May :i5, 1897. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
579 
TO SUCCEED 
You must start with good plants. All the following 
gurarantee Ai and good value. Cash returned 
if not satisfactory. 
BEGONIAS. 
io Grand New named singles, H.J.J. set for 1897. 
The best ever seen, 30s. 
12 Grand unnamed s.'ngle kinds, 18s.; 6, 10s. 
12 Very fine single unnamed kinds, 12s.; 6, 6s. 6d. 
12. Very good single unnamed kinds, 6s. ; 6, 3s. 6d. 
12 Fine mixed double and single for bedding, 3s. 
50, ros.; 100, 16s. 
12 Grandest double kinds, 263. ; 6, 14s. 
12 Very fine double kinds, 15s.; 6, 8s. 
12 Very good double kinds, 10s. ; 6, 5s 63 . 
12 Very good double mixed colours, 6 s. ; 6, 3s. 6d. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
12 Grand New Japanese, 1897, t0 include Yellow 
Madame Carnot and Western King for 30s. 
6 To include the above two, 20s. Yellow 
Madame Carnot, separately, 10s. 6d. each. 
12 Very finest 1896 kinds, 7s 6d. 
12 Beautiful kinds, specially selected for cutting, 
4 s - 
12 New Early Flowering Japanese for Pots or 
Garden, 7s. 6d. 
12 Good Early Flowering Japanese for Pots or 
Garden, 4s. 
12 Beautiful Early Flowering Pompons for the 
Garden, 4s. 
12 Beautiful single kinds, Ai for cuttings, 4s. 
DAHLIAS. 
12 Best Cactus kinds, 3s. 6d. ; 6, 2s. 
12 Best Show and Fancy, 3s. 6d. ; 6, 2s. 
12 Best Pompon, 3s. 6d. ; 6. 2s. 
12 Best Singles, 3s. 6d .; 6, 2s. 
FUCHSIAS. 
12 Finest double kinds, including Rose and White 
Phenomenal and Madame Carnot the giant 
white, 4s. 6d. ; 6, 2s. 6d. 
12 Finest Single kinds, including Royal Purple 
and Princess May, the prettiest Fuchsia 
raised, 4s. 6d. ; 6, 2s. 6d. 
GLOXINIAS. 
6 Finest named kinds, 5s. ; 3, 3s. 
6 Finest spotted, 3s. ; 6 Finest Selfs, 3s. 
HELIOTROPIUM. 
6 Best named kinds, 2s. 6d. ; 3, is, 6d. 
PELARGONIUMS. 
12 Show and Decorative kinds, grand stuff in 5 
inch pots, 12s. (these will make a big display.) 
12 Grandest new Single Zonals for 1897, including 
Mrs. W. Winn, the nearest Blue, 20s. ; 6, 
10s. 6d. 
12 Finest new Single Zonals, 1896, 10s.; 6, 5s. 6d. 
12 Finest Single Zonals, 1895, 6s. ; 6, 3s. 6d. 
12 Finest Single Zonals, 1894, 4 s - i 6- 2S - 6d. 
6 Finest Single Zonals, Souv. de Mirande Type, 
including Mdme. J. Chretien, 3s. 
12 Finest Double Zonals selected from 1897, 1896, 
and 1895, to include Apple Blossom, Golden 
Gate, and Double H. Jacoby, 7s. 6d. ; 6, 4s. 
12 Very fine double Zonals, 4s, ; 6, 2s. 6d. 
6 Grand New Double Ivies including Achieve¬ 
ment, cross between a Zonal and Ivy, and 
Mrs. C. Bick, magenta distinctly shaded blue, 
7s. 6d. 
'12 Grand kinds, 4s. ; 6, 2S. 6d. 
DOUBLE PETUNIAS. 
12 Finest named kinds including Mrs. D. B. 
Crane, the Electric Blue, 6s.; 6, 3s. 6d. 
All Orders are Post or Package Free for Cash 
with Order. 
H. J. JONES, 
RYECROFT NURSERY, LEWISHAM. 
ORCHIDS 
Clean Healthy Plants at Low Prices. 
Always worth a visit of inspection. Kindly send for Catalogue. 
JAMES CYPHER, 
Exotic Nurseries, CHELTENHAM. 
TO THE TRADE. 
VIOLETS. VIOLETS. 
SPECIAL PRICES '0 CLEAR.— Lady Hume Campbell, Nea¬ 
politan. New York, Ma-ie Louise, Comte Brazza (white) 6/- per 
ioo; Welbiana and Blue Czar, 3/-, Bertha Barron, the best 
dark double b'ue, and Princess of Wales, largest single blue 
30/- White Czar 15/- per 100. 
C. LONGCAUSE, TOTNES. 
PLANT NOW! PLANT NOW! 
BARRS 
HARDY 
PERENNIALS. 
BARRS’ New Large Flowering 
Phloxes. 
A great advancement has been made during the last 
few years in this beautiful and useful family of hardy 
plants, the results being larger and bolder trusses, 
with individual flowers twice and thrice the size of 
those of the older kinds. Ne\y and striking colours 
of great beauty have also been added. The varieties 
offered below include the finest of the new intro¬ 
ductions and only the very best of the older kinds. 
During August and September these beautiful Phloxes 
are amongst the most decorative of garden plants. 
BARR & SONS’ SELECTIONS. 
25 in 25 Beautiful named vars., 10/6, 15/-, & 21/-. 
12 in 12 „ „ „ 6/-, 9/-, & 12/-. 
6 in 6 „ „ „ 3/-, 4/6, & 6/-. 
Choice mixed colours of Hardy Late Phloxes, in 
great variety of colour, .for massing, etc., per doz. 
4/6; per 100, 30/-. 
Barr’s Delphiniums, finest large-flowering 
varieties, 12 fine named sorts, 7/6 and 10/6 ; 6 fine 
named sorts, 3/6 and 5/6; fine hjbrids, mixed, per 
doz., 5/6. 
Send for Barr’s Descriptive Lists of the most 
beautiful PHLOXES, DELPHINIUMS, PENTSTE- 
MONS, and MICHAELMAS DAISIES, for present 
planting. Free on application. 
Barr’s “ Rock-Garden ” Collections of 
Hardy Plants, 12 distinct varieties, 5/6; 25 
distinct varielies, 10/6. 
BARR & SOM'S, 
12, King Street, COYENT GARDES, LONDON. 
Nurseries: LONG DITT0N, SURREY 
" Gardening is the purest of human pleasnres, and tbs greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."—B acon. 
ijCbttltl, 
Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , MAY 15/A, 1897. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Wednesday. May 19th.—Royal Botanic Society's Summer 
Show at Regent's Park. 
Sale of Lilies, Show Carnations, etc , by Messrs. Protheroe 
& Morris, 67 and 68, Cheapside, E.C. 
Friday, May 21st.—Sale of Orchids by Messrs. Protheroe & 
Morris, at 67 and 68, Cheapside, E.C. 
Ihe Garden Cineraria.— The number of 
cultivators, who have been working 
upon this race of plants and its allies during 
the past year or two, is simply remarkable. 
It should now, however, be pretty well 
established that the race known as the 
garden Cineraria has been brought to its 
present state of perfection by the long con¬ 
tinued selection to which gardeners and 
other cultivators have subjected Senecio 
cruentus, better known by the name of 
Cineraria cruenta, since its introduction 
from the C^haries in 1777. Fifty to sixty 
years ago the garden Cineraria, now so well 
known and widely cultivated, does not seem 
to have excited any particular attention 
amongst ~ gardeners and writers. Some 
books even ignore it and express the 
opinion that the cultivated race admitted 
as a florists’ flower was raised by 
hybridising such species as C. malvae- 
folia from the Azores, C. lanata from the 
Canaries, and C. populifolia from the 
latter islands. A plant named C. hybrida 
has also been recorded from the Canary 
Islands. Notwithstanding these state¬ 
ments, we find that C. cruenta was figured 
in the Botanical Magazine, t. 406, and 
properly described in some gardening 
books as long ago as 1829. It was 
said to have purple flowers in season 
from February to May. The leaves 
were heart-shaped, angular, toothed, 
and purple beneath, while the leaf-stalks 
were winged and auricled at the base. 
The flowers were also produced in corymbs, 
and the plant was evergreen. 
That this species may readily be crossed 
with various others, including C. Heritieri. 
which has lately been brought into requisi¬ 
tion, proves nothing beyond the fact that 
this group of species is closely allied, the 
one with the other. They do indeed repre¬ 
sent a section of the vast genus Senecio, 
which runs to 900 or 1,000 species, accord¬ 
ing to the opinions of different authors. It 
seems to us that it would be a thankless 
and needless task to try and prove that 
shrubby species have been used in the 
procreation of the race known as the garden 
Cineraria. The description of C. cruenta 
given many years ago agrees with the 
modern race in every particular, except the 
larger size of the flowers, and the much 
greater breadth of the rays. These im¬ 
provements, as well as the dwarf and com¬ 
pact habit of the plants, are all due to the 
persevering efforts of the cultivators, who 
have devoted themselves to the cause 
through many generations, with scant 
approval and little thanks, we are afraid. 
Loudon, in i82g, described C. discolor and 
C. populifolia as popular, half-shrubby 
plants, and C. lanata as the handsomest of 
the genus, though the rays were white 
above and vivid purple beneath. All these 
species have been comparatively neglected 
since then, and C. cruenta has survived. 
What then of the hybridity, if we fail to 
find evidence of the shrubby character of 
the reputed parents in the modern race ? 
Even supposing they do cross as has been 
proved, and supposing that the same thing 
was effected in years gone by, it is easy to 
imagine that the hybridity became lost or 
eliminated in successive generations, and 
C. cruenta, pure and simple, being the 
most plastic, has given the greatest amount 
of variation by repeated crossing of the 
varieties and selection. 
£he Horse Chestnut.— Few, if any trees, 
^ are more conspicuous in the landscape 
than the Horse Chestnut during its fort¬ 
night of beauty. The flowers are indeed 
visible and more or less conspicuous during 
a longer period than fourteen days, but they 
are in the height of their beauty during that 
time, and not eclipsed by those of any other. 
We, indeed, noted open flowers upon this 
species about the end of March and the be¬ 
ginning of April, in the Royal Gardens at 
Kew. They occurred on the sheltered side 
of a precocious tree, but the fact remains 
that the state of the weather during March 
and April determines to a considerable 
extent the earliness or lateness of the flower¬ 
ing season. On what is termed Chestnut 
Sunday, thousands of people go to see the 
Chestnuts in Bushey Park on their way to 
Hampton Court, which is usually the goal, 
of their journey for the day. The trees in 
Bushey Park have been in fine condition, 
for a week past but will be at their best to- 
morrow(tbe 16th inst.) provided the weather 
has not previously injured the blossoms. 
Boisterous weather is more inimical to them 
