July 15, 1899. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
723 
THE ROYAL NURSERIES, MAIDSTONE. KENT, 
GEORGE BUNYAED & CO. 
Are now booking orders foi? early delivery ot the very best 
NEW & OLD STRAWBERRIES 
In Pots for Forcing, or Runners for Open Culture. 
They offer the largest stock and the best plants in the Trade. 
Cultural Catalogues , including the New Perpetual Bearing Kinds , NOW READY. 
BEGONIAS. RARE SINGLE TULIPS. 
NE WE8T DAFFODI LS. 
H ARTLAND’S LIST for 1899 and 1900 
now ready. Most beautifully illustrated from photos 
taken at Ard Cairn. Write— 
Wm. Baylor Hartland, 
Ard Cairn, Cork. Seed Warehouse-Patrick St. 
ORCHIDS! ORCHIDS!! 
Quantity Immense! 
INSPECTION of OUR NEW RANGE of 
HOUSES 
IS CORDIALLY INVITED BY 
HUGH LOW & CO., 
Basil Bill Park, Middlesex 
PRIMULAS, CINERARIAS, and CILCEOLARIAS. 
H. CANNELL & SONS 
Have now a very grand lot from their well-known 
best strains in existence. 
Calceolarias and Cinerarias at 2/- per 
doz.; in pots, 3/6. 
Primulas, new star kinds, Lady E. Dyke, Lady 
M. Marsham, Lady Whitehead, and Mrs. R. 
Cannell, at 3/- per doz.; in pots, 4/6. 
Primula The Lady Improved, 2/- per doz ; in 
pots, 3/6. 
Illustrated and Descriptive List of these elegant pyramidal 
decorative Primulas Post Free. 
Our dwarf Sinensis kinds, possessing such colours 
and merits not found in any other collection, also 
supplied at 2/- per doz. ; in pots, 3/6. 
SWANLEY, KENT. 
ORCHIDS! ORCHIDS!! 
Den. Bensonae, 1/6, 2/6, 3/6. 
„ Craesinode, 1/6, 2/6, 3/6. 
„ nobile (our superior type), 2/-, 3/-, 4/-, 6/-. 
Thunia Bensonae, each, 2/6. 
„ Marehallianum, each, 2/-. 
Lilium Nepalense, 2/6 to 5/-. 
„ Wallichianum, 2/6 to 5/-. 
J. W. Boore, Ltd , Orchid Importers, Rawdon, Nr. Leeds, 
WEBBS’SEEDS 
WEBBS’ 
EMPEROR CABBAGE. 
The Earliest and Best. 
6d and Is. per packet; Is 6d. per oz. 
“ I gained First Prize with Webbs’ Emperor Cabbage, 
also First Prize with Webbs’ Tripoli Onion at the Red Hill 
and Reigate Society’s Show, and I had to compete with 
over 900 entries.”—MR. W. HUMPHREY, Earlswood. 
WEBBS', WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
ORCHIDS. 
Clean Healthy Plants at Low Prices. 
Always worth a visit 0/ inspection, Kindly send for Catalogue, 
Exotic nurseries, CHELTENHAM. 
CUTBUSH’S 
MILLTRACK MUSHROOM SPAWN. 
Everyone can readily grow Mush¬ 
rooms, and by using this Spawn will 
ensure success. All growers speak 
in the highest possible praise of the 
quality. Numerous testimonials. 
None genuine unless in sealed pack¬ 
ages and printed cultural directions 
enclosed, with our Signature attached. 
Price 6s. per bushel, or is. per cake, 
free per parcels post, 
Wm. CUTBUSH & SON, 
Nurserymen and Seed Merchants. 
Hlghgate Nurseries, LONDON, N., and Barnet, HERTS. 
XL 
VAPORISING 
FUMIGATORS 
(WILL LAST FOR YEARS.) 
To do 5,000 cubic feet of space at 
a time, 2 /- each. 
To do 2,000 cubic feet, 1/9 each. 
SPECIAL AMATEUR size of 
the above, 9d. each complete 
—Fumigator, Compound, and 
Wax Burner, for 500 cubic ft. 
FROM ALL NURSERYMEN 
SEEDSMEN & FLORISTS. 
ALL 
FUMIGATOR 
COMPOUND 
For using In the Fumlgators. 
Bottle. 
NO. 1 . 
No. 2 . 
NO. 3 . 
NO. 4 . 
No. 5 . 
No. 6 . 
Tin 
Enough for cubic feet. 
. 40,000 . 
• ... 
24 /- 
. 20,000 . 
. ... 
13 /- 
. 10,000 . 
• ... 
6/0 
. 5,000 . 
• 
3/3 
. 2,000 . 
. ... 
1/4 
. 1,000 ,. 
• ... 
8 d. 
. 160,000 . 
. ... 
88 /- 
RICHARDSL PATENT. NO. 11.297. 
FROM ALL NURSERYMEN; 
SEEDSMEN & FLORISTS. 
From Mr. Samuel Heaton, Hon. Sec. of Isle of Wight Horticultural Improvement Association. 
Dear Sir, _ June 6th, 1899. 
I am pleased to inform you that your XL ALL (as obtained from your agents) is meeting 
with great approval in the island. Scores of our members are using it and find it most serviceable in 
the destruction of greenhouse pests. 
G. H. RICHARDS, Manufacturer & Patentee, i 28 r 4 M; 
Telegraphic Address “ VAPORIZING, LONDON.’’ 
Southwark St., 
LONDON, 
I.1E« 
‘ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , JULY 1 5 th, 1899. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, July 18th.—Annual Dinner of the Royal Gardeners 
Orphan Fund. 
Wednesday. July 19th.—Cardiff and County Horticultural 
Show (2 days); Newcastle-on-Tyne Summer Show (3 
drys). 
Thursday, July 20th.—Salterhebble and Sidcup Rose shows. 
Saturday, July 22nd.— National Carnation and Picotee 
Society’s Exhibition at Crystal Palace. R.B.S.; Peasen- 
hall, Newton Mearns, and Sibton Shows. 
f YBRIDISATION AND CROSS-BREEDING. —It 
is to be hoped that the outcome of the 
Conference at Chiswick will be a more 
definite terminology on the part of culti¬ 
vators, when speaking of the hybrids or 
cross-bred plants, which they raise or 
make the subjects of experiments. A 
hybrid in the true sense of the term can 
only be raised between two species, or in 
other words, between two forms of plants 
which good authorities have agreed to con¬ 
sider as species. There are, of course, 
plants concerning which there has never 
been and probably may never be much 
agreement as to their status in classifica¬ 
tion ; but the point we wish to emphasise 
is definite speaking concerning plants which 
are generally admitted to be true species. 
A cross-bred plant, on the other hand, is one 
which has been raised between two 
varieties of a species, or individuals of a 
strain. It is customary on the part of 
growers and raisers of garden plants to 
speak of hybrid Primulas, Primroses, 
Cyclamens, Cinerarias, Carnations, Pinks, 
Scolopendriums, and various other plants 
which when looked into, or if the speaker or 
writer would pause for a moment to reflect, 
it would be seen that in no sense of the 
term could they come under this definition. 
We do not for a moment wish to assert 
that there is any intention to mislead, for it 
is done in all good faith and earnestness. 
We should regard the matter rather as a 
misapprehension of the use of terms, or a 
loose and vague way of talking about some 
of the most common of garden plants. It 
is misleatlkng, however, to the uninitiated, 
and should not be persisted in, least of all 
when facts are being committed to writing 
