the London Hospital schools on the 3rd 
inst., was the delivery of the Huxley lecture 
by Professor Rudolph Virchow, director of 
the Berlin Pathological Institute. He is 
regarded as the greatest living teacher of 
the subject of pathology in Europe. The 
science of diseases may not seem to touch 
upon gardening or botany ; but it does, and 
diseases are but too generally known to' 
everyone. Many of the organisms found in 
connection with ailments of human flesh are 
believed to be the cause of the illness. 
These organisms come under the domain of 
the botanist, seeing that they are vegetable 
bodies or plants of low organisation. The 
disasters which used so frequently to attend 
