THE GARDENING WORLD 
.95 
November 25 , 1899 . 
I have to offer a large and magnificent stock in great variety which 1 can supply in 
Standard, Tree, and Climbing forms. 
HARDY BAMBOOS! 
Of these I have an exceptionally fine collection. 
Descriptive Catalogue Free on Application. 
JOHN RUSSELL, 
RICHMOND NURSERIES, SXJISRE’Sf. 
DAVID W. 
Flower Seeds Specialities. 
THOMSON'S DWARF WHITE ANTIRRHINUMS. 
THOMSON’S DALKEITH CALCEOLARIA. 
THOMSON’S SUPERB BEGONIAS. 
THOMSON’S UNRIVALLED CELOSIAS. 
THOMSON’S CINERARIAS. 
THOMSON’S CYCLAMEN. 
THOMSON’S PANSY. 
THOMSON'S PETUNIA. 
THOMSON’S PRIMULAS. 
THOMSON’S EAST LOTHIAN STOCKS. 
THOMSON’S 
Vegetable Seeds Specialities. 
THOMSON’S PRIZE BRUSSELS SPROUTS. 
THOMSON’S PROLIFIC LONG POD BEANS. 
THOMSON'S SUPERB RED BEET 
THOMSON'S SELF-PROTECTING BROCCOLI. 
THOMSONS IMPROVED HORN CARROT. 
THOMSON’S MARKET CARROT 
THOMSON'S INCOMPARABLE WHITE CELERY. 
THOMSON’S MAMMOTH GREEN COS LETTUCE. 
THOMSON'S SUPERB CURLED PARSLEY. 
THOMSON'S EXCELSIOR TOMATO. 
THOMSON’S DUKE OF YORK MELON. 
See Catalogue of Selected Seeds for 1900, Post Free on Application in December. 
Nurseries -WINDLESTRAWLEE. 
24, Frederick Street, 
Seed Warehouse— 
EDINBURGH. 
Stove and Greenhouse Plants. 
Ornamental Trees and Shrubs. 
Forest Fruit Trees and Roses. 
John Downie Grab Apple. 
(Pyramid and Standard.) 
Stocks Unequalled for Quality. 
Catalogues Post Free on Application . 
JOHN DOWNIE, 
144, Princes Street, EDINBURGH. 
vrUITTR 
For Market and Private Growers. 
ORNAMENTAL TREES,SHRUBS, &c. 
Descriptive CATALOGUES Post-free. 
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 ualess in sealed rack- 
ages and printed cultural directions 
enclosed, with our Signature atta bed. 
Price 6 s. per bushel, or is. per c^ke, 
free per parcels post, 
Wm. GUTBUSH & SON, 
Nurserymen and Seed Merchants. 
Highgate Nurseries, LONDON, N., and Barnet, HERTS. 
R eaders of the gardening 
WORLD will greatly oblige the Publisher by mention¬ 
ing this Paper when writing to Advertisers. 
ROSES. IRISH IVIES. 
Special offer of exceptionally well-grown dwarf Roses, my 
selection, 5 /- doz. Irish Ivies grown in pots, 3 ft. to 4 ft. high, 
extra strong and bushy, 9/6 doz. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
WORRELL, Mews Road, Leamington. 
OUR CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
W ERE an expert to see our house full 
of stock stools, recently brought In and planted near 
the glass, and mw throwing up an abundance of short, soft 
cuttings, he would iinmediitely exclaim, “ Your system is the 
very ideal, and the foundation of success for those who wish 
to win. ’ We have the finest stock in the world, and shall be 
glad to serve you ; yes, and to show you the finest and cleanest 
blooming collection perhaps in the country. 
Mr. A. Baker, Broughton, Coppenhall, Crewe. 
‘ Mum Cuttings I assure you I am well pleased with them. 
I laughing at ihe contrast of those from plants which exhibi¬ 
tion blooms had been grown, and yours—they are sturdy 
gents and no mistake.” 
H. CANNELL & SONS, 
SWANLEY, KENT. 
National Chrysanthemum Society. 
EARLY WINTER EXHIBITION, 
Royal Aquarium, Westminster, 
DECEMBER $th, 6th, and 7th. 
All communications to be made to—RICHARD DEAN, 
Ranelagh Road, Ealing, V/. Secretary 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and ihe greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man." —Bacon. 
Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S, 
SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 2 5 th, 1899. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, November 27 th.—Messrs. Protheroe & Morris’ Sales 
of Dutch and other Bulbs during each day of the week 
except Saturday, at their Auction Rooms, 67 & 68 , Cheap- 
side, London, E.C. 
Wednesday, November 29th,—R.H.S. Meeting at Drill Hail. 
Thursday, November 30 th.- Dover Flower Show. 
Saturday, December 2 nd.—Worsiey and District Agricultural 
and Horticultural Society's Exhibition. 
A|?xhibition and Garden Roses. —-Roses 
may not be strictly in season, though the 
poet’s version that “the Rose has but a 
summer’s reign ’’ is by no means correct at 
the end of the nineteenth century. Books 
and descriptive lists of Roses may be in 
season at any time. A committee of the 
National Rose Society has prepared and 
issued a fourth and revised edition of “ A 
Descriptive Catalogue of Exhibition and 
Garden Roses.” The last edition was pub¬ 
lished six years ago, but the present one is 
practically new, having been revised and 
brought up to date, the new varieties of 
importance for the present year being in¬ 
cluded. Select lists of Roses suitable for 
different purposes have been added to the 
catalogue for the first time. 
The first and chief attention is given to 
the best exhibition Roses belonging respec- 
1 tively to the hybrid perpetual, hybrid Tea, 
Tea and Noisette and Bourbon, sections. 
The lists under these headings are very 
select, so # that of the 2,000 or 3,000 varie¬ 
ties in cultivation at onetime or other, only 
a few are considered worthy of cultivation 
for exhibition purposes. In other words we 
might say that they would have very little 
chance of success in open competition at 
first-class shows. Something like 77 are 
included in the list of hybrid perpetual 
Roses, independently of those which are 
bracketed with several of them as practic¬ 
ally synonymous. One of the more interest¬ 
ing points about these hybrid perpetuals i 1 
their comparative youth, as a glance down 
the list will show. All of them belong to 
Victorian age, thus indicating the progress 
that has been made in exhibition Roses 
during that relatively short period. The 
oldest Rose here listed is General Jacque¬ 
minot, put into commerce in 1853, and at 
present one of the most popular market 
Roses. The next younger is Senateur 
Yaisse, the best of the old crimson Roses. 
Charles Lefebvre, Maurice Bernardin, and 
Prince Camille de Rohan come next in 
order for 1861. Beauty of Waltham 
appeared in 1862 ; and Duchesse de Moray, 
Madame Victor Verdier, and Marie Bau¬ 
mann come down to 1863. The others aie 
pretty evenly distributed over the years 
