April 8, 1899. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
501 
STOVE ftWP GREENHOUSE PUNTS. 
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HORTICULTURAL AUCTIONEERS ANO VALUATORS, 
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Price 17/6 per cwt., Carriage Paid. 
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See Catalogue of Selected Seeds for 1898, Post Free on Application. 
Forest Trees, an extensive collection of Seeding and Transplanted Forest Trees, comprising Scots Fir, 
Spruce Fir, Larch Fir, Abies Douglasii, etc.,etc. 
Ornamental Trees and Shrubs, Rhododendrons, etc., in fine condition for removal, 
having been all recently transplanted. 
Roses and Fruit Trees. —My stock of the above includes all the best varieties grown, in fine condition 
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BULBS AND PLANTS. 
Of the very finest kinds for present Planting 
Collections of HardyPlantsfor the Rockery, 
from 5- lor 12 distinct varieties, or 40/- for ioo 
distinct varieties. 
Collections of Hardy Plants for Border, from 
51- for 12 distinct varieties, or 30/- for ioo distinct 
varieties. 
Collections of Paeonies, for superior bedding, 
Single, in best varieties, 18/- to 24/- per dozen. 
Double, in best varieties, 12/-, 18/-, and 24/- per 
dozen. 
Carnations, best selection, including all the choicest 
sorts, 61- and 9/- per do/en. 
Delphiniums, a choice selection, 6/-, 9/-, and 12/- 
per dozen. 
Pyrethrums, Single and Double, comprising all the 
best sorts in cultivation, 9/- an 1 12/- per dozen. 
Hollyhocks (Double). Now is the best time for plant¬ 
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all colours, 51- per dozen. 
Phloxes (both early and late flowering). A grand col¬ 
lection of all the finest varieties 61- per dozen. 
Begonias, WARE’S Gold Medal and 1st Prize 
Strain (if required started into growth an intima¬ 
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Single, mixed, 3/- per dozen, 20/- per too. 
„ To t-olour, 51- per dozen, 32/- per ioo. 
,, Extra choice, for Conservatory or Exhibi¬ 
tion, 91- and 12/- per dozen, 65/- and 
76/- per ioo. 
„ Named sorts, splendid forms and colours, 
from 1/6 each. 
Double, mixed, 51- per dozen, 35/- per too. 
„ To colour, 61- and 10/- per dozen, 60/- and 
80/- per ioo. 
„ Gems for Exhibition, 18/- and 24/- per 
dozen. 
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per dozen. 
Clematis and Hardy Climbers in great variety, 
1/- to 2/6 each. 15/- to 18/- per dozen. 
DAHLIAS, OUR UNRIVALLED COLLECTION. 
Our Dahlia Catalogue including all the new sorts ot 11199 
is now in the printer's hands and will be posted to 
all customers and applicants shortly. For list of 
varieties and further particulars of above collections 
see our illustrated Hardy Plant Catalogue (No. 190 ), 
post free on application. 
N.B.— All orders amounting to 20 /- and upwards, 
when accompanied by cash, are sent carriage and 
packing free. 
THOS. S. WARE, Ltd., 
HALE FARM NURSERIES, 
TOTTENHAM, LONDON. 
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refiesbment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
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Edited by J. FRASER. F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , APRIL 8 th , 1899. 
NEXT WEEK’8 ENGAGEMENTS 
W eonfsday, April i 2 th.—Royal Botanic Society’s Spring Show 
at Regent’s Park. London. 
Thursday, April 131 ) 1 .—Midland Daffodil Show in Edgbaston 
Botanic Gardens. 
^lowering Shrubs on the West 
Coast of Ross-shire. —Osgood H. 
Mackenzie, Esq., of Inverewe, Poolewe, is 
an enthusiastic gardener and collector of 
hardy flowering plants of all kinds, delight¬ 
ing in everything from bulbs to Tea Roses, 
which flourish amazingly, even till Christ¬ 
mas, under the influence of the genial 
temperature secured by the agency of the 
Gulf Stream. He has lately gone in for 
planting ornamental and flowering shrubs, 
and has been making a record of his 
experiences in The Scotsman, from whence we 
gather these remarks. His garden having 
become crammed with all sorts of interest¬ 
ing things, he has for a few years past 
taken to enclosing bits of rough land upon 
the domain, and planting them with shrubs. 
One of the enclosures he calls his 
“ Fantasie,” which is hard and gravelly, 
but eminently suitable for Cytisus, Genistas 
and similar subjects. His “ Riviera ” is a 
sunny, fertile bit of land in whicli he plants 
his choicest and rarest exotics. His latest 
enclosure, termed “ America,” is planted 
with Rhododendrons, Azaleas, Andromedas, 
Kalmias, Heaths, and other subjects that 
delight in a peaty soil, or one containing 
much humus. To these he has added 
Magnolias, Bamboos and many other 
equally interesting subjects. Some idea of 
the magnitude of this collection may be 
gathered from the fact that sixty Azaleas 
are planted in the central bed alone. Some 
170 kinds of other rare plants have been 
gathered from various temperate countries 
of the globe. The American garden was 
only planted in April last. Already many 
of them have bloomed, and Mr. Mackenzie 
has watched their expanding flowers during 
the past summer and autumn with intense 
interest and pleasure, while other delights 
remain in those chat have yet to unfold 
their beauties at Inverewe for the first 
time. 
His greatest triumph during the past 
season was the flowering of that handsome 
Chilian shrub, Crinodendron Hookeri, 
with bell-shaped, rosy-crimson flowers, 
and belonging to the Lime-tree family. He 
planted it in 1897, and, after standing the 
winter well, it flowered freely in June last. 
Mr. Mackenzie compares the flowers to 
miniature Chinese lanterns, a fact which 
may recall the orange-scarlet calyx of 
Physalis Francheti to many of our readers ; 
for the corollas of Crinodendron are sus¬ 
pended in the same way from the axils of 
the leaves all along the stems. The plant 
made excellent growth last year, and 
promises well for next summer. It would 
be interesting to know how it behaved 
during the recent spell of frosty winds, and 
the blizzard that visited a great portion of 
the northern part of Britain. On either 
side of it are plants of Abutilon vititolia, 
or Kitaibelia, and Carpenteria californica, 
which will give an inkling of the rarity of 
subjects that require the more favoured 
portions of England to ensure their safety 
in winter. A number of his half hardy 
subjects he obtained from Mr. Smith, of 
Newry, Ireland. From the Regius Keeper 
of the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens he 
obtained Coprosmas, Callistemons, Aristo- 
telias, Pittosporums, Raphiolepis, Styrax, 
Indigoferas, etc., all of which looked 
happy till quite recently, at least. These 
are planted in his “Riviera” by way of 
experiment, so that Inverewe, on the whole, 
might not inaptly be termed a little Kew 
Garden. The possessor is proud, and well 
he might, that such things as Phormium, 
Cordyline, Chamaerops, Bamboos, Cam¬ 
ellias, Olearia macrodonta, Choisya 
