December 24, 1898. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
259 
HEINEMANN’S 
Grown under Ms Personal Supervision. 
before ordering: by a Id. Foreign Postcard. 
VEGETABLE AND FLOWER SEEDS 
In Oollections from 2s. 6d. and upwards.. 
UNEQUALLED VALUE. SEEDS POST FREE. 
F. C. HEINEMANN, 
GROWER, ERFURT, GERMANY. 
WARE’S 
NEW SEEDS 
OF 
Finest Flowers 
AND " 
Choicest Vegetables: 
SEE CATALOGUE 
With 130 Illustrations and full descriptions, ► 
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Contains also full collections of ” 
BEGONIAS, DAHLIAS, 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS, ! 
LILIES, GANNAS, &c. 
Gardens Laid Out and Planted. - 
THOS. s. wareTm, : 
Hale Farm Nurseries, ■ 
TOTTENHAM, LONDON. 
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Royal Nurseries, BELFAST. 
Covers over 50 Acres. 
HUGH DICKSON 
B EGS to call attention to the following speciali¬ 
ties, which are grown in large numbers, and 
are in the finest possible state for removal :— 
ROSES, over 100,000 are grown. None finer. 
Hundreds of Gold and Silver Medals and First 
Prizes have been awarded at the leading societies of 
Great Britain. 
FRUIT TREES, standard and trained. Choicest 
Conifers; all shades trom the faintest green and blue 
to the brightest gold. 
ORNAMENTAL TREES AND SHRUBS 
of the choicest description. 
RHODODENDRONS, finest named. 
STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 
Thirteen large houses are devoted to their culture. 
CATALOGUES ON APPLICATION. 
T HE BEST and CHEAPEST in the 
WORLD.—12 acres of Roses. 100,000 grand plants to 
select from. 40 choice Dwarf Perpetuals for 21s. 20 choice 
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50 Dwarfs, unnamed, 12s. 6d. The following are my selection, 
carriage free: 12 choice Teas and Noisettes, 9s.; 6 Marechal 
Niels, 5s.; 12 choice Climbing, ys.; 12 best Hybrid Perpetuals, 
dwarfs, 7s.; 6 lovely Yellow Roses, 5s.; 6 Gloire de Dljons, 
4s. 6d.; 6 beautiful Fairy Roses, 4s.; 6 choice Moss Roses, 4s. ■ 
6 old-fashioned Roses, 4s.; 6 crimson Monthly Roses, 3s. 6d. J 
6 pink Monthly Roses, 2s. 6d.; 6 white Monthly Roses. 3s. 6d.; 
6 quick-growing Climbing Roses, 2s. 6d.; 12 Sweet Briers, 3s. 
All for Cash with Order. Thousands of Testimonials. Cata¬ 
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JAMES WALTERS, ROSE GROWER, EXETER. 
ORCHIDS! ORCHIDS!! 
Cypripedium Spicerianum, in bud ... 2/6 3/6 5/6 
» Charlesworthii, in bud ... 2/- 3/- 5/- 
Cattleya Labiata, in sheath. 3/6 5/6 7/6 
Vanda Coerulea, in spike . gd. per leat. 
1 , Kimballiana, in spike . 2/- 3/- 5/- 
„ Amesiana, in spike. 2 /. 3 /- 3 /- 
Lilium, Nepalensc.and Wallichianum 1/6 2/6 3/e 
J. W. MOORE, Ltd. j Importers, Rawdon, nr. Leeds. 
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Our stock stools of Chrysanthemums, they are cow in their 
zenith of perfection; just those that would delight the 
greatest expert. Fact Is, we aim for perfect cuttings not 
gigantic grouping. Se nd for our new illustrated and descrip¬ 
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first introductions. 
MR. F. G. MILLS, 
Glossop Hall Gardens,. 
December 14th, 1898. 
“ Cuttings to hand in splendid condition, all that could be 
desired.” 
H. CANNELL & SONS, 
SWANLEV, KENT. 
" Gardening Is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
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Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , DEC. 24th, 1898. 
HU Green Christmas. —As we go to press 
it seems that Christmas Day may 
fairly earn the application of the term green 
in more senses than one. The conventional 
picture of that particular day in Britain is 
one of snow ; but in the southern counties 
the picture in reality is as often honoured 
in the breach as the observance. The grass 
in parks, pleasure grounds and gardens 
everywhere is greener than it was at any 
time between July and the beginning of 
October last, thus showing that weather is 
a more important factor in the promotion 
of such growth at any particular period 
than the art of man, even when applied to 
the limited area of a garden. Within the 
last week or two we have been informed by 
various correspondents of the fruiting of 
Raspberries, and the flowering of Pears, 
Rhododendrons, Christmas Roses, Snow¬ 
drops and other things. The two latter re¬ 
presentatives of the floral world may be 
looked upon as fairiy seasonable, for, de¬ 
pendent upon the mildness of the autumn, 
we may have them in bloom even in the far 
north at any time between October and 
April, double Snowdrops being the last to 
open. 
The appearance of the White and Baby¬ 
lonian Willows by the big lake in Kew 
Gardens would lead one to infer that it was 
autumn rather than winter ; the leaves for 
the most part are yellow, but some of them 
are green, and the rest retain vitality along 
the centre. The Babylonian Willow has 
even behaved in this fashion by the side of 
a street in a western suburb of London, 
giving an impression that under favourable 
circumstances it is subevergreen. The 
White Willow is regarded as a British tree, 
but its congener above mentioned has had 
rather a mythical history. Loudon states 
its native country to be Asia, on the banks 
of the Euphrates, near Babylon ; and even 
as recently as 1885, John Hutton Balfour 
gives the same locality for it. The Index 
Kewensis says that Japan is its native 
country. In either of these cases, however, 
it may well be subevergreen in its native 
habitats, and the general absence of fog in 
London during the past six or eight weeks 
may account for the longevity of the leaves. 
Moreover, it is a remarkable fact that Salix 
babylonica is one of the first trees to come 
into leaf with us in spring, the first flush of 
leaves often being liable to injury during 
ungenial weather, including east winds in 
March. The Lucombe Oak, known also as 
the Devonshire and the Exeter Oak, is still 
in full leaf and quite green at Kew, the 
giant old tree of it on the borders of the 
botanic and pleasure grounds being almost 
as fine as it was in summer. The original 
tree was raised from the Turkey Oak 
(Quercus Cerris) at Exeter in 1762, and the 
specimen under notice looks at least 100 
years old. The ordinary forms of the 
Turkey Oak have been quite bare for weeks 
past. The Bamboo garden is almost as 
fresh as it was at mid-summer, save for the 
fallen leaves of the deciduous trees around 
it, and the Bamboo known as Arundinaria 
Falconeri from the Himalayas, which 
always drops its foliage in our climate as 
the temperature sinks in autumn. The 
beauty and freshness of some 30 to 40 of 
the hardy species and varieties of Bamboos 
even in mid-winter should induce the lovers 
of gardens to plant these woody grasses in 
their domains much more extensively than 
is the case at present. So liberal are they 
in growth that even the prunings necessary 
to keep the bushes within bounds might be 
used in abundance for decorative work at 
the festive season. 
Many more instances might be given of 
the precocity of the season ; but gardeners 
and cultivators generally are already 
thoughtfully weighing the advantages 
against the disadvantages likely to accrue 
at no distant date should severe weather 
intervene. No one denies the advantage 
of getting all outward operations in a for¬ 
ward state, including trenching, digging, 
pruning, and other routine work. The 
autumn rains came so late as to greatly 
hinder the planting of ornamental trees and 
shrubs, as well as fruit trees and bushes ; 
since their advent, however, there has been 
no check to those operations save when 
rain made the ground temporarily unwork- 
