May 22, 1897. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
595 
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 single 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, ios. ; 100, 16s. 
12 Grandest double kinds, 26s.; 6, 14s. 
12 Very fine double kinds, 15s.; 6, 8s. 
12 Very good double kinds, ios. ; 6, 5s. 6d. 
12 Very good double mixed colours, 6s.; 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, ios. 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, 4 s. 
12 Beautiful Early Flowering Pompons for the 
Garden, 4 s. 
12 Beautiful single kinds, Ai for cuttings, 4 s. 
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, 4 s. 6d. ; 6, 2s. 6d. 
12 Finest Single kinds, including Royal Purple 
and Princess May, the prettiest Fuchsia 
raised, 4 s. 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, ios. ; 6, 5s. 6d. 
12 Finest Single Zonals, 1895, 6s. ; 6, 3s. 6d. 
12 Finest Single Zonals, 1894, 4 s. ; 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, 4 s. 
12 Very fine double Zonals, 4 s. , 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, 4 s.; 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, Marie Louis 0 , Comte Brazza (white) 6/- per 
ioo; Wellsiana and Blue Czar, 3/-, Bertha Barron, tl e best 
dark double blue, and Princess of Wales, largest single blue 
30/- White Czar 15/- per 100. 
C. LONGCAUSE, TOTNES. 
Grand Yorkshire Gala, 
YORK, 
JUNE 16th, 17th, 18th, 1897. 
£750 Offered in Prizes. 
£300 for Orchids, Stove, and Greenhouse Plants, &c. 
£200 for Pelargoniums, Carnations, Begonias, &c. 
£160 for Roses, Cut Flowers, &c. 
£90 for Fruits and Vegetables. 
Three Gold Medals for Trade Exhibits. 
Apply for schedules to CHAS. W. SIMMONS, 
Harker's Hotel, York 
The Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society. 
AUTUMN SHOW, 8th & 9th SEPT , 1897. 
Special Prizes and Medals for Plants, Fruit, 
Flowers, and Vegetables in commemoration of the 
Diamond Jubilee. 
Schedules to be obtained from the ASSISTANT 
SECRETARY, 18, Waverly Market, Edinburgh. 
" Gardening Is the purest of hnman pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY, MAY 22nd, 1897. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, May 24th.—Anniversary Meeting of the Linnean 
Society. 
Opening of a four days Show at Southampton in connection 
with the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society. 
Tuesday, May 25th. -Orchid Sale by Messrs. Protheroe & 
Morris. 
Wednesday, May 26th.—Opening of a three days grand show 
in the Temple Gardens, London, in connection with the 
R.H.S. 
Fifty-eighth Anniversary Festival Dinner in aid of the 
Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Institution, Lord Rothschild 
in the Chair. 
Sale of Lilies, bedding plants, &c., by Messrs. Protheroe 
& Morris. 
Friday, May 28th.—R.B.S. Lecture. Orchid Sale by Messrs 
Protheroe and Morris. 
||| Revival of Interest in Tulips.— 
Several circumstances have combined 
to make Tulips the idol of the hour—we 
say hour because the pretty long season is 
nowgetting towards a close, and the flowers, 
like the Arabs will presently drop their 
petals and silently steal away. Their 
popularity may, however, be continued for 
a number of years, the outburst of popu¬ 
larity being renewed annually during the 
flowering season of the different races : but 
that remains to be proved. For some 
weeks past Tulips have been used for 
personal and other decorations at all sorts 
of functions, festivals, and even at the 
court Drawing-rooms. Ladies on bicycles 
have taken to carrying them in bunches 
while taking an airing in the modern style. 
After a lapse of fifty years, a Tulip show 
and conference has been held in London, 
ostensibly to revive the interest in the 
true English florists’ Tulips, but of course 
various other May-flowering species, 
varieties, and hybrids were shown. Of 
course this is only the revival of an old love, 
for while the London florists of fifty years 
ago gradually abandoned the feathered and 
flamed roses, bybloemens, and bizarres, the 
midland and northern florists have remained 
consistent votaries of the English amateur 
florists’ Tulips. 
Linnaeus classed the Tulip amongst 
barbarous names, as it comes from the 
Persian thnlyban, a turban. The French 
corrupted the name to iulipan, from whence 
comes our word Tulip. From Persia it 
found its way to Constantinople in 1559, 
where its cultivation and use amidst the 
splendours of the court of the Sultan soon 
developed into something like a craze. 
From Constantinople it was carried to 
Germany where it got the name of Tulipa 
gesneriana, after the botanist Gesner, of 
Zurich. In 1577 it reached our shores. 
About a century after its introduction to 
Europe it became an object of considerable 
commerce in Holland. Everyone has 
heard of the remarkable tulipomania or 
Tulip craze that reigned in the Nether¬ 
lands about this time. This bit of romantic 
history reached a climax between 1634 an d 
1637, when the Dutch as a nation became, 
practically, Tulip mad. This was of course 
too fierce a love to last, for it induced people 
to give fortunes for a single Tulip. In 
those days ^"500 would change hands for a 
bulb which might or might not exist. 
Gambling was really carried on where no 
bulb existed, and the national love for 
Tulips died as quickly as it developed. 
The commercial interest in the flower 
remained, and has continued to this very 
hour ; for Holland may be said to supply 
Europe and America, more or less, with 
bulbs. The taste for Tulips in this country 
reached its maximum development about 
the end of the seventeenth and beginning of 
the eighteenth centuries. After this a 
fashion arose for collecting new and rare 
plants from foreign countries, putting the 
Tulip in the shade. 
Loudon speaking of the Tulip in 1829, 
said it “ may be called the king of florists’ 
flowers, having been a prime object of 
attention with this class of cultivators for 
nearly three centuries. It is, however, like 
the Auricula, Pink, &c., more the poor 
man’s flower than that of the botanist or 
country gentleman.” Speaking of the king 
of florists’ flowers and the poor man almost 
in the same breath recalls the quotation 
often cited for its incongruous medley, 
namely, “ lords, fiddlers and bishops.” Re¬ 
ferring to Tulips generally, we may say at 
present that they are the flower of the 
people, rich and poor alike. This is no 
doubt due in a measure to the ease with 
which they may be cultivated, and in a 
larger measure to their varied and dazzling 
beauty. If it is true as stated that there 
are upwards of 4,000 species, hybrids and 
varieties in cultivation, it shows how the 
wants, fancies and tastes of the people, are 
being catered for. This vast amount of 
variety is, undoubtedly, a most important 
factor in determining the prevailing popu¬ 
larity of this class of flowers. We would 
no doubt have a different statement to make 
if the growers of bulbs were to confine their 
attention to the cultivation of the florists’ 
varieties alone for the delectation of the 
public. We have nothing, however, to urge 
against this particular strain, for there are 
some remarkable combinations of colour 
amongst them, and many varieties of 
exceeding beauty both amongst the self or 
breeder, and the rectified sections. While 
their feathered and flamed markings appeal 
to the specialist, they are capable of pro¬ 
ducing excellent effects for bedding pur¬ 
poses. The seifs appeal more decidedly to 
the public taste, just as in the case of Carna¬ 
tions. 
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Tree Pruning at Ealing.—The London Plane trees 
in the Mall and Uxbridge Road, Ealing, have under¬ 
gone the usual hacking, which for the sake of 
courtesy and politeness, goes by the name of pruning. 
They have practically been beheaded, and their 
deplorable aspect is to be regretted when so many 
beautiful trees and shrubs may be seen in the villa 
gardens from which the Ealing Urban District 
Council might well take as a pattern. We hope they 
have not been taking an example from the contorted 
and stunted monstrosities of the Japanese plantsmen. 
It is foolish to plant very large growing trees in 
places where there is no room for their development, 
but it is worse when they are annually subjected to a 
barbarous hacking where there is plenty of space for 
them. 
