December 26, 1896. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
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VEITCHS GENU1NE SEEDS. 
JAMES VEITCH & SONS 
BEG TO ANNOUNCE THAT THEIR 
SEED CATALOGUE FOR 1897 
IS NOW READY, AND MAY BE HAD, POST FREE, ON APPLICATION. 
Royal Exotic Nursery, CHELSEA, LONDON, S.W. 
ALL SEEDS CARRIAGE FREE. 
trade mark. 
CLAYS MANURES 
Have been proved, during many years of continuous trial by the most 
eminent Growers, to be 
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SEE ALSO PAGES 271 AND 272. 
Edited by J. FRASER F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , DECEMBER 26 th, 1896. 
Hopular Winter Flowers. —If one 
were to visit private gardens in autumn 
and winter with the view of determining 
what were the most popular flowers, he 
would soon find that a large number of 
places would have to be visited in order to 
draw conclusions as to the most popular 
flowers for winter work. Individual tastes 
vary considerably, and proprietors, with 
plenty of hothouses at command and 
gardeners to tend them, are in a position to 
gratify that taste by encouraging the culti¬ 
vation of a great variety of flowers according 
to the season and the possibilities of the 
same. On the contrary, if one were to visit 
the open markets and the florist’s shops of 
London, it is easy to determine in a short 
time what are the leading or most popular 
flowers. The British public is the ultimate 
factor in determining this ; and the market 
growers and gardeners generally, who 
supply the trade requirements, are to a 
great extent bound by the will of the public. 
New subjects may be placed upon the 
market by enterprising growers, but unless 
the public will buy them, it is useless to 
supply the same. 
To put it tersely, it may be said that 
white, yellow and brown are the three 
leading colours in winter, in the order of 
their importance. Even these three would 
permit of the use of a considerable number 
of genera and species for market purposes 
provided they come up to the standard of 
requirement in other points. White flowers 
per se would not in every case fulfil the 
requisites. They must carry well and be 
presentable after reaching the market, and 
have stems sufficiently rigid to carry the 
blooms erect or nearly so without artificial 
support when placed in vases, glasses or 
other vessels containing water in which they 
may be placed for dwelling-room or dining¬ 
room decoration as the case may be. White 
flowers that would come into this category 
are very varied in summer, but less numer¬ 
ous at present. To indicate what we mean, 
we should mention white Chrysanthemums, 
Roman Hyacinths, Richardias, Lily of the 
Valley, Lilac, Azaleas, Lilium longiflorum 
Harrisii, Eucharis, Roses and others of that 
class. Yellow-flowers are supplied by means 
of Chysanthemums, Oncidium varicosum, 
Due Van Thol Tulips, Tea Roses and 
Everlastings, though the dried flowers of 
the latter should hardly be placed in this 
category. Brown and bronzy hues may 
also be supplied in the form of Chrysan¬ 
themums, also by Cypripediums, Oncidiums, 
including the beautiful O. Forbesi and 
O. crispum. During the winter season, at 
least, the range of brown flowers is limited. 
Scarlet may be supplied by Pelargoniums, 
Carnations and Due Van Thol Tulips, but 
the requirements in this case are not great. 
Mmerican Vines and Phylloxera. —For 
some years past we have been well 
aware of the fact, that in countries where 
Phylloxera vastatrix has been ravaging the 
vineyards, American Vines have been used 
as stocks on which to graft European ones, 
simply because they were found to resist 
the attacks of the Vine Louse better than 
the latter. Our contemporary The Daily 
Telegraph has made a discovery relative to 
the above in the last “Diplomatic and 
Consular Report on Trade and Finance,” 
sent by Consul Hearn from Cadiz to the 
Marquis of Salisbury. A vine-grower in the 
Montilla district procured some American 
Vines with the purpose of replanting a 
vineyard which had been ravaged by the 
Vine Louse, and in order to keep them 
fresh placed some of them overnight in a 
pool containing gold fish. On the morrow 
all the fish were dead. To prove whether 
the American Vines had brought about this 
result, the vine-grower put some more gold 
fish in a pool together with some European 
Vines; but they were alive and well next 
day. The European Vines were replaced 
by American Vines, and next morning the 
fishes were all dead. Our contemporary 
thinks this a case of instantia lampadis, that 
is, “instance of the lamp”—as if mother 
Nature had held up a lamp to show us 
some previously hidden secret. We hope 
the discovery may prove to be true ; but 
even then we could only regard it as a 
scientific explanation of the already dis¬ 
covered fact that the American Vine (Vitis 
Labrusca) had at least some power of 
resistance against the attacks of Phylloxera. 
-- 
Revenue from the Waverley Market, Edinburgh.—At 
the annual meeting of the Edinburgh market gar¬ 
deners at 5, St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh, on the 
15th inst., it transpired that there was a clear 
revenue of £2,700 from the Market this year, and 
that 710 more carts entered during the year, than 
in the previous season. In letting the Market for 
occasional purposes, the revenue derived was £2,276 
or £600 more than last year. 
